Great song, great cover video, I was around when this video was popular with us young rebels and a lot of people just could not get the point of the song being an anti drug message. Thanx for bringing back memories.
Dick Gregory said a long time ago: There is no opium field in the ghetto. There is no gun shop in the ghetto. But it all comes down here. And the money goes somewhere else. The money never reaches the ghetto. No money here. It all goes somewhere else. Not here.
@verbaud Recently saw the film 'Black Power Mixtape.' It consists of footage of various black power figures (Stokely Carmichael; Angela Davis, etc) shot by Swedish filmmakers during the 60s and 70s; it's a great film, see it if you can. Its last section depicts drugs flooding into black neighborhoods all over America in the 70s. The filmmakers make the case that this was done to counteract the black power movement and pacify the population. Same thing was done with crack in the 80s.
First Time Hearing This Song . . . .And I'm Just Astonished. No Disrespect But Current Music Doesn't Compare! Main Stream Trash Ass Music Mostly Talks About Material Items, Partying, Sex, Drugs, Or Just Plain Gibberish. This IS ADDRESSING AN EPIDERMIC THAT WAS/IS OCCURRING THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITY. Its Either They Don't Make Music Like That Anymore Or It Doesn't Get No Play. . . . .
Someone must have missed the story about the Titanic, when the captain said,"Not even God Himself can sink this ship". Well, when you use God's name in vain like it's no big deal, you're setting yourself up for failure...
Repent... respect God, or reap the consequences (Exodus20:7)...
This version is almost better than the original, and definitely equal to it in its own way. What an awesome voice & talent, such passion, a bluesy funk perspective.
@everdrew It was written by Hoyt Axton. I think Steppenwolf recorded first (for Easy Rider), with Axton recording it in 1971 and Nina Simone in 1974. Axton performed it live for years before anyone recorded it.
I have been crying over all those souls lost so long to drugs, and I am not against the use of them but the carnage all of it does. I can't get back all those moments lost to the pusher which caused havoc in my drug free life.
Nina's a Real Lady and Real Men Wear Hemp Boxer Shorts. Blind MELON are Real Men. We need you to stand up for your rights. scribd dot com/doc/53169711/Real-Men-Wear-Hemp-Boxer-Shorts
Cigarettes, alcohol, genocidal cancer treatments, the draft, overpriced real estate, hatred of the poor, especially oneself. If we're going to fix it, we're going to need some weed!
@youaretheblues Democrats need to get off the weed and Republicans need to start smoking it. Once this polar shift occurs the world will improve drastically.
@DrFeelRotten I was addicted to heroin from age 13 - 33, had to be the worst 20 years of my life followed by another 17 addicted to prescription drugs and alcohol...clean and sober now for five years. 55 years young and life is good. Working the program -
@USPS4185 How can anyone get hooked on heroin at 13 years old? Did an adult give you drugs? Why weren't you palying? chasing girls? playing stick ball? going to school? Where are you from ? I'm amazed!!! I wish you luck.
@Yageman Your inability to discuss things without becoming idiotically abusive means there's evidently little point contradicting your errors.
Your claims concerning my knowledge base are all built on wild (and flawed) presumption- as you grow older you may discover that not all is black and white concerning drug use and users. Read up on the chemicals present in modern skunk as opposed to old 'home-grown', its effects on users, you'll find science opposes you.
Ibolt100 @yageman Its wall to wall skunk now a days, upto 10 years back everyone smoked soap, skunk'S a different drug. If its smoked habitually you may aswell be necking a trip every night or a handful of magic mushrooms. That's the thing that worries me, the drug old hippys talk about, that kids understand to be the dope hendrix/Pink Floyd, whatever are smoking on their posters, that's not the weed bought for 25 an eighth up and down the UK atleast... its like wine compared to absinthe.
I understand that people can have uncomfortable reactions and im one of them you rocket scientists . It must be a "shit plant" because you dont react well to it?
Thats pretty funny you guys.
Everything you two dorks just said is fucking annoying.
All you two twits know for sure is how you react, and other than that you guys are fucking pointless here and are simply misinforming people.
You guys are confusing your "reactions" with what it means to have an informed opinion.
There was "skunk" back in the day too. Most pot was not as good though and you would have to smoke more of the SAME DRUG for whatever effects you were looking for.
Absinthe compared to wine?......You fucking retard.
"If its smoked habitually you may aswell be necking a trip every night or a handful of magic mushrooms"
It is not like taking mushrooms habitually. You are officially an idiot.
Again, stop being worried about things you dont understand.
Your fanny Yageman, I bet you'd come running up all insulted if I shouted "Oy dick head" randommly in the park.
Just sos you dont go mayking a fool of yourself in fewture, thats moor sarchasm you doind there. Same as this, its got a bite see..? Ironies more softer and lofty, like coming from the wounded like what you persieved you'reself afgter my dig at watsers.
Anyhow, I's drugs to push, must dash,
PS. Thanks for dropping the bad lingo, yew comes across much clevrer.
Good, I don't like to fight. Listen, the second issue, the depression: no matter what he says, your daddy loves you.
For the schitzophenia there are Psychologists online here that might help you,
justanswer com
I'd rather not openly refer to your tourettes syndrome here but I must advise you to let the doctor know about it at the start of the conversation (they might mistake you for a complete cock otherwise).
I was only trying to say I really liked your post!
----> "It eats your mind, sapps your creativity, leaves you blind, stupid, depressed and schitzophrenic. Its shit and I've watched so many, myself included, waste themselves for a smoke. Grrr!"
You are totally cool in my book.
That was some quality shit man.
Plus schitzophrenic is a really cool way to spell schizophrenic.
Thanks for the mental health advise and keep on keepin on youtuber!
I'm sick of this crap! Everyone knows weed screws with your mind, that's why no-one wants kids smoking j's... if weed's so freaking super duper; "Ohhh legalise it..." ...then why do stoners still shake there heads and refuse it to their 14 year old little brother... because the lie doesn't quite stretch that far. It eats your mind, sapps your creativity, leaves you blind, stupid, depressed and schitzophrenic. Its shit and I've watched so many, myself included, waste themselves for a smoke. Grrr!
@MangoZapp You said, "It eats your mind, sapps your creativity, leaves you blind, stupid, depressed and schitzophrenic. Its shit and I've watched so many, myself included, waste themselves for a smoke. Grrr!"
You are one very confused dipshit.
Weed is pretty much a psychedelic and if you can wrap your head around what that really means, you will realize that you sound like a complete idiot.
Get a fucking clue, and stop being sick of things you dont understand.
@yageman Can you wrap your head around what perception is? If so you would understand why some are very opposed to the " psychedelic" properties of pot. Its really a shit plant full of chemicals that you think makes you happy. I agree with what that person said because pot has eaten my mind, left me blind, stupid, depressed and not schitzophrenic but psycotic. Your entitled to your opinion by the way but listening to others opinions will only make you smarter dipshit.
It has given me some good psychedelic times in the past and still does when I want to to trip. Its not a "shit plant" because you had a shitty time with it.
Im sorry to hear you are confused about what I was saying.
I was in no way claiming that you suck because you don't like how weed effects you. I was just saying you are an idiot and im not surprised by what you say.
This song was not written by Steppenwolf, it was written by Hoyt Axton. As AFILalpha says, the Blind Melon's version is sublime, but I'm indecided between Nina's version and that of the Steppenwolf (the live is fantastic).
Oh My HEAVENS!! Didn't even know her version existed let alone had I ever heard it. Interesting version but what does Nina do that's NOT interesting!? WOW...thanks for posting this!!
Its all about class. The rich promising the poor something better, if they just fall in line. No matter the color. Black, white, Half Black, Half White, There will always be poor. I can give you something that will make all your problems go away, just beleive!!!!!! That will never change. Nina "WAS" and "IS" my woman. Love YOU Nina!!!!!!
I love how she covers these classic rock songs, turns them into something completely different, and they come out as priceless as they were before. She is excellent at making something her own. RIP Nina!
No, man, it's definitely about the hard stuff on the street, i.e. heroin; but I guess that would include most pharmicudical drugs on the market, lol. In fact, that's where heroin came from.
@mussman717word - when this song was written it was definitly bout the street drugs, but when i listen to it in 2010 , all i can think about is oxycottons and the other pharmies. multinational corporations are profitting of the misery of weak hearted people , and its sad.
@zimmerface it's not really about either, it's about the difference between the kinda people who sell soft drugs and those who sell hard drugs... kinda hard to believe someone could miss that
I love this song! But it actually wasn't recorded live... for some reason RCA wanted people to think It Is Finished was a live album, though as with a lot of other NIna Simone albums, it's actually a mix of live and studio recorded tracks. A lot of her studio recordings have audience clapping tacked onto the beginning and end of the songs, so it is difficult to tell which is which.
I never pushed in my life, I bought the dope but I couldn't do it, I wanted to smoke it all my self anyway. 4 ounces in four weeks minus the quarter that 1 minute in the oven smoked, the most expensive cloud of smoke I ever seen.
But it is what a hash head calls dope. Names get stolen all the time.
I'd like tho smoke the guy who stole my game from me, or the name anyway.
alcohol, coke, dope......it is a trail best left untraveled........lost nights, lost lives.......sellin all you got....absolutely devistated lives....seen it....UGLY
@Mischtchratzer@spamjelly5, sorry sorry - just rewrote your comment and realized that you wrote: no reason to be illegal... lol.... don't know why this happened... any idea ????
And I think it is a warning song about the damnation of all aspects of all dope. I have seen tombstones in some of my best friends eyes. My own too, and I have 4 geat kids and a great wife and the Dope fuks DON"T CARE! So as per my first post, I think the song is basically saying, or to me anyway,is GODDAMN ALL DOPE AND ANYONE WHO WOULD PUSH THAT FUCK ON ANYONE!!!!!
only an american can say something like that ;-) You´re so. I don´t know how to say but I think uptight is a good word. E.g alcohol . it´s very bad and everything you know what i´m saying but for example weed is never as toxic as nicotin or alcohol so I think just things like junk or coke is resally bad ?!
and this is what the song wants to tell you ! FUCK HEROIN AND SMOKE GANJA^^
Gotcha!! The shit I am uptight about is opiates or any doctored up shit that strangles you. Many may think I am hypocritical but I don't consider pot as DOPE. I just wish I could do it. The last killer buzz I caught had me so weirded out I just said "SHIT" and went to bed. But I should have said that clearer. I have never heard of much trouble like with alcohol/ smack/ coke. That shit drives folks insane! Thats where I was. And it was slowly killing me. Hey thanks for bringing that to mind!!
I'm with ya, jennybh08. It's funny how a lot of people don't get when you reference "dope" (to me, dope will always be heroin, as i know from a lot of experience). Some people seem to be confused and think you're including pot - which is NOT what any junkie would call "dope"!!
"only an american can say something like that " lol... miopic. I agree with your last sentence, though. But I digress, I actually just want to leave a comment to THANK the poster for the post :)
Beig a survivor of being under the spell of dope this song is great no matter who wrote it or sings it!!!! Period!! But if I had to weigh in I'd have to go with Steppenwolf. Listen to it through the headphones and you can hear just how Goddamn mad he is and that is the way I felt!!!! So damn straight.....GODDAMN THE PUSHER!!!! But GODDAMN DOPE EVEN MORE!!!!
hmm in reference to some comments here... it was my understanding that origionally the intention for this song was to get lots of artists singing it to warn people about heroin and a kind of prayer for pushers to fail in their demented endevoures. ive heard at least 4 different versions of this. nina is my personal fave but really comments or info on this? btw this is just what ive heard from a few old hippies i always thought it was a beautiful idea so i wanted to share it.
la version de Steppenwolf sur '' Early Steppenwolf '' n'est pas piquée des hanetons , faut dire ! ... mais bon , on ne va comparer Nina à John Kay , elle c'était la Grace , la Divine , . John Kay , ... un loup , animal très respectable d'ailleurs , et plutôt classe aussi , sous des abords un peu intimidants , .mais Nina a quelque chose d'une louve aussi , ou d'une tigresse , elle peut rugir et griffer , hurler à l'amour , à la mort , nous bercer dans un souffle .Love U Nina
Lately ive been listening to nina simone and im surprised to find out a lot of songs she played are now songs which i enjoy very much , such as this one, and the house of rising sun . Amazing woman.
This song was written by Steppenwolf, Nina Simone and the Sparrows both did covers of the song. The song contrasts the Pusher with the dealer. Rather than being a one dimensional screed against all drugs, i think the song points out that there are drugs that consume one's soul and drugs that lend themselves to enhancing life. Steppenwolf was pro marijuana legalization as in their song "don't step on the grass, Sam".
Love love love...
RAMLIA1 1 month ago
Great song, great cover video, I was around when this video was popular with us young rebels and a lot of people just could not get the point of the song being an anti drug message. Thanx for bringing back memories.
toogawnjawn 3 months ago
Dick Gregory said a long time ago: There is no opium field in the ghetto. There is no gun shop in the ghetto. But it all comes down here. And the money goes somewhere else. The money never reaches the ghetto. No money here. It all goes somewhere else. Not here.
verbaud 4 months ago 2
@verbaud Recently saw the film 'Black Power Mixtape.' It consists of footage of various black power figures (Stokely Carmichael; Angela Davis, etc) shot by Swedish filmmakers during the 60s and 70s; it's a great film, see it if you can. Its last section depicts drugs flooding into black neighborhoods all over America in the 70s. The filmmakers make the case that this was done to counteract the black power movement and pacify the population. Same thing was done with crack in the 80s.
bapyou 4 months ago
This is alright. A great singer, good band.
But the song supports the war on drugs, which is one of the greatest wastes of taxpayers' money in history.
If the pusher was recognised as the self, the addict, the song would have much more power and significance.
Shtove 5 months ago 6
Oh My HEAVENS!!! What a nice surprise...thanks for posting!!
chinzebo 5 months ago
it sucks when the pusher man is the doctor in my case lmao! here's a message to all stay away from opiates they have made my life a living hell
ckbarton1 5 months ago
@usps4185 hard times man, well done I hope things work out for you
Dantronic 5 months ago
p.s . . . . i liked when she said " you know i smoked alot of grass" :) buuh poppin pills is a bigg no no lol
Sammienza88 5 months ago
First Time Hearing This Song . . . .And I'm Just Astonished. No Disrespect But Current Music Doesn't Compare! Main Stream Trash Ass Music Mostly Talks About Material Items, Partying, Sex, Drugs, Or Just Plain Gibberish. This IS ADDRESSING AN EPIDERMIC THAT WAS/IS OCCURRING THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITY. Its Either They Don't Make Music Like That Anymore Or It Doesn't Get No Play. . . . .
Sammienza88 5 months ago 3
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Someone must have missed the story about the Titanic, when the captain said,"Not even God Himself can sink this ship". Well, when you use God's name in vain like it's no big deal, you're setting yourself up for failure...
Repent... respect God, or reap the consequences (Exodus20:7)...
SokemRokemRobot 6 months ago
This version is almost better than the original, and definitely equal to it in its own way. What an awesome voice & talent, such passion, a bluesy funk perspective.
gmj2012 6 months ago 2
@Ashford you got me on a Nina Simone binge now.... lmao THANX
nsayne93 6 months ago
For Amy Winehouse...
Kimmieleggs 6 months ago
who sang this first? her or steppenwolf?
everdrew 6 months ago
@everdrew It was written by Hoyt Axton. I think Steppenwolf recorded first (for Easy Rider), with Axton recording it in 1971 and Nina Simone in 1974. Axton performed it live for years before anyone recorded it.
cupperoni 6 months ago
@cupperoni blind melon did a great cover too
fryman30y 6 months ago
@fryman30y No man, I'm pretty sure blind melons version sucked real hard, honest mistake on your part.
wtkoenig19841 5 months ago
@wtkoenig19841 ur opinion, not a mistake at all. different take on the song. i love nina, just don't care for this version from her.
fryman30y 5 months ago
I have been crying over all those souls lost so long to drugs, and I am not against the use of them but the carnage all of it does. I can't get back all those moments lost to the pusher which caused havoc in my drug free life.
fidoeinstein 7 months ago
love you nina
Labza0131 8 months ago
Nina's a Real Lady and Real Men Wear Hemp Boxer Shorts. Blind MELON are Real Men. We need you to stand up for your rights. scribd dot com/doc/53169711/Real-Men-Wear-Hemp-Boxer-Shorts
iJoeKO 8 months ago 3
Any Idea when this was recorded ?
djlegand 9 months ago
Cigarettes, alcohol, genocidal cancer treatments, the draft, overpriced real estate, hatred of the poor, especially oneself. If we're going to fix it, we're going to need some weed!
youaretheblues 9 months ago 27
@youaretheblues Gotta have green
TroubleinZION 4 months ago
@youaretheblues amen to that...
sh4doww4lker 2 months ago
@youaretheblues Democrats need to get off the weed and Republicans need to start smoking it. Once this polar shift occurs the world will improve drastically.
40AcreMule 1 week ago
Idiotic drug laws are the reason we have the pusher man ! Legalize freedom !
dalerbob 9 months ago 5
Steppenwolf's cover and Blind melon's cover is just as great as this ...
CircaMay85 10 months ago
The voice knows...b
bwrobeson 10 months ago
hey zimmerface -- thank you for clarifying that, I would have never known if you hadn't explained it to me. People sure are ignorant...
USPS4185 10 months ago
hey twits..go get addicted to heroin for about 20 yrs..this might have some meaning then, but i doubt most of you would get it even then..
DrFeelRotten 10 months ago
@DrFeelRotten I was addicted to heroin from age 13 - 33, had to be the worst 20 years of my life followed by another 17 addicted to prescription drugs and alcohol...clean and sober now for five years. 55 years young and life is good. Working the program -
USPS4185 10 months ago 91
@USPS4185 Hang on in there and stay clean
hoppity55 10 months ago
@DrFeelRotten
Your story is mine..am still workingonit. keepin it real in an unreal world.
maryblackchurch 7 months ago
@USPS4185 GOOD MSG..GOD BLESS....
pammie038 6 months ago
@USPS4185 thats one hell of a journey, life is good on the other side of hell, big respect to you
Artfulskribbler 5 months ago 2
@USPS4185 Congrats!! I wish you further success in life man. Youve accomplished a lot against great odds, and you are truly an inspiration to us all.
rahkriga 5 months ago
@USPS4185: been clean for 3 weeks now. here's to the rest of our lives...
TuscaloosaDruid 5 months ago 5
@USPS4185 you took your life back :) It's never too late to live life the way you really want to...55 years young! ...keep enjoyin ur life
SwirlieCurlies 4 months ago 2
@USPS4185 I'm proud of you. Keep up the good work.
TroubleinZION 4 months ago
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@USPS4185 I'm proud of you. Keep up the good work.
TroubleinZION 4 months ago
@USPS4185 How can anyone get hooked on heroin at 13 years old? Did an adult give you drugs? Why weren't you palying? chasing girls? playing stick ball? going to school? Where are you from ? I'm amazed!!! I wish you luck.
comando0220 2 months ago
@USPS4185 --good work,man,in progress..Stay well!!mxtoitaly
Mrmadmouxe 2 months ago
woow that's an incredible story..
please keep striving...it is just your mind...
you've always been sober...
the journey of life is a funny one..
thanks for the inspiration...
mansoro69 1 month ago
5 idiots :D
TheDarkJokerknight 11 months ago
killer take on a classic tune, great visuals too thanks for the upload :)
el6caballo6oscuro6 1 year ago
1:41 - Harvey Keitel and Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver. Thirteenth Street represent!
bapyou 1 year ago
WAS THAT A CHICK STICKING A HEROIN NEEDLE IN ANOTHER CHICKS EAR!?!
thepersona100 1 year ago
@thepersona100 i think she was an emt hitting her w a shot of narcain witch is for heroine overdose
sneepers100 11 months ago
And Lord knows, we need lots of sweet greens
tweakedmofo 1 year ago 2
AM STILL SMOKING AND POPPING THE PILLS AHAHAAHAHA
uavetheface 1 year ago
sweet weed <3
junegrey 1 year ago
fuck you spamjelly you have no idea what your talking
ledzeppelin507 1 year ago
@ledzeppelin507 good argument!
spamjelly5 8 months ago
You can always spot the clever guys, talking about dope 40 years after it killed off their last remains of a brain cell, sentenced to gel.
Nina though, seems to have stalled the process very well indweed
davidoffon 1 year ago
I really like this song
MsDoedoebird 1 year ago
Wow, I didn't know Nina Simone covered this! Very cool!
screwyootube1 1 year ago
@Yageman Your inability to discuss things without becoming idiotically abusive means there's evidently little point contradicting your errors.
Your claims concerning my knowledge base are all built on wild (and flawed) presumption- as you grow older you may discover that not all is black and white concerning drug use and users. Read up on the chemicals present in modern skunk as opposed to old 'home-grown', its effects on users, you'll find science opposes you.
Peace (that's the idea).
Mango out
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Ibolt100 @yageman Its wall to wall skunk now a days, upto 10 years back everyone smoked soap, skunk'S a different drug. If its smoked habitually you may aswell be necking a trip every night or a handful of magic mushrooms. That's the thing that worries me, the drug old hippys talk about, that kids understand to be the dope hendrix/Pink Floyd, whatever are smoking on their posters, that's not the weed bought for 25 an eighth up and down the UK atleast... its like wine compared to absinthe.
MangoZapp 1 year ago
@MangoZapp
I understand that people can have uncomfortable reactions and im one of them you rocket scientists . It must be a "shit plant" because you dont react well to it?
Thats pretty funny you guys.
Everything you two dorks just said is fucking annoying.
All you two twits know for sure is how you react, and other than that you guys are fucking pointless here and are simply misinforming people.
You guys are confusing your "reactions" with what it means to have an informed opinion.
Blind?
yageman 1 year ago
@MangoZapp
There was "skunk" back in the day too. Most pot was not as good though and you would have to smoke more of the SAME DRUG for whatever effects you were looking for.
Absinthe compared to wine?......You fucking retard.
"If its smoked habitually you may aswell be necking a trip every night or a handful of magic mushrooms"
It is not like taking mushrooms habitually. You are officially an idiot.
Again, stop being worried about things you dont understand.
Quit the shit.
yageman 1 year ago 2
Your fanny Yageman, I bet you'd come running up all insulted if I shouted "Oy dick head" randommly in the park.
Just sos you dont go mayking a fool of yourself in fewture, thats moor sarchasm you doind there. Same as this, its got a bite see..? Ironies more softer and lofty, like coming from the wounded like what you persieved you'reself afgter my dig at watsers.
Anyhow, I's drugs to push, must dash,
PS. Thanks for dropping the bad lingo, yew comes across much clevrer.
MangoZapp 1 year ago
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MangoZapp 1 year ago
yageman I take it you're trying to be ironic?
Good, I don't like to fight. Listen, the second issue, the depression: no matter what he says, your daddy loves you.
For the schitzophenia there are Psychologists online here that might help you,
justanswer com
I'd rather not openly refer to your tourettes syndrome here but I must advise you to let the doctor know about it at the start of the conversation (they might mistake you for a complete cock otherwise).
MangoZapp 1 year ago
Oops.
MangoZapp 1 year ago
@MangoZapp
I was only trying to say I really liked your post!
----> "It eats your mind, sapps your creativity, leaves you blind, stupid, depressed and schitzophrenic. Its shit and I've watched so many, myself included, waste themselves for a smoke. Grrr!"
You are totally cool in my book.
That was some quality shit man.
Plus schitzophrenic is a really cool way to spell schizophrenic.
Thanks for the mental health advise and keep on keepin on youtuber!
yageman 1 year ago
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MangoZapp 1 year ago
I'm sick of this crap! Everyone knows weed screws with your mind, that's why no-one wants kids smoking j's... if weed's so freaking super duper; "Ohhh legalise it..." ...then why do stoners still shake there heads and refuse it to their 14 year old little brother... because the lie doesn't quite stretch that far. It eats your mind, sapps your creativity, leaves you blind, stupid, depressed and schitzophrenic. Its shit and I've watched so many, myself included, waste themselves for a smoke. Grrr!
MangoZapp 1 year ago
@MangoZapp not enough people feel this way I'm afraid.
lbolt100 1 year ago
@MangoZapp not enough people feel this way I'm afraid. What I mean is your comment really resonated with me.
lbolt100 1 year ago
hahahaaaa Mango and since you quit you haven't left your checkbook at the grocery store since...huh!
Eckyhade 1 year ago
@MangoZapp You said, "It eats your mind, sapps your creativity, leaves you blind, stupid, depressed and schitzophrenic. Its shit and I've watched so many, myself included, waste themselves for a smoke. Grrr!"
You are one very confused dipshit.
Weed is pretty much a psychedelic and if you can wrap your head around what that really means, you will realize that you sound like a complete idiot.
Get a fucking clue, and stop being sick of things you dont understand.
"sapps your creativity"
WOW man
yageman 1 year ago
@yageman Can you wrap your head around what perception is? If so you would understand why some are very opposed to the " psychedelic" properties of pot. Its really a shit plant full of chemicals that you think makes you happy. I agree with what that person said because pot has eaten my mind, left me blind, stupid, depressed and not schitzophrenic but psycotic. Your entitled to your opinion by the way but listening to others opinions will only make you smarter dipshit.
lbolt100 1 year ago
@lbolt100
Pot gives me anxiety and never made me happy.
It has given me some good psychedelic times in the past and still does when I want to to trip. Its not a "shit plant" because you had a shitty time with it.
Im sorry to hear you are confused about what I was saying.
I was in no way claiming that you suck because you don't like how weed effects you. I was just saying you are an idiot and im not surprised by what you say.
Im sorry pot made you blind and stupid.
You remain "opposed"....lol
yageman 1 year ago
@lbolt100 If I think I'm happy, am I happy?
diana001us 10 months ago
@diana001us You were stoned when you wrote it, weren't you? Heheheh.
richardamador 7 months ago
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diana001us 7 months ago
I think of it as ... introspective and philosophical :)
diana001us 7 months ago
wow, I must sing this heavy song before I leave this world, hey pusher!!!
Sincerely
Peter Tschirky
9988eddie 1 year ago
The song says it all about using drugs, Goddamn the pusher man.
inisk 1 year ago
Great video!
PropheticSarahNell 1 year ago
This song was not written by Steppenwolf, it was written by Hoyt Axton. As AFILalpha says, the Blind Melon's version is sublime, but I'm indecided between Nina's version and that of the Steppenwolf (the live is fantastic).
epand56 1 year ago
this just made my day
brianinchilliwack 1 year ago
What does the Pusher man stands for?
4gtg4 1 year ago
No, this song was NOT written by Steppenwolf, it was written by Hoyt Axton. Steppenwolf recorded the best version ever of the song.
litt00le 1 year ago
So clean and tru,,,,! this version takes out the line to a new coore!
much better than the orginall,,(kind off) ; )
lordbaystone 1 year ago
This girl is Beautiful!
TheAvgvstvs 1 year ago
very cooooooollllllllllll
paullungley 1 year ago
nina simone the fucking queen of rock and roll this is where it all began boys and girls BLAZE
Truemannnn 1 year ago
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LuckyStarr22 1 year ago
To noops76: Just to set the record straight, this song was written by Hoyt Axton.
joelskuce 1 year ago
anyone knows where to find her song Lilac Wine?
almatree1 1 year ago
Gotta lover her!!
pifamf 1 year ago
COOL
yuliya886 1 year ago
Oh My HEAVENS!! Didn't even know her version existed let alone had I ever heard it. Interesting version but what does Nina do that's NOT interesting!? WOW...thanks for posting this!!
chinzebo 1 year ago
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Wow! Nina dominates this song! She is one of the best singers ever
diavolikaful 1 year ago
true revolutionary - live forever
TrollCatcher2010 2 years ago
Its all about class. The rich promising the poor something better, if they just fall in line. No matter the color. Black, white, Half Black, Half White, There will always be poor. I can give you something that will make all your problems go away, just beleive!!!!!! That will never change. Nina "WAS" and "IS" my woman. Love YOU Nina!!!!!!
MellowmMood 2 years ago 7
SOUNDS GOOG
paullungley 2 years ago
Source material for Modern Symbolist Rock Medicine
- could have an anarchist slant - the Pusher could symbolise the Boss
8269998 2 years ago
wow hairs in my body standin up
voodoochild85858 2 years ago
I love how she covers these classic rock songs, turns them into something completely different, and they come out as priceless as they were before. She is excellent at making something her own. RIP Nina!
mussman717word 2 years ago 2
My spirit couldn't heal.
ghostcharmmer 2 years ago
Great Video!
totalbliss1 2 years ago
this song gives me inspiration
BIIG5TV 2 years ago
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Steppenwolf did a million times better
ezywonder 2 years ago
"You know I smoked a lot of grass and I popped a lot of pills, but I never touched nothing my spirit couldn't kill"
This song is not about pot; it's about the harder stuff and those who sell it.
zimmerface 2 years ago 51
nope it's mostly about pharmasuitical companies pushing all that junk on you to mess up your brain.
glassvolta 2 years ago
@glassvolta
No, man, it's definitely about the hard stuff on the street, i.e. heroin; but I guess that would include most pharmicudical drugs on the market, lol. In fact, that's where heroin came from.
mussman717word 2 years ago
@mussman717word - when this song was written it was definitly bout the street drugs, but when i listen to it in 2010 , all i can think about is oxycottons and the other pharmies. multinational corporations are profitting of the misery of weak hearted people , and its sad.
ncbloom 1 year ago 2
@mussman717word no LOL needed here
bagoona 1 year ago
...one of the best lines ever!
Auntkekebaby 2 years ago
@zimmerface
This song is about everything. Hard drugs is only one thing. You can put what you like in this place.
I agree with ncbloom.
dancing0being 1 year ago
@zimmerface its only calld the pusher man lol
muelabruno 1 year ago
@zimmerface
It also says "the pusher's not a man" maybe it's more about the addiction than the dealer..?
NyxAngel 1 year ago
@zimmerface it's not really about either, it's about the difference between the kinda people who sell soft drugs and those who sell hard drugs... kinda hard to believe someone could miss that
el6caballo6oscuro6 10 months ago
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mussman717word 2 years ago
written by Hoyt Axton a redneck from Oklahoma
sailrbill 2 years ago 4
other way around i think...but im not 100%
me5g435rg 2 years ago
Fantastic song!
dearmalika 2 years ago 2
How true, I saw it on someone going crazy
birhan2006 2 years ago
I love this song! But it actually wasn't recorded live... for some reason RCA wanted people to think It Is Finished was a live album, though as with a lot of other NIna Simone albums, it's actually a mix of live and studio recorded tracks. A lot of her studio recordings have audience clapping tacked onto the beginning and end of the songs, so it is difficult to tell which is which.
egglady 2 years ago
this song should be thought to our young students
denismcdougall 2 years ago
I never pushed in my life, I bought the dope but I couldn't do it, I wanted to smoke it all my self anyway. 4 ounces in four weeks minus the quarter that 1 minute in the oven smoked, the most expensive cloud of smoke I ever seen.
But it is what a hash head calls dope. Names get stolen all the time.
I'd like tho smoke the guy who stole my game from me, or the name anyway.
davidoffon 2 years ago 3
alcohol, coke, dope......it is a trail best left untraveled........lost nights, lost lives.......sellin all you got....absolutely devistated lives....seen it....UGLY
Raiderfn31 2 years ago 5
there's still no reason for marijuana to be illegal.
spamjelly5 2 years ago 62
@spamjelly5 so, you think there's a reason why booze is legal ?
Mischtchratzer 1 year ago
@Mischtchratzer @spamjelly5, sorry sorry - just rewrote your comment and realized that you wrote: no reason to be illegal... lol.... don't know why this happened... any idea ????
Mischtchratzer 1 year ago
@Mischtchratzer guess, I'm stoned... heheheee, I meant "reread".. or so...
Mischtchratzer 1 year ago
@Mischtchratzer funny thing is: I give a relpy to myself....
Mischtchratzer 1 year ago
@Mischtchratzer yes! the reason is that all the law-makers that govern what's legal and what isn't would go fucking bonkers without booze.
spamjelly5 8 months ago
you jazz guys are so cool. :)
MarijaBlueBG 2 years ago 3
the pusher is usally pushing for someone else and sadly some are pushing to survive...
powertrust71 2 years ago 2
pushers yes .. arent they the destroyers .. how did they become that way anyway - great song .
Stigrunasa1 2 years ago
I love this song
DaniloPeder 2 years ago 2
And I think it is a warning song about the damnation of all aspects of all dope. I have seen tombstones in some of my best friends eyes. My own too, and I have 4 geat kids and a great wife and the Dope fuks DON"T CARE! So as per my first post, I think the song is basically saying, or to me anyway,is GODDAMN ALL DOPE AND ANYONE WHO WOULD PUSH THAT FUCK ON ANYONE!!!!!
jennybh08 2 years ago
only an american can say something like that ;-) You´re so. I don´t know how to say but I think uptight is a good word. E.g alcohol . it´s very bad and everything you know what i´m saying but for example weed is never as toxic as nicotin or alcohol so I think just things like junk or coke is resally bad ?!
and this is what the song wants to tell you ! FUCK HEROIN AND SMOKE GANJA^^
stocki94 2 years ago
Gotcha!! The shit I am uptight about is opiates or any doctored up shit that strangles you. Many may think I am hypocritical but I don't consider pot as DOPE. I just wish I could do it. The last killer buzz I caught had me so weirded out I just said "SHIT" and went to bed. But I should have said that clearer. I have never heard of much trouble like with alcohol/ smack/ coke. That shit drives folks insane! Thats where I was. And it was slowly killing me. Hey thanks for bringing that to mind!!
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stocki94 2 years ago
I'm with ya, jennybh08. It's funny how a lot of people don't get when you reference "dope" (to me, dope will always be heroin, as i know from a lot of experience). Some people seem to be confused and think you're including pot - which is NOT what any junkie would call "dope"!!
kdub10009 2 years ago 2
Dont have to be American to say or think something like that, but i agree with you. Heroin-No Ganja-Yesss
climaximus1 2 years ago 5
"only an american can say something like that " lol... miopic. I agree with your last sentence, though. But I digress, I actually just want to leave a comment to THANK the poster for the post :)
1970WasntAllBad 2 years ago
Beig a survivor of being under the spell of dope this song is great no matter who wrote it or sings it!!!! Period!! But if I had to weigh in I'd have to go with Steppenwolf. Listen to it through the headphones and you can hear just how Goddamn mad he is and that is the way I felt!!!! So damn straight.....GODDAMN THE PUSHER!!!! But GODDAMN DOPE EVEN MORE!!!!
jennybh08 2 years ago
THAT was a cool version of a great song!
thehoffmanns 2 years ago
hmm in reference to some comments here... it was my understanding that origionally the intention for this song was to get lots of artists singing it to warn people about heroin and a kind of prayer for pushers to fail in their demented endevoures. ive heard at least 4 different versions of this. nina is my personal fave but really comments or info on this? btw this is just what ive heard from a few old hippies i always thought it was a beautiful idea so i wanted to share it.
superalvacado 2 years ago
la version de Steppenwolf sur '' Early Steppenwolf '' n'est pas piquée des hanetons , faut dire ! ... mais bon , on ne va comparer Nina à John Kay , elle c'était la Grace , la Divine , . John Kay , ... un loup , animal très respectable d'ailleurs , et plutôt classe aussi , sous des abords un peu intimidants , .mais Nina a quelque chose d'une louve aussi , ou d'une tigresse , elle peut rugir et griffer , hurler à l'amour , à la mort , nous bercer dans un souffle .Love U Nina
thomascarpone 2 years ago
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write in english asshole!!
stocki94 2 years ago
this is gold for the ears...
"but i never touch nothing that my spirit could kill"
bloodypicnicmx 2 years ago 3
SOLID!!!!!!!
Robbyjean 2 years ago 2
i dig it !!!
fasteddy60 2 years ago 2
Great cover rip nina and curtis
zappadead13 3 years ago 5
Love, love, love...
moxie3672 3 years ago 5
Hoyt Axton was the man. One of the best kept secrets in music.
TrueFolk 3 years ago
Hot! Damn Hot! bring them all back.
braindroppings2000 3 years ago
she knew wat was up...lol :)
yes yes, she did.....NINA 4EVA!!
hailuunets 3 years ago 5
Lately ive been listening to nina simone and im surprised to find out a lot of songs she played are now songs which i enjoy very much , such as this one, and the house of rising sun . Amazing woman.
aniloJJ 3 years ago 2
...never did touch nothin' my spirit couldn't heal...
Thank you, Nina
pragmaticsone 3 years ago 2
i look like nina and i'll be casted to play her in a movie
very soon
KillaAngels 3 years ago
She knew what was up. Bless her.
gracebatmonkey 3 years ago 4
check out blind melon's version. i'd say its at least a tie.
AFILalpha 3 years ago
Just checked it out. Pretty cool with a nice twist.
pmtiny 3 years ago
check them out some more. soup is a great(if deeply strange) album. and thanks for the reply... and nina's version.
AFILalpha 3 years ago
Yeah, I was first introduced to this song by the Blind Melon version.
td25 3 years ago
I agree, Nina has the soul and Conviction where Blind Melon had the Wonderful Guitar sound and Raw sound.
Both very good versions. Oddly enough the original is not that great to me.
sixthcrusifix 3 years ago
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the orginal is the best. steppenwolf all the way.
tama6767 3 years ago
I dig the original too, but it was`nt by Steppenwolf..
miklockdredi 2 years ago
Hoyt Axton, I love easy rider, but steppenwolf did this great though
wizardeal 2 years ago
@AFILalpha Try Blind Lemon Pies version.
silentwulfsfan 1 year ago
sounds kinda like planet telex
jimisevertoolhed 3 years ago
this song is amazing
pjubagoni 3 years ago 2
Steppenwolf's song "The Pusher" is way better, 3 out of 5 stars
KillingDuke 3 years ago
This song was written by Steppenwolf, Nina Simone and the Sparrows both did covers of the song. The song contrasts the Pusher with the dealer. Rather than being a one dimensional screed against all drugs, i think the song points out that there are drugs that consume one's soul and drugs that lend themselves to enhancing life. Steppenwolf was pro marijuana legalization as in their song "don't step on the grass, Sam".
noops76 3 years ago
I agree. Pro recreational drugs, but anti the hardcore- addictive drugs that the pushers would get people hooked on.
pmtiny 3 years ago