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First thoughts:

Welcome to the working week - Elvis Costello
Nightshift - The Commodores (title is relevant!)
Car wash - Rose Royce
It's five o'clock somewher - Alan Jackson
Working on the Highway - Springsteen
Slave labour - Mariachi el Bronx
Labour of love - Hue and Cry

Joe
Linlithgow

On second thoughts..
Take This Job And Shove It - Johnny Paycheck.
The Factory - Warren Zevon.

Oh dear. I hope I'm not going to be first again. DC, do one of your "just while I'm thinking about the theme" posts, please.

Obvious as anything - who cares. Some songs that speak to legions of listeners, including moi.
Dolly Parton Nine To Five
David Allen Coe Take This Job And Shove It
if only...

I'm guessing there'll be a lot of Springsteen requests, too.

bid seconds for Commodores / Nightshift joe

It was great to hewar Bobby Womack...Across 110th st on GIO. Class!

#1 second the Hue and cry. Only decent song they did. Third the Commodores.

#2 great fools don't mind seldom thinking alike differently.

My keypads developed ELS. Extra Letter syndrome!

Diggin the new ~ Joe Strummer & the Mescalreos.

# you thought too long...

I'd like to request a song on behalf of all those workers who spend their time, day in, day out, responding to direction from management.

Such workers are not encouraged to show initiative, they are simply told what to do step by step.








There's a hole in my bucket - Harry Belafonte

DC

#6 Hutesium et clamor.

'Slow' - Rumer (doesn't she sound like Karen Carpenter)...describes my computer at work. Fantastic new single.

'Ain't Got No Money' - Bob Seger...sure I'm not alone in hearing this several times a day (hour?) at work.

# absolutely agree

Hard Fi Living For The Weekend
Velvet Underground After Hours

Gunter Gabriel Hey, Boss - Ich Brauch Mehr Geld
My mum had this on cassette way back. It made sense to me even then. No wonder I'm miserable now.

#1 First thoughts are definitely best thoughts - It's five o'clock somewhere has to be in the show

An alternative would be Del Amitri's "Nothing ever Happens", and for those of us who remember the careers advice offered by the advert for a variety of lager there's "Caledonia"

Woody Guthrie's "Union Maid" offers some good advice for times like these!

After compiling a list I realised there is only one song I wish to request;

WEDNESDAY

'Mr. Sellack' - The Roches

Maggie, Terre and Suzzy have never been played on Get it On. And yet, Iain Anderson and Janice Forsyth have done so with no visible ill effects.


It's a mystery.......

Well, I did suggest music from or inspired by Tarantino films for Z during the alphabet marathon (Zed's Dead).

Wednesday Night:

Lets give a wee minute's thought to those Chilean miners and play the classic mining song:

Capstick Comes Home - Tony Capstick.

#17 just a wee tip. something to do with comedy + tragedy & timing. May have read that somewhere else, might have been a quote from Woody Allen. He's not the last word on anything, but that just wasn't funny. Unless you were being serious. In which case - massive apologies.

I don't believe it, Steppenwolf's The Pusher is still up for grabs according to tonight's tracklisting...

Let me introduce you to the
Pied Piper ~ Bob & Marcia
Look out...
Here Come The Fuzz ~ Jim Davidson
You'll be up before the man
Your Honour ~ Pluto Shervington
I was a full screw in the Army you piece of ....
Salute Me, I'm The Corporal ~ Tony Selby

Remember kids, crime doesn't pay!

#19 Mac, BIG second for 'Your Honour' by Pluto Shervington...this has been asked for (mainly by us) so many times and it is really good.

For Nightclub doormen everywhere

Rubber Ball / Bobby Vee

Keep the Customer Satisfied - Simon and Garfunkel

This is a customer service announcement: our office will be closed until 10;00 am for staff training.

Or the classic:

'we've listened to our customers and to improve service levels we are closing all local branches and transferring the work to a shed full of teenagers armed with a touch tone telephone system somewhere near Bangalore. This is what our customers have told us that they want'.

really?


reagrdez youse

henri

Working Man's Blues - Bob Dylan

Tad long, perhaps, but utterly engaging.An anthem to hard work.

regardez youse

henri

Special Refuse collectors feature...

My Old Man's A Dustman ~ Lonnie Donegan

Garbageman ~ The Cramps

Yakety Yak ~ The Coasters

Rubbish ~ Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine

Trash ~ New York Dolls

Junk ~ Bronski Beat

I Can't Believe You Would Fall For All The Crap In This Song ~ Sparks

Fired - Ben Folds

Umbrella or Crazy in Love- the Baseballs (from the album:Strike!)

Big Boss Man - Pretty Things

Pay Me My Money Down - Pete Seeger
last Barrowlands Runrig gig I was at, the road crew did an impromptu version of this much to the amazement of the band - it went down a storm. And yes, I'm sure it'll be quickly pointed out that a double whammy would be The Boss's version

Microscope Eyes - the Fireflies
I've spent many years peering down a microscope in the course of my work but for the meantime till something turns up, hollow laugh, this would be appropriate, and a lot of fun to hear:

Seven Days of the Week - They Might Be Giants

Apologies for any confusion arising from "first thoughts" phrase. In future I will stick with "more to follow", which is all I intended to signal.

Thanks for seconding Nightshift, Alan Jackson and Hugh and Cry.

Other ideas:

Allentown - Billy Joel
Work to do - Allison Moorer
Ellis Unit One - Steve Earle (from Dead Man Walking (Oops - too late!))or Home to Houston
Don't stand so close to me or Roxanne - the Police
Witchita lineman - Glen Campbell
W.O.L.D - Harry Chapin
Trouble in the fields or the Flyer - Nanci Griffith
Honey, I'm home - Shania Twain

No more!

Joe
Linlithgow

Workin for a livin / Huey Lewis and the News
Taxi / J Blackfoot ......Great Bit of Soul
If I were a Carpenter / Bob Seger
Queen of the supermarket / Bruce Springsteen
The Big Boss Groove / The Style Council
The Lumberjack song / Monty Python

#18
A `wee tip` on how and what to post on the Blog from MD!
Now there`s a thing.


almost forgot

:)

As I work for an American employer I'm gonnae go for....

Working for the Yankee Dollar - The Skids

Paul from Ayr

* The Silhouettes - Get a Job
* Chris Farlowe - Handbags & Gladrags
* The Silly Sisters - Grey Funnel Line
* Imagined Village (Bragg/Eliza Carthy etc) - The Hard Times of England Retold

and cos it's not all sweetness and light:
* The Strawbs - Part of the Union
and the song it stole outright and completely twisted:
* Pete Seeger and The Almanac Singers - Union Maid

a few more:

Ambition - We Are Scientists

One Million Lawyers - Tom Paxton

Clocking Out - Charlie Mars

Traffic Jam - James Taylor

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For Wednesday - There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis - Kirsty MacColl

My old man's a dustman

He works on a big tip...

#33

And speaking of chipshops:
* Bill Bailey - Unisex Chipshop (Tribute to Billy Bragg)

Factory - Bruce Springsteen or The River Detectives

#36

Anything on Factory Records works too, right?

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Songs about the working day: ~

WILFUL HOUSEWIFE from TREE IN FISH by MOTHER GONG

I’d just like to say I think the housewives of Great Britain do a wunnerful job!

National Express by Divine Comedy.


In my line of work "My old mans a dustman" springs to mind not that I know what "Cor Blimey trousers are"

Don't you want me baby the line I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar springs to mind.

#39
Here's to the housewives

Dirty Lasundry / Don Henley

Laundry even

Paulo,

Big 2nd for The Big Boss Groove - the Style Council

Fantastic - a really really under-rated band, the Style Council. I enjoy the Style Council more now than I did at the time - matter of fact, I enjoy the Style Council more than I enjoy most of Mr Weller's solo work.

regardez - vous

Henri

#36

I haven't got around to delivering the River Detectives as yet - there's a couple of others I think might be missing too ... The Neutrons, I suspect...

Work To Do - Average White Band

Dirty Work - Steely Dan

and the etherial,stunning work of genius that is

This Woman's Work - Kate Bush

regardez youse

henri

Songs about the Working Day ~

INTERVIEW from BANANAMOUR by KEVIN AYERS
DAY BY DAY from CONFESSIONS OF DR DREAM & OTHER STORIES by KEVIN AYERS
WORKINGMAN'S BLUES from MODERN TIMES by BOB DYLAN
AGENCY MAN from AHEAD OF THEIR TIME by FRANK ZAPPA

#34

Surprised you're not asking for

Telephone Man

DC?

Morning Train - Sheena Easton (9 to 5??)
Cowboy Song - Thin Lizzy
Lets Work Together - Canned Heat
Poor Paddy - The Pogues

Love on a Farm Boy's Wages - XTC

#43 I've said before that i've always preferred the Style Council to any of his other work

#47
This sounds like a private joke worth sharing wth all your fellow bloggers who are well capable of keeping a secret.

PLASTIC FACTORY from SAFE AS MILK by CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND

MASTER BUILDER from YOU by GONG

PRINCESS CARWASH from THE BUTCHER AND THE BUTTERFLY by QUEENADREENA

#47

actually, if you look at the lyrics, you can see how dated it is. I mean, who needs told:

"You can have it with a buzz, you can have it with a ring / And if you really want it you can have a ding-a-ling"

Just ask any kid & they'll show you how to downoad billions of ringtones



DC

WIND UP WORKIN' IN A GAS STATION from THE EYES OF OSAKA by FRANK ZAPPA
BRIEFCASE BOOGIE from THING FISH DISC II by FRANK ZAPPA
CHAINSTORE CHANT from MAGICK BROTHER by GONG
THE OCTAVE DOCTORS AND THE CRYSTAL MACHINE from THE FLYING TEAPOT by GONG

With a theme like 'working', I feel a wee folk number coming one...

Workers' Song: Dick Gaughan
There Is Power In A Union: Billy Bragg
Mining For Gold: The Cowboy Junkies
Now I'm easy: Eric Bogle
Navigator: The Pogues (or Kris Drever does a fair version)

How about "Gentleman of Leisure" by Jesse Winchester;
it opens:

" I want a job that's not too demanding
Like where you do a lot of standing...."

or, JJ Cale: Unemployment

Did anyone catch the 100 Million Sellers on Radio 2?

Here is the top 50. Couple of surprises.

/programmes/b00tknyg

(sort of thing Paulo and the Captain appreciate I imagine)

Deserved recognition for Robson and Jerome.

i take it the updated list has knocked Pussycat of the no. 100 spot.

Pussycat's in the bin. Wheelie!

>8-D

Where's you bin?

I bin in the kitchin.

Naw, where's you wheelie bin?

OK, you right, ah bin (removed before the moderators have a fit)