Songs about being in a band

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start with the two obvious greats
All the Way from Memphis and Complete Control

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Art Brut - Formed a Band

― zeus (zeus), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

entire Replacements discography

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Also "Hey We're the Replacements" by They Might Be Giants.

Two that stike home are Ballad of the Band by Felt, where they are all hating it and wanna break up, and Down In Bermuda (aka Monologue about Bermuda) by Jonathan Richman, where he describes how he realized how uptight the original Modern Lovers were "After that trip to Bermuda, you know, that band never got along as well after that. That was really the beginning of the end for us. It's true. Cause I started getting way into that kind of stuff you know. Started buyin Calypso records and things."

― everything (everything), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART TWO BY THE MINUTEMEN

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

SHOULDA KNOWN WE'D NEVA GET FAR

Btw, if you are Stan Erraught, i'm a fan! :P

― deekew (deekew), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Joe's Garage by Frank Zappa plus many more - most of 200 Motels and Fillmore East were about being in a band.

Band on the Run - Wings

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Auteurs - Some Changes
Auteurs - Future Generation
David Bowie Lady Stardust
Beatles - Back in the USSR
Beautiful South - Song For Whoever
Brassy - No Competition
Chicks on Speed - We Don't Play Guitar
The Clash - Garageland
The Clash - All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts)
Fugazi - Merchandise
Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon - Buy My Snake Oil
Dead Kennedys - Pull My Strings
Kristin Hersh - Listerine
Mclusky - To Hell With Good Intentions
Minor Threat - Cashing In
Probot - Shake Your Blood
Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
Simon and Garfunkel - Homeward Bound

― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Worst song about being in a band: The Hellacopters - I'm In The Band

― strom (strom), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Revere & the Raiders - The Great Airplane Strike

Jefferson Airplane - A Song for All Seasons

War - The Music Band

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

told me later/ she was a machine operator/ said she liked the way i held the miiiicro-phone

― deekew (deekew), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

PHILISTINES JR.

Everything they ever did.

Seek them out. They were so warm and lovely.

― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Traveling Band - CCR
Perhaps Down on the Corner too?

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Boston - "Rock and Roll Band"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Down on the Corner" is abt a band from the third person, innit? (a la "Sultans of Swing")

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Super Trouper"

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Weezer In the garage

― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - yeah, I think you're right about Down on the Corner - my bad

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Thursday, 5 October 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

is gimme indie rock just about listening to music?

― Maf54 (plsmith), Thursday, 5 October 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

b&s - this is just a modern rock song
OH SHIT

THE BARBARIANS - MOULTY

― Maf54 (plsmith), Thursday, 5 October 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

ramones - danny says
blur - look inside america

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 5 October 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Captain Lou - NRBQ
God's Own Singer - The Burritos (3rd Person tho')

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Thursday, 5 October 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

dire straits - sultans of swing

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 5 October 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

i can't believe no one has mentioned bryan adams' "summer of '69" yet!

― robert anderson (venimdenim), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

That's because it's a paean to oral sex.

― Arno Oliver Bedder (noodle vague), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

Metallica and whoever did it originally - Turn the Page.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Whiplash by Metallica, how could I forget.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

Kiss, "Beth," kinda.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

Moody Blues - I'm just a singer in a Rock n' Roll band

― ross m (Snorb), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

Bob Seger - Turn the Page

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 6 October 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

Jackson Browne - entire Running on Empty album

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 6 October 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

Aerosmith, "No More No More" . . . quoted in:
Beastie Boys, "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn"
Chuck Berry, "Little Queenie"
Nick Lowe, "They Called It Rock"
Pavement, "Cut Your Hair"
Alice Cooper, "Be My Lover"
Motorhead, "America"
Bo Diddley, "The Story of Bo Diddley"
Love, "Number Fourteen"
Rolling Stones, "Respectable" (well, about being the Rolling Stones, anyway)

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Friday, 6 October 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

hit parade 'my stupid band'

― keyth (keyth), Friday, 6 October 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

Don't Be Denied - Neil Young

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 6 October 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

Kiss, "Beth," kinda.

kinda? that's the greatest being-in-a-band song ever written!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 6 October 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yo La Tengo, "Big Day Coming"

("We can play a Stones song, 'Sitting on a Fence,' and it'll sound pretty good til I forget how it ends")

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Friday, 6 October 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - "Prisoners of Rock 'n' Roll"

(A nice f#@k you song to David Geffen on Neil's last Geffen record)

― I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit (I say we take off and nuke the), Friday, 6 October 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

that bowie song, join the gang or whatever it was called... i'm not looking it up cause i'm pretty sure that's it. what a cool tune.

― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Friday, 6 October 2006 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

Minutemen - Tour Speil
AC/DC - It's A Long Way To the Top (If You Wanna Rock And Roll)
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper - Where the Hell's My Money?

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Friday, 6 October 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

thrasher - Young

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 6 October 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

The Bonzos - "The Bride Stripped Bare by 'Bachelors'"

This is the best song ever, y'know.

― Arno Oliver Bedder (noodle vague), Friday, 6 October 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

Average White Band : "Work to do"

Oh, there was a song called "I'm an Adult Now" about "I don;t like listening to loud rock music, I love playing it I just don;t want to listen to it" but I can't remember who it was by, or wether they ever did anything else noticeable.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 6 October 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

Average White Band : "Work to do"

Good shout - its an Isley Bros. song though isn't it? anyone know the original?

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Friday, 6 October 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Randy Newman (or Van Dyke Parks or Harry Nilsson), Vine Street
The Chills, Dream By Dream

― TS: Mick Ralphs v. Ariel Bender (Dada), Friday, 6 October 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

Grand Funk, "We're An American Band"
Fairport Convention, "Come All Ye"

― mark 0 (mark 0), Friday, 6 October 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

Culturcide, We're an Industrial Band

― TS: Mick Ralphs v. Ariel Bender (Dada), Friday, 6 October 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, there was a song called "I'm an Adult Now"… but I can't remember who it was by…

That was by The Pursuit of Happiness.

― mark 0 (mark 0), Friday, 6 October 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

Meatmen - Wine, Wenches and Wheels
Lagwagon - Sleep

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

"I had a dream that we were rock stars
And that flash bulbs popped the air
And girls fainted, every time we shook our hair.
We were songbirds, we were Greek Gods
We were singled out by fate
We were quoted out of context - it was great.

Grander than Castles, Cathedrals or stars
Electric Guitars!
Riots in airports - everywhere that we go
Mascara meltdown - hysteria-a-go-go
Electric Guitars!"

"Electric Guitars" - Prefab Sprout

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

pink floyd - comfortably numb

― dave q (listerine), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Rock Is My Life (And This Is My Song)

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

10cc: The World Band In The World

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

I've Had It - Aimee Mann

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

lynyrd skynyrd - workin' for mca
frank zappa - crew slut
anal cunt - no, we don't want to do a split 7" with your stupid fucking band

― dave q (listerine), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - The Beatles
"Cover of the Rolling Stone" - Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
"The Man Who Was Too Loud" - Frank Black
"Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal" - They Might Be Giants
"Rhythm Section Want Ad" - They Might Be Giants
"The End of the Tour" - They Might Ge Giants

― monocle (Sean Miguel), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

fun things - savage

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Air - Electronic Performers
Art Bergman - Contract and to a lesser extent Beatles In Hollywood, Bound for Vegas & Guns and Heroin.
The Smugglers - Rock N Roll Was Never This Fun

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Portland Woman - NRPS

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

What's the date today
Is it gonna rain
Can I leave here now before the show

Who's that other band
Just another one night stand
They can't sing and play as well as us

Just a week ago we were in Texas
Tomorrow night we play the Albert Hall
I'm sorry there's no time to talk to you right now
We're the biggest, the loudest, hairiest group of all

We cut a record once
it sold a lot in France
Now we're getting tired of the game
In and out of towns
satisfying crowds
Pillheads and the rest who come to hear

But things were fine when we made the money roll
Living off the fat of every land
Slept with girls who couldn't read or write too well
We're the biggest, the loudest, hairiest group of all

Then the bubble broke
we thought it was a joke
We could make a come back any day
We knew that we were right
the band was out of sight
The music's getting better all the time

But the crowds got smaller every place we played
And the clubs got dirtier as well
When the music stopped it was quite plain to see
The biggest, loudest, hairiest group of all

Yeah, the biggest, the loudest, hairiest group of all
Yes, the biggest, the loudest, the hairiest group of all

(Reed/Cale/Nico, 1972)

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oasis - Rock 'n' Roll Star

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Waylon Jennings-Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?

Can't believe we've gone this far without mentioning:

Mamas & Papas-Creeque Alley
Mott The Hoople-The Ballad of Mott The Hoople

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Pet Shop Boys - "Yesterday When I was Mad"

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Phoebe Kreutz - Ballad Of Throat Culture

― sibsi (sibsi), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Kool and the Gang - Hollywood Swingin'

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Of Montreal - My British Tour Diary

― Rat Nasty (ratnasty), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

i can't believe no one has mentioned bryan adams' "summer of '69" yet!

Er, sixth post of thread: SHOULDA KNOWN WE'D NEVA GET FAR

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Grateful Dead "Playing in the Band"

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

The Grateful Dead -- Playing In The Band (x-post)
The Rolling Stones -- Jigsaw Puzzle; about half of Exile on Main Street
The Reputation has some good "band songs": Face It, Let This Rest
Cafe Tacuba -- Tomar El Fresco
Sleater-Kinney -- almost everything, but how about You're No Rock-and-Roll Fun, Ballad of a Ladyman, or Words and Guitar
Whiskeytown -- Faithless Street

― John Schapiro (Vornado), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Jefferson Starship - Stairway to Cleveland

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Overnite Sensation - The Raspberries

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Friday, 6 October 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

The original of "Work to Do" is by the Isley Brothers.

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Saturday, 7 October 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

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