50 Best Rock Songs About Getting High
Best Rock Tracks for When the World Feels a Little Fuzzy
There’s a kind of haze that hangs over certain nights. You’re not sure if you’re chasing clarity or losing it, but everything feels softer around the edges. The lights blur, time slows, and your mind drifts somewhere between laughter and deep thought that never quite lands. The right track hits different in that space. The riffs stretch out, the drums feel like they’re breathing with you, and you start to understand why some songs sound like they were made in a cloud of smoke. Not every one of these tracks speaks plainly on the topic, but they all carry that same disoriented pulse that fits the mood.
There’s something honest in how rock music handles that kind of release. It doesn’t polish it up. It leans into the daze and the drag, the late-night spark that fades into a hum before sunrise. Some of these songs are reckless, some sound almost spiritual, and some drift between both without caring where they land. They hum with a freedom that slips through the cracks of routine, like they were written by people who forgot what day it was and liked it that way. You can feel that energy in the way the guitars ramble or the vocals hang too long on a single line.
You’ll find crossovers too, since the feeling bleeds across genres. Some of the same mood lives in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that stretch the edges of escape and euphoria. These tracks catch that high—literal or not—and turn it into sound. They hum, they sprawl, they slow the room down until everything starts to glow. Here are the best rock songs for getting high.
Top 10 High-Themed Rock Songs
1. 'Sweet Leaf' by Black Sabbath
2. 'Purple Haze' by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
3. 'You Don't Know How It Feels' by Tom Petty
4. 'Light My Fire' by The Doors
5. 'White Rabbit' by Jefferson Airplane
6. 'Rainy Day Women #12 & 35' by Bob Dylan
7. 'Got to Get You Into My Life' by The Beatles
8. 'Roll Another Number (For the Road)' by Neil Young
9. 'One Toke Over the Line' by Brewer & Shipley
10. 'Smoke Two Joints' by Sublime
Classic Rock Tracks About Altered States #11 to 20
11. 'Don't Bogart Me' by Fraternity of Man
12. 'The Needle and the Damage Done' by Neil Young
13. 'Cocaine' by Eric Clapton
14. 'Mr. Brownstone' by Guns N' Roses
15. 'Time' by Pink Floyd
16. 'Dazed and Confused' by Led Zeppelin
17. 'Coming Down' by The Beta Band
18. 'I Am the Walrus' by The Beatles
19. 'Going to California' by Led Zeppelin
20. 'Mary Jane's Last Dance' by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Heavy and Alternative Rock Songs Referencing Substance Use #21 to 30
21. 'Reefer Head Woman' by Aerosmith
22. 'Dopesmoker' by Sleep
23. 'The Pot' by Tool
24. 'She Talks to Angels' by The Black Crowes
25. 'Mexico' by Jefferson Airplane
26. 'The Pusher' by Steppenwolf
27. 'Comfortably Numb' by Pink Floyd
28. 'Wet Sand' by Red Hot Chili Peppers
29. 'I Got Stoned and I Missed It' by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
30. 'Hi Hi Hi' by Paul McCartney and Wings
Deep Cuts and Stoner Rock Favorites #31 to 40
31. 'Seasons' by Chris Cornell
32. 'Semi-Charmed Life' by Third Eye Blind
33. 'Don't Step on the Grass, Sam' by Steppenwolf
34. 'The Joker' by Steve Miller Band
35. 'Hash Pipe' by Weezer
36. 'Sister Morphine' by The Rolling Stones
37. 'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath
38. 'A Passage to Bangkok' by Rush
39. 'The Wizard' by Black Sabbath
40. 'Rocky Mountain High' by John Denver
Essential Rock Playlist Additions #41 to 50
41. 'Coming Down Again' by The Rolling Stones
42. 'The Drug in Me Is You' by Falling in Reverse
43. 'LSD' by The Pretty Things
44. 'Heroin' by The Velvet Underground
45. 'Sober' by Tool
46. 'Jailbreak' by Thin Lizzy
47. 'Gimme Shelter' by The Rolling Stones
48. 'Golden Brown' by The Stranglers
49. 'Smoke 'Em' by Electric Wizard
50. 'Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)' by The First Edition
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