INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY
The PRODUCER and DJ 3000 stand outside the recording studio, gazing into the booth.
PRODUCER: Wow.
DJ 3000: I KNOW, RIGHT?
PRODUCER: I mean, I’m not…
DJ 3000: OH, ME NEITHER.
PRODUCER: But if I was….
DJ 3000: OH, YEAH.
CRISTIANO RONALDO: Você está pronto para o rock?
PRODUCER: [punches talkback button] Oh, you know we are.
DJ 3000: WE WERE BOOTED UP READY.
CRISTIANO RONALDO: Eu disse, você está pronto para o rock?
PRODUCER: Did you not hear us the first time? We’re absolutely ready.
DJ 3000: MAYBE THERE IS A LANGUAGE BARRIER ISSUE?
RONALDO: Então, como isso funciona?
PRODUCER: You know what? I’ll handle that side of things. You just…do your thing. [punches button] Hey folks, welcome to Request Line. We’ve got Cristiano Ronaldo here to help us out. Today’s topic is…[glances at a shirtless Ronaldo]…”stripped down”. We’re looking for your favorite acoustic versions of songs. I’ll get us started with…
He is interrupted by the flashing light of an incoming phone call.
RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY: Hey.
PRODUCER: Um…hi.
RTD: So, uh, I know this is kind of unorthodox…
We follow the PRODUCER’s gaze as he looks at each of the walls in the room, finally settling on a crack in the fourth one he looks at.
RTD: …but I had this breakup a long time ago and this song really helped me…well, not necessarily get through it…
PRODUCER: Feel better?
RTD: …no, not that either. Um. I guess it was just fitting for the situation. It’s the acoustic version of “Mercy” by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club from the Howl Sessions. Can you give it a spin for me?
RONALDO: Sim!
Editor’s Note: Today’s theme is “stripped down” – acoustic versions of songs you like. 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=meSSiRul3Z”. When you hit refresh it should show up as embedded and you can rock out at your leisure. This topic might be a little too rich, so let’s limit things to five picks per person – make them good ones!
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! GREAT FUCKING WORK ON THE FUCKING SELECTION YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf53Pg2AkdY
THANKS A FUCKING LOT YOU COCK GOBBLING FECKLESS CUNT!
YOU BETCHA!!
Pick 5: Bring it on home, Hope Sandoval
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FdP0eS47ts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw5VrD_d3fE
I am required to have ELP on here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unY5MPs1MvU
Technically #2 since my other one was a doubleshot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zStXvHerfYg
I will finish with my Fifth and get out of here before I wind up in Bourble with the judges.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdVHA5iulUo
Pick Fourth young man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLXUI6LmKyI
Pick 4: What is it with Scottish rock guys who get famous in Australia? I mean AC/DC, Men at Work…ok that’s all. But still.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XUeB3eO9qU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FTA8lFc1pM
Excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67XeyhUj4ik
found this by accident ( thanks youtube hole) but the orignal is one of my favoUrite songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-DhlrMqKNk
Number 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buyIDQG0Ig0
4. This was not on my board, but I can’t pass it up. Really dig the piano opening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M79d6WWEcNE
Here’s the infamous 1965 Newport Folk Festival where folk-darling Bob Dylan played an acoustic song with electric guitars and got booed off the stage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8yU8wk67gY
“Pfft. You call that ‘getting booed off the stage’?” – Roger Goodell
“Ha-hm.”
Last one: Cat Stevens – The Wind
[sniff] Damn pollen [wipes nose with sleeve]
https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=qt24Lo7IgXM
Taking a flyer with my #4 choice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JFb_aOn6rc
“Wow, thanks man…my head hurts.”
– E. Lindros
How about a PERFECT song? There’s a Heartache Following Me, the Pete Townshend version
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H_BLPy2W_nI&feature=youtu.be
DOUBLE SHOT Pete covering English Beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ0zMDJKkbg
Pick 3: The late great Eva Cassidy reducing, um, someone less manly than me to a pile of tears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXBNlApwh0c
Aterciopelados – Bolero falaz (Fallacious bolero)
About a cheating boyfriend. The last line: “I said ‘No more’, and you shit yourself laughing.”
https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=fBZixcPTgkw
DAMMIT beat me to it.
Soda Stereo – Pasos
Fun Fact! Most of the songs from Soda’s dynamite MTV Unplugged were, uh, plugged. Not this one tho.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=C96VTjWNM38&feature=youtu.be
My first pick, ’cause honestly – aside from Clapton and the Talking Heads I’m just saying a goddamn Panamax worth o’ concentrated NOPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDcmbDAmYNo
“HARF HARF, THE BEN HAS A NEW FAVORITE SONG!”
Might as well double-shot this fucker myself with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JLt-ACQuTM
My second pick, and I can’t believe it lasted this long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc
And to double it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQM3no1p8Vo
1. Clapton – Driftin’
https://youtube.com/watch?reload=9&feature=youtu.be&v=M9j6vQeH0XM
DOUBLESHOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ZqRy3y00g
3. This is the perfect accompaniment for a heel turn montage in some stupid CW show about vampires that run a tanning salon/garlic farm, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t still enjoy it immensely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9ZegQa6EhQ
Fun Fact: “Metric Fantasies” is the fantasy football team name of the 52 mL penis size guy.
[Looks at judge]
GTD- Does this make Metric off the board now?
/posted metric below
// asking for a friend
Yes, and Rikki loses a pick he could have had for free by DOUBLE SHOTTING on your earlier Metric.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM9SHDNAbPw
THIS GUY YEAH RIGHT I CALL HIM A GUY I WANT TO HAVE MY BACK IN A STREET FIGHT CAUSE HE DOESN’T ASK QUESTIONS, HE JUST SHOWS UP AND STARTS THROWING HAYMAKERS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMiTqcB2tns
(5) With God on Your Side – Bob Dylan
( As an aside, why isn’t there a modern day Bob Dylan doing poignant protest songs? This is the most oppressive government in U.S. History, and not a peep. Fuck you, music industry.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfHLYIms97A
Nah, it’s always been really bad. Nevermind.
Yeah, humanity’s always been this boned, only difference now is that you can watch in stunning 4K on multiple 24/7 news networks how getting shafted in real time complete with inane/insane analysis by people you wouldn’t trust to tell you if it’s fucking raining outside
(4) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=0DTb9MH3-Wo
Pick 2: Thom Yorke does Neil Young better than Neil Young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8TwYN_4tSg
Um no.
#3 for me, a little Led Zeppelin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpE-lPRZWyc
That’s the stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yfmrwyT8OQ
Outstanding choice.
2. I have this song on my alarm clock playlist and it’s the second best one on there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-ZBAGUIDgk
(3) Pixies – Where is My Mind?
I will number them now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtK8_j4DgMo
This is neat as hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qXZqTVS7E
Deep Ellum Blues – Grateful Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx1LqnIJLj8
1. Well there’s no way this is getting by me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKCoRdhvF3s
DOUBLESHOT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OMdHA–tmo
The Gourds – Gin and Juice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hGSR5njZE
2. I only today learned that the lyrics are “I’d drown my beliefs…to have your babies…” as opposed to “…to have you be in peace”. Kind of a reach given that the acoustic version was the only one out there until Moon Shaped Pool, but you don’t get much more stripped down than this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAkQOuqs9kU
Pick 1: Reincarnation of Otis Redding as dumpy white guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JhNBZ04x6Q
OKAY FOLKS NEW RULE (SORT OF): DOUBLE SHOTS DO NOT COUNT AGAINST YOUR PICK TOTAL.
Regardless of whether or not you made the original pick. But once the DOUBLE SHOT has been consummated, that artist is OFF THE BOARD. So no triple shots or quadruple shots or posting entire Unplugged albums or any of that.
A double is still one drink. I approve of this interpretation.
Bobbie’s measure is still one drink, and the correct pour.
and STILL disappointed that the sample link does not work
Someday it will and it will BLOW YOUR MIND.
haha, you know that it will
I almost feel bad for my 2 remaining brain cells.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAMgHB-1_Fo
Ha! I was just about to tell everyone that the clock had run out on their chance to take this and grab it myself. Great pick.
/makes surprised face that its not Green Day
//blows kiss to tWBS
Double shot (of a Foo Fighters song)
Bryan…(hears something in earpiece)…sorry, that’s RYAN Adams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BG9u798who
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhJGp4XFQAQ
Nice. I had “Shake It Out” on my board.
no double shot? hahaha, makes it tough with the pick limit
Good point, plus DOUBLE SHOTS rule.
The son of the drummer in Papa Commander’s band recently became the drummer for these guys. They’re not my kinda music, but I did get to see him on Wednesday’s Colbert, and that was pretty fucking badass.
love this group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pCOR9Rv9M
This is much, much better than the radio/album version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50-EHJrALlI
Videos like this make you appreciate that even if you don’t like their music, guys like this (Adam Levine is another good example) really do have some serious pipes.
really this whole concert, but will start with this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmkuH1k7uA
Ooh. Will someone spend a valuable pick to make this a DOUBLE SHOT with “The Man Who Sold the World”?
One of the best unplugged sets.
I’m not a particularly big Nirvana fan, but I’d argue that it was THE best – at least as far as Unplugged was concerned.
…and Nirvana is officially OFF THE BOARD!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fregObNcHC8
Perhaps one of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j8mr-gcgoI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXYwyxzpVTk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTlB7gZ5FTg
Obligatory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1WJqKWqUHQ
Wait, so it turns out that Jeff Lebowski was actually Ryan Zinke the whole time?
Counterpoint:
This is actually shockingly good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSKT75m2AiM
AGREED!
Also, I just saw the 5 song limit suggestion. I think I’ll take a break to really think this through. I’m still keeping this, but…
It’s not a hard restriction – but since it’s such a broad topic I wanted to constrain folks a little bit so everyone gets a chance to have their voice heard in somewhat equal measure.
tfw you spend 20% of your picks on Britney
Same thing happened to me when I tried to get cute and passed on Susannah Hoffs in the first round of the KSK rock star girlfriend mock draft.
I believe I was the beneficiary.
I could have sworn that Otto Man was.
It really should have been an undrafted free agent, but it might be the song with the greatest quality differential between original and cover. I couldn’t pass it up, I didn’t know if some of the other perverts would have poached as an excuse to post pictures of Ms. Spears.
wooohoooo 20%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPwL8M9Sncc
BRITNEY COVER DOUBLE SHOT (so it don’t count)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBO-BC5j0uE
1. This song makes me think of The Sun Also Rises, which is of course a roman à clef about the time Ernest Hemingway had his girlfriend stolen and then got beat up by a Jew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enCwsG4IRnI
As referenced in the intermissions of the lesser footy games, I’m on a bit of an Stone Temple Pilots kick lately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iiqKx1OeC0