Dale Gribble's Playlist

We don't get to see much of Dale's taste in music, compared to John Redcorn's obvious taste in classic rock. So we must interpret and headcanon what Dale's favored music would be like! And like many good things, this begins with a fic rec.

Shane told me to read this extremely fucked up bisexual hentai fic, and you know what, he was right, it was pretty fucked up.

Dales Depravity by InebriatedGoose67

I truly believe Dale Gribble himself wrote this in-between huffing Sevin Dust and roach poison. I truly really do believe that Dale would happily zerk it to the absolute boner killers of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart while nonconning Nancy and John at the same time. I respect the author and now feel fear as well.

(I guess this is what people think about me LMAO but in my case I feel like my own stuff is totally tame crying necrophile yaoi… Es normale. I guess it's scarier to me when women are the ones being stalked and stuff :P Cuz that happens so much in a lot of fictional stories and on the news and stuff…)

It's funny that the fic includes a lot of songs directly in the script - up to and including full song lyrics! I think ff.net actually has rules against putting copyrighted song lyrics in the fic.. but I ain't telling no one. I haven't listened to many of the songs before, but I recognized many of the artists as punk bands. So I had to compile the music into a playlist for your and I's listening pleasure.

Here's the Dale's Depravity playlist, enjoy Dale's disturbing taste in music while he licks John Redcorn's earlobe. Surprised Oingo Boingo ain't on here tbh:

The songs are pretty good! 60's-70's punk that Dale would have grown up with, and thus internalized as part of his mentally ill + socially anxious adult personality. He wasn't a cool jock so he wouldn't have been into cock rock like Hank Hill or John Redcorn. It works as both music that fits the character, and music that.. well fits the story.

Velvet Underground - “Sunday Morning”: A intentionally saccharine 50's suburban feel for the music, contrasting with serial killer lyrics about feeling there's always someone after you. Of course it fits our bald little paranoid delusionist.

Frank Zappa - “Ms. Pinky”: Penis brapping music with a harmonica solo by Captain Beefheart, about a inflatable sex doll. Musically and lyrically, I would compare it to Alice Cooper - “Billionaire Dollar Baby” - being totally perverted to a doll cuz you can do whatever objectifying thing you want to she/her (not it!!!). Fits what Dale wants to do to Nancy and John, and perhaps what he thinks Nancy and John have done to him.

The Cramps - “Human Fly” : this choice made me shit myself because Shane fucking loves this song while he's cooking. So now I can associate it with Dale licking John's ear lobe AND shane cooking. Yayyyy. And this is why Dale's fursona has to be a pest insect like a cockroach or fly. Stinky! Yucky! Has built his entire ego on killing things smaller than himself.

The Cramps - “Garbage Man” : More psychobilly freakouts. Ironic because The Cramps are damn Yankees from New York, but they've appropriated the hillbilly trashiness for their own image. Hey, Dale would totally be a Texan trailer trash meth head if he didn't have Nancy as his sugar mommy. And a garbage man is much like an exterminator, they're dirty jobs that ain't respected. This is actually making realize that Dale Gribble and Weevil Underwood have similar parasitic nasal personalities… Huh. Well, guess that makes them semes.

Dead Boys - “I Need Lunch” : Quirky sexist glam punk anthem! It's about fucking girls, calling them bitch, and punching them. And then telling them to get you a sammich. Quite Cotton Hill in personality! And Dale has a strange obsession with Cotton, it fits that he would idolize this sort of masculinity while actually being Nancy's little cuck pet. And that makes me think how a lot of cock rock/hair metal anthems (ala John Redcorn's type) are very much in the vein of “i just want to fuck, no romance”, and get rightfully called out for misogyny, but they RARELY have explicit lyrics about violently beating your girl up… Girls have different tastes in dudes!

GG Allin - “Bored To Death” : Suicidal nihilistic kuso punk anthem! With a little bit of homophobia too - “I don't like faeries and I don't like fools”, which is funny when the story includes Dale forcibly kissin' John. I actually haven't heard GG Allin's music before, seems fairly standard 1 minute long punk music, not as sonically offensive as people have said it is. Listen, there's no such thing as an original idea, but there IS such thing as you being one of the two people on earth doing that thing. Like, now that GG Allin's dead, we don't have as many people eating their shit onstage and shooting themselves.

I think the point I was trying to make was related to yaoi - you'd be surprised how many people DO ship Dale/John and crave it, but how little actual work there is for it!!! So you will stand out a little bit if you do create that thing. The idea isn't that original, hell Dale/John is just what the episodes with them are, but making it explicit? that's rare! Do it! Make your weird rare yaoi! Also yeah, Dale would be thinking of himself as a avant-garde punk on the edge of society.. he is a maverick and a gun club president, and a sovereign rights truther…

Frank Zappa - “Carolina Hard-Core Ecstacy” : Another Frank Zappa groovin' jazz-rock joint, this time about fucking a lady and then engaging in consensual foot stomping on her until she looks like she's dead. Three big booms for Mr. Zappa for not only making some of the most sonically unappetizing penis music I've been suggested to listen to because I must love Frank Zappa cuz he's funny, but also the most sexually unappealing lyrics I've heard. I know that's the point too!! So good job on him for doing what he wanted to do, and doing it well.

I don't have a personal beef against Frank Zappa, I do admire that he's influenced some other artists I like like like Devin Townsend, Buckethead, etc. I'm just ?? that he gets suggested to me in the same way JJBA is suggsted to me LOL. There are some overlapping aspects of my art and personality with their work! But it's not quite a 1:1 fit :P Again, I'm more in the John Redcorn realm of big stupid cock rock. I like how stupidly up front it is about being stupid. You can't dodge around the meaning of “Smooth Up In You”… and there's less lyrics about beating women up, more about doing.

It does make you think about the characters! I wonder what John Redcorn thinks about Dale putting on penis music to rape him to??? This could be a form of psychological torture to him too.! What if a rift in Dale and Nancy's marriage is cuz Dale keeps listening to penis music? And all Nancy wants is kuso hair metal, like Warrant and Poison, with hot long-haired dudes that look like ladies, like John Redcorn??

Verdict: Three golden bananas 🍌🍌🍌 Great music and characterization, hurts my head.

This blog post was cobbled together and slightly edited from a bunch of 3am blorbs on blorbo.social.

I know for a fact that Dale Gribble listens to Mr. Bungle in his goon basement, and Nancy doesn't like it, and that's why she gets headaches and has to go to John Redcorn's New Age Healing clinic.

Seriously, I think Dale was that eccentric nerd that was into not-so-cool music that would get him swirlied by jocks in high school. I'm not joking about him probably loving Oingo Boingo fr! My own experience with liking not-so-cool music is weird cuz my taste was a mix of the intentional sonic dissonance of Oingo Boingo and Buckethead and Strapping Young Lad, crossed with the same good ol' dad rock that John Redcorn listens to. In my case, I wasn't BULLIED really, but everyone thought I was weird for listening to “old” music, music without lyrics, and… well, just heavy metal in general. I distinctly remember some kid named Kai scoffing when I connected my ipod to the speakers being like “pffft. ch-CH-ch-Changes, that's so gay”. I think a lot of normie people like David Bowie now… especially gay kids calling him a bi icon or something.

Things were weird back then though. You'd say you like metal, and then get people asking if you watched Rock Of Love and I'd have to be like hell no I listen to Full Moon Bongzai, Poison is fuckin het!!!!!! I haven't watched Rock of Love until I caught some episodes with Shane. And people would call all metal music “screamo”, which is so funny when something as dad rock as Metallica gets called “screamo”.

I am truly the self-fufilling fanbaby of my headcanon Dale's socially unacceptable music crossed with John's lame outdated boomer rock… I AM THE JOSEPH GRIBBLE except I don't have a prescription for my illness.