Songs against "the man"

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by lamour

So, I noticed a while ago that some of my favorite songs from a handful of bands happened to have lyrics which don't cast the music industry in the greatest light (to put it mildly). I've always wanted to make a CD of these songs, but I never rounded up enough songs to fill a CD. I may have had more in my list the last time I did this, but the list below will give you some idea what I'm talking about.

I see 2 classes of songs. The first are the ones that poke directly at the industry itself. The second are more against the nature of the business (German Overalls, for instance, seems to be about burnout from a long tour). I'm more concerned with the first, but I've always included the second in an attempt to get a whole CDs worth of music.

Can anyone think of any songs that fit this theme. Don't need to be prog songs, but it'd be better if they were "good" songs, whatever that means.


Peter Hammill - Two or Three Spectres http://www.sofasound.com/phcds/nadlyrics.htm#11
Peter Hammill - Pushing Thirty http://www.sofasound.com/phcds/tfnlyrics.htm#1
Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar http://www.pinkfloyd.net/albums/index.php?lyrics=5#3
Echolyn - Settled Land http://www.echolynfan.com/sl.html
Anthony Phillips - Um & Aargh http://www.anthonyphillips.co.uk/lyrics/79-1.htm
Blues Traveler - Hook http://www.bluestraveler.net/music/s...php?song_id=79
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Workin' For MCA http://www.lynyrdskynyrdhistory.com/...help/sonl.html

Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine http://www.pinkfloyd.net/albums/index.php?lyrics=5#2
Peter Hammill - German Overalls http://www.sofasound.com/phcds/chamlyrics.htm#1
Peter Hammill - In the End http://www.sofasound.com/phcds/chamlyrics.htm#4
(other songs like Bad Company's "Shooting Star" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Don't Ask Me No Questions" probably fit in this second list as well)


thanks for any feedback

not a lot of time (I coul think of a ton) but here are some:

the entire Suffocating the Bloom by Echolyn record (about commercialism & consumerism)

and a classic...Death on Two Legs by Queen (about their manager) LOVE the lyrics in that one! (and Flick of the Wrist by Queen also deals with the same topic).....

[mailotron]

I think of Parallel or 90 degrees CD Unbranded ( consumerism)
Yours
Mailo

Other hint :

the late british singer Kevin Coyne has surely composed text against the system