Vuosi: 1969
Johnny Cash – Starkville City Jail
Johnny Cash pidätettiin Starkvillessä, Mississippissä 1964. Hän oli amfetamiinipäissään mennyt puistoon poimimaan kukkia keskellä yötä. Laulu kertoo siis tosielämän tapauksesta.
Arlo Guthrie – Coming into Los Angeles
Biisin kertoo tositapahtumasta, jossa Arlo oli lentokoneessa matkalla Los Angelesiin ja kuuli huhun, että kaikki koneessa olijat tarkastetaan lentokentällä. Kiinnijäämisen pelossa hän söi kaikki huumeensa. Arlo Guthrie esitti tämän laulun Woodstockissa 1969.
Hoyt Axton – Snowblind Friend
”You say it was this mornin’ when you last saw your good friend
Lyin’ on the sidewalk with the misery on his brain
Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall
Of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall
He only had a dollar to live on ‘till next Monday
But he spent it all on comfort for his mind
Did you say you think he’s blind?
Someone should call his parents or a sister or a brother
And they’ll come and take him back home on a bus
But he’ll always be a problem to his poor and puzzled mother
And he’ll always be another one of us
He said he wanted heaven but prayin’ was too slow
So he bought a one-way ticket on an airline made of snow
Did you say you saw your good friend flyin’ low
You say it was this mornin’ when you last saw your good friend
Lyin’ on the sidewalk with the misery on his brain
Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall
Of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall
Did you say you saw your good friend flyin’ low
Dyin’ slow
Blinded by snow”
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Marrakesh Express
Biisi nojaa Nashin junamatkaan Casablancasta Marrakeshiin, Marokkoon vuonna 1966. Matka meni ihmeitä katsellen ja pilveä poltellen.
”Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes
Traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies
Ducks and pigs and chickens call
Animal carpet wall to wall
American ladies five-foot tall in blue
Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind
Had to get away to see what we could find
Hope the days that lie ahead
Bring us back to where they’ve led
Listen not to what’s been said to you
Wouldn’t you know we’re riding on the Marrakesh Express
Wouldn’t you know we’re riding on the Marrakesh Express
They’re taking me to Marrakesh
All aboard the train, all aboard the train”
MC5 – Rocket Reducer No. 62
Marihuanaa poltellaan…
”You can lay it down on me, momma
Any old time
We can shimmy so good
We’ll both be stoned O-Mind
I’m irresistably bad
The cooles’ what am
Robin Tyner’s the name
And i kick out the jams”
The Incredible String Band – White Bird
Hyvin meditatiivinen kappale… löytyy ehkä sen takia joistakin huumebiisiluetteloista. Sanoitukset varsinaisesti eivät mielestäni juurikaan viittaa huumeisiin. Biisissä kuvataan hyvin harmonista ja tasapainoista hetkeä.
”Who among you has not laid his head
beneath some holy awning
Would think that such a night of tortured travelling
Could bring such a glory morning
And feel his heart sucked to his head
His head so wide that all life says
Has room to live and breathe and have its being – and more
For such a scene of beauty
For such a scene of beauty
encompasses”
The Holy Modal Rounders – If You Want to be a Bird
Hippiajan lauluja. Biisissä viitataan pilven poltteluun tai psykedeelisiin. Biisi löytyy Easy Rider -klassikkoelokuvan soundtrackiltä.
”If you want to be a bird
It won’t take much
To get you up there
But when you come down
Land on your feet”
David Bowie – Space Oddity
Yksi näkemys tästä biisistä on, että kaveri nappaa yliannostuksen. Liftoffin jälkeen ei ole tässä biisissä paluuta…
”Ground control to Major Tom
Ground control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God’s love be with you
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five
Four, three, two, one, liftoff”
Dave Bixby – Drug Song
Laulussa henkilö kertoilee omasta käytöstään…