Smoke Two Joints

Infobox Song
Name = Smoke Two Joints


Artist = Sublime
Album = 40 Oz. to Freedom
Released = 1992
track_no = 3
Recorded = 1991-1992 at Mambo in Long Beach, California
Genre = Ska punk
Length = 3:09
Writer = tanya sabga
Label = Skunk Records, Gasoline Alley/MCA
Producer = Sublime
prev = 40 Oz. to Freedom
prev_no = 2
next = We're Only Gonna Die for Our Arrogance
next_no = 4

"Smoke Two Joints" is a song originally written by Chris Kay and Michael Kay of the band The Toyes and released in 1983. The song was performed by them in traditional Reggae style. According to the Toyes, "one fine fall day on a small island" of Oahu in Hawaii, two of the band members, Mawg and Sky, were sitting under a large banyan tree on Kuhio Beach, "tokin' on some sweet Kona bud & jammin' on a rootsy reggae groove" when they conceived the song "Smoke Two Joints."

In addition to the Toyes version, the song is well known for having been covered by Sublime, a punk/ska band, on their 1992 debut album "40 Oz. to Freedom".

ublime version

"Smoke Two Joints" was the first Sublime song ever to be played on the radioFact|date=May 2007.

The intro of the Sublime version contains a sample from the film "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls":cquote
She was living in a single room with three other individuals. One of them was a male and the other two, well, the other two were females. God only knows what they were up to in there. And furthermore, Susan, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habitually smoked marijuana cigarettes--Reefers.

The Sublime version then continues with the sounds of a bong and a lighter being used.

Additional covers

*SPM did a cover version and can be found on The Purity Album.

*Norman Nardini, based in Pittsburgh, PA, also did at least two cover versions of this song.One was a studio LP on Circumstantial Records out of NYC and one on his live CD from 1994 also on Circumstantial. Norman first came across the song in 1983 when his friend Stosh brought home the 45 as part of the music he bought on his vacation in Hawaii. Nardini had his band learn it at once and has been doing the song for 20+ years. He wanted to do it on one of his two releases on CBS in the 1980s and the label couldn't figure out how to track down who wrote the song, so Nardini didn't record the song for them.Fact|date=May 2007

*Richard Cheese does a cover on his album Tuxicity
*The ska punk band The Rudiments do a cover of this song on the album Psychoska which is preceded by a clip from a Cheech and Chong movie
* Some people may think that this song is from Bob Marley, because if you search on p2p networks you will find results for this song by Bob Marley. Actually, Bob Marley never sang this song. The version on the p2p networks is a live version by Sublime.

External links

* [http://www.thetoyes.com/smoke2joints.html The Toyes' page about the song]
* [http://www.thetoyes.com/sublime.html Letter from Brad Nowell to Mawg of the Toyes]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7w5VwZM2Kc Scene from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls sampled by Sublime]