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Friday Coffee Break: Big Plans For The Weekend?

Posted at 8:41 AM on March 25, 2011 by Steve Seel (41 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break

This morning my guest co-host Jacquie Fuller and I got into a protracted discussion about hair salons, and specifically, the various stock questions that most stylists seem to ask during the course of cutting your hair: "So, do you live around here?" "Are you done working for the day?" "Where do you work?" "Any big plans for the weekend?" We wondered if they teach these questions in cosmotology school as universal "conversation stimulators." Even if that were the case, we want to stress that would be okay - since you gotta start a conversation somewhere.

Anyway, always looking for a segue into the 9:30 Coffee Break, we pose the question, how many songs are there that have to do with haircutting? That's your assignment today.

Songs played:

Morrissey, "Hairdresser On Fire"
Pavement, "Cut Your Hair"
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, "Almost Cut My Hair"
Jens Lekman, "Shirin"
Beck, "Devil's Haircut"

Comments (41)

The first one that comes to mind -
Pavement - Cut Your Hair

Posted by Elise | March 25, 2011 8:57 AM

Cut Your Hair -- Pavement [#1!!]

Devil's Haircut -- Beck [#2!!]

Alliwannadois F**k Your Hair -- the Judybats [no f**king way!!]


Posted by Lou | March 25, 2011 8:58 AM

ape drape - the vandals

Posted by patriq | March 25, 2011 9:01 AM

George Thorogood - Get a Haircut and Get a Real Job

Beck - Devil's Haircut

Posted by Oj | March 25, 2011 9:01 AM

I Am Not My Hair - India.Arie !!

Posted by Elisabeth | March 25, 2011 9:02 AM

Hairdresser on fire by Morrissey

Posted by Alicia | March 25, 2011 9:02 AM

"Almost Cut My Hair"- CSN or CSNY

Posted by kNoizey | March 25, 2011 9:02 AM

Almost Cut My Hair -- CSN

Posted by Lou | March 25, 2011 9:03 AM

Duh.

Pavement - "Cut Your Hair"

Posted by Matt | March 25, 2011 9:03 AM

Get a Haircut and get a real job - george thoroghgood

Posted by loran | March 25, 2011 9:04 AM

The Waifs - Haircut

Posted by Lori | March 25, 2011 9:05 AM

Devil’s Haircut – Beck

Cut your hair – pavement

Cut my hair – the Who

"Almost Cut My Hair" - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Posted by Sadie | March 25, 2011 9:06 AM

"Love Plus One" - Haircut One Hundred

(Well, someone had to say it.)

Posted by atom | March 25, 2011 9:08 AM

The World Was A Mess But His Hair Was Perfect - The Rakes

Posted by Stephen | March 25, 2011 9:10 AM

samson--regina spektor
hair--pj harvey

Posted by kim | March 25, 2011 9:11 AM

"Modern Day Delilah" -- Van Stephenson
Check out the sweet '80s video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GLA-gYuFi0

Posted by (JL) | March 25, 2011 9:11 AM


Shirin - Jens Lekman
Samson - Regina Spektor
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Posted by sanderzz | March 25, 2011 9:11 AM

Hair - from the musical
"never have to cut it cuz it stops by itself

The Lumberjack Song by Monty Python starts with a monologue about the terrors of being a barber.

Posted by loran | March 25, 2011 9:12 AM

You Cut Her Hair - Tom McRae

Hank Ballard & The Dapps - How You Gonna Get Respect (When You Haven't Cut Your Process Yet?)

Baby's Got a Brand New Hairdo - Elvis Costello

Hairdresser On Fire by Morrissey.

Posted by Sammy | March 25, 2011 9:12 AM

"Hair" - The Cowsills

Posted by IndyR | March 25, 2011 9:14 AM

Two Way Monologue - Sondre Lerche
Mullet Man - The Strap Ons
The Cutter - Psychedelic Furs
Chop - Hoodoo Gurus
Hairdresser on Fire - Morrissey

Posted by ken | March 25, 2011 9:16 AM

"Hair" - from Hair, the musical

Posted by borkum riff | March 25, 2011 9:17 AM

Bohemian Like you -- Dandy Warhols
"love your hairdo, glad you like mine too"
stretch?

Posted by Jen | March 25, 2011 9:18 AM

Whip My Hair! Willow Smith! Muahahaha. PLEASE.

Devendra Banhart-- Long Haired Child

Posted by Kelly Berry | March 25, 2011 9:19 AM

Just want to make sure Morrissey gets his due with "Hair dresser on fire".

I also want to try and make this work for the Beatles: "Penny Lane" - Two verses, including the first, about the barber ;-)

Posted by Patrick | March 25, 2011 9:19 AM

Floyd the Barber -- Nirvana

Posted by Lou | March 25, 2011 9:20 AM

Almost Cut My Hair-Crosby, Stills & Nash
Cut My Hair- The Who (Quadrophenia)

Posted by C | March 25, 2011 9:21 AM

Hairdresser on Fire by Morrissey

You just have to include that song... love it!

Posted by Michael | March 25, 2011 9:22 AM

i like hair on _dry_ by pj harvey, but i like sheel-na-gig off that album even more--"i gotta wash that man right out of my hair"

Posted by beth | March 25, 2011 9:22 AM

The Cutter - sorry that's Echo and Bunnyman

Posted by ken | March 25, 2011 9:24 AM

I want to second both Beck's Devil's Haircut and Almost Cut My Hair by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young :-)

Posted by Shannon | March 25, 2011 9:25 AM

Kinky Afro by The Happy Mondays!

Posted by cal | March 25, 2011 9:25 AM

I don't want to just pile on about Pavement but I think you have to play "Cut your hair"

Also like the George Thorougood and the Beck suggestions.

Posted by matt | March 25, 2011 9:27 AM

Pavement - Cut Your Hair - it's been said, and it should be said again...

Posted by Chris | March 25, 2011 9:28 AM

Black Shampoo - Wu-tang Clan
Comb Your Hair - The Boo Radleys

Posted by ken | March 25, 2011 9:30 AM

The Haircut Song - Ray Stevens

Posted by Cam | March 25, 2011 9:31 AM

Car Wash Hair - Mercury Rev

Posted by Chris | March 25, 2011 9:31 AM

'The Mohawk Song' by Future Stars featuring Olly Girls.

Just to be different.

Posted by cal | March 25, 2011 9:38 AM

Wigs - B-52s. What's that on your head?

Posted by Joette P | March 25, 2011 9:39 AM

"Hair Don't Grow" - Annuals

Posted by bob | March 25, 2011 9:47 AM

Ghost of Corporate Future - Regina Spektor
Kevin Devine - Haircut

Posted by Niki | March 25, 2011 9:49 AM

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