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 …

MP: Paper covers rock. Me first.

“Shimmer”

Shawn Mullins

MP: I picked this tune ’cause I liked “Lullaby,” before it was murdered by radio, of course. I mean, the guy’s got talent.

J: Oh yeah, he’s got such a unique voice. You want to hear him sing. And you can hear what he’s saying. I liked “Lullaby” the first two times I heard it, of course, that was in one afternoon.

MP: In 10 minutes. On the same station.

J: Timmy Likes to Fish did this song at People’s and improvised in words about Ames.

MP: Yeah, I was there. That was cool.

J: I think they would have just gotten stuff thrown at them had they done the original.

I like this better than “Lullaby,” actually.

MP: It’s got a little stronger chorus, but a lot of the same kind of talking verse. It’s good to see this kind of music do well on radio. It could rescue radioland from boy bands and shitty pop music.

J: And anymore, you have to be so bizarre to get on the radio that it’s good to hear something with a guitar and a voice. It’s like, if you don’t use a blender and a vacuum in your song, you’re not going to make it to Top 40.

MP: A lot of these guys, like Elliot Smith and Rufus Wainwright, critics love ’em, but they haven’t done anything on radio. If people like Shawn Mullins can help get the male singer/songwriter back on the radio, than I’ll listen to “Lullaby” 10 times a day.

It’s funny there’s two songs out right now called “Shimmer.”

J: It’s like all the sudden, they found this new verb. “Hey, we got to shimmer it.” Right now, there’s 18 other artists going, “Shit. Maybe we could go ‘Glimmer.'”

“911 Is A Joke”

Public Enemy

J: I remember when this came out, running around high school, rapping “911 Is A Joke.” It was comical. We didn’t know what half this stuff meant.

MP: Telling your parents you were militant and neither one of you knew what you were talking about.

J: A good friend of mine went to a costume party and all he did was take a clock off his wall, hang it on a rope around his neck and put on a pair of shades, and everyone was like, “It’s Flavor Flav.”

MP: I used to love Flavor Flav. His voice was so tough. One thing about Public Enemy is they had the coolest shirts. That guy in the scope of the gun.

J: You know who that is supposed to be? I saw a thing with Chuck D and the person in the sight is supposed to be a caricature of Run DMC — that type of mainstream rap.

I never new that. I always just thought it was somebody kicking ass.

“Chewbacca”

Supernova

MP: From the “Clerks” soundtrack, a basic rock anthem … but including the monstrous Chewbacca roar.

J: It’s amazing how the trilogy is such a part of life. With Kevin Smith movies especially. Everyone is expected to know it, and if you don’t, “Get out of here.”

MP: “Chewy, chewy, what a wookie,” is the basic lyrical element of this song, but you know …

J: Well, I think everyone wants to hug a seven-foot ball of hair.

“Booty Call”

Fast Eddie and DJ Sneak

J: This is an import from Chicago that was sold to me when I worked at Tazzles. It’s become a favorite at all the dance bars and parties that I work. And I’ve never seen it anywhere else.

MP: I’ve never heard it.

J: The scary thing is I lost it for two years, then it just showed up in someone’s room and I said, “Wait a second, I know that’s mine.”

MP: It’s got a classic club beat.

J: There’s a great part coming up where the guy makes a booty call — just the classic conversation every guy has heard his roommate make.

MP: We all now that feeling.

J: I love that line, “Baby, you ain’t gonna believe this, but I was just thinking about you. Oh, you’re on your way over.”

MP: I think people just need to be more honest about booty calls. Instead of all the lines, they need to just say, “Hey, this is a booty call. You know what to do.”

J: Instead of trying to figure out a reason for them to come over.

MP: “We’re just getting ready to put in a movie, I think you’ll like this one.” That’s a classic. My roommate used to use that one with “Titanic.”

I mean, that’s the worse booty call excuse ever. You just don’t start watching “Titanic” at 2:30 a.m., half drunk.