ROSETTA STONE AN EYE FOR THE MAIN CHANCE RAR ARCHIVE
The place where this list had to start, essentially the Rosetta Stone for drug-induced madness, this is an archive of excess. Every single album on this list is a remarkable document, and warrants repeated listens over the course of a lifetime. Roll it, pour it, cook it, crush it, or just get stone-cold crazy the needle will drop into the groove either way.īut excess is never enough.
Except through a blind leap into the void.Īnd sometimes madness itself is that chemical. The vocals, the rhythm, the melody–all have to be drenched in reverb, compression, and frighteningly altered states that could not have been recorded any other way. No, to make this list, the music on a given album has to bleed chemical influence while also leaching a very specific brand of desperation and/or madness. Sure, they snorted live ants (actually, that was Ozzy) and mainlined Jack Daniel’s to stave off epic boredom, but their music would have been exactly the same steaming pile of hair regardless. Hell, Steven Tyler claims to have spent $3 million on cocaine over the years, but would Aerosmith have sounded one iota different if they’d been straight edge? It’s the same reason Mötley Crüe doesn’t warrant space on this list. Having done an epic amount of street powder while getting handjobs in the groupie van is not enough.
The rules are simple: being merely eccentric while swathed in outlandish clothing fails to qualify.
RAMPANT MADNESS, cheap powder, and the whiskey river: below are the 50 most debauched, sodden, and certifiable records in music history.
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