Songs about love as a disease?

June 17, 2006 11:11 AM

If you believe BonJovi, love is a social disease. What other songs link love and infectious diseases, metaphorically or otherwise?
posted by obliquicity to Media & Arts (28 answers total)

This list would not be complete without "Tapeworm of Love," by Brute Force. Sure, technically it's parasitic...
posted by whatzit at 11:30 AM on June 17, 2006

Van Halen - Source of Infection
Hunger - Terminal Infection
RX Bandits - Infection
Batmobile - Love Disease
Lefty - Bad Disease
posted by rhapsodie at 11:45 AM on June 17, 2006

If taken literally, "I've Got You Under My Skin", by Cole Porter.
posted by Asparagirl at 11:57 AM on June 17, 2006

Tangentially related, TV on the Radio does a song called Ambulence which is more love-as-car-wreck but maybe kind of what you're interested in?
posted by heresiarch at 12:22 PM on June 17, 2006

"Love Poisoning," by the Soft Boys.
posted by ROTFL at 12:36 PM on June 17, 2006

Bad Religion - Infected
posted by thirteenkiller at 12:50 PM on June 17, 2006

Not a song but there's a movie titled Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
posted by jedrek at 12:51 PM on June 17, 2006

Matchbox Twenty - Disease
posted by almostbarefoot at 12:55 PM on June 17, 2006

heroin - Velvet Underground
posted by ptm at 1:16 PM on June 17, 2006

AC/DC - The Jack
posted by Zero Gravitas at 1:17 PM on June 17, 2006

Love'll get you like a case of anthrax/ And that's something i don't want to catch ("Anthrax" - Gang of Four)
posted by Scram at 1:37 PM on June 17, 2006

Lords of Acid - Crablouse
posted by ikkyu2 at 2:27 PM on June 17, 2006

Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart by the Supremes:

"Love is a nagging irritation
Causing my heart complication
Love is a growing infection
And I don't know the correction"
posted by exceptinsects at 2:30 PM on June 17, 2006

"Doctor doctor, gimme the news, I got a bad case of lovin' you" -- is that Robert Palmer?
posted by AmbroseChapel at 2:33 PM on June 17, 2006

B. Spears - Toxic
posted by rfs at 3:02 PM on June 17, 2006

Poison Ivy
posted by Meatbomb at 3:03 PM on June 17, 2006

Doctor To My Disease: Jethro Tull
posted by Gungho at 3:14 PM on June 17, 2006

Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine" posits love as "the potion that can cure my disease".
posted by Guy Smiley at 6:47 PM on June 17, 2006

What about Peggy Lee's Fever?!
posted by skepticallypleased at 6:52 PM on June 17, 2006

Ben Lee - Catch My Disease
Kylie Minogue - Fever
posted by jacalata at 8:50 PM on June 17, 2006

Maurice Chevalier - "A Pretty Girl is like a Malady".
posted by SPrintF at 9:39 PM on June 17, 2006

"Rubella" - Smoking Popes
posted by SisterHavana at 10:17 PM on June 17, 2006

"Doctor's Orders" by Carol Douglas
"Doctor! Doctor!" - Thompson Twins
posted by SisterHavana at 10:18 PM on June 17, 2006

"Cat Scratch Fever" - Ted Nugent
posted by badger_flammable at 10:40 PM on June 17, 2006

"You Left me Sore" (1972) by Todd Rundgren
posted by zaelic at 1:26 AM on June 18, 2006

The The - "Infected"
posted by candyland at 5:46 AM on June 18, 2006

I can't believe no one's suggested Monty Python's Medical Love Song!
posted by greatgefilte at 8:24 AM on June 18, 2006

Savage Garden's "Gunning Down Romance" compares love to morphine (and something else, I don't remember).
posted by divabat at 10:11 PM on August 19, 2006