100 songs about smoking (cigarettes)

30. Nomeansno - The Day Everything Became Nothing

"I was standing underneath a streetlight wishing I had a cigarette"

was the first song that came into my head.

Guided By Voices, Cigarette Tricks

Nick Drake, Been Smoking Too Long

33 Heavy Fuel - Dire Straits ("Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right")
34 Spark - Tori Amos ("She's addicted to nicotine patches.") BONUS POINT
35 Nobody Home - Pink Floyd ("I've got nicotine stains on my fingers.")
36 Nicotine & Gravy - Beck
37 Nicotine Bomb - Mission of Burma
38 Nicotine - Ani DiFranco

My favourite song about smoking:

39. Tex Williams - Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette (Puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death/Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate/That you hate to make him wait/But you've gotta have another cigarette)

Also:

40. The Lucksmiths - Smokers in Love

Hmm, despite being a heavy smoker, I seem to be erring towards anti-smoking songs here. I shall have to think about positive ones.

41. Night train - Guns n' Roses ('I smoke my cigarette with style'

42. Nicotine Stain (Siouxsie & the Banshees)

43. Little Billy (The Who)

^ anti-smoking song written for the American Cancer Society!

Rilo Kiley, Smoke Detector

^44.

45. The Smithereens - Cigarette

46. "Another Puff" -- Jerry Reed, classic song to induce quitting

47. "Soon I Will Be Gone" -- Free
Now lighting a cigarette
Now knowing I will regret
The way our love had to end
In her room
Standing alone
All alone
Soon I will be gone

Although I prefer Marti Jones' exquisite cover of the tune.

48. "What She Said" - The Smiths
"I smoke ’cos I’m hoping for an early death
And I need to cling to something."

49. Dave Van Ronk, Talking Cancer Blues
50. Peggy Seeger, It's A Free World
51. Infliktors, (Where'd You Get That) Cigarette

Tex Williams rules thread

52. The Rolling Stones - I Can't Get No Satisfaction
"But he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke
The same cigarettes as me"

Oh yes he does (xpost re: Tex Williams)

Thought of another one:

53. It & My Computer - Sur Une Cigarette

54. "Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray" -- Patsy Cline
55. "Don't Smoke in Bed" -- Peggy Lee
56. "Deep in a Dream" -- Chet Baker (falls alseep while smoking and dreams of a perfect lover who comes to him on a cloud of smoke; comes two abruptly when the burning cigarette reaches his fingers and the dream dissolves. Classic.)

See also: the whole of "Drag," k.d. lang's concept album about smoking

57. Bob Seger - Turn the Page
"With the echo from the amplifiers ringing in your head,
You smoke the day's last cigarette, remembering what she said."

Damnit, "Deep in a Dream" is SO GOOD. I'd have gone with the Sinatra version, tho.

58. The Fall, No Xmas for John Quays. "Found talking to the cigrarette machine"

54. "Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray" -- Patsy Cline was #10. So we are only at #57 right now.

Yeah, Sinatra is good on this as well. But Chet Baker personifies the idea of the rotted-out, nodding-off smoker...

I am confused.
#58? Princess Superstar - Quitting Smoking Song
#59 Hawksley Workman - Jealous of your Cigarette

60. Dramarama - Last Cigarette

61.Je Suis Une Cigarette - Mathieu Chedid
62.Je Ne Veux Pas Travailler - Edith Piaf [she just want to forget and smooooke]

63. Bottle Rockets - Smoking 100s Alone

64. Cigarettes, Whiskey & Wild Women - Sons of the Pioneers
65. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Merle Travis
66. Last Delicious Cigarette - Matmos

Does 65 count, seeing as we've already had Tex Williams' version on the list? (I know Travis wrote it.)

Gah. Sorry, emil.y. I somehow missed it when scanning the thread. One of my favourites too, anyhow.

66. Ashtray Heart (Capt. Beefheart)

67. Why Am I So Short? (Soft Machine)

"I like to smoke and drink and ball..."

68. Wilco - Shot In the Arm ("The ashtray says you were up all night")
69. Spiritualized - Dont' Just Do Something ("And life ain't good without cigarettes..."

i just quit smoking, assholes, this aint helping me at all

I'm on day 10, stevienixed!

i just quit smoking, assholes, this aint helping me at all

70. MBV folks! - "Cigarette In Your Bed"

71.Them - the song that goes :"one more coffee,one more cigarette,one more motinging trying to forget etc..." great song btw

you just cant win , i think it's called

72 "Don't Smoke in Bed" - Nina Simone
73 "Don't Smoke" - The Microphones
74 "Chain Smoker" - Creeper Lagoon
75 "Balcony Smoker" - Jenny Wilson
76 "Blabber 'n Smoke" - Captain Beefheart
77 "You Burn Me up I'm a Cigarette" - Robert Fripp
78 "Pink Cigarette" - Mr Bungle

79. Stooges-"Little Doll" ("Little doll I can't forget/Smokin' on a cigarette")

80. Death Cab For Cutie - Title Track

81. Roger Miller - "Dad Blame Anything a Man Can't Quit"

l'm a two pack a day man, smoke like a fiend
Like a burned out bearing in a bad machine
l can't breath in the morning 'til l get myself a cigarette lit
l say dad blame anything a man can't quit

oooooooooooooooooh lord, help me. i was looking through my pockets for a pack. LE SIGH.
i'm on hour 12. urgh

Tweet, "Smoking Cigarettes" -> such a great song

good news: the twelfth hour is the worst, all the others are piss easy
bad news: it comes back every day,
good news: and after a while only every second day...

the only reason why i didn't smoke in the last 7 months is that quitting was much more difficult than i thought. before i had always assumed i could stop at any day but i never stopped for more than 4 weeks. i don't want to waste all that energy i have put into not smoking!

82 "Smoking Room" - Codeine
83 "Twenty Tens (I've Been Smoking All Night)" - The Virgin Prunes

btw 32 "been smoking too long" is nick drake covering a robin frederick song

84. Saved -- LaVerne Baker
I used to smoke, I used to drink, I used to smoke, drink, and dance the hoochie-coo
But now I'm standin' on this corner prayin' for me and you

Albums, not songs: There's Bob Seger's "Smokin' O.P.'s" and Joe Walsh's "The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get." And does anyone remember the Midwest nu-wave band The Dancing Cigarettes?

SebastiAn - "Smoking Kills"

86. I'm a Disposable Lighter (For Your Love) - Th'Cigaretz

some late 70s new wave/punk band. Their album is on Cancer Records and thanks The Ramones for equipment use and technical assistance.

87. "Glasses & Ashes & Bottles & Cans" -- Jackie & Roy

88. graham day & the gaolers - wanna smoke

89. "Flowers On The Wall" - Statler Brothers. Come on, young 'uns! 'smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo'

90. "King of the Road" - Roger Miller. Also before your time"

91. "Smoke (La Vie En Fumer)" - The Tubest. Oh, for fuck's sake!

^^^

I mean The Tubes, of course. I'm just excited.

92. "I Mean It" - Romeo Void. 'The ashtray is heaped with my response to you." Ouch, Deborah.

93. "Cigarettes" by Greg Dulli: "The cigarettes are gonna kill me, I know/I gotta get a light before I hit the door/does anybody have a light/avec moi because I need to get right"

94. "Cigarettiquette" - Lambchop I'M SMOKING AGAIN.

95. "Fishnets and Cigarettes" - New York Dolls

96. "Chain Smoking" - Subway Sect

97. "Ping Pong Affair" - The Slits

98. "Breathing" - Kate Bush

99. "America' - Simon & Garfunkel

100. "Smokin' In the Boy's Room" - Brownsville Station

96. "Chain Smoking' - Subway Sect see #18 sorry

96. "I Can't Forget" - Leonard Cohen

101 Benny Spellman – Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)

PS I don't smoke right now. I quit in 1986, and if you are quitting now it should encourage you to know that it got much easier after the 21st year.

102. Super Furry Animals - "Let's Quit Smoking"

103. Ry Cooder, "Fool for a Cigarette"
104. Gary Stewart, "Caffein [sic], Nicotine, Benzedrine"

99. "America' - Simon & Garfunkel didn't see #25 Alex so

99. "America" - Yes Well, that's too easy. One of my favorites then: "Sensual Seduction" by Snoop Dogg. It was that or "Fodderstompf" by PIL which does not mention smoking but acts it out with that godforsaken cough.

100. "Easy Skanking" - Bob Marley

^^^^^

I"Fodderstompf" DOES mention smoking:
"I’m just gonna go and get a cigarette do you want one
Yes please
Wont be a second
Okay"

I had to go listen to it after thinking about it. I haven't heard it in about, oh never mind it's nauseating to think of how many decades. It's just as I remembered it.

106(?) Les Paul & Mary Ford - "Smoke Rings"
107(?) Chicory Tip - "Cigarettes, Women and Wine"

39. Tex Williams - Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette (Puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death/Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate/That you hate to make him wait/But you've gotta have another cigarette)
B-b-b-b-but no one knew cigarettes were bad for you in 1947!

everyone knew it. that is why smoking was cool. these days the importance of the length of life is so totally fucking overstated.

I vote for these!

The Chats - Smoko

the kd lang album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO7BW2br4Rc

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https://www.discogs.com/release/13412686-Various-Smoke-Smoke-Smoke-That-Cigarette