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Songs about Addictions

The monkey on your back. The jones. These are songs about the neat little stimulus-reward short circuit designed into the human brain and how it can combine with any vaguely pleasant sensation to form a constant destructive cycle. Addiction is a subject that comes up a lot in music, as the rock star lifestyle both encourages substance abuse and doesn't leave a lot of room for wholesome pastimes like mountain climbing instead.

Is there anything we can't get addicted to? First they outlaw drugs, but we just turn to alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine. Failing that, we get addicted to gambling, love, or sex. If you remove that, we can turn obsessive-compulsive and get addicted to mopping the floor. Humans don't have a monkey on their back; we are the monkeys, and our monkeys minds are ever seeking a fix from whatever sweet sugar we find.

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  400 Lux
  Lorde
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  Addicted
  Saving Abel
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  Addicted
  Simple Plan
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  Addicted
  Enrique Iglesias
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  Addiction
  Fabolous
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  Addiction
  Kanye West
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  Addiction
  Medina
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  Ain't it Fun
  Guns N' Roses
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  Anecdote
  Ambulance LTD
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  Back in the Saddle
  Aerosmith
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  Be My Escape
  Relient K
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  Breaking the Habit
  Linkin Park
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  Burn The House Down
  AJR
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  Capricorn Sister
  Mother Love Bone
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  Cocaine
  Eric Clapton
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  Cold Turkey
  John Lennon
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  Comfortably Numb
  Pink Floyd
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  Deja Vu
  Eminem
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  Don't Forget Me
  Red Hot Chili Peppers
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  Figured You Out
  Nickelback
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  Gasoline
  Halsey
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  Gravity
  Sara Bareilles
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  Heroin
  Velvet Underground, The
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  Hotel California
  Eagles
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  I Drink Alone
  George Thorogood
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  John Doe
  B.o.B.
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  Love On The Brain
  Rihanna
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  Low Man's Lyric
  Metallica
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  Margaritaville
  Jimmy Buffett
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  Mr Browstone
  Guns N' Roses
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  Mr. Tambourine Man
  Bob Dylan
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  My Own Prison
  Creed
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  Not My God
  Keith Urban
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  Otherside
  Red Hot Chili Peppers
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  Purple Haze
  Jimi Hendrix
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  Rehab
  Amy Winehouse
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  River of Deceit
  Mad Season
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  Semi-Charmed Life
  Third Eye Blind
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  She Talks To Angels
  Black Crowes
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  Slow Motion
  Third Eye Blind
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  Snowblind
  Styx
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  So Cold
  Breaking Benjamin
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  Soul to Squeeze
  Red Hot Chili Peppers
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  That Smell
  Lynyrd Skynyrd
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  That's Why I'm Here
  Kenny Chesney
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  The A Team
  Ed Sheeran
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  The Needle and the Damage Done
  Neil Young
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  Thunderbird
  They Might Be Giants
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  Under the Bridge
  Red Hot Chili Peppers
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  Would?
  Alice In Chains

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