INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY
A pair of radio professionals are standing outside the recording booth sipping coffee.
CONNOR, THE INTERN: …and by then it was 3 a.m., so we ended up going over to Swingers for some pancakes. So I only ended up getting about two hours of sleep before the color run.
PRODUCER: [musing] You know, I’m not really sure whether I miss being young or not.
CONNOR: So we’re bringing him back, huh? Is this the first time we’ve had a repeat host?
PRODUCER: It is. And technically, this is the third time he’s made an appearance.
CONNOR: You must like him a lot to keep putting him on the air.
PRODUCER: You know, I do. He’s a good kid.
CONNOR: Here he comes now.
— [door flies open] —
COOPER MANNING: Hi guys!
PRODUCER: Um…
COOPER MANNING: It’s me! Your favorite two time Super Bowl winning quarterback.
CONNOR: Uh…
COOPER MANNING: Here to do another episode of Request Hour! Just like I’ve done a couple of times before.
PRODUCER: Uh…yeah. Sure. Head on into the booth, um, [makes air quotes] “Eli”.
COOPER MANNING heads into the broadcast booth and begins getting settled in as CONNOR closes the door.
CONNOR: You’re okay with this?
PRODUCER: [shrugs] Eh, they sound similar enough. Who’s gonna know the difference?
DJ 3000: [stews quietly in the corner]
COOPER MANNING: We ready?
PRODUCER: Sure are. [counts down silently with hand signals]
COOPER MANNING: Good afternoon, folks, welcome to yet another edition of Request Line! Today we’re looking for songs about things that are REAL. You know, the genuine article. Nothing counterfeit, that’s not what we’re after here. We want the REAL THING. Give me a call, I’m play ’em all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BETKnn7Dxw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q429AOpL_ds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcVrLbluvLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u60wE3X9lGQ
Good work for your Toffees Hippo. Know what grinds my gears? Stamford Bridge is ACTUALLY IN FULHAM NOT chelsea
we should go burn it down one of these days, or at least piss on it!
BOLTMAN would decorate his inner sanctum with my organs if I neglected to include this masterpiece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl20NGS3VF8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsuWRML9jp4
FUN STORY! From the “Notorious” movie, I learned that he was hustlin’ in Wake County during the time I was a student at NC State. I could have smoked some Biggie Smalls dope, y’all!!
That dope was P-H-A-T.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r16NjjDPLlc
http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/BooThisMan.gif
BOO THIS PERSON!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmygRoVHxm4
THIS VIDEO, I CALL IT “GOT TO BE REAL,” BECAUSE IT’S MUSIC TO MY EARS AND DESERVES TO BE IN THIS PLAYLIST.
Gruden likes his songs listed three times.
hey, it’s only been played twice already, so why not??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiyYozeOoKs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKM1AAzeRCg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz_D-greh8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4X4HMl2BL0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRAOBdiv4K8
Time to get in touch with/get real about our blackness!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM4kqL13jGM
Double Shot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJEzEDMqXQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoXvDleWJ5U
I’m surprised Mr. Right didn’t bust out this bad boy out yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_4OfD-wmGs
oh, Low Commander done won this here thread
/Breaks out of meetings just before lunch
Solid choice, RTD. Let’s pick this up…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS246KKU5Dw
…with a Bad Religion DOUBLE SHAWT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4NQeh-7Omk
Brief note that Chelsea will win the League with a win over hapless West Brom (3 EST, NBCSN), and you can also join Emotional Wreck Hippo boozing over what is likely the last home fixture for Phil Jagielka and Ross Barkley (Everton v. Watford, 2:45, Extra Time). YES, I remain fully in denial about the odds of Big Rom remaining on Merseyside.
I see some words I recognize, but the whole of your post reads like a Trump tweet to me.
Wait, that was harsh, Sorry.
SAD!!
I am here for ya hippo. Need some things to fall your way and anything can happen.
Thanks, man. As the Brits say – proper grim, this.
Until Barkley’s stormer!!
I’m gonna do whatever I feel like, including giving some love to The Hot Sardines.
(thanks to Brad Goodman for the confidence)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV3woVlagPo
Close enough. Now heading south….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-8CVixZ5o
From the album “…Is a Real Boy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6AShxoqK9Q
Willie Colón (not that one; the musician) & Rubén Blades – Plástico
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xVnR4f3jUZI
Hey, Latino, hear me brother hear me friend. Never sell your destiny for gold nor comfort. Never rest, ’cause we have to walk much more. Let’s all go forward to together do away [deep trombone]
With ignorance, which has us influenced with imported models that are not the solution.
Don’t allow to be confused, look for the ends and their reason. Remember you can see faces, but never the heart. Remember you can see faces, but never the heart.
Tell us about it Be Real!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ZcflP8KPY
Disco sucks except when it doesn’t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlCC1XojRzM
“You do that. I’m gonna find out who these black people are.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEAVyC10DUY
Avett Double, then I gotta check out and go….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz0JXbwNUk8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFGs7HP15d4
Meh, fuck it…make it a triple…
(such a crime this album got snubbed at the grammy’s btw)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-lBmpz8Iso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabnZ9-ex7o
These guys make real purty music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAQeq0XIu6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvkzoqQ5Oak
Seems obligatory…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b4cW9sx47A
I always wondered if Saddam Hussein got all misty-eyed listening to this, ya know?
Ha!!!!
Here’s some nobody-asked-for-it SonOfSpam trivia; Seger was my first ever rock concert (saw Liberace in Vegas with family when I was a kid – and it was FABULOUS), and I won the tickets late at night from KLOS (rock station in LA) along with a CASSETTE version of Like A Rock.
You’re welcome for that.
The Roots – The Seed 2.0
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wRtGc4OnEXI
OK, I got done packing my shit earlier than I thought and don’t have to check out just yet, so here’s one more…
(you can shut up here too Hippo, just saying)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXuu4MRVfAg
TOPICAL this week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imqvLToWH7k
Dangermouse + Jay-Z + The Beatles – Public Service Announcement
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uTzpgO2AL8A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk9bZuTOamg
Love the topic. Sadly I’m unable to stay and have fun with ya’s so this will be my only offering for this week. But it’s a good one, at least I think so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59bLUwYONEI
CHUH CHUH
😛
You shush.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syspgr_XBFU
Holy Mother of Fuck do I love this song about feeling disconnected from reality in this modern world (a song and a band way the fuck ahead of its time):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRnWYALFPCw
I really dig this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1G0jl0Vc64
one can NEVAR go wrong with The Buzzcocks!
/ok, maybe at a Baptist funeral…
Amen. Let’s make it a double shot and strip the romantic stuff: What Do I Get
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HfkMDqijvVs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz_D-greh8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9l-Zuu5cR4&w=560&h=315
Better sounding version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2h1MY70uag
Being disconnected from your genuine self and what’s really important in life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Jko4Ipdrs
This contains the best lines about being real that I know:
#1) “But I would rather be alone than pretend I feel alright”
#2) “I would rather be wrong than live in the shadows of your song”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl-4Ns7ql8E
Can we do songs that are even better than real?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrch66gdjjk
Let’s sneak in a quick DOUBLE SHOT for Coop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh6YK6fym0U
Regarding the tag; Eli would have been around 11 when “Doubt” came out. It’s pretty family-friendly, as far as I remember. I think Olivia wouldn’t have minded if Eli used his allowance to buy a copy.
Another set of fun facts from this memory hole: the Jesus Jones song “Trust Me” uses a sample from the TV Show “Sledge Hammer”, whose theme was composed by…Danny Elfman!
I like that slbum A LOT. The starter was the first song I thought about.
I do too. Even twenty five years later (holy hell) I still think it’s pretty good.