Songs mentioning specific medical conditions

[hash tag]

More fibre could sort it out though.

Squeezing them out now.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

 

[hash tag]

Snake oil will cure anything and everything

 

[rubbershoes]

Steve Mc Queen by Drive-by Truckers mentions mesothelioma

 

[Bus Honeygun]

 

[Elpenor]

Screeching Weasel

I’ve got VD

 

[twistedAM]

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

Well, in that case we can have this, with added erectile dysfunction

 

[Saul Goodman]

 

[Bus Honeygun]

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Cancer Towers on Holy-Road Hi-Way

 

[seeformiles]

Self explanatory:



This one mentions “Oh, my arthritic back!”

 

[Bus Honeygun]

 

[Humberto]

Tooth decay

 

[seeformiles]

 

[seeformiles]

VD

 

[Voley]

Robert Johnson. Gallstones, possibly.



And erectile dysfunction possibly

 

[maomao]

Kepone poisoning - Minamata!

 

[seeformiles]

 

[seeformiles]

Quite the compendium

 

[hitmouse]

Think Cesspools in Eden also qualifies:

 

[goldenecitrone]

Nobby Stiles

 

[Voley]

Nobby Stiles

Which reminds me:

 

[hitmouse]

Not anyone's finest moment, but Tupac definitely brought sickle-cell anemia into a Mobb Deep diss:


Mobb Deep's reply was also a tad problematic, but definitely mentions both cancer and asthma:


And Kanye got a bit of criticism for the Parkinson's reference in On Sight:

 

[Steel Icarus]

The "protagonist" of Stereotype by The Specials blamed his fiancée when he caught VD.

 

[hitmouse]

Yeah, I reckon various forms of STI are also right up there with mental health conditions as the ones most likely to be mentioned in a song:

 

[hitmouse]

I don't think Disturbed ever explained precisely what kind of sickness the listener was wah-ah-ah down with, so don't think they qualify for this thread.

 

[hitmouse]

I don't think Sickbed of Cúchulainn explains how the protagonist ended up in the sickbed, but it does mention that they got syph down in Cologne:

 

[Voley]

I was thinking STD's had to be in there somewhere.

"I got genital warts and it burns when I pee - don't you wanna grow up to just like me?"

 

[felixthecat]

All about a bloke with a bad back going to the Dr

 

[PTK]

Bob Dylan mentions heart attacks in one of his best songs, "Desolation Row".

"Now at midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory
Where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders
And then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles
By insurance men who go
Check to see
That nobody is escaping
To Desolation Row"
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