Songs abut physical pain / illness / surgery

List them here. Off-hand I can't really think of anything, but there's gotta be LOADS, right?

Ween, Spinal Meningitis

Madness, Cardiac Arrest

Velvet Underground-"Lady Godiva's Operation"

Ramones, Teenage Lobotomy

The Replacements - "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out"

Throbbing Gristle, Five Knuckle Shuffle

"I 'ad a lobot'my/ I 'ad a lobot'my/ I 'ad a loboddle-a-boddle-a-boddle-a-boddle-a-bot'my"

Living With A Hernia by Weird Al.

The Residents, Laughing Song

"But he soon found out
That she had the gout
And often would wink underwater"

for the companion cd:

mark rae: medicine

Scott Walker, The Plague
Martin Carthy, Betsy Bell and Mary Gray

"The plague cam' from the borough town
And slew them both together"

... and thousands of other folk and/or blues songs

... usually about TB or VD

Frank Black - Headache
Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick

Many Nirvana songs?

Matmos - California Rhinoplasty (a song which is constructed out of samples of the sound of breaking bones etc during nosejob procedures and the like)

The entirety of Carcass' catalogue is about surgery so far as I can tell. See also: Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, certain Slayer songs, loads of other death metal bands.

Cheech & Chong feat. Alice Bowie -- "Earache My Eye"

Ween, Mononucleosis
Ween, The HIV Song

"When Under Ether" -- PJ Harvey

Twisted Sister "Under the Blade"

Bo Diddley (and New York Dolls) = "Pills"

"The Operation" -- Charlotte Gainsbourg (which pairs nicely with "When Under Ether" on a mix tape)

Can we extend this thread to include songs for doctors/nurses/medicine/occupational therapy?

Slayer-Dead Skin Mask

Screamin' Jay Hawkins "Constipation Blues"

kanye west - through the wire

The Go-Betweens, "Cut It Out"

Van Morrison - TB Sheets

The Soft Boys - Sandra's Having Her Brain Out

Saint Etienne - Heart Failed (In the Back of a Taxi)

Robyn Hitchcock - "The Yip Song"

^^ I am tempted to go at length about the great lyrics of this and how they describe surgery, but I'll settle for just saying my favorite line is "draw a window on his skin"

Surgery - World Class Wreckin' Cru

"I'm Sick" -- Iggy Pop. The Igg was never one for subtle, allusive titles.

"No Love Lost" -- Joy Division.

Through the wire screen, the eyes of those standing outside looked in
At her as into the cage of some rare creature in a zoo.
In the hand of one of the assistants she saw the same instrument
Which they had that morning inserted deep into her body. she shuddered
Instinctively. no life at all in the house of dolls.
No love lost. no love lost

Sounds particularly weird/unsettling thanks to Ian Curtis's Macclesfield accent

sickness and diseases - fairport convention

"Operation" by the Circle Jerks
"No Nose Job" by Digital Underground
"Sick of Being Sick" by the Damned

"Crash Course in Brain Surgery" by Budgie (later covered by Metallica)

"One" by Metallica

"Hospital" by the Modern Lovers

"Take Me to the Hospital" by the Replacements

"I Wanna Be Sedated" by the Ramones

"Why Does it Hurt When I Pee?" by Frank Zappa

"The Jack" by AC/DC (about venereal disease)

"Hamburger Lady" by Throbbing Gristle

http://www.tful282.com/songs/operation.htm

"Maddening Cloud" by Blonde Redhead (I believe its about the woman in the band being in a coma after a horse fall accident)

"Poison Ivy," The Coasters (probably also about venereal disease)

"Social Disease," Elton John

"Welcome To The Jungle," Guns N Roses ("If you got the money honey/We got your disease.")

Best Swine Flu advice song: "Respect Yourself" by the Staple Singers ("Put your hand on your mouth when you cough, that'll help the solution.")

fantomas' delirium cordia is a 45-minute piece about and evoking surgery.

"D.O.A." - Bloodrock. The ultimate!

John The Postman - "Toothache"

"Pull The Plug," Starz -- even better than "D.O.A."

Girlfriend in a Coma

"Coma," Guns N Roses
"Like A Surgeon," Weird Al Yankovic
"General Hospi-Tale," The Afternoon Delights

Tiny Tim - "She Left Me with the Herpes" and "Santa Claus Has Got the AIDS This Year"

Gene Loves Jezebel- "The Rhinoplasty"
although it really is all about the Yip Song

nin - hurt (why not state the obvious?)
company flow - little johnny from the hospital lp

Lou Reed's entire Magic & Loss album

John Lennon: Cold Turkey

"Seasons in the Sun," Terry Jacks

'hot seat,' vic chesnutt

Reflex From Pain - Knife In My Back

Wilco - "Poor Places" ("His jaw's been broken, his bandage is wrapped too tight" -- my mom refuses to listen to this song because it brings back unpleasant memories)