December 1, 2017

Ludicrous Leadoffs:

News of the Week:

Dennis’ Nickname:

The brownest of the brown liquors

Blast From The Past:

October 27, 2017 – Halloween Music Special

Halloween season is upon us once again, which means that we here at The Arcade are back with our annual Halloween Music Special.  When it comes to this time of year, you always hear Thriller, Monster Mash, and the Ghostbusters theme being played everywhere you go.  Sure, they’re appropriate for the season and all, but sometimes, people are just lazy and fall back to those without a second thought.  Thankfully, we here at The Arcade are anything but lazy and have once again compiled a setlist of music you won’t hear anywhere else this Halloween.

What Was Played:
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Dennis’s Nickname:

The sexy costume

October 28, 2016 – Halloween Music Special

It’s Halloween 2016 and The Arcade is back with our annual Halloween Music Special to fill up your auditory pillow case with treats of a musical sort. We strive to present a variety of songs and styles on these shows, and this year is no different.  Our adventure beings with the Ludicrous Leadoffs, which this year, is built around a central theme… haunting horror hip-hop! Did you know the Crypt Keeper did a rap song in the early 90’s?  Or that Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff made a song for A Nightmare on Elm Street 4? Have you ever heard Warwick Davis rap as the Leprechaun in Leprechaun V?  We’ve found all these oddities and play them for you in our opening block.  From there, we class the show up a bit and explore what the world of Creepy Classical and Spooky Symphonies for us.  The class, however, will only last so long as we have to include the obligatory heavy metal group.  What could be more Halloween than the image of blood raining down from the sky as sung by Slayer, or Peter Steele using his bass-baritone vocals to sing an ode to All Hallows Eve?  This Halloween show closes out by paying homage to some of the great musical talents who left their mortal coil and joined the afterlife this year as we’ll play seasonally appropriate selections from Motörhead, David Bowie, and Prince.  So tune in and let us be your soundtrack for this scary season.  As always, we encourage you to follow the iTunes links below to purchase these songs for yourself, to enjoy at Halloween and beyond.

What Was Played:
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Dennis’s Nickname:

The giver of chocolate, the taker of souls

October 30, 2015 – Halloween Music Special

Happy Halloween boils and ghouls! It’s time for us here at The Arcade to celebrate the season of ghosts, goblins, and candy by shelving the video game talk for one week to bring you a hearty helping of Halloween-appropriate songs on our annual Halloween Music Special! Despite what commercial radio would have you believe, there are more Halloween songs out there than Thriller and the Monster Mash, and we’ve brought some of them together on this year’s show.  Our playlist ranges all the way from Elvira to King Diamond, remixes of 90’s kids TV show themes to German power metal about a Stephen King novel, and songs from Broadway musicals to a song about the Great Old One himself, Cthulhu!  So tune in and let us be your soundtrack for this scary season.  As always, we encourage you to follow the iTunes links below to purchase these songs for yourself, to enjoy at Halloween and beyond.

What Was Played:
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Dennis’ Nickname:

The man who will avenge any child stricken with crappy, cheap candies this Halloween.

Blast From The Past:

Are You Afraid of the Dark? (TV Series / Oct. 31, 1990 – Apr. 20, 1996)

June 19, 2015 – E3 Wrap-up (Part 1)

Friends, this week is part one of our E3 wrap-up, and we’ll give you a rundown of the big news coming from the E3 press conferences for Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo!

News of the Week:

Dennis’ Nickname:

The man who doesn’t appreciate it when E3 makes him feel old.

Blasts From The Past:

April 3, 2015 – “Easter with Al” Music Special

For this week’s episode of The Arcade, we’re doing things a bit differently.  In light of the Easter holiday weekend, we’re holding off on the video game talk and replacing it with the musical stylings of “Weird Al” Yankovic.  Yes friends, it’s time once again for our “Easter with Al” Music Special!  We’ve scoured though his catalogue to bring you songs which explore themes of food, television, and love.  Before we get to any of those, we bring you some of his rarely heard ditties in the “Obscure Originals” group.  As always, we end off the show with our Blast From The Past segment, which this week is the movie Sin City!

What Was Played:
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Dennis’ Nickname:

The man whose anger against religion is amplified by copyright infringement.

Blast From The Past:

Sin City (Movie / April 1, 2005)