Inspired by The Replacements - Waitress in the sky. I guess Taxman qualifies too.
More?
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 8 May 2009 15:17 (sixteen years ago)
cop killer
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 8 May 2009 15:19 (sixteen years ago)
"working in audio"
Minutemen
― Bill Magill, Friday, 8 May 2009 15:20 (sixteen years ago)
The Smiths - Panic
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 8 May 2009 15:21 (sixteen years ago)
Gas Huffer - (Workin' in a) Shoe Factory
― bendy, Friday, 8 May 2009 15:22 (sixteen years ago)
"Let's Lynch the Landlord," Dead Kennedys"Kill My Landlord," Eddie Murphy
+ too many police and rock critic ones to name
― xhuxk, Friday, 8 May 2009 15:30 (sixteen years ago)
Being A Cobbler Is Dumb - Anal Cunt
― display mane (DJ Mencap), Friday, 8 May 2009 15:30 (sixteen years ago)
Masters of War - Bob Dylan
Bob is mean to defense contractors
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 8 May 2009 15:43 (sixteen years ago)
The Fall - Solicitor in Studio; Telephone Thing; The Classical; etc...
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, 8 May 2009 15:46 (sixteen years ago)
Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys
― mottdeterre, Friday, 8 May 2009 16:00 (sixteen years ago)
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing.
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 8 May 2009 16:13 (sixteen years ago)
Dire Straits - Les Boys
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 8 May 2009 16:14 (sixteen years ago)
5 Million Ways To Kill A CEO - The Coup
― gui lovato (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 8 May 2009 16:14 (sixteen years ago)
Dylan doesn't seem too have been impressed by mathematicians or carpenters wives.....
― sonofstan, Friday, 8 May 2009 16:28 (sixteen years ago)
Waitress In The Sky is pretty nasty. This big drunk rock star in his 20's putting someone down for being "nothing but a waitress". And I'm willing to bet that if a stewardess was mean to The Replacements, they deserved it.
― Brio, Friday, 8 May 2009 17:46 (sixteen years ago)
I think Westerberg's sister was a stewardess, and it was written, rather confusingly, in sympathy to her. Said something like that in the re-issues liner notes. Also, the acoustic version on there made me realize is a bit of a parody of Spirit in the Sky. Can't believe I never noticed that before.
― bendy, Friday, 8 May 2009 17:50 (sixteen years ago)
Were the Replacements rock stars? They always struck me as the type of band that had to drive in vans to their shows, and didn't get much of a chance to harrass stewardesses. When I was in college (late 80s, early '90s, I cant remember the exact year) they came to play a concert, and ticket sales were so pathetic, that they ended up making it a free show.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 8 May 2009 17:51 (sixteen years ago)
That don't impress me much - Shania Twain.
Rocket Scientists.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Friday, 8 May 2009 17:56 (sixteen years ago)
"New York City Cops" by the Strokes
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:01 (sixteen years ago)
"The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" - Rolling Stones
― james k polk, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:30 (sixteen years ago)
"The Sewage Worker's Birthday Party" by COIL
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:57 (sixteen years ago)
"Don't Talk to Sociologists" by the Red Krayola
― nabisco, Friday, 8 May 2009 19:18 (sixteen years ago)
Westerberg's sister must have a good sense of humour. I just listened to it again and the sympathy is hard to hear.
― Brio, Friday, 8 May 2009 19:37 (sixteen years ago)
It's written from the perspective of an obnoxious passenger she told him about...
― bendy, Friday, 8 May 2009 19:57 (sixteen years ago)
Phil Oakey of the Human League clearly looked down on cocktail bar waitresses.
― xhuxk, Friday, 8 May 2009 23:24 (sixteen years ago)
i did this musical in 5th grade about baseball and there was this song DUMP ON THE UMP
― 69, Friday, 8 May 2009 23:34 (sixteen years ago)
Athletic apparel executives: "The Politics of Sneaker Pimps" by Public Enemy
― Fyodor Lolstoevsky (Pillbox), Friday, 8 May 2009 23:41 (sixteen years ago)
― e.e. cummingstonite (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2009 23:46 (sixteen years ago)
Frank Zappa has lots of these. To name a few:
The Downtown Talent Scout - vice squadFlakes - contractorsRudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink, Stick Together - musician's union guyWind Up Workin' In a Gas Station - gas station attendantTruck Driver Divorce - truck driversHeavenly Bank Account, Jesus Thinks Your a Jerk, etc. - televangelistsGreggory Peccary - ad agent/"trend monger"Brown Shoes Don't Make It - city hall officialsCosmik Debris - mysticsSt. Alphonso's Pankcake Breakfast/Father O'Blivion - priestsEddie, Are You Kidding? - tailorsMagdalena - maple syrup producersPackard Goose - rock criticsLots of songs about musicians/groupies
― Moodles, Saturday, 9 May 2009 00:28 (sixteen years ago)
You left out dental floss tycoons (unless Frank was in favor of them; I was never sure.)
― xhuxk, Saturday, 9 May 2009 00:40 (sixteen years ago)
I'm pretty sure he wanted to be a dental floss tycoon.
― Moodles, Saturday, 9 May 2009 00:44 (sixteen years ago)
Randy Newman - "Mr. Sheep" (business drones, although he claims the songs is actually a poke at the narrator, not the business drone)
If "aging rock star douchebag who is possibly Randy Newman" is a line of work, then add another dozen Randy Newman songs.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 10 May 2009 00:31 (sixteen years ago)
"Dire Straits - Money for Nothing."
not really hate, unless Dire Straits hate themselvs
― Zeno, Sunday, 10 May 2009 00:50 (sixteen years ago)
nick cave - scum
― Zeno, Sunday, 10 May 2009 00:53 (sixteen years ago)
'We are All Prostitutes" by The Pop Group seems to imply that selling ourselves is not very cool.
― Fishes, You Hit Me With A Flounder (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 10 May 2009 01:03 (sixteen years ago)