Music
- Barbara (1930-1997) the popular French female singer wrote and composed, with Frédéric Botton, and sang l'Absinthe, a song published in her 12th album "La Fleur d'amour" (1972). This song is a love song, a bit sad and nostagic -sadness is Barbara's trademark-, where the singer explains to a lover that drinking absinthe helps at last to feel in love, to render love joyful, just like it helped Rimbaud and Verlaine to write their poetry (a recurrent comparison, all along the song).
- Marilyn Manson has been an avid fan of absinthe since the recording of the Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) album. He has also developed his own brand of the drink, entitled Mansinthe.
- On Minus The Bear's 2002 debut album, Highly Refined Pirates, there is a track entitled "Absinthe Party At The Fly Honey Warehouse". It is one of their most popular tracks among fans.
- Cradle Of Filth has a song entitled "Absinthe with Faust" on their album Nymphetamine.
- The Nine Inch Nails video for "The Perfect Drug" casts Trent Reznor as a grieving father who drinks absinthe as an escape.
- Blood Axis and Les Joyaux De La Princesse released a concept album called Absinthe: La Folie Verte.
- Mayer Hawthorne has a song entitled "Green Eyed Love" on his first album "A Strange Arrangement". Although the lyrics of the song seem to reflect on his relationship with a green-eyed girl, the music video puts the lyrics in a different light, where we can see Mayer Hawthorne unconventionally preparing a glass of absinthe and suffering from hallucinations afterwards.
- The Damned (band) recorded a song titled "Absinthe" on their album Grave Disorder which was released in 2001. It sampled the line Gary Oldman spoke in the film Dracula (1992 film) referring to the green fairy.
- Symphony X recorded a song called "Absinthe and Rue" on their first album, Symphony X.
- Absynthe Minded is a Belgian rock band.
- Kasabian recorded a song referred to and titled "La Fee Verte" on their fourth studio album Velociraptor!.
- Patton Oswalt references absinthe on his comedy album Werewolves and Lollipops.
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