Suffice it to say that when I got back from an overnight stay at the hospital, as I waited for nature and medicine to take their course, I distracted myself by putting together a Rhapsody "Kidney Stone" playlist. A number of Facebook and Twitter friends made suggestions, as did emails from my college roommates. The jokes are generally bad, real groaners, and obvious from the titles; the only one that relies on knowing the actual lyric is probably the Chumbawumba song, which has a lovely line about "Pissing the night away."
I'll probably tweak the order some, but for now, for posterity's sake, let me post the more-or-less final list here. If you have additional suggestions, feel free to leave them as comments!
- Tom Petty, "The Waiting (is the Hardest Part)"
- The Monkees, "Steppin' Stone (I'm Not Your)"
- Mott the Hoople, "Roll Away the Stone"
- Toni Braxton, "Let It Flow"
- Van Morrison, "And It Stoned Me"
- The Temptations, "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"
- Laura Nyro, "Stoned Soul Picnic"
- Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone"
- Mumford & Sons, "Roll Away Your Stone"
- Aretha Franklin, "It Hurts Like Hell"
- Janet Jackson, "Get It Out Me"
- Jerry Jeff Walker, "Get It Out"
- David Wilox, "Get it Out of the Way"
- Holly Cole, "Make It Go Away"
- Terebinth, "This Too Shall Pass"
- Cat Stevens, "Can't Keep it In"
- Bob Marley, "Waiting in Vain"
- Tower of Power, "So Very Hard to Go"
- R. E. M. "Everybody Hurts"
- Sade, "Flow"
- Leonard Cohen, "Passing Through"
- Chumbawumba, "Tubthumping"
- Carly Simon, "Haven't Got Time for the Pain"
- Donovan, "Mellow Yellow"
- Coldplay, "Yellow"
- Simon and Garfunkel, "I am a Rock"
- Debussy, "Passepied" (from Suite Bergamasque)
