You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
I sing that at the company karaoke every year, and just replace ‘company’ with our company’s name. It usually gets good chuckles from the workers and scowls from the sycophantic managers.
That one’s the best by far.
Love this one. Absolute banger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9j91-18Kb4
cipő did it better
Geoff Castellucci (the bass singer from Voiceplay) made a great cover version of that one btw ❤️
that’s the first version I heard and tbh the original can’t hold a flame to his voice
Damn, that was really good. I’ve only ever heard the original, but brava
Right?! I highly recommend that you rabbit hole the shit out of both his solo stuff and Voiceplay! So damn good!
Methamphetamine by Old Crow Medicine Show
Times, they ain’t like nothing they used to be
From rocky mount’ to northeast Tennessee
Where the river flows with a dusty, coal disease
And the babies whine cause they can’t find nothing to eat
But, mama, she ain’t hungry no more
She’s waiting for a knock on the trailer door
[Chorus]
It’s gonna rock you like a hurricane
It’s gonna rock you 'til you lose sleep
It’s gonna rock you 'til you’re out of a job
It’s gonna rock you 'til you’re out on the street
It’s gonna rock you 'til you’re down on your knees
It’s gonna have you begging pretty please
It’s gonna rock you like a hurricane
Methamphetamine
Don’t need no PhD for a hundred dollar card
Just find a crooked cop and that doctor disregard
Cause when it’s either the mine or the Kentucky national guard
Um, I’d rather sell him a line than to be dying in the coal yard
Now, papa, he ain’t hungry no more
He’s waiting for a knock on the trailer door
[Chorus]
Well, it’s a war out there, and it’s fought by poor white men
From the plateau to the falls of the Cumberland
You better watch your back, cause you just can’t trust a friend
And the method man is going to get you in the end
So listen to the whispering wind
It sounds like a big storm rolling in
It’s gonna rock you like a hurricane
It’s gonna rock you 'til you lose sleep
It’s gonna rock you 'til you’re out of a job
It’s gonna rock you 'til you’re out on the street
It’s gonna rock you 'til you’re down on your knees
It’s gonna have you begging pretty please
It’s gonna rock you like a hurricane
Methamphetamine
But the banks are made of marble
With a guard at every door
And the vaults are filled with silver
That the miners sweated for
I don’t have a link anymore, but this playlist does exist.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0TwmS2Fps3wdCIoBy9r4BX
but that’s just shy of an hour.
Seems to be missing “Pound a Week Rise”
I have a good many of these in a personal “class war” Playlist but this increases my collection
I think it’s this one Sexy Time Although it doesn’t seem to actually be nine hours long
God don’t venture down here
The Devil’s lost your name
Your life hangs in the balance
on this fragile human chain
And when your spirit’s waning
The fear is yours to tame
When you feel the darkness closing
Turn up your carbide flameSo tell God and the Devil they can try
But today’s not gonna be the day we dieI also like this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=whdzP0GHuc4
There are about 14,000 coal miners in West Virginia.
We could give each of them a million dollars and close all of the mines for a little more than the cost of a single aircraft carrier.
I wonder if it was specifically about coal miners, or if that was just the theme of the playlist. Because if it’s just the vibe, there’s some great songs there. First two that come to mind are Dire Straits’ “Telegraph Road” and Springsteen’s “The River”, but there’s a lot more like that.
I really like “King Harvest (Has Surely Come)” by The Band (also not about coal mining).
But just believe in me, baby, and I’ll take you away
From out of this darkness and into the day
From these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain
From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
'Cause I’ve run every red light on memory lane
I’ve seen desperation explode into flames
And I don’t want to see it again
If it even exists. The coal miner part was obviously added in after the fact and not part of the original tweet.
Indeed, the original read, “It was 9 hours of non-stop Star Wars cantina band.”
I’ll begrudgingly accept this reality over the striking songs, because I also like non-disney star wars + Andor.
Man I hate having to make that distinction.
Look what they did to ma boy 😭
Come, mister tally man, tally me banana
(Daylight come and me wan’ go home)
Come, mister tally man, tally me banana
(Daylight come and me wan’ go home)
Definitely not about coal miners, but certainly a song about blue collar workers
I was just thinking about that song because I watched The Greatest Night in Pop, and they broke into singing Day-O at one point in the process. I was just thinking a call and response work song would have made for a much better solution for what they were trying to do, which was have a chorus, but also give soloists a chance to do a very quick solo.
Throw on some Utah Phillips, nothing better than an old Wobblie to preface getting wobbly with someone special, thank me later.
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Need YouTube playlist link! Please
(Bcuz fuck Spotify. But also fuck Google. But ya.)
I miss Grooveshark
subsonic is a similar setup though nowhere near as much love yet
I dont think subsonic is recommended anymore. It is closed source now. It has been forked and there are several forks available. Suck as navidrome.
I don’t use any of these though, so do your own research!
Do people have sexy time playlists?
Yes, it is just cbat on repeat
Is that the radio version of C-Span?
Its a reference to a viral post from reddit
Because there’s always a relevant XKCD.
Learned the hard way. Got this experimental radio I love and tended to have on most of the time. Well, a children’s choir bursting in full swing at the exact moment we were both peaking with my partner worked great as a contraceptive.
This is my go to album https://youtu.be/njB4CDHElUQ
Put down your bibles, pick up your guns.
Blair Mountain here we come.
