Request Line: Down

INT. DFO PRODUCTION OFFICE – DAY

A pair of sleazy Hollywood producers are fulfilling their investor-mandated office hours.  One – DARKEST TIMELINE ZACK MORRIS – appears to be hard at work, depositing royalty checks, opening and closing manilla folders, and making notes on a post-it pad.  The other – RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY – is lounging on the couch, staring up at the ceiling and frowning.  Eventually, DARKEST TIMELINE ZACK MORRIS notices.

DTZM: Hey, buddy.  You look down.

RTD: [looks up at him] Oh.  Yeah.

DTZM: Need a little pick-me-up? Maybe a screening of Dr. Zhivago?

RTD: No thanks, I already tried that.  Didn’t help.

DTZM: How could you be down on such a lovely day? What’s the matter?

RTD: [glances out the window at the perfect Los Angeles weather] I don’t know.  I was just thinking about that documentary we were watching…you remember, the about all the stupid people taking over the world?

DTZM: Idiocracy?

RTD: Yeah.

DTZM: That wasn’t a…

RTD: [interrupting obliviously] Anyway, I’ve just been kind of ruminating about how stupidity runs rampant in our society…

DTZM: That’s been true throughout human history, though.

RTD: …and how much further our society would have progressed if as a species we valued technical intelligence more highly than social intelligence.

DTZM: But that’s changing! Look at some of the richest and most powerful people in our society at the moment – Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook…you can’t claim those guys don’t recognize the value of technical intelligence.  And Bill Gates has shown that you can emerge from a position of that kind of power without losing your humanity.

RTD: Yeah, I guess.

DTZM: You know what you need? You need to do something creative.

RTD: [groans] Come on, you know I hate that stuff.

DTZM: I’m not talking about doing actual work.  I’m talking about coming up with ideas!  And then getting credit for whatever actual work gets done!

RTD: [brightens] I mean…I do like being given credit for things.

DTZM: Tell you what.  Anthology series’ are becoming all the rage these days.  Why don’t you come up with a topic for one?

RTD: A topic?

DTZM: Yeah!

RTD: And that’s all?

DTZM: Sure! We’ll let the PA’s handle the rest.

RTD: Hmm.  Okay.  Um…

Some time passes.

RTD: I got it!  How about…”down”?

DTZM: Down?

RTD: Down.

DTZM: Like, a descent into depression…

RTD: No, no, nothing that specific.  Just…things with a title that contain the word “down”.

DTZM: I love it!  Although…that sounds more like the topic for a deejay to work with.

RTD: You mean, like, on the radio?

DTZM: Yeah.

RTD: No, no.  Radio deejays have to do actual work.  Like, playing records and stuff.

DTZM: Oh yeah, you’re right.

RTD: So “down” it is.  All right, all right.

DTZM: I’ll make some calls.

RTD: Me too.  I’ve got a good feeling about this, I really do.  When’s award season again?

Today’s topic is “down”.  We’re looking for songs that contain the word “down” in the title, or heavily feature the theme of a descent.  I’ll get us started with a DOUBLE SHOT from Morrissey and the Decemberists.  The topic is pretty rich, so please don’t go too wild with lousy music just to fit the theme. Have at it!

 

 

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SonOfSpam

Didn’t know until recently it’s a remake from Sam and Dave.

ArmedandHammered

From one of the greatest albums ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugZRzISBrKk

scotchnaut

Dire Straits in the late 70’s/very early 80’s? Holy. Fuck. Balls.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

RRRRRRAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMM IT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtu20Ejv3SI

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Fun fact: The name of this song is also what a woman once told LeSean McCoy’s father.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7bUbsAJwm0

yeah right
Game Time Decision
scotchnaut

[licks monitor] “Hmmm, not enough early 80’s Canuck metal in this thread. I think I can fix this.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waWbkMkdX98

scotchnaut

Petty’s best riff as far as I’m concerned. And I’m very concerned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1D3a5eDJIs

scotchnaut

Whatever. The only DOUBLE SHOT I’m good with sits at the bottom of my rock glass after work.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Well I fully expected this to be gone by now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRY19ZMLT4U

Sharkbait

DAMNIT! How did I let that one go!?

scotchnaut

A top five pick slips into the 6th round? *yoink* Don’t mind if I do!

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

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Do I need the sarcasm tag for this one?

https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=mdrXCuwIEvw

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

I think it’s better without it.

yeah right
scotchnaut
SonOfSpam

Last one, gotta go. Check out the artwork this guy did. Good stuff. And a great song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr110FM-qrs

SonOfSpam

Anyone know the best way to ride a moped while smoking a clove cigarette and keeping one’s hair casually pasted down?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf4EFDGP4yg

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Better known as the theme song for the 2018 Raiders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKwVvSleM6w

SonOfSpam

Your periodic reminder that all the cool people knew what a cunt Thatcher was.

Also RIP Ranking Roger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K6YWX4OL0o

yeah right
scotchnaut

‘It was right there for the taking!’ smgdh

yeah right

And a great fucking video to boot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCtzkaL2t_Y

SonOfSpam

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scotchnaut

I’m embarrassed for all of you and myself as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh7BZf7D5Bw

nomonkeyfun

Fuck. Well in a pathetic attempt to make it up.
The Devil has also gone to Newport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN4V8w23fUc

nomonkeyfun

The only time I like it when the Boss gives me a double.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc_mv46NwT4

nomonkeyfun

Just a reminder, even if you are seemingly all the way down and out, you can come back and rise up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnkJa6HdgJw

SonOfSpam

2 Live Crew had the best love songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE4Be2vo8HU

SonOfSpam

(loud whisper) I. Thought. You. Was. A. Toad.

Also, Alison Krauss could probably sell me on just about any religion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fztz_Vr9uHk

yeah right

That’s.

That’s good.

SonOfSpam

Bangles and Spock (sounds like a better version of Franklin and Bash)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7OJeyhq2Q

SonOfSpam

MEN AT WORK DOUBLE SHOT, the less obvious one first:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBOQjl2tYTA

SonOfSpam
SonOfSpam

The topic is pretty rich, so please don’t go too wild with lousy music just to fit the theme.

Bah Gawd, that’s Seamus’ music!

Cuntler

Speaking of the ’90s . . .

Down in it – NIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5TZ3DESqqw

ballsofsteelandfury

GREAT song!

yeah right

And now you’re down in it.

Cuntler

Every pot smoker in college in the mid-90s owned this album, along with Four by Blues Traveler. I never really liked Blues Traveler. If you have a fishing vest full of harmonicas, it is definitely too many harmonicas.

Phish – Down with Disease

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_9cjo_qaDw

SonOfSpam

MRSy that’s good

Cuntler

Down by the Seaside – Led Zeppelin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2U1BhziqzM

Cuntler

People like to be down by bodies of water.

Neil Young – Down by the River

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KflCXmEX6BY

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Better make that a DOUBLE there, friendo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmHXS8IdKtc

Sharkbait

How was this not above the comments?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYQ9fKg2a-s

Porky Prime

As far as I’m concerned, his best solo track…
https://youtu.be/2ZrvbZ7_CSk

Porky Prime

Still can’t make that work, the hell…

Sharkbait

Sharing the url from youtube sucks. I copy the entire url from the browser itself