Songs that for some reason hate on a certain line of work

Inspired by The Replacements - Waitress in the sky. I guess Taxman qualifies too.

More?

cop killer

"working in audio"

Minutemen

The Smiths - Panic

Gas Huffer - (Workin' in a) Shoe Factory

"Let's Lynch the Landlord," Dead Kennedys
"Kill My Landlord," Eddie Murphy

+ too many police and rock critic ones to name

Being A Cobbler Is Dumb - Anal Cunt

Masters of War - Bob Dylan

Bob is mean to defense contractors

The Fall - Solicitor in Studio; Telephone Thing; The Classical; etc...

Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing.

Dire Straits - Les Boys

5 Million Ways To Kill A CEO - The Coup

Dylan doesn't seem too have been impressed by mathematicians or carpenters wives.....

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.

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.

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.

That don't impress me much - Shania Twain.

Rocket Scientists.

"New York City Cops" by the Strokes

"The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" - Rolling Stones

"The Sewage Worker's Birthday Party" by COIL

"Don't Talk to Sociologists" by the Red Krayola

Westerberg's sister must have a good sense of humour. I just listened to it again and the sympathy is hard to hear.

It's written from the perspective of an obnoxious passenger she told him about...

Phil Oakey of the Human League clearly looked down on cocktail bar waitresses.

i did this musical in 5th grade about baseball and there was this song DUMP ON THE UMP

Athletic apparel executives: "The Politics of Sneaker Pimps" by Public Enemy

Frank Zappa has lots of these. To name a few:

The Downtown Talent Scout - vice squad
Flakes - contractors
Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink, Stick Together - musician's union guy
Wind Up Workin' In a Gas Station - gas station attendant
Truck Driver Divorce - truck drivers
Heavenly Bank Account, Jesus Thinks Your a Jerk, etc. - televangelists
Greggory Peccary - ad agent/"trend monger"
Brown Shoes Don't Make It - city hall officials
Cosmik Debris - mystics
St. Alphonso's Pankcake Breakfast/Father O'Blivion - priests
Eddie, Are You Kidding? - tailors
Magdalena - maple syrup producers
Packard Goose - rock critics
Lots of songs about musicians/groupies

You left out dental floss tycoons (unless Frank was in favor of them; I was never sure.)

I'm pretty sure he wanted to be a dental floss tycoon.

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.

"Dire Straits - Money for Nothing."

not really hate, unless Dire Straits hate themselvs

nick cave - scum

'We are All Prostitutes" by The Pop Group seems to imply that selling ourselves is not very cool.