Editor’s note: 2 DJs and a Boombox is exactly that. Jake, a former DJ at Campustown bars, and Moss Pit, a local mobile music DJ, play a few tunes for each other and let their thoughts flow.

Jake and Moss Pit: One, two, three …

J: Paper covers rock.

“Sacred Stones”

The Samples

J: Have you heard much of The Samples?

MP: No, actually, I’m somewhat of a Samples virgin.

J: They’ve come through a few times and I saw them two summers ago when it was just Sean Kelly and another guy doing duets.

MP: I’ve heard their shows are amazing.

J: The new thing for a lot of local and regional bands is to cover their song “Indiana,” which is a great, great song. I’m glad they’re starting to have that kind of influence — that’s the ultimate form of flattery.

MP: The Samples have a ton of records, don’t they?

J: Yeah, a lot of records. And they have a really solid sound to them. You can listen to them all the way through. Because of that, I don’t even know which songs are which.

MP: That’s when you know it’s a good CD, when you don’t know the names of the songs. Kind of ironic, but it’s true. That’s how Semisonic’s “Feeling Strangely Fine” is for me, I can listen to it three times in a row, but I’m so into it, I never think to get the names of the songs.

“Somebody”

Veruca Salt

MP: This is from the Depeche Mode tribute album, done by Veruca Salt, who has since broken up.

J: I don’t know this one.

MP: My high school girlfriend made me a tape one time and put the original of this on there and it just …

J: Rips your heart out. Yeah, it sounds like it could definitely have a lot of emotional overtones to it.

MP: I was bummed when Veruca Salt broke up. There were one of the better chick rock bands.

J: I’m sure they’ll reform under some other name.

MP: This answering machine part is from the original. I was thinking the other day, how common answering machine messages have become on CDs.

J: For one of my creative writing classes, I’m in the middle of writing a paper that is all just a string of answering machine messages from one night. No narration, just as if you pushed play. Anymore, so much of life is lived through answering machine messages.

“Color Of Her Eyes”

Gear Daddies

J: This is another regional band that has been covered lately. Since they broke up, they’ve become more popular than ever. This is what I affectionately call “The Shacker Song.”

This is one band I’m so upset I never saw live. I’ve seen Martin Zellar so many times and he puts on such an amazing show that I wish I would have gotten in a little bit earlier.

MP: Martin Zellar is a great performer. The first time I saw him, I didn’t know any of his music, and I still had a blast.

J: I love that line: “I can’t remember her name/ And I’m sorry for all my lies/ But I can remember her voice/ And the color of her eyes.” It’s ultimate regret.

Continuing from last week, this song is the result of a lot of those booty calls. “Aw man, who is that next to me. I don’t want them to be there.”

MP: Yeah, this is classic college material right here.

J: Martin Zellar is the ultimate bar-goers balladeer. If you go out to the bars, if you drink, if you get screwed over by women, whatever, you read his lyrics and think, “That man has been reading my mind.”

MP: His voice is perfect for his songs. He just croons, you know. He’s the Neil Diamond of our generation.

“Making Time”

Creation

MP: This is from the “Rushmore” soundtrack, which is one of those where there is not really any notable songs on it, but it’s just fun to listen to and it goes so well with the movie.

J: Have you seen the movie?

MP: Yeah, it’s great. And the music plays such a big part of it. The guy who wrote and directed the movie picked all the songs for soundtrack and wanted them to have this “angry teenager rebel” sound to them.

J: It sounds like it’s music that compliments, not distracts from the movie. So many movies anymore try to pick songs that are popular hits. I love “Can’t Hardly Wait,” but the Smash Mouth song seems like it was just thrown in because it was a Top 40 song at the time.

MP: It’s interesting to look at movies and how they use soundtracks.

J: What’s amazing is how many of these songs will now become popular.

MP: It all started with the whole “Wayne’s World” …

J: “Bohemian Rhapsody,” I was just thinking that.

MP: And “Pulp Fiction” was the same. It revived Dick Dale …

J: “Jungle Boogie.”

MP: “Son of a Preacher Man.” I love the ’60s raw guitar sound on this song.

J: It grinds.