Help! I Need a Dentist Drill Playlist
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A routine Tuesday this week turned slightly sour when my dentist told me it is time to get my lower wisdom teeth removed. To little relief did he assure me that there had been nothing that I could have done to prevent this inevitable moment from coming. Nonetheless, oral surgery has never been one of my favorite happenings in life.
What is it that I hate about going in for dental work? Honestly, it’s not the pain (there is none). It’s not the pressure (they’re very gentle). Rather, the worst part about dental work is the sound. That high pitched, metallic, screaming up my skull into my brain, while even in the midst of routine cleaning is awful. Almost unbearable for me. This is where you, my wonderful readers, come in.
Last time I had serious dental work (they crowned me!), I was allowed to listen to my iPod during the procedure. Unfortunately, the assumedly-relaxing strains of Mozart and Brahms did little to overpower the high pitched whirring of the drills. Thus, your help is solicited.
I need a new Dental Drill Playlist. At least 90 minutes worth of songs that will keep my mind, and my ears, occupied in what I’m going to precociously call “extraction distraction”. And I’m calling on you to submit your best dental distracters to the comments below! I might even offer a prize to the best submission.
For all of you educators out there, here’s the rubric and criteria chart:
- Song must be loud! What? LOUD! What? I said, LOOOOOUUUUUUUDDD!!!
- Any genre is acceptable! Feel free to “expand my horizons”!
- Any time period is also acceptable! While I’m certainly partial to the 60s-80s time period, I’m assuming that each other decade had at least one quality song with the loudness factor.
- No Dave Matthews Band submissions. Brimer, that means you.
- Bonus points if you can link to your song on Skreemr.
- Super Bonus Points if you link, email, share, re-tweet, or whatever it is you do to this point and I get song solicitations from folks I don’t know yet!
Thanks again, all y’all (no, I’m not Southern!) and come this Friday, October 30th, I’ll be ready!!!
Themocracy
keep your prize. but i’d like to expand your horizons past Petra or other weird 80s music.
okay, #1 “Jamie” by Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors (these are my friends!)
#2 “Bad Tooth” (this is appropriate, huh) by Charlie Hardin (also my friend)
#3 “You are the best thing” by Ray LaMontagne (not my friend, but i wish!)
*these aren’t loud songs per se, but you can play them really loud. how bout that.
Kyle! Hahahahaha… I will give you a few song suggestions, but first I must leave a comment in regards to your ban of DMB. That’s just hilarious. Give me a few, and I’ll have some songs!
“Daddy Never Understood” by Deluxx Folk Implosion
“Margin Walker” by Fugazi
“Search and Destroy” by Iggy Pop
“No Life Singed Her” by Pavement
“Novacane” by Beck
“Setting Sun” by Chemical Brothers
“Alice Practice” by Crystal Castles
“Ya” by El Gran Silencio
“Torture” by King Khan & the Shrines
“The Ballad of Johnny Burma” by Mission of Burma
“Blood” by Pearl Jam
“Welcome to the Terrordome” by Pharoahe Monche (or Public Enemy’s original)
“Get Busy” by the Roots
“Creator” by Santogold
“The Rat” by the Walkmen
“Bhambatha” by Zola
Try some Girl Talk mash-ups to keep it fun.
Given fresh beats and interesting lyrics to keep your mind occupied, I’d say you should explore some real hip hip, not this crap they force feed us via the radio – i.e. The Pharcyde, Hieroglyphics, Jurassic 5, RJD2, De La Soul, Dilated Peoples, Atmosphere, Deltron 3030, Lyrics Born (Highly recommended). Pandora some of these folks and you’ll find some absolute gems.
“When your minds made up” by The Swell Season… starts out slow but has great harmonies and gets LOUD
“Time is Running Out” by Muse
“15 Step” by Radiohead
“Under Pressure” Queen (this is a MUST) and quite appropriate, I think.
“Break on Through” by the Doors
“Best of You” by the Foo Fighters
“Mr. Brightside” by the Killers
“Ever Present Past” by Paul McCartney
“Sultans of Swing” by Mark Knopfler/ Dire Straits
“American Girl” by Tom Petty
Okay, this is from a quick glance through my labor playlist for pushing, which I didn’t even get to use! Hopefully you can put it to good use. Let me know if you find anything you like, and sorry there is not a lot of “older” stuff. I’ll mention this to Tarver, too. He’s always good for song suggestions.
Hope all goes well, friend!
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http://www.matheatre.com for math music?
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Thanks everybody for your responses!
Good news and bad news!
The bad news is that the dentist gave me general anaesthetic, so I could listen to your music DURING the procedure.
The good news is that I had made the playlist ANYWAY and now get to spend my recovery weekend exploring your new music suggestions!
Happy Halloween