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By Kyle, October 24, 2009 1:45 pm

Mötley Crüe – Kickstart My Heart

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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:

1. Song must be loud! What? LOUD! What? I said, LOOOOOUUUUUUUDDD!!!
2. Any genre is acceptable! Feel free to “expand my horizons”!
3. 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.
4. No Dave Matthews Band submissions. Brimer, that means you.
5. Bonus points if you can link to your song on Skreemr.
6. 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!!!