Drown your 360 sorrows with Ring of Fire parody song

by Kevin Kelly { Jun 17th 2007 at 4:30PM }

The red ring of death is something no 360 gamer ever wants to see. However, every time you turn around you seem to hear about another one being sighted somewhere. In fact, Microsoft ran out of boxes to return them in. It's there a secret cardboard shortage we don't know about that's even more dire than the oil crisis?

Xbox 360 lover Jeromy "Doc" Adams lovingly paid tribute to both Johnny Cash and the console in his Ring of Fire song. We know you'll appreciate it. Think this thing is getting any airplay up in Redmond?

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Tags: Johnny Cash, Red Red, Red Ring of Death, RedRed, Ring of Death, Ring of Fire

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

SeNiLe911 @ Jun 17th 2007 4:34PM

After downloading the song, head over to the petition regarding the download content and sign it:

http://www.petitiononline.com/fixxblm/petition.html

I am on my third Xbox 360 and I decided to upgrade to the Elite and now M$ won't do anything about the download content I purchased that now does not work offline or under another gamer tag. Everyone should sign it since one day you will be affected, if you ever upgrade or have it replaced for one reason to another. Please sign it.

mor @ Jun 17th 2007 4:34PM

hahahahaha

"better games than ps3..."

Dirtyboy @ Jun 17th 2007 4:42PM

LOL, I can relate to this since mine just died yesterday.

steve Johnson @ Jun 17th 2007 4:59PM

BWWWWAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH!!!!!

Best laugh I've had all week!!!

synce @ Jun 17th 2007 5:16PM

Very well done! Personally I've seen the ring 3 or 4 times, but I never let it get to me since I bought the extended warranty. I learned that it's a wise choice to do that after I went through 3 PS2's.

Aaron @ Jun 17th 2007 5:33PM

@#2

Darkness
Two Worlds
Bioshock
Mass Effect
Timeshift
Halo 3
Half-Life 2: The Orange Box
BlackSite: Area 51
Unreal Tournament III
Grand Theft Auto IV - 360 gets exclusive content
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
Assassin's Creed
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Army of Two
Devil May Cry 4
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Too Human
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
C&C Tiberiam Wars (Spelling?)
Moto GP '07
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
John Woo presents Stranglehold
Eternal Sonata
Beautiful Katamari
VF 5
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction

Yes, I know some of those are for PS3 just didnt feel like looking at them.

fleisch @ Jun 18th 2007 5:28AM

Very appropriate, mine died on wednesday. I only got 3 red lights though, had to find a suitable mail-a-coffin for it which was tough enough!

Poisoned Al @ Jun 17th 2007 5:53PM

Aaron, we'll be sending you a sense of humour in the post. Please allow 7 working days and please do not use the internets until you brand new humour is received.

TheGuy @ Jun 17th 2007 5:54PM

@#6

Darkness
Timeshift
Half-Life 2: The Orange Box
BlackSite: Area 51
Unreal Tournament III
Grand Theft Auto IV - PS3 has its own exclusive content
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway
Assassin's Creed
Army of Two
Devil May Cry 4
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
John Woo presents Stranglehold
Beautiful Katamari
Lair
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Heavenly Sword
Folklore
LittleBigPlanet
Killzone
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
The Agency
MGS4
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy Versus XIII

Just to show others the PS3 has quality games coming too.

Shockgamer @ Jun 17th 2007 6:10PM

Begun, the List Wars have.

Dan @ Jun 17th 2007 6:11PM

Lmao... do fanboys ever go to bed? Or are you guys in bed now with ur laptops so u can troll the internet while you rest?

alan @ Jun 17th 2007 6:26PM

LMFAO @ 10

funny as fuck

lawl @ Jun 17th 2007 6:58PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qbt3mDugGQ

I youtube'd it if you guys want to embed it.

Adam @ Jun 17th 2007 7:30PM

Funny, but innacurate from my experience. Mine just went out, and I just got off the phone with Xbox Support an hour ago. It wasn't difficult to use, it understood exactly what I was saying... no problems at all.

Well, there was one small problem. My system is out of warranty, and it'll cost me $140 to get it fixed. But it's better than buying a new one.

Triforceowner @ Jun 17th 2007 7:30PM

You know you made the correct console choice for yourself when your list of exclusive purchase options during the summer is only a few less than another console's for a year.

BioShock
Forza Motorsports 2
Mass Effect
Overlord
Too Human
Two Worlds
Shadowrun

I don't mean to add to the list war; this is more of a personal thing than something anyone else should consider. All I'm saying is I'm happy, and everyone else here should be seeing the lists of games we will all be able to play.
Halo 3

Triforceowner @ Jun 17th 2007 7:33PM

Where did that halo 3 come from at the end of my post, LOL. Oh, it was supposed to be part of the list, my bad.

Ian Von Porter @ Jun 17th 2007 7:39PM

That was very well done.. lol!

Wobble @ Jun 17th 2007 7:56PM

i personally just had a run in with the red ring of death its the damn X clamps + crappy airflow guide thats killing them. seeing as i had nothing to loose i replaced the xclamps with a better mounting mechanism that got it booting but it took a heat gun to reflow the solder to get it stable. =D if your out of warranty might as well give both of thoes options a shot i mean its all ready out of warranty and broken :) you really cant make it much worse =D

cesp00l @ Jun 17th 2007 8:38PM

I wonder how many people have ended up spending more on a xbox360 than if they had bought a PS3 when you take into account the 140 dollar replacement cost... I know, the 360 is awesome and a lot of you woulda bought it if it was the same price as a PS3, but it is kinda interesting to think about.

Also something to think about. playstations have a 10 year life span, sony has said so and it seems to reflect accurately judging by the fact that the ps2 is still having games made for it. Xbox on the other hand, had about a 5 year life span. If that is true for the 360, then the next gen for Microsoft will require you to buy another console in around 2010, whereas ps3 will be having games made until 2016.

I don't know about you all, but it seems more and more obvious to me that although the ps3 had a higher initial cost, the actual cost of the ps3 is actually lower.

Fanboys...flame away.

polly @ Jun 17th 2007 10:06PM

lol...that was great. might have to karaoke it at the bars for some nerd rep.

Triforceowner @ Jun 17th 2007 10:12PM

So cesp00l is dragging to variables in. Durability and life time are the two factors. I like how you compare the PlayStation 3's life time to the PS2's, but don't comment on the PS2's durability. Interesting take.

Iacobus @ Jun 17th 2007 10:36PM

The ring of fire isn't a console crash message, it just means your AV cables aren't plugged in.

Therefore, the graphic is incorrect.

Mmhmm.

davidsinnott @ Jun 17th 2007 10:49PM

The PS3 does not have a 10 year life span. 10 years is how long Sony will be pushing the consoles to make a profit.

The PS2 had the same deal yet I went through SIX of them. I hate to think how much it will cost me to go through SIX PS3's.

Matt B @ Jun 17th 2007 11:11PM

Let me know if that happens davidsinnott.

Please, let us all know when and if that happens.

davidsinnott @ Jun 18th 2007 2:21AM

What? When I go through six PS3s?

I said I hate to think how much that will cost. But I can if you really want me to.

You will have to wait for the PS3 to get some games I want first. It might take a while.

FrankTheCrank @ Jun 18th 2007 9:04AM

Wow...I was seriously ready to plunk down $399 for this thing, but with all these RROD stories, FORGET IT!! No friggin way!!

Micro$oft, you better do something about this. You think selling 154,000 units in May was bad. If this continues...it's only going to get worse.

AirIntake @ Jun 18th 2007 9:42AM

@SeNiLe911

Why didn't you hold on to your hard drive?

Genius @ Jun 18th 2007 10:39AM

And with this, it is the exact reason why Ill never buy a 360. How Microsoft was able to make such a crappy piece of hardware yet get consumers (see fanboys) to accept having to pay $140 just to get it fixed even though it was no fault of their own is amazing.

Although the only "next gen" (if you can even call it that) console that I own is a Wii and I despise that thing.

Phranctoast @ Jun 18th 2007 12:17PM

This seems like MS's biggest downfall. I even want one for the exclusives, but when all but one of the people I know with one have already experienced the ring of death, theres no point in bothering.

cesp00l @ Jun 18th 2007 12:30PM

@davidsinnott

Maybe I am misinformed. I know some people had problems with the launch PS2s, but I didn't think people thought the PS2s had the same level of failure that the xbox360's did. Is that what you are claiming?

And what was your replacement process like? Did you have to pay for each replacement of the PS2?

@Triforceowner

true I didn't comment on the PS2 failure rate...but I also didn't comment on the xbox failure rate...was this wrong of me, I don't know. Are you saying the failure rate of the PS2 was signifanctly more than the xbox?

jojockamo @ Jun 18th 2007 4:41PM

AND I STILL WANT ONE!!!!!!!
I dont own a 360 yet, but Im able to play at a friends who owns 2.(He has a bachlor pad setup)He's gone through 5 systems between the 2. And I still want one. I have a great time playing and love the games on it so far. Plus I'll save gas being able to play from home.
So far for current Gen, I have a Wii (Im afraid to beat Zelda, fearing I will stop using the system. And Im a Nintendo fanboy, Stocks in the company and all)Down the road I'm sure I'll look into getting a PS3, but MGS4 is all I want so far.

davidsinnott @ Jun 18th 2007 11:08PM

@ cesp00l The PS2 was a faulty mess of a machine (Seemingly most of the problems came from the DVD drive I believe) I do consider myself VERY unlucky to have gone through that many units during its life span. I know of only one person who didnt need ore than one unit and thats my friend who is still using his launch console daily and its going strong.

I dont know how the PS2 compares to the 360 in terms of failure rate all I know is that alot of PS2's failed (I also had problems with the Slim ps2 due to a design fault with the cable used to connect the DVD drive).

I only had one die during its waranty period and that was a pretty easy replacement at the point of sale. The others I just had to buy new consoles (Not as bad when the prices got quite low on them)

The point I was trying to make though was that it was not a huge deal to me. Alot of people are complaining about the "real cost" of the 360 and I think thats a silly argument.

I spent probably well over 6 grand on the PS2 all up (Consoles, games and extras) during its life. Is that the real cost of the console? Not by me.

Everyone can have an opinion though and thats cool. I do think that the 360 should be alot more stable though. It should be easy to fix seeing as most of the faults are coming from the GPU.

cesp00l @ Jun 19th 2007 5:41PM

@ davidsinnott

Good points. I too am willing to pay extra for something I like. Thats why I have a PS3. And I understand why people like the xbox360.

The "silly argument" I was trying to make is to all those people who say..."I wanted a PS3, but it was too expensive." To all those people who I see trolling this site and others, I say have fun with your cheaper 360, but when it gets to be more expensive than my PS3, don't cry. It is cheaper for a reason.

P.S. I know, I know, there are better games for the xbox360. But price should not be a reason ANYONE buys a 360 over a PS3.