S/D songs about disease

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inspired by the Van Morrison ring worm thread:

S: Van the Man - "T.B. Sheets"; Screamin' Jay Hawkins - "Constipation Blues"; Morphine - "Cure for Pain"
D: Sammy Hagar - "I Can't Do 55"

― Horace Mann, Monday, 6 January 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

DRIVE 55, excuse me

― Horace Mann, Monday, 6 January 2003 18:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Gang of Four, "Anthrax" (well I guess it's not really about anthrax, but there you go?).

Is driving too fast a disease?

― hstencil, Monday, 6 January 2003 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, it seems to be some sort of chronic condition, I just couldn't think of a D off the top of my head.

― Horace Mann, Monday, 6 January 2003 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Joe Jackson - Everything Gives You Cancer
John Cooper-Clarke - A Heart Disease Called Love

..oughta be something on Lou Reed's "Magic & Loss"

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 6 January 2003 18:22 (twenty-three years ago)

"One Morning in May"

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 6 January 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

P.S. This song is about someone dying of syphilis.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 6 January 2003 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

"Black Lung" by Hazel Dickens

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 6 January 2003 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: half of Leonard Cohen's ouevre

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 6 January 2003 18:30 (twenty-three years ago)

LL Cool J "Bristol Hotel", Geto Boys "Assassins" (AIDS)
Devo "Mongoloid" (Downs Syndrome)
Ramones "Cretin Hop" (developmental disorder due to lack of iodine in early diet)
Nirvana "Heart Shaped Box", Who "Little Billy"(cancer)
"Why Does it Hurt When I Pee", Frank Zappa (unspecified STD)

― dave q, Monday, 6 January 2003 18:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Any neurosurgeons out there - would Devo's "Swollen Itching Brain" refer to an embolism, hydrocephaly, ?

― dave q, Monday, 6 January 2003 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

AC/DC "Crabsody in Blue" (pubic infestation)

― dave q, Monday, 6 January 2003 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Any neurosurgeons out there - would Devo's "Swollen Itching Brain" refer to an embolism, hydrocephaly, ?

I guess I could ask my bro. That's what he does.

― hstencil, Monday, 6 January 2003 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

What about Rockepneumonia and the Boogie-Woogie Flu?

― Curtis Stephens, Monday, 6 January 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Devo - Swelling Itching Brain (not sure what disease it is, but the symptons sound nasty)

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 6 January 2003 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

D: "Seasons in the Sun"

― Horace Mann, Monday, 6 January 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

"Shake the Disease" by Depeche Mode
"Spinal Meningitis" by Ween
"Cat Scratch Fever" by Ted Nugent

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 January 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Ween's Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)
Todd Rundgren's You Left me Sore
"Demons"'s Gang Green Eyes
Nirvana's Tourettes ¥

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 6 January 2003 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

'Drips' Eminem ft. Obie Trice

The start of 'return... (the dirty version)' where ODB talks about getting burnt two times then sings: "the first timmmme/ever you suckkkkkkked my dick...". That's funny as fuck.

― _gi88y_, Monday, 6 January 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Jive Bunny, "Myxomatosis"

― dave q, Monday, 6 January 2003 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

S: JOY OF DISEASE (James Plotkin and others, I own it but...can't find it right now). It's like fever-dream music, and some of the songs are actually about being sick.

― matt riedl (veal), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Also by Ween..."the AIDS Song"

Then there's my own band's "AIDS is a Weapon", but none of you have ever heard that.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Run-DMC - "You Be Illin'"
The Smiths - "Still Ill"

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Buckethead -- Day of the Ulcer

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

The Damned - "Sick of Being Sick"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

(not a "song", i knowz, but topical)

Diamanda Galas's Plague Mass

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

any number of front line assembly songs that i cant recall

― kephm, Monday, 6 January 2003 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Rolling Stones, "Turd on the Run"

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Dire Straits, "Industrial Disease"

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

"i told her lies deceitfully
and she believed, she believed in me
i told her i was free of disease
and she believed, she believed in me
i told her i loved her
and she believed, yeah she believed in me!"

"she believes" - pavement

ef awl ewe pavement h8rz.

― gygax!, Monday, 6 January 2003 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

inspired by the Van Morrison ring worm thread:

...which, oddly enough no one has responded to.

― James Annett (jlannett), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Anal Cunt - You've Got Cancer
Big Dipper - Lou Gehrig's Disease
Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick
Anthrax - Among The Living (inspired by The Stand)

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Joy Division - "She's Lost Control" (arguably about epilepsy)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Guess Who - "Shakin' All Over" (arguably about epilepsy)

― High Kicks (amateurist), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Bahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that an ironic Bahahahaha?

― Jermaine Jackson (amateurist), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

No, an ironic one would be grossly over-exaggerated, ala:

:::knee-slap:::

*BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!*

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Manic Street Preachers - Ocean Spray (cancer)

Curiously Spreading the Disease by Anthrax isn't about a disease.

Even more curiously no ones mentioned a song about alcoholism or depression. Guess there can't be any songs about those things.

― mei (mei), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

"Alcohol" by Howlin' Maggie.
"Depression" by Black Flag

Happy now?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Alkohol ist dein Sanitätor in die Not
Alkohol ist dein Fallschirm und dein Rettungsboot

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:50 (twenty-three years ago)

dave q:

the brain is insensate, so it's never going to be itchy.

hydrocephaly (the accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the cerebral ventricles) can apply enough pressure to the not-yet-fused skull bones of an infant to force them apart, giving the characteristic "swollen-head" appearance. this doesn't happen in adults, though. the brain itself isn't especially swollen in either case (though there is some edema in the brain tissue at the edges of the ventricles).

embolic disease in the brain can produce an ischemic stroke in areas of the brain deprived of sufficient blood flow for too long. the death of those brain cells is followed by a tissue reaction called necrosis which can produce a great deal of swelling, if the damaged area is large enough. the brain is snugly enclosed in a hard case (the skull), and there's little room for it to expand. so acute swelling (for any reason, most commonly trauma and stroke) forces the brain to compress in on itself. this becomes life-threatening if the pressure is great enough to force parts of the cerebral hemispheres down through the membranes in the skull that usually support them, compressing the respiratory centres in the brainstem. this is the common mechanism of death for many types of intracerebral disease, including cancer and ruptured aneurysms.

― doctor love hewitt (doctor love hewitt), Monday, 6 January 2003 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

tom waits - bad liver and a broken heart (in lowell): cirrhosis

― doctor love hewitt (doctor love hewitt), Monday, 6 January 2003 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Happier.

I forgot to mention just about every Carcass song ever. They made up most their lyrics by just picking words they liked from Medical dictionaries.

Eg Necrotism, Descanting the Insalubrious.

― mei (mei), Monday, 6 January 2003 23:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Rusty Willoughby of Pure Joy, Flop and solo is the master of pop songs using disease as metaphors.

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 6 January 2003 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Next j.Brel
"I swear on the wet head
Of my first case of gonorrhea"

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 02:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Manic Street Preachers - Ocean Spray (cancer)

I thought that was about chlamydia? < /fruit juice gag>

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 02:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Cystisus (sp), surely?

Search: Ian Dury - 'Spatisticus Autisticus'. Not a disease, as such, more of a condition

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Calico Wall - I'm A Living Sickness (covered over the years by the Cramps, Dwarves and Fuzztones i think).

― tigerclawskank, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)

The Residents-Blue Rosebuds (about transmission of STD)

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

"My Dog Has Fleas" Traditional, pestilence can lead to disease

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe no one's mentioned the new Matchbox 20 single. Or maybe I can.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread should really split into STD Songs and Other.

Kool Moe Dee - Go See The Doctor

Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

danielson famile- meeting with your maker!
sorry, its really lame and christian, but its catchy and contemplative. feel free to fire away

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 23 January 2003 05:37 (twenty-three years ago)

what's Zep's "Sick Again" about really?

(never've paid much 'ttention to the lyric myself, therefore dunt kno for sure...)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 23 January 2003 05:53 (twenty-three years ago)

what's Zep's "Sick Again" about really?

lori maddox

― gygax!, Thursday, 23 January 2003 05:57 (twenty-three years ago)

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