Medicine related Hellenic terms in songs

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1) Right Place Wrong Time - DR. JOHN (LP In The Right Place, 1973)

Lyrics: Just need a little brain salad surgery got to cure this insecurity

2) Bobby Brown - FRANK ZAPPA (LP Sheik Yerbouti, 1979)

Lyrics: Thanks to Freddie, I'm a sexual spastic

3) Where Is The Love - THE BLACK EYED PEAS feat. JUSTIN (LP Elephunk, 2003)

Lyrics: Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma

4) Ayo Technology - 50 CENT feat. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (LP Curtis, 2007)

Lyrics: like a nympho (maniac)

5) Cleanin' Out My Closet - EMINEM (LP The Eminem Show, 2002)

Lyrics: Goin' through public housing systems, victim of Munchhausen's syndrome

6) Let's Get It Started - BLACK EYED PEAS (LP Elephunk, 2004)

Lyrics: Bob your head like epilepsy, up inside your club or in your Bentley

7) Sexx Laws - BECK (LP Midnight Vultures, 1999)

Lyrics: Wearing hepatitis contact lens

8) Time Will Crawl - DAVID BOWIE (LP Never Let Me Down, 1987)

Lyrics: I got a bad migraine

9) Rock Of Ages - DEF LEPPARD (LP Pyromania, 1983)

Lyrics: Drive me crazier, no serenade No fire brigade, just Pyromania

10) Do You Read Me - RORY GALLAGHER (LP Calling Card, 1976)

Lyrics: I can't diagnose that look in your eyes

11) Bad Medicine - BON JOVI (LP New Jersey, 1988)
Lyrics: I don't need no anesthesia or a nurse to bring a pill (symptoms)

12) Hot Girls In Love - LOVERBOY (LP Keep It Up, 1983)
Lyrics: She likes her tapes on 10 and it's the same as her anatomy

13) Engel - RAMMSTEIN (LP Sehnsucht, 1997)

Lyrics: Wir haben Angst und sind allein

14) Analgesic Love Song - PURESSENCE (LP Planet Helpless, 2002)

15) Suicide - BOBBY GAYLOR (LP Fuzzatonic Scream, 2000)
Lyrics: Adios, Acne!

16) What It's Like - EVERLAST (LP Whitey Ford Sings The Blues, 1999)

Lyrics:  she heads for the clinic and she gets some static walking through the door they call her a killer, and they call her a sinner

17) Thank U - ALANIS MORISSETTE  (LP Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998)

Lyrics: How 'bout getting off these antibiotics

18) The Sound Of Silence - SIMON & GARFUNKEL (LP Wednesday Morning 3 AM, 1964)

Lyrics: Silence like a cancer grows

19) Allergies - PAUL SIMON (LP Hearts & Bones, 1983)

20) Atlantis - DONOVAN (1968 / LP Barabajagal, 1969)

Lyrics:  Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth. On board were the Twelve: The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist, the magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends

21) I'll Never Fall In Love Again-JERRY ORBACH & JILL O'HARA (1968), DIONNE WARWICK (1970)

Lyrics:  What do you get when you kiss a guy, you get enough germs to catch pneumonia after you do, he'll never phone 'ya, I'll never fall in love again

22) One - U2 (LP Achtung Baby, 1991)
Lyrics:  Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head

23) Ziggy Stardust - DAVID BOWIE (LP The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, 1972)
Lyrics: like a leper Messiah

24) Through The Glass - STONE SOUR (LP Come What (Ever) May, 2006)
Lyrics: An epidemic of the mannequins contaminating everything

25) Motorcycle Emptiness - MANIC STREET PREACHERS (1991 / LP Generation Terrorists, 1992)
Lyrics: Living life like a comatose
Also, several other Hellenic words: organise, neon, symbolic, myths, cycle, political

26) Bush Doctor - PETER TOSH (LP Bush Doctor, 1978)
Lyrics: the only cure for glaucoma

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Terms of Hellenic origin & etymology in Medicine in general


ACNE

Suicide - BOBBY GAYLOR (LP Fuzzatonic Scream, 2000)
Lyrics: Adios, Acne!

ALLERGY

Allergies - PAUL SIMON (LP Hearts & Bones, 1983)

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)

Lyrics: What kind of man is he To create this allergy?

ANALGESIC

Analgesic Love Song - PURESSENCE (LP Planet Helpless, 2002)

ANATOMY

Hot Girls In Love - LOVERBOY (LP Keep It Up, 1983)
Lyrics: She likes her tapes on 10 and it's the same as her anatomy

ANEMIA, ANEMIC

Pennyroyal Tea - NIRVANA (LP In Utero, 1993)
Lyrics: I'm anemic royalty


ANESTHESIA

Bad Medicine - BON JOVI (LP New Jersey, 1988)
Lyrics: I don't need no anesthesia or a nurse to bring a pill
Also: symptoms

ANOREXIA NERVOSA

Pride - ROBERT PALMER (LP Pride, 1982)
Lyrics:  Please tell Ms Fonda  to reduce her price Anorexia Nervosa mannequin all this physicality will wear you thin

ANTIBIOTICS

Thank U - ALANIS MORISSETTE  (LP Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998)
Lyrics: How 'bout getting off these antibiotics

ANTIDOTE

The Real Slim Shady - EMINEM (LP The Marshall Mathers LP, 2000)
Lyrics: but if you feel like I feel I got the antidote

ANXIETY,  ANGST

I Turn To You - MEL C (LP Northern Star, 1999)
Lyrics: When my insides are wracked with anxiety

Engel - RAMMSTEIN (LP Sehnsucht, 1997)
Lyrics: Wir haben Angst und sind allein

ASTHMA

I Got 5 On It - LUNIZ (LP Operation Stakola, 1995)
Lyrics: Stop hittin' 'cause you know ya got Asthma

Legalize It - PETER TOSH (LP Legalize It, 1976)
Lyrics: It's good for the flu Good for Asthma, Good for tuberculosis, Even numara thrombosis


CANCER

Leave In Silence - DEPECHE MODE (LP A Broken Frame, 1982)
Lyrics: I would stop this thing from spreading like a cancer

The Sound Of Silence - SIMON & GARFUNKEL (LP Wednesday Morning 3 AM, 1964)
Lyrics: Silence like a cancer grows

CLINIC, CLINICAL

What It's Like - EVERLAST (LP Whitey Ford Sings The Blues, 1999)
Lyrics:  she heads for the clinic and she gets some static walking through the door they call her a killer, and they call her a sinner


The Logical Song - SUPERTRAMP (LP Breakfast In America, 1979)
Lyrics: and they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.

COMA, COMATOSE

Girlfriend In A Coma - THE SMITHS (LP Strangeways, Here We Come, 1987)

Motorcycle Emptiness - MANIC STREET PREACHERS (1991 / LP Generation Terrorists, 1992)
Lyrics: Living life like a comatose
Also, several other Hellenic words: organise, neon, symbolic, myths, cycle, political

DIAGNOSE, DIAGNOSIS

Do You Read Me - RORY GALLAGHER (LP Calling Card, 1976)
Lyrics: I can't diagnose that look in your eyes

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)

Lyrics: My initial diagnosis Rules out measles and thrombosis

Manchild - NENEH CHERRY (LP Raw Like Sushi, 1989)
Lyrics: Through the speaker boxes loud's my diagnosis


DYSENTERY

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)

Lyrics: From New Delhi to Darjeeling I have done my share of healing And I've never yet been beaten or outboxed I remember that with one jab Of my needle in the Punjab How I cleared up beriberi And the dreaded dysentery But your complaint has got me really foxed

EPIDEMIC

Through The Glass - STONE SOUR (LP Come What (Ever) May, 2006)
Lyrics: An epidemic of the mannequins contaminating everything

EPILEPSY

Let's Get It Started - BLACK EYED PEAS (LP Elephunk, 2004)
Lyrics: Bob your head like epilepsy, up inside your club or in your Bentley

GLAUKOMA

Bush Doctor - PETER TOSH (LP Bush Doctor, 1978)
Lyrics: the only cure for glaucoma

HEPATITIS

Sexx Laws - BECK (LP Midnight Vultures, 1999)
Lyrics: Wearing hepatitis contact lens

HYSTERIA

Hysteria - DEF LEPPARD (LP Hysteria, 1987)

Nature Boy - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (LP Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, 2004)

Lyrics: I was walking around the flower show like a leper coming down with some kind of nervous hysteria

LEPER

Nature Boy - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (LP Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, 2004)

Lyrics: I was walking around the flower show like a leper coming down with some kind of nervous hysteria

One - U2 (LP Achtung Baby, 1991)
Lyrics:  Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head

Ziggy Stardust - DAVID BOWIE (LP The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, 1972)
Lyrics: like a leper Messiah

MANIA, MANIAC, NYMPHOMANIA, PYROMANIA

Maniac - MICHAEL SEMBELLO (OST Flashdance, 1983)

Ayo Technology - 50 CENT feat. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (LP Curtis, 2007)
Lyrics: like a nympho

Kleptomanie - EXTRABREIT (1983)

Rock Of Ages - DEF LEPPARD (LP Pyromania, 1983)
Lyrics: Drive me crazier, no serenade No fire brigade, just Pyromania

MELANCHOLIA

Far Gone Now - VAYA CON DIOS (LP Night Owls, 1990)
Lyrics: Humming melancholic lines


MIGRAINE

Time Will Crawl - DAVID BOWIE (LP Never Let Me Down, 1987)
Lyrics: I got a bad migraine

MORPHINE

1979 - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS (LP Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness, 1995)
Lyrics: Morphine city slippin dues down to see

Just Like A Pill - PINK (LP M!ssundaztood, 2002)
Lyrics: I can't stay on your morphine, cuz it's making me itch, I said I tried to call the nurse again but she's being a little bitch

Sister Morphine - MARIANNE FAITHFULL (1969)

Sword Of Damocles - LOU REED (LP Magic & Loss, 1992)
Lyrics:  That mix of morphine and dexedrine


NEUROTIC

Basket Case - GREEN DAY (LP Dookie, 1994)

Lyrics: Neurotic to the bone

OVERDOSE

Mothers Little Helper - THE ROLLING STONES (LP Aftermath, 1966)
Lyrics: if you take more of those, you will get an overdose

PARALYSIS

I Need Love - LL COOL J (1987)
Lyrics: we're so in love when we hug we become paralyzed

Livin' In A World Without You - THE RASMUS (LP Black Roses, 2008)
Lyrics:  You paralysed my body with a poison kiss

Thriller - MICHAEL JACKSON (LP Thriller, 1982)
Lyrics: You're paralysed

PARANOIA

Paranoid - BLACK SABBATH (LP Paranoid, 1970)

Paranoid Android - RADIOHEAD (LP OK Computer, 1997)

Basket Case - GREEN DAY (LP Dookie, 1994)
Lyrics:  Am I just paranoid?

PHARMACY, PHARMACOPOEIA

Boom (There She Was) - SCRITTI POLITTI (LP Provision, 1988)
Lyrics: Pharmacopoeia, I gotta a way to be good (all right), I want to understand how I'm misunderstood (and I like it), Pharmacopoeia, I got a way with the world (all right) I got an alphabet that you never have heard (and I like it)

PHYSICIAN

Atlantis - DONOVAN (1968 / LP Barabajagal, 1969)
Lyrics:  Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth. On board were the Twelve: The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist, the magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends

PNEUMONIA 

I'll Never Fall In Love Again-JERRY ORBACH & JILL O'HARA (1968), DIONNE WARWICK (1970)
Lyrics:  What do you get when you kiss a guy, you get enough germs to catch pneumonia after you do, he'll never phone 'ya, I'll never fall in love again

Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flew - HUEY 'PIANO' SMITH & THE CLOWNS (1957)

PSYCHOSIS

Go Let It Out - OASIS (LP Standing In The Shoulder Of Giants, 2000)
Lyrics: Sister psychosis don't got a lot to say

SCHIZOPHRENIC

Double Life - STYX (LP Kilroy Was Here, 1983)
Lyrics: Nowhere to hide, though we both might try I'm schizophrenic, and so am I

Gimme Some Truth - JOHN LENNON (LP Imagine, 1971)
Lyrics: I've had enough of watching scenes of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas
Also: neurotic, psychotic (hypocrites, politicians)


SPASM, SPASTIC

Babylon Sisters - STEELY DAN (LP Gaucho, 1980)
Lyrics: San Francisco Show and Tell,well I should know by now that it's just a spasm

Bobby Brown - FRANK ZAPPA (LP Sheik Yerbouti, 1979)
Lyrics: Thanks to Freddie, I'm a sexual spastic

Goodnight Saigon - BILLY JOEL (LP The Nylon Curtain, 1982)
Lyrics:  We came in spastic like tameless horses


STETHOSCOPE

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)

SURGERY

The Miracle - QUEEN (LP The Miracle, 1989)
Lyrics: Open hearts and surgery

Right Place Wrong Time - DR. JOHN (LP In The Right Place, 1973)
Lyrics: Just need a little brain salad surgery got to cure this insecurity

Through The Wire - KANYE WEST  (LP The College Dropout, 2004)
Lyrics: I had reconstructive surgery on my jaw


SYMPTOM

Sick & Tired - THE CARDIGANS (LP Emmerdale, 1994)

Lyrics: symptoms are so deep

SYNDROME

Cleanin' Out My Closet - EMINEM (LP The Eminem Show, 2002)
Lyrics: Goin' through public housing systems, victim of Munchhausen's syndrome

Other known syndroms: Down's, Gulf War, Stockholm

THERAPY

Bleed Like Me - GARBAGE (LP Bleed Like Me, 2005)
Lyrics: Therapy is speedie's brand new drug

First Six Months Of Love - MICHELLE GUREVICH (LP New Decadence, 2016)

Lyrics: Before begin the dissections Before the therapy sessions

also see: Serotonin

King For A Day - GREEN DAY (LP Nimrod, 1997)
Lyrics: My daddy threw me in therapy

Rattlesnakes - LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS (LP Rattlesnakes, 1984)
Lyrics: She says all she needs is therapy, yeah all you need is, love is all you need


THROMBOSIS

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)

Lyrics: My initial diagnosis Rules out measles and thrombosis

TRAUMA

Where Is The Love - THE BLACK EYED PEAS feat. JUSTIN (LP Elephunk, 2003)
Lyrics: Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma


ALSO:

Bipolar Disorder (Sear Of A Blank Planet - PORCUPINE TREE, 2007)
Cardiac Arrest (Cardiac Arrest - MADNESS, 1981)


Biology related terms:

Adrenaline (Crush - JENNIFER PAIGE, 1998)
Biology (She Blinded Me With Science - THOMAS DOLBY, 1983)
Genetic (Genetic Engineering - OMD, 1983)

Génétique, Chromosomes (Le Vent Nous Portera -NOIR DESIR, 2001)
Phlegm (From Under The Covers - THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH, 1989)
Stigma (Xavier - DEAD CAN DANCE, 1987)

Mythology & Ancient Hellenic History in songs & artists names

My Broadcasts on Radio Boo

Songs & artists with names or references to Hellenic mythology & Ancient Hellenic history
(Broadcasted live on Radio Boo, April 15, 2013)

18:00 - 19:00

01) Michael Penn - No Myth (LP March, 1989)

02) Aaron Neville - Hercules (1973)

03) Alison Moyet - That Ole Devil Called Love (1985)
Lyrics:When he sings that Siren song, I just gotta tag along
Notice: Allthough the original songs refers to the Siren, Alison rephrases the song as 'When he sings that sorry song'

04) The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger (LP Synchronicity, 1983)
Lyrics: You consider me the young apprentice, caught between the Scylla and Charybdis

05) T-Rex - Get It On (LP Electric Warrior, 1971)
Lyrics: You got the teeth of the Hydra upon you

06) Roxy Music - Do The Strand (LP For Your Pleasures, 1973)
Lyrics: The Sphynx and Mona Lisa, Lolita and Guernica did the Strand

07) Annie Lennox - A White Shade Of Pale (LP Medusa, 1995)

08) Sybil - Don't Make Me Over (1989)

09) OMD - Pandora's Box (LP Sugar Tax, 1991)

10) Eros presents Richard D - Enamorada (2001)

11) Mike Oldfield feat. Anita Hegerland - Pictures in the Dark (1985)
Lyrics:  Pictures in the dark, I see, Morpheus comes to me

12) Shriekback - Nemesis (LP Oil & Gold, 1985)

13) LL Cool J - Dear Mallika (LP The Rapsody Overture - Hip Hop Meets Classic, 1997)
Lyrics: vacuums filled with narcissism suckin up the livin

14) Tal Bachman - She's So High (LP Tal Bachman, 1999)
Lyrics: She's so high, like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite


19:00 - 20:00

01) Felt - Rain Of Crystal Spires (LP Forever Breathes The Lonely Word , 1986)
Lyrics: Homer's "Iliad" lay burning in the fire

02) Raining Pleasure - Kemal (LP Reflections, 2005)
Lyrics:Who is Lucy, who is Nestor?

03) Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood (LP Gorillaz, 2001)
Lyrics: So I'mma stick around with Russ and be a mentor

04) The Andrews Sisters - Rum & Coca-Cola (1945)
Lyrics: If you ever go down Trinida they make you feel so very glad Calypso sing and make up rhyme

05) Kirka - Sadness In Your Eyes (1992)

06) Sunday Club - Grete Weitz (LP For Sale, 1984)
Lyrics: In this northern Marathon

07) Morrissey - First Of The Gang To Die (LP You AreThe Quarry, 2004)
Lyrics: Hector was the...

08) Placebo - Special K (LP Black Market Music, 2000)
Lyrics:  You're my new Achilles heel

09) Sabaton - Coat of Arms (LP Coat Of Arms, 2010)
Lyrics: That dawn, envoy arrives Morning of October 28th No day, proven by deed Descendence of Sparta, Athens and Crete! Call to Arms banners fly in the wind, For the glory of Hellas Coat of Arms reading freedom or death, Blood of King Leonidas

10) Iron Maiden - Alexander The Great (LP Somewhere In Time, 1986)

11) The Clash - The Magnificent Seven (LP Sandinista! 1980)
Lyrics: Socrates and Milhous Nixon Both went the same way - through the kitchen, Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin Who's more famous to the billion millions?

12) Lou Reed - Sword of Damocles (LP Magic & Loss, 1992)

13) Francois Feldman feat. Joniece Jamison - Love Platonique (1995)

also see:

Birdhouse In Your Soul - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (LP Flood, 1989)

Lyrics: There's a picture opposite me Of my primitive ancestry Which stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free Though I respect that a lot I'd be fired if that were my job After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts Bluebird of friendliness Like guardian angels its always near

Gift Of The Gods - JOE BELLOMO (1960 / Paris & Helen)

Misled - KOOL & THE GANG (1984 / Pandora's Box)

Nature Boy - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (LP Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, 2004)

Lyrics: As you closed in, in slow motion quoting Sappho, in the original Greek

Sisyphus - ANDREW BIRD (2019)


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