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Friday Coffee Break: Workin' Hard

Posted at 8:51 AM on December 17, 2010 by Steve Seel (26 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break

Today's 9:30 Coffee Break is both in honor of this month's Coffee Break winner - recipient of a personal workplace visit from Jill and myself, bearing coffee and pastries from Peace Coffee and the Birchwood Cafe' (the winner is ArcStone Technologies in Minneapolis - congrats guys!), but also just an ode to jobs. Do you love your job? Hate it? Give us some suggestions.

Songs played:
Rose Royce "Car Wash"
Belle and Sebastian "Write About Love"
Rinocerose "Cubicle"
Drive-By Truckers "Working This Job"
Devo "Working In a Coal Mine"

Comments (26)

This F***ing Job - Drive By Truckers
Better Than Nothing - Jennifer Trynin
The Way We Get By - Spoon

Posted by ken | December 17, 2010 9:18 AM

Clampdown – The Clash
Driver 8 - REM
Back on the Chain Gang – The Pretenders
Working in the Coal Mine – Devo
Better Days (and the bottom drops out) – Citizen King

Posted by loran | December 17, 2010 9:19 AM

Paperback Writer -- obligatory Beatles song

Chain Gang -- Sam Cooke

Car Wash -- Rose Royce

Five O'Clock World -- the Vogues

Maggie's Farm -- Bob Dylan

Repo Man -- Ray La . . . oh, never mind

Ice Cream Man -- Jonathan Richman

State Trooper -- Bruce Springsteen

Step Into My Office Baby -- Belle and Sebastian

Welcome to the Working Week -- Elvis Costello


Posted by lou | December 17, 2010 9:19 AM

"Welcome to the Working Week" -- Elvis Costello
"Working in the Coal Mine" -- DEVO
"Working on the Highway" -- Bruce Sprinsteen
"Out of Work" -- Gary U.S. Bonds

And a few "no apologies" suggestions...
"Working for the Weekend" -- Loverboy
"Workin' for a Livin'" -- Huey Lewis & The News
"Nothin' But a Good Time" -- Poison

Posted by (JL) | December 17, 2010 9:20 AM

The only good thing about my job is that I can listen to the current at work. You guys and gals make my work day bearable!

Freefallin' - atmosphere (because I know I should be happy that I got a job)

Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now by The Smiths
Don’t Talk to Me About Work by Lou Reed
Slave to the Wage by Placebo
Welcome to the Working Week by Elvis Costello
It’s Not My place in a 9-5 by World Ramones
She works hard for the money by donna summer

Posted by Sadie | December 17, 2010 9:20 AM

Ministry - Work for Love from CD "With Sympathy"
Thank you!

Posted by Florinda | December 17, 2010 9:20 AM

Belle & Sebastian - Step Into My Office Baby

Dolly Parton -9-5

A Hard Days Night - the Beatles

Finest Worksong - REM (Two days in a row with that request)

Spraw II - Arcade Fire (" quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock ")


Posted by Patrick | December 17, 2010 9:21 AM

nine to five by Dolly Parton

Posted by Scott | December 17, 2010 9:23 AM

Finest Worksong- R.E.M.

Posted by matt | December 17, 2010 9:24 AM

XTC - Earn Enough for US

BTW, you guys have the BEST JOB EVER and you sound so despondent on the radio. Like you hate it or something. Like your life is sooooo hard. You play great music all day, go out to great shows for free and meet awesome artists and you are complaining about all the things you have to do??? Come on now.
Give me a break,

Posted by RAM | December 17, 2010 9:24 AM

Worker's Song by the Dropkick Murphys

Posted by Katherine | December 17, 2010 9:25 AM

Hard Days Night - Beatles

Posted by loran | December 17, 2010 9:25 AM

Finest Worksong - REM

Posted by cal | December 17, 2010 9:25 AM

Dead Kennedys - Take this job and shove it

Posted by Rutter | December 17, 2010 9:27 AM

A few easy picks before I get back to work!
"This F***ing Job" - Drive By Truckers

"Write About Love" - Belle & Sebastian (I wonder how to get to the roof of my office building every time I hear this song.)

"Running With the Wolves" - Cloud Cult (If only for the "left our cubicles in little flaming piles" bit.)

I hope other people's picks are more uplifting, but these pretty accurately sum up my week.

Posted by Maggie | December 17, 2010 9:29 AM

Tori Amos - Playboy Mommy
Beatles - Yellow Submarine

I am one lucky lady. My job job is good and my favorite job is being a mama.

Posted by Angie | December 17, 2010 9:29 AM

Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City
Drive-By Truckers - This F*****g Job
Sheena Easton - Morning Train

Posted by Sneader | December 17, 2010 9:30 AM

Whoa RAM. I don't hear any complaining. They're human. Maybe they are TIRED.

Maybe you don't know just how hard their job is.

Hmmm?

Be nice.

Posted by Angie | December 17, 2010 9:31 AM

five o'clock world - the vogues

Posted by becks | December 17, 2010 9:33 AM

Workin for the weekend- Loverboy
John Henry- Leadbelly

Posted by mark | December 17, 2010 9:37 AM

A gentle suggestion: Songs that are in rotation should NOT be played during the Coffee Break.

And another thought hit me this AM: isn't 9:30 a tad early for a coffee break when the work day starts @ 9 [for many people]??

Posted by kyle | December 17, 2010 9:40 AM

I was being nice. WTF Angie?!?!?

Posted by RAM | December 17, 2010 9:41 AM

I know I'm too late, but Spinal Tap - Sex Farm Woman?

Posted by Jon | December 17, 2010 9:43 AM

It's Mike Mills' birthday...I really really hope you will play one of the REM suggestions! (Driver 8 or Finest Worksong)

Thanks! Your station makes the workday bearable.

Posted by cal | December 17, 2010 9:49 AM

Cal, set yr wayback machine for 90 minutes ago, they played Near Wild Heaven for Mr Mills

Posted by lou | December 17, 2010 9:52 AM

Yeah, but I wasn't listening then, unfortunately.

Posted by cal | December 17, 2010 9:54 AM

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