Surgeons prefer Bee Gees’ ‘Stayin’ Alive’ to Queen’s ‘Another One Bites the Dust’ as they wield the knife, a study has found, as eight in 10 say music in the operating theatre helps them concentrate.
As we might also hope that “Hell’s Bells” and “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” are not on the playlist while “Live is Life”* might be.
*There has to be some sodding use for that song, doesn’t there?
Led Zeppelin: “In My Time Of Dying”. Probably long enough for an entire operation, particularly if you’re listening to a live version 🙂
Ah comments on now.
First Cut Is The Deepest?
Don’t Pay The Ferryman..?
Wooden Heart by Elvis?
Is the guy with the gas singing L. L. Cool J’s “Momma Said Knock You Out”?
“Bits & Pieces” Dave Clark Five
Surgeons prefer Bee Gees’ ‘Stayin’ Alive’
I am starting to be convinced the Bee Gees were commissioned by gender re-assignment specialists – “Born a Man”, “Can’t Keep a Good Man Down”, “I Was A Lover, A Leader Of Men”, “Don’t Wanna Live Inside Myself”, “The Woman in You” and perhaps even “Crazy for Your Love”.
But they do seem medically oriented – “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart”, “Flesh and Blood” and perhaps even “Spicks and Specks”. Not to mention “You Should be Dancing” for all the hip replacement specialists.
Patrick Hernandez “Born to be Alive” perhaps.
“Mac the Knife” might also be one to avoid.
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap – AC/DC
Worth pointing out that Stayin’ Alive is the correct BPM for doing CPR, which may be related (also, Nelly the Elephant).
One to avoid: The End (The Doors)
The great heart surgeon, Magdi Yacoub, always listened to Bach while he operated. During the first stage it was the Goldberg Variations, followed by the Brandenburg Concertos for the latter stages.
LIVE IS LIFE
Nanananana
Nanananana (all together now)
Nanananana
Nanananana
Life (nanananana)
Life is life (nanananana)
Labadab dab dab life (nanananana)
Liiiiiiiife (nanananana)
When we all give the power
We all give the best
Every minute of an hour
Don’t think about the rest
And you all get the power
You all get the best
When everyone gets everything
And every song everybody sings
And it’s life (nanananana)
Life is life (nanananana)
Life is life (nanananana)
Labadab dab dab life (nanananana)
Life is life when we all feel the power
Life is life come on, stand up and dance
Life is life when the feeling of the people
Life is life is the feeling of the band
When we all give the power
We all give the best
Every minute of an hour
Don’t think about the rest
Then you all get the power
You all get the best
When everyone gives everything
And every song everybody sings
And it’s life (nanananana)
Life is life (nanananana)
Labadab dab dab life (nanananana)
Life is life (nanananana)
Life (nanananana)
(nanananana)
(nanananana)
(nanananana)
Life (nanananana)
Life is life (nanananana)
Labadab dab dab life (nanananana)
Live is life (nanananana)
And you call when it’s over
You call it should last
Every minute of the future
Is a memory of the past
Cause we all gave the power
We all gave the best
And everyone gave everything
And every song everybody sang
Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t Fear the Reaper
I’m surprised that Don’t Fear the Reaper haven’t been mentioned?
For this kind of humour, might I suggest the spoof hospital radio DJ, Ivan Brackenbury. You’ll thank me when you check him out on Youtube.
Gluck’s Orpheus and Euridice might be one to avoid. (“It was all going so well until…”)
Touro Infirmary – Dr John
Unfortunately, not from the Remedies album
His version of “I’m Gonna Go Fishin’ ” from Duke Elegant might play well though.
And no-one’s mentioned Doctor & the Medics
Touch Me – The Doors
Messin’ With The Kid – Rory Gallagher
(See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9578720/Nurse-groped-anaesthetised-plastic-surgery-patients.html)
I was down to St. James infirmary, I saw my baby there
She was stretched out on a long white table,
So sweet, cool and so fair
Let her go, let her go, God bless her
Wherever she may be
She may search this whole wide world over
Never find a sweeter man as me
When I die please bury me in my high top Stetson hat
Put a twenty dollar gold piece on my watch chain
The gang’ll know I died standing pat
Let her go, let her go God bless her
Wherever she may be
She may search this wide world over
Never find a sweeter man as me
I want six crapshooters to be my pallbearers
Three pretty women to sing a song
Stick a jazz band on my hearse wagon
Raise hell as I stroll along
If I found my surgeon putting Strauss’s Death and Resurrection on the turntable I think I’d be in two minds about going through with the procedure.
dearie me
Bobby Bland’s version is best. Can’t think why Tim didn’t mention his passing last year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHh4wBGQZD0
Like a surgeon ?
Doctot, doctor – thompson twins
I’ll go with “Going out screaming” by IQ.
Bobby Blue Bland, there’s an artist.
The Richard Strauss piece is actually “Death and Transfiguration”. His “Four Last Songs” would also be ominous.
Be Quick Or Be Dead – Iron Maiden
The Widow Maker – Robert Calvert
So Ends Another Life – Status Quo
I Drive The Hearse – Porcupine Tree
Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know the boys in the newsroom got a running bet
Get the widow on the set
We need dirty laundry
“Dirty Laundry” by Don Henley
“Bobby Bland’s version is best.” Christ, here’s Satchmo with Fatha Hines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMbRV5d7TeY
Or if you like a slower version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzcpUdBw7gs
I had a probe put into my heart 20+ years ago and the nurse panicked to hear the Meatloaf Bat out of hell lyrics
And the last thing I see
Is my heart, still beatin’, still beatin’
Breakin’ out of my body
And flyin’ away
I was so out of it on valium I found it amusing and my pulse was down to about 25. When I left the operation I looked down at my legs and thought what is all the red stuff and then realised it was my blood