Smokin' ... who could forget
Afroman's Because I Got High?
Photograph: Shawn Baldwin/AP
Last week, songs about dancing formed the first of a party season triptych, and as usual the scale of the response dwarfed that of the playlist. A second 10 would have included Shriekback, Junior Senior, the Ramones, Wilson Pickett and Men Without Hats. I wouldn't mind going to a club that played all of those.
As the ban on smoking in pubs looms, it's time to celebrate the demon weed's contribution to pop's canon. There's a decent-sized body of songs featuring regular cigarettes but just in case you run short of inspiration, the other, more potent variety (that means you, Cypress Hill) is equally welcome. There's a whole sub-genre of hip-hop tracks featuring rappers coughing after a particularly powerful drag - not a classic sub-genre, I'll grant you, but a sub-genre nonetheless. And if you can find any songs about cigars, pipes, hookahs etc, be my guest.
Thanks for all the suggestions for future playlist themes; I've added them to the list of ideas for 2006. As usual, the deadline for recommendations is 6pm Monday.
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