10 Radio-Friendly Songs About Drugs

2. Sorted For E's And Wizz - Pulp

Few rockstars have ever been as gifted at crafting a narrative as Jarvis Cocker. The straight-talking Pulp frontman is one of the greatest lyricists British indie has ever seen, blending a conversational tone with his wry sense of humour and just a dash of smut to write songs that are near-perfect reflections of what it means to be young, working class, and bored in Britain.

On Sorted For E’s and Wizz, Cocker talks of buying tickets to an illegal field rave in Hampshire from a dodgy bloke in Camden Town, before proceeding to describe a night of mystified wandering and wide-eyed pleasure-seeking.

From chatting with drug dealers to losing his friends, all the way through to the existential crisis of the dreaded comedown, Cocker paints a typically vivid picture of an evening that you can almost feel descending into chaos and confusion, constantly underpinned by that woozily unmistakeable synth line.

Unlike other artists on this list who hide behind metaphors or euphemisms, Pulp make no bones about their muse on this track - this is a song about drugs.