Request Line: The Desert

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY

The PRODUCER sits at his desk, unwrapping a package from Amazon.  DJ 3000 remains in his usual location, still covered in sexy stickers.

DJ 3000: SO HEY MAN WHAT’S IN THE BOX?

PRODUCER: If you are trying to sound like Brad Pitt, it isn’t working.

DJ 3000: EH, I’LL STICK TO LOOKING LIKE HIM.  BUT SERIOUSLY, WHAT’S IN THE BOX?

The PRODUCER finishes unwrapping the package and dumps its contents onto his desk.

DJ 3000: WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?

PRODUCER: It’s a jigsaw puzzle of all the Arizona Cardinal greats.

DJ 3000: HUH. CARDINAL GREATS?

PRODUCER: Yeah, it was on sale for $0.99 on Prime Day.

DJ 3000: YOU GOT FLEECED.

PRODUCER: Oh come on, look at all these players!  Kurt Warner, Dan Dierdorf, um…all these other guys.

DJ 3000: IT’S HELPFUL THAT THEY INCLUDED THE NAMES OF THE PLAYERS SO YOU CAN LOOK THEM UP ON WIKIPEDIA.

PRODUCER: Numbers, too.  I wonder how many guys named “Smith” and “Williams” played for them over the years.

DJ 3000: SEEMS KIND OF EXPLOITATIVE TO HAVE INCLUDED PAT TILLMAN.

PRODUCER: A little bit, a little bit.

DJ 3000: WHY ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THE CARDINALS ALL OF A SUDDEN?

PRODUCER: Oh, I found a really great deal on an AirBnB in Scottsdale later on this month. I figured this would keep me busy during the afternoons when it’s too hot to go outside. And then I can leave it behind for future guests.

DJ 3000: I HOPE THE PLACE HAS A POOL.

PRODUCER: A shared one, yeah.  It’s a condo.

DJ 3000: I SEE.  WELL, THIS WAS A REALLY ENGAGING CONVERSATION. ARE YOU READY TO GET SOME TUNES ROLLING?

PRODUCER: Yeah, I thought we could do “the desert” as a theme.

DJ 3000: CAN YOU BE MORE SPECIFIC?

PRODUCER: Not really, no.  Anything having to do with the desert works.  I got the idea when an incredibly handsome kommentist requested “Black Magic Woman” during the weekly fantasy draft.

DJ 3000: WAIT, HORATIO DID A “DRAFT” THAT WAS BASICALLY JUST A VERSION OF REQUEST LINE?

PRODUCER: Well…yeah.

DJ 3000: HE’S STEALING YOUR BIT.  YOU WANT ME TO HACK HIS SHIT AND RELEASE ANYTHING I FIND TO THE LABOR RELATIONS BOARD?

PRODUCER: No, no, it’s fine.  After all, it gave me the idea for the theme.  Speaking of which, let’s get started – mind cueing up some Pixies for me?

 

Today’s theme is “the desert”.  We’re looking for songs that have anything to do with the desert, even if it’s just an evocative feeling.  Band names are fair game this week. Post links as “https://www.youtube.com/watch?ejTn3(n!Vt5 and they should embed in the comments after you refresh.  Last week’s puzzle answer of “Goodbye-Goodbye” by Oingo Boingo was again solved by SonOfSpam, making it two in a row! Stay cool!


HOW DO PUZZLES WORK: A PRIMER

Earlier in the week a fellow kommentist asked how the weekly song puzzle works.  To explain: each week a clue is embedded in the “post links as” example in the footnote to each post.  This week, for example, the clue is “ejTn3(n!Vt5”.  Translated from leetspeak, that’s “EJTNECNIVTS”.  Sometimes clues will be straightforward, sometimes they will include tricks to point you in the right direction.  This week’s clue, for example, can be reversed to read “STVINCENTJE”.  The fact that it was reversed suggests that we’re looking for a musician who is the opposite of St. Vincent – i.e. a competent – one might even go so far as to say “talented” guitarist – singing a song about something related to the desert.  Which musician?  Perhaps the additional letters in the clue (“JE”…or is it “EJ”?) can help narrow it down!

Note that clues aren’t usually this complex, I made this one more involved than usual so hopefully it won’t be immediately obvious after this explanation.

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SonOfSpam

One of many many very good Radiohead songs to chill to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OsEhbZcF9A

SonOfSpam
SonOfSpam
scotchnaut
scotchnaut

I was being silly. BRL always gets it.

BeefReeferLives

I didn’t get it the last two weeks…

scotchnaut

I can’t register the depth of my disappointment. Dough Better!

SonOfSpam

Aw, I wanted him to keep guessing.

DJ TAJ
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scotchnaut

Thinking the puzzle must be sung by Midnight Oil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16bFBzx7I_0&ab_channel=MidnightOilVEVO

BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives

“Pancho met his match you know
On the deserts down in Mexico
Nobody heard his dying words
Ah but that’s the way it goes”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprRZ2wFQD4

BeefReeferLives

With kind regards to Gumby & GumbyGirl. (Hope you are both doing OK, given the circumstances)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeprG5lgELk

BeefReeferLives

Here’s some later round value:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ

BeefReeferLives
Game Time Decision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0tJiWfzrYs

-Andy Reid having reading comprehension problems

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BugEyedBoo

You don’t have sandstorms in jungles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rk8u2FTaG0

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Brocky
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SonOfSpam

This guy? He’s not afraid to grow flowers in the desert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=657TZDHZqj4&pp=ygUQaW4gYSBiaWcgY291bnRyeQ%3D%3D

BeefReeferLives

Oh, very well played, sir!

/golf clap

SonOfSpam

D’oh.

BeefReeferLives

“The word Kashmir is thought to have been derived from Sanskrit and was referred to as káśmīra.[9] A popular local etymology of Kashmira is that it is land desiccated from water”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEYqSorzOZs

SonOfSpam
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Doktor Zymm

Didn’t get the hall painted, but did finish the crown molding and put a lightstrip up. Looks pretty good I think

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BeefReeferLives

Ooo. Cool.

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SonOfSpam

Dunno who should be more embarrassed, me for posting this, or him for singing this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cFOLFtw2Ic&pp=ygUaZGVubmlzIGRleW91bmcgZGVzZXJ0IG1vb24%3D

Horatio Cornblower

It can be both.

Gumbygirl
Gumbygirl

I have two guesses for the puzzle song, both from the same album. Here is numero uno
https://youtu.be/iWUgPIQNgGo?si=v3aw7f-T7wtCAbTH

Gumbygirl
Gumbygirl

Fuck!!!

Gumbygirl

In my defense, I posted it at the same time you did, so I didn’t see it

BeefReeferLives

Time warp!

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Horatio Cornblower

I fail to see how drafting your favorite tunes for road trips is dick-stepping the Request Line, which is a) not a draft, b) has puzzles, and c) has a specific theme every week.

That said I am in an incredibly shitty mood thanks to a combination of Mrs. Cornblower being away for a week, b) having our incredibly shitty new operating system today turn what should taken me perhaps 1.5 hours to finish so far running at 3+ hours, (and counting!), and c) Connecticut’s weather having recently developed an unhealthy fascination with imitating the weather systems ordinarily found in a Louisiana swamp in August. You can therefore expect to be challenged to a duel for this insult. Except my second to call on you shortly with the details.

Don’t worry, you’ll recognize him.

BeefReeferLives

I take it your second will be Lowratio….

ballsofsteelandfury

He said “shortly”…

Brocky

Theme from rawhide, I’ll post three versions:

1. Original

https://youtu.be/VJeBtHjqJz0?si=n-YgGRFoLUtIgmTA

2. Blues brothers

https://youtu.be/TUMVJHccBq8?si=5KxsAqkYzfFHbpZe

3. Fievel goes west

https://youtu.be/EdvZHLFH2tw?si=QNcdc2DoubXKcYo8

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Brocky

America – horse with no name

https://youtu.be/na47wMFfQCo?si=nlkKfHxgVyYnvOtF

….how is this not Blair witched yet?

Doktor Zymm

Turns out the horse’s name was Robert and he just never bothered to ask

BeefReeferLives
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BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives

*three* if you count the camel song…

BeefReeferLives

Woo! BEEF REEFER IS BACK, BABY!!!

Horatio Cornblower

“Me too! Oh, wait, in the ground? Never mind.”

-Steelandfury, Ballsof

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2Pack
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SonOfSpam

“Sexy”

-K. Winslow and/or P. Reubens

LemonJello

29 Palms makes Afghanistan look like the French Riviera

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blaxabbath

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2Pack

I survived a summer in Casa Grande.

Horatio Cornblower

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