songs in which music stars gripe about how hard it is to be on the road

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There a lots - I can only think of Jackson Browne's
- Nothing But Time and
- The Load Out

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Mega City Four did a whole fuckin' album about that, called Tranzophobia, they're made-up word for Transit-van-psychosis...

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Ice-T - Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous
Pavement - Range Life
Motorhead - Keep us on the Road; We are the Roadcrew; Iron Horse

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

their..., tsk tsk

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

"Faithfully" - Journey

Or rather, that's a "how hard it is to maintain a relationship and start a family while on the road" song. See "Yuko and Hiro" by Blur.

I knew that my band were proper Rock Stars the day that I wrote a song whinging about how hard it was to maintain a relationship while both parties were always on the road - "Sweetheart of the Radio".

― kate, Friday, 28 March 2003 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

supergrass - moving
some of rem's new adventures in hi-fi.
lots of stereophonics songs.

all this "another empty hotel room / i miss my dog!" shit gets tiresome very quickly indeed.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

If those were actual lyrics, though, that'd be fucking ace.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

If those were actual lyrics, though, that'd be fucking ace

Would that be
"another empty hotel room / i miss my dog!"

-or-

"all this 'another empty hotel room / i miss my dog!' shit gets tiresome very quickly indeed."

I like the second better.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

bread - guitar man? can't remember if it actually details life on the road but i seem to remember so.

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Bob Seger - "Turn the Page"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Either would do, dave225, but yes, the latter preferably!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Metallica - Turn the Page

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"Wanted: Dead or Alive," by Bon Jovi. "Sometimes you tell the days by the bottle that you drink,/ Sometimes you sit for hours, and all you do is think." Sounds rough. They fail to mention the part about having sex with groupies on enormous piles of cash.

― Brandon Gentry (Brandon Gentry), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Also: "So Far Away," by Dire Straits. Maybe. At any rate, it's about separation, and because it's sung by Mark Knopler, it could conceivably be about tour-induced separation.

― Brandon Gentry (Brandon Gentry), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

'Turn the Page' - I find it amusing how the original was done by a luckless(at the time) eternal also-ran who was touring every shithole dive in the Midwest, then it got covered by a stadium band who openly admitted they had more money than they could ever use

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Chicago, "Flight 602". "Canada is so far from where you want to be" Like fuck you, man. They bought tickets too

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

(obv. I should say 'we', but I was about six months old at the time)

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

indiepop answer: "Chickfactor" by Belle and Sebastian - "when I get back to London from outer space, will it fall into place ?" etc.

― darren (darren), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

"Beth" by KISS

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 28 March 2003 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm. Here is where ABBA's "Super Trouper" belongs.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"wheel in the sky" by journey: "wheel in the sky keeps on turning/i don't know where i'll be tomorrow". also "homeward bound" by simon and garfunkel: "all the faces that i see remind me that i long to be..." etcetera.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

jawbreaker - tour song
police - man in a suitcase

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Ramones-"Danny Says", "I Wanna Be Sedated"

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"Wishin' You Were Here" by Chicago : "But I've got my job to do, and I do it well"...

― matt riedl (veal), Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Journey, "Lights" too. What a bunch of 'Babies'!! Geddit? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

― dave q, Saturday, 29 March 2003 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Police, "Darkness" & "Man in a Suitcase"

― dave q, Saturday, 29 March 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Loudon Wainwright III's "Motel Blues" from his second album. Classic.

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 29 March 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Frank Zappa - "Road Ladies"
Rush - "Limelight"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 29 March 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Sloan - Wall of China
Cowboy Junkies - 200 More Miles
Dean Malenkos - Don't Eat At Reggies

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

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