Second Verse,
Same as the First^*

OCD, Music, and Musicians

^*from "I'm Henry VIII I Am" by Herman's Hermits with Peter Noone.

OCD

• Amazing Meet Track - has a song called "Obsessive Compulsive" on their Undrugged album.
• Chris Bilodeau - wrote "O.C.D." from personal experience. The first track on his Moments CD, the song used to have this story behind it:

  "O.C.D. or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is something that I've had for years ... instead of avoiding it, I wrote a song about it. The song, like O.C.D. has a couple of different moods to it. I'm very proud of this one."

• Compulsive Behavior - has a CD called Trichotillomania.
• Food Safety Music - "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince of Pesticides"? The "Elvis of E. coli"? The "Sinatra of Salmonella"? No, Carl K. Winter and the FOODSAFE Program. To the tune of "I Want To Hold Your Hand":

  "Oh yeah I'll, tell you something
  I think you'll understand
  For the sake of sanitation
  You'd better wash your hands
  You'd better wash your hands
  You'd better wash your hands
  ...
  And when you're finished you'll feel happy inside
  Washin' so thorough that microbes
  They can't hide, they can't hide, they can't hide"

• Greenhouse - a ska band. Their Tomorrow The World album includes a song called "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" (sound bite) about the author's sister:

  "...
  'O' is for obsessive
  'C' is for compelled
  Her brain lacks serotonin
  As far as I can tell
  Washes throughout the night
  Has heart palpitations
  Delusions of grandeur
  And lucid hallucinations
  ...
  My obsessive compulsive sister
  Purely a manic schizo
  No thorazine's gonna do the trick
  Can't help a girl who's just plain sick
  ..."   (lyrics by B. Smiley)

• Rank Strangers - recorded a song called "Can't Stop OCD" on their Target album:

  "...
  Oh, you may be just like me
  You may walk your house at night
  You may lie awake
  Your eyes wide in the dark, Check
  Please, Please, check that light
  You may rip your skin from your legs and your arms
  Count down each hour until tomorrow dawns
  Now, you see three sure things for you
  Poor, poor me
  Birth, death, taxes, and OCD
  Oh, no, no, no,
  No, you can't stop OCD
  I say so - stop, go.
  ..."

  A fan page quotes lyrics from "Clean Machine" on their Mystery Spot album:

  "I washed my hands today, but the dirt wouldn't go away ..."

• Symposium - an indie band. Their On The Outside album includes a song called "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" (sound bite - scroll way down!) in which the author obsesses about a lost love:

  "...
  Once in my mind it never goes away
  I close my eyes but it still remains
  Inside my head and there it's gonna stay
  Once in my mind it never goes away
  ..."   (lyrics by Wojciech Godzisz)

• Yort - has a song, "Obsessive Compulsive Behavior", that you can download in MP3 format. From the lyrics:

  "...
  Obsessive Compulsive Behavior
  1, 2, 3, 4
  wash my hands again, look behind the door
  Obsessive Compulsive Behavior
  like human nature, you can't ignore
  ..."

• Love Child - featuring Alan Licht. Their Witchcraft album includes a song, "Obsessive Compulsive". Piero Scaruffi's review (in Italian) had this to say: "Obsessive Compulsive, ma il baricentro e` una forma di psichedelia molto disordinata".
• Mr. O.C.D. - "a modern pop/rock band" based in Connecticut, USA.
• OCD - haven't listened to the songs yet.
• OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) - industrial rock; the song lyrics don't appear to be OCD-related.
• Silence - "big fun songs with lots o' orchestration, big guitars, and kill vocals". Their Wave Without a Shore album includes a song called "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder".
• O.C.D. (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) - recorded two albums, Hoard-Wash-Pray-Repeat and, their latest, Ritualistic. Not for the faint of heart, I gather.
• Stuttering John - recorded "Everybody's Normal But Me" on his Stuttering John album.
• Faith No More's song, "From Out of Nowhere", is not about OCD, but it has a line I've seen used in an OCDer's E-mail signature line:

  "Obsession rules me ..."

Tourette Syndrome

• Rick Fowler and Friends' Welcome Companions is a "benefit CD for Tourette Syndrome research and education"; proceeds from sales of the CD go to the Tourette Syndrome Association of Georgia. (Also see his autobiographical book, Unwelcome Companion: An Insider's View of Tourette Syndrome.) A master of Southern blues/rock, Fowler wrote about half of the songs on the album; the other songs are by various friends. Only Debbie Norton's "Potion #99" is specifically about TS:

  "You seem very well, then there's a tremor
  You know you're very well and there's a twitch of your head
  You are very well until they look at you like you're completely out of your head
  ..."

• Tourette 23 - one song, but more musical than some of the other bands' songs!
• Tourettes - "More energy than talent" - who knows?!
• Tourettes Syndrome - heavy metal or something ...
• Tourette's Without Regrets - "Vallejo's bi-weekly poetry slam/carnival".

Other Disorders

• Manic Street Preachers' This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours album has a song about depression, "Black Dog on My Shoulder" (lyrics, sound clip):

  "...
  My dilemma but not my choice
  Winston Churchill can you hear my voice
  ...
  This black dog is out of control
  My mouth is so dry
  My eyes are shut tight
  There's a black dog a coming tonight
  Black dog's a coming tonight
  ..."