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Open Thread – Who Put the Nembutal in Mr Murphy’s Overalls?

by $8 blue check mistermix|  January 17, 201410:49 am| 45 Comments

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Here’s the only song I know that mentions Nembutal (pentobarbital), the drug that those European socialists won’t let us use for our Jesus-approved executions.

Update: As many of you pointed out, how could I have forgotten this classic? (Of course, Valley of the Dolls is another pop culture reference, but it isn’t music.)

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  1. 1.

    Knight of Nothing

    January 17, 2014 at 10:53 am

    The Clash’s ‘The Right Profile’ also contains a reference to Nembutal!

  2. 2.

    slateman

    January 17, 2014 at 10:55 am

    @Knight of Nothing: Nembutal numbs it all
    But I prefer alcohol

  3. 3.

    bettypageisablonde

    January 17, 2014 at 10:55 am

    “Nimbutal numbs it all, but I prefer alcohooolll” – The Right Profile is a great song!

  4. 4.

    Knight of Nothing

    January 17, 2014 at 10:55 am

    @slateman: an amusing couplet, isn’t it?

  5. 5.

    S-Curve

    January 17, 2014 at 10:56 am

    @Knight of Nothing: My first thought. I have a feeling DougJ will be sad he wasn’t the first to point this out.

  6. 6.

    Knight of Nothing

    January 17, 2014 at 10:59 am

    @S-Curve: maybe, but I suspect he is perfectly aware that there are plenty of folks here that are of an age that slavishly followed The Clash, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Buzzcocks, Squeeze, The Jam, etc. ;-)

  7. 7.

    MattF

    January 17, 2014 at 11:02 am

    And if you don’t like Ovaltine, there’s always malted milk:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYQUkuuPvXg

  8. 8.

    MikeJ

    January 17, 2014 at 11:02 am

    Mars Volta – Halo of Nembutals
    Kristin Hersh (of Throwing Muses) – Sno Cat
    Snow buries Whitehall
    White powdered Nembutal
    And I can’t think anymore

  9. 9.

    El Caganer

    January 17, 2014 at 11:05 am

    Nembutal? Jeez, I used to get high on that stuff. How times change.

  10. 10.

    MikeJ

    January 17, 2014 at 11:06 am

    Jane Birkin – Norma Jean Baker

  11. 11.

    Cris (without an H)

    January 17, 2014 at 11:13 am

    The rotoscoping in this clip looks better than anything Ralph Bakshi did with it 30 years later.

    Also: the song featured here appears on a compilation called “Cocaine Blues, which looks like a hoot.

  12. 12.

    dpm (dread pirate mistermix)

    January 17, 2014 at 11:13 am

    @MikeJ: Wow, you’re a music encyclopedia.

  13. 13.

    MikeJ

    January 17, 2014 at 11:19 am

    @dpm (dread pirate mistermix): I don’t own the Mars Volta one, but I was aware of its existance.

    Throwing Muses are playing here at the end of February. Which might be a chance to go to a show and not be the one creepy old guy there.

  14. 14.

    burnspbesq

    January 17, 2014 at 11:20 am

    Hot diggity:

    PA voter-ID law struck down

    And check out the first comment, which is pure Yinzer.

  15. 15.

    shelly

    January 17, 2014 at 11:22 am

    (Of course, Valley of the Dolls is another pop culture reference, but it isn’t music.)

    It was in the original Mad Magazine parody of the film.

    (God, I’m old. But Bart Simpson would appreciate the reference.)

  16. 16.

    cleek

    January 17, 2014 at 11:22 am

    @MikeJ:
    love that Kristen Hersh album. she makes Hope Sandoval sound happy.

  17. 17.

    catclub

    January 17, 2014 at 11:22 am

    @MikeJ: ” not be the one creepy old guy there. ”

    So, one of many creepy old guys there? I bet the plural is ‘a codgering’, maybe a grampede.

  18. 18.

    Keith P.

    January 17, 2014 at 11:32 am

    @MikeJ: Halo of Nembutals is one of my favorite MV songs.

  19. 19.

    Steve M.

    January 17, 2014 at 11:32 am

    (Of course, Valley of the Dolls is another pop culture reference, but it isn’t music.)

    ‘
    Well, there’s this, if you like Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick:

    http://youtu.be/9xKkSSKmjbk

  20. 20.

    ? Martin

    January 17, 2014 at 11:41 am

    Great, now DougJ is going to have to do a thread on best prescription drug songs.

  21. 21.

    kindness

    January 17, 2014 at 11:44 am

    Back in the early 70’s drug stores were apparently a lot easier to break into. My high school regularly had several barbituates (downs as they were called) for sale. Reds (secondol), blues (tuinol) and yellows (nembutol). Nembutol was always my favorite even though they all acted almost identically. Thank god I lived through that period of my life because doing those things was the closest I ever came to death. I am very lucky.

  22. 22.

    geg6

    January 17, 2014 at 11:53 am

    For those of us who live in PA, this is good news for once:

    http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/court-rejects-pennsylvania-voter-id-law

    I heart Vic Wolczak. He’s freakin’ awesome.

  23. 23.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 17, 2014 at 11:55 am

    @? Martin:

    “An Ode to Aspirin”

  24. 24.

    Poopyman

    January 17, 2014 at 11:57 am

    @burnspbesq: Holy crap! It’s not just the first comment, either. Reminds me of why I’m rather happy to have gotten out of Western PA 30+ years ago. All those wingers are still there clinging on.

  25. 25.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 17, 2014 at 11:59 am

    @burnspbesq:

    Jeeze, that comments section reeks of teahadi scum.

  26. 26.

    burnspbesq

    January 17, 2014 at 12:02 pm

    @? Martin:

    Start with two tracks from the best album of 2013.

    http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jasonisbell/relativelyeasy.html

    http://www.songlyrics.com/jason-isbell/different-days-lyrics/

  27. 27.

    Suffern ACE

    January 17, 2014 at 12:04 pm

    Not fast enough. I’m voting for Rand.

  28. 28.

    MomSense

    January 17, 2014 at 12:05 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    Great news!!

    Judging by some of the comments, they are really paranoid about illegals voting. Do you suppose they have convinced themselves that the only way Barack Obama could win election twice was through massive illegal voting? That is all I can come up with to explain the recent obsession with voter id.

  29. 29.

    Suffern ACE

    January 17, 2014 at 12:08 pm

    @MomSense: The people who are voting are not interested in screwing around in mideast lands, do not have a sense that things work out best if white men are automatically placed in charge of things, and expect that the elderly should be taken care of. That’s a problem. Too many folks who don’t share the right vision of the world.

  30. 30.

    burnspbesq

    January 17, 2014 at 12:12 pm

    @MomSense:

    I actually think it’s broader than that. They’d like to deny the vote to anyone (including us white folks) who’s not going to vote the right way. But in the absence of any kind of “Minority Report” technology to get into the heads of prospective voters, they use race and ethnicity as proxies.

  31. 31.

    shelly

    January 17, 2014 at 12:16 pm

    Do you suppose they have convinced themselves that the only way Barack Obama could win election twice was through massive illegal voting

    Yup, that and Gov. Christie saying nice things about Obama after SuperStorm Sandy

  32. 32.

    Davis X. Machina

    January 17, 2014 at 12:19 pm

    @MomSense:

    Do you suppose they have convinced themselves that the only way Barack Obama could win election twice was through massive illegal voting?

    In a word, yes. Charlie Summers, the state GOP chair for Maine (the whitest, or second-whitest state in the union) was convinced that roving buses full of black people, foreigners mostly, were going from town to town voting Democratic, because that’s what they do.

    “I’m not talking about 15 or 20. I’m talking hundreds,” he said Wednesday. “I’m not politically correct and maybe I shouldn’t have said these voters were black, but anyone who suggests I have a bias toward any race or group, frankly, that’s sleazy.”

    And of course, nobody noticed. Which is what you’d expect if a bus full of 40-50 Somalis turned up at the Grange hall in East Vassalboro, rarin’ to vote.

  33. 33.

    chopper

    January 17, 2014 at 12:21 pm

    Jets To Brazil’s Conrad

    houndstooth coat pockets are bulging
    with nembutal bought from some doctor
    who also was bought to keep those pockets full

  34. 34.

    Goblue72

    January 17, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    @Poopyman: Appalachia – there is no greater hive of scum & villainy.

  35. 35.

    raven

    January 17, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    The Ovaltine factory was in my home town and we once lived about three blocks away. We lived by the whistle and the smell will always be with me.

  36. 36.

    raven

    January 17, 2014 at 12:27 pm

    @kindness: We used to get huge bottles of trees and sell them on the quad in “lids”!

  37. 37.

    El Caganer

    January 17, 2014 at 12:27 pm

    @Poopyman: Hell, eastern PA for that matter. Check out the comments on philly.com and you’ll find a lot of the same stuff.

  38. 38.

    bemused

    January 17, 2014 at 12:32 pm

    @Poopyman:

    Wingnuts are everywhere, some places more of them, some less.

  39. 39.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 17, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    @Goblue72:

    Appalachia – there is no greater hive of scum & villainy.

    I disagree. Four words:

    Dick Cheney’s undisclosed location

  40. 40.

    p.a.

    January 17, 2014 at 1:57 pm

    @cleek: her book ‘Rat Girl’ is excellent.

  41. 41.

    PIGL

    January 17, 2014 at 2:21 pm

    I’m pretty sure that Loudon Wainright III’s “Wine with dinner” also contains a reference.

  42. 42.

    rikyrah

    January 17, 2014 at 2:44 pm

    Wonderful clips…..just a suggestion for posting.

    Clip 1
    Michelle Obama shares her college struggles

    The first lady and President Obama joined college sophomore Troy Simon in D.C. to talk about the importance of helping every student thrive in college. Lawrence O’Donnell talks to Troy Simon, Joy Reid and Harvard sophomore Justin Porter.

    http://on.msnbc.com/1dVQ3rd

    They continue the conversation:

    http://on.msnbc.com/1dVQfXr

    The First Lady’s Remarks at the White House. This is why they hate the First Lady, because she keeps it real, and is honest and inspirational.

    http://youtu.be/XsF9Vs6RE-g

  43. 43.

    rikyrah

    January 17, 2014 at 3:39 pm

    NewsBreaker @NewsBreaker Follow
    BREAKING: Freedom Industries, the company connected to the West Virginia chemical spill, files for Chapter 11 http://wsj.com – @WSJ
    1:26 PM – 17 Jan 2014

  44. 44.

    drkrick

    January 17, 2014 at 3:57 pm

    A song in the musical “Applause” mentions nembutal. I think it’s “Welcome to the Theatre”, but my stint in the pit orchestra for that one was several decades back.

  45. 45.

    Mnemosyne

    January 17, 2014 at 3:58 pm

    @rikyrah:

    Of course they did. I bet they transferred all of their assets to a different part of the corporation before they even picked up the phone to report the leak. That’s what PG&E was doing in California so they could claim they were going to go “bankrupt” if the state didn’t pay them even more for electricity.

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