Songs About Quitting Your Job?

SIDE A The Monochrome Set, "405 Lines" Outkast, "Bombs Over Baghdad" XTC, "The Meeting Place" The Magnetic Fields, "Take Ecstacy With Me" Peter Howell, "Greenwich Chorus" The High Llamas, "Up In The Hills" The Shangri-Las, "Give Him A Great Big Kiss"

SIDE B Julian Cope, "Reynard The Fox" Kool Keith, "Don't Crush It" The Auteurs, "Some Changes" Pharoahe Monch & Canibus, "Hell" Jay-Z, "Big Pimpin'" Momus, "Enlightenment" Marshall Hain, "Dancing In The City"

Robin (off in his own little world as usual)

for your tape, off the top of my head i'd suggest Lost In Music by Sister Sledge and The Smiths' Sheila Take A Bow. bah, i'd love to have time to make tapes ....

Once all that is done, then you make said tape. So 20th century, though; it's all CDRs and mp3 folders these days. Try starting with Ween's "Pumpin' 4 the Man." ;-)

All for the cheesy obviousness of the lyrics.

Congratulations on your liberty.

(note absence of incriminating Research International email address...)

'Makin' Plans' as recorded by Dolly Parton and, I think, Waylon Jennings,

and

'Leavin' On Your Mind' (Patsy Cline).

I have half a mind to start a subconversation (as Natalie Sarraute used to say at cocktail parties) about this 'voice' question (cf also the 6ths review). Namely: who likes or dislikes the voices of Patsy Cline and / or Dusty Springfield, and why? I'm not sure about Patsy, but I find Dusty S 'overrated', not in her canonical significance, not in terms of her range, but in terms of her... accent. The voice that her singing seems to bespeak seems to me gratingly midatlantic.

Blur - Best Of Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction Daft Punk - One More Time CDS Magazine - Best Of Piano Magic - Artists Rifles Various Artists - The Hit Factory: The Best Of Pete Waterman

That's all I can currently think of. What a pointless post. See you all next week, eh.

"In the Morning" by Built to Spill:

in the morning / feeling halfright / if it was more than just 1 day / i'd feel alright / today is flat beneath the weight of next day, next day, next day, next day / in the morning / feeling halfright / ignore my condition / just an isolated incident in the morning / feeling halfright / appearing normal / another isolated incident when my mind's uncertain my body decides / what it will do to get through the hell of the night / as I trip on the ocean that leads through your eyes / well my eyes can't wait til they finally see through you / when I get this feeling like I'm gonna start I just have to stop

See, I've just done it as well! I've quit my dayjob! Hooray!

Because I work (not for long) in Advertising, I'm listening to "Painter Man" by The Creation over and over again until the head of the "Creative" Department comes over and tells me to stop.

Here is where the money lay, classic art has had its day! Painter man, painter man, who would be a painter man?

And it *is* an appropriate title.

(I don't think I'll be posting in here for a while either. Ta-ta.)

Karma works!

In that case, may I suggest Beck's "Soul Suckin' Jerk"? I listened to this once drunk as piss after quitting a soul-destroying dishwashing job and I swear every one of my blood vessels sang along in joy.

It has power, that song. :-)

Quasi are geniuses.

Today I resigned from the job I accepted at the start of this thread (also the start of this board) (to start a better job).

"you can't fire me cos I QUIT!"

"N.O. J.O.B.
I don't work no more for this factory!"

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"I'm working my job while I write this song
The pay ain't good and the day is long
They're takin' away my life and it just ain't right
I gotta be strong and bite my tongue
I wanna soar 'em the bird and say 'So long ...
I'm gone ... and fuck your job'

But if I won the lottery
I'll tell you what I'd do
I'd tell my boss to go to hell
Then drive straight home to you

I wasn't made to work this hard
But I guess for me it's just in the cards
I'm a pawn in a losing game

My boss he's a regular S.O.B.
He's trying to take my soul from me
He's an asshole, drives me insane

But if I won the lottery
I know just what I'd do
I'd buy this place and fire my boss
Then drive straight home to you.

This place has gotten under my skin
I hate the smell when I walk in
It's a dump! It's a real shit hole

It's run by a bunch of idiots
Who make up the rules and don't know shit
It's a joke ... and it's on me

But if I won the lottery
I know just what I'd do
I'd buy this place and burn it down
And drive straight home to you."

(Yes, I'm redundant. This was crossposted on Songs about Shitty Jobs and Hating Your Boss thread.)

FIVE MORE YEARS

(except I don't have that stuck in my brain, I have "Final Day" by Young Marble Giants)

I had a job in the great north woods
Working as a cook for a spell
But I never did like it all that much
And one day the ax just fell

I guess Barse77 - I'm On The Dole would kind of fit here.

Get your paws off me! Get THE FUCK away from me!

I got a job making money for the man
throwing chicken in the bucket with the soda pop can
puke green uniform on my back
I had to set it on fire in a vat of chicken fat

I leaped on the counter like a bird with no hair
running through the mini mall in my underwear
I got lost downtown couldn't find a ride home
sun went down I got frozen to the bone

'til a hooker let me share her fake fur coat
as I took a little nap the cops picked up us both
I tried to explain I was only trying to get warm
I knew I never ever should have burnt my uniform

He said too bad. You want to bite the bullet hard son?
I didn't have no teeth so I stole his gun
and I crawled out the window with my shadow on a spoon
dancing on the roof, shooting holes in the moon

get busy, get busy, you know it
I ain't going to work for no soul-sucking jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't saying jack

i'd been listening to radiohead-polyethylene on the longass commute to work via express bus. i figure it had something to do with my decision.

at what i suppose would be the start of part 2, the lyrics go: "So sell your suit and tie and come and live with me"

. . . other lyrics include "If you don't believe me, well, sell your soul"

I decided to see what threadid=1 was and found myself, 7 years ago, pimping britpop. lovely!

Revive!

Was this really the first ILM thread ever?

"work it out" by 42nd street

"Life in Prison," Merle Haggard/The Byrds

I had a whole tape of these before I moved to Seattle.

sort of per above: "When I Win the Lottery," Camper Van Beethoven

kind of existential, but: "Drop the Bomb," Trouble Funk

"We're Not Gonna Take It," Twisted Sister

sort of: "Don't Talk to Me About Work," Lou Reed

"Big City" by Merle Haggard.

You celebrate by making a mixtape? No, YOU DO NOT. You celebrate by ordering a brilliant pizza, picking up some fantastic wine and having a laugh with your friends. And if you're not doing this right now I will chain you to the Levellers' caravan and make you listen to them AGAIN AND AGAIN.
Once all that is done, then you make said tape. So 20th century, though; it's all CDRs and mp3 folders these days. Try starting with Ween's "Pumpin' 4 the Man." ;-)

-- Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 August 2000 00:00 (7 years ago) Bookmark Link

Sigh. 9/11 changed everything.

Hate my Job - Butthole Surfers - 'sat here at my fucking desk, looking at it and all the rest...

'I hate Work ' Millions of Dead Cops

A -'five in the morning' spoke eloquently about not getting oneself into that ridiculous situation in the first place - like many of us, including me have managed to

DKs -' take this job and shove it'

'Surf Wax America' by Weezer
http://www.seeqpod.net/search/?plid=605dbbe782

Poison Idea's "Just To Get Away":

Quit my job
Told my boss stand aside
Grabbed a gun
A fifth of booze and my ride

What about Bobby Conn's "You aint ever gonna get ahead by giving head to the man"?

-- Michael Bourke, Thursday, 7 December 2000 01:00 (7 years ago) Bookmark Link

I left my job to go to University when I was 28... left the workplace and stuck this song on my headphones. Euphoria doesn't even get close.

This is thread 1 on ILM?

I listened to "Mario's Cafe" this morning to mark my own last rainy Kentish Town Thursday.

"Midtown" by Japanther is a fantastic job quitting song.

Only one brief mention of the insurmountable 'Lost In Music' by Sister Sledge? You are in for a treat when you hear it again!

"Mr. Sellack" by the Roches.

"Spread Your Wings" by Queen

so what's planned for the 26th then?

MDC - greedy & pathetic

never tell the truth, so full of lies
words so hollow, depth so shallow
you lie to us from the 40th floor
don't even know us
we're desperate and sore
you jack the rent can't save a cent
money we've earned we already spent
sorry to say, we're gonna blow you away careful starting your car today
so greedy, so pathetic, you're a liar
a slumlord, a thief, you're house is on fire and we see you through your office walls
and fancy chairs
people will see you crumble
and they'll won't care;

no thread about the ipod of Fed-Up Flight Attendant who Makes Sliding Exit?

What should happen at the FAP... Tom would be sitting at a table in a pub on his own. Then Josh would walk in and sit down with him. And then this mysterious Extension Trip person. Then Irene, Ned, Nick, and a second duplicate of Josh. And so on.

It's a vision.

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - i ain't gonna work tomorrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBZ64W7URoE

i quit my nice safe office job to help run a new musical instrument shop. prob a mistake, gonna be an adventure. feelin' a bit like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WngY-xti0lo

congratulations!
enjoy the ride.....

13 soon! Will ILX be holding a Bar Mitzvah party?

How about an exit interview?

Today, you are a man.

Buzzcocks' Breakdown, "Better give up the job before it gives up me"

I associate the Streets' "Lock the Locks" (title?) with leaving a job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmCrU_RjoZg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zug2QDB_AUI

Dirty Rotten Imbeciles - Money Stinks

"I'm staying home today...and I'm not going back to work!"

Is 'The Short-cut Way to Saturday' by Yeah Yeah Noh about quitting your job? Or fantasies of quitting your job?

on the wall the bricks are hours, I just crossed off another day
tomorrow, we say, we'll stop counting, then tomorrow we say the same again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdwAoqaGRyc

Unbelievable that "Maggie's Farm" hasn't been mentioned.

happy belated my sweet

Kevin Ayers, "Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes"

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, August 26, 2000 1:00 AM (15 years ago)

FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU-

(happy birthday, ILM)

<3 u ILM, happy birthday (belated)

take this job and shove it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrSVkTRb24

Oops seems it was mentioned 14 years ago. Still the best song about quitting your job.

Ugh, 15 was the worst of the angsty teenage years for me. Here's to ILX spending the next year hanging out in the basement, moping around and listening to Psychocandy.

I was 20 years old when I first posted in this thread. Mind blown.

I was 17 ;_;

Butthole Surfers OTM

happy birthday!

https://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/7330169666926.jpg

time to listen to this album that i have had hidden away for years then ?

arse .. crappy website stamp overlay

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510btZ5ZZAL._SX300_.jpg

Beck's finest hour ("Mexico") is a job-quitting rob-the-till-when-you-go song.

"Candy," one of my favorite songs by The Men, which starts with the line "I just quit my job now I can stay out all night long"

I had this song stuck in my head today, now I know why!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhpb_-QGPQ0

(seventeen years ago)

So was this the first thread on ILM?

Pretty sure I posted this upthread but it's not showing up.

The Statics - "I Quit"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zug2QDB_AUI

Aww ned that’s pretty cool

I'd like to say I was OTM in this thread

"Brilliant Pizza" is an interesting word combo.

I stand by it

As you should. It's amazing!

Damn, ILX turned 20 last month and I didn’t even notice.

it's all CDRs and mp3 folders these days.

it's amazing that 20 years later this is still as relevant

Damn, ILX turned 20 last month and I didn’t even notice.

https://i.imgur.com/bKJoHqQ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/zMNGEB9.jpg

Suede’s « By The Sea » :
« So we sold the car and quit the job
and shook some hands and wiped the make-up right off,
And we said our good-byes to the bank
left Seven Sisters for a room in a seaside shack,
And when I start my new life I won't touch the ground... »

the similarities between this photo and the one with mum-in-green are REALLY freaking me out

https://i.imgur.com/OjjoDYt.jpg

one day the axe just fell

left a good job in the city

"the axe just fell" isn't quitting!

I think it means “the last straw” etc

To get the axe? It means you’re fired

He "didn't like it all that much" so he was probably giving every reason to be fired, but still different from quitting

consufed

Matt DC did bring it up on the second ever ILX thread (which people claim was the first) a few days after the anniverary.

'Missing the 20 year anniversary' and 'Posting about it on the wrong thread' are both extremely on brand for ILX.

Happy 25th, ILX!!!!!

(for those who don't know, this was the very first ILM thread)

congratulations ILM

Somebody calling “Take this job and shove it” a Dead Kennedys song, ilx was already at its peak.

Everything was gravy after that. We invented AI.

damn ilx is a grown they them now