Listicle: The 50 Most Drug-Addled Albums in History

[Jerjo]

http://www.theweeklings.com/sbeaudoi...on-and-beauty/

Actually, there's a lot this list gets wrong but I'm just using it to kick off a weekend discussion. Miles certainly wasn't using at the time of Bitches Brew, no mention of Ozzy-era Sabbath, the inclusion of Eddie Cochran is pure nonsense, and so on. Anyway, we can certainly come up with better than this.

[zravkapt]

Exile but not Satanic Majesties...k. Overall, dumb list. A bunch of albums they think were made under heavy drug use.

[spellbound]

No Amy Winehouse? What do you have to do to make the list?

[The Dark Elf]

This Sean fella is obviously not up on his meds. If he considers David Bowie's Heroes as drug addled, he never listened to Aladdin Sane. There's at least an eight ball of coke per song on that album. And Neil Young's Trans, chosen because of the drugs he did 5 or 6 albums previous to that? WTF? Several other albums on the list with no direct correlation to the bands taking drugs during the time period.

Badly researched.

I'd delete half of them and add:

The Beatles - White Album
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Love - Forever Changes
Derek and the Dominos - Layla (half the band was shooting up)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu
Alice Cooper - Muscle of Love (Alice was drinking a case of Bud a day and Glenn Buxton was strung out on heroin)
The Doors - Pick an album, any album
H.P. Lovecraft - I and II
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxter's
Grateful Dead - See above, The Doors
Traffic - Mr. Fantasy
Eric Burdon & War - Eric Burdon Declares War
Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord (they were existing on a diet of LSD back then)
David Peale and the Lower Eastside - Have a Marijuana
Tim Buckley - Starsailor

Geeze, I could go on and on...

[progeezer]

VU Banana Album might be #1 for me.

Agree with Love/Lovecraft/Baxter's.

[klothos]

cant believe Aerosmith isnt on this list somewhere

[Reid]

No Jimi Hendrix?

[zombywoof]

"Heroes" - really? I thought that was the 'cocaine detox' album.

[mogrooves]

Pawn Hearts, reputedly their "acid album." Sounds about right to me.

[ronmac]

Some people seem to misunderstand the difference between drug use and drug addiction.

[JJ88]

Bowie's heavy drug period was the mid 70s- he himself admitted he could remember virtually nothing about Station To Station as he was so far gone at the time.

[klothos]

Some people seem to misunderstand the difference between drug use and drug addiction.

true, but one is dependent on the other one, and the line between the two is often blurred (no pun intended)

[Jerjo]

How about The Band's The Last Waltz? For the film they had to touch up the footage to remove the rock of cocaine stuck in one of Neil Young's nostrils.

[PeterG]

Both of Syd's solo albums. He was clearly off his face when he made them and you can hear that when he talks incoherently between songs.

[Nijinsky Hind]

Bowie says he was high in lazarus, and I think that Blackstar may very well be a drug addled album... Though perhaps not by choice, it's still a work of art. Like a death mask.

[Jerjo]

Black Sabbath's Volume IV, with its legendary cocaine budget of $75000.

[bob_32_116]

WTF is a "listicle"? Sounds like some sort of icy-pole.

[Jerjo]

A listicle is slang for a web page that is little more than a list. Pretty common these days. The worst offenders are those web sites that want you to click through several pages to get the full list, thus giving their advertisers more page views and generating more money. This one is at least one page and contains a little more content.

[jake]

Gotta be at least a few Gong, Hawkwind, Psychic TV and Pink Fairies albums could have been included.
Also OM by John Coltrane - the entire band were reputedly on LSD for the recording.

[PeterG]

Bowie says he was high in lazarus,

Sorry, but what does high in lazarus mean?

[mozo-pg]

Some of the best rock and roll was a by product of drug use.

[Progbear]

Any such list that does not include After Bathing at Baxter’s, probably the most drug-addled album in history, is absolutely worthless. Not to mention the Powerstation album, which absolutely oozes cocaine.

[nosebone]

A lot of 80s pop/rock sounds wired on cocaine to me.

[ThomasKDye]

A listicle is slang for a web page that is little more than a list.

Oh, thanks for that.. I thought those were just called "clickbait" but now I see a listicle is a subcategory.

[TheLoony]

Would two of the five Deep Purple guys doing (just) a bit too much coke on Come Taste The Band qualify? I'm guessing the tour was only weeks after the album was finished, a month or two at best, and they didn't just get strung out on tour. They only had a guitar case of coke following them around which kinda signifies this was not something that had just happened.

That's gotta mean something but I only skimmed the list to see if this was on there and didn't read it. I'm sure loads of bands were worse but this one might get them in this list or at least in the top 75/100 or so, I would think.