A beautiful spring afternoon in 1985, Mrs. Mary-Elizabeth Gore, wife of the senator and later Vice President of the United States, Al Gore, enters her 11-year-old daughter's room and is shocked. "Captures" her listening to a "very vulgar" and highly sexual song. Prince's Purple Rain.
Mrs. Gore decides to take matters into her own hands. He founded the "Parents Music Resource Center" organization with the aim of identifying various such "subdued" songs and warning parents about what their children are listening to.
Gore said she did not want to silence the music, but to protect young people from bad influences. The artists, however, had a different view and fought this movement until they managed to ignore such superconservative ventures.
In the meantime, however, Gore had managed to make a list of what he called "dirty 15" and included an equal number of songs that were a bad example for children because they contained "scenes" of sex, violence and of course drugs.
There are also their High 'n Dry Def Leppard and Black Sabbath Trashed because of drug and alcohol reports.
The issue with this list, however, is not the songs it includes but the fact that it… is only 15!
Hard music, you see, as early as the 60s and culminating in the '70s and' 80s had given rise to some unthinkable diamond-themed diamonds. Either to condemn them, or because dozens of great artists of hers were immersed in the abuses themselves Rock and Metal dealt with this… "species".
There are too many stories. We will bring you the most characteristic…
Perhaps the most interesting of all the cases you will read is this one. Here we are dealing with a beautiful, tender or even pleasant song. Thousands of people all over the world have dedicated it to their loved ones. There are many ads that have it as their "carpet".
The truth, however, is harsh and not at all pleasant.
Ο Reed when he wrote the melody he was going through a period of constant and excessive heroin use. In fact, the song refers to the "wonderful day" that he uses in the park.
What to say and what to write about this song? There are not many. The band itself urged its fans not to use drugs but…
It is essentially the anthem of the Woodstock generation and especially for the users of the hallucinogen LSD. The lyrics of Jefferson Airplane they dive in the "wonderland" together with κη Aliki.
While the music itself (especially in the first half of the song) can make you feel a lot without necessarily having something.
The artistic weight and contribution of this magical guitarist to the music is indisputable and well known. However, his relationship with drugs is also known. This particular song was written to show what the user of hallucinogenic pills gets, what he feels and especially what he sees.
The different reality that LSD "gives" you. Hendrix himself had said that he wrote it when he saw a dream that he was walking on the seabed and everything around was purple!
The first is Sweet Leaf which is included in the third album of metal fathers, Master of Reality. According to legend o Ozzy Osbourne arrived at the studio preparing the record with a large… bafo in his hands and offered it to tony iomi, while the guitarist was recording a guitar session…
Iommy's choking choked him and he started coughing. Rodger Bain, the record producer, took the cough and introduced it to the song, whose name in British slang means marijuana.
The second song is Snowblind which is included on the album Vol.4 released in 1972. In that year alone Sabs had spent $ 425.000 on drugs! Everyone was drowning in abuse and Ozzy was in a detox center when he was not recording or at a concert.
This song, then, has to do with usage cocaine and with a temporary white blindness syndrome that users get. The awesome thing is that at that time the band members were so "pieces" that in the classic thanks on the album cover, they also thank the "COKE-cola Company"!
Here we are talking about one of the most influential metal songs of all time. Most people think that this is an anti-war song that follows the general philosophy of this unsurpassed album. The truth, however, is different. The one who speaks in the first person through the song is drugs and addiction.
It describes, in other words, the control that the drug has over the user's mind and body in a relationship that parallels that of the puppet with the one who controls it (hence the cover art of the album). It should be noted that when in 2013 the Metallica They went to China for two concerts, the government of their country forbade them to play this song, to avoid a possible revolt of the workers on the occasion of their control by their superiors.
The great Roger Waters of the unsurpassed Pink Floyd has stated that when he wrote this song he was using hallucinogenic drugs. As he had confessed, what he felt when he took the pills was the same as he had when, as a child, he had a high fever and felt like he was sinking into an unprecedented state.
This was the parallel he made and transferred it to the song: “There is no pain you are receding. A distant ship smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through in waves. Your lips move but I can not hear what you are saying "(There is no pain you can avoid. The smoke of a distant ship on the horizon. You only come through waves. Your lips move but I do not hear what you say).
Here again, there is no great reason to make a special analysis. Brown sugar is the heroin and Mick Jagger who was a user at the time wonders why it is so much fun while "nailing" both Keith Richards and his close relationship with almost all the drugs on the market!
A list of songs and drugs could not exist without them Doors and the unsurpassed Jim Morrison. The song, although from a first and rather superficial reading it seems to praise a man's passion for the woman he likes, essentially describes the agony and the preparation of the drug addict before use.
In particular, the verse "girl we could not get much higher") was one of the most targeted, although it was initially thought to be… sexually implied.
"Loss" even from the title. Lucy-Sky-Diamonds. LSD. It's the song with the most theories about what it can hide. Lennon had said that his inspiration was a painting by his son. But probably few believed him!
The producer of that record had said that it has to do with the experiences that he had John Lennon as a user of hallucinogenic pills like LSD but also the love of the unforgettable singer for the movie "Alice in Wonderland" and the belief that if you take pills you see it completely differently and you get a completely different meaning. Of course, one would say…