Songs About How Vile And Corrupt The Music Business Is

[Drjohnrock]

If you know any young (or not so young) folks with starry eyed visions of winning American Idol, you would do well to play for them this cautionary tale about the music biz.

"All you'll ever meet are CHEATERS AND LIARS...that's all you'll ever meet/that's all you'll ever see/don't be a singer"

Edit: The artist is Wild Man Fischer, RIP.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBzAtgMSjzY

[SweetHeartHolly]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbDWbudity4

God bless you and his family always!!!

Holly (a girl who forever misses Toby)

[DriveYourCarDownToTheSea]

[jadis]

Two of my favorite songs released within a year of one another


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKOI...l=LiquidLifeTV


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZ...ImageLimitVEVO

[Psy-Fi]

Originally Posted by DriveYourCarDownToTheSea

Good choice. Here's another one from the same album...

[jadis]

A rarity from their early days. It's about the time Hansa Records tried to sign them up to be a boy band singing covers but Robert had other ideas.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz9L...=MartinDebaser

[DMBFFF]

wp:So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star

[Drjohnrock]

Originally Posted by DMBFFF

wp:So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star

That definitely fits the category, and is a good cover of a good song. I have to think that Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman got the idea for the title from a series of books found in US libraries, particularly school libraries, from the lat 50s/early 60s through the 70s that had titles like "So You Want to Be A Doctor!", "So You Want To Be An Accountant!", "So You Want to Be A Mortician!", etc.

Here's an an early entry in The Fall's sizable number of songs dealing with the perfidy of the music biz. Like The Fall's Mark E. Smith (RIP), I am distrustful of a lot of aspects of the music business. Unlike him, I have not spent my entire adult life working in a business I purport to despise:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C5k...&start_radio=1