Songs About the Music Industry and Being a Musician
All Star by Smash Mouth
American Pie by Don McLean, also Madonna
Money For Nothin' by Dire Straits
Have a Cigar by Pink Floyd
All Apologies by Nirvana
Mr. Jones by Counting Crows
This Song by George Harrison (song about copyright lawsuit)
Working For MCA by Lynyrd Skynyrd
This Song by George Harrison
The Last DJ by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
On The Road Again by Willie Nelson
This Note's For You by Neil Young
I'm Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band by The Moody Blues
EMI by The Sex Pistols
The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man by The Rolling Stones
Don't Mean Nothing by Richard Marx
Money Becomes King by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
I Write the Songs by Barry Manilow
I Dig Rock and Roll Music by Peter, Paul & Mary
R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. by John Mellencamp
We're an American Band by Grand Funk
So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star by The Byrds
Write Your Own Song by Matthew Sweet
Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles
Big Bang Baby by Stone Temple Pilots
Only a Northern Song by The Beatles (song about their publisher)
Top of the Pops by The Smithereens
The History of Rock and Roll by The Turtles
Rock and Roll Heaven by The Righteous Brothers
Life's Been Good by Joe Walsh
Joe by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Keep On Singing by Helen Reddy
Selling The Drama by Live
Napoleon by Ani DiFranco
Pull My Strings by Dead Kennedys
Rockin' Roll Baby by Stylistics
Can't Stop the Sun by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Paint a Vulgar Picture by The Smiths
Unsigned Diva by Young MC
Nothing Is Good Enough by Aimee Mann
Sell Out by Reel Big Fish
Free Man in Paris by Joni Mitchell (song about David Geffen)
Freaks of the Industry by Digital Underground
Mercury Poisoning by Graham Parker
Freedom of Speech by Immortal Techniques
Music Has No Meaning by Consolidated
Top 40 by Papa's Culture
Music Industry by Kompressor
Shadow of the Colossus by Gatsby's American Dream
Handbook For the Sellout by Five Iron Frenzy