Top 10 Songs About Drugs

Uncontrolled Substance: Heroin

Lyrical HIGH-light: “Just one shot to say goodbye / One last taste to mourn and cry…”

If I were Dave Mustaine and knew I’d have to spend the rest of my life answering questions about my former band (or had written Risk) I’d wanna stick myself AND everyone else with something sharp.

Uncontrolled Substance: Pills & Alcohol

Lyrical HIGH-light: “Hide my fears and kill my doubts, whatever’s in my way…”

I love the former Jeffrey Phillip Wielandt. Like I said on That Metal Show, "Zakk went from looking like an 18-year-old chick to someone who would abduct an 18-year-old chick."

Uncontrolled Substance: Marijuana

Lyrical HIGH-light: “Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams, Golden Acapulco nights…”

Of course these crazy Canadians partook in the sweetest leaf. Who else would write a songs that take up entire album sides? Not to mention Roll the Bones (yeah, sure they’re dice).

Uncontrolled Substance: Heroin

Lyrical HIGH-light: “I used to do a little but a little wouldn’t do so the little got more and more…”

New reality show idea: Taking over where Dancing With the Stars’ left off is Dancing With Mr. Brownstone. Twelve of the most strung-out D-level (“D” for “Dope”) celebrities compete to see who can survive a monthlong smack binge.

Uncontrolled Substance: Heroin

Lyrical HIGH-light: “But if you’re doing smack, you won’t be coming back…”

Lemmy once said that heroin is the only drug he’s ever seen kill someone and that’s why he’s never done it. In all fairness, heroin probably wouldn’t stand a chance in Lemmy’s blood stream.

Uncontrolled Substance: Heroin & Cocaine

Lyrical HIGH-light: “You can’t part the three of us once we got a hold…”

The Toxic Twins Steven Tyler and Joe Perry are one-half of one of the greatest American rock bands but their drug-fueled meltdowns brought Aerosmith to its knees. Now bands meltdown if they don’t have their gluten-free rice cakes backstage.

Uncontrolled Substance: Heroin

Lyrical HIGH-light: “Life keeps slipping away / Fighting in a war with damnation…”

Uncle Al has had more than his share of experiences with the brown. He recounts a story in his terrific and terrifying autobiography about the time he had sex with Courtney Love but not before making her shave down below and stealing her heroin. Extra junkie points for naming one of his albums Dark Side of the Spoon.

Uncontrolled Substance: Cocaine

Lyrical HIGH-light: “Pain monopoly, ritual misery, chop your breakfast on a mirror…”

Nope it’s not a song about Jim Henson or even the folks at Crank Yankers. This is a good, old-fashioned journey through a snowblind mind set to music that only makes you think you’ve just snorted every white line on the highway.

Uncontrolled Substance: Cocaine

Lyrical HIGH-light: “Crystal world with winter flowers turn my days to frozen hours…”

By his own admission Ozzy has scored more 8-balls in his life than Minnesota Fats. So who better to write a song about cocaine than … Geezer Butler (well you didn’t think Ozzy wrote it, did you?).

Uncontrolled Substance: Heroin

Lyrical HIGH-light: “Nothing better than a dealer who’s high. Be high, convince them to buy…”

Okay, maybe not every song is about the Big H but with tunes like "Junkhead," "Sickman" and "God Smack" it’s bound to be the feel-bad hit of the decade. RIP Layne.