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Hallelujah, I'm A Bum! Anthems for the Under-and-Unemployed

Sep 7, 2020 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

With Casey

This Labor Day we celebrate both the joys and struggles of unemployment, jobs that barely make ends meet and shall we say... less traditional sources of income.

Graph of 2020 jobless claims Line go up.

artwork for Harry McClintock's song "Hallelujah! I'm a Bum", originally published by the I.W.W.

Hallelujah, I'm A Bum! Anthems for the Under-and-Unemployed

1:00 PM		Harry McClintock Hallelujah! I'm A Bum 10" Bluebird 1928 Internet Archive
1:02 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:03 PM		Creedence Clearwater Revival Proud Mary Live at Woodstock Craft Recordings 2019
1:06 PM		The Clash Career Opportunities The Clash CBS 1977
1:07 PM		Drive-By Truckers This Fucking Job The Big To-Do Shock Records 2010
1:12 PM		Judas Priest Breaking The Law British Steel Columbia Records 1980
1:15 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:17 PM		Crass Do They Owe Us a Living? The Feeding of the 5000 Crass Records 1978
1:18 PM		The Business The Employers Blacklist Suburban Rebels Secret 1983
1:21 PM		The Business Work Or Riot? Suburban Rebels Secret 1983
1:23 PM		The Replacements God Damn Job Stink Twin/Tone 1982
1:25 PM		Subhumans Work Experience Religious Wars Spiderleg 1982
1:28 PM		The Delinquents Do You Have A Job For A Girl Like Me? R Alien Beach Party Live Wire 1979 A request from our own Dana K
1:29 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:32 PM		Bruce Springsteen Downbound Train Born In the U.S.A. Columbia 1984
1:35 PM		Lou Reed Don't Talk to Me About Work Legendary Hearts RCA Records 1983
1:37 PM		Cayetana freedom1313 Tired Eyes Asian Man Records 2016
1:41 PM		Big Boys Work Without Pay Where's My Towel/Industry Standard Wasted Talent 1981
1:44 PM		Cloud Nothings Stay Useless Attack On Memory Carpark Records 2012
1:46 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:48 PM		James Brown Funky President (People It's Bad) Reality Polydor Records 1974
1:53 PM		Outkast SpottieOttieDopaliscious Aquemini Arista/LaFace Records 1998
2:00 PM		Curtis Mayfield Pusherman Super Fly Curtom Records 1972
2:05 PM		Cam’ron My Job Crime Pays Killa Entertainment 2009
2:07 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:10 PM		John Lee Hooker House Rent Boogie The Essential: John Lee Hooker Geffen* 1993
2:12 PM		The Fall Fit and Working Again Slates Rough Trade Records 1980
2:15 PM		The Dead Milkmen All I Want For Christmas Is A Job 2014 YouTube
2:17 PM		Buck Owens You Don't Find Work In Pool Rooms (And Love Don't Make The Bars) Tall Dark Stranger
2:20 PM		Johnny Paycheck Take This Job and Shove It Take This Job and Shove It Epic Records 1975
2:22 PM		Tennessee Ernie Ford Sixteen Tons 10" Capitol 1955 Internet Archive
2:24 PM		The Men Candy Open Your Heart Sacred Bones Records 2012
2:27 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:30 PM		Coping Skills Drop out of College Relatable Web Content Citywide Records 2016 Bandcamp
2:33 PM		Parquet Courts Careers in Combat Light Up Gold What's Your Rupture? 2012
2:35 PM		Simon & Garfunkel The Boxer Bridge Over Troubled Water Columbia 1970 Forget what you may have heard about Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins, this song is the origin of the back beat gated reverb
2:40 PM		Thee Oh Sees Minotaur Floating Coffin Castle Face 2013
2:44 PM		Death Cab for Cutie The Employment Pages We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes Barsuk Records 2000
2:48 PM		Sides Of Chaz Jobs Make Jerks Sides Of Chaz 2010 aka Toro y Moi
2:50 PM		Patti Smith I Was Working Real Hard (Reprise) Paris 78 Inverted Pyramid Records 1978 1976 live recording from the Mike Douglas Show (neither Paris nor 78)
2:52 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:56 PM		Harry McClintock The Big Rock Candy Mountains O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Music from the Motion Picture) V/A Lost Highway Records 2000 Originally released in 1928 Internet Archive (poor quality)

Chat is archived.

The chart is very enlightening! I am unemployed now for the first time since I was 13 years old so this show hits me!

I saw a picture a few months ago that I wanted to use instead. It was a billboard from the 70s in Leeds I think about reporting benefits fraud where somebody spray painted "Fuck Off Mind Your Own Business" but couldn't find it when I went looking.

I miss outkast. No one else says "she moved like a brown stallion horse with skates on. You know."

That whole Big Boi portion was part of the inspiration for this

YES, TAKE THIS JOB AMD SHOVE IT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES

It perfectly describes every last foreman I've ever worked under

That bootlicking flattop haircut

This is a fire country set btw, hitting all the classics

There's a link to this file for "Sixteen Tons" ripped off a pretty good quality 78

Nice, thank you. I used that song to explain to a friend about how Google has set up their own company store model

Without reading your note I was about to comment on the reverb! I never noticed it before, but I'm listening in a dark room with headphones and wow.

It's such a cool effect!

I had a mild obsession for a while about the studio where that was recorded because it was built in an old church in NYC and had this incredible natural reverb

Have you gone to see the church? Been inside?

No it was demolished back in the 80s I think

Sigh, of course it was.

Hopefully they don't do that to Sigma Sound in Philly...

It was gutted, wasn't it?

It's not a working studio anymore but the building is still there for now

There's a campaign to get it designated as a protected historical building

I hope they can.