First job and the song that goes with it! :-)

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Diogenes
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As the first thing I bought with my wages when I started my first full time job was a CD player, you'd think I'd have a ready answer to this, but I don't.

After racking my brains for a while, the songs that came to mind were Star Trekkin' by The Firm, and the Laurel and Hardy theme because there was a guy who worked there who used to look and walk like Stan Laurel. When he came along the corridor someone would usually whistle it.
Cerrertonia
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Nowhere that I've ever worked has had music on during the workday. My first proper job was a year long 'sandwich' placement as part of my degree, working in a lab making semiconductors in Cardiff.

Used to get the bus to work, and a very chatty girl would talk to us most days. She said that she had followed Carter USM on a tour round the country, sometimes travelling with them, but that they had left her behind in Scotland, to fly off to tour abroad and she'd had to hitchhike home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQXRsshaZk8


[Hard to imagine a song attacking a specific rogue landlord in London getting much airtime on BBC1 or Radio 1 these days?]
HappyG(rrr)
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Love the USM. Or my ex did. Proper punk! Bit before my time. :-) G
Big_G
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I worked in a fruit and veg shop, and the one that springs to mind is The Boo Radleys “Wake up Boo!”. This would have been not long before I started Uni, feeling excited about the future. Okay, I wasn’t 25, but…

“25 (25)
Don't recall a time I felt this alive (this alive)
So wake up, boo (wake up, boo)
There's so many things for us to do (things that we could do)”

https://youtu.be/YJXPTnPmm78?si=YvBCH7NrqxodgOCS


Just googling it, I saw this article from 3 years ago.

theguardian.com

There were 6 of us who became close friends at Uni. We’re still in touch a lot on WhatsApp and some of us meet up in pairs occasionally, but we’ve not all got together since before Covid. Somehow it’s been hard to organise. But we’re meeting up next year, as it’s 30 years since we started Uni. 30 years! Sometimes I can’t remember what I did last week, but I can still remember certain things from that time as if it happened yesterday. Great memories.
Diogenes
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That Boo Radleys album was great, Big_g, one of my absolute favourites, but the title song is superficially unrepresentative of the record as a whole: it's a much darker work, with themes of loneliness, disappointment and homesickness. It's about pursuing a dream and finding out it's not what you thought it'd be.

I was excited to hear that they'd released new music a while ago, but disappointed when I discovered it was without Martin Carr, the songwriter. For me, Carr was the Boo Radleys, and the reformed band without him is a but a poor imitation.
Big_G
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Thanks Dio, I didn’t actually ever listen to the whole album - I’ll check it out. I just remember that song being on the radio a lot, blaring from passing cars, it seemed it was everywhere. When I left the shop to start Uni, those lines I quoted did kind of sum up how I was feeling though. But 30 years. Wow.
Velociraptor
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Wake Up Boo is 30 years old? :-O

Right enough, though, it was on the radio just before and during my pregnancy with Fellmouse, and she turned 28 in the summer.
Big_G
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Feb 1995 it came out apparently, so not quite 30 years. But nearly!
Velociraptor
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I'm now contemplating all the other "present day" songs that must be 30 years old or thereabouts.
Big_G
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I’ve been to a couple of gigs in fairly recent times where the band has played their famous album in full from that period. Lemonheads, ‘It’s a shame about Ray’. 1992, wow.

On the weekend I went to see Interpol and they played the whole of Antics, and even that is now 20 years old.

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Maintained by Merry Christmas and Happy NewG(rrr)
Hi
What was your first job (school, uni, Saturday job, part time, full time, eeal career - you choose!) and the song that goes with it?

(This is from a a theme last night on a great radio show we have up here in Scotland bbc.co.uk )

Some of us worked in call centres, and there was no music playing (obviously!) I worked in IT support, and when Windows 95 came out, it was the first one that had "multimedia" on it, including a music video. It was "Good Times"...

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