Top 5 Best Stoner Rock Songs to listen on a date

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Dazed and Confused, Led Zeppelin

Perhaps stoner rock is considered a fairly recent phenomenon, but the best rock music has always been driven by the reinvention of past glories. English band Led Zeppelin, starring one of the genre’s most potent singers, Robert Plant and accomplished guitarists, Jimmy Page, backed up by a thunderous rhythm section of John Bonham on drums and John Paul Jones on bass, were conjuring stoner anthems back in the late 1960s. Inspired by a folk song written by Jake Holmes, this boozy, bluesy version was included on their eponymous debut album, signalling the arrival of a bold and incredibly influential new band.

Feel Good Hit of the Summer, Queens of the Stone Age

You can’t get much more of a stoner anthem than the opener of the Californian band’s second album, Rated R. The lyrical content consists of vocalist Josh Homme listing drugs: “Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy, and alcohol … c-c-c-c-cocaine.” Simply mentioning them by name is not necessarily recommending anyone dabbles (and certainly not all of them!) However, the sentiment was enough to get the single banned by various US radio stations. On your date, do like Josh and treat his vocals with tongue decidedly in cheek, and just relish the relentless guitars.

Black Hole Sun, Soundgarden

Named after a Seattle art installation consisting of weird noise-making pipes, Soundgarden are one of the most successful bands emanating from the USA’s northwest ‘grunge’ scene. Initially sounding like a power ballad, the lyrical content is far more unsettling than anything Journey might have come up with. As the stoner chorus puts it, “Black hole sun, won’t you come and wash away the rain?” This is the polar opposite of some joyous LSD-drenched optimism The Beatles might have dreamt up, providing a powerfully nihilistic vision of Earth’s issues being swallowed up by a cosmic void!

Dig It, Nothing

This album track by Philadelphia rockers Nothing ticks all the stoner rock boxes. Heavily tattooed musicians. Check. ‘Wall of guitar’ riffs pounding from speaker stack. Check. Slow pace, allowing the song’s intensity to build throughout. Check. On date night, this is a song that requires to be enjoyed with the volume cranked right up, allowing you to bask in the unexpectedly melodic choruses when they break up the furious riffs.

Iron Man, Black Sabbath

Also stoner precursors, Black Sabbath have not only been credited with initiating heavy metal, but stoner rock has also been an equally intrinsic element of their foreboding sound. Guitarist Tony Iommi excels at lightning-quick solos, but it’s the awesome power of his crunching riffs, often played at a slower tempo, that gives the Sabs their stoner edge. Legendary singer Ozzy Osbourne intoning ‘I Am Iron precludes six minutes of futuristic fantasy, propelled by heaving chords.