Request Line: Pestilence

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY

A pair of radio professionals prepare for the day’s show. 

DJ 3000: [to himself] WELL, THAT’S KIND OF GRIM.  [to the PRODUCER] HEY YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT GOOGLE’S DOODLE TODAY. [calls it up on his main display]

PRODUCER: Okay…[begins reading aloud]…And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold…

— [door flies open] —

PRODUCER: Oh good, you’re here.  Thanks for taking time out of your schedule to join us.

JOHN ELWAY:

PRODUCER: I know things must be very busy for you at this time of year.

JOHN ELWAY:

PRODUCER: [starting to grow uncomfortable] What with the, uh, draft coming up and all.

JOHN ELWAY:

PRODUCER: So, uh, it says you had, a, uh, co-host that was joining you?

JOHN ELWAY: [flicks his head in the general direction of the restrooms]

PRODUCER: Ah, yes.  Happens to the best of us.  Well, in any event, have a seat, and…

JOHN ELWAY: [wanders into the recording booth but does not sit down]

PRODUCER: …I guess, uh, yeah, go ahead and keep standing if that’s more comfortable for you.

DJ 3000: SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO PLAY FOR US TODAY, MR. ELWAY? A LITTLE HALL & OATES?  MAYBE SOME FIONA APPLE?

PRODUCER: [hits mute button on DJ 3000] Sorry about that.  Actually, Mr. Elway’s representation sent over a topic for us to use.  Here it says…pestilence.  Ooh, topical!  Let’s get to it.

Editor’s Note: Today’s theme is “pestilence”.  So that means all songs that relate to disease, vermin, quarantine, etc.  In order to have videos appear in comments, you don’t have to mess around with embed codes or anything, just post plain links as such: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b00m3rDooMEr”.  When you hit refresh it should show up as embedded and you can rock out at your leisure. If your link doesn’t pick up, an admin will try to help out.

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ALXMAC
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Game Time Decision

For when ur sick

https://youtu.be/heEKC_PgWe4

jjfozz

Thsi fucking better work.
https://youtu.be/W9mhsW5aWJM

jjfozz

Before I fucking shoot the house up with my new shotgun. someone fucking PLEASE tell me how to post videos correctly.

jjfozz

I have no idea who in fuck this chucklehead is, but the title fits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6X5ZLmv2l8

jjfozz

I cannot read anything that features the Prince of Doom, John Elway. May his spleen rot and his teeth turn black.

ALXMAC

TOO SOON!!

King Hippo

What will we soon lack in availability?

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

Don T

Depression is a disease
Rabanes – Tú me deseperas

Don T

Nope. Wrong link. Too bad. That song has 3+ suicide attempts.

Old School Zero
rollingdog
King Hippo

rockingdog is on molly now??

rollingdog

Yea kind of….
Really trying to fix my profile picture….

scotchnaut

This just in from the #socialdistancing crowd*

*hehe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNIZofPB8ZM

King Hippo

I was just a Hippo ahead of my time, with the isolation and social distancing!

scotchnaut

Language is a virus. Whoooo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvOoR8m0oms

SonOfSpam

TRIPLE VERMIN DOUBLE RAT SHOT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWR1h-5EzUo

scotchnaut
King Hippo

My disease, my infection.
I am so impure…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MNbjF3-VI4

Old School Zero

OH SHIT

Nice one. Yet incomplete until you’ve seen this version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJIJzmcc4MY

King Hippo

oh my cats, I been looking for this for ages – I saw this performed live with Trent and Bowie, and it absolutely was magic!!

Bowie with the “angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress” was an all-time great moment.

Old School Zero

That whole time period was crazy, and that whole connection with them is insane. I need to go back and watch the Closure video–fucking Downward Spiral era NIN shows are exhilarating.

King Hippo

if anyone ever needed a poster child against sobriety – it’s pre- and post-heroine Trent Reznor

Old School Zero

I mean, I loved The Fragile and that tour specifically was breathtaking and achingly beautiful, and I like that he gave into his urge for dance floor bops on most of his post-DS albums, plus he let El-P remix stuff and went on one of his tracks (which I think I’m gonna post here), AND I totally support Soundtrack/Dad Trent… but, yeah, nothing has been like the Downward Spiral era. The only thing that comes close is Earl Sweatshirt’s I Don’t Like Shit I Don’t Go Outside, which sounds like a depressed person rapping while drowning.

King Hippo

selfish Trent, preferring to stay alive FOAR his wife and child ,, smgdh 😀

SonOfSpam
King Hippo

this is a top 5 Hippo all-time favourite song, even!

SonOfSpam

YOU’RE CLEAR AS A HEAVY LEAD CURTAIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x40nZkkP8vw

Downfield Matriculator

I’ll see your pestilence and raise you war, famine and death:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4nCy5CITc8

ALXMAC

Notre Dame should be good next year, I hear.

Old School Zero

Sure, it’s focused on computers, but it bangs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34k3GwQtbbs

SonOfSpam

A song for Balls, hopefully not about balls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_0sL_SQYvw

SonOfSpam

Tom Lehrer is, as always, a goddamn national treasure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WHSVOVLmNY

Porky Prime
SonOfSpam

Does one insect count as pestilence?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y1YFH9A3Bw

yeah right
SonOfSpam

Why would DJ 3000 assume Elway likes Oates and Apple? Only a horse would eat…

AH YOU CLEVER SUNUVABITCH!!!

ArmedandHammered

Well, the song is about the 1918 flu, but it still works….

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

Sharkbait

Do standup routines count?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X29lF43mUlo

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers