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title: "Gud Gud Medicine"

meaning: "Flu-haunted fever gospel: Doobert grinning through hell, Madeline and parquet crucifixion, then begging for good good medicine: drugs, love, or the song itself."

year: 2017
release: "Finding $D"
releaseType: "album"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

credits: "Written, performed, mixed, and mastered by Luke Francis Walton."

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/1RD1nblfKnDDT42FXZ0eZL"
officialVideo: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37OAVA5Sda4"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/finding-%24d-remastered/1506552414"
bandcamp: "https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/finding-d-lp"

themes: ["Scoobert Doobert", "flu", "religion", "Finding $D", "fever", "Madeline"]

isrc: TCADN1849870
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  Doobert
  Nude in a convent
  Big grin
  I'm going to hell

  Dance in the market
  Get thin
  Suit you real well

  Nailed to parquet
  What sin?
  We're going to hell

  Madeline
  I turned again
  Falling in your
  Holy heaven knows
  My gods
  Are back again
  Falling
  Need that

  Good good medicine
  Your your
  Your good good medicine
  Your your
  Your good good
  Good

  Ah hanh

  Doobert

  Drunk in the sick ward
  Good drugs
  I'm living so well
  Run from the landlords
  No hugs
  I'm wagging my tail

  Madeline
  I turned again
  Falling in your
  Holy heaven knows
  My gods
  Are back again
  Falling
  Need that

  Good good medicine
  Your your
  Your good good medicine
  Your your
  Your good good
  Good

  Madeline
  I turned again
  Falling in your
  Holy heaven knows
  My gods
  Are back again
  Falling
  Need that

  Good good medicine
  Good good
  Your
  Good good good good
  Your
  Good good good good
  Hahaha
  Your
  Unh

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Track seven on [*Finding $D*](/albums/finding-d-remastered/), Luke solo. [Every song on the LP](/albums/finding-d-remastered/) was written, recorded, mixed, and mastered in a single day, and **this is the one Luke tracked while sick with the flu**. The title spelling *Gud Gud* against the chorus's *good good medicine* sets the tone: typo as gospel.

It's a call-and-response fever dream, *Doobert* shouts bookending verses of sacrilege played as vaudeville. Three-line jingles escalate from *nude in a convent* to *nailed to parquet*, domestic crucifixion on the floorboards with sin as the punchline. The *Madeline* bridge carries a convent-school echo (Ludwig Bemelmans' Parisian girls, Catholic childhood) into relapse theology: *my gods / are back again / falling*. The gods return when you're already on the way down.

What the chorus actually wants is the medicine, doubled and pun intact: NyQuil, affection, music, or all three on a flu day. By the extended outro of *good good good good / hahaha / unh*, the song is overdosing on its own hook. Same debut-lab energy as [*My Friend, Scoobert*](/songs/my-friend-scoobert/) and [*What a Velma What a Night*](/songs/what-a-velma-what-a-night/); leads into *Theme for Himalayan Salt Lamp* (instrumental) and *Aaahh!!! Real Monsters* (instrumental closer, the same cut as [*Next Time on Dragon Ball SD*](/albums/wami/) on [*$WAMI$*](/albums/wami/)).

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