Happy Labor Day!
Definitely check out this week’s episode of Sound Opinions, as Greg and Jim go through their favorite songs about work. For once they don’t try to out-obscure each other and just talk about a handful of great tunes (Career Opportunities, Smithers-Jones(!), Working Class Hero, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place).
But as it’s only an hour-long show, their list leaves out a few songs. So hear are some of mine. I’ve written about this one before. Five O’Clock World by The Vogues.
When DeRogatis talked about being a member of the Newspaper Guild and the importance of being in a union, I thought he was going here, Billy Bragg’s There Is Power In A Union.
And every time I hear that song, I think of this:
And, of course…
