Songs About Quitting Your Job?

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"Summertime Blues," maybe. Take The Who _Live At Leeds_ version, of course.

― Mark Richardson, Thursday, 1 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'Socialized Death Sentence' by Dystopia is the ultimate my-job-sucks song

― Chris G, Thursday, 1 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Did nobody mention "Take This Job & Shove It" by Johnny Paycheck , or did i skim-read this too fast? it's kind of a sad one, 'cause he's going "if I had the nerve to say...", but he doesn't. The Ramones song that has those lines "I don't like Burger King/etc etc etc" is "I'm Against It" not "I Wanted Everything" . Oh yeah , also : "Lost My Job" - Alex Chilton, "Quit My Job" by Bobby Marchan, "Seventeen" (aka "Lazy Sod") - Sex Pistols.....

― Duane Zarakov, Tuesday, 20 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I can't believe I actually missed this thread!

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?

― kate stclaire, Tuesday, 27 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

one month passes...

"Too Long" by Daft Punk. It's the only track on any of the MDs in my bag I've yet to hear, and, so, after telling my newly-ex colleagues precisely what I think of them in the pub at lunchtime, it'll be the soundtrack to my last ever WAGN trip south from Welwyn.

And it *is* an appropriate title.

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

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 5 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

My resignation came into effect yesterday - The Avalanches-'Since I Left You' came on the radio (THANX JO !) soon-after which added to my bliss.

― Geordie Racer, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Strangely enough I was imagining my one surviving grandparent possibly hearing "Since I Left You" yesterday. It was played on Radio 2 within three hours of Vera Lynn. Another welcome nail in Major's cultural coffin.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Slackmotherfucker by Superchunk

― JM, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

No one seems to have mentioned 'Draining The Pool For You' by the Go Betweens. Is that too obvious?

― Nick, Sunday, 15 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

By some odd coincidence, when I got unofficial word that I was getting a job offer beyond my wildest dreams and I was getting ready to tell my current boss, I was playing "I Wanna Fuck You In The Ass" by The Outhere Brothers on my headphones.

Karma works!

― Dan Perry, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

one month passes...

Listen to "Knowledge" by Operation Ivy... It will help get anger out of your system.... Trust me/

― Jamin Jay, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nobody's mentioned "Wham! Rap" yet!!!

― tarden, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Does drug-dealing count as a job? "Life in the Fast Lane", in which the Geto Boys get out while the getting's good.

― tarden, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Day Job" by Mountain Brothers. Sorry I'm late.

― larms, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two years pass...

Back by popular demand: thread number 1?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 12:22 (twenty years ago) link

Damnit, Ned beat me to "Pumpin' 4 the Man" by 3+ years!

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.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 12:26 (twenty years ago) link

Modest Mouse, "Custom Concern": "gotta go to work, gotta go to work, gotta have a job..." before the Nissan ad, of course

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:42 (twenty years ago) link

"Quit Your Job", Chixdiggit!. One of the best 25-second songs ever.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 21:33 (twenty years ago) link

Damnit, Ned beat me to "Pumpin' 4 the Man" by 3+ years!

It has power, that song. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 21:54 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

Chixdiggit's concise and to-the-point "Quit Your Job"
Lower East Side Stitches' had a good anti-job rager "I'm Not Working For You"
Freedom Fighters' "C.E.O." probably tops my recommendations.

― Joshua Davis (josh_anomaly), Sunday, 23 November 2003 05:56 (twenty years ago) link

Blotto: "I Quit" AND their classic "I Wanna Be a Lifeguard" (about dreams of quitting a job selling shoes)

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 23 November 2003 06:15 (twenty years ago) link

Lucksmiths-"Edward Sandwich Hands"
Pernice Brothers-"Monkey Suit"

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 23 November 2003 06:43 (twenty years ago) link

Howsabout The Smiths' "Frankly, Mr. Shankly"?

― turkey (turkey), Sunday, 23 November 2003 10:01 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe more of a song to inspire you to quit your job, but hey. Quasi's 'The Happy Prole' has kept me going through the last couple of months. "You need the money, so you got to play it dumb/ But if you play it long enough, that's just what you become"

Quasi are geniuses.

― Kate Jane Connolly (fixitgirl), Sunday, 23 November 2003 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

"I'm going to Spain" by the fall or Steve Bent.

― jed (jed_e_3), Sunday, 23 November 2003 14:23 (twenty years ago) link

galaxie 500's crazy. for the lines "so quit your job / because it makes you crazy". sorry, but that's all i can remember of it right now

― trimmtrab, Sunday, 23 November 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

the Verve always made me want to quit my job.... pretty much any song.

― mandinina (mandinina), Sunday, 23 November 2003 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

"Hate my Job" by Butthole Surfers off of _Cottage Cheese from the Lips of Death_ comp. Play it as you leave.

― Beta (abeta), Sunday, 23 November 2003 16:47 (twenty years ago) link

"lost my job" by alex chilton..."now I can sleep all day long"....

― pauls00, Monday, 24 November 2003 01:48 (twenty years ago) link

And you have to end the tape with the Replacements "God Damn job"

― Cacaman Flores, Monday, 24 November 2003 02:38 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

I never made the mixtape.

Today I resigned from the job I accepted at the start of this thread (also the start of this board) (to start a better job).

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago) link

The CD I am playing is Hall And Oates Greatest Hits FYI.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago) link

How about Nirvana's "Scentless Apprentice"?

"you can't fire me cos I QUIT!"

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago) link

Baobab's "N.O.J.O.B." is pretty explicitly a qutting-your-job rap song.

"N.O. J.O.B.
I don't work no more for this factory!"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago) link

To start a new job with the many headed hydra at that...

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

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― dud, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link

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― dud, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link

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― dud, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link

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― dud, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link

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― dud, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

I made a post to the first-ever thread on ILM, grandchildren! (Okay, I was five years late, but who's counting?)

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 10 April 2005 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Dogpile starts here.
And on Ned's first post EVAR, he references WEEN?!?!?
Everything old is new again...

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

You are all wasting your time.

― Plunging Hen, Monday, 11 April 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link

(As the Asskickers lyrics page is temporarily offline until remodeled, and until you order the record, here are the lyrics to the one of the best hate-your-boss, hate-your job songs ever written)
"Lottery" by the Asskickers

"I'm working my job while I write this song
The pay ain't good and the day is long
They're takin' away my life and it just ain't right
I gotta be strong and bite my tongue
I wanna soar 'em the bird and say 'So long ...
I'm gone ... and fuck your job'

But if I won the lottery
I'll tell you what I'd do
I'd tell my boss to go to hell
Then drive straight home to you

I wasn't made to work this hard
But I guess for me it's just in the cards
I'm a pawn in a losing game

My boss he's a regular S.O.B.
He's trying to take my soul from me
He's an asshole, drives me insane

But if I won the lottery
I know just what I'd do
I'd buy this place and fire my boss
Then drive straight home to you.

This place has gotten under my skin
I hate the smell when I walk in
It's a dump! It's a real shit hole

It's run by a bunch of idiots
Who make up the rules and don't know shit
It's a joke ... and it's on me

But if I won the lottery
I know just what I'd do
I'd buy this place and burn it down
And drive straight home to you."

(Yes, I'm redundant. This was crossposted on Songs about Shitty Jobs and Hating Your Boss thread.)

― bflaska, Monday, 11 April 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

just a reminder that in three weeks ilx will be 5 yrs old

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 23 July 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

FIVE MORE YEARS

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link

We've got FIVE YEARS, my brane hurts a lot
FIVE YEARS that's all we've got

(except I don't have that stuck in my brain, I have "Final Day" by Young Marble Giants)

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Can't believe no one has mentioned Mr Dylan's "Tangled up in Blue."

I had a job in the great north woods
Working as a cook for a spell
But I never did like it all that much
And one day the ax just fell

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Wesley Willis - Fuck You

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Proud Mary

― kaygee (kaygee), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link

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Butthole Surfers OTM

happy birthday!

― sleeve, Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link

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 ?

― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link

arse .. crappy website stamp overlay

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

― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link

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

― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link

"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"

― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Thursday, 27 August 2015 23:29 (eight years ago) link

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

― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Friday, 28 August 2015 00:42 (eight years ago) link

two years pass...

(seventeen years ago)

― Erotic Wolf (crüt), Friday, 22 September 2017 04:33 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

So was this the first thread on ILM?

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 27 April 2019 22:37 (five years ago) link

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

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

― john. a resident of evanston. (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 27 April 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

Aww ned that’s pretty cool

― calstars, Friday, 26 July 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link

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

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 27 July 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link

"Brilliant Pizza" is an interesting word combo.

― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 July 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link

I stand by it

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 July 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link

As you should. It's amazing!

― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 July 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

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

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 18 September 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link

it's all CDRs and mp3 folders these days.

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

― rip van wanko, Friday, 18 September 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link

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

how was there no thread about this?

― calstars, Friday, 18 September 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link

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

― rip van wanko, Friday, 18 September 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link

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

― rip van wanko, Friday, 18 September 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link

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... »

― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 18 September 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link

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

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

― rip van wanko, Friday, 18 September 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link

one day the axe just fell

left a good job in the city

― rip van wanko, Friday, 18 September 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link

"the axe just fell" isn't quitting!

― Scam Likely (morrisp), Friday, 18 September 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link

I think it means “the last straw” etc

― calstars, Saturday, 19 September 2020 00:08 (three years ago) link

To get the axe? It means you’re fired

― Scam Likely (morrisp), Saturday, 19 September 2020 00:27 (three years ago) link

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

― rip van wanko, Saturday, 19 September 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link

consufed

― calstars, Saturday, 19 September 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link

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.

― Grebo Jones (Branwell with an N), Saturday, 19 September 2020 07:39 (three years ago) link

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