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General Discussion => Welcome and General Discussion => Topic started by: TSR Capital on April 02, 2015, 05:20:15 PM
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and I propose this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2CliA8PuRM&index=140&list=WL
What do others propose?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes)
Big thumbs up to this.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes)
Big thumbs up to this.
I third this. I was gonna post it anyway.
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and I propose this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2CliA8PuRM&index=140&list=WL
What do others propose?
I'd forgotten that song. That is great! Can't think of any better.
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We've had several threads like this before, if you do a search, you can find lots of other suggestions.
My favorite was always "Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go to Work)" by They Might Be Giants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geTSBFb_GR4
Warning: Watch it twice or more, and it'll be stuck in your head. It's catchy!
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My favorite was always "Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go to Work)" by They Might Be Giants.
That's great! I really enjoyed it.
I like this version of 'Take this job & shove it' I think is performed by Canibus With Biz Markie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GBEMCExaQw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GBEMCExaQw)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgXkFy5wRWM
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Todd Snider's "Stuck on the Corner (Prelude to a Heart Attack)"
You know that goddamn kiss-ass Handelmann
vice president of human resources or somethin'
He stood up and made a speech about how we would
all have to work even harder now
I thought harder, now, harder than what?
I would give anything to get up and walk but of here but I'm
Chorus:
Stuck on the corner of Sanity and Madness
I'm lookin them over, I can't see a difference
Makin money out of paper, makin paper out of trees
We're makin so much money we can hardly breathe
You oughta hear the shit that I get from my daughter
she says that she can't stand the sight of the car I bought her
I'd be moonlightin forever to buy a ragtop
Her and her mother spend my money pretty much non-stop
They're trying to break me for the sake of the neighborhood
they want to make everyone up and down the street
to think that we're doing good, but I'm
(Chorus)
I didn't even want to study economics
My parents made me cause they said it would be practical
I can't make my kids do a goddamn thing I tell them to
My kid's an unrepentant radical
He is as unimpressed by the glass in my cubicle
As I am secretly impressed by his ability
to look at everything so completely irresponsibly
(Chorus)
You know I had to throw a little back at Mr. Handelmann
Drove home from work as mad as I've ever been an' then
I moved the kid out of the driveway, you know he didn't
He left me everything, I said, what would you know
You're lookin at the man about to buy a kid a ragtop
I said What are you driving? a popsickle you little punk!
And now I'm
(Chorus)
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"In My Cult" by Jim's Big Ego
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJdeh91YRzc
Tee Hee...
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Or this one...Mustache man!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCOVyVxC_QM
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OP beat me to it... I've been compiling a small Mustachian play list.
Dollar A Day - Ryan Bingham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teUVjrc3J6M
End of the Line - Traveling Wilbury's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_dQk9iaSY
All Hail - Devil Makes Three
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aRuN0DY41s
Good Life - Railroad Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWROLRHpzr4
Bird in a House - Railroad Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjgFaKQEuIM
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We've had several threads like this before, if you do a search, you can find lots of other suggestions.
My favorite was always "Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go to Work)" by They Might Be Giants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geTSBFb_GR4
Warning: Watch it twice or more, and it'll be stuck in your head. It's catchy!
Exxxcellent!
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Great suggestions. These will be in the compilation of car songs as we head out on our adventure next year.
I like Eileen Quinn's short and sweet song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-t6SoAGRE0
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Switchfoot - American Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJHvdInvrbA
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Another vote for Thrift shop. It's perfect. Captures the idea that a less materialistic life is in no way less fun.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes)
Big thumbs up to this.
I third this. I was gonna post it anyway.
Another vote for Thrift shop. It's perfect. Captures the idea that a less materialistic life is in no way less fun.
You guys may be interested in this. It's Thrift Shop but done by an all star jazz quartet called Omaha Diner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYz4a4H4Xds
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This song:
http://chrisclavin.bandcamp.com/track/boy-meets-girl-by-ghost-mice
She asked me if I like to sing
I said, of course I like to sing
Anyone who doesn't like to sing
Must be dead if you ask me
She asked how I like being on the road
I said, I love being on the road
Yes, I miss my friends at home
But I love being on the road
So many songs left to sing
So many places left to see
So many songs left to sing
So many places left to see
She asked me if I had a job
I said, no way I've got no job
Why would anyone want a job?
Life's too short to have a job
She asked me if I had a dream
I said, of course I've got my dreams
Anyone who doesn't have a dream
Must be dead if you ask me
So many songs left to sing
So many dreams left to dream
So many places left to see
So many dreams left to dream
Today's too nice
To spend it any other way than riding on our bikes
Today's too great
The weather outside's perfect and I insist that we stay up real late
Today's too wonderful
To worry about anything on our list of things to do
Today is perfect
She asked me if I'd been in love
I said, of course I've been in love
She asked me who I was speaking of
I said her name would not be sung
She asked me if I want to die
I said, of course I do sometimes
Anyone who doesn't want to die
Must not really be alive
Seriously, this songs motivates me towards FI more than anything else... the world is filled with awesome things and the only thing getting in the way of seeing/doing more of them is work.
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FJM fans?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIFrG_6fySg
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An "anti-MMM" theme song.
A sample of the lyrics from Mr MTV, by Nothing More
I need this, I need that
I'm not complete with what I have
If I do this, If I buy that
I'll get mine, I'll get mine
I want, I want, I want...
Empty me, empty nation
Emptied us of inspiration
Bastard sons and broken daughters
All bow down to our corporate father
In my iLife, In my iWorld
On my iPhone, With my iGirl
Just one bite to understand
Even Eve couldn't live without the iPlan
I NEED IT
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I like the Thrift Shop song. If you want something with a more communal aspect, Scare Away the Dark resonates with some MMM principles too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWKTFuAFcOY
We wish our weekdays away
Spend our weekends in bed
Drink ourselves stupid
And work ourselves dead
And all just because that's what mom and dad said we should do
We should run through the forest
We should swim in the streams
We should laugh, we should cry,
We should love, we should dream
We should stare at the stars and not just the screens
You should hear what I'm saying and know what it means
And the verse I think of everyday at my desk:
We're scared of drowning, flying and shooters
But we're all slowly dying in front of fucking computers
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Lots of mustache in this Clash classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfG--sCcgho
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FJM fans?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIFrG_6fySg
Damn, that's bleak. No way that applies to my life. Right?
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Maybe not theme songs per se, but definitely anti-consumerism messages in these. Also thinking about a bigger purpose than just this life.
Certified Gold - Eshon Burgundy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0e4O_gvxl4
http://genius.com/Eshon-burgundy-certified-gold-lyrics
Dreamslave - Swoope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjrDCTxhWfU
http://genius.com/Swoope-dreamslave-murder-me-prelude-lyrics
Pharaoh - Dre Murray (ft. Tragic Hero)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAJbSSeVauk
http://genius.com/Dre-murray-pharaoh-lyrics
American Dream - John Givez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQyiwTMwwdM
http://genius.com/John-givez-american-dream-lyrics
Eat, Sleep, and Die - MC Jin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPrTltNWPAg
http://genius.com/Mc-jin-eat-sleep-and-die-lyrics
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc
+1 to Royals by Lorde.
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Fancy by Iggy Azalea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-zpOMYRi0w
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How about Punch in the Face by JME:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMUbP6v5Dz4&spfreload=10
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From oldies: Natural Man
"I don't want no gold watch
for working 50 years from 9-5
while the boss sits guzzling champagne
and I'm drinking beer in some dive
I want to be
Happy and free
Living and loving for me
I want to be happy and free
Living and....loving for me
Like a natural man...."
I remember the first time I heard that song as a kid turning to my mom and saying, "People have to work 50 years???" Total shock and dismay.
Because some days it feels like Tennessee Ernie Ford is singing for you:
"I loaded sixteen ton
and what did I get
another day older
and deeper in debt
St. Peter don'tcha call me
'cuz I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store"
"I was born one morning
when the sun didn't shine
picked up my shovel and I
walked to the mine..."
Luckily we're all MMM'rs so doesn't apply to us. (whew!)
I like most of the songs you guys suggested.