Songs About Quitting Your Job?

SIDE A The Monochrome Set, "405 Lines" Outkast, "Bombs Over Baghdad" XTC, "The Meeting Place" The Magnetic Fields, "Take Ecstacy With Me" Peter Howell, "Greenwich Chorus" The High Llamas, "Up In The Hills" The Shangri-Las, "Give Him A Great Big Kiss"

SIDE B Julian Cope, "Reynard The Fox" Kool Keith, "Don't Crush It" The Auteurs, "Some Changes" Pharoahe Monch & Canibus, "Hell" Jay-Z, "Big Pimpin'" Momus, "Enlightenment" Marshall Hain, "Dancing In The City"

Robin (off in his own little world as usual)

for your tape, off the top of my head i'd suggest Lost In Music by Sister Sledge and The Smiths' Sheila Take A Bow. bah, i'd love to have time to make tapes ....

Once all that is done, then you make said tape. So 20th century, though; it's all CDRs and mp3 folders these days. Try starting with Ween's "Pumpin' 4 the Man." ;-)

All for the cheesy obviousness of the lyrics.

Congratulations on your liberty.

(note absence of incriminating Research International email address...)

'Makin' Plans' as recorded by Dolly Parton and, I think, Waylon Jennings,

and

'Leavin' On Your Mind' (Patsy Cline).

I have half a mind to start a subconversation (as Natalie Sarraute used to say at cocktail parties) about this 'voice' question (cf also the 6ths review). Namely: who likes or dislikes the voices of Patsy Cline and / or Dusty Springfield, and why? I'm not sure about Patsy, but I find Dusty S 'overrated', not in her canonical significance, not in terms of her range, but in terms of her... accent. The voice that her singing seems to bespeak seems to me gratingly midatlantic.

Blur - Best Of Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction Daft Punk - One More Time CDS Magazine - Best Of Piano Magic - Artists Rifles Various Artists - The Hit Factory: The Best Of Pete Waterman

That's all I can currently think of. What a pointless post. See you all next week, eh.

"In the Morning" by Built to Spill:

in the morning / feeling halfright / if it was more than just 1 day / i'd feel alright / today is flat beneath the weight of next day, next day, next day, next day / in the morning / feeling halfright / ignore my condition / just an isolated incident in the morning / feeling halfright / appearing normal / another isolated incident when my mind's uncertain my body decides / what it will do to get through the hell of the night / as I trip on the ocean that leads through your eyes / well my eyes can't wait til they finally see through you / when I get this feeling like I'm gonna start I just have to stop

See, I've just done it as well! I've quit my dayjob! Hooray!

Because I work (not for long) in Advertising, I'm listening to "Painter Man" by The Creation over and over again until the head of the "Creative" Department comes over and tells me to stop.

Here is where the money lay, classic art has had its day! Painter man, painter man, who would be a painter man?

And it *is* an appropriate title.

(I don't think I'll be posting in here for a while either. Ta-ta.)

Karma works!

In that case, may I suggest Beck's "Soul Suckin' Jerk"? I listened to this once drunk as piss after quitting a soul-destroying dishwashing job and I swear every one of my blood vessels sang along in joy.

It has power, that song. :-)

Quasi are geniuses.

i quit my nice safe office job to help run a new musical instrument shop. prob a mistake, gonna be an adventure. feelin' a bit like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WngY-xti0lo

congratulations!
enjoy the ride.....

13 soon! Will ILX be holding a Bar Mitzvah party?

How about an exit interview?

Today, you are a man.

Buzzcocks' Breakdown, "Better give up the job before it gives up me"

I associate the Streets' "Lock the Locks" (title?) with leaving a job.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zug2QDB_AUI

Dirty Rotten Imbeciles - Money Stinks

"I'm staying home today...and I'm not going back to work!"

Is 'The Short-cut Way to Saturday' by Yeah Yeah Noh about quitting your job? Or fantasies of quitting your job?

on the wall the bricks are hours, I just crossed off another day
tomorrow, we say, we'll stop counting, then tomorrow we say the same again

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

Unbelievable that "Maggie's Farm" hasn't been mentioned.

happy belated my sweet

Kevin Ayers, "Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes"

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, August 26, 2000 1:00 AM (15 years ago)

FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU-

(happy birthday, ILM)

<3 u ILM, happy birthday (belated)

take this job and shove it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrSVkTRb24

Oops seems it was mentioned 14 years ago. Still the best song about quitting your job.

Ugh, 15 was the worst of the angsty teenage years for me. Here's to ILX spending the next year hanging out in the basement, moping around and listening to Psychocandy.

I was 20 years old when I first posted in this thread. Mind blown.

I was 17 ;_;

Butthole Surfers OTM

happy birthday!

https://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/7330169666926.jpg

time to listen to this album that i have had hidden away for years then ?

arse .. crappy website stamp overlay

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510btZ5ZZAL._SX300_.jpg

Beck's finest hour ("Mexico") is a job-quitting rob-the-till-when-you-go song.

"Candy," one of my favorite songs by The Men, which starts with the line "I just quit my job now I can stay out all night long"

I had this song stuck in my head today, now I know why!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhpb_-QGPQ0

(seventeen years ago)

So was this the first thread on ILM?

Pretty sure I posted this upthread but it's not showing up.

The Statics - "I Quit"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zug2QDB_AUI

Aww ned that’s pretty cool

I'd like to say I was OTM in this thread

"Brilliant Pizza" is an interesting word combo.

I stand by it

As you should. It's amazing!

Damn, ILX turned 20 last month and I didn’t even notice.

it's all CDRs and mp3 folders these days.

it's amazing that 20 years later this is still as relevant

Damn, ILX turned 20 last month and I didn’t even notice.

https://i.imgur.com/bKJoHqQ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/zMNGEB9.jpg

Suede’s « By The Sea » :
« So we sold the car and quit the job
and shook some hands and wiped the make-up right off,
And we said our good-byes to the bank
left Seven Sisters for a room in a seaside shack,
And when I start my new life I won't touch the ground... »

the similarities between this photo and the one with mum-in-green are REALLY freaking me out

https://i.imgur.com/OjjoDYt.jpg

one day the axe just fell

left a good job in the city

"the axe just fell" isn't quitting!

I think it means “the last straw” etc

To get the axe? It means you’re fired

He "didn't like it all that much" so he was probably giving every reason to be fired, but still different from quitting

consufed

Matt DC did bring it up on the second ever ILX thread (which people claim was the first) a few days after the anniverary.

'Missing the 20 year anniversary' and 'Posting about it on the wrong thread' are both extremely on brand for ILX.