The Instance #167 – We Swim In The Hallow End Of The Pool (91 Comments)

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Big News Of The Week

3.3 Is Going To Be Bigger Than We Thought

Last week, we spent most of Rumors And Scuttlebutt talking about what players are telling us they’re dreaming about getting in World of Warcraft… someday, and since then we’ve gotten all sorts of interesting tidbits from the Public Test Realms, where Blizzard implemented build 10676 on Friday. We’ve had some looks into the future ourselves, and listeners have been sending us all sorts of notes and screenshots from within.

And have a look at the new shots of  Tier 10!

Rumors And Scuttlebutt

Crank It Up And Rip The Gnome Off!

This week on The Instance, we’re doing something we’ve never done before right here in Rumors And Scuttlebutt: We’re going to talk about the best WoW-related songs of all time. Or at least, of the last five years or so. World of Warcraft has inspired hundreds upon hundreds of musical deeds by every kind of amateur musician – parodies, style remakes, and pure original compositions. We love the WoW-related music scene.

In no particular order:

The prolific Ryan Myers, who has cranked out parodies like “Ninja Raiders” and “Clint Felwood”. Our favorite tune by him is “Action Bars“, a parody of “Handlebars” by Flobots.

One of the best pure singers making WoW parodies is known by the name Dax. He’s the guy who put out “Puggin’ Kara” last year – it was a re-working of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” – and his best song is one of our favorites. It’s also based on a Johnny Cash song – this one is “Walk The Line”, only Dax’s version is called “Aggro Is Mine”.

Way back when The Instance was still counting its’ first 20 episodes, and raiders were running Molten Core and Blackwing Lair, a musician named Cranius burst only the WoW music scene with a heavy complaint song called “Big Blue Dress.” He’s the guy who last year, released his best song about WoW, called “Darrowshire”. It recalls the sad story of that lost town in what is now Eastern Plaguelands.

Ever since the folks from Stone Falcon Productions turned out “The Ballad Of The Noob”, everyone in the WoW music scene have just waited for their next musical works. They’ve got several songs available at their website, which we have linked in our show notes, such as “Enrique’s Dance Party” and “Feel The Burn”, but “The Ballad Of The Noob”, which is almost a parody of “A Boy Named Sue” by Johnny Cash – but not quite – is still their best.

There are dozens and dozens of parodies of Weird Al Yankovic songs that include WoW lyrics, and most of them are… unfortunate. But sometimes a couple of kids in their dorm room decide to take on a truly difficult one, and the gold standard is a duo who call themselves Pizza And Fries, who changed Weird Al’s “Your Horoscope For Today” into “That’s The World Of Warcraft That You Play“.

Summergale is an unusual musical artist in this rundown, given that she’s a she. You might recall a song by Summergale called “Hard Like Heroic”. Her best song so far came out just this year, and it’s a collaboration with the aforementioned Cranius, and it’s a parody of “The Way I Are” by Timbaland and Keri Hilson called… “Ulduar”.

And our final song tonight is our favorite, but we can’t play the whole song for you. That’s because it’s not open licensed. But you can buy it on iTunes, and you won’t be among the first to do so. We’re of course talking about the most commercially successful WoW-related song of all time, “Do You Want To Date My Avatar” by Felicia Day and Jed Whedon, with the cast of The Guild.

Town Cryer

It’s all calls from listeners this week.

Drop Of The Week

Ren Faires Just Got A Little Bit Creepier, If That’s Even Possible

First it was TavernCraft, who released new WoW beer steins just in time for you to… drink something.  Now we get word that Museum Replicas, the company that so many role-players turn to for long boots and cloaks and fair maidens’ dresses… has teamed up with Windlass Studios and Blizzard to offer a line of life-size tabards and banners. They’re 100% cotton, custom dyed & embroidered with some of the most iconic symbols and heraldry from the game, and they’re this year’s must-have accessory for the WoW player who wants to be spotted from all the way out in the parking lot at Medieval Village.

Additional show content provided by Darrell the Tipgiver, Steve “Buxley” Pietrowicz and the outstanding Instance Community.

Special thanks to DogHouse Systems, FigurePrints!, TypeFrag and SquareSpace for sponsoring this episode.

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Oh look, you read all the way to the end!  Guess what – we’re giving away today’s Grunty The Murloc Marine in-game pet from Blizzard and The Instance overnight! We’re trying to vary the time of the day we give them away. Leave us a comment in this thread today before midnight PDT (that’s 3AM on Tuesday in EDT), and we’ll draw one person for the win!

92 thoughts on “The Instance #167 – We Swim In The Hallow End Of The Pool (91 Comments)”

  1. Absolutely fantastic show this week, the special guest was entertaining and just as humorous as you guys.
    Keep up the good work!

    Daniel

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  2. Still my favorite Wow related podcast (and I do listen to quite a few..) Would leave you a five star review, but I’m not touching itunes with a ten foot pole.

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  6. I have to say this was one of my favorite episodes so far. I can’t get the cover of a cover of Ninja Raiders out of my head recently.:P

    Cover idea though- how about Obey Henry death metal? Backwards lyrics and all too. Hahaha.

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  9. I love u guys so much. I did wanna ask you all something: Of all the combinations you guys have played, what is your favorite race/class combo?

    btw, i want the murloc. murlocs make me rofl.

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  11. Comment for show #166
    The RUN-D.M.C song “It’s Tricky” lyrics

    It’s tricky to rock a rhyme,
    to rock a rhyme, thats right on time!
    It’s trcky…How is it, its tricky, tricky tricky!

    (not It’s tricky to walk around) LOL!!!!

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    Richard Cheese does some pretty good party of rap songs
    (WARNING!! He uses the real lyrics so it’s explicit.)

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  12. Great show guy!!
    You guys make my days driving on the road so much bearable… Love the show.. Keep up the good work…
    First time writer but have been listing to u guys about a year!!

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  15. Hey Guys!

    This is perhaps my favorite show to date. When you all first played “Action Bars” on the show the first time, I was hooked and listened to it about 20 times. Since then, my ipod had erased that episode, and I’ve not been able to find it again. I’m so glad it got in this episode!

    Keep up the great work!

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  16. I started listening to you guys in May after starting a new internship. A quick google search for “wow podcasts” introduced me to the show, and I listened to the entire back catalog in the first month. I love the show guys; it has gotten me through many a long day.

    Thanks Scott and Randy,
    Baconataur, Tauren Warrior on Maiev-US

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  21. Ok, so i havent even downloaded the show yet, but from the show notes it is quite obvious that you two are audio freaks.

    Love the show.

    Thanks

    Yeb

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  22. Awesome show, as always. But i am surprised that you did not have Turpster WoW songs!! Some of the greatest WoW songs are by Turpster!

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  25. Please can I have little Gunty. Due to my work i was unable to watch the blizzcast stream so i did not buy it and also due to work i have missed most of your gunty give aways. I also might listen to to the show at work when i should be working :P

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  26. It was fun listening to the show live while watching u2 live on youtube. Keep up the good work and I can’t wait for the next show!

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  28. I’m not interested in the Obey Henry sitcker or the Fear Steve sticker…but I am interested in the “DING PONG FOR PRESIDENT” sticker and t-shirt!!!

    Make it happen Scott!!

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  29. Thank you sooo muuuuch for playing a clip from my version of Ryan’s Ninja Raiders at the end! I was beyond thrilled to hear it made it into in your podcast ^^.
    Full song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuF_qv-JHkE
    And if you liked that one, I’d be honored if you have a chance to listen to my solo WoW-parody song, “Shut Up and Grind”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttyyzUWvE84
    *Tells everyone she knows about The Instance and how it’s the BEST WoW podcast available ANYwhere*

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  32. It would be nifty if we could have some links to where to find the MP3′s of these, or where we can support the artists at… :-)

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  40. Just got an I phone. The instance is the first pod cast I have listened to. Caught your last 2 Shows and I Am hooked. I am a wow addict living just north of Toronto Ontario Canada. Been playing wow for 3 years now. Playing on the hydraxis server as a holy paladin called Esar. Love the show looking forward to more Esar

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