INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY
The PRODUCER is laying on his side on the couch, snoring heavily. BLAKE BORTLES is still present, alternating between bustling around the office tidying things up and sitting morosely in an office chair, working his way through a tin of chewing tobacco.
DJ 3000: Thanks for sticking around.
BLAKE BORTLES: Eh, whatever. It’s not like I have anything better to do. Besides, babysitting people to make sure they don’t die of alcohol poisoning kind of brings me back to my fraternity days.
DJ 3000: OH THATS RIGHT I FORGOT YOU WERE THE PRESIDENT OF DELTA HOUSE.
BLAKE BORTLES: I sure was. That place fucking ruled. I miss tormenting the shit out of those stupid pledges. And the chicks, man…you wouldn’t believe how much tail I pulled at that place.
DJ 3000: YOU FOUND THE WOMEN AT THAT INSTITUTION AMENABLE TO YOUR CHARMS, DID YOU?
BLAKE BORTLES: I was the starting quarterback for a football factory in central Florida. You think the girls came there to study physics and shit? Yeah, it was a good time.
The room brightens.
BLAKE BORTLES: Truth be told, I did learn quite a bit, though. When I found time to study.
DJ 3000 chimes loudly. BLAKE BORTLES crosses the room and grabs the final bottle of homemade ethanol from the top of a desk and heads over to the couch.
BLAKE BORTLES: [shaking the PRODUCER gently] Come on, buddy. Time for the the final dose.
The PRODUCER groans.
BLAKE BORTLES: You gotta do it, pal. Dr. DJ 3000 says so.
The PRODUCER presses his lips shut and shakes his head. The room darkens.
BLAKE BORTLES: Don’t make me get the funnel, fuckstick!
The PRODUCER opens his eyes and sits up. He grabs groggily for the bottle and forces himself to down it. BLAKE BORTLES crosses the room, grabs a bottle of plain water, and slings it at him. The bottle of water hits a desk eight feet away, but thanks to a fortunate bounce winds up falling in the PRODUCER’s lap.
BLAKE BORTLES: Man, this is fucking BORING. Let’s play some more music.
PRODUCER: [rubbing his temples] Nothing loud, please.
Very deliberately, BLAKE BORTLES crosses to the soundboard and turns every single dial all the way up to its maximum setting.
DJ 3000: DID YOU HAVE ANY PARTICULAR TOPIC IN MIND?
BLAKE BORTLES: Yeah man. College.
DJ 3000: I’M SORRY, THAT’S KIND OF VAGUE FOR A TOPIC.
BLAKE BORTLES: I thought you’re a fucking deejay, YOU figure it out, stupid.
DJ 3000: PROCESSING. DO YOU MEAN SONGS ABOUT COLLEGE…?
The room brightens.
BLAKE BORTLES: Yeah, that sounds like a great idea!
DJ 3000: …OR DID YOU MEAN SONGS THAT REMIND YOU SPECIFICALLY OF COLLEGE?
BLAKE BORTLES: Also good.
DJ 3000: …OR MAYBE BANDS THAT GOT THEIR START THANKS TO COLLEGE RADIO BEFORE THEY HIT IT BIG?
BLAKE BORTLES: I like that too!
PRODUCER: [stepping in] I’ve got an idea. DJ 3000, cue up Check Your Head. Track 18.
Welp, good luck with this one, folks. Today’s theme is: College. We’re looking for songs that about college, songs that remind you of your own time in college, songs that have come to be associate with college in popular culture, and even bands that were popularized by college radio. Post links as “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra6in6_K3663R” (sorry, no puzzle in mind with this one) and they should embed in the comments after you refresh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6QDNC4jPs
I literally heard less than 30 seconds of this song on a commercial and it was OVER after that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ABpbxIPFI
A little on the nose, but tWBS probably loved this stupid song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1umEXpGHc0E
Dud.
I think he’s begging her not to go back home (from college), but either way REM was one of the original “college bands”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nzl8EXGODc
My earliest REM memory? Bear with me here.
A dude and I are talking at a party (we’re both 22yrs. old or so) and end up talking about how much we miss playing road hockey. We decide to follow through and get together a week later. I’m in goal and he’s 30 feet away throwing slap shots at me. The shots that I manage to save hurt like hell. Turns out the fella was a top ranked prospect before he blew his shoulder out.In between shots he’s yakking about this REM band that is “like nothing you’ve ever heard before”.
This tune grabbed me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgiCechWNCo
*pulls out doll*
Where did it grab you?
Think Paul Simon DOESN’T have a song about college?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLp1OpKh1ok
Fun fact: My ex-girlfriend his kid’s personal assistant.
That actually is a fun fact.
Fun fact: My kid does not have a personal assistant.
My penis has a personal assistant; Lefty.
All of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyRZQDnaovU
This one’s very personal, but man did I ever love to listen to this song when I was high.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Y7lcvubhU
This was mine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV-hSgL1R74
Imma let you finish, but Logic Trance was the greatest trance compilation album of ALL TIME!
A year before my college days though.
At the secondary institution I attended, tunnels connected all of the buildings on campus. Every year an on-campus residence floor or student group was given a 24 hour period to paint on the walls. Our mural was a tribute to Forgotten Rebels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MtdpNdNpKs
“So fucked up I can’t remember my name” reminds me so much of college, the immediate time after college, the time after that and right now.
Ah, the ladies who were always up for something weird:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B83L1BOvPmQ
LOS ANGELES: [is hottest day of the year]
DR. MRS. DEADLY, ESQ. (RET): I’m going to steam the floors!
It sounds like a great time to run the dishwasher too!
Thinking about roasting a side of beef while installing a sauna.
Lonely first couple months of grad school, this one cut to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kPRWJah3Rc
Favorite album from my first year of grad school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWJXDG2i0A
Gentlemen remains one of my favorite all-time albums. I basically stole it from a kid in college. He was pretty cool about it when I apologized like 10 years later.
I feel like this is cheating because of the going to music school. Do I do the Senor Weaselo things I played in recitals? The Senor Weaselo things I recorded? Or, the dregs of what my roommate would put on when he made breakfast. Let’s go with that one first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6md5RSnVUuo
Guitar Hero anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Too7nGq_GNA
Better make that a DOUBLE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L4YrGaR8E4
This song and video was simply unavoidable back in ’88.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGw_cOgwa8
https://youtu.be/ymwkQeZxZ-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymwkQeZxZ-s
The irony is this song reminds me of college.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBFdX37Qpnk
I had wildly varying tastes when I was in college.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIrm0dHbCDU
I think this tape was played every other time during our forest parties. Yes, when you go to a small Baptist affiliated school in the mountains, you have to go to the forest to have parties and drink.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR4uKcvQbGQ
Shhhh….. Keep this one to yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFwom4D3i4g
Dude.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeYFs9kMOC4
NERDS!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mRG2oAQhso
Thirtysomething’s Timothy Busfield on violin.
For shits and giggles. A google search of “college days songs” yields this. Love the guy’s name. Also seems appropriate to the subject at hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsWM9N1joQg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYfkmKDNWoY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oo8QzDHimQ
Doing bong rips and watching this vid certainly was a memorable feature of my second year in college.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q
In honor of when Homer went to college:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZJ4ESU52U
This song always did a good job of capturing the feeling of getting blasted at an off-campus house party.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33z8FVEWmLE
“Long Way To The Top” from School of Rock fits just fine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bFsn2x7ppA
From what I can remember, this sums up my last two years of undergrad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMK4cfXj5c0
Pre-med or Pre-law?
Even better: Double major in history and in film. Graduated with honors! Did bong hits before graduation. Our Indiana, Our Indiana, We’re All For You! IU!
Reminds. Badass bass line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA
Reminds and featured in a movie about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iypUpv9xelg
Right behind that one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm-upHSP9KU
That’s good work by both of you.
So what if it’s an instrumental.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk_gzDQd4zw
Lotta great music in a movie about college.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG7KCOO76Wc
So therefore:
DOUBLE SHOT!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYQFTbLKNcg
That was my second choice, but figured it would be a softball for someone else…
I couldn’t go to any party whilst in college without hearing this at least three times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk
College Jamin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEVdca9U9LM&t=26s
Also that stupid Asher Roth song. No I won’t link it
These guys came out of Tempe, ASU guys for the most part and became big in the Tempe and Phoenix area before this song was a national hit. Still one of my favorite musicians (Roger Clyne).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfZbFh7qlCQ
We used to clown on this for no discernible reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOMUjX56xIk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fijggq5R6w
I watched Friday Night Lights with the rest of the seniors at the state Track meet. Really hits you that high school is over now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzIK5FaC38w
More college rock!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkUeYLHiz58
I went to college in the nineties, so this one is kind of a slam dunk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-fxWGwgAz4
DOUBLE SHOT OF 90s HORDE FEST BULLSHIT ROCK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ousaiByU1ko
This song too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGMabBGydC0
Reminds. This whole album, actually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imWnuirIL8o
This whole album too. And the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=616-QGQyx-I
Fuck it, make it a Triple Headshot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twY8YQYDBE
Based on its usage in Revenge of the Nerds you should be ashamed of yourself for not putting this one first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3eC35LoF4U
Before my college days, disqualified it for me…
DOUBLE SHOT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAXnx_HZcUI
Really, everything from Vampire Weekend should count.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_i1xk07o4g
Completely concur.
About
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq8OU-7JDFA
Double shot of about. Roll Tide (puke).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A0wGO3c2T8
Music over education? YES
Auténticos Decadentes – La guitarra
The singer says its an anthem for sloth. True.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NyM5y3-z__s
I mean come on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxXfNZWjot4
Harmonic convergence, I guess.
The opening scene of my favorite college-themed movie, featuring both Tomandandy and The Cure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCVH_rc6u6s
Truancy for sex? YES
?No vaya al colegio mi vida, quédate conmigo?
El Gran Combo – Nido de amor
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cPR6Wd7dsMQ
Sort of a DOUBLE SHOT here, with college rock band playing a college-themed song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2_iAA53UF8
I’m gonna have to qualify these: Reminds and about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65YIlwxBuvM
You don’t have to, but it definitely makes things more interesting!
This is gonna be a tough one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6120QOlsfU
Bahahah OMG
I don’t know. I was in college mid-late 80s, and there are a lot of songs that remind me of my college days. There was even a jukebox at the student union.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk
Yeah, it’s a pretty broad lifeline. But it’s a borderline impossible topic without it.
Definitely makes it easier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYzv1jFbFQ