# Songs for the financial crisis
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-the-financial-crisis/467270
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 10, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-the-financial-crisis/467270 "2008-10-10T02:13:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-the-financial-crisis/467270/1 "2008-10-10T02:13:28Z")
WTF, _another_ song thread? Yep.
Argent’s [“It’s Only Money (Pt 2)”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fflvocQ2PTw)
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### Author:  [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-the-financial-crisis/467270/2 "2008-10-10T03:32:17Z")
Pink Floyd’s _Money._
R.E.M.'s _It’s The End Of The World As We Know It._
Considering AIG’s “Spa Retreat” PR fiasco, I think B.O.C.'s _Dancin’ In The Ruins_ might be appropriate.
To “lighten” the mood a bit, Bobby McFerrin’s _Don’t Worry, Be Happy._ And Monty Python’s _Accountancy Shanty,_ as well as _The Galaxy Song._ Red Dwarf’s Theme Song would fit in here, too.
And just for all the assholes who got us into this mess, Johnny Cash’s _When The Man Comes Around._ Or maybe _God’s Gonna Cut You Down._
For all the people watching their life’s savings going up in smoke, watching their house being foreclosed on, Johhny Mandel’s _Suicide Is Painless,_ or Stealers Wheel’s _Stuck In The Middle With You._
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### Author:  [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-the-financial-crisis/467270/3 "2008-10-10T03:36:10Z")
[There’s an entire Thread dedicated to the new “Weird Al” parody of T.I.'s “Whatever You Like”.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=486956) Still, it’s a perfect entry for this Thread as well.
[Link to the song.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRVi0paZlfI)
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### Author:  [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-the-financial-crisis/467270/4 "2008-10-10T04:02:34Z")
Anything by Pete Seeger or th’ Guthries that involves putting anti-union, job-exporting, pro-banking fat cats up against the wall would work for me.
_Rolls up sleeves, spits toothpick into dust and picks up guitar_
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-the-financial-crisis/467270/5 "2008-10-10T04:50:20Z")
_Foreclosure of a Dream_ - Megadeth
[Video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pQK6bh5zkI)
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### Author:  [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-the-financial-crisis/467270/6 "2008-10-10T05:40:06Z")
_The percentage you’re paying is too high-priced
While you’re living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he’s made on your dreams…_
Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys – Traffic
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-the-financial-crisis/467270/7 "2008-10-10T06:03:23Z")
A classic: [Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eih67rlGNhU) Written, of course, in 1931.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-the-financial-crisis/467270/8 "2008-10-10T07:09:43Z")
[Money Changes Everything](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z5PkpVAjEM) by The Brains, 1980
> [@Tom Gray](#):
>
> They shake your hand and they smile
> And they buy you a drink
> They say we’ll be your friends
> We’ll stick with you till the end
> Ah but everybody’s only
> Looking out for themselves
> And you say well who can you trust
> I’ll tell you it’s just
> Nobody else’s money
>
> Money changes everything
> Money changes everything
> We think we know what we’re doin’
> We don’t pull the strings
> It’s all in the past now
> Money changes everything
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### Author:  [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-the-financial-crisis/467270/9 "2008-10-10T17:44:16Z")
**Uncle Tupelo** ’s cover of _No Depression_.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-the-financial-crisis/467270/10 "2008-10-10T17:48:05Z")
ABBA’s “Money Money Money” of course.
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### Author:  [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-the-financial-crisis/467270/11 "2008-10-10T17:55:03Z")
The Arrogant Worm’s “Proud to be a Banker”
_I’m proud to be a banker,
Proud to be a banker,
Proud to be a banker,
'Cause I get to play with other people’s money_
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### Author:  [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-the-financial-crisis/467270/12 "2008-10-10T22:31:30Z")
Another classic: Bessie Smith’s [Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_odSSNFbdE).
Or maybe that’s just me.
Also, the Kinks’ [Get Back in Line.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7HAfWWNQcI) I’ve been listening to that a lot lately as I look for a job.
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### Author:  [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2008, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-the-financial-crisis/467270/13 "2008-10-11T12:10:15Z")
“Black Friday” by Steely Dan
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When Black Friday comes
I’ll stand down by the door
And catch the grey men when they
Dive from the fourteenth floor
When Black Friday comes
I’ll collect everything I’m owed
And before my friends find out
I’ll be on the road.\*