There could be a serious spin to this: music can be a great tool in helping you focus on a task, as Jurgen Wolff explains. There may be a commentary about how art reflects the age in which it was made (in which case, expect ‘The Bear Market Blues’ any day now).
But let’s not overcomplicate it: it’s Friday and the week’s been blighted by bad news on the work front.
So here’s BNET’s own chart listing the top songs about work, compiled with a lot of help from Silicon.com and ZDNet.
- Love Solutions by Miniblackhole
- Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry by Heaven 17
- Punch The Clock by Elvis Costello
- Back On The Chain Gang by The Pretenders
- Working For The Cash Machine by Hard Fi
- 9 To 5 Dolly Parton
- Labour Of Love by Hue and Cry
- Working In A Coal Mine by Lee Dorsey
- Waiting For A Factory Girl by The Rolling Stones
- Nightshift by The Commodores
- She Works Hard for the Money by Donna Summer
- Get a Job by The Offspring
- Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford
- Take this Job and Shove It by Johnny Paycheck
- My Cubicle (a parody of James Blunt’s You’re Beautiful)
- Taking Care of Business by Bachman Turner Overdrive
- Step Into My Office Baby by Belle & Sebastian
- I’ve Been Working on the Railroad American folk song
Honorary mentions
- Working Day and Night by Michael Jackson
- Senses Working Overtime by XTC
- No Hippie Chick by Soho (for mention of the miner’s strike)
- Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now by The Smiths
- Manic Monday by The Bangles
- 9 to 5 by Sheena Easton
- Ain’t Nothing Going on But the Rent: Gwen Guthrie
Ugo votes Spinal Tap’s Sex Farm as its number one… and for a folk round-up, I tip my hat to Kim Ruehl’s compilation.
Have we forgotten any? Let us know.
