Just a nitpick…Gansta was the Geto Boys song they played while Peter (Ron Livingston) was flaking out at work. ‘Still’, also by the Geto Boys was the song hey played while they stomped the printer (“DIE MOTHERFUCKER!! DIE MOTHERFUCKER!! STILL!!”).
Also a good job change song.
Public Enemy - Fight the Power
Kenny Rogers(I think) - Take this Job and Shove it
The Banana Boat song - Dayoo! Dayayayo! Daylight come and me wanna go home!
Some office/work movies for inspiration:
Office Space
9 to 5
Wall Street
The Firm
Trading Places
Boiler Room
Clockwatchers
Gung Ho
Take This Job and Shove it
Howzabout “King of the Road” by Roger Miller. Third boxcar midnight train,
Destination Bangor, Maine
Old worn out suit and shoes,
I don’t pay no union dues
I smoke old stogies I have found,
Short but not too big around
I’m a man of means by no means, king of the road
stv
“Up every morning just to keep a job
I got to fight my way through this hustling mob
Sounds of the city pounding in my brain
As another day goes down the drain…”
Loved it especially when they used it as a opener on the Drew Carey show.
prince’s “raspberry beret” mentions a job at the five and dime, working for mr. mcgee. the whole song isn’t about said job, but the first verse kind of is. and it’s a great song, so i thought i’d mention it.
What about that goddamnawful song about the boss who moans about his wife then sleazes on his secretary… probably got lost in the Great Purge… let me find some lyrics…
My favorite has always been “Just Got Paid” by Rapeman; don’t let the name scare you. My wife and I sing this whenever we come home with a check, which I guess is why I fell for her.
Depending on your, uh, musical sensibilities, it may be great or jarring. It’s an Albini song, so…
It’s not vulgar or anything, it just feature the distinctly jangly guitar sound that only the genius posses and the insane lament.
