Songs mentioning specific medical conditions

[hitmouse]

The excellent Quarry by Wednesday mentions scoliosis:



And Fucked Up by Dead Prez has the line "here's to gout in your twenties":



What other songs can you think of that name specific medical conditions? I imagine cancer and migraines probably turn up in quite a few.

 

[Silas Loom]

There are quite a few with ME to choose from.

 

[danny la rouge]

Frank Black has a headache.

 

[DotCommunist]

achey breaky heart is a real issue

 

[Boo Radley75]

The Pogues - Rain Street

"Father John's got the clap again"

 

[danski]

Henry Rollins was about to have a nervous breakdown.

 

[hitmouse]

Keith Morris, surely?

 

[petee]

 

[danski]

Keith Morris, surely?

Of course. Was never a massive fan tbh

 

[hitmouse]

I was briefly convinced that there was a Fall song that mentions myxomatosis, but I now think I may have made that one up.

 

[danny la rouge]

I was briefly convinced that there was a Fall song that mentions myxomatosis, but I now think I may have made that one up.

I’ve been wracking my brain for Fall lyrics mentioning specific illnesses. Coming up blank for now.

 

[DotCommunist]

Johnny Catarrh

 

[hitmouse]

Oh, I think I was getting the Fall's What About Us?, which is at least partially sung from the perspective of a rabbit, mixed up with this:

 

[Ground Elder]

 

[andysays]

I’ve been wracking my brain for Fall lyrics mentioning specific illnesses. Coming up blank for now.

Not sure this counts as a specific medical condition

"You got Manny in the library
Working off his hangover 3:30..."

 

[Ground Elder]

 

[hitmouse]

 

[hitmouse]

 

[DotCommunist]

I know 'liver exploded isn't a technical term but nofx bob

'He spent 15 years, getting loaded
15 years till his liver exploded'

 

[hitmouse]

Got to be loads and loads mentioning depression, of course.

 

[zahir]

 

[hash tag]

Henry Rollins was about to have a nervous breakdown.

I seem to remember some band or other singing about nineteenth nervous breakdown
A classic, does it count is Zeps black dog

 

[hash tag]

Another classic is the who's deaf dump and blind boy

 

[zahir]

 

[danny la rouge]

Not sure this counts as a specific medical condition

"You got Manny in the library
Working off his hangover 3:30..."

Well done. We’ll have that.

 

[zahir]

 

[nottsgirl]

I don’t think being blind is a medical condition!

 

[danny la rouge]

Are teenage lobotomies medical conditions?

 

[hash tag]

Another happy one where a landmine took his arms, his legs, his hearing, speech and sight

 

[zahir]