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Some Red Handed Slight Of Hand & Art Is Hard by Cursive
Pretty much the best songs I've ever heard about being in a band and writing albums.
the monkey versus the robot
by Piebald
"we got a job to do, and this is it!"
"we have the best job ever! yeah we really got lucky! we're nobody's robot, we're nobody's monkey!"
of the top of my head
what a wonderful puddle, killing a camera and the nathan detroits - all by braid.
i think one armed scissor is about touring but i'm not 100% sure of that.
We Might Be Stars
by The Wannadies.
also,
tour song by jawbreaker.
4 or 5 Magicians - I'm In The Band
Oh damn it!
I wanted that one too :(!
You have brought me no joy since you've been back Zapsta!
It's not really about being in a band though is it
it's more about the fantasy of being in a band.
"You earn in a year my weekly wage". Tongue's rather firmly in cheek there, isnt it?
*Great* song though.
the entertainer by the good life
tim kasher is the master of writing songs about writing songs
Paint a Vulgar Picture...
The Smiths.
I think it's called
'Yr All Just Jealous of My Dutch Von Hat', by Johnny Foreigner.
With that "we three ghosts from Birmingham" line in it.
well...
My band has a song, not really about being in a band, more about being a groupy than anything, does this count?
Good Shoes - All in my head
'I play in a band but I've got no talent'
Freddie Kreuger
by Reuben
true dat.
Also, Return of the Jedi by Reuben and Agony/Agatha by Reuben. They like songs about being in the band!
I love Return of the Jedi. Flippin' loads!
...and Tenth Avenue Freeze Out by the Boss
this
is the right answer.
I'm On The Road
by Billie The Vision & The Dancers. a silly but sweet love song to a band that almost wasn't, so to speak...
IT'S A LONG WAY TO THE TOP
IF YOU WANNA ROCK N ROLL
*bagpipe solo*
pretty
much every band i saw on Saturday played songs about being in a band. said songs sucked.
rent a wreck
by suburban kids with biblical names
SUMMER OF '69
Oh damn it!
I wanted Formed A Band :(!
fake tales of san francisco?
this is just a modern rock song
belle & sebastian
i fuckin hate
singers that sing about being in a band
Who's that by?
I think it's
"singers that sing about being in a band" by i frickin hate
Thrash core band from Wolverhampton, circa 1987
Ziggy Stardust
and about half the other songs there.
does Nickleback's 'Rock Star' count?
or The Sex Pistols 'EMI'? written from the perspective of the band and all that
across the sea by weezer
though i guess that's more about being in love with someone while in a famous band rather than just about being in a band.
Minuteman - History Lesson Part II
4 or 5 Magicians - Forever on the Edge
:D
Army
Ben Folds Five
'Citing artistic differences
the band broke up in may,
and in june reformed without me
and they'd got a different name'
libertines boys in the band
the rifles - she got standards
Half Man Half Biscuit
Running Order Squabblefest. And loads more...
Brakes - Heard About Your Band
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this already.
McLusky
Fuck This Band
...Cos they swear too much
Don't think I've ever mentioned
Machine Gun Fellatio before but this is the 2nd time in a few hours.
My ex girlfriends boyfriend, is really quite good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mQ5xiG6Wkc sound quality is awful.
imo
all songs by bands since (arbitrary point in the 60s) are, to some extent, about being a band as much as they are about anything else, what with the weight of rock history resting on the writers' shoulders
especially
every single million dead song
specifically Living The Dream
Charlie And The Propaganda Myth Machine?
relating to my post above
i say million dead in particular because frank's lyrics at least seem to personal that the events and views that he talks about in his lyrics are the things that made him who he is as a person, and thus made him a person who wanted to be in a band, specifically a hardcore-ish band. my slightly flakey point is that, without forging some entirely new idiom, everything that's written by a band is at least partially influenced by the handed down notions of what "being a band" means. all writing is to some degree "about" the act of writing.
'Behind The Music' by The Vandals
it's very amusing. :D
Formed a Band
by Art Brut is one of the more blatant examples.
Touring by the Ramones - off one of their later albums (Mondo Bizarro perhaps)
The Top Seven Singles Club by the hideously underrated Wolf Colonel (RIP).
And perhaps my favorite song about the joys and tribulations of being in a band - This Boy Is Exhausted by The Wrens, which probably sums up the highs (and lows) of band life more articulately than anyone else has ever managed.
Brand New
Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't. And Million Dead - Living The Dream. These two and their sentiments are brilliantly portrayed.
I hope this song starts a craze!
Neither...
...This is just a modern rock song or Paint a vulgar picture are entirely about being in a band, although they both have a few lyrics about it.
amen
MGMT
Time to Pretend
Ultrasound -Same Band
and much of the Boo Radleys' 'Wake Up Boo! album is autobiographical (and not very interesting).
Pots and Pans
Les Savy Fav. tune.
felt
ballad of the band
The Air Freshener Man
They're Playing a Cover Version Of Our Third Favourite Song
Oblige
by i concur
Bufallo Springfield again
by Neil Young
Barfruit Blues by The Hold Steady?
Oh and
Carwash Hair by Mercury Rev
rockstar
by Nickelback. Massive.
Joe's Garage!
The song AND the album. "With a sign on the side that said Fender Champ"...
Living the Dream
by Million Dead, incredible. Also, We're an American Band by Grand Funk Railroad comes in a close second
I will play my game beneath the spin light - Brand New
About going on tour when your hearts not in it
"I wrote more postcards than hooks
I read more maps than books
Feel like every chance to leave
is another chance I should've took"
Carter, They're Unstoppable
by I, Ludicrous - about how Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine went on to be ridiculously successful by pretty much ripping off their sound, what with them coming from the same postal district and riding on the same bus and all. Great sour grapes "it should have been us" fare.
johnny foreigner - this band is killing us
ace song.
Lodi
by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Fucking awesome.
The Wrens!!
This Boy Is Exhausted!
'Cause I can't write
What I know
It's not worth writing
I can't tell
A hit from hell one sing-along
But then Greg plugs in
A treble checking that says we might win
Hell's Henry pearls
The woven strap wins the Galloway girls
But...
But then Kev jumps in
And hits the floor as the stick hits the rim
I guess we're done
Cause every win on this record's hard won. But..'
Perfect.
Let's get known
by The Unicorns
also, "Anyone Else But You" by The Moldy Peaches does contain the lines:
You want more fans, I want more stage
So I guess that could count!
against me!
- reinventing axl rose