INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY
A young man sits inside the studio. The PRODUCER sits outside, looking vexed.
PRODUCER: I honestly don’t know what you’re trying to accomplish here.
ERIC REID: …
PRODUCER: I get it. I really do. You’re making a commentary on how the NFL created a new policy that is deliberately intended to silence players from speaking out against police brutality in minority communities.
ERIC REID: [raises eyebrows]
PRODUCER: But you have to understand that nobody can see you right now. This isn’t Mike and Mike – oh, right, it’s Golic and Wingo now – heh heh, doesn’t that sound like a good name for a joint that does garlic wings? – we don’t have a camera pointed inside the studio for no discernible reason.
ERIC REID: [blinks furiously]
PRODUCER: Unless…that was the whole point, that the NFL’s new rules make it possible to protest, but only in a place where no one can see you doing it!
ERIC REID: [exasperated nod]
PRODUCER: Oh, oh, oh. Okay. I guess that makes sense. It’s a little abstract, especially for our listeners. You realize half the folks listening are carryovers from the Jimmy and the Animal morning block.
ERIC REID: [shrugs]
PRODUCER: That’s true, the Jim Schwartz isn’t going to stop running the wide nine defense, just because those mouth-breathing troglodytes in Philadelphia don’t understand it. Fair point.
ERIC REID: [looks at watch]
PRODUCER: You’re right, we’d better get this show on the road. What’s our theme for today?
ERIC REID: [points to mouth]
PRODUCER: Lips? Like, as in, kissing? I guess….
ERIC REID: [shakes head, points to ears and makes a tiny “X” with his index fingers]
PRODUCER: Sounds like…X…Eckstein? Things that are gritty?
ERIC REID: [rips off tape] Silence, you jackass! The theme is being told to stay quiet! I swear to God the hardest part about these protests is getting you fat-headed morons to understand what the hell they’re even about.
Editor’s Note: Today’s theme is “silence” – songs about keeping quiet, listening, etc. In order to have videos appear in comments, you don’t have to mess around with embed codes or anything, just post plain links as such: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuQ_g00d3LL”. When you hit refresh it should show up as embedded and you can rock out at your leisure. If your link doesn’t pick up, an admin will try to help out.
Brian Wilson bringin’ it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gikGLzkKElw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fglU5Ngd-Pk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuMjmQMZu5A
I guess it deserves a quiet night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJ6Kh8klM4
This is a fun song to do at karaoke when you’re trying to impress a girl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSYr0etDzRM
John and Yoko be fucking with you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTQ7bmfAkNA
I will take a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man’s hat.
I’d give you a +1 but you wouldn’t be able to tell who it came from.
Apparently the Duff sisters covered this. Never heard it, but it’s definitely terrible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3kQlzOi27M
Gah! Can’t believe this hasn’t been taken before this!
NERD!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81qTyidXMS8
Much better song than Smoke on the Water. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4QBhC1uCP4
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again-I love this drummer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVQCpI4GbKQ
Probably the best song in the genre since Bad Company’s “Bad Company”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLNKTCDAKn0
“It’s like you haven’t even heard of us.”
-Big Country
“What’re we, chopped liver?”
– Black Sabbath
I couldn’t think of any off the top of my head so here’s a list I found instead.
https://www.stereogum.com/928281/20-songs-named-after-the-bands-that-played-them/franchises/list/
Damn. Few of those I should have though of.
Yeah baby…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp42V938eBA
Fave Berlin tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIb9QUGjdIc
To all the 65+’s out there…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n03g8nsaBro
SHOTS!! SHOTS!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GFzpnOkVHw
THE FLIRTS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ3XOqm0miA
Great tune by Van Morrison and poet Paul Durcan about listening to the radio…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF9eu7vyOEQ
Don’t gimme no lines and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdpAop7gp0w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aycPpIxDUE
“A lot of experts predicted slim picking for ALXMAC after he traded away some of his early round picks, but he seems to have managed a few steals here…”
‘So what if I take a Kicker and D/ST in the 1st two rounds? At least that way I can get the one’s I know I want!’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rVI2APTmcM
The fun thing about low-traffic request lines is that it inspires me to branch out and listen to new things as I look for songs that fit the theme. The downside of that is that sometimes those new things are not good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msrLkc7CER4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPCVSbx2LCk
Normally I wouldn’t burden the Request Line with a nine minute long tune but this one is easy on the ears and brain.
Van Morrison — Hymns To The Silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiFc5DHvaxo
Just for the line “you’re talking a lot, but you’re not saying anything,” which is how I feel about 99.999999% of twitter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX6FsTIq6ls
And even older — Elvis (with bonus movie footage!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvlxRvhCB_A
Greg Allman for the oldtimers like me
https://youtu.be/EFhZXA1VCu0
Fixed, I think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhPXM3Ti9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8sHQWqUA-E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO-MjnksA_c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLseYM-IXC4
There are many subtle ways to ask someone to be quiet.
This…
Is not one of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYCXM5Xlw7o
Mouth eyes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHnOBlwU3A
We’ve all heard the original enough times, let’s try a cover version by some Jets fans!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNUOt7KWUCI
Huh. That was surprisingly faithful to the original. I expected a lot more “she had it coming!” and “show us your tits!”.
Also it should be noted that this is performed with the same level of technical proficience that you’d normally expect from Jets fans trying to do anything.
Yeah, it’s bad, but sorta charming in a bless-their-hearts way.
“Hey, what if we tried to be Pink Floyd, but not as good?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhat-xUQ6dw
Since SoS stole my (delicate sound of) thunder here, I’m going to steal his DOUBLE SHOT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_3P8yffABE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnSrw8rE-dU
Do you ever hate that you like a song? For me, this is that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgtkPKZ2OPk
Phish – Silent in the Morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tvXGGiGHZE
The Wailing Wailers (Pre-Bob Marley Bob Marley) – Simmer Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXhpcssHBXU
Quiet – Smashing Pumpkins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxsEiYxvD3o
You Talk Too Much – Run-DMC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EheLN-MDzrA
“Hey tell us again how you saw these guys in concert this week!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0AKJMGxwpE
she’s not talking…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GhoWZ5qTwI
Because I feel like being an asshole today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRzMtlZjXpU
A catchy little tune that foisted Fergie upon the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOSZtCz5K_o
It’s pretty quiet when it snows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzvtFW1T6pk
If anyone ever asked me what type of music “shoegaze” was I’d point them to this song.
I thought it’s what Pat Robertson says when he walks down the street in Hollywood.
Snow you say. Snow’s not talking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StlMdNcvCJo
Here’s Björk at her Björkiest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htobTBlCvUU
I’d maintain that Björk at her Björkiest is when she talks about what’s inside her television set, but yours is clearly a close second.
I mean come on.
(And anyone who adds the Disturbed version for a double shot gets a stern look.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWyzwo1xg0
Here’s a catchy tune that I truly, completely forgot about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UJbz-pp6GQ
shut your mouth double shot..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=067YF8KHdTM
Yak yak yak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyI8A0w3PAQ
Nice!
“Calling a parade ‘soft’ is so Quixotic and Machiavellian!” – someone who thinks that Jim Morrison’s lyrics are “profound”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YWPhmduSDQ
“Tell me more about this monk who bought lunch…” – Andy Reid
The perfect song for when your drive over to your ex-girlfriend’s place to stalk her and find out she’s not even home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d_nqqJvQNs