INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY
ROGER GOODELL: …and so I handed him a six-game suspension! Ha ha ha ha! Isn’t that hilarious?
PRODUCER: [appearing horrified] I’m not sure that skipping a mandatory league seminar to take your mother to a chemotherapy session really qualifies as…
GOODELL: [sips coffee, interrupts] So we’re good to go?
PRODUCER: [checks wristwatch] Yep, just ten seconds and we’re live. Ready?
GOODELL: Damn skippy.
PRODUCER: [counts it off]
GOODELL: Good afternoon, and welcome to “Request Line”! I’m Roger Goodell and…[punches talkback button]…hey, are you hearing anything funny going on?
PRODUCER: Um, no your levels look fine.
GOODELL: Oh, good, cause I thought I was catching some static.
PRODUCER: …
GOODELL: Ha ha, get it? Static? Like the way they always give me a hard time at the draft?
PRODUCER: Oh. Right. Very amusing.
GOODELL: Okay, so as you know the NFL draft is right around the corner, where dreams are made (and then later ground up into dust and mixed with tears to form a fine paste of CTE and permanent debilitating injuries). Every team is under pressure to make the right choice, and they only have a few minutes to make up their minds. In honor of that, today’s theme is “On The Clock” – we’re looking for songs about being under the gun, running out of time, having to make a decision, having to hurry. Looks like we’ve got our first caller. You’ve reached Request Line, what song would you like to hear?
CALLER 1: BOOOOO!
GOODELL: [tries to laugh it off] Ho ho, just like the draft. What can I play for you?
CALLER 1: BOOOOOO!
GOODELL: Okay, okay, very funny. What song would you…
CALLER 1: Baba-BOOOOOOOOOOO-ey!
GOODELL: [hangs up] Well, that got old fast. Let’s try another one. [punches button]
CALLER 2: Hello?
GOODELL: Hello, you’re on the air.
CALLER 2: Oh, cool! So I had a question about the theme.
GOODELL: Shoot.
CALLER 2: So when you say “running out of time” do you mean like real time, or fake time?
GOODELL: Fake time?
CALLER 2: Yeah, fake time like that bullshit number you claimed for running the forty.
GOODELL: Hey now…
CALLER 2: YOU’RE A LIAR AND YOUR FORTY TIME IS A FRAUD!
GOODELL: [hangs up] God damn jackasses.
PRODUCER: [punches talkback button] Please don’t swear on the air.
GOODELL: But he just…
PRODUCER: We’re not responsible for the callers. The FCC only fines us when the deejays do it.
GOODELL: Okay, let’s try this one last time. [punches button] Hello, what can I play for you?
CALLER 3: Oh, hi! So I was hoping I could get in a request for a DOUBLE SHOT.
GOODELL: A double shot?
PRODUCER: It’s when you play two songs in a row – basically two requests.
GOODELL: I don’t know…
CALLER 3: But you haven’t even heard my requests yet!
GOODELL: [glances at the PRODUCER, who nods enthusiastically] All right, let’s hear what you’ve got.
CALLER 3: My first request is for “Out of Touch” by Hall and Oates.
GOODELL: [pleasantly surprised] Yeah…yeah, we can play that. Sounds good. And what’s your second request?
CALLER 3: I request that you go fuck yourself.
GOODELL: [hangs up] Why did I even agree to do this?
All right, folks, we’re drifting away from “on the clock” type songs about urgency and more into Trent Green’s “remembrance and the passage of time” territory. Let’s get back on track.
OH yeah? Take this, boyo!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej3Wo3SwoXg
Much better!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcb-Fsx_phM
Nice.
Admittedly, this doesn’t fit perfectly. But it’s got time in the title so I’m posting it mostly just to screw around with ballsofsteel. Hehehe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke3ua0kLhYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdIRrmNN_CQ
Double shot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3tvB8XFG3g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_EIE5f2t6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwjNBjqR-c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k
From the Lollipop Pop Dept.: Hombres G – El tiempo no es mi amigo
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9e0NARek6bs
Je je. Un doble. Hombres G – Un minuto nada más
Sax at the end = certified 80s artifact
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WrQEezKQs_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG07WSu7Q9w
In the middle of a 1 am Seroquel haze about two months ago, this came up on YouTube autoplay.
To answer your questions: the video is NSFW and Laia Manzanares. You’re welcome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBzrzS1Ag_g
c’est magnifique!
My apologies.
I’ll show myself out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQ8N1KacJc
Having to hurry, eh?
The Hives – Come On!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HoBr4x-hF_M
A double!
The Hives Introduce the Metric System of Time
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1_pG0wUmAcE
triple it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M02bAWDFkI
IT WAS RIGHT THERE! What a catch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xv_Hg8o1fw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4uvS9l-FcQ
Freshman year at high school…morning announcements, the vice-principal let us all know that there were discount coupons at the school office to see “Rio Speedwagon” at Irvine Meadows.
We had a good chuckle at old man (can’t remember his name…let’s say…) Johnson’s expense.
Stupid Sexy Vice Principal “Johnson”!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO1rMeYnOmM
I haven’t read back yet, so apologies to whomever’s toes I’m about to step on here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqkQY8
How bout a song about time dilation? See, the guys in the rocket were gone for a year, but they came back to a much older Earth because they were traveling near light speed, and…eh, just listen to rocket scientist Brian May explain it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE8kGMfXaFU
LMFAO
I’ve been a fan of this band for about….45 years. New wave years before there was such a thing. Even with the curious moustache choices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoMCip83GZ4
Another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhRzORqNa0E
You’ve got 24 hours, Wendy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCwIHwSt8RU
Fucking love this song.
From one of the greatest debut albums ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UaDlZr_Crs
“Yeah, let’s play pretend!” – Eli Manning
I can double shot that up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Wn5kvqb6o
That’s pretty…curious.
Weird…maybe.
PRETENDERS DOUBLE SHOT!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Wn5kvqb6o
This is fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IliwQImJrYE
Aaaaaannnnddddd THERE’S the rabbit hole I’m going down for my Friday afternoon.
It’s also listenable unlike the original.
This isn’t quite as on the nose as Digital, but still fits, and the original 1978 recording deserves seeing…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mpZUPPTyjo
Holy shit, I found a full orchestral recording.
/This has been your pretentious “modern Classical” post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh-o3udImy8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNVcktiS6C4
Stewart Copeland is very underrated, or maybe just undermentioned? Whatever, this is insane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4DWwrJ8Vc8
Kind of on the nose, but Muse is good and dramatic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2IuJPh6h_A
Oh heck yah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qbRHY1l0vc
Aren’t we all on the clock?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg
Holy Mother of Fuck, how did I forget this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRnWYALFPCw
I look forward to someone telling Goodell “No time left for you”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqeSUAlI5uI
Something you don’t want to let the clock run out on ya:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is83WB7Ue1Y
“Damned straight.”
– Jason Pierre-Paul
Double shot! Sort of…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhKHAopx7D0
A little Jackson Browne?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04WYDwFJwjA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDaB4D-3eSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaj1wVNvSqk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tI1_KlO6xI
I shit you not, I will blast this and sing along every time it comes on First Wave.
This one works, too. It’s gonna getcha, it’s gonna getcha, it’s gonna getcha . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr1Qe2m8oOA
Scotchy will be mad I beat him to it. But that’s what he gets for working on Jeebus Snuff Film Day ,, smh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkLOg252KRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spKOib_D5YY
oh goddamnit, close the thread. PERFECT.
Loved this era of brit rock, then I heard it filtering into teevee over here, uggh.
these guys and Kaiser Chiefs were big around same time, really enjoyed both
I hate the Kansas City Chiefs so much it spoiled the Kaiser Chiefs for me.
Fun Fact: A Kaiser Chief is a whole KC BBQ pork butt on a kaiser roll, and one of Coach Reid’s favorite snacks.
FUN FACT: Hippo thought they were the Kaiser Chefs for an embarrassingly long time…
Remember Nitzer Ebb? Same era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okiCApJeonQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhBOpcK3-Bk
Runnin’ with the devil, it’s touch and go…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRsXvZiiNNY
Fun fact: “Touch and Go” was used for a MNF promo!
Also Larry Nasser’s favorite song.
I think this fits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSZca1Q9IWA
Well if that fits, then this certainly does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scpqae3P7Dg
Agreed.
This song sucks, but it fits the theme:
DO THE HUSTLE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0xVLGssnwU
Time – Pink Floyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwYX52BP2Sk
This is tailor-made for a DOUBLE SHOT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VouHPeO4Gls
Under Pressure – Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01QQZyl-_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLsjCLF_CtM
HE SHOOTS HE SCORES!
Let’s close out the “out of touch, out of time” DOUBLE SHOT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFe78Cm0YCE
The theme dovetails perfectly with the fact that this post is a half-hour late!
The Hall and Oates ending was sublime.