If I ran a game store I would play the song Ready to Roll by Flashlight Brown.
This is what it sounds like when a major music label releases a punk rock song about Dungeons and Dragons. It's fast, loud, well-produced, and more mainstream than niche hobby. Most of the songs about Dungeons and Dragons that I add to this playlist are about very specific gaming elements - the DM, the dice, splitting the party, character generation. Ready to Roll is about D&D but it doesn't get into anything very specific at all. It's very much a radio play song that risks turning off the audience with its geek lingo but that doesn't place all its chips on the gamble. I think the song walks away a winner, though.
Ready to Roll is from Flashlight Brown's 2003 album, My Degeneration. It was also included on the Rugrats Go Wild soundtrack released a couple of months later. Flashlight Brown had originally recorded a cover of Should I Stay or Should I Go for the soundtrack, but the success of Ready to Roll got it placed on the album instead.
Ready to Roll on Google Play
Ready to Roll lyrics
I got a twenty-sider on call
Dressed up, ready to roll
Well I got the real world blinded
Dressed up, ready to roll
Midnight, torchlight down in the haunted cave
Get some platinum the D.M. will turn the page
Check out my thief, he's got the black shield
Dressed up, ready to roll
Check out my sickly cave tan
Dressed up, ready to roll
Lawful evil: a moral catastrophe
Half-orc, full-dork: the myth and reality
We may not know any girls
But we got graph paper guiding our way
We got confusion, delusion
And all of Friday night to kill
Pick up the phone the pizza's still late
Dressed up, ready to roll
Pick up from where your mule died
Dressed up, ready to roll
Midnight, torchlight down in the haunted cave
Get some platinum the D.M. will turn the page
We may not know any girls
But we got graph paper guiding our way
We got confusion, delusion
And all of Friday night to kill
That was by far the best time that we ever had
That was by far the best time that we ever had
Get to the tavern have a few beers
Dressed up, ready to roll
Pick up an elvin bar whore
Dressed up, ready to roll
We may not know any girls
But we got graph paper guiding our way
We got confusion, delusion
And all of Friday night to kill
That was by far the best time that we ever had
That was by far the best time that we ever had
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