INT. RECORDING STUDIO – NIGHT
A producer moves around the interior of the booth, showing the basic features to its occupant, a physically perfect specimen of a man.
PRODUCER: …and so mostly everything is controlled from outside, so all you need to worry about is chatting with the callers. Sound good?
ADRIAN PETERSON: NO PROBLEM!
PRODUCER: Actually, you’re going to want to talk into the microphone here [gestures]. The pickup on snakes isn’t really good enough for commercial radio.
ADRIAN PETERSON: Too much feedback?
PRODUCER: Depends on the snake. But we’ve got you covered, just use this one [gestures again].
ADRIAN PETERSON: Can do!
PRODUCER: So I heard you and the Vikings are parting ways.
ADRIAN PETERSON: That’s right.
PRODUCER: Any idea where you’ll be heading?
ADRIAN PETERSON: It’s being reported that the Patriots, Raiders, and Seahawks are interested.
PRODUCER: Huh. Reported?
ADRIAN PETERSON: Yeah, there’s some chatter out there.
PRODUCER: But, I mean, have you talked to those guys?
ADRIAN PETERSON: Nah, that’s for my agent to worry about. I just know what I read in the papers.
PRODUCER: Who…have been quoting your agent.
ADRIAN PETERSON: Well, you know, lots of people are saying lots of things.
PRODUCER: [shrugs] Okay, well, good luck with that. Let’s roll.
The producer steps outside the booth and counts off the start of the show.
ADRIAN PETERSON: Hey there, folks! You’re listening to Request Line and I’m your host Adrian Peterson. This week’s theme is “chatter”. We’re looking for songs about rumors, implications, scuttlebutt, you call it. If you’ve got hearsay, we want it. Conjecture? Yes, please. I’ll get us started with an extended version of Marvin Gaye’s “Heard it Through the Grapevine”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usGObvP42GM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ynYXAO-Pg
What’s that, RTD? There’s been a big buildup, and you’re ready for a blast?
The Smiths – What She Said
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-tk_cCMN3M
Zep – ?er
https://youtube.com/watch?v=npoYQMPCOvU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwx8Voq373A
The Von Bondies – Shut Your Mouth
https://youtube.com/watch?v=59iEIKXKn9Y
Yeah, this is one of mine.
Bad Religion – News From the Front
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZNqKgcmtic
The Clash – Complete Control
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7TcKiC2yB0s
One of my favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Pt_ZkGg8I
I’m getting close to having to go to a meeting that will actually require my attention, so here’s an RTD double shot!
Til Tuesday – Voices Carry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP9DbEIm7ns
Gin Blossoms – Found Out About You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qB6XdAkkAo
Slow claps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5HkuhSEnPQ
Bananarama – I Heard a Rumour
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gQJURZrGmZY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sY8qTDMSFc
It’s a shame that Kanye lost his goddamn mind. Although, starting a music video that has a song title referencing the horrors of blood diamonds with an intro describing said horror, immediately into “YES, I AM IN FACT THE SHIT” should have probably been a big clue of what was coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92FCRmggNqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E58qLXBfLrs
Wherrrre did you go?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNjrBUzXDJk
Another Low Commander original, that RTD is probably kicking himself that he didn’t think of. This is one of the most underrated AC/DC songs, and is quite apt for free agency.
AC/DC – Money Talks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lqdErI9uss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F_SXq0zSDY
“Well hi there! No, I’m just writing this whole ‘Request Line’ thing for [DFO]. My password? I don’t know… Well, if you’re buying the drinks…”
And that’s how RTD caused the Russian hack in this story that I just made up.
Ava Takes a Walk – Loose Lips Sink Ships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LN-60rjPSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgxI3PT9IN8&ab_channel=MarcMcDonald
Paul McCartney- She’s Leaving Home
Beatles aren’t available on youtube.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIc8TnrC9tQ&w=560&h=315%5D
We’ve all been there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2B3gPY5LRg
I have a confession: I’m doing these posts during the middle of a project review meeting at work. Wait, is it still a confession if you don’t feel bad about it? RTD would probably say not, so here’s a song about some.
Violent Femmes – Confessions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOx5ROp99Xs
Doing them as I wait for green bars to go across my screen while doing server admin work. The joy of IT.
“What? No, I’m totally working! It just looks like I’m not…”
At least you check your own history.
Along with everyone else’s. You have no expectation of privacy on a work network, whatsoever.
Don’t blow the whistle on yourself.
Let’s double shot this shit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMFSnLKtrmM
bicker bicker bicker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQrlDzqUCA
I was almost ready to post this and wondering why no one did yet.
Can’t do better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUQw8s-QZOg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gncY6pSuNdM&ab_channel=QuestionAuthority2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLKIkmiLCzM
Let’s give this RTD selection a spin. Or not. I’m not getting enough compensation to make sure that you actually do it.
The Outfield – Say It Isn’t So
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAEVesAxSCM
Haha this song has been stuck in my head since we had it a few weeks back. Good on ya.
Joe Jackson- Is She Really Going Out With Him
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKf6gQXBSpw&w=560&h=315%5D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtYbuHRVvGI&ab_channel=JuanClassic.
Hm I could only find a cover of this Nashville Skyline gem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwOmOt5Vbwg
Hey, it’s a Low Commander original! That’s right, RTD! You don’t own me! You have to pay extra for that!
Authority Zero – Today We Heard The News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTrH8ODyyps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1wiA-MUTT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtfTnvO22Tc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-hKBmTAADo&w=560&h=315
The Parental Commanders went and saw Stevie Nicks and The Pretenders last week at Viejas Arena here in San Diego. The Pretenders apparently tore the roof off the place, but Stevie was pretty insistent on playing a lot of stuff from her solo career. Plus, Mama Commander remarked that she “looked like her feet were killing her in those platform shoes.” Thankfully, RTD has some old Fleetwood Mac, and none of that new crap!
Fleetwood Mac – Second Hand News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Fdm3-dnr0
I mentioned down thread…saw the Pretenders last Friday, taking the night off from Stevie and playing by themselves at lovely Pechanga. They were indeed awesome. No interest in seeing Stevie unless the rest of the band is with her.
Also, I’m probably just about as old as your parents, which is in no way depressing.
You don’t look like the kinda guy who would qualify for the “Silver Sneakers” discount at the gym. But then again, you look like the kinda guy who would DEMAND to qualify for the “Silver Sneakers” discount…
I also don’t look like the kinda guy who would ever be at a “gym”
But yes, I would definitely demand that fucking discount.
They did a whole album for this request line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvRVsnY5ODM&w=560&h=315
Another RTD selection.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Details of the War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD6DleIlK2E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCWiQrkNp2M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7sx32alzeE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99svrFj-G_g&w=560&h=315
Just saw them for the first time last week. Chrissie is God.
Would love to see them live. Been a big fan for a long time.
Saw them in 1984. Outstanding stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9igt7etCYE
RTD is currently on his way to YE JOLLY OLDE ENGLAND or something, so he asked me to help post his submissions “in real time,” which is one of those techy buzz words you wouldn’t normally expect from a Raiders fan. Anyway, here’s one of ’em.
Liz Phair – Never Said
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCP-UIs2kpM
HIPPO <3 her so fucking much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3kQlzOi27M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyrck5WyylU&w=560&h=315
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0d53KUlTN8&w=560&h=315
Grammy’s bitch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_6BBAVfzqM
This guy was just awful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUIZw4pso_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6PNc9KN50M
Heard it from a friend who…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBqm2rXwRis
This song makes me laugh. About 5-10 years ago me and my friends would frequent a town bar that offered nothing in the way of girls or nightlife, but had a jukebox and was close to our homes. So we went often and bugged our bartenders and hogged the jukebox and got smashed.
The trouble with town pubs is that often times younger kids aren’t equipped to mingle among the hardened stool-warmers. Anyways, we had all sorts of town characters that would make us laugh, or teach us life advice, or try to sell us drugs, or make us cringe. One such was an older woman, had to be in her early 40s, that would show up every weekend. In between our annoying mix of music, she would slip this song on every so often and sing it loud. Sometimes she’d have attracted an uninitiated fellow who would be slowly realizing the huge mistake he made. Anyway, we tried to drown her out but over the months and years, she would get savvy and totally spam our jukebox music with this song in new and inventive ways. We don’t go there anymore. I miss it.
Good stuff – I love stories like this.
I thought this song was about STDs.
Got it from a friend who…
Got it from a friend who…
Got it from another…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkFqg5wAuFk