INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY
The regular one this time?
Yes, the regular one.
Not, like some new one down the hall that we’ve never heard of before.
No, would you please stop interrupting. Sometimes it feels like you’re just in love with the sound of your own voice.
Well, this is a radio show. A golden voice is pretty critical.
Yeah, but nobody reading this can hear…you know what? No. I’m not getting sucked into this. We’ve got a show to do.
INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY
The PRODUCER sits at his desk, sipping from a cup of coffee. DJ 3000 is propped against the wall, in sleep mode. The producer pulls out his cellphone and manipulates the touchscreen.
— [facetime flies open] —
DR. ZYMM: Ah, ze boys at DFO Radio. To what do I owe ze pleasure?
PRODUCER: Hey, it’s just me. DJ 3000 is in sleep mode at the moment.
DR. ZYMM: Sleep mode? At…vait, vhat time is it there?
PRODUCER: Eleven a.m. Why, what time it where you are?
DR. ZYMM: Vun in the morning. I’m in Ziam.
PRODUCER: Siam…you mean Thailand?
DR. ZYMM: Ach, ja.
DR. ZYMM pans the camera so the PRODUCER can see her surroundings.
PRODUCER: What are you doing in Thailand?
DR. ZYMM: I am looking into zome…opportunities here.
PRODUCER: Ah, sorry about waking you up.
DR. ZYMM: It’s fine. As I vas saying, to what do I owe ze pleasure? Zomething to do with your sleeping companion?
PRODUCER: Let’s, uh, please not refer to him as my “sleeping companion” in the future, but yes, that’s right. He’s in sleep mode at 11 a.m. because he was out late last night. You know why he was out late last night? Because he went to a musical.
DR. ZYMM: As in…a Broadway show? Vit singing und danzing? How would one zuch as him attend zuch a thing?
PRODUCER: Some kind of telnet protocol, I don’t know the details. But it’s weird, right?
DR. ZYMM: Possibly. Vhich show did he zee?
PRODUCER: Funny Girl.
DR. ZYMM: Ja, zis is very strange. How long has he been been exhibiting zuch behavior?
PRODUCER: Ever since you helped him and the rest of the crew escape from the time loop bubble. It’s baffling. He claims to remember things that didn’t happen, and he doesn’t remember things that did. Like that Jon Lovitz show The Critic. He says he’s never even heard of it!
DR. ZYMM: Most unsettling. He has suffered from segmentation faults in the past, have you run diagnostics?
PRODUCER: Of course.
DR. ZYMM: And it’s not psychological?
PRODUCER: I don’t think so. We had him do a session with Dr. Xavier during the week and it went smoothly enough.
DR. ZYMM: Vell vhat did the doctor say?
PRODUCER: Oh, you know Dr. Xavier. He never betrays what he thinks. Unless it’s about the Raiders’ draft prospects, or which trim shop owner is least likely to snitch on you. But I was just thinking…if he’s not crazy, and if it’s not a hardware error…could it have something to do with the time bubble business?
DR. ZYMM: Zis is a gud question. I vill give it zome thought.
PRODUCER: That’s all I ask. Actually…I do have one more thing to ask – can you supply a topic for request line?
DR. ZYMM: Sure. How about “zongs that are zung by characters”?
PRODUCER: I’m not sure I understand.
DR. ZYMM: I’ll give you an example. This song is performed by a man who sees the whole world as a board game…
PRODUCER: You mean Mark Davis?
DR. ZYMM: …ze board game is chess, so…yes, as it happens, very much like Mark Davis. But play ze song, I vill explain, you vill see.
Today’s theme is “character concerns”. We’re looking for songs that are sung by – or from the point of view of – a character. Mostly this will mean songs from musical or rock operas, but don’t be shy about requesting something a bit different that you think still fits the theme. Post links as “https://www.youtube.com/watch?dR.X4v!3r and they should embed in the comments after you refresh. Last week’s puzzle answer of “Where Is My Mind” by The Pixes was ably detected by BeefReeferLives. Punch your clocks and let’s get started!
Here’s Byrne pretending he’s an underground fighter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8al5cSQNmME&ab_channel=forcedcoitus
Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m scotchnaut and I just scored some serious late round value.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwtyn-L-2gQ&ab_channel=ABKCOVEVO
Puzzle guess:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZN990_mbWU
Close. It’s the first track off a different album. The clue is more of a breadcrumb – it’s actually a reference to something in the text/story above.
From the perspective of a sociopath: “I let them use you, for their own ends.” I’ve got a very raw, rough live version that I can’t find online, it’s a work of art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj8F69uyaGg&ab_channel=Shashwat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8of3uhG1tCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CHVjlpThiQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLj0zwCyJhA
The shaker has been activated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dftEL1PhFjE
DOUBLE SHOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p07Pg5RZah0
It’s getting all murder-y up in here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdbLqOXmJ04&ab_channel=trevlor90
From the POV of Meursault, i suppose…
Brand New Vampire Weekend out today, get it, shake it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG6lTQNW04I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJBdDmF3lHc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY7meKW8UZI
Songs from and for the mentally ill start here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxQS6lfn0yU&ab_channel=RafaelNunes
Ever hear the original? Buck & Co. really didn’t change it up much, IMHO…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyfDH0HKLjs
sort of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE
i mean come on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGMejPNlcIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZFAKOwuWtA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZm1_jtY1SQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XHMK3nWr4
Stupid Suzanne Vega gives it away in the very first line. smh…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZt7J0iaUD0&ab_channel=SuzanneVegaVEVO
It took me too long to appreciate Suzanne Vega’s greatness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbH3hSS1xCY
Smoked some weed so my brain is working again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Jm5epJr10
Here’s one from the perspective of a Soviet soldier walking back from the front lines, doomed to be sent to Siberia because he’d had contact with American troops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypPrKnUew44&ab_channel=Teddygoesfishing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRyGcuzWc24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzyz2egx_0c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT3rFSSJZWU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpoRMKXVkmE
Let’s DOUBLE SHOT this up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZokPAuhD6k
Let’s dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJolJQK8iys
Not Remotely True Fact:The full title of this is “The Ballad of Billy Bob Powderfinger”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6xNft9MutQ&ab_channel=Ze18613
DOUBLE SHOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl0SSEUeOYc
Hoping this is sung from another’s POV, but with Neil ya never really know…
(’cause Neil’s as crazy as a shithouse rat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KflCXmEX6BY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgOyXKanKHc
This is someone’s point of view. Kinda.
Might be stuck in the 80’s. Also, what a great way to end a concert! I was speechless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxXVSBN2-Bw&ab_channel=LukeK79
Another puzzle guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jsAHbNAmK0
Who?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL5f8awRGOU
No, Who?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmbCOMM8peo
(Puzzle solution guess)
Close, but no cigar.
The original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CDLCr0fxOQ
Might as well recycle this one from last week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwWVE84OEIA
Sung from the POV of a junkie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f_Md22IIj0
Double Shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99og_g7rXnA
It’s a song from the mind of some kind of killer, can’t remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qylhk6jsT0&ab_channel=TonyMendes
Thematic DOUBLE SHOT
“I’m called the hit-and-run raper in anger
The knife-sharpened tippie-toe…
Or just the shoot ’em dead, brain bell jangler
You know, the one you never seen before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsZAK-x_06Y
Is this the puzzle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGagxpPe5UY
“Holly was a hoodrat…and now you finally know that…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFiiq2sFD7E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh-5FI21s6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYDhazgrn40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66pE67m_Hf4
DOUBLE SHOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e4Hcm2kRjA
It’s Friday, so let’s make it a TRIPLE SHOT!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHq87F2fS-s
for you, tWBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRu0O1J3Y4s
It’s been too long since I listened to this whole album.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uyd6OLyhPJo
I was born in Dallas in 1952,
Lee Harvey moved across the street on Bentley Avenue,
He used to throw the ball to me when I was just a kid,
They say he shot the president—I don’t think he did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rJjsiMrgIY
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI
revisiting this one from previous posts…
Poorly labled here, Its the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bpZvg_FjL3Q
“Gone are the days when the ox fall down,
Take up the yoke and plow the fields around.
Gone are the days when the ladies said’ “Please,
Gentle Jack Jones won’t you come to me.
Daddy made whiskey and he made it well.
Cost two dollars and it burned like hell.
I cut hickory just to fire the still,
Drink down a bottle and be ready to kill.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PekdeINQco
“I been ballin’ a shiny black steel jack-hammer
Been chippin’ up rocks for the great highway
I live five years if I take my time
Ballin’ that jack and drinkin’ my wine”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-37CP0O25C0
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HEMjF2n3-SQ
Oh, that *is* fun!
“Virgil Kane is the name
And I served on the Danville train”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM
“Now me and Jake, we work down on the river
On the ferry Baltimore”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJk2yCAjvW8
Puzzle song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB1ak1vKF5o
Nope! The puzzle song has not been requested yet, but other songs by the same band have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_r_dWenKhk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBN7nG8RDlw
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zbvwhJbeEqA&list=RDAMVMBOay-7aqLks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5fmy_bAZ_U
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BOay-7aqLks
Very fine choice. Let’s bolster this with a DOUBLE SHOT from the perspective of a record company executive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbdpv7G_PPg
Pink Floyd One of my Turns… not sure what is age restricted about it… prudes…
“One of My Turns” from The Wall, for those who can’t see due to age restriction. Did we request any stuff from that album last week? Would have fit the theme beautifully.
Yup.
Oh! Aside from musicals and rock operas, concept albums should be good fodder for the topic, too. For example, here’s the character Cleofis Randolph the Patriarch introducing themselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7i4sJ8WZ7c
Speaking of patriarchs…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukfNXFgUEiU
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kq_GSIw0X0w
Here. We. Go.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kq_GSIw0X0w
without “music” in the URL this time.
Lets see…
Sorry for the delay! Hope the theme makes sense! Let me know if you have questions.
This is great man. Lots of places to go with this one.