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atari 2600 09.26.2006 04:08 PM

That Must Have Been Tough To Admit.
It Must Have Been Sort Of Like The Fonz Having To Say He Was "Wrong."

DJ Rick 09.26.2006 06:10 PM

Active Ingredients (NY) "Identity Loss"
Alan Milman Sect "I Wanna Kill Somebody"
American Gorilla "Forsaking All Others" (classic anti-antisocial anthem from LAFMS-related band)
B.P.A. (By-Products of America) "Mental Health"
BPeople "Can Can't"
Delphobics "Emotional Cripple" (hear it on my latest AFS)
Destry Hampton & the Wolves from Hell "Angel of Madness"
Dissidents "Modern Emotions"
The Drags "Anxiety"
Electric Eels "Anxiety"
Fang "Afflicted"
Fang "I've Got the Disease" (acute perversion)
The Features (WA, '81) "Anxiety Attack"
Fleshapoids "Electro-Shock"
Intense Degree "Space Case"
Low Numbers "Shok Treetments"
Mad Society "Skitz"
Meantime "Sex Fit" (re: gender dysphoria)
Metal Urbain "Panik"
Nu-Clear Energy "Catch Yourself Talking to Yourself"
Pagans "Multiple Personalities"
Pere Ubu "My Dark Ages"
Screaming Urge "Skitzo Brain"
Septic Death "Mental Cancer"
SST "Autistic"
The Symptoms "Anorexia Nervosa"
U.X.A. "Paranoia Is Freedom"
Weirdos "Solitary Confinement"
The Wipers "Alien Boy"

I'll find some more from previous playlists later...

Katy 09.26.2006 07:44 PM

Is this different from songs BY people with mental illnesses? cuz the list would get a lot longer.. just by adding 90% of the songs Iggy Pop recorded between 1968 and 1986.

what about all Daniel Johnston's songs? Wesley Willis, Roky Erickson, Eilert Pilarm, William Shatner...

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 09.26.2006 07:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Iain
Institutionalised by Suicidal Tendencies


That song is about not being mentally ill though!

atari 2600 09.26.2006 09:09 PM

Hmmmm.....i thought you had disowned the master.And what is there to get,anyway?Get what,exactly?
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DJ Rick 09.26.2006 09:23 PM

What about the band The Mentally Ill? "Gacy's Place" is one incredible song.

Bueller? Bueller?

Okay, forget it.

Androol 09.30.2006 03:33 AM

yay for fang!

everyone in general says hi

Norma J 09.30.2006 04:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by porkmarras
'I think i'm turning japanese,i think i'm turning japanese,i really think so!'


That song's about masturbation.

Pookie 09.30.2006 04:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Norma J
That song's about masturbation.


That's just a myth - not true alas.

DJ Rick 10.03.2006 03:37 AM

Phantom Tollbooth had a couple on their first album, Self-Titled...

Jack of All Phobias
More Paranoia


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