songs about how work/job sucks

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my friend just got fired, so i want to put a bunch of slack-motherfucker/soul-sucking-jerk type songs on a mix. suggestions?

― catherine h., Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Lee Dorsey -- Gotta Get a Job

Pathos, y que.

― Dreft (VampireSubmarine), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Ween - Pumpin' 4 the Man and Dandy Warhols - Ultra-Lame White Boy

― spiderbaby, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

correction: Gotta FIND a Job

― Dreft (VampireSubmarine), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Crumbsuckers - Live To Work

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Dolly Parton - 9 To 5

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

how bout that rage against the machine song that's like, "fuck you, i won't do what you tell me!!!"

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Superchunk - Slack Motherfucker
Butthole Surfers - I Hate My Job

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

doh

just noticed you mentioned slack motherfucker in the first post.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

does "minimum wage" by they might be giants count?

― mat, Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The Futureheads - First Day

― random poo head, Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

If you can find it, "5 O'Clock" by The Opposable Thumbs:

Come on
Come on 5 o'clock
Before my brain and body stop
I'm turning into one of them
So hurry up 5 p.m.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Kanye - Spaceship

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

wham rap!

― bulbs (bulbs), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

hehheh

Hey everybody take a look at me,
I've got street credibility,
I may not have a job,
But I have a good time,
With the boys that I meet "down on the line"

I DON'T NEED YOU
So you don't approve,
Well, who asked you to?
HEY, JERK YOU WORK
This guy's got better things to do
HELL
I ain't never gonna work, get down in the dirt
I choose, to cruise
Gonna live my life, sharp as a knife
I've found my groove and I just can't lose
I'm style from head to toe
Cool cat flash gonna let you know
I'm a soul boy - I'm a dole boy -
Take pleasure in leisure, I believe in joy!

― bulbs (bulbs), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

uh. Take this Job and Shove It, duh.
JOHNNY PAYCHECK MUTHAFUCKAZ

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

songs about shity jobs

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex Chilton - Lost My Job
Canibus f/ Biz Markie - Shove This Jay-Oh-Bee (and three or four other things from the 'Office Space' soundtrack)
Jimmy Reed, et al. - Big Boss Man
Lee Dorsey, et al. - Workin' in the Coal Mine
Johnny Cash - Oney
Roy Orbison - Workin' for the Man
The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
The Silhouettes - Get a Job

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

uncanny xmen "work" -i sang this at school("everybody want's to work , no no not me)
bros "i quit" - i sang this at work(i've had it up to here now,i'm taking a break, i quit)

i'm unemployed now.........

p.s. mental as anything covered:Roy Orbison - Workin' for the Man

― lazyboy, Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

-- Forksclovetofu (forksclovetof...), January 27th, 2005.

this was my number one choice
where are pepsi and shirley ?

― lazyboy, Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

deacon blue - wages day
michael jackson - working day and night
sheena easton - 9 to 5 (morning train)
johnny kemp - just got paid
rolling stones - dirty work
prince - work

http://search.sing365.com/search.php?searchstr=work&category=song&x=13&y=3

― lazyboy, Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Amy Rigby -- "The Good Girls"

The Smiths -- "Frankly Mr. Shankly" ("I've got the 21st Century breathing down my neck" may be the greatest reason for quitting a job ever.)

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 27 January 2005 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Aesop Rock - 9-5ers anthem

― Seuss, Thursday, 27 January 2005 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Dead Prez - W-4

― deej., Thursday, 27 January 2005 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

flaming lips -bad day (isn't that what it's called?)

― reo, Thursday, 27 January 2005 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

mining for gold - cowboy junkies version

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 27 January 2005 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Earlimart - Burning the Cow has something to do with work.

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Thursday, 27 January 2005 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, maybe it's Earlimart - We Drink on the Job.

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Thursday, 27 January 2005 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Ugly Duckling - I Wanna Go Home

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Friday On My Mind - Easybeats
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke

― Bretty, Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Captain Beefheart, Plastic Factory

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Cabaret Voltaire, Kneel to the Boss

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Spermbirds - Shit Job
Queers - I Don't Wanna Work

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Traditional songs:
Dark as a Dungeon (great, pathetic song)
Drill Ye Tarriers Drill
Big Boss Man

Fountains of Wayne -- tons of songs: Hey Julie, Bright Future In Sales, Mexican Wine, Bought For A Song, Amity Gardens, Sink To The Bottom, Sick Day

― John Schapiro (Vornado), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Sixteen Tons, dammit

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. Lif - "Live from the Plantation"

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"Say Boss Man," Bo Diddley

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Black Flag - Machine

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Dead Kennedys - At My Job

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 28 January 2005 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Lou Reed, Don't Talk to Me About Work

... yeah, like he's ever done a day's work in his life

― Two Otto Muehls For Sister Sara (Dada), Friday, 28 January 2005 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe that's why he doesn't want to hear about it!

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 28 January 2005 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I Need A Goddamn Job - The Replacements
Poor Paddy - The Pogues
Working Hard, or Hardly Working? - Killdozer
Born Toulouse-Lautrec - New Bomb Turks

― Bren (Bren), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, I fergot two really good ones: Return The Gift by Gang of Four and 5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO by The Coup.

This could be a really long thread.

― Bren (Bren), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Wipe it away - Bleach

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Happy Prole" - Quasi

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Bow Wow Wow -"Work"

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

responding to my own post, here's the final tracklisting:

TGIF, Le Tigre
Soul Suckin' Jerk, Beck
Slack Motherfucker, Superchunk
This Ain't No Picnic, Minutemen
Career Opportunities, The Clash
Why Dont You Get a Job, Offspring
God Damn Job, The Replacements
GBV Philosophy 101, Guided By Voices
No Work, Queen Latifah
Bright Future In Sales, Fountains Of Wayne
Take This Job and Shove It, Bobby Bare, Buck Owens, Jeff Tweedy &
Radney Foster
Bad Days (Aurally Excited Version), The Flaming Lips
Will Work For Food, The Halo Benders
Frankly, Mr. Shankly, The Smiths
Spegetti Western, Primus
Jesus and Tequila, Minutemen
Pumpin' 4 the Man, Ween
Work Is Overrated, Chicago Skinny
Work Is a 4 Letter Word, The Smiths
Get Back In Line, The Kinks
The Happy Prole, Quasi
It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career, Belle & Sebastian
Finest Worksong, R.E.M.

― catherine h., Thursday, 3 February 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

The sordid truth is
I don't want to be here.
I can't put it simpler.
I don't want to be here.
What don't you understand?
I don't want to be here.
And don't call me lazy
Cuz I don't want to be here.

Don't forget what they taught you in grade school
Can't pound a square peg into a round hole
Don't forget what they taught you in grade school
Can't pound a square peg

When's the next holiday. I don't want to be here.

Wine and dine and try to show up
Whine and drool and cry and spit up
Check your watch it's time to grow up
Check your hairs before they split up

Am I some kind of genius when I don't want to be here
Or am I a defeatist when I don't want to be here
Am I at war with the world when I don't want to be here
Or was it declared on me when I don't want to be here

Might as well hang yourself with the tie you wear
If you don't get away at some point next year
Might as well hang yourself with the tie you wear
If you don't get away

When I do retire
I don't want to be here

Wine and dine and try to show up
Whine and drool and cry and spit up
Check your watch it's time to grow up
Check your hairs before they split up
Wine and dine and try to show up
Whine and drool and cry and spit up
Check your watch it's time to grow up
Check your hairs

― W i l l, Thursday, 23 July 2009 15:40 (sixteen years ago)

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