Maybe "The Company Way" or "A Secretary Is Not a Toy" from the soundtrack of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying?
Country music has a whole subgenre of songs celebrating work, mostly blue-collar. I'm pretty fond of Dave Dudley's "Six Days on the Road," but you could probably come up with a good playlist just from truckdriver songs. (And Jody Miller's "Queen of the House" celebrates the homemaker.)
And I may be getting the titles wrong, but either Monty Python's "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Okay" or Weird Al Yankovic's "Drivin' a Truck." But not both.
Ooooh, "Shoot Down The Stars", Gym Class Heroes
My coworker told me yesterday she listened to Led Zepplin - the Viking Kittens song (yes I know it has a real name but Viking Kittens will forever be its name with me) to psych herself up before she interviewed here.
Most of my work songs are take this job and shove it/working on the chain gang type songs, which I'm thinking aren't quite right.
Good point. I just took a look at the playlist friends of mine played in a show themed "work", and minus the ones in Hebrew, here's what they got:
Nina Simone – Work Song
Hoo Doo Girl – Quit That Job
The Residents – My Work is So Behind
The Fall – Fit and Working Again
Ramones – The Job that Ate My Brain
The Great Bertholinis – Pogue Mahoney
Dolly Parton – 9 to 5
The Members – Goodbye to the Job
Walkmen – This Job is Killing Me
Abner Jay – I Wanna Job
Beatles – Hard Day's Night
Radiohead – No Surprises
My Brightest Diamond – Workhorse
Hardly inspiring enough to get you out of bed.
Daft Punk — "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger"
My coworker told me yesterday she listened to Led Zepplin - the Viking Kittens song (yes I know it has a real name but Viking Kittens will forever be its name with me) to psych herself up before she interviewed here.
That's awesome! Emmett used to make me watch that video over and over again.
Shir, exactly--I have some of those, but I want some more inspirational ones.
Tom, any chance you could send that to me/B'rawk?
Juliana, I added the GCH, plus Roughest neck around by Corb.
OR Kanye's "Stronger", which is one of the songs I depend on to get me going on my runs.
(Also from that mix that might be good for yours, Perkins: "Carry On Wayward Son", Kansas; "Heroes", David Bowie; "Bitches", Mindless Self Indulgence; "I'm Not OK" and "Famous Last Words", My Chemical Romance; "Children of the Revolution", Moulin Rouge Soundtrack)
Christina Aguilera's "Keeps Getting Better"?
"Luck in Her Eyes" kd lang--a great psych up song.
