50 Best Rock Songs About Medicine
Rock Tracks That Tap Into the Medicine Mindset
There’s something strange about songs that deal with medicine. They hover in that in-between space of cure and chaos, where healing blurs with habit. Maybe it’s a lyric muttering about pills that keep you steady, or a guitar riff that feels like a side effect no one mentioned. The best ones don’t sound clean or sterile—they sweat a little, stumble, hit that fever pitch. Some tracks take it literal, others drift into the metaphor of being dosed up on love, fame, or self-prescribed denial. That’s where they hit hardest, in the overlap between comfort and dependency.
The connection between medicine and rock has always been messy. There’s the hospital imagery, the late-night introspection, the self-diagnosis running wild in the lyrics. Bands twist the language of healing into something warped and human, like trying to treat a wound that never fully closes. You can hear it in everything from the vintage fuzz of 70s tracks to modern alt-rock anthems that sound like they were recorded halfway through a breakdown. These songs aren’t clean-cut narratives—they linger, like leftover chemicals in your bloodstream.
Not every pick spells it out, and some of them sneak in sideways, but they carry the same restless pulse. The overlap of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs proves how universal that search for relief can sound. Each track hits its own kind of prescription: some numbing, some jolting, some almost too honest. Here are the best rock songs about medicine to turn up when you need to feel a little unsteady in the right way.
Top 10 Medical Rock Songs
1. 'Dr. Feelgood' by Mötley Crüe
2. 'The Doctor' by The Doobie Brothers
3. 'Kicks' by Paul Revere & The Raiders
4. 'Jolene' by The White Stripes
5. 'Pill for the Soul' by The Cult
6. 'Bad Medicine' by Bon Jovi
7. 'The Cure' by The New Basement Tapes
8. 'Hospital' by The Used
9. 'First Aid' by The Breeders
10. 'Doctor Robert' by The Beatles
Rock Music About Health and Sickness #11 to 20
11. 'Doctor, Doctor' by UFO
12. 'Homeopathic' by AFI
13. 'Cold Ethyl' by Alice Cooper
14. 'Love Potion No. 9' by The Searchers
15. 'Sweet Dreams' by Marilyn Manson
16. 'Waiting for the Worms' by Pink Floyd
17. 'St. Jimmy' by Green Day
18. 'Cough Syrup' by Young the Giant
19. 'Sick, Sick, Sick' by Queens of the Stone Age
20. 'Needle and the Spoon' by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Best Rock Songs Referencing Medical Treatments #21 to 30
21. 'Rx Queen' by Deftones
22. 'Medicine' by The 1975
23. 'Cinnamon Girl' by Neil Young with Crazy Horse
24. 'The Poison' by The All-American Rejects
25. 'My Own Medicine' by The Darkness
26. 'I'm Not Okay I Promise' by My Chemical Romance
27. 'Prescription' by UFO
28. 'A Shot in the Arm' by Wilco
29. 'Dilemma' by Green Day
30. 'Anesthesia Pulling Teeth' by Metallica
Famous Rock Songs Mentioning Pills and Drugs #31 to 40
31. 'The Needle and the Damage Done' by Neil Young
32. 'Mother's Little Helper' by The Rolling Stones
33. 'Hospitals' by The Head and the Heart
34. 'Semi-Charmed Life' by Third Eye Blind
35. 'Lola' by The Kinks
36. 'Doctor Jones' by Aqua
37. 'Medicine Man' by Blue Öyster Cult
38. 'The Remedy I Won't Be' by Jason Mraz
39. 'Cold Turkey' by John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
40. 'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath
More Great Rock Songs About Sickness and Health #41 to 50
41. 'Tired of Waiting for You' by The Kinks
42. 'Cure for the Enemy' by P.O.D.
43. 'Don't Stop Me Now' by Queen
44. 'Heroin' by The Velvet Underground
45. 'Sick Love' by Red Hot Chili Peppers
46. 'I Don't Care' by Fall Out Boy
47. 'Medicine' by Bring Me The Horizon
48. 'Just Like a Pill' by P!nk
49. 'I Feel Good All Over' by Eddie Cochran
50. 'My Name Is Ruin' by Gary Numan
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