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• Several of Hinder's early songs, including this one, were written primarily by lead singer Austin Winkler and drummer Cody Hanson. There's a touch of hedonism in many of these early tracks, and this one finds Winkler singing about getting high on marijuana and having sex with his girlfriend (apparently, the sex is better when he's high). Hanson told Songfacts that the majority of the songs on the band's first album, Extreme Behavior, came from his and Winkler's personal experiences. He elaborated by saying that, in those days, "We'd kind of throw elements of both of our lives into every song."
• If you catch a whiff of the Aerosmith song "Dream On" in the intro to "Get Stoned," you're on the mark. Hinder drummer Cody Hanson acknowledges this and says the intro was written that way on purpose. In 2012, Hanson told us that Hinder was definitely influenced by Aerosmith and that the band wanted to pay tribute to them in one of their songs.
• "Get Stoned" was Hinder's first single. It got some attention in rural areas and cultivated their image as reckless party types. In March 2006, six months after the album was released, the song reached its peak position in the US: #124. For their next single, Hinder picked a song they didn't think had much hit potential but was getting a great reaction when they played it live: "Lips Of An Angel." To their surprise, it took off, greatly expanding their audience beyond frat boys and bikers. It climbed all the way to #3 in October.
• Before Hinder got a record deal, the band recorded a different version of this song that didn't contain an intro similar to Aerosmith's "Dream On." Drummer Cody Hanson told Songfacts that once the label got involved in the creative process, the intro to this song was one of the things they thought should change.