...for a mix cd.
I’m looking for songs about sociology or human interaction, e.g. Bjork’s ‘Human Behaviour’.
Yes, it is an odd request.
Sex Pistols : “No Fun”
re: peer pressure
Dylan’s “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35”?
Gary Clail and the On-U Sound System, THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH HUMAN NATURE
the red krayola, “don’t talk to sociologists”
Sorted for Es and Whizz has some kinda occasion-specific observations.
Beanfield: “Human Patterns”
Madonna: “Human Nature”
Emile Durkheim: “Talkin’ Division of Labor in Society Blues”
The Normless: “New York’s All Right If You Like Cultural Studies”
Blaise Pascal: “We Influence Bourdieu (Oh Yes We Do)”
Joe South—“Games People Play”
Alan Parsons Project—“Games People Play”
Black Sabbath—“Mob Rules”
Undisputed Truth—“Smiling Faces (Sometimes)”
Scanner—“Mass Observation”
The Kinks “A Well Respected Man”
Janis Ian “Society’s Child”
Mothers of Invention “Brown Shoes Don’t Make It”
Helen Reddy “I Am Woman”
The Kinks “I’m Not Like Everybody Else”
Chic “Real People”
Elvis Presley “In The Ghetto”
Billy Joe Royal “Down In The Boondocks”
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 “The Message”
Re-Flex—“The Politics of Dancing”
James Brown “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s Man’s World”
Five Man Electrical Band “Signs”
O Jays “Backstabbers”
Merle Haggard “Okie From Muskogee”
John Lennon “Working Class Hero”
Donna Summer “Bad Girls”
The Downliners Sect—“The Cost of Living”
Gang of Four—“Natural’s Not in It” [most of Entertainment really]
2 Unlimited: Tribal Dance
That’s anthropology, surely?
Savage Republic’s “Tragic Figures” LP always seemed a classic of this genre: “The crisis in our nation is not caused by external forces . .” Can you beat that? See also Sonic Youth’s “Society is a Hole” Greil Marcus thought this was parody hardcore, but I’d prefer to believe otherwise.
Oh, and just chuck a stick at the Laibach discography.
mansun : ‘NEGATIVE’ =
“...you convert to scientology/ to feel a part of something once again”