100 songs about boredom

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

1) "Boredom"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

2) The Adverts - "Bored Teenagers"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

3) Crime - "Terminal Boredom"
4) Morrissey - "The World Is Filled With Crashing Bores"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

5) The Clash - "I'm So Bored With The USA"
6) Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - "I'm Bored"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)

7) Amon Duul II - "Apocalyptic Bore"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:14 (twenty-one years ago)

8) M.I.A. - "Boredom Is The Reason"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

9) Slaughter And The Dogs - "You're A Bore"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

10) Government Issue - "Bored To Death"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

11) Procol Harum - "Boredom"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

12) Destroy All Monsters - "Bored"
13) Suede - "Bored"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

12) the "counting flowers on the wall" song off the Pulp Fiction soundtrack

― manuel (manuel), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

13)Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring. Though it's about fighting the feeling instead of wallowing in it like Niagara does w/ DAM.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Friday, 27 August 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

14) Ramones - "I wanna be sedated"
15) Stooges - "1969"

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 27 August 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

16) Iggy Pop - I'm Bored

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 27 August 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

17) Green Day - "Longview"

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Moody Blues - "Dear Diary"

― Joseph McCombs, Friday, 27 August 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

19. Ramones - "Now I Wannna Sniff Some Glue"

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

20. Bob Dylan - "Too Much of Nothing"

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

12. "Flowers On the Wall" - Statler Brothers

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

21) or 13) Bacharach and David: I just don't know what to do with myself

― Sami Jhyrllkanyga, Friday, 27 August 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

22. Dead Milkmen "I'm So Bored I'm Drinking Bleach"

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Otis Redding - Sitting on the dock of the bay

― Sami Jhyrllkanyga, Friday, 27 August 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Handsome Jack Hammer - Nothing but the blues

― Sami Jhyrllkanyga, Friday, 27 August 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"Declaration" - Felt ("I will be the first person in history to die of boredom")

― Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

26 (or so). Lou Reed -- "Ennui"

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

27(ish) The Damned - I'm So Bored

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

28. Depeche Mode - "Something To Do"

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

deftones - bored
rolling stones - Mother's Little Helper

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

31.Big Black, "Kerosene"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"Spend Spend Spend" - The Slits

― Ramon (Ramon), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fall - M5
"People can't you understand?/There's nothing worse than a bored man"

― sexyDancer, Friday, 27 August 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Standing On the Corner" Dean Martin

― Huck, Friday, 27 August 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

35. The Smiths - "Shoplifters of the World Unite"

"I tried living in the real world instead of a shell but I was bored before I even began"

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

36. soft cell - bedsitter

"Look out from my window view
I've really nothing else to do"

37. yazoo - in my room (although this is more about existential angst, to me it's the same thing. at least, it was when i was 17 and listening to yazoo a lot)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Natasha King - AM FM

"Can't live without boredom"

― JTS, Friday, 27 August 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Garageland - "Tired and Bored"
Manic Street Preachers - "Bored Out of My Mind"

― Franck, Friday, 27 August 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

everything by The Boredoms

*shocked no one has said this yet&\*

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

1) "Boredom"
-- stockholm cindy (theundergroundhom...) (webmail), August 27th, 2004 3:10 AM. (Jody Beth Rosen) (later) (link)

Orange Juice's "Rip It Up" is, at least for a moment, a song about "Boredom."

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i was gonna say beach boys "busy doin' nothin'" but then i realize it's a song about *not* being bored.

so...

41. "dancing in the dark" -- bruce springsteen

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

42. PiL - "Theme"

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Saturday, 28 August 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's a contribute from Italy:
Franco Califano 'Tutto il resto è noia'
('noia' means boredom in italian). Sadly, we haven't reached the 50 threshold yet!

― f*lippo, Saturday, 28 August 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

uh-oh, I forgot the progressive number.
43. Franco Califano - 'Tutto il resto è noia'

― f*lippo, Saturday, 28 August 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

44. The Microphones - I Am Bored
45. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

― cws (cws), Saturday, 28 August 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

everything by The Boredoms

only, you know , not.

one really can't say most Boredoms songs are "about" anything.

― Zach Ayres (Z_Ayres), Saturday, 28 August 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

46 "Boredom" Lovin' Spoonful

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 28 August 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeez, we can't have run out of songs ALREADY - maybe everyone's too bored (or UN-bored!) to reply...

47. X-Ray Spex, "I Am A Cliche"
48. Led Zeppelin, "Tea For One"
(Call it onomatopeia: not only ABOUT boredom, it's also possibly the most tedious 9 minutes in their catalog)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 28 August 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

49] Television Set - Boring Day

― Kino (Kino), Saturday, 28 August 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

50. Broadcast 'Living Room'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Saturday, 28 August 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

51. The Kinks, "Waterloo Sunset"

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 28 August 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

52. Snatch-"When I'm Bored"
53. Dead Boys-"Ain't Nothing To Do"

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 28 August 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Unwound - "Dragnalus", "Fiction Friction", ...

― terry ted (terry ted), Saturday, 28 August 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

55 (or 57?). Big Star - "In The Street"

― wetmink (wetmink), Saturday, 28 August 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Boredom by The Buzzcocks

― Chris Trew, Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

58. Throbbing Gristle - "What a Day"
59. Throbbing Gristle - "Five Knuckle Shuffle"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

60. Of Montreal - "Doing Nothing"

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything by the Lucksmiths, but I'l submit:

61. "I prefer the 20th century"

― mikef (mfleming), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

62. Dorotea - "Boring baby boring"

― delphiconor, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Blake Babies, "Nothing Ever Happens"

― Burr (Burr), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

the stooges - no fun

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 September 2004 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Green Day - Burnout
Also see: A whole lot of other Green Day songs

― Candlestick, Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.