List of songs about mental illness
 

Not terribly accurate and plenty of rubbish in it.

Album: Thank God for Mental Illness
Band: the Brian Jonestown Massacre.

'TVII' - Ministry

'Paranoid Man In Cheap Sh*t Room' - THe Fall
'Living Too Late' - The Fall

they're coming to take me away, ha ha
they're coming to take me away, ho ho hi hi ha ha

'I think i'm turning japanese,i think i'm turning japanese,i really think so!'

Everytime I Eat Vegetables It Makes Me Think Of You - Ramones


I thought that song was about masturbation.

theres alot of talk about mental illness on this board at the moment.

So, let me see if I've got this straight. You are saying that you know better off the top of your head than a wikipedia listing that was researched fairly painstakingly. Was that or was that not your meaning?

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The desired effect is blunt fucking forced trauma to the bullshit balloon that you call your brain.

Why no songs about autism

Ramones Songs about Mental Illness:

Go Mental
Psycho Therapy
I Wanna Be Well
Teenage Lobotomy
You Sound Like You're Sick
I Wanna Be Sedated

Probably more, I'll think about it and post later...

songs about mental illness

Take me to the Specialist - dead milkmen
I like to scream
I like to yell
That's 'cause I'm sick
And I need help
The specialist won't hurt me
He's not like the nuns
He's got a lot of pretty pills
I think I'll take some yellow ones
Take me to the specialist

I know that I'm crazy
I know that I'm nuts
But at least I admit it
And I think that takes some guts
The specialist doesn't care
What the voices say
He's got a lot of pretty pills
To make the voices go away
Take me to the specialist

- Mr. Huberty
- Yes, God?
- You wouldn't happen to have any power toools?
(psychopathic laughter)

And if I'm hopeless
Well, that's the breaks
The cookie crumbles
The loony shakes
The specialist can see it
From my point of view
He understands me
'Cause he hears voices too
Take me to the specialist (x4)

I hear weasels! (x10)

Hey you kids! Cut that crap out! Hey come back here! I know who your parents
are. Wouldn't do this if Nixon was in the White House. C'mon, I'm the walrus
dammit!



WELCOME TO THE DUST WARD - FEAR
welcome to the dust ward
brain damaged but it's only permanent
and i hang out in the day room
with a strait jacket set
with a strait jacket set

i'm in the dust ward

all in-patients report to the pharmacy
for medication
and i crawl through the shadows on the floor for my pills
for my pills

i'm in the dust ward

CAMARILLO - FEAR
First I fell down and then I got shot up! [x4]
Sanitarium!
Electro-shockin' 'em!
Disciplinary correctional surgery.
We're not mellow [x3]
First I fell down and then I got shot up! [x3]
And we just love it here cos it's just so damn therapeutic!

gimme gimme shock treatment

Ministry - TVII

(the performance is such a huge part of the track though - the lyrics alone don't convey the troubled mind quite as well)

Tell me something I dont know
Show me something I cant use
Push the button
Connect the goddamned dots
Live-in thief in my bedroom bathroom
Commodity sodomy glass autonomy
Promise everything take it all away
Give it a rest
Youre lying through your teeth
Youre lying through your teeth
Who what which why who
When did you say the earth would stop turning?
When did you say we would all start burning?
When should I make a pledge?
Should I listen to the voices in my head?
Connect the goddamned dots
Connect the goddamned dots
Connect the goddamned dots
Who am I trying to impress?
Who could care less?
Tell me something I dont know

Institutionalised by Suicidal Tendencies

SO, BUDDY ROE, ARE YOU GONNA ANSWER MY QUERY?

If you'd ask quietly....perhaps.But as it stands,no i can't be arsed and you're probably right.

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

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...

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...

That song is about not being mentally ill though!

Hmmmm.....i thought you had disowned the master.And what is there to get,anyway?Get what,exactly?
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What about the band The Mentally Ill? "Gacy's Place" is one incredible song.

Bueller? Bueller?

Okay, forget it.

yay for fang!

everyone in general says hi

That song's about masturbation.

That's just a myth - not true alas.

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

Jack of All Phobias
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