For fun—best songs about music industry

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Anonymous wrote:Leaving on a Jet Plane

and Jet Airliner

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Barracuda - Heart

TIL

According to Ann Wilson, Mushroom Records, the band’s former label, tried to pull a publicity stunt in which they wanted to convince fans that Ann and her sister/bandmate Nancy were lovers. In response, an enraged Ann wrote “Barracuda” about the ruthlessness and overall sleaziness of the music industry, likening them to a dangerous fish.

Heart also scrapped their in-progress record and left the label, opting instead to sign with Portrait Records, who released “Barracuda” on the band’s 1977 album “Little Queen.”

Also the most famous to me is Radio, Radio - Elvis Costello who earned a ban from SNL when he quit playing the song Columbia Records wanted him to play and instead stopped and played Radio Radio instead. I remember seeing it live.

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The Stroke - Billy Squiee

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Squier

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The Kinks - Money go round
“Do they all deserve money from a song that they’ve never heard? They don’t know the tune and the don’t know the words but they don’t give a damn.”

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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Workin' For MCA



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Neil Young’s This Note’s For You
Tom Petty’s The Last DJ

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Moonlight Mile, Rolling Stones

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There was a reel big fish song “Sell out” all about it.

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Harder to Breathe— Maroon 5

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Submitting a less obvious choice;

Break it Down Again - Tears for Fears

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Nickleback -- Rock Star

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An older one: Shooting Star -- Bad Company

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Bruce -- Tenth Avenue Freeze Out

When the change was made uptown and the Big Man joined the band
From the coastline to the city, all the little pretties raise their hands
I'm gonna sit back right easy and laugh
When Scooter and the Big Man bust this city in half

Luke Combs -- Doin' This

Having a Friday night crowd in the palm of my hand
Cup of brown liquor, couple buddies in a band
Singin' them same damn songs like I am now
I'd be feelin' on fire on a hardwood stage
Bright lights like lightning runnin' through my veins
At the Grand Ole Opry or a show in some no-name town
I'd still be doin' this if I wasn't doin' this



Boston - Rock & Roll Band

Dancin' in the streets of Hyannis
We were getting pretty good at the game
People stood in line and didn't seem to mind
You know everybody knew our name

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Can’t Hardly Wait - the Replacements