Songs You Probably Loved if You Were a High School Stoner in the '90s

If you were in high school (more like HIGH school am I right?) during the '90s and also happened to be a major stoner, these songs were probably in heavy rotation. Everyone had their favorites, but if you identified as a stoner, these were staples. Since you probably have a hard time remembering, here's a refresher.

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2. Ben Harper - "Burn One Down"

You bought some bongos and swore that you were going to get like, really good at the bongos, but then the only song you ever learned out to play was "Burn One Down" and every time you started playing it, it reminded you that you wanted to smoke weed, so you never got much bongo practice in.

3. Phish - "Divided Sky"

Phish fan Todd: The solo on "Divided Sky" from Halloween in '94 is the most beautiful piece of recorded music that I've ever heard.

Phish fan Mike: Yeah it's like, better than Mozart and better than Miles Davis.

Phish fan Todd: I swear that one silence-breaking solo at 7:27 is better than an orgasm.

Phish fan Mike: Yeah, I get a boner. I definitely get a boner.

Phish fan Todd: Wait, can we be honest for a second?

Phish fan Mike: Yeah, Todd. Always.

Phish fan Todd: Do you actually like Phish? This concert is cool and getting stoned is great and the whole "experience of Phish" is great. Sometimes they even make some decent music—they are such talented musicians. But do you actually like Phish?

Phish fan Mike: I mean, I'm kinda with you. It's not that I actually want to hear 20 minutes of Phish. It's more like... I consider myself a Phish fan. Let's put it that way. I'm a Phish fan. It's part of my identity.

Phish fan Todd: Same, bro. Same. Now shh.. here comes that 7-minute solo, oh my god.

Phish fan Mike: Oh my god, my boner is back.

4. Luniz - "I Got 5 On It"

If you don't sing along when the chorus of "I Got 5 On It" comes on, you're probably a narc.

5. Sublime - "Let's Go Get Stoned"

If you were a stoner in high school, "Smoke Two Joints" was all your friends' pot-smoking anthem, but it got old. It's like, are we sooo cliché that we're going to listen to "Smoke Two Joints" and literally smoke two joints? And then we'll bring the bong out and play "Hits From The Bong"? C'mon, we're better than that. Let's go with the less obvious Sublime song called "Let's Go Get Stoned" and go get stoned. Wait.

6. Slightly Stoopid - "This Joint"

Slightly Stoopid was originally signed to Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell's Skunk Records. You knew they weren't as cool as Sublime and their name was unbearably corny, but shit, they're kind of good sometimes. The bass in this song is just so, like, I don't know it's just... big. Not big in the sense of weight, big as in like colossal. Shit, I sound like Lil Wayne right now. Ha, Wayne kinda sounds like a frog. I'm gonna get a pet frog and name it Lil Wayne. And then I'm gonna take pics of it and Photoshop Lil Wayne's dreads and diamond teeth on it. Then I'm gonna start the parody Twitter account @FrogLilWayne or @LilWayneFrog. I don't know. Which sounds better? Either way, it'll probably go viral and then my frog will be internet famous. What were we talking about?

7. Every song from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon

Listening to the entire Dark Side of the Moon is a stoner rite of passage. If you were a stoner, you knew how to roll, how to make a bong out of a soda bottle, how to distinguish between different strains, and how to pass drug tests with homemade concoctions. But still, if you haven't ever been high and listened to the entire Dark Side of the Moon, you're a half-assed stoner.

8. Bob Marley - "Kaya"

As stereotypical as it is, if you didn't have Bob Marley on your smoking playlist, you were doing it wrong.

9. Peter Tosh - "Legalize It"

These days, people are coming around to the idea of legalizing pot. When Peter Tosh released this song in the '70s, it was a little more revolutionary. By the '90s, while you were too busy hitting your triple-chamber bong to actively engage in politics, Tosh's "Legalize It" was your protest song.

10. Bob Dylan - "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"

Smoking weed and feeling like the whole world is on your side. Bob Dylan has insisted that this song isn't about smoking pot, but tell that to the kid with a gigantic joint in his hand and a goofy smile on his face, singing, "Everybody must get stoned!" Also, 12 x 35 is 420, so... just saying.

11. Cypress Hill - "Stoned is the Way of the Walk"

When it comes to Cypress Hill stoner anthems, take your pick. "Hits From The Bong" is the go-to for casual smokers and corny movies about smoking pot, but "Stoned is the Way of the Walk" is the less obvious pick for stoners who spent too much time hearing "Hits From The Bong" while rookies coughed up lungs after their first bong hits.

12. Tom Petty - "You Don't Know How It Feels"

It doesn't take much to become a stoner favorite. One clear mention of smoking pot is all you need, and Petty nailed it with, "So let's get to the point, let's roll another joint." That's all it took. Instant add to the High Tymez Kind Buds Stoner Songz 1999 playlist.

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