X Marks the Beat: Songs about Mr Sulu

Friday, December 12, 2014

Suds Me Up, Sulu

If I ran a game store I would play the song Suds Me Up, Sulu by Warp 11.

There are very few homoerotic bath-side rock ballads suitable for playing in a game store, but Suds Me Up, Sulu is one of them. In it, Warp 11 plays their guitars gingerly trying to lure Star Trek's Mr. Sulu into a naughty bathtub encounter. The song is played for laughs with lyrics full of filthy puns. You can almost hear George Takei ejaculating his catchphrase "Oh my!" Don't worry, the song doesn't run into foul language. This one is sure to get laughter and groans from patrons in my fictional game store.

Suds Me Up, Sulu is from Warp 11's 2002 album, Red Alert.

Suds Me Up, Sulu on CDBaby

If I ran a game store ...

The music at my FLGS sucks. They either play the local rock radio station or they play Lord of the Rings or Star Wars soundtracks. There are people who write, play, and record music aimed at gamers, but the music remains obscure because the brick and mortar bastions of geek culture do not play them. I believe there is a catch 22 here with the obscurity causing stores to overlook it and since it is overlooked it is obscure. X Marks the Beat wishes to remedy this situation by providing a list of quality music that will appeal to the clientele of game stores. Herein is a list of songs about RPGs, video games, movies and TV shows, fandom, and more. The three primary tags used are FLGS to indicate songs that are appropriate for play in game stores, NSFW to indicate songs that are inappropriate for play in game stores but that target gamers, and IFFY to indicate songs that I think will appeal to gamers but are not about gamer topics per se.

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I maintain the playlist on Google Play Music. The playlist can be found here: FLGS.