Help me build my brain surgery playlist?
March 24, 2022 7:13 AM
I'll be starting 5x week radiation for my not-cancer (but I have two oncologists?) brain tumor for about six weeks. I've already had surgery, part of my skull replaced with metal, and now this. Please help me add more metal, or at least rock, punk, and weird music, to my playlist. Part of my playlist is inside.
Examples (this is about half my playlist right now).
If it's played at a fundraiser 5k walk, it's probably not right.
Skulls - Lemonheads cover of the Misfits
Radioactive - imagine dragons (arguably the most mainstream thing on my list)
Radioactivity - Kraftwerk
Burn - Alkaline Trio
I come with knives - IAMX
Evil Never Dies - Judas Priest
Examples (this is about half my playlist right now).
If it's played at a fundraiser 5k walk, it's probably not right.
Skulls - Lemonheads cover of the Misfits
Radioactive - imagine dragons (arguably the most mainstream thing on my list)
Radioactivity - Kraftwerk
Burn - Alkaline Trio
I come with knives - IAMX
Evil Never Dies - Judas Priest
Radiation Blue - Crimson Curse
Bleeding in the Brain - Blotted Science
Advanced Corpse Tumor - Necrophagist
posted by saladin at 7:36 AM on March 24, 2022
Bleeding in the Brain - Blotted Science
Advanced Corpse Tumor - Necrophagist
posted by saladin at 7:36 AM on March 24, 2022
- Anything by Bad Brains, maybe (You're a Migraine)
- Operation Ivy - Healthy Body (video)
- DEVO - S.I.B. (video)
posted by enfa at 7:37 AM on March 24, 2022
Who are you - Black Sabbath
Hung out to dry - Fu Manchu
Jackson Head - Boris
Hope your therapy is a resounding success!
posted by Rube R. Nekker at 7:54 AM on March 24, 2022
Hung out to dry - Fu Manchu
Jackson Head - Boris
Hope your therapy is a resounding success!
posted by Rube R. Nekker at 7:54 AM on March 24, 2022
Crash Course in Brain Surgery surely, either the 1974 original by Budgie or Metallica's 1987 cover.
posted by Superilla at 7:58 AM on March 24, 2022
posted by Superilla at 7:58 AM on March 24, 2022
Oh, and for weird music you could use a little Godley and Creme.
posted by Rube R. Nekker at 8:07 AM on March 24, 2022
posted by Rube R. Nekker at 8:07 AM on March 24, 2022
What's in My Head?--Fuzz
The Dream--Thee Oh Sees
Brain Burner--No Age
posted by thivaia at 8:21 AM on March 24, 2022
The Dream--Thee Oh Sees
Brain Burner--No Age
posted by thivaia at 8:21 AM on March 24, 2022
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - One Track Mind
The Hives - A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T
(Sending best wishes to you!)
posted by Orange Dinosaur Slide at 9:50 AM on March 24, 2022
The Hives - A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T
(Sending best wishes to you!)
posted by Orange Dinosaur Slide at 9:50 AM on March 24, 2022
It may be a bit cheesy, but "Chemothumping," based on Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping," might be a distraction. Also on the silly side is Brain Problem Situation from They Might Be Giants.
It's not specifically about brains or radiation, but The Taxpayer's "God, Forgive These Bastards: Songs from the Forgotten Life of Henry Turner" can be good for when you want to yell at institutions. Sympathy and best wishes.
posted by eotvos at 9:59 AM on March 24, 2022
It's not specifically about brains or radiation, but The Taxpayer's "God, Forgive These Bastards: Songs from the Forgotten Life of Henry Turner" can be good for when you want to yell at institutions. Sympathy and best wishes.
posted by eotvos at 9:59 AM on March 24, 2022
Oooooo you are the first person I've ever met that has even known about IAMX. If you are unaware (which I doubt), Chris Corner was (is?) in Sneaker Pimps prior to IAMX and their older catalog has some good stuff you might like.
As for weird-ish music, I'd suggest Simon Bookish, UNKLE, Butthole Surfers. On a side note, I recently discovered Desert Sessions and its my go-to when I need to relax but don't want something super chill and mind numbing. It is heavily influenced by Josh Homme who most people know from Queens of the Stone Age but it has a TON of guest artists; the wikipedia page has a lot of good info if you want to see who was part of the project and when. Really good stuff if you want some experimental stoner psychadelic desert rock.
posted by _DB_ at 10:34 AM on March 24, 2022
As for weird-ish music, I'd suggest Simon Bookish, UNKLE, Butthole Surfers. On a side note, I recently discovered Desert Sessions and its my go-to when I need to relax but don't want something super chill and mind numbing. It is heavily influenced by Josh Homme who most people know from Queens of the Stone Age but it has a TON of guest artists; the wikipedia page has a lot of good info if you want to see who was part of the project and when. Really good stuff if you want some experimental stoner psychadelic desert rock.
posted by _DB_ at 10:34 AM on March 24, 2022
Dickies, I’ve Got a Splitting Hedachi
Ramones, Teenage Lobotomy
Angry Samoans, Inside My Brain
Minimal Man, Big Head
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Kid with the Replaceable Head
Roky Erickson, Mine Mine Mind
Didjits, Plate in My Head
posted by scratch at 10:40 AM on March 24, 2022
Ramones, Teenage Lobotomy
Angry Samoans, Inside My Brain
Minimal Man, Big Head
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Kid with the Replaceable Head
Roky Erickson, Mine Mine Mind
Didjits, Plate in My Head
posted by scratch at 10:40 AM on March 24, 2022
Another very silly one, but perhaps the Ramones' "I Want to be Sedated?" Some of the covers are pretty weird. (I'm still waiting for the Caballero Reynaldo version, which doesn't exit yet but seems likely.)
posted by eotvos at 11:19 AM on March 24, 2022
posted by eotvos at 11:19 AM on March 24, 2022
Is being mostly in korean weird? Side Effects, Stray Kids would certainly fit the theme.
The repeated phrase in the chorus means "My head hurts" and there's a british guy in the background listing common side effects in a monotone voice.
posted by kjs4 at 7:12 PM on March 24, 2022
The repeated phrase in the chorus means "My head hurts" and there's a british guy in the background listing common side effects in a monotone voice.
posted by kjs4 at 7:12 PM on March 24, 2022
Marked the ones that fit the aesthetic best - while I do have a healthy appreciation of the more extreme metals, I didn't communicate well that I wanted stuff I can sing with in the car on my daily commute to the microwave. I did not ask specifically about headbanging but I am pretty sure my surgeon would be opposed. Thanks all.
posted by cobaltnine at 11:48 AM on April 1, 2022
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