Favorite anti-establishment or anti-music industry song or lyrics

Tool "Hooker With a Penis"

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Tool "Hooker With a Penis"

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I think you missed the point of this song. It's making fun of super fans, not the record industry

That is probably my favorite.


I also like The Spirit Of Radio - Rush

Though it is sort of a contrast of what music aught to be and what the music industry turns it into, even though they still provide us with some great music.

It starts off with how music can really brighten up our lives.

Begin the day
With a friendly voice
A companion, unobtrusive
Plays the song that’s so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood

Off on your way
Hit the open road
There is magic at your fingers
For the Spirit ever lingers
Undemanding contact
In your happy solitude.

Invisible airwaves
Crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle
With the energy
Emotional feedback
On a timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price –
Almost free…


Then it starts to hint at the issues

All this machinery
Making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted
It’s really just a question
Of your honesty


Then sort of moves into the darker side and skepticism that occurs especially when you see how the sausage is made.


One likes to believe
In the freedom of music
But glittering prizes
And endless compromises
Shatter the illusion
Of integrity

“For the words of the profits,
Are written on the studio wall,
Concert hall –
Echoes with the sounds…
Of salesmen.”



All the while with upbeat almost bright sounding music, if that makes sense.

Agreed, but the context of the clueless superfan is that Maynard had to sell out a long time before that guy even heard of him. That's a pretty anti-industry sentiment in my mind.

Oh, yes
I love my label and my label loves me
For she's so good and kind
Together, we will pave our destiny
My label always loves to hear some pretty
Chords to its records like these ones
She's always pleased to hear some of these
Pretty melodies, so I sing 'em some

[Chorus]
I love my label, I love my label, yeah
And my label's got high hopes in me

Play the blues

[Verse 2]
Oh, I'm so proud of them up here
We're one big, happy family
I guess you could say I'm the poor
Relation of the parent company
They always ask for lots of songs, but no
More than 2:50 long, so I write 'em some
They never talk behind my back and they're
Always playing my new tracks when I come along

[Chorus, 2x]

Nick Lowe - I Love My Label

Green Day’s Holiday being the first real big anti Iraq war song when the music scene was filled with apolitical songs or pro war county songs

The representative from California has the floor
"Sieg Heil" to the president Gasman
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticize your government
"Bang! Bang!" goes the broken glass, and
Kill all the figs that don't agree
Try to fight fire, setting fire
Is not a way that's meant for me
Just 'cause (hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!)
Just 'cause, because we're outlaws, yeah (hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!)
Oh I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

Old people music:

Pistols - Anarchy in the UK

Circle Jerks - World Up My arse

Dicks Hate The Poleece

Clash - White Riot

Dirty Rotten Imbeciles - I Dont Need Society

Porcupine Tree - The Sound of Muzak

Hear the sound of music drifting in the aisles
Elevator Prozac stretching on for miles
The music of the future will not entertain
It's only meant to repress and neutralize your brain

Soul gets squeezed out
Edges get blunt
Demographic
Gives what you want

One of the wonders of the world is going down
It's going down, I know
It's one of the blunders of the world that no one cares
No one cares enough

Now the sound of music comes in silver pills
Engineered to suit you building cheaper thrills
The music of rebellion makes you want to rage
But it's made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age

Soul gets squeezed out
Edges get blunt
Demographic
Gives what you want

One of the wonders of the world is going down
It's going down, I know
It's one of the blunders of the world that no one cares
No one cares enough

Waylon & Willie
Write your own song
You call us heathens with zero respect for the law
We are only songwriters just writing our songs and that's all
We write what we live and we live what we write is that wrong
If you think it is Mr. Music Executive
Why don't you write your own songs
And don't listen to mine, they might run you crazy
They might make you dwell on your feelings a moment too long
We're making you rich and you're already lazy
So just lay on your arse and get richer or write your own songs
Mr. Purified Country don't you know what the whole things about
Is your head up your arse so far that you can't pull it out
The world's getting smaller and everyone in it belongs
And if you can't see that Mr. Purified Country
Why don't you just write your own songs
And don't listen to mine, they might run you crazy
They might make you dwell on your feelings a moment too long
We're making you rich and you're already lazy
So just lay on your arse and get richer or write your own songs
So just lay on your arse and get richer or write your own songs

Spoon - The Agony of Laffitte

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Still, to exorcise any lingering anger, Spoon released a 7-inch on Saddle Creek called “The Agony Of Laffitte.” The lo-fi, acoustic-based composition seethes quietly, calling Laffitte out for his lack of communication, two-faced behavior, and suspect moral character. Perhaps more pointedly, the sing-song chorus (“But you’re no better than Sylvia”) doubles as a dig at then-Elektra president Sylvia Rhone, who apparently reneged on a promise to keep Spoon around even if Laffitte left. Yet “The Agony Of Laffitte” and its B-side—the cleverly titled “Laffitte Don’t Fail Me Now,” a jangly psych-pop gem mainly obsessed with his dishonesty—are disappointed finger wags more than anything, songs that tsk-tsk about Laffitte’s shortcomings.

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Spoon did one album, “A Series of Sneaks,” for major label Elektra before being unceremoniously dumped. Apparently the label brass was a bunch of lying assholes who didn’t do anything they said they would do.