INT. RECORDING STUDIO – NIGHT
The PRODUCER is sitting upright on the couch. His eyes are red and very bloodshot, but he is seemingly alert. DJ 3000’s camera is slowly flashing as he watching him intently.
DJ 3000: [internal monologue] I JUST WISH I COULD SEE WHAT HE’S SEEING.
CUT TO: THE PRODUCER’S POINT OF VIEW
Everything is extremely blurry, save for a single figure that almost appears to be floating in the center of the room.
ROB RYAN: …come on, man, I’ve been jonesin’ for this ever since the full moon this month.
PRODUCER: I hear you, man, I really do. But I’m worried that the topic is too limited. There just aren’t enough songs about wolves to work with.
ROB RYAN: Okay, but hear me out – what if we expand the topic!
PRODUCER: Go on.
ROB RYAN: We could include anything from the same animal family. Dogs, and, uh…just dogs, I guess. But there’s other stuff too. How about the moon?
PRODUCER: [shrugs agreeably]
ROB RYAN: And like, werewolf stuff too. Silver bullets, and crosses, and things.
PRODUCER: Crosses?
ROB RYAN: Yeah, some people think you can scare a werewolf away by wearing a crucifix around your neck.
PRODUCER: Huh. And…?
ROB RYAN: [grins ominously] Works about as well as it does for keeping them Catholic girls from gettin’ pregnant. You ever been with a Catholic girl?
PRODUCER: Well, there was this one time…
ROB RYAN: WOO WOO WOO! AWWHOOOOOOOOOOO! MY LITTLE BUDDY OVER HERE TOOK A GIRL IN PLAID AND HAD HER CALLING OUT FOR HER MAKER! THAT’S GOOD HUSTLE!
PRODUCER: Wait, isn’t that…isn’t that your brother’s thing?
ROB RYAN: Hey, I’m a coach too, you know. Bring it in.
PRODUCER: [takes another sip of moonshine, brings it in]
ROB RYAN: Now let me tell you something. Quarantine isn’t fun. Being all alone by yourself with only a computer to keep you company and accidentally consuming a bunch of methanol isn’t fun. But hallucinating guests to come in and present you with topics for Request Line? That’s at least a little bit fun, right?
PRODUCER: Yeah!
ROB RYAN: So I want you to get on the air, and you open those phone lines, and YOU TAKE THOSE GODDAMN REQUESTS! YOU ROCK THOSE LISTENERS’ SOCKS OFF! WOLFPACK ON THREE!
CUT BACK TO: DJ 3000’s POINT OF VIEW
PRODUCER: AWHOOOOO….WHOOOO…YIP YIP YIP…AWWHOOOOOOOOOOO!
DJ 3000: [unsuccessfully attempts to download WOLF language module] NUTS…WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
PRODUCER: [slurring heavily] Request line…wolves.
DJ 3000: OH.
PRODUCER: And dogs. And moons. And, uh, the other thing.
DJ 3000: THE OTHER THING?
PRODUCER: No slowing down with the…SILVER BULLETS!
DJ 3000: THERE ARE SONGS ABOUT SILVER BULLETS?
PRODUCER: I don’t know, I hope so! Turn on the amp, good buddy, it’s time to rock!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKtPOC3VqGs
Today’s theme is: “Canis Lupus”. We’re looking for songs about WOLVES, but don’t be shy about stretching for this one. Dogs, moons, silver bullets, anything you can think of that can be connected to wolves. Band names and album titles are fair game. I’ve gotten us started with the granddaddy of the genre. Post links as “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWHOOOOOOO” and they should embed in the comments after you refresh.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KQRV0c1KXYc
Feels like an obvious omission
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IRsc57nK8mg&feature=youtu.be
https://youtu.be/BDh2zGgVZzM?t=205
Some “not music” and “not wolf” but interesting nonetheless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fRFMkFbH8I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PVjcIO4MT4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=booKP974B0k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC-9aEf0Q-A
Ah the blue eyed merle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELqdLvz60zA
Since Hippo is a Wolven Sort, here is a song by HippoBand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6utlWyGP2s
However, this wolven song represents how it feels to actually care about Wolven sportsball events:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH3C8FyHsIk
/also, FOAR Balls and the other 2-3 of y’all who DON’T hate yourselves, this is a very accurate depiction of how depression feels (even MOAR than that Bojack “Stupid Piece of Shit” episode)
TV on the Radio (taken) has the wolven song that should be played at ALL NC State sportsball competitions. This would be my 2nd choice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foXJAV4bRiE
“Really? I have to share top billing with a frickin’ butterfly? I’m done. Call my agent!”
-Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpoP4YSFKGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lFxGBB4UGU
Can’t believe this one is still on the table:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzQ8GDBA8Is
“Actually, this one was on the can.”
-Memphis Coroner
What a crappy thing to say!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ivt_N2Zcts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsiAqEu-jEM
And counterpoint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PabxhKTkE0U
Neil Young gets sentimental
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MtEsrcTTs
Another Zevon tune, one that also served as the theme song to the short-lived but awesome series “Action”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-XpFFaJlOs
OH MY DOG! TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT TIMBUK 3!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5-7SKZxcbc
Good catch. I’m ashamed I didn’t get that one, I’ve got their entire discography as well as Pat McDonald’s solo albums. Saw them a few times during their time, always in small venues. Smoked a doob with him in the alley behind the bar they played in Houston back in 95 or so… Dude is a hell of a harp player.
A moon song specifically for us!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NduqttXVKmA
A 28-minute version of Wolfman’s Brother? Eh, why the hell not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9LD94x55iA
Here’s one for tWBS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJL-lCzEXgI
Are we just not scrolling down to check…oh, a tribute to Seamus. Good one.
Apparently scrolling IS JUST TOO HARD.
I’m not gonna lie-I just don’t take anti-scrollers seriously, AT ALL!
Harsh. But fair.
It’s the CTRL-F All stars!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isz01iv8Ls
“So disappointed in every one of you.” [throws a bottle of beer at someone in the crowd]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy2-5uDpu5Q
Dammit Scotchy!
You win.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=irq959oNVww
I Love this Volkswagen commercial!
OT-Big line of T-Storms approaching. Should lose power, and thus internet, here shortly.
Stay safe, man.
Thanks. Already lost it once, hopefully the line of storms will move through in less than an hour. Pretty good lightning show so far. Dog hates it. Drink is refilled, pipe is loaded, Kindle is charged.
“Maybe you should have, perhaps, invested in me? I sent you a few emails and you ignored them. After all, you know…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zIoElk3r2c
And just one more for the live 70s trifecta — ladies and gents, Mr, Keith MOON:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Up-qHTJdY
The intro to this song definitely deserves to have the speakers cranked up to 11.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT7VVU5–jw
Keeping with the live music from the 70s, I give you the J.Geils Band (fronted by Peter WOLF for you youngsters):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvM8WV2V998
I give you Peter Wolf’s ‘Jumping’ video (Come As You Are)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwOzeaL08Gg
Bonus points to me for the first words uttered-“Shut up, dog.”
Watching him jump around that video has been a sufficient aerobic workout for the day for me — I think it is it time to find an opener for the IPAs that have been waiting patiently for me all day!
“Someone jumping around that has some tangential relationship to canines? I’m in!”
-The Pointer Sisters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyTVyCp7xrw
Is that all it takes? Shit. —DLR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYN7mTi6HM
As a teenager, I thought the coolest thing about Peter Wolf was that he was married to Faye Dunaway for a while.
I thought the coolest thing about him, other than the music, was that he was roommates with David Lynch for awhile.
I saw them LIVE at the Isle of Rock on Credit Island in the middle of the damn Mississippi River back in Imma say 1980.
They were fun as fuck.
This Scottish crew was SO popular in The Canada back in the Pretend Good Times: This is Hair of the Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef2SLZdhNrY
Had the 8-track back in 76 or 77. Did the “wow, they said son of a bitch!” like Beavis and Butthead; cussing on records wasn’t all that common back then, although Mick Jagger scraped “the shit right off” his shoes on Exile on Main Street several years earlier. I guess it’s because HotD got played on the radio, and Sweet Virginia never did.
“Foul language on songs,” maybe an RTD subject here some future Friday.
I vaguely remember the stickers on nipples of some of the album covers like Santana Abraxas because [GASP] NIPPLES ARE EVIL (female only). It was the nipple fight because they could not invade the factory wrapping.
Oh wait, we still do that.
Then Penthouse and Playboy started showing bush, which was the beginning of the end for polite society.
And speaking of nipply things; I just realized I cannot post this album cover here.I guess without the “https” it won’t upload anyway…
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ttp://www.angelfire.com/wi/blindfaith/images/vvcov69ff.JPG
See also: Different album covers for Country Life by Roxy Music.
That was another one.
I am talking about the big stores in the late 70s, LONG AFTER BUSH, mister expert.
Bush in mags was like, in the early 70’s, right? But yeah, I remember what you mention about that stuff; it was some foreshadowing for Tipper Gore and the Mothers of Prevention in the 80’s. And as you point out, shit still goes on to this day…
As I remember one of the chain stores took the cellophane wrapping on and put the sticker right on the the tits; NOT COOL. Budget Tapes ‘n’ Records or Wax Tracksone of those wouldn’t do it so we bought ours there. I think the non-political bush wars started in ’70: “In June of 1970, Penthouse was the first magazine to publish photos showing hints of pubic hair, almost to the point of invisibility. Nine months later, their rival Playboy started showing off a few wisps of bush. In January 1971, Liv Lindeland’s Playboy pictorial was the first to feature fully visible bush.”
I had a coupon for a year’s subscription to Playboy for like 2 bucks a few years back. No bushes are visible at all any more. Lots of tattoos though. I let the sub expire without renewing.
The industry term for that was the “pubic wars.” I shit you not.
The Bush Wars were a little different, correct.
Gumby got to party backstage with them in Edinburgh. The drummer from the opening act, Vic something, grew up about 15 minutes from where we did, so he got Gumby and a bunch of squids in. They had a great time.
Okay. Now that all of the cool songs about canines are out of the way…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLJ1mPsOIQ4
In these days of the virus, apparently Canada is not even allowing streaming videos to cross the border. Never got this message before.
“Video unavailable
This video contains content from WMG, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.”
Copyright airs.