# Songs about uncertainty, change, vexation and back injury **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 17, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-uncertainty-change-vexation-and-back-injury/419464 "2007-09-17T05:20:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-uncertainty-change-vexation-and-back-injury/419464/1 "2007-09-17T05:20:22Z")
I’m moving. Help me write the soundtrack. 🙂 Not just road songs, you understand. I want waiting for phone calls songs, cleaning songs, heft and carry songs, breaking stuff songs, feeling out of place songs. Help me recreate the whole soul destroying shebang, musically. So far all I have is a measly four: _Can’t Help but Wonder Where I’m Bound_ by Tom Paxton, _People are Strange_ by The Doors, _I’m Not From Here_\* by James McMurtry and _Everything is Broken_. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-uncertainty-change-vexation-and-back-injury/419464/2 "2007-09-17T08:11:39Z")
[Games People Play](http://www.lyrics007.com/Alan%20Parsons%20Lyrics/Games%20People%20Play%20Lyrics.html) The Alan Parsons Project. [Don’t Think Twice, it’s Alright](http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dontthink.html) Bob Dylan [I’ve got the Train Sittin’ Waitin’](http://www.lyrics007.com/Jennings%20Waylon%20Lyrics/I%20Got%20The%20Train%20Sittin'%20Waitin'%20Lyrics.html) Waylon Jennings. This one might be a stretch. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-uncertainty-change-vexation-and-back-injury/419464/3 "2007-09-17T10:34:34Z")
_I’m on the Road to Nowhere_, Talking Heads ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-uncertainty-change-vexation-and-back-injury/419464/4 "2007-09-17T10:41:56Z")
[Hammer and a Nail](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H7TzUdRL6o), Indigo Girls. [I’m walking away](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZB5yfXAi94) (from the troubles in my life), Craig David. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-uncertainty-change-vexation-and-back-injury/419464/5 "2007-09-17T12:59:05Z")
Well, “Autumn Almanac” (the Kinks song, not the Doper) does contain the phrase “my poor rheumatic back.” But it also has the line “This is my street, and I’m never gonna leave it,” so it’s probably not a good moving song. But I can recommend “Today You Move” by Trip Shakespeare (which spings to mind because I was impelled to listen to the album it’s on by the recent “vocal harmonies” thread). ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-uncertainty-change-vexation-and-back-injury/419464/6 "2007-09-17T13:24:10Z")
[Our Town](http://www.lyricsondemand.com/d/dementirislyrics/ourtownlyrics.html) by Iris Dement [Call You Home](http://www.markerelli.com/index.php?page=songs&category=The_Memorial_Hall_Recordings&display=69) by Mark Erelli Maybe End of the Summer by Dar Williams. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-uncertainty-change-vexation-and-back-injury/419464/7 "2007-09-17T15:48:41Z")
These are all great. Keep 'em coming. Oh, and seeing as how we’re down to two weeks to find a new place, I’ll sum up the house hunting nightmare with: _Build Me Up Buttercup_, _Tired of Waiting_ by the Kinks and then _Liar, Liar_ by the Castaways (maybe this should be a Pit thread). [QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Well, “Autumn Almanac” (the Kinks song, not the Doper) does contain the phrase “my poor rheumatic back.” But it also has the line “This is my street, and I’m never gonna leave it,” so it’s probably not a good moving song. [/QUOTE] From your lips to Og’s ear, **Thudlow** , and with any luck, _Out My Backdoor_, by CCR for the last song. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-uncertainty-change-vexation-and-back-injury/419464/8 "2007-09-17T16:02:48Z")
The entire album _Combat Rock_ by The Clash is excellent cleaning music. Ditto _Dancing Queen_ and anything else by Abba. Disco is general, for that matter. 🙂 In 1985 when I was moving back to the town where I grew up, _Small Town_ by John Mellencamp and _My Hometown_ by Bruce Springsteen were popular on the radio. I’ve always felt they were good choices for moving music ever since. Other thoughts: _Movin’ Out_, Billy Joel _Sixteen Tons_, Eric Burdon version (_Joe Versus the Volcano_ soundtrack) _All Shook Up_, Ry Cooder version _Big Bad John_, Jimmy Dean _Country Roads_, John Denver _Graceland_, Paul Simon ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-uncertainty-change-vexation-and-back-injury/419464/9 "2007-09-17T16:12:50Z")
The Old Apartment, Barenaked Ladies ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-uncertainty-change-vexation-and-back-injury/419464/10 "2007-09-17T21:04:36Z")
Howsabout [“Northwest Passage”](http://www.geocities.com/~elainedues/lyrics.html#northwest) by Stan Rogers? Or maybe [“Radar Love”](http://music.yahoo.com/Golden-Earring/Radar-Love/lyrics/592949) by Golden Earring? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-uncertainty-change-vexation-and-back-injury/419464/11 "2007-09-17T21:05:57Z")
If you want waiting songs (phone calls, especially), “Thru and Thru” by the Rolling Stones.