Editor’s note: 2 DJs and a Boombox is exactly that. Dark Knight, a popular radio personality, and Moss Pit, a local mobile music DJ, play each other a few tunes and let their thoughts flow.

Dark Knight and Moss Pit: One, two, three …

DK: Rock crushes scissors, baby. Moss Pit goes first.

“She Don’t Use Jelly”

Ben Folds Five

MP: From “Lounge-a-palooza.”

DK: Is this “She Don’t Use Jelly”? Yes. I love this. I’ve never been able to find this anywhere. I looked for it after you played it for me one time.

MP: I love this cover. He sings it so funny.

DK: It is a lounge song. I picture a guy in a bad tux, sitting in front of a piano in a cheap lounge in some basement in New York, people sitting around smoking cigars, drinking martinis.

MP: Ben Folds whales. I saw him this summer and he did “Song For the Dumped” last. That huge jam at the end, he stands up and starts pounding the keys with his stool. It was rad.

DK: Pulling a Jerry Lee Lewis. That’s someone I would have liked to have seen in his prime.

MP: Didn’t he play in Okoboji last summer?

DK: Yeah, I saw him at one of those Rock ‘N’ Roll Reunion things. He still plays well but doesn’t have the same attitude.

Who does the original of this?

MP: The Flaming Lips. An Ames favorite.

“Saturday Night”

Ned’s Atomic Dustbin

DK: It’s almost the same song, just a bit more of a techno feel to it. Nice cool effects on his voice.

MP: Ned’s Atomic Dustbin is underrated. I love some of the stuff they’ve done.

DK: Another underrated group on this same soundtrack is Big Audio Dynamite.

MP: “So I Married An Ax Murderer.”

DK: I love this soundtrack because I always think of the movie. You always read about how it was a flop, but, I’m sorry, there are so many people who love this movie.

MP: Who did the original?

DK: Bay City Rollers. They were real big in the late ’70s. You see in the movie he has a Scottish Wall of Fame. He’s got like David Frost and Sean Connery. Then at the bottom, there’s a picture of Bay City Rollers.

MP: Mike Myers was pretty classic in that movie.

DK: Oh yeah. He’s the one actor working today who can pull off playing dual roles. He’s actually working on a romantic comedy where he plays the guy and the girl.

“Faith”

Limp Bizkit

MP: This one might be a little heavy for your tastes.

DK: That’s alright.

MP: It’s a classic, classic cover.

DK: Oh my Lord, George Michael. Who is this?

MP: Limp Bizkit.

DK: This is funny. I still remember when this song got huge, everybody, whenever this song came on, would play air guitar and shake their butts.

MP: Wait ’til you hear the chorus. He goes nuts.

The second verse is sped-up. It’s really cool — very punk rockish.

DK: Now I know why George Michael got busted in the bathroom. He heard this song and lost his mind.

This is exactly the way you do a cover song. Same music. Same lyrics. But you use a totally different style. A good example of the opposite right now is Ace Of Base’s “Cruel Summer.”

MP: That sounds exactly the same.

DK: People were calling up saying, “Oh, I heard you played Bananarama earlier.”

MP: That record scratching right there — DJ Lethal from House of Pain.

DK: Sounds like he’s having an asthma attack at the end.

MP: I interviewed Limp Bizkit last year, and they said they were going to do a cover of Paula Abdul’s “Straight Up” on the next album. So, we’ll see if they do.

“Build Me a Buttercup”

The Goops

DK: Two questions: One, have you seen “Something About Mary”?

MP: Oh yeah.

DK: Have you seen “Mallrats?”

MP: No, I haven’t.

DK: It’s very underrated. It’s a very funny movie. Just after “Clerks,” everyone thought Kevin Smith was selling out.

This was a song from that that they actually made a video for that had Jay and Silent Bob in it.

If you’ve seen “Something About Mary” you know they do “Build Me a Buttercup” by The Foundations. This is a different version of that song and they totally jazzed it up.

MP: I like this. “I need you, I need you.”

The music’s way cool. I don’t know if I am that impressed with her voice.

DK: It’s not a major beautiful voice, but it does the job.

MP: I love that part in the end of “Something About Mary,” when they do this. It’s so funny.

DK: It’s the only movie I can think of that used Brett Favre as the perfect man.

MP: Chris Elliot was so disgusting.

DK: Oh God. Those hives. It’s like “Outbreak” all over again.