The Music Desk’s Labor Day Compilation Album 2007:
Wall of Voodoo — “Back in Flesh”
Johnny Paycheck — “Take This Job & Shove It”
Tennessee Ernie Ford — “16 Tons”
James Brown — “The Boss”
The Minutemen — “This Ain’t No Picnic”
ZZ Top — “Just Got Paid”
The Go-Go’s — “Vacation”
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper — “Where the Hell’s My Money”
The Jam — “Smithers-Jones”
Rush — “Working Man”
Loverboy — “Working For The Weekend”
The Kinks — “A Well Respected Man”
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Lee Dorsey - Working in a Coal Mine
Bruce Springsteen - Factory
Warren Zevon - The Factory
Huey Lewis and The News - Workin’ For a Living
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Working for MCA
REM - Finest Work Song
The Strawbs - Part of the Union
Average White Band - Got Work to Do
Randy Newman - I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
Well done — we could also add The Pretenders’ “Back on the Chain Gang,” The Spinners’ “Working My Way back to You,” and Devo’s version of “Workin’ on a Coalmine.”