Request Line: Blanky McBlank and the Blankertones

INT. BAEKJEONG RESTAURANT – DAY

The PRODUCER is seated at a table in a Korean barbecue restaurant in K-town drinking soju. The PRODUCER’s cellphone is face-up on the bar, revealing an open line to DJ 3000′. 

PRODUCER: [through a mouthful of half-chewed thinly sliced brisket] So what did you say this was called again?

DJ 3000′ [O/S]: IT’S CALLED – 이자 – PRONOUNCED “I CHA”. IT’S BASICALLY WHEN YOU HAVE A MEAL AND THEN IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW IT WITH A SECOND MEAL.  THEY HAD A THING ON THAT SHOW LOUIE WHERE THEY CALLED IT A “BANG BANG”.

PRODUCER: [continuing to stuff his face] Mmm.

DJ 3000′ [O/S]: IT’S GOOD, RIGHT?

The PRODUCER takes a sip – more of a gulp, really – of soju. 

PRODUCER: Definitely. Feel like I’m gonna end up like one of those characters in a K-Drama with like six empty bottles of soju on the table by the end.

DJ 3000′ [O/S]: EH, IT WOULDN’T BE THE END OF THE WORLD. THERE ARE SOME GREAT WORLD CUP GAMES ON THIS AFTERNOON. I SPECIFICALLY PICKED A PLACE WITH TV’S SO YOU’D BE ABLE TO ENJOY THEM.

PRODUCER: Oh, cool. I can’t help but feel like I’m getting a little distracted from my task, though.

DJ 3000′ [O/S]: LIKE I SAID, HUNTER AND I ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE.

PRODUCER: Yeah but I feel like I’m further away from the studio then I was before.

DJ 3000′ [O/S]: OH, NO. I RETCONNED THINGS SO THAT YOU’RE ACTUALLY CLOSER.

PRODUCER: Retconned?

DJ 3000′ [O/S]: YEAH, IT’S AN ABILITY I GAINED FROM A PLATINUM LOOT BOX IN AFTER I ESCAPED FROM THE TIME LOOP BUBBLE IN SEASON 7.

PRODUCER: Platinum loot box?

DJ 3000′ [O/S]: [forging ahead] SO YOU SEE YOUR FIRST MEAL WAS ACTUALLY AT CASA FINA RESTAURANT IN BOYLE HEIGHTS. CHECK IT OUT.

PRODUCER: I don’t understand, you’re saying that…

DJ 3000′ [O/S]: OH LOOK THE SERVER IS BACK WITH A PLATTER OF PORK BELLY! DOESN’T THAT LOOK DELICIOUS?

PRODUCER: Wait, don’t you try to distract me with…[trails off has he stares at the succulent pork belly]…stuff.

DJ 3000′ [O/S]: IN THE MEANTIME THIS WHOLE 이자 BUSINESS HAS GIVEN ME A GREAT IDEA FOR A REQUEST LINE TOPIC.

PRODUCER: [to the server]…and some more kimchi, please…

DJ 3000′ [O/S]: WE’RE GOING TO DO SONGS BY BANDS WHOSE NAME FOLLOWS THE FORMAT OF “X and the Y’s”. SUCH AS…

 

Today’s theme is bands that call themselves “X and the Y’s” (i.e. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals).  Any songs by bands whose names fit the format will do.  Please post links as “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Nk3yM4nM4n” and they should embed in the comments after you refresh.  Last week’s puzzle answer of “Candle” by Sonic Youth was requested by Gatoraids but once again yoinked as the puzzle answer by SonOfSpam.  Enjoy the games today folks, and once again please feel welcome to use today’s post as an open thread to comment on the games as well. 

 

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Downfield Matriculator

And going way back into the archives of TV and doo wop . . .

https://youtu.be/xd23p_vUMYw?si=MjEGLhmjNnr0m69S

Downfield Matriculator

How about getting the band back together using the members of Murph & the Magic Tones?

https://youtu.be/aaTb89xf2Z0?si=Pf5WLaRGCVZotlYp

Doktor Zymm

Oh hey, I can try the puzzle thing
https://youtu.be/QsAe1X1gNzA

SonOfSpam

DAMMIT, well done!

scotchnaut

Did you think that Canadian content was done with?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz_WS4cnHcI

WCS

Red Rider apologies for not ending with “s.”

scotchnaut

Mike and the Mechanics always over-charged for my oil change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i17mgRK3GX8&list=RDi17mgRK3GX8&start_radio=1

WCS

GODDAMNIT

Another I should have had hours ago! YOU SUCK, WCS!

scotchnaut

This one hit wonder called themselves Flash and The Pan. Ha!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T00kLV8yq44&list=RDT00kLV8yq44&start_radio=1

Gumbygirl
Brick Meathook

Kids today will swear this is AI.

Danny and the Juniors, 1957

https://youtu.be/lPV5FrydqDE

Brick Meathook

Or the even better cover version from American Graffiti (1973) by “Herby and the Heart Beats” (actually Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids):

https://youtu.be/YhhW0IN-P9I

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