Request Line: Yo Soy Requesta

INT. RECORDING BOOTH – DAY

A massive slab of a human being sits slumped in the chair, snoring peacefully.  A pair of radio station employees stand nearby, contemplating what to do.  One of them holds a six-pack of beer.

PRODUCER: Are you sure this is a good idea?

STATION MANAGER: I mean, his agent said it was fine.  It’s the offseason.

PRODUCER: All right, but…you do it.

He pulls a can of Bud Light Lime-A-Rita from the six-pack and hands it to the STATION MANAGER.

STATION MANAGER: Okay, here we go [he pops the tab]

PRODUCER: [gasping] Did you see that?

STATION MANAGER: See what?

PRODUCER: I swear to God, his ears just moved. Like a cat’s.

STATION MANAGER: [skeptical] You’re imagining things, man.  Anyhow, his agent said to just waft it under his nose and he’ll perk right up.

The STATION MANAGER starts moving towards the sleeping figure, holding the can forward like some kind of offering…

PRODUCER: WAIT!

STATION MANAGER: [exhales roughly] What, what?

PRODUCER: He said we gotta keep these out of sight [takes the remaining cans of Lime-A-Rita and puts them into a drawer].

STATION MANAGER: Oh, yeah, good call.  That could have been bad.

The STATION MANAGER resumes creeping forward.  The slumbering giant’s nostrils twitch, then he slowly reaches a hand forward, fumbling open and closed until the STATION MANAGER pushes the beer into his massive paw.  His eyes slowly open.

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GRONK: [groggily] WAZZZUUUUUPPPPP?

PRODUCER: Rob, do you know where you are?

GRONKOWSKI: [blinking, looking around] Am I in jail?

STATION MANAGER: No…

GRONK: THEN I DON’T CARE WHERE I AM LET’S GET THIS PARTY STARTED YEAAAAHHHHH!!! [pounds the Bud Light]

PRODUCER: We will, we will, we just gotta get the segment started first.

STATION MANAGER: So, I don’t know if you heard…or remember hearing…but we’ve got some good news.  Electronic Arts selected you for the cover of this year’s Madden.

GRONK: Sweet!  Let’s celebrate!

PRODUCER: Oh, for sure.  So we thought for Request Line this week…

GRONK: I WANNA ROCK! ROCK! DUH DUH NA DUH NA…[starts banging his head]

PRODUCER: …we could ask people to send in request for songs that are from, about, or inspired by video games.

GRONK: Aw, sweet, I LOVE video games.

STATION MANAGER: Great!  So, just introduce the segment…

GRONK: …and then party?

STATION MANAGER: Absolutely.  Just give us a second to get rolling…

GRONK: [blinking, glancing around the room distractedly]

PRODUCER: Rob?

GRONK: Sorry, man, gotta go!

GRONK leaps up from the chair, lowers his shoulder, and crashes through the studio wall, leaving behind a gigantic hole.  The PRODUCER and STATION MANAGER lean through the hole and look out in to the morning sunlight, where they see GRONK sprinting away in hot pursuit of a Budweiser delivery truck.

Welp, you heard it, folks.  Songs from, about, and “inspired by” video games.  I’ll get you started with a carryover from the old KSK days: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhwDxNqWtxk

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Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

I think Time Splitters 2 is the best GoldenEye clone to ever be made. Between the ridiculous number of characters, eras, weapons and challenges, that game is nearly endless, and fun as hell with a friend. It’s too bad that Edios backed off and let EA dig their claws into the 3rd one, effectively killing the franchise. I still want 4, damnit!

Here’s the main theme, which makes me want to go rev up a minigun!

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

While often confused for a Minibosses song, this version of Big Blue was actually done by Nintendo for a standalone soundtrack.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

And speaking of GTA…Danzig’s “Mother” was in GTA: San Andreas, if memory serves.

https://youtu.be/8Gw5pyjBYmQ

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Also on Radio X:

Rusty Cage – Soundgarden

Hellraiser – Ozzy

Fuck! Unsung is on there too!

San Andreas’ Radio X has to be the best GTA station, followed closely by V Rock from Vice City.

theeWeeBabySeamus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fv5cuYZFC0

/might need to upgrade video game platforms

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Mine don’t fit the theme, but before we had video games we listened to the radio…. and played pool.

http://iruntheinternet.com/lulzdump/images/gifs/bucket-head-police-running-car-1350223030E.gif

theeWeeBabySeamus

I actually got made fun of last night for playing tetris.
I never wanted to kill so many millennials in one moment before. And that’s saying something.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Disclaimer: I was playing on my phone waiting for my niece’s graduation to start.
There were about 5,000+ millennials in the building at the time, so I was already mostly in homicidal mode.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

For Tetris? The most timeless game ever? Would they rather be playing whatever piece of crap free-mium game that came out last week?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Short answer: Candy Crush is King

laserguru

Another GTA throwback. I think it was in Vice City where you had a mission in which you flew a toy helicopter around a parking garage to plant explosives. You only had a few minutes to plant like 5 bombs and the mission was hard as shit to complete. The time that I did complete it, this was on the radio.
I’m not sure how they put a radio into a remote controlled helicopter but what the fuck.
The payoff when the building exploded was fucking epic.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

That was Vice City…loved that game. I somehow got phenomenally good at flying that little ‘copter…I could do that mission with minutes to spare, and then just fly it around for fun before blowing up the building. Probably my favorite of the single-player GTA games.

laserguru

I AM Tommy Vercetti.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Memory serves, you’re in a van controlling the toy chopper, which has a radio. I’m also pretty sure that mission is called “Demolition Man,” which is a “very” different tune…

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Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Who Made Who – AC DC

Beastmode Ate My Baby

An oldie… Hammerbox’s “Trip” from one of the old Road Rash games.

https://youtu.be/ZYsH6Q_Um9Q

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Oh man, that takes me back…

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

HAPPY FUCKING SEXY FRIDAY PEEPS!

In my head:
http://media.giphy.com/media/1A0CfnqSfnbXi/giphy.gif

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXUkddrnsXQ

R.E.M. – Radio Free Europe

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Clutch is one of my favorite bands, but I had never heard of them prior to 2009. I will be forever grateful to Valve’s marketing team for using “Electric Worry” as the background theme for Left 4 Dead 2’s commercial. Incidentally, it is still one of my favorite games ever.

Another song that’s actually in the game.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDe60CbIagg

Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Not a single Minibosses song yet? Fuck! Get ready for a TRIPLE SHOT!

Contra:

Megaman 2:

Castlevania:

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw

Wall Of Voodoo – Mexican Radio

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
BrettFavresColonoscopy

Free form jazz odyssey to Smash Brothers?
Free form jazz odyssey to Smash Brothers.

WCS

Robbing stores and shooting down police helicopters as Trevor with this on the radio.

laserguru

What I enjoyed most during GTA San Andreas was cruising through the hood, blasting busters and cranking this on the radio.

laserguru

This is the intro for Duke Nukem Land of Babes and one of my favorite bands, Static-x.

Win win!

Horatio Cornblower

No request line for me today. Leaving shortly for Old 97’s and Heartless Bastards in Boston tonight.

Anyone in the Boston area that can find their way to the Royale and yell “DFO rules, UPROXX drools” will get free beers from me.

nomonkeyfun

It’s a good thing you are getting out of town tonight. Your locker is going to be awful crowded.
http://media.giphy.com/media/5xtDarnF5pX3ngJ3nfa/giphy.gif

WCS

SonOfSpam

Their first album was pretty damn unstoppable.

Don T

Steve Walsh – Space Age Whiz Kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNAuGs-JM98

Yet to know anybody who likes this song.

Don T

Some You Tube Puerto Ricans – Super Mario Bros. Theme (originally for cuatro by Pedro Guzmán)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vG7DWWxpZk

Don T

Ha! Didn’t know that was a thing.

I should give South Park a break. Family Guy NEVER!

ssi_bulldawg

GTA San Andreas. Toots and the Maytals – Pressure Drop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRSwjhYmAY4

ssi_bulldawg

Last one from THPS2 – Lagwagon – May 16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzYOA4-xNaA

ssi_bulldawg

I’ll branch out in a minute, but a few more THPS2 – Guerrilla Radio – RATM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZul_mSFczs

ssi_bulldawg

The original version of Mad World – Tears for Fears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFsHSHE-iJQ

Although the Gary Jules version is pretty cool too.

ssi_bulldawg

Basically the whole Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 soundtrack. But this was my favorite. Millencolin – No Cigar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OChjVLHlkVE

SonOfSpam

“My Console” from Eiffel 65. They mention different video games in it you guys!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeOSWLGKuaE

SonOfSpam

“Human Video Game” from an obscure act called DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45M0cz-9Nvs

nomonkeyfun

Well it has an 8 bit character in the video so, I am going to rule this is eligible.

Dire Straits- Money For Nothing
https://youtu.be/lAD6Obi7Cag

SonOfSpam

Fine, here’s one more 35 year old song called “Video Games” – this time from Ronnie James.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45M0cz-9Nvs

Cuntler

10 minutes of Pitfall noises? 10 minutes of Pitfall noises!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhXMYw1lXY0

SonOfSpam

What, you want another early-80s song called “Video Games” from an act called Fingers? Don’t say I never gave ya nothin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkD64FWrkrE

Cuntler

THIS IS MY JAM, YO!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhscMsBhNhw

/hasn’t played video games since 1989

//fucking nerds

SonOfSpam

Early music video from The Toons. It’s callled “Video Games” and it’s wonderful/awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwjuPM1MEgQ

SonOfSpam

Weird Al parodying “Taxman” with (of course) “Pac-Man”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=941ssF8yIr8

blaxabbath
Spanky Datass

Remember the Journey video game console at the arcade/pizza joint? Yeah, me too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatorN4P9aA

Spanky Datass

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nomonkeyfun

Triforce Quartet- Legend of Zelda Medley

https://youtu.be/lN2WxDmoXvA

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Huh. I had assumed Henry Rollins’ “Liar” was inspired by Duke Nukem Forever, but apparently the song predates the game’s announcement. Who knew?

https://youtu.be/awY1MRlMKMc

scotchnaut

Let’s get something obvious out of the way…

https://youtu.be/XY_ESTnBlS0