Bit of a Stretch Dept.: “So What?” /Anti Nowhere League
“I Just Want To Have Something To Do” /Ramones
About boredom, but (emphatically) not about being bored: Being Boring by Pet Shop Boys
“Ridin’ Around in the Rain” by The Charioteers.
yep that is the one that comes to my mind.
title is “Flowers on The Wall”
Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay.
This is the winner.
Similarly, there’s Baudelaire by … and You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead, which is about both:
The classic You’re Blase:
How about “Too Much Time on My Hands” by Styx? It’s about a laid-off blue collar worker who spends his time drinking and wishing he had something better to do.
“I’m so tired of losing.
I’ve got nothing to do and all day to do it.
So, I go out cruising,
But I’ve noplace to go and all night to get there” "***
Or “Working Man” by Rush, which is really about a guy in a dead end job who’s utterly bored with his life?
"Always seem to be wondering why there’s nothing going down here."
25 or 6 to 4? Which, I just noticed, happend to be playing on my iPod as wrote that.
Hmm… good one, but it’s not EXACTLY about boredom. It’s about an exhausted composer trying to stay awake long enough to finish a song he’s working on.
He’s sleepy and frustrated more than bored.
You beat me to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrb1TCQwxXA
Big Black: Kerosene
The Beatles: “She’s Leaving Home”.
If you listen to the lyrics, she’s basically leaving out of boredom. So it’s about escaping boredom.
A 1952 Eartha Kitt classic, Monotonous.
German band Die Ärzte - Langweilig (Boring)
Well, technically that was more about ennui…
Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger (kinda)
English Summer Rain by Placebo
I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones:
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin’ to do and no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated
Something To Do - Depeche Mode - “I’m going crazy with boredom”
This song attempts to be helpful by suggesting two cures for boredom -
- Let the songwriter put on your leather boots
- Have sex with the songwriter (implied)
The song also helpfully indicates you should be very, very drunk before doing either of those things.