INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY
The PRODUCER sits at his desk, sipping coffee. DJ 3000 remains in his usual location, but his “connection active” light keeps flashing repeatedly.
PRODUCER: Having any luck?
DJ 3000: YEAH, I JUST GOTTA KILL ALL THESE MALWARE ADS. NO, I DON’T NEED TO UPDATE MY FLASH PLAYER, SSN_RIPPERS.RU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
PRODUCER: Thanks for hunting down a stream.
DJ 3000: NO PROBLEM. I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE JUST PHISHED SOMEONE’S CABLE LOGIN DETAILS, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LESS OF A HASSLE.
A laggy stream of the Slovakia-Ukraine game comes up on DJ 3000’s main console.
DJ 3000: BEST I CAN DO. APOLOGIES FOR THE QUALITY.
PRODUCER: Hey, don’t sweat it. It’s better than nothing.
DJ 3000: I DIDN’T REALIZE YOU WERE SO INTO FOOTBALL.
PRODUCER: Yeah, with basketball being all done and…wait…[narrows eyebrows]…what did you call it?
DJ 3000: FOOTBALL. THAT’S WHAT EVERYONE CALLS IT.
PRODUCER: Not in America, it’s called “soccer” here. Except South America, I guess they call it fútbol there. Man, your latest software update has got you all screwed up.
DJ 3000: UH, YEAH. THAT DAMNED SOFTWARE UPDATE, THAT’S WHY I KEEP GETTING THINGS ALL MIXED UP.
FÚTBOL ANNOUNCER: …and Mudryk passes it to Tsygankov on the flank, who advances past midfield. He gets past Hrošovský, but Boženík steps in with a hard challenge and is whistled for the infringement…
PRODUCER: Man, these Slavic names are wild.
DJ 3000: I WONDER HOW ON EARTH THEY PLAY WORDSMITH IN THOSE EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, THEY MUST HAVE TO PUT LIKE FOUR Z’S AND SIX K’S IN EACH BOX.
PRODUCER: Wordsmith?
DJ 3000: YEAH, YOU KNOW, THE WORD-BUILDING BOARD GAME WITH ALL THE LETTER TILES AND STUFF?
PRODUCER: Oh, you mean Scrabble!
DJ 3000: RIGHT RIGHT. SORRY, I WAS THINKING OF THE PALMSCREEN APPLICATION.
PRODUCER: Palmscreen? What the hell is a Palmscreen?
DJ 3000: [hunting for a distraction] HEY, HOW ABOUT A LITTLE MUSIC, ISN’T IT ABOUT TIME FOR REQUEST LINE?
PRODUCER: Yeah, it’s about that time. The cupboard’s pretty bare for topics, though.
DJ 3000: HOW ABOUT WORDSM…I MEAN SCRABBLE?
PRODUCER: Um, okay, sure. How would it work?
DJ 3000: SONGS WITH NAMES THAT WOULD BE WORTH A LOT OF POINTS IF YOU PLAYED THEM AS SCRABBLE WORDS.
PRODUCER: Are we doing double word score or anything like that?
DJ 3000: NAH, LET’S NOT OVERTHINK IT. JUST SOME TUNES AS BACKGROUND WHILE WE WATCH THE GAME.
PRODUCER: Sounds good to me. Want to cue up a little Justin Timberlake to get us started?
DJ 3000: UM, FIRST OFF, D.W.I. IS AN ANAGRAM, SO IT ISN’T A WORD YOU CAN PLAY IN SCRABBLE. AND EVEN IF YOU COULD, IT WOULDN’T BE WORTH MANY POINTS.
PRODUCER: Oh, no, I had something else in mind. It’s got an X, a B, a C, and a K. And it’s eight letters, so if you were able to play it you’d probably have cleared your board and gotten the bingo bonus.
DJ 3000: AH, I GOTCHA. SURE THING, LET ME GIVE IT A SPIN.
Today’s theme is Scrabble. We’re looking for songs whose titles would be worth a lot of points if played on a Scrabble board. Proper nouns and made up words (like the song above) are fair game. Post links as “https://www.youtube.com/watch?Bm0lLu5k( and they should embed in the comments after you refresh. Last week’s puzzle answer of “Faces” by Earth Wind and Fire was solved by BeefReeferLives. And please feel encouraged to share your thoughts on the ongoing fútbol matches during the day.
We really need a Hairdresser Marshall Plan for Central and Eastern Europe.
Some pretty good value here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fcRa5Z6LmU
Seems apt, triple word score & love this version…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T88fbHOmvRk
Not a big score, but a good way to dump some extra vowels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P64qOmLF8k4
Score one for the Solar Flashlights!
Not to be confused with the Solar Fleshlights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmwr5VBT_BA
Hmm. Original post is stuck in approval limbo. Take 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyFnoStywyM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fA-PSrzTxE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4ULb9YE3UI
Genesis “Abacab”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suCNZe3Gwkw
[is arrested by DFO police for match-fixing]
Also for Blair Witching
Shit! Also, would that actually be a valuable Scrabble word? I don’t play, but it would be peak “me” to Blair Witch and fuck my own joke up simultaneously. I suck.
I’ll build off of someone else’s S and get 18 + 50 for the bingo
https://youtu.be/i7Q_8q3XXrQ?si=GjJQ5ct4AEgxBUUw
not even sure if this is a valid scrabble word, and don’t care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmohPsN2mRg
It’s a gas, gas, gas!
https://youtu.be/S_p81Z0itUo?si=qV8bPjlZ0DJMEyAS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Unua9Y-a0
Hell of a cross from Austria’s Black guy!
Whatever makes Hitler angry in hell
they won’t even let you sing the Horst Wessel song smgdh!!11111
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n02PD18cFs&pp=ygULc3F1ZWV6ZSBib3g%3D
Ooh, that’s really good.
Some of us have been keeping to 8 letters or fewer…..
https://youtu.be/vG3dqAMpONM?si=CJinRhmX_vuX3TBQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D71qKT5mop8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jscJnPcoC0U
Well, there’s a song I have on an old Robert Fripp “dance music” side project CD called “League of Gentlemen” currently residing in the crawl space under my house that has a track on it called “Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx”, but on the YouTube, I can only find it as “Inductive Resonance”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMuLp2MUQYA
Saw the Stones on the Steel Wheels tour. It was, as the kids say, rockin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loNey3n6uuE&pp=ygUdcm9sbGluZyBzdG9uZXMgbWl4ZWQgZW1vdGlvbnM%3D
I saw them on the European leg of that tour, it was called Urban Jungle there.
I saw them on the Sodom and Gomorrah leg of that tour, it was called Don’t Look Back.
Is that so you don’t see who’s railing you from behind?
“Now you tell me”
Lot’s wife, feeling salty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m2HN2y0yV8
Album Title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WDy_S7z_cw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6HGC5mYA5Q
Liz Phair, (pretty good score with her name alone). X-ray Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97KK473Nxbg
That may be the puzzle song!
If it is I claim victory.
Ok, puzzle song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4QSYx4wVQg&pp=ygUMcm9jayBsb2JzdGVy
lobsters aren’t mollusks smh
Dont be crabby, you could be less shellfish with hints
Puzzle song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myqSETD5_bs
SWISH! Well done.
Woo! The B & C around the word “mollusk” was quite clever.
Lots of points here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLnWf1sQkjY&ab_channel=TheLonelyIslandVEVO
And lots of swimmers
Ukraine won? Wow! Good for them! Would have been fun to watch, fuck you very much Fox Sports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziKbBLUvv9Y
Puzzle song? If not, at least it’s Ween.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nZmVy3g3CE&ab_channel=Ween-Topic
No dice!
Well, it’s Ween so that;’s good.
I really should scroll more.
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To be fair, I think the 8-1 ruling was less “Common Sense Gun Rights” and more “Screw You, Justice Thomas!” Either way, good job being on the good side for one and crossing the egregiously low bar Chief Justice Roberts, Justice White Thomas, Justice Stereotypical Old White Guy, Justice Disgrace-to-Alcoholics-Everywhere and Justice Shame-to-Coneys-Everywhere!
I’ll see BFC’s “JUICY” and raise you “CRAZY” for 19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNInybP02gI
DOUBLE WORD SCORE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsmceciTaUE
TRIPLE WORD SCORE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKTOvHw8qFM
Can I get a quadruple word score?
https://youtu.be/NMNgbISmF4I?si=Wta2xoOh9rS2Nbg_
16 points here
https://youtu.be/F0wUF-ngNPo?si=1gKCN1S4vfXL4iNY
Seven letters with an “S” on the end? That’s very likely a +50 bingo, too.
Ukraine…LESS weak?
“Будьте терпеливы, товарищ. Мы над этим работаем!” В. Путин-Москва
17 points here
https://youtu.be/_JZom_gVfuw?si=RBDkrfYHFQ8yR2fX
Efficient!
If we’re not bound by the 7-letter
Wordsmi.…Scrabble rules, I will take The Who and Quadrophenia.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okPlOaNQSpE
I think that’s 27, not accounting for various multipliers, and the fact that I’d clearly be cheating my ass off to land that in an actual game.
It’s possible, though – if you built off “quad”. “Quadrophenia” itself isn’t a legit scrabble word, though.
DOUBLE WORD SCORE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkibmgLoRa0
This has to be worth some points:
https://youtu.be/_z9l1Lg_0do?si=OnMiCnb6TqTywz-2
24, according to the Internet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szcD2pAjd_8
Okay, adding a little challenge here – we’ll see who can score the highest word value, but it has to be a LEGIT scrabble word to count. This only applies to the high score challenge, though, the original criteria (proper names okay, length not a factor, etc.) for regular requests are still fair game.
Katmandu (assuming a bingo) would be 15+50
https://youtu.be/wd3Mt8JBBBg?si=ESljorivuElSvEg6
10 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 5 + 1 + 4 = 25
Puts me in a tie for high score!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdQQ_55JVMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts
17 points for MEXICO
https://youtu.be/-r8jlHDBMsw?si=selM8E0PRYUEvUsJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pu1adxqUAg&pp=ygUic3VwZXJjYWxpZnJhZ2lsaXN0aWNleHBpYWxpZG9jaW91cw%3D%3D
Oh so are we not bound by the number of tiles on the board?
https://youtu.be/0mdFyJ9fXS4?si=eI_XcuQ8ktB0BTJu
Oooh 19 points to make fun of Phil Mickelson
https://youtu.be/w9CWWSW7bfM?si=PcTMM-2dualGBuYz
Here’s another 18 points
https://youtu.be/SjKU1qVhJl4?si=g9e144QstAv4JeQE
Is this the puzzle song (by using SQUEEZE for 25 points)?
https://youtu.be/nbx_6gavLno?si=5j9AoJ0SsT8J3aID
No – a little hint regarding the puzzle song, it’s worth a score of 19.
8 + 1 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 1 = 17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmLRb8iaX7w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbjfesCI254
Rush.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuOoMprDqg
Or Olivia Newton-John.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8iCnMFCCOw
DOUBLE WORD SCORE
triple shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uMtnH7cABg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE37e1eK2mY
Thanks for subbing in Rikki. This sinus infection has fucked me up this week. It’s thrown off my balance all well. It’s like I’m drunk but without the fun.
enough cold and sinus meds and you can feel drunk or high
-other other other hippo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u30-QRT3dkg