April 20, also known as “420 woooooo hooooooo fuck yeahhh!” day, is here. It’s time for all of America to celebrate its deep and abiding love for marijuana. Marijuana has also been called herbal refreshment, clickem, nib, pot, tical, Buddha, ganja, bammer, chronic, MJ, burger, Thai stick, reefer, boo-yah, onion, pakalolo, skunk, sticky icky icky, choke, kill, dope, kind, dub, shwag, paca lolo, fatty, kind bud, woolies, smoke, and zombie.
Let’s all get in the mood! Dim the lights, crank up your favorite video game console, add a little fresh water to your bong, get a brand-new black light for all of your black light posters, drop by the local dispensary, lay back, and crank all these songs as loud as you can, man. Wait, don’t crank it too loud, though, bro. You don’t want the neighbors calling the cops again. Is it still too loud? Wait, what’s that, is it a knock at the door?
1) Muddy Waters, “Champagne & Reefer”
2) Black Sabbath, “Sweet Leaf”
3) Love Joys, “One Draw Sensimilla”
4) Ted Lucas, “It Is So Nice to Get Stoned”
5) Sidney Bechet with Noble Sissle’s Swingsters, “Viper Mad”
6) New Riders of the Purple Sage, “Panama Red”
7) Kris Kristofferson, “Gettin’ By, High and Strange”
8) Sleep, “Dopesmoker”
9) Devin the Dude, “Sticky Green”
10) Junior Murvin, “Bad Weed”
11) The Troggs, “Cousin Jane”
12) XTC, “Grass”
13) Ray Charles, “Let’s Go Get Stoned”
14) Tom Petty, “You Don’t Know How It Feels”
15) Kevin Ayers, “Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes”
16) The Beatles, “What’s the New Mary Jane”
17) Cab Calloway, “Minnie the Moocher”
18) Peter, Paul and Mary, “Puff the Magic Dragon”
19) Electric Wizard, “Dopethrone”
20) Nick Drake, “Thoughts of Mary Jane”
This article appears in Apr 15-21, 2015.
Not such a great or comprehensive list
But it’s significantly better than the one you put together…
1. Fumeux Fume – Solage (late 14th century)
2. Everybody Must Get Stoned – Bob Dylan
3. Pass the Kutchie – Mighty Diamonds
4. Easy Skanking – Bob Marley
5. Mary Jane – Rick James
6. That Good – Snoop Dog
7. Searchin’ – The Search Boys
8. Herbstock – Aswad
9. Behind Babylon Back – Homegrown
10. New Heights – Kymani Marley
11. High Grade – Busy Signal
12. Sensimilla – Mighty Diamonds
13. Dr. Green Thumb – Cypress Hill
14. The Pusher – Steppenwolf
15. Legalize It – Peter Tosh
16. Gimmie Di Weed – Buju Banton
17. Don’t Sniff Coke – Pato Banton
18. Herbsman Hustling – Sugar Minott
19. With A Little Help From My Friends – The Beatles
20. Roll Me Up & Smoke Me When I Die – Willie Nelson