Songs about the music industry, list them

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stockholm monsters - how corrupt is rough trade?
regurgitator - i sucked a lot of cock to get where i am

cruel bees (electricsound), Saturday, 6 November 2010 01:36 (fifteen years ago)

Mess Of My - The Fall

Zeno, Saturday, 6 November 2010 01:37 (fifteen years ago)

Understandably, Badfinger had a lot of them:
"Apple of My Eye"
"Hey Mr. Manager"
"Rock & Roll Contract"

Sonic Youth - "Swimsuit Issue"
Neil Young & the Shocking Pinks - "Payola Blues"
George Harrison - "This Song"
The Clash - "Complete Control" (maybe)

Hideous Lump, Saturday, 6 November 2010 05:50 (fifteen years ago)

'The Na Na Song' - Sheryl Crow
'Don't Let Me Get Me' - Pink (Already mentioned this one in the Rolling P!nk Thread)

That's not a "laugh track", it's an audience and you're in it. (MintIce), Sunday, 7 November 2010 22:14 (fifteen years ago)

John Fogerty - "Zanz Kant Danz"

xhuxk, Sunday, 7 November 2010 22:38 (fifteen years ago)

The Beatles: Baby You're a Rich Man

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Monday, 8 November 2010 00:47 (fifteen years ago)

Gruppo Sportivo, "I Shot My Manager"

xhuxk, Monday, 8 November 2010 01:05 (fifteen years ago)

A Tribe Called Quest - Rap Promoter

Fellini.Kuti, Monday, 8 November 2010 01:57 (fifteen years ago)

"Get Off the Air," Angry Samoans...Rodney Bingenheimer was pretty much an industry unto himself, so this seems to fit.

clemenza, Monday, 8 November 2010 02:05 (fifteen years ago)

Spiderbait - "Buy me a Pony"

Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Monday, 8 November 2010 02:27 (fifteen years ago)

Tractor - All Ends Up

Up the voltage. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 8 November 2010 02:41 (fifteen years ago)

Mark Germino and the Sluggers, "Rex Bob Lowenstein"

Jake Brown, Monday, 8 November 2010 04:33 (fifteen years ago)

Does "the record company, Rosie, just gave me a big advance!" count?

Jake Brown, Monday, 8 November 2010 04:34 (fifteen years ago)

Aimee Mann - Calling It Quits / Nothing Is Good Enough

turkey, Monday, 8 November 2010 06:48 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26VJobcLhao&feature=related

LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 8 November 2010 07:11 (fifteen years ago)

☠ all pigs must die ☠

Life! The Story of Life (CaptainLorax), Monday, 8 November 2010 08:47 (fifteen years ago)

Afghan Whigs - "Neglekted"

Ain't Gonna Play "Fist City" (sic), Monday, 8 November 2010 09:06 (fifteen years ago)

C'n'C-S Mithering - The Fall

Millsner, Monday, 8 November 2010 13:19 (fifteen years ago)

Human League "The Black Hit Of Space"

Kim, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 18:36 (fifteen years ago)

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

John Stewart - Gold

very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 18:47 (fifteen years ago)

Black Sabbath- The Writ
Motorhead-We Are the Road Crew

Randy Moss' dog's personal chef (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 19:29 (fifteen years ago)

guided by voices - game of pricks
archers of loaf - audiowhore
superchunk - the popular music

mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 19:34 (fifteen years ago)

Bad Company, "Shooting Star"

Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 19:38 (fifteen years ago)

No one mentioned Maggie's Farm yet? Wow.

drug stealer, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 19:40 (fifteen years ago)

gg allin - raw, brutal, rough & bloody

mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 20:11 (fifteen years ago)

Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy. Sorta? If the rules are loose, then probably about 87% of all rap songs.

drug stealer, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 20:13 (fifteen years ago)

boston - rock and roll band

mookieproof, Saturday, 20 November 2010 16:38 (fifteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

This is one of my favorites, and it can be applied to job hunting in general:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHTFyC4wksA

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 17 November 2022 18:26 (three years ago)

I was always partial to Frankly, Mr. Shankly (The Smiths)

Nabozo, Thursday, 17 November 2022 18:40 (three years ago)

"Bought Myself a Liarbird" – XTC

Hah, that was my immediate thought on seeing the thread title and it was the second one anyone mentioned

you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 19 November 2022 01:19 (three years ago)

No one mentioned Travels in Nihilon so that

you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 19 November 2022 01:21 (three years ago)

Also arguably Train Running Low on Soul Coal

you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 19 November 2022 01:21 (three years ago)

GZA - Labels
Superchunk - Shallow End

"Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Saturday, 19 November 2022 01:51 (three years ago)

Andrew Beaujon, "Packaging Deduction"

gucci meme (theStalePrince), Saturday, 19 November 2022 04:30 (three years ago)

John Prine, "Onomatopoeia"

Lily Dale, Saturday, 19 November 2022 06:07 (three years ago)

M. Ward - "Shark"

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

Dinsdale, Saturday, 19 November 2022 19:43 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FRAeFyBX1w

link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 19 November 2022 19:51 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_roTCXelnq0

calstars, Saturday, 19 November 2022 21:37 (three years ago)

^ Afrosmith “no surprize”

calstars, Saturday, 19 November 2022 21:39 (three years ago)

Peter Hammill, "Two Or Three Spectres"

lord of the rongs (anagram), Saturday, 19 November 2022 22:04 (three years ago)

The Pooh Sticks - “I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan McGee Quite Well”

Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 20 November 2022 01:14 (three years ago)

The Police - "A Sermon"
Gentle Giant - "Interview"
and Bachman-Turner Overdrive - "Welcome Home":

So glad we left the prairie city
And now we're living on the coast
We went and got ourselves a manager
We all think he's the most

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 25 November 2022 20:07 (three years ago)


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