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    Edited by mostly-metal on 23 Jun 2008, 19:31
  • 100 'Great' Albums by heroin Addicts

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  • John Frusciante - Niandra LaDes & Usually just a T-shirt (1994)
    John Frusciante - Smile from the streets you hold (1997)
    Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello (1967)


    100 'Great' Albums by heroin Addicts, Count: 3

  • Was Daniel Johnston using heroin?

  • Do they have to have been addicted while recording the album?

    Also, what about bands containing only one junkie?

  • wrdlbrmpf said:
    Do they have to have been addicted while recording the album?

    Also, what about bands containing only one junkie?

    1, id say yeah,
    and 2, id also say yeah.

    i suppose im hoping other people are like me, as in they find the idea of some guy either struggling by day-to-day on heroin, on tour, or in their mansion and recording their great music.
    heroin is interesting.

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  • Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio (1958)
    John Frusciante - Niandra LaDes & Usually just a T-shirt (1994)
    John Frusciante - Smile from the streets you hold (1997)
    Nirvana - Bleach (1989)
    Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello (1967)
    The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

    100 'Great' Albums by heroin Addicts, Count: 6

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  • mostly-metal said:
    i suppose im hoping other people are like me, as in they find the idea of some guy either struggling by day-to-day on heroin, on tour, or in their mansion and recording their great music.
    heroin is interesting.

    Heroin itself? Not that much.
    It just makes you feel really good, even while it makes you puke your guts out.

    Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio (1958)
    John Frusciante - Niandra LaDes & Usually just a T-shirt (1994)
    John Frusciante - Smile from the streets you hold (1997)
    Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising (1985)
    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)

    Nirvana - Bleach (1989)
    The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
    Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello (1967)
    The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

    100 'Great' Albums by heroin Addicts, Count: 9


    At the time of New Day Rising Hart and Mould were 'only' hooked on speed, Grant Hart's heroin habit came later.
    The others were, I think, done while at least parts of the people involved were on smack.

  • u can be hooked on speed now?

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    • Cylob said...
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    • 19 Jan 2008, 16:48
    Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio (1958)
    John Frusciante - Niandra LaDes & Usually just a T-shirt (1994)
    John Frusciante - Smile from the streets you hold (1997)
    Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising (1985)
    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
    Nirvana - Bleach (1989)
    Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)
    The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
    Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello (1967)
    The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

    100 'Great' Albums by Heroin Addicts, Count: 10

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    Edited by hjbardenhagen on 26 Jan 2011, 07:36
  • Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio (1958)
    John Frusciante - Niandra LaDes & Usually just a T-shirt (1994)
    John Frusciante - Smile from the streets you hold (1997)
    David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)
    Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising (1985)
    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In (1994)
    Nirvana - Bleach (1989)
    Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (1999)
    Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)
    Lou Reed - Transformer (1972)
    The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
    Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello (1967)
    The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

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  • mostly-metal said:
    wrdlbrmpf said:
    Do they have to have been addicted while recording the album?

    Also, what about bands containing only one junkie?

    1, id say yeah,
    and 2, id also say yeah.

    i suppose im hoping other people are like me, as in they find the idea of some guy either struggling by day-to-day on heroin, on tour, or in their mansion and recording their great music.
    heroin is interesting.

    On the basis of rule 1, Kind of Blue is DQ'd. Miles was clean for many years by that time (his well publicized coke days came much later) and he was--at that time--virulently against junkies in his band. In fact, he had fired Coltrane a few years before and hired him back when he was clean.

    For junkie jazz, Charlie Parker was of course the king. Almost anything you pick by Parker post Kansas City is H-influenced. Look also to the Prestige label from the early-mid 50s until the early 60s. Not tarring everyone on that label with the opiatic brush, but Prestige was noted at the time for offering musicians contracts just big enough to keep the jones going, with no real long term commitments (because junkies are notorious for not showing up) and no advances. You get paid after the recording session, boys.

    Sonny Rollins show how good getting clean can be. Not that his work before his 3 year "retirement" was shabby, but his return in 1962 with The Bridge just blows the earlier stuff away in terms of Rollins's conceptual and technical prowess.

    Other noted H-men who did sizable stretches because black men with heroin are not viewed as kindly as Scott Weiland:

    Gene Ammons
    Frank Morgan
    Chet Baker
    Hampton Hawes

    The list of post-war heroin users in jazz is long, but Hawes may have put it best with his "green buick" theory, which put it that if every cat in your neighborhood is driving a green buick, pretty soon, you'll be driving a green buick, too.

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    • stoibee said...
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    • 22 Jan 2008, 21:10
    Can I add The Crack by The Ruts? As a wannabe 13 year old punk I used to imagine that all that substance misuse was part of the hippie shit that punk had overthrown. I realised how wrong I was when singer Malcolm Owen overdosed.

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  • How about The Forgotten Rebels Surfin' on Heroin? Dunno if they actually were on heroin (weren't ALL punks on the dope?) but I love that song.
    [youtube]http://www.last.fm/music/The+Forgotten+Rebels/+videos/+1-aW8RVWbD1Cw[/youtube]

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  • VanillaScarab

    I'm going to assume that Bowie enjoyed heroin along with his cocaine, after penning China Girl with Iggy.


    Perhaps with double entendre, but Iggster wrote that for his girlfriend who he later married, who was in fact, a Chinese American female, or China Girl.

    I have no knowledge personally of the drug use of either (it is safe to say that Iggy has familiarity with H, after all, he's a modern guy, he's had it in the ear before).

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  • Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio (1958)
    The Flaming Lips - In a Priest-Driven Ambulance (1990)
    John Frusciante - Niandra LaDes & Usually just a T-shirt (1994)
    John Frusciante - Smile from the streets you hold (1997)
    David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)
    Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising (1985)
    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In (1994)
    Nirvana - Bleach (1989)
    Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (1999)
    Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)
    The Libertines - Up the Bracket (2002)
    Lou Reed - Transformer (1972)
    The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
    Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello (1967)
    Tripping Daisy - Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb (1998)
    The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

    100 'Great' Albums by Heroin Addicts, Count: 17

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  • anyone know if they were all heroined up whilst making Siamese Dream?

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  • Only Chamberlin I think. Corgan's just full of shit.

  • matetoth said:
    Was Daniel Johnston using heroin?



    I don't believe so, I know he used some drugs, but I didn't think he was doing heroin, but he did drink a lot of Mountain Dew.

  • Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio (1958)
    The Flaming Lips - In a Priest-Driven Ambulance (1990)
    John Frusciante - Niandra LaDes & Usually just a T-shirt (1994)
    John Frusciante - Smile from the streets you hold (1997)
    David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)
    Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising (1985)
    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In (1994)
    Nirvana - Bleach (1989)
    Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (1999)
    Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)
    The Libertines - Up the Bracket (2002)
    Lou Reed - Transformer (1972)
    The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
    Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello (1967)
    Tripping Daisy - Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb (1998)
    The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
    Elliott Smith - S/T (1995)

  • Charlie Parker - The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever (1953)
    Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio (1958)
    The Flaming Lips - In a Priest-Driven Ambulance (1990)
    John Frusciante - Niandra LaDes & Usually just a T-shirt (1994)
    John Frusciante - Smile from the streets you hold (1997)
    David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)
    Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising (1985)
    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959) Relaxin' (1956)
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In (1994)
    Nirvana - Bleach (1989)
    Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (1999)
    Philly Joe Jones - Blues for Dracula (1958)
    Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)
    The Libertines - Up the Bracket (2002)
    Lou Reed - Transformer (1972)
    The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
    Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello (1967)
    Tripping Daisy - Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb (1998)
    The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
    Elliott Smith - S/T (1995)

    count = 20

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    jazzoetry is poetry
  • Better change that one as well then:

    Charlie Parker - The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever (1953)
    Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio (1958)
    The Flaming Lips - In a Priest-Driven Ambulance (1990)
    John Frusciante - Niandra LaDes & Usually just a T-shirt (1994)
    John Frusciante - Smile from the streets you hold (1997)
    David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)
    Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs and Stories (1987)
    Miles Davis - Relaxin' (1956)
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In (1994)
    Nirvana - Bleach (1989)
    Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (1999)
    Philly Joe Jones - Blues for Dracula (1958)
    Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)
    The Libertines - Up the Bracket (2002)
    Lou Reed - Transformer (1972)
    The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
    Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello (1967)
    Tripping Daisy - Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb (1998)
    The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
    Elliott Smith - S/T (1995)

    count = 20

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