Songs for Quitting Your Job
Paige Maguire over at NPR put together a 5-song playlist for anyone suffering from economic woes and job insecurity.
“For some, it’s years of cubicles and monkey suits and unbearable workloads, while others have lost their marbles and wound up getting walked to their car. Whatever happens, we’re guessing it’s going to be epic and terrible, which means you’re going to need consolation and encouragement in the form of five great rock tunes.”
Among her picks are The Animals’ “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” and The Dead Kennedys’ “Bedtime for Democracy.” She had some good tracks, but her playlist doesn’t satisfy my economy-induced misery.
Here are my picks:
Woody Guthrie - Better World A-Comin’
Deerhoof - Scream Team
Rush - Big Money
Walkmen - The Rat
Black Flag - Rise Above
What’s on your 5-song economic meltdown playlist?
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:53 am
A post about songs for quitting your job, and no mention of the D.C.-based Crownhate Ruin’s “Ride Your Ride”? Tsk tsk.
Coincidentally, while searching for the lyrics online, one of the first things to pop up on Google was a 1999 Washington City Paper article about the band. The lede from that article: “Amid a barbed guitar burnout and a slow, deliberate rhythm, the Crownhate Ruin’s Joseph McRedmond shreds a lung screaming the first line to his band’s debut, Until the Eagle Grins: ‘I’ve had more last days than anyone I know.’”
Hopefully it was pointed out to someone at the time, but, uh…that wasn’t Joe McRedmond singing. It was bass player Fred Erskine.
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
DK’s ‘take this job and shove it’
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November 24th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Paige is a she, not a he.
November 24th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
google images deceived me: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3009/3056033099_eec007da0b_o.png
thanks for the correction.
November 24th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
she’s much prettier in actuality:
http://austinist.com/staff.php#austinist_maguire
also, you’ve still got some gender/pronoun agreement issues in the last sentence there.
glad to help.