INT. DFO PRODUCTION OFFICE – DAY
A pair of sleazy Hollywood producers are lounging around in an office, reading over a marketing report.
DARKEST TIMELINE ZACK MORRIS: …and so what’s this bit about banana cake?
RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY: Oh, that’s kind of a buzzword right now among fútbol fans.
DTZM: Football doesn’t start for another two months.
RTD: No, fut-bol. Like “boot”.
DTZM: Oh, you mean like Canadian football.
RTD: No, soccer. But speaking of Canadia, they just had a big holiday yesterday and all their churches are catching on fire, maybe it would be a nice gesture to dedicate this week’s Request Line to them.
DTZM: A three hour playlist of nothing but Rush and Bryan Adams? No thank you. But you know, there’s another country that’s got a big weekend coming up, you might remember them from a little something called “The Revolutionary War”…
RTD: Of, of course! I even have the perfect host in mind, we were going to call him about starring in that period piece set in the rural Midwest.
DTZM: The My Antonia adaptation?
RTD: Stop calling it that, we don’t have the rights. You wanna get sued?
RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY pulls out his cellphone, then punches numbers into the speakerphone.
— [speakerphone flies open] —
JASON STATHAM: OY! WOT’S ALL THIS, THEN?
RTD: Jason, baby, it’s Rikki-Tikki-Deadly, with DFO Productions. What’s my favorite action movie star up to?
JASON STATHAM: I’M WATCHIN’ THE FOOTY, INNIT?
RTD: [aside, to DTZM] The Euro soccer tournament is happening right now. [to STATHAM] IT’S COMIN’ HOME, INNIT?
JASON STATHAM: IT’S COMIN’ HOME!
RTD: [shouting] IT’S COMIN’ HOME!
JASON STATHAM: IT’S COMIN’ HOME, INNIT? WHAT DO YOU [REDACTEDS] WANT?
RTD: Jason, it’s a big weekend for England, what with Wimbledon and England’s big game against Ukraine tomorrow. We thought we’d dedicate this week’s edition of Request Line to England and were hoping you could get things started.
JASON STATHAM: OY! RIGHT! I GOT A SONG FOR YA, INNIT? [to the tune of “doo dah”] ♫ POSH SPICE TAKES IT UP THE…♫
DTZM: [interrupting] Actually, we were looking for songs that specifically about the country of England.
JASON STATHAM: LIKE, THE QUEEN AND ALL THAT?
DTZM: Quite, quite.
JASON STATHAM: “Quite”? HE SOUNDS LIKE ONE OF THEM POSH FUCKERS, INNIT?
RTD: OY! RIGHT!
JASON STATHAM: OW’S ABOUT SOME OLD BILLY BRAGG?
RTD: OY! CRACKING! SIRI, YOU RIGHT [REDACTED], PLAY “A NEW ENGLAND” BY BILLY BRAGG
Today’s theme is “England”. We’re looking for songs specifically about the country of England and its people (including its leadership). Have at it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdEZhqW0LkQ
What is more British than getting shitfaced at the pub?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc
“So disappointed when I found out that The Phoenix and Chumbawamba had the exact same power.”
/borrowed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRNHbBg6HVc&ab_channel=DavidBryant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD33ii01kXI
Dude,
I almost posted the nursery rhyme London Bridge is Falling Down song sung by a bunch of children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWC9RcuhVTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiT5J61f588
Gotta include the drinking song I learned from a stag party in Blackpool and which is also apparently popular with England team fans
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_1M730cYkic
I’ve no idea why I keep going back to Marc Bolan’s tunes-guess it’s because he’s so fucking weird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Wb8QROEvE&ab_channel=1stMistyMist1
Can’t leave out Madchester
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0RJwW77Lsj8
Manchester double up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjZZITvtZHI
Here’s my “No Shit, Sherlock” contribution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6aKnRnBxM&ab_channel=GerryRafferty
I miss Jalen!
Tangential
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO1qcWa6blQ
From a movie that is so English you have to put on the subtitles to understand what the fuck is being said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7r2wfzJ4ZU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FqOmulg3zU
Not an English band or about England, but the Northern Soul movement in the Midlands propelled this 1964 release to number one on the UK charts in 1971
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLubTUsfZD8
Theme from a movie about Britain’s joining the EU and not being happy about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbeXL6AXmi0
Double shot. Bad ass car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQIRbV_noi8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j2NYZ8FKs
The Jam with a song that’s not a jam realy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH3kj4i2yys&ab_channel=ModRevivalOfficial
Fox News has been undermining institutions for longer than you think-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzQig2VIhXw&ab_channel=PatrickAraujoTheMovieProductions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuWs58-k6Do&ab_channel=Frokor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAyk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kSEKvsC8iU
England and Richard Burton, Justin Hayward, David Essex, & Phil Lynott Versus the Martians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poii8JAbtng
Morrissey gets political! (no, not THAT kind of political)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsq3H_6XuFA
Ah, now here’s Morrissey showing you how he really feels…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1cTiqXWKII
Sigh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDPTbZtmv2U
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eU8P0Ufwpl8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oBKMsXMs8mc
I figure that any tune by UB40 qualifies-I choose ‘Rat In Mi Kitchen’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c42z3LAGyTM&ab_channel=MartijnEngel
Well this brings back some memories (specifically of an ex-girlfriend from San Diego who came to visit me in LA to see this band play)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6LGNn2Fu3Y
A somber dirge about one of England’s most obscure rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6EJxYNQxvw&ab_channel=Herman%27sHermits-Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_yBs_ehuac
DID SOMEBODY SAY SOMETHING ABOUT FUTBOL?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yE0goo9Eig
& what’s more English than Heinz Baked Beans?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWuotfT_j6s&list=RDEWuotfT_j6s&start_radio=1&rv=EWuotfT_j6s&t=0
Here’s a couple songs about England’s first Prime Womanister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFaFVhyjb5Y&ab_channel=TheBeat
Elvis didn’t like her either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_cCj-e_kPc&ab_channel=ReelinInTheYears66
Holy Shitballs, people-this should have been the first horse out of the gate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK-WX2pa8c&ab_channel=theclashVEVO
DOUBLE SHOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFpIjRQc72U
I was just about to Blair Witch this one.
He sticks his flag where it don’t belong-here’s ‘Old England Is Dying’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4CPezSV198&ab_channel=NewOrderUp
It’s about finding Jerusalem in England, I say it counts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TbiIEpZJ8
During his heyday, 40-odd years ago, this guy was one of my favorite Canadian guitarists. Then he moved to Florida and snorted ALL the cocaine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRNHiWJDUTk
Entire albums that qualify:
Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society
Kinks – Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Pink Floyd – The Final Cut
I bet there are more, but my wine- and edible-addled brain ain’t up for it right now.
How ’bout a whole album? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk2wNvjjU2w&list=PL8a8cutYP7fpJD5HS43Ge2d3BARdzOzZd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJYO5QWT7Iw
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7lhJ9Tpw-Yw
Nice follow-through.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Xi1Jt9lXM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLbYL10c1zo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg66AV7T2So
I wonder if this will be the shortest song posted here today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh1hKt5kQ_4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMarHac3VpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4fhdwYtXAc
[redacted]
Or Barada, for that matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DAdWcsM7Po
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E_5DRKZI1Ow
I always knew that song as “King George’s Army” (the first part, at least) – not sure when that changed. Maybe it’s a Berenstein Bears thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCQfiXyFGRw
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Zm07aaXsE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z8FCd7NnuA
ain’t THAT the truth…
Quite a few from the Kinks, of course… Here’s a more obscure one. Pitch in to make it a multi-shot, folks… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwV5gONK7c8
This will indeed be a deep vein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsLhNxzwK1Y
Yup! Seemed selfish to grab em all myself… Plenty to go around
Since the Supreme Court recently ruled 6-3 that segregation is legal again, please continue any fútbol discussion on Sharkbait’s excellent thread:
https://doorfliesopen.com/2021/07/02/sharkbaits-cocktail-of-the-week-burning-up/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1O0m9UXAwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp76elr629E