# Songs of searing anger! **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072 **Category:** Cafe Society **Tags:** music **Created:** [September 16, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072 "2025-09-16T00:10:43Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 97
### Author: ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund) #### Post date: [September 25, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072/97 "2025-09-25T19:50:21Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > One of these days I’m going to start a thread about one of my favorite subgenres of songs: songs calling out the music industry (many of which would fit in this thread.) Incidentally, I started such a thread 9 years ago (omg, how time flies!). It didn’t have very many responses. > [@Stick It To The Company Or I Want To Bite The Hand That Feeds Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-it-to-the-company-or-i-want-to-bite-the-hand-that-feeds-me/749990): > > Well, I’m listening to the Kinks’ album “Lola vs. Powerman…” and [Denmark Street](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCzKqM567Ek&list=PL40xdWb-2paf3N_48AI9WOgqKoIEs8I_I&index=4) comes up. I once read that this album (there’s also [Top Of The Pops](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlJ25pfzLTo&list=PLPAL315FJtRxvfx9rWhpy4UNPbBO0yW2U&index=7)) was the strongest full frontal attack on the music business ever released by that very industry before the Sex Pistols’ [EMI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjbie1O1jxc). So I thought about other examples for songs slashing the biz. Here are some more I can think of: [Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Radio, Radio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8caBUVjWvA) (where a part of the thread title comes from and which he topped by performing… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-searing-anger/1023072)._