Mustachian music?

[NeverWasACornflakeGirl]

A couple of top 40 tunes that might be mustachian:

Royals
http://www.lyrics.com/royals-lyrics-lorde.html

Thrift Shop
http://www.lyrics.com/thrift-shop-lyrics-macklemore.html

[Cujo]

Counting Stars
http://www.lyrics.com/counting-stars-lyrics-onerepublic.html

[RetiredAt63]

Just found this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cPAPnhhLF8#t=217

[Rachelocity]

And here's my current fave:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpnHhii3ZIk

[grantmeaname]

Inb4 thrift shop.

D'oh.

[the fixer]

Listening to this one right now, coincidentally: "Without It" by MuteMath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khFmYyMCdAk

[pac_NW]

A slightly different answer to the question - any and all music listened to on Hoopla FREE via your library. Or iTunes Radio. Pandora is cool too but the ads to frequent. Other apps you are using?

[Mojo]

The Fabulous Life
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C-ac3MDHWNM

9 to 5
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zym4VTG2ffQ

Free
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XHOqhcTpkIc

Transcendence (has no words, but it works for me :-) )
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1a5eRl94BTk

[rubybeth]

Billy Joel - Movin' Out - Lyrics video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8buJ2-oD02E

Serena Ryder - Stompa - some of the lyrics - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz7jCY1cpHk

[sheepstache]

Thread necromancy 'cause I feel like we should keep a mustachian music thread going.

Was listening to the Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco collaboration The Past Didn't Go Anywhere. Great album.  A couple things stood out to me as anti-establishment and Thoreau-esque.  May not appeal depending on your political inclinations.

Frying-Pan Jack and I were in that camp, that's where he said to me, he'd been tramping since 1927, 'I told myself in '27, if I cannot dictate the conditions of my labor, I will henceforth cease to work.'
You don't have to go to college to figure these things out, no sir.
He said, 'I learned when I was young that the only true life I had was the life of my brain. But if it's true that the only real life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to someone for eight hours a day, for their particular use, on the presumption that at the end of the day they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9FRFaWSS_c&index=3&list=ALBTKoXRg38BAhr-H1AHdPfwuCRxQ7zCFE

A discussion with his son.

"How did you get to be like that?"
It's a fair question.  [laughter]
I knew what he meant.  But he didn't have all the language to say exactly what he meant.  What he meant to say was: "Why is it that you are fundamentally alienated from the entire institutional structure of humanity?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t6nzLX9gF4&list=ALBTKoXRg38BAhr-H1AHdPfwuCRxQ7zCFE&index=2


An invitation to the state Young Writers' Conference:

"You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource.  Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuegVoHM4tY&index=4&list=ALBTKoXRg38BAhr-H1AHdPfwuCRxQ7zCFE

[Mrs. Frugalwoods]

Radioheads' OK Computer album--"Fitter Happier" in particular.

[martynthewolf]

Just found this on Spotify, an Australian rap group Hilltop Hoods - Pyramid Building

https://play.spotify.com/album/40JpdKCmhRLZgLe5vGDqgp

Very mustachian message.

[BooksAreNerdy]

This thread reminds me of trainspotting.


Choose life.  Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning ... Choose life ... But why would I want to do a thing like that?"

[LibrarIan]

Denison Witmer's Life Before Aesthetics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Iuuz_0rEU

[Iron Mike Sharpe]

The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work Death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO5dcW0P75M

[chops]

Check out "This is your life" by Tyler Durden & The Dust Brothers off of the Fight Club soundtrack.  Hard to get more mustachian than those lyrics.

Yeah, it's really credited to Tyler Durden.  I did a double take too, but it's Awesome.

 - Chops

[jopiquant]

Neil Diamond - Forever in Blue Jeans:

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

[sheepstache]

This thread reminds me of trainspotting.


Choose life.  Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning ... Choose life ... But why would I want to do a thing like that?"

...but doesn't somebody's baby die after they neglect him during a three-day heroin-fueled fugue?  I'll take a boring old 9-5 over that if those are my only options.

[Kriegsspiel]

As I Lay Dying - Losing Sight

Can we die to live another day

How could we lose sight
Of what matters most?
Trying to love
What cannot love us back
All we have is
Not worth living for
If we do not know
When to let go

What is this life
That we cling to
It so tight
Afraid that it
Will take from us
These fading
Sentiments

And some of the most metal guitar I've heard.

[grantmeaname]

Denison Witmer's Life Before Aesthetics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Iuuz_0rEU

This is a good one if you can make out what the hell he's trying to say.

Life before aesthetics is a mindset that imparts impossibilities
Still I waste the chance to give as if I never lived through alteration
I'm not telling you it's right
But waking through the night, I felt it happen

[Dr. Doom]

Corporate America, by Boston is pretty intense:


I see the future in the past
Just took the corner way too fast, the reckless ride of modern man
Flattened everything that stands
Fooled by the sales pitch for progress at a dizzy pace
We idolize the filthy rich for giving us synthetic taste
Computer calls, urban sprawl
Is the world a better place, is the world a better place?

@Kriegsspiel - I loved the As I Lay Dying track, that was so freaking metal.

[sheepstache]

Natural's Not In It by Gang of Four, from an ironic angle

The problem of leisure, what to do for pleasure?
Ideal love, a new purchase, a market of the senses
The body is good business
Sell out, maintain the interest

Remember Lot's wife
Renounce all sin and vice
Dream of the bourgeois life
This heaven gives me migraine

[sheepstache]

Mad Men, being about advertising, is certainly not mustachian, but I did enjoy that they ended the most recent episode with The Best Things in Life Are Free
(Non-Mad-Men version for those looking to avoid semi-spoilers.)

[sirdoug007]

Saw this live this weekend. Great mustachian song! 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ohbTq49NPa0


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[C. K.]

"The Best Things In Life Are Free" by B.G. DeSylva,  Lew Brown and Ray Henderson.

The moon belongs to everyone
The best things in life are free
The stars belong to everyone
They gleam there for you and me

The flowers in spring
The robins that sing
The sunbeams that shine
They're yours, they're mine

And love can come to everyone
The best things in life are free

This is from the musical GOOD NEWS, which was first a play, then a film with Peter Lawford and June Allyson.

This song is about appreciating what's right in front of you - the stars, the moon, a guy or gal.

[lizzzi]

Not exactly what the OP means, but Mustachian music would be music you make yourself…it's free, right? What could be more Mustachian than sitting on the porch with your friends or family singing "Old Joe Clark" and making up your own words. To quote my brother: "Old Joe Clark he had a tie. Red and blue and green. Ate the damn thing yesterday. And they found it in his spleen--yeah--they found it in his spleen." Bro is a physician, by the way. (Not that you'd ever know it---rides bikes everywhere, his wife has a worm compost pile in their basement--they put a brick in their toilet so it doesn't use so much water when they occasionally flush…etc., etc.) Dr. Mustache, MD.

[lizzzi]

Here's another totally free, no-cost Mustachian verse to stick onto the end of Old Joe Clark, preferably at top volume and perhaps one octave higher than necessary. I thought this up: "Swing your boyfriend round and round. Throw him in the toilet--flush him down!" (I thought it up when I was seventeen.)

OK, so we were not music majors. But my brothers and I used to have a lot of fun on the porch, back in the day. Or in the house…me or brother #3 on the piano, my dad on the penny whistle, an uncle sneaking up on the porch and saying loudly that he was the police responding to a noise complaint. Not a computer or a cell phone in sight because they hadn't been invented yet. Mustachian music--fun, family, funky, and free. No reason we can't still do that. (Oh, guess what? We do! Hopefully not such stupid songs anymore.)

[sheepstache]

Mad Men, being about advertising, is certainly not mustachian, but I did enjoy that they ended the most recent episode with The Best Things in Life Are Free
(Non-Mad-Men version for those looking to avoid semi-spoilers.)

"The Best Things In Life Are Free" by B.G. DeSylva,  Lew Brown and Ray Henderson.

I guess that's how you find out your posts have been blocked by someone :)

[C. K.]

Mad Men, being about advertising, is certainly not mustachian, but I did enjoy that they ended the most recent episode with The Best Things in Life Are Free
(Non-Mad-Men version for those looking to avoid semi-spoilers.)

"The Best Things In Life Are Free" by B.G. DeSylva,  Lew Brown and Ray Henderson.

I guess that's how you find out your posts have been blocked by someone :)

Ha! You're not blocked. I was so excited to contribute that I didn't read the posts above.   Oh well, great minds think alike....

[sheepstache]

great minds think alike....

Indeed! It was just too funny a coincidence that we were both thinking of the same old song at the same time not to comment on :)

[Kriegsspiel]

@Kriegsspiel - I loved the As I Lay Dying track, that was so freaking metal.

[Kriegsspiel]

She came so close.

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Anyplace is better
Starting from zero got nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make something
Me, myself I got nothing to prove

You got a fast car
I got a plan to get us out of here
I been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
Won't have to drive too far
Just 'cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs
And finally see what it means to be living

You see my old man's got a problem
He live with the bottle that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
His body's too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said somebody's got to take care of him
So I quit school and that's what I did

You got a fast car
Is it fast enough so we can fly away
We gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way

So remember we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
I had a feeling that I belonged
I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You got a fast car
We go cruising to entertain ourselves
You still ain't got a job
I work in a market as a checkout girl
I know things will get better
You'll find work and I'll get promoted
We'll move out of the shelter
Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs

I remember we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
I had a feeling that I belonged
I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You got a fast car
I got a job that pays all our bills
You stay out drinking late at the bar
See more of your friends than you do of your kids
I'd always hoped for better
Thought maybe together you and me would find it
I got no plans I ain't going nowhere
So take your fast car and keep on driving

I remember we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
I had a feeling that I belonged
I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so you can fly away
You gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way

[Kris]

Almost anything by the Kinks .

[Landlord2015]

Typical music if you become very RICH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA_yP4RfXVc

Landlord is certainly not liked by many left wing people... I am not so rich I earn to play that song yet, but it gives a good impression. Left wing people in my country dislike very much landlords.

However in my experience while landlord are not liked they are respected! As for tenants they learn to respect me one way or another and if nothing else helps then true warnings that next step is the law enforcement. Late paid rent? No problem for me it is a few weeks paid late, but no renter has left unpaid bills to me once they realize how hardcore I am. You see I like to have a reputation of hardcore and I will go all the way to the court if needed.

[laughing_paddler]

Have you heard this one yet? Courtney Barnett -Depreston.
First few lines get right to the mustachianism:
... We don't have to be around all these coffee shops.
Now we got that percolator, never made a latte greater,
I'm saving 25 dollars a week...
https://youtu.be/1NVOawOXxSA

[Kriegsspiel]

August Burns Red - Consumer

A front seat to your own flick,
if only you could see how much your emotions waver.

Words are flowing from your mouth at lightning speed.
They're packing heat and are ready to kill.
Cry, frown, hit, yell.

Let's watch where it takes you.
You really don't have it that bad.
Try looking through the glass of beauty.
It will show you the truth.

We are all guilty of self-centeredness.
We have committed the crime,
but what we fail to realize is the dent it leaves in our soul.
Everyone is full of it in their own way.

A young boy cannot comprehend social status;
and this boy is better off than any of us!

Life will pass us by like a summer storm,
and if we consume ourselves with ourselves,
we will surely look back with sorrow.

This song is also metal.

[alpharomeo]

Eddie Vedder - "Society" from the Into the Wild soundtrack.