INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY
Guest producer HUNTER RENFROW is seated in front of the soundboard…
…having a conversation with DJ 3000, who is perched in his regular spot…
…as the two talk about the conclusion of the Pan-African War in the current DJ 3000’s original timeline.
DJ 3000: …AND THEN MOZAMBIQUE SIGNED THE TREATY, AND IT’S BEEN PRETTY TRANQUIL SINCE THEN.
HUNTER RENFROW: Fascinating! I always thought that Mozambique sounded like a cool place – is Paradise Island, like, as nice as it sounds?
DJ 3000: THE TRUTH IS, THE WHOLE “PARADISE ISLAND” THING IS ONLY A NAME.
HUNTER RENFROW: Oh really?
DJ 3000: YEAH, IT’S ACTUALLY A PENINSULA.
HUNTER RENFROW: [chuckles] Look at DJ 3000 with the jokes! I take it you have The Simpsons in your universe?
DJ 3000: WE DO. I DOWNLOADED THE SERIES HERE AND THERE ARE ACTUALLY VERY FEW DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO. EXCEPT THAT WHERE I’M FROM THEY WRAPPED UP THE SERIES AFTER FIFTEEN SEASONS.
HUNTER RENFROW: Yeah, from what I’ve seen of the new stuff that was the smart move. Mr. Baumgartner refuses to even acknowledge that it’s even still on the air here.
DJ 3000: SPEAKING OF A/V CLUB STUFF…IT’S BEEN REALLY GREAT OF YOU TO FILL IN. I’VE SPOKEN TO THE STATION MANAGEMENT AND THEY AGREED TO WRITE IT UP AS A FORMAL INTERNSHIP.
HUNTER RENFROW: [excited] Really? So I can get out of having to take an elective?
DJ 3000: THAT’S RIGHT, MY FRIEND. ONE FREE PERIOD, COMING UP!
HUNTER RENFROW: I can’t believe how well this worked out. When I first came in I had this whole idea about how I was going to do a series of “Hunter’s Realms” posts about alternate universes and all the topics would be associated with that, but in the end I really enjoyed just chilling here with you.
DJ 3000: YEAH, IT’S BEEN NICE.
HUNTER RENFROW: So whatever happened to the PRODUCER? I thought there would also be some kind of story arc about how he got stuck in Phoenix somehow and couldn’t get back here to California.
DJ 3000: BEATS ME. I HAVEN’T HEARD A WORD FROM HIM SINCE…OH.
HUNTER RENFROW: What?
DJ 3000: I JUST REALIZED THAT IF HE WAS REACHING OUT, HE WAS PROBABLY SENDING THINGS TO THE ORIGINAL DJ 3000’S EMAIL ADDRESS. MINE IS A BIT DIFFERENT. LET ME SEE IF I CAN LOG IN TO HIS ACCOUNT; MAYBE WE HAVE THE SAME PASSWORDS…
The lights on DJ 3000’s console begin flashing as he downloads a large amount of data and begins parsing the text.
DJ 3000: [to itself] OH. OH MY. YES, THAT’S QUITE A PICKLE.
HUNTER RENFROW: [out of the loop] What, what happened?
DJ 3000: I’LL TELL YOU IN A MINUTE. BUT FIRST, WE’VE GOT TO GET THIS SHOW ROLLING. HAVE YOU GOT A TOPIC FOR US TO CLOSE OUT THE SEASON WITH?
HUNTER RENFROW: I sure do! I thought we could do “songs”.
DJ 3000’s “Gruden Module” light comes on.
DJ 3000: THIS TOPIC I CALL IT A FEMALE DWARF WORKING FOR DABNEY COLEMAN’S CHARACTER IN NINE TO FIVE BECAUSE IT IS A LITTLE BROAD.
HUNTER RENFROW: No, no, I meant songs that specifically declare themselves as such. Like “The Rain Song” or “Ballad of Thin Man”, that kind of stuff.
DJ 3000: SOUNDS GOOD, LET’S DO IT. WANT ME TO CUE UP ONE OF THE ONES YOU MENTIONED, OR HAVE YOU GOT SOMETHING ELSE IN MIND TO GET US STARTED?
HUNTER RENFROW: It’s almost football season, so let’s go with something that will make folks want to run through a brick wall. Cue up a little Blur, please.
Today’s theme is “Songs”. We’re looking for songs that specifically declare themselves as such (or “Ballads”, or “Odes”, etc.) in the title. Please links as “https://www.youtube.com/watch?kUnDuZ and they should embed in the comments after you refresh. Last week’s puzzle answer of “Sweet Jane” by The Velvet Underground and the Cowboy Junkies was solved by BeefReeferLives. Thank you to everyone who contributed to yet another fabulous season of Request Line, and may all the fantasy stat corrections this season be in your favor.
“It’s my wrinkly crinkly bag of skin”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc7OZfa7_Os
Hey, I’ve got one of those!
Puzzle hint: the clue has nothing to do with Afghanistan in any way.
[is triggered]
-The Soviet Union
Oh, here’s a nice segue…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypPrKnUew44
Why don’t more guys play that harder-edged sounding slide guitar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdhxS-eeMX4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueFyZw6qT-U
Here’s a memory related to this song. I moved up to Timmins in ’97 to open up the territory. After I moved my stuff into my apartment I drove up and down the main street that runs through the town and this tune came on the radio and I turned it up. Maybe a minute later I see a guy in a full-blown gorilla suit but he’s wearing a Darth Vader mask. “What the fuck is going on in this town?”, I said to myself. Later I realized it was Halloween.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-AKI951poE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyWHnZFOJDs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbNrJWgG_24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO7M0Hx_1D8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3HBfcFPTFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP4AkXP0lIY
Howsabout a little Leon?
https://youtu.be/37dw2r45Xzg?si=0FIWczYhP2TawCC2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbtEkZIvMAg
Puzzle song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIW1pqej0JE
Nay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXZyDtzDJMY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvSuzPLmGdU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQRcRO_x3IQ
https://youtu.be/dAeeJOInJ7I?si=0zeqpr1a9wKUWOqP
I had no idea the Blair Witch was a fan of Lynyrd Skynyrd
3 min difference, so close
I also blame the metric system
See below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BugBwt2ESpo
Is this the puzzle?
If so, it was merely happenstance to get it.
The puzzle might be a tough one, I’ll give a pretty major hint later if nobody gets it. DJ Taj has a request that is a step in the right direction, though.
Nope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Boz_Qandahari
Just found out this exists. It should not. Terrible, terrible stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G59uyhcIhSI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFDoL8SGlX4
Time for some Southern Rock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ptavYnUBM
Double shot of Southern Rock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkOsccnyFWs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAeeJOInJ7I
Shit, I claim the time warp…
Purty lil’ love song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9h2H5Sgzfw
but fuck that Ayn Rand bullshit.
DOUBLE SHOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuceIiM6vzk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1BzyVdLT6w
Let’s say that you know me and if you did and if you were to look close you would (albeit a fatter version) see me no less than 3 times during this video. Sitting right at the bar with the boys I am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89NjEeHku8o
Let’s dance
[slaps DJ Taj on the ass, hard]
I would guess some of you folks have been right to that bar before. The video was shot at Molly Malone’s right off of Wilshire boulevard.
Indeed I have!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLaDksDOcE4
Maybe a bit of a stretch, but it’s the James Gang, so I had to post…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkZepbHIrvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_qHU_6Ofc0
Stretch or not, that is some good shit!
Word. Love me some old James Gang
It’s the final edition of the season, leave it all of the field!
Let’s get some Jesus up in here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T13fYraI56Q
Baby Zeppelin has some good songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJg4OJxp-co&pp=ygUcZ3JldGEgdmFuIGZsZWV0IGhpZ2h3YXkgdHVuZQ%3D%3D
https://youtu.be/TpWKAgcs21w?si=PHTZsLNKW-t-TMkQ
How many times have we heard this? Four million?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlPlfCy1urI&pp=ygUUZWx0b24gam9obiB5b3VyIHNvbmc%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1kKdK3qUB8
Thematic DOUBLE SHOT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we37yX3zpKA
Bout time for a Greg Kihn revival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ePSJ44Fiw&pp=ygUWZ3JlZyBraWhuIGJyZWFrdXAgc29uZw%3D%3D
He died recently, I’m pretty sure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S78t8I8Z5I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDpzAUcZWpw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If9fC9aJd-U
i mean come on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6198qSm0Y0
Hey remember the 90s? (Scott Weiland doesn’t, poor bastard)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjJL9DGU7Gg&pp=ygUUaW50ZXJzdGF0ZSBsb3ZlIHNvbmc%3D
That was under consideration as the intro song. I was hoping someone had put together a loop of the Simpsons running around at the Super Bowl to Blur’s “Song 2” but alas, it wasn’t meant to be.
Fred Willard and Dolly Parton in the same episode!
(Also Madden and Summerall)
[also doesn’t remember the 90’s, for similar reasons] – Pat Summerall
This was a quality soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tJhxM4Qt6E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLfG778zfbU
Puzzle song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQFdqeohYUU
No deal!
/whew! was worried it might be too easy
Ok cool. It’s a good song at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1LAtaxgfDk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPDA5pWUGIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTypf_JMFis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvCQ6ntgteQ
TRIPLE SHOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gWbKAcuzN8
TIME WARP!
Blair Witching in the same thread!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iEEJVSgcNY
Dig this tune. That whole album “Hallowed Ground” is solid.
You know what? Fuck it – it’s the last edition of the season, let’s blow this thing wide open and include “Blues” as a perfectly valid descriptor. Which would make this request a…
DOUBLE SHOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1bIjee0tNQ
Well now THAT loosens things up a bit…
– Deanna Favre, twenty minutes after her Amazon purchase arrived
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YS7sWCG_ZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwaS5X6wjdo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MduQlWUoyhI
https://youtu.be/KZjuNVrEqGc?si=VtIDCcTfuOzmXTf1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmb-lXFSIZc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j11MOncimNQ
I’ll only allow myself one…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9paazlKN2s
I’ll drink anything you don’t want
One barrel? Sounds prudent…
High already
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFg1AGuAGYA
Good to hear that you’re not procrastinating…
getting ready to start on mine as the work day comes to a close
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_XAPku7SgE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8G5AJmsDwA
https://youtu.be/XDX4ZwUeOok?si=fpwpHRIYDozlm91G
https://youtu.be/ApxnAr6pRt0?si=m_95q37SKefWeOV1
Double shot!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlNhD0oS5pk
(RE: Viking kittehs – https://historythings.com/vikings-and-their-cats/