| "Cocaine" | ||||
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| Song by JJ Cale from the album Troubadour | ||||
| Released | September 1976 | |||
| Recorded | 1976 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 2:48 | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
| Writer | JJ Cale | |||
| Producer | Audie Ashworth | |||
| Troubadour track listing | ||||
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| "Cocaine" | |
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| Single by Eric Clapton | |
| from the album Slowhand | |
| A-side | Lay Down Sally |
| Released | November 1977 |
| Recorded | May 1977 |
| Genre | Blues rock |
| Length | 3:41 |
| Label | Polydor |
| Writer(s) | JJ Cale |
| Producer | Glyn Johns |
"Cocaine" is a song written and recorded by JJ Cale in 1976 and most widely known as a cover version recorded by Eric Clapton. Allmusic calls the latter "among [Clapton's] most enduringly popular hits" and notes that "even for an artist like Clapton with a huge body of high-quality work, 'Cocaine' ranks among his best."[1]
Glyn Johns, who had previously worked with The Who, Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones, produced the Clapton recording, which was released on Clapton's 1977 album Slowhand and as a single in 1980. The live version of "Cocaine", from the Just One Night album recorded in Tokyo, charted on the Billboard Hot 100 as the B-side of "Tulsa Time", which was a No. 30 hit in 1980. "Cocaine" was one of several of Cale's songs recorded by Clapton, including "After Midnight" and "Travelin' Light".
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Charts [link]
J. J. Cale version [link]
| Chart (1977) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (ARIA)[2] | 45 |
| Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 75)[4] | 5 |
| Germany (Media Control AG)[5] | 22 |
| New Zealand (RIANZ)[6] | 1 |
| Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[7] | 10 |
| Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[8] | 2 |
Eric Clapton version [link]
| Chart (1980) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canada Top Singles (RPM)[9] | 3 |
| US Billboard Hot 100[10] | 30 |
Analysis [link]
Eric Clapton describes "Cocaine" as "an anti-drug-song. The fans only listen to the refrain: ‘She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don't lie, cocaine.’ But it says, ‘If you wanna get down, down on the ground, cocaine.’"[11] The song also contains the lyric: "Don't forget this fact, you can't get it back".[12] Clapton has called the song "quite cleverly anti-cocaine", noting:[13]
- "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. It would disturb them to have someone else shoving something down their throat. So the best thing to do is offer something that seems ambiguous—that on study or on reflection actually can be seen to be ‘anti’—which the song "Cocaine" is actually an anti-cocaine song. If you study it or look at it with a little bit of thought... from a distance... or as it goes by... it just sounds like a song about cocaine. But actually, it is quite cleverly anti-cocaine."
Because of its ambiguous message, Clapton did not perform the song in many of his concerts; however, over the years, Clapton has added the lyrics 'that dirty cocaine' in live shows to underline the anti-drug message of the song.[14][15]
Other cover versions [link]
A live cover by the Scottish rock band Nazareth appears on their albums The Fool Circle and Snaz. Guitarist Andy Taylor of Duran Duran recorded it for his 1990 solo album Dangerous.
In 2008, country singer Gretchen Wilson quoted the melody from the tag end of the chorus ("she don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie") for her song "Work Hard, Play Harder" (which also borrowed from The Black Crowes). The hard rock band Black Robot covered the song on their 2010 self-titled album. Post-Grunge band Puddle of Mudd included a cover as a bonus track for their 2011 covers-album Re:(Disc)overed.
In popular culture [link]
The song was featured in the 2004 film Starsky & Hutch, and in the 2005 film Lord of War.
References [link]
- Notes
- ^ Song Review of Clapton's cover of "Cocaine" by Allmusic
- ^ "Australian-charts.com – J.J. Cale – Cocaine". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Hung Medien.
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ "J.J. Cale – Cocaine – Austriancharts.at" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Hung Medien.
- ^ "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, News, Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Künstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche – musicline.de" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH.
- ^ "Charts.org.nz – J.J. Cale – Cocaine". Top 40 Singles. Hung Medien.
- ^ "Swedishcharts.com – J.J. Cale – Cocaine". Singles Top 60. Hung Medien.
- ^ "J.J. Cale – Cocaine – swisscharts.com". Swiss Singles Chart. Hung Medien.
- ^ "RPM 100 Singles" (PHP). RPM Vol. 33 (No. 24): 9. September 6, 1980. https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0234a&type=2&interval=20&PHPSESSID=m89iq841abagb37ld9c0fdc1f3. Retrieved March 28, 2011.
- ^ "Eric Clapton: Chart & Awards – Billboard Singles". Allmusic. United States: Rovi Corporation. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p64692/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved March 28, 2011.
- ^ Stern magazine, Germany, 1998
- ^ J J Cale Guitar Styles and how to play them | J J Cale / Columbia Pictures Publications, 1980
- ^ The Best of Everything Show, with Dan Neer
- ^ "Eric Clapton Rethinks Playing'Cocaine'". Fox News Channel. October 3, 2006. https://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Oct03/0,4670,PeopleEricClapton,00.html. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Eric Clapton rethinks playing 'Cocaine'". Historyofalcoholanddrugs.typepad.com. October 5, 2006. https://historyofalcoholanddrugs.typepad.com/alcohol_and_drugs_history/2006/10/eric_clapton_re.html. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
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Purple Naked Ladies
Purple Naked Ladies is the debut studio album by hip hop soul band The Internet, a duo consisting of Syd tha Kyd and Matt Martians of Odd Future. The digital version of the album was released on December 20, 2011, with a physical copy, with bonus tracks released on January 31, 2012. The album is the first physically released album on Odd Future's own record label Odd Future Records.
Personnel
The Internet is formed of Odd Future members Syd the Kyd, the group's sound engineer, audio mixer, and live DJ, and Matt Martians, one half of The Jet Age of Tomorrow. The album features collaborations with fellow Odd Future members Left Brain, Mike G, and Pyramid Vritra as well as other guest artists Tay Walker, Kilo Kish, and Coco O.
Singles
The album's first single, "Love Song -1" was released on September 14, 2011. The second single, "They Say", which features Tay Walker, was released on October 4, 2011, though before its single release, it was included on the Odd Future compilation album 12 Odd Future Songs. The third single, "Cocaine", which features Left Brain, had its music video premiere on Odd Future's YouTube page on October 31, 2011. It was released as a single to the iTunes Store on November 8, 2011, as a 3 track EP including "Love Song -1" and "They Say" as tracks 2 and 3 respectively. The fourth single, "Fastlane", was released on January 19, 2012.
Cocaine (PaaS)
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History
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Critical reception
Spin praised the song, noting that "the catchy chorus of bright guitars and cheerful na na na na nas recall his short-lived pop-rock side-project Zwan; the heavy, distorted bass lines revisit the goth-rock moments of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness; and his lyrics are all early-Pumpkins."PopMatters's reviewed that "Freak" "largely explores and builds on The Smashing Pumpkins’ earlier, mid-1990s sound while also very subtly hinting at the newly pointed and cultish, lysergic musical atmosphere."
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It was one of four tracks from the album that were produced by the multiple-award winning Steve Lillywhite. The song is notably Foxton's only single to make the Top 40 in the United Kingdom, peaking at 23, for a total of five weeks.
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the Single's back cover.
Sales chart performance
References
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The single was released in North America on February 26, 2010 and was released in the UK on May 3, 2010 as a buzz single after the song failed to chart in the Top 100. The song was released as her third international single, after "American Boy" and "Come Over" and received positive reaction from most music critics. The song was used as one of the songs of the São Paulo Fashion Week 2010, during the parade of Colcci and in the movie Step Up 3D in 2010. "Freak" was due to be released as the first single from her third studio album All of Me but was instead included as a US bonus track.
Reception
Podcasts:
The Freak
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Somersault into the flood
Watch as you unwind
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