Your Body is a Wonderland by you-know-who. Don't judge me, it was the first thing that popped into my head. posted by thinkpiece at 4:50 PM on February 5 [2 favorites has favorites]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues (I was gonna say Murder Ballads, but some folks in your class might not appreciate that) posted by katillathehun at 4:54 PM on February 5
They're a little known band, but The Blue Wrath has a really catch tune, I Monster (links go to song on Youtube), that may be topical. (I have no idea what's up with the unofficial music video.)
More obscure, but Lifeseeker's Gone Guru also seems appropriate. (Some profanity, so be warned. In case there are small kids around as you cut open the cadaver?) posted by fogster at 4:59 PM on February 5
The Pixies - I Bleed. posted by zippy at 5:01 PM on February 5
I'd probably want to listen to some Dylan.
Maybe Joey. He Was a Friend of Mine. Hattie Carrol.
All about dead people.
Then maybe Search and Destroy by the Stooges. posted by sully75 at 5:01 PM on February 5
Sorry, I totally botched the first link. Pink Floyd's "Coming Back to Life" is a nice enough song, but it's not what I meant to link to. posted by fogster at 5:02 PM on February 5
Soul Meets Body by Death Cab For Cutie!
Bodysnatchers by Radiohead!
How To Be Dead by Snow Patrol
The Dead Part Of You by American Music Club! (ok, probably not, but it's an old fave of mine)
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead by Stars!
Not Dead Yet by the Weepies
Superman's Dead by Our Lady Peace
Alive, by Pearl Jam
I'm About To Come Alive, by Train posted by 2oh1 at 5:05 PM on February 5 [1 favorite has favorites]
If this is an earnest question, I'm sure you'll want something that will neither distract you from your studies nor compromise the dignity of those who generously gave this final gift to assist the medical care of the world they were leaving behind. The classic Pablo Casals performance of Bach's Cello Suites, perhaps.
If you're just inviting verbal riffs on the situation, how about "No Feelings" by The Sex Pistols? posted by Joe Beese at 5:06 PM on February 5 [4 favorites has favorites]
Alive And Kicking by Simple Minds! posted by 2oh1 at 5:06 PM on February 5
Silence Of The Lambs soundtrack. posted by turgid dahlia at 5:07 PM on February 5
Dead or Alive by Oingo Boingo (and various other songs by them, but this is what first popped into my brain.) posted by Mizu at 5:11 PM on February 5
Joe Beese: Oh, I take it very seriously and respect his dignity and all that, but staring into an armpit cleaning off adipose tissue and fascia for 4 hours really, really needs a little help being bearable. posted by BuddhaInABucket at 5:12 PM on February 5
Smells like teen spirit? posted by |n$eCur3 at 5:16 PM on February 5
Boris - Farewell
Cryptopsy - Slit Your Guts
Death - Open Casket
Earth - An Inquest Concerning Teeth
Emperor - A Fine Day To Die (Bathory cover)
Khanate - Dead
Misfits - Last Caress
Nile - I Whisper In The Ear Of The Dead
Sunn O))) - Death Becomes You
And me without a list comprising the majority of metal I've listened to...argh posted by Inspector.Gadget at 5:18 PM on February 5
Slayer - Piece By Piece
Slayer - Postmortem
Anything by Dissection.
Hypocrisy - Let The Knife Do The Talking posted by Inspector.Gadget at 5:25 PM on February 5
I think most music in the Death Metal genre would be to your liking.
"O, Death" -- Ralph Stanley
"This Morning I Was Born Again" -- Ray Wiley Hubbard
"Ain't No Grave" -- Crooked Still
"I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" -- Wilco
"Oops, I Did It Again" -- Richard Thompson
"Cold, Cold Heart" -- Lucinda Williams
"It's a Great Day to Be Alive" -- Travis Tritt
"Innocent Bones" -- Iron & Wine
"The Bones of You" -- Elbow
"Birth, School, Work, Death" -- The Godfathers
"Cuts You Up" -- Peter Murphy
"I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" -- Hank Williams
"In My Time of Dying" -- Led Zeppelin
"Mack the Knife" -- Bobby Darrin
"If I Die Sudden" -- John Mellencamp
"I Will Possess Your Heart" -- Death Cab for Cutie
Yep, best and weirdest date I've ever had was in the anatomy lab. I totally get what you mean. posted by MonkeyToes at 5:35 PM on February 5
Dirt in the Ground - Tom Waits
Cold, Cold Ground - Tom Waits
Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon posted by dilettante at 5:38 PM on February 5
Every Time You Go Away, You Take a Piece of Me with You posted by rikschell at 5:48 PM on February 5
Them Bones - Alice in Chains
Postmortem - Slayer
Spill the Blood - Slayer
Bodysnatchers - Radiohead
Bloodscrubber - Party of Helicopters (from the album Abracadaver!) posted by saladin at 5:50 PM on February 5
Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Öyster Cult posted by brianogilvie at 5:58 PM on February 5
"I'm Looking Through You" - The Beatles
"Let's Get Physical" - Olivia Newton John (let me hear your body talk)
"Rip Her to Shreds" - Blondie
"Who Are You" - The Who (so you can pretend to be on CSI)
"Dead Flowers" - The Rolling Stones posted by Abbril at 6:20 PM on February 5 [2 favorites has favorites]
Sinatra:
"Help Yourself To My Heart"
"I Only Have Eyes for You"
"I See Your Face Before Me"
"If I Steal a Kiss"
"Name It And It’s Yours"
"There's Something Missing"
"They Can't Take That Away From Me"
“Where Do You Keep Your Heart?"
"Be Careful, It's My Heart" posted by found missing at 6:21 PM on February 5
Hive-mind, you know what to do.
That's pretty open ended, so let me digress from the musical suggestions just one moment. I am a body donor. When I'm dead and gone, my body will be taken, post haste, to a nearby medical school, for the benefit of students like you.
I don't particularly care what music you play when you're slicing and dicing me, and actually, I realize that while you are expected to treat the deceased with respect, a little levity to break the tension is probably a good thing. But if I get to make a request, I would appreciate some Grateful Dead (can't believe only one mention so far), some Emmylou Harris, and any kind of jazz.
Also, I would like to encourage all of you to look into body donation -- just contact the nearest medical school. They need you. Unless you prefer to have a small fortune wasted to have yourself pickled, laid out inside a very expensive wooden box and entombed in a concrete vault, all to make your relatives feel that they sent you forth in style. posted by beagle at 6:26 PM on February 5 [8 favorites has favorites]
I am throwing out the Schoolhouse Rock classics dealing with the body:
'cause I am old and would want these playing at some point if I was on the table. Besides songs about food these tunes would work. posted by jadepearl at 6:30 PM on February 5
Worst meat pies in London from Sweeney Todd? It'sthe one they sing about making the peeps into meat pies. posted by legotech at 6:41 PM on February 5
"Bodies," by Glenn Danzig, third album: "I got bodies to the left, I got bodies to the right ..."
"Locked in a Room," by The Ids, Psycho Babylon or the Kissed soundtrack: "Locked in a room with Death ..."
"The Unquiet Grave," by Faith and the Muse. posted by adipocere at 6:44 PM on February 5
So I noticed you haven't favorited any of the death metal recommendations (possibly because the genre is inappropriate for the atmosphere, or maybe just because you don't like metal), but I urge you to consider these:
The County Medical Examiners - The Virchow Postmortem Procedure, from the album Olidous Operettas (these guys are all doctors). posted by Demogorgon at 6:44 PM on February 5
So Into You - Atlanta Rhythm Section
Cold as Ice - Foreigner
Love You Inside and Out - Bee Gees
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
Don't Phunk With My Heart - Black Eyed Peas
My Heart is Lost to You - Brooks and Dunn
These Eyes - The Guess Who
Touch Me - The Doors
I've cut out (ha ha) a few others since they're a bit more harder and you seem to like...less hard music from the favorites so farl, but there's also Rammstein 'Mein Teil', which is definitely tasteless if you know the story behind it, the Puppet Master album from King Diamond, and Fantomas' Delirium Cordia. posted by Weighted Companion Cube at 7:50 PM on February 5
The soundtrack from any and all zombie movie. Or Psycho. posted by JuiceBoxHero at 8:13 PM on February 5
The Operation by Charlotte Gainsbourg: "our love goes under the knife...deep within the abbatoir/ of your entrails, your insides" posted by Locative at 8:39 PM on February 5
Dissect—Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Eric B. is on the Cut—Eric B. and Rakim
The First Cut is the Deepest—I. Roy
Slice O'Life—45 Grave
Detachable Penis—King Missile
Dead Fingers Walking—Working For A Nuclear Free City
Dead Finks Don't Talk—Brian Eno
We're Both Dead Now Alice—The Fugs
Closed Casket—The Deadly Snakes
Oh My Bride—The Deadly Snakes (about stealing your wife's medication—maybe narcotics—in order to inherit her property, and the chorus is all about doctors and morticians viewing her body)
I Want To Die—The Deadly Snakes
There Goes Your Corpse Again—The Deadly Snakes
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead—Warren Zevon
She's Not Dead—Suede
A Short Stop at the Transylvanian Brain Surgeon—Amon Duul II
Elective Surgery—Dr. Octogon
Surgeon's Girl—Wire
Surgery—World Class Wreckin' Cru (Dr. Dre's first band)
You Don't Need a Doctor—The Robocop Kraus
The Human Body—Pylon
Whoops, there goes my body!—Pigbag!
Show Me Your Heart—Need New Body (Seriously, this one is great)
I Got a Feeling In My Body—Elvis Presley
Gut Feeling—Devo
Dummy Discards a Heart—Deerhoof
My Heart is Out of Bounds—The Long Blondes
Something's Got Ahold of My Heart—Terry Reilly
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist—The Quails
Skidmarks on my Heart—The Go Gos
Open Your Heart—Human League
Your Heart Out—The Fall
Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart—The Puppets
You're Black and Blue—The Exploding Hearts
Hearts in Exile—The Homosexuals
Smoking Takes You Closer To God—Heart of Blues
All of my Heart—ABC
Paint By Number Heart—Martha and the Muffins
Heart of Glass—Blondie
Another Nail in my Heart—Squeeze
Open Up Your Heart—The Newcomers
Slow Nerve Action—The Flaming Lips
Be My Head—The Flaming Lips
I Think I Need a new Heart—The Magnetic Fields
Head, No Heart—100 Flowers
I Don't Own My Heart-100 Flowers
Do You Wanna Touch Me—Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Owner of a Loney Heart—Yes posted by klangklangston at 9:04 PM on February 5
The Pixies offer several good options:
Bone Machine
Wave of Mutilation
Broken Face
and my personal favorite...
Debaser
"Slicin' up eyeballs, I want you to know."
I was also going to suggest "Be My Head" by the Flaming Lips. posted by fructose at 9:23 PM on February 5
Another one came to mind-- "Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes. posted by fructose at 9:25 PM on February 5
Radiohead - Knives Out posted by Windigo at 9:29 PM on February 5
Zombie Jamboree? (Note: that link goes to a Rockapella performance, but I know other people have done it.)
Or: okay, years ago William Hurt was in a brief-lived sentimental movie about a doctor who gets cancer, which makes him a better doctor and blah blah blah; and the one scene I remember is that early on he has to get an operation, and his colleagues at the hospital where he works offer to perform the surgery; they also offer to, instead of the chief surgeon picking the music he wants to listen to during the surgery, they will let HIM choose the music. And thus, as William Hurt's character is drifting off under anaesthesia, he and all his friends are prepping for surgery and singing "Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw."
Robyn Hitchcock:
Sounds Great when You're Dead
The Yip Song
Balloon Man
This Could Be the Day
Tears for Fears: Watch Me Bleed
Undertones: Sigh and Explode
Cardiacs: All Spectacular
Mutton Birds: Envy of Angels
Smithereens: Cut Flowers
Be-Bop Deluxe: Down on Terminal Street
Bill Nelson: Stay Young
Dream Syndicate: Tell Me when it's Over
Louis Jordan: Jack, You're Dead
Ladytron: Cease2exist
Ultravox: Can't Stay Long posted by jet_silver at 9:35 PM on February 5
Cardiacs: Bodysbad
Flunk: Everything is Ending Here
Groove Armada: In My Bones
Ladytron: Open Your Heart
Psychedelic Furs:
Flowers
Pulse
Jets to Brazil: Your X-Rays Have Come Back....
Magazine: Shot By Both Sides
Robyn Hitchcock:
When I Was Dead
Then You're Dust posted by jet_silver at 10:00 PM on February 5
Repo! The Genetic Opera is a rock opera about harvesting organs from corpses [plot changed slightly to not spoilerize]. At the very least you want Things You See In A Graveyard, and probably others.
Cloud Cult: Living on the Outside of your Skin, What Comes at the End, What it Feels like to be Alive, Car Crash, The Man Jumped Out the Window, the Ghost Inside our House, Dance for the Dead....pretty much any of their earlier albums and a great deal of their later albums.
Dead Kennedys: I Kill Children. Although probably a bad idea.
Manic Street Preachers: Most of Lifeblood. Empty Souls, A Song for Departure, Cardiff Afterlife
Of Montreal: Chrissie Kiss the Corpse. About playing weird pranks with a corpse.
Porcupine Tree: Lazarus, Revenant, My Ashes, Heartattack in a Layby, Drown With Me, Ambulance Chasing, In Formaldehyde, Bornlivedie, The Sleep of no Dreaming, Stop Swimming, An Empty Box
I'd be pretty happy with the whole Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack/score.
Nicwolff mentioned Hedwig, but given the choice, I'd pluck two other songs from that wisp of a girly man fable: Angry Inch ("two days later the wound closed up....") and of course, Exquisite Corpse / All Sewn Up . posted by rokusan at 2:08 AM on February 6
Only Women Bleed, by Alice Cooper (or the hair band version from Lita Ford)
Actually, Alice Cooper's entire oeuvre sounds perfect for this. "Welcome to My Nightmare", "From The Inside", "Zipper Catches Skin"... posted by SuperSquirrel at 7:44 AM on February 6
Oh, another tasteless suggestion: The Hokey Pokey. posted by SuperSquirrel at 7:45 AM on February 6
Okay, maybe I'm old and warped but ...
"Timothy" by the Buoys, circa 1971.
Play it around lunchtime. posted by lpsguy at 7:47 AM on February 6
Braineaters. By The Misfits Brains for dinner
Brains for lunch
Brains for breakfast
Brains for brunch
Brains at every single meal
Why can't we have some guts??? posted by ws at 4:05 PM on February 6
Too many literal interpretations here, I think. How about Dark Matter by Andrew Bird? Ten points for mention of the game Operation. posted by slow graffiti at 5:34 PM on February 6
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