Eben Brooks: Beat Up the Scum

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Eben Brooks performing "Beat Up the Scum", a filk of Sheryl Crow's "Soak Up the Sun" about the MMORPG City of Heroes. Performed at Lestat's Coffeehouse in San Diego, CA.

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"Soak Up the Sun" copyright © 2002 by Cyrillic Soup and Old Crow Music.

City of Heroes/City of Villains copyright © 2003--2008 by NCsoft, Inc.

BEAT UP THE SCUM
words by Eben Brooks

My friend the big badass
Fights bad guys out in R.V.*
I'm not high enough to pass
So I'm stuck here farming XP

I don't have epic pools**
I don't have diddly squat
It's not having what you need
It's knowing what to slot***

(Chorus)
I'm gonna beat up the scum
I'm gonna tell everyone that I'm in town
I'm gonna tell 'em that I'm
Gonna throw 'em in jail
And if they try to jump bail
I'll hunt them down

Crime is a crummy job
It won't help you make it big
You can't even pay the mob
To keep you out of the Zig****

But every time I turn around
The prison walls are coming down
Maybe something's wrong with me
To make me fight this villainy
But this looks like a job for me!

(Chorus)

I'm gonna beat up the scum
I got my super-suit on so I can have fun.

* R.V. = Recluse's Victory, a high level zone

** Epic pools = powers you get at high level

*** Slot = To enhance a power

**** "The Zig" = Ziggursky Prison, also known as The Ziggurat

Category:

Comedy

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• spoof
• Eben
• Brooks
• Lestat's
• San
• Diego
• acoutstic
• folk
• rock
• Sheryl
• Crow
• Soak
• Up
• The
• Sun
• City
• of
• Heroes
• Villains
• filk
• superhero
• comic
• books
• geek
• mythology

[kowaiyukidono]

So, a friend offered to buy me City of Heroes. After careful consideration, the tie breaker was pretty much this song.

I absolutely love your voice, and have really been enjoying CoH so far. (It is exactly what I've been looking for in an MMO.) Pretty much sticking to Virtue so far.

Thanks for the laughs.

[ebenbrooks]

@kowaiyukidono Excellent! I'm glad you've enjoyed it. Virtue is a popular server; I have a few characters there myself. ;-)

[kowaiyukidono]

@ebenbrooks Due to crippling shyness issues, I pretty much only RP there. But if you see Angry Fruit Salad or Miriam White, give me a holler.

[ebenbrooks]

@kowaiyukidono I will do so! :)

[iamthemindseye]

Well...Mr. Brooks, nice job ! I love your parody....I also liked your biographical movie starring Kevin Costner. Although you're not as pleasing to the eye as Sheryl Crow...your video is quite entertaining. Keep up the good work ! Weird Al has some competition !

[ebenbrooks]

@iamthemindseye Thank you very much. :D

[ebenbrooks]

@talanhawke Oh, you're welcome. And thank you! I'm glad you like it.

CoH is still there, and lemme tell ya, Going Rogue and the Incarnate stuff are really freakin' awesome.

[talanhawke]

I'm getting all misty-eyed thinking about my CoH days. Thank you, Mr. Brooks. This is awesome! :)

[ebenbrooks]

@TheEjster Thanks! :D

[TheEjster]

Awesome.