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Sirius said, "With clear and concise lyrics by the famous Mann-Weil songwriting team, there's no cheese on rock's first anti-drug platter." [7] The song was ranked number 400 on Rolling Stone's 2004 list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. [8] The song placed 36th on Paste Magazine ' s 2014 list of the "50 Best Garage Rock Songs of All Time ...
Clapton described the song as an anti-drug song intended to warn listeners about cocaine's addictiveness and deadliness. He called the song "quite cleverly anti-cocaine", noting: [9] It's no good to write a deliberate anti-drug song and hope that it will catch. Because the general thing is that people will be upset by that.
Zappa had earlier anti-drug songs including "Who Needs the Peace Corps?" from We're Only in It for the Money (1968), "Cosmik Debris" from Apostrophe (') (1974), "Charlie's Enormous Mouth" from You Are What You Is (1981), and "I Come From Nowhere" from Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch (1982).
The song fared better in the United Kingdom, reaching number 7 on the UK Singles Chart in July 1984, spending 17 consecutive weeks in the top 40. It was the 13th best-selling single of 1984 in the UK, selling more than several number one hits that year. The song was co-written by Melle Mel and Sylvia Robinson. Originally, it was intended to be ...
The song was the group's second single from their debut album, The First Edition. Producer Mike Post reversed a few riffs to create the intro; the guitar solo played by Glen Campbell was heavily compressed and a tremolo effect was used to achieve its sound. Another studio guitarist, Mike Deasy, provided the acoustic lead guitar parts. The track ...
"Cod'ine" (also spelled "Codine" or "Codeine") is a contemporary folk song by the singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. Considered one of the earliest anti-drug songs, Sainte-Marie wrote the piece after becoming addicted to codeine which she had been given for a bronchial infection.
Lyrics from "Happy Ending" touch on drug use and past vices. "I got high / You can name it, I've tried it / But sure, I'm sober now and everybody's proud / But I miss my vices / And I tried to be ...
The lyrics of the song address drug addiction. [1] [2] [3] Neil Young biographer Brian Kreizer describes it as a sequel to "The Needle and the Damage Done." [4] However, "No More" does not specify which drug or drugs are being referenced. [5] The first verse is most explicitly about drugs. [3]