Hi folks! I completely dropped the ball today and am out on the town right now, which means you’re on your own for Request Line this afternoon. Please feel free to drop in any tubes that strike your fancy but perhaps haven’t fit in to others editions, or just happen to be tickling your music bone today.
I’ll be back with an actual topic next week.
Fantastic tune undermined by a silly, dumb video? Here’s “Lips Like Sugar”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hGcJA8fXvU&ab_channel=Echo%26theBunnymen
You made me do this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Q3mHyzn78&ab_channel=TiffanyVEVO
The Fixx isn’t that well regarded but their prediction of the mechanics of my day-to-day adult life was spot on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dY4qtLaUlE&ab_channel=TheFixx-Topic
Random memory:
Back in the pre-internet days (kinda) on slow shifts my fellow bartending/waiting buddies would pick a topic (much like RTD does) and put together a list of every reference we could think of in popular culture (movies, songs, books, poems, well-worn phrases etc.) This is courtesy of a Newfoundland line cook by the name of Heather when the topic was water. Well done, Heather!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D6pPgwafq0&ab_channel=TheAlarmIRSVEVO
Found a funny:
YOU’RE LISTENING TO
[siren sound]
97.3 [explosion] KRAD FM
WHERE WE PLAY NOTHING BUT [geiger counter sounds]
THIS AIN’T YOUR GRANNY’S STATION
[Imagine Dragons – Radioactive starts playing]
a canadian mom has a heavy metal band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYSHuCUegm0
My favorite tunes are “Babysitter Bailed” and “The Box Wine Overture”.
It was the earliest days of the innertubes. I somehow found a student at Duke that loved the Beastie Boys and knew about the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. I contacted him and he responded! It was at that point that I knew computers might just amount to something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naf5uJYGoiU&ab_channel=BeastieBoysVEVO
I’d like to point out that once about every 8 months or so I’ll be listening to a Sirius music channel and hear something that the Beasties sampled for this album. It keeps on happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDc71T-Kps&list=OLAK5uy_nfiJhVX0HcRLrvh28OvF1IRDj_KBQPdNQ&index=6
Two things:
Simple Minds are way more than a movie soundtrack.
Their bassist Derek Forbes. Nobody talks about him! He’s got a bold style that carried so many tunes. Here’s one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxXfu-Kbtbc&ab_channel=SimpleMindsVEVO
From the best (By far) record these wankers EVER did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBQgk4woew4&list=OLAK5uy_nfiJhVX0HcRLrvh28OvF1IRDj_KBQPdNQ&index=8
“Holy crap! That’s some amazing synchronicity!”
-The Police
/I didn’t scroll before posting
Smash the system! And buy my CD!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnbvOi4SpSk
This is a satire band’s salute to Winston Churchill’s depressive phases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZHWy6W00oM&ab_channel=nokomundo
Let’s have a dance shall we.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0lwr_jcGZQ
Here are The Flys singing about a delusional guy trying to pick up a girl at a bar. “I think you’re smart, you sweet thing. Tell me your sign, I’m dying here.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM_OWaItNJM&ab_channel=Herotriss
“Do everything and feel nothing. Scratchcard lanyard.” No wiser words have ever been spoken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyjuJ6jLsxA&ab_channel=KEXP
Stevie Nicks singing AT Lindsay Buckingham reminded me of the best part of the Barbie movie (which is really good, see it if you haven’t, that’s an order), which is where Ken plays guitar at Barbie. Ryan Gosling is really fucking funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2VrMSGCGjs&ab_channel=BestMovieClips
This is why you don’t hook up with a bandmate. You’ll just get breakup songs sung at you every night and all you can do is sing back.
That said, this is incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDwi-8n054s&ab_channel=FleetwoodMac
As one veteran media executive told CNN Thursday, playing off The Post’s “democracy dies in darkness” tagline, “Democracy dies in pressuring editors to drop stories about publishers.”
Oh, SNAP!
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/07/media/washington-post-will-lewis-newsroom-morale/index.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
Here’s one from a great Yinzer, Dominic Ierace, better known as Donnie Iris. This was his first band, The Jaggerz. Not sure how much airplay this got nationally, but it was a huge hit in Pittsburgh.
https://youtu.be/-fYV3dJp-k4?si=tYNybUbWP8IOLIq5
What the actual fuck? Be right back
Ok, that was weird. It showed up as something else on my phone, but it seems to be right now.
That happens to me, occasionally, as well.
Yeah, sometimes when the page loads (not just Request Line) the youtube url’s get displaced by one or two comments. It’s very strange but definitely not a new thing.
They were big in Japan.
Learning is achieved! The Jaggerz I knew from the song, and I know who Donny Iris is, but I didn’t know the connection until now.
The “Boogie Nights” soundtrack is just bangin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVbDKB1TtEQ&ab_channel=WilliZBlog
Love the intro on this version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AW14edk9w4
also, it’s too damned hot today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQae2qOXCq0
ah am even wearing a white shirt so apt
We’re getting that nice June Gloom morning clouds thing, highs are upper 70s. Except for the other parts of the state, which are on fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0C9qQWHaZI
My first attempt to post this was ethered, probably because I referred to Tom Jones’ “talent” so I’ll just leave this here with a “Happy 84th to Tom Jones”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZmiefQ5y4U&ab_channel=TomJones
TWO all-time great lyrical phrases:
Nothing lasts, but nearly everything lingers in life.
Cellphone service is not that expensive, but that takes commitment and you just don’t have ir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv0bBjMc6FY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlN4wshQ2qU
In honor of the large-donged Welshman’s 84th birthday, here’s Tom Jones BRINGIN IT with Janis Joplin who is also BRINGIN IT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZmiefQ5y4U&ab_channel=TomJones
1986, man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh4b4c-RzE8
I’ve always thought Mick Jones has sad eyes.
Did you know he used to do some modeling?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrpUSKE9p_M
IMHO, this song has one of the best lines ever:
“He who fucks nuns will later join the church”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td6I5l9UnSg
Bon Voyage, RTD!!
(given the title of Sharky’s post, at first I thought you just delaying intentionally as part of a bit)
Nah, just got caught up in other stuff (that pays, fortunately!).
One to cheer you up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO5dcW0P75M
I car sing this every time it features on First Wave.
Me too. Loudly.
“Just like that film with Michael Cain.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVE9pc-958M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGtBx8gW8pc
So this song is 20+ years old, but got featured in the sperm-slurping movie “Saltburn” and got all popular. It’s a really fun song! (Slurping sperm from a bathtub? Maybe also fun, wouldn’t know, probably won’t be trying)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAx6mYeC6pY&pp=ygUabXVqcmRlciBvbiB0aGUgZGFuY2UgZmxvb3I%3D
https://youtu.be/Y-V88M0TyYs?si=2tzGpFAlWOS5mfxS
COVER VERSION DOUBLE SHOT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B32yjbCSVpU&pp=ygUfdWdseSBraWQgam9lIGNhdHMgaW4gdGhlIGNyYWRsZQ%3D%3D
I asked my son for a tune to post here. Welp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apYJq3RIcIE&ab_channel=MuppetJohn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxtmQDCyLE8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfmlJfkXne4
A fun live version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsyVZzjfMho