Dec 142010
 

I don’t know about you, but this time of year brings new meaning to the term “cold season.” In my house something’s been going around that fills our lungs and nasal passages with what feels like rubber cement. We can’t even get a satisfying nose blow out of this cold. In honor of the power of all the stuff flying around and getting folks sick, let’s do a Last Man Standing on sick songs. To qualify, the song title must contain the word sick or otherwise specify a physical illness. Songs of mental illness that do not have sick in the title will not be accepted. I’ll kick things off with one of my favorite childhood singles, Huey “Piano” Smith’s “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu,” performed today by Jerry Lee Lewis.
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  45 Responses to “Last Man Standing: Sick Songs”

  1. mockcarr

    I will start with overrated choices

    Ramones – You Sound Like You’re Sick

  2. bostonhistorian

    Mudhoney, “Touch Me I’m Sick”

  3. Oh no, someone played this Sick Card a while back! Sorry I forgot about this. Please see if you can build off of the fine suggestions from this previous thread:
    https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/index.php/lms-sick/

  4. This old thread was limited to songs with “sick” in the title, so now you can play all the other physical illness titles that you couldn’t play back then.

  5. Sick of Seattle – The Smithereens

  6. “Her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of pale”

  7. cherguevara

    Joe Jackson – Cancer

  8. Sick of Myself – Matthew Sweet

  9. hrrundivbakshi

    Poison Ivy

  10. underthefloat

    Still ill-The Smiths

  11. 2000 Man

    Love-Itis – J. Geils Band

  12. sammymaudlin

    Cat Scratch Fever

  13. mockcarr

    I Am The Cancer – Sloan

  14. misterioso

    Van Morrison, T.B. Sheets.

  15. “Heartattack and Vine,” Tom Waits.

  16. misterioso

    Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, et al, Vomit Express.

  17. BigSteve

    What the hell is Jerry Lee playing in that clip, some kind of clavinet? It sure doesn’t sound like a piano.

    Huey Smith followed up Rockin’ Pneumonia with Tu Ber Cu Lucas and the Sinus Blues:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTlIdxu–TM

  18. pudman13

    It pains me to mention this one, but “Sick On You” by the Boys and Hollywood Brats.

  19. Sickbed Blues – Skip James
    “He may get better but he’ll never get well no more…”

  20. KISS – “Goin’ Blind”

  21. ladymisskirroyale

    Radiohead – Myxomatosis

  22. Death – “Leprosy”

  23. ladymisskirroyale

    Bee Gees – Night Fever

  24. BigSteve

    I break out … bump bump bump … in a Cold Sweat…

    James Brown

  25. Insofar as you may think about grindcore, you may be surprised to hear that the genre’s song titles overwhelmingly favor medical procedures (fantastical or otherwise) over actual illnesses. But here’s one:

    Exhumed – “Septicemia (Festering Sphinctral Malignancy Part II)”

  26. ladymisskirroyale

    Anthrax – Gang of Four

  27. trigmogigmo

    Warren Zevon “Don’t Let Us Get Sick”

  28. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – Constipation Blues (for Plurbie)

  29. ladymisskirroyale

    Still Ill – The Smiths

  30. ladymisskirroyale

    Psychotic Reaction – Count 5

  31. trigmogigmo

    The The “Infected”

  32. Ween — “Mononucleosis”

  33. Ween — Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)

  34. Switch this to a Battle Royale and you win with that entry!

  35. hrrundivbakshi

    “Diva Fever” — Spinal Tap

  36. mockcarr

    Headache – Frank Black

  37. Lane Steinberg (formerly of the Wind): Swine Flu Blues

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu1FIGIFpp8

  38. A guy I know had a studio in Memphis in the late 1990’s and recorded a Rufus Thomas Cd that I don’t think ever came out. The song he played for me was called “AIDS Done Scared The Hell Outta Me” and he sings about AIDS like it was a Voodoo curse.

  39. ladymisskirroyale

    Fever – Peggy Lee

  40. ladymisskirroyale

    Hyperactive – Thomas Dolby

  41. Fountains of Wayne “Sick Day”
    Dead Kennedys “Ill in the Head”
    Echo and the Bunnymen “The Disease”

  42. Catch My Disease – Ben Lee

  43. ladymisskirroyale

    Bad Case of Loving You – Robert Palmer

  44. Rubella – Smoking Popes

  45. RUN-D.M.C. You be Illin’

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