Ten work songs to enjoy while you’re not working

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• 5 oclock world was not on the list. Unforgivable oversight.

• Cool...

  I was a bit on edge since I thought there was some bias against, or general dislike of, Merle Haggard.

  That, sir, would be grounds to challenge you to a duel!

  • We live too close to Bakersfield to denigrate Merle Haggard.

• Why work? When you can get your Money for Nothing and Your Chicks for Free...
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWXDjiKVs2U

  BTW IHTM- Boo on you for 'moderating' my other, more awesome comment...
  :-P

  • Didn't moderate it. It just got put in auto-moderation due to the number of links (spammers). I've approved it and it's up above.

• How about "Working Man" by Rush?

  • JM, see my 1st post above with a link of Rush playing it live from a recent tour. No trouble, you just did'nt see it.

    Plus, that song was pre-Neil Peart era, not much Rush material is.

• Well if the job market sucks you can also become a hack on the side (cab driver)
  Taxi Diver (Calcutta)
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6r1GrApjiM

  I hear the fast food chains are still hiring...
  Fast Food Song
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCPSh47gHz8

  Even though it is fall- many are still working hard or trying to get work. Summertime Blues all the way
  Sumertime Blues
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeWC59FJqGc

  After all these days 'the man' is the Tax Man... Workin for the Man
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlPWS3jpWkU

  Before you can have the blues- you need to start working.
  Working Man Blues
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEstJ98TcM

  I could go on and on with these... It is dinner time though.

  So if you are stuck “Working everyday for the boss man. Working for the company” just take a break a enjoy some Love in an Elevator!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Yrhv33Zb8

  Or as Obama would have us all do...
  Eat the Rich!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-0lAhnoDlU

• Thanks for a great lineup!

  Definitely need to include "Working For The Weekend" by Loverboy, though!

  • We just couldn't bring ourselves to put Loverboy on the same list with the Beatles and Dylan.

    • As someone who was born, raised, & still lives in Dylan's homestate (or is that Zimmerman?)of Minnesota, I will speak for so many people I know & for myself, he is O V E R R A T E D ! ! !

      We all have opinions, yes, they are like a-holes, everyone has them, but Dylan stinks. I'm not a Beatles fan, but I can see their genius & talent, but Dylan vexes me. He always seemed to be something of a cultural icon because Rolling Stone said so, & the 60's hippy generation bought it. Now as a hard rock/metal guy, nothing wrong with Loverboy, or "Working For the Weekend". It should be on this list. Plus, so should "She works hard for the money". I not much of a Donna Summer fan, but if this is a list about songs for people busting their ass, her song should be there as well.

      Plus, I gots-to-say, for those folks who hated their job, work, & their boss, try telling me "Take this Job & shove it" from the late, great, Johnny Paycheck should'nt be on this list either.

    • It depends on which stage of this career Dylan was at when you go and try to rank him against others.
      The Beatles? Those talentless flops? :-P

      Yeah to put Loverboy side by side with them... That would make Loverboy 'Na-na-na-na-notorious'!
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bSX_eHgOB0

• I remember Devo covered "Working in the Coalmine"But there is also something called "Working Man" by Rush. It goes waaaay back before they had a record deal...

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul0qlHHvELU

  ...it's a recent live clip though, pro shot.

• What about "Working Man" by Rita McNeil?