I’ve always been somewhat mistrustful of those over-eager, over-ambitious, dynamic types with their shiny shoes and micro-management techniques. Most CEO’s I’ve worked for have been in this league – high on achievement and low on humour and feel. That’s not to say I can’t appreciate nerdy diligence in the recording studio. I’m a big Steely Dan fan after all.
So let’s raise a glass to the slackers out there – those who saunter in to job interviews without the tie and tell it how it really is.
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Another? I hear you ….
Loser is great. I spent years trying to mumble along with the chorus, with varying success, until I realised it was ‘in foreign’. I could’ve checked earlier of course, but I’m a slacker too.
I can’t post videos at work, but if someone wants to put Longview by Green Day , that would be my nomination.
Here ’tis Jim
Cheers mate.
Great tune!
Because I Got High by Afroman is a classic of the genre too.
This is my theme tune.
Time for observation and reflection – very important. One could argue that doing nothing is a valuable contribution to society.
I believe this fits your request to a tee
“I’m working, but I’m not working for you ” (Superchunk – Slack Motherfucker)
The term slacker rock (urgh!) is often used to describe Kurt Vile’s music.
So seemed a good opportunity to post this acoustic version (Jim look away now – earnest acoustic guitar warning!!) of the opening track from his last album. The new album is well worth a listen too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UovytItuSkM&list=RDUovytItuSkM
Edward Sharpe and his wonderfully ramshackle crew.
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Lennon wrote a great slacker anthem
The Beatles – I’m Only Sleeping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MMDugt8ZRk
Also, The Charlatans – Can’t Get Out of Bed
The Charlatans have form. This is the one I first thought of.
(“Can’t Even Be Bothered” – The Charlatans)
This qualify ?
http://youtu.be/EPrSVkTRb24
Liam Lynch ‘United States Of Whatever’
Can’t post vids so, y’know, wevs
I think Pavement would fit this description very well. They have a “will this do?” attitude to a lot of their music. Not that that is a problem, they have a lo-fi quality that I like.
What about Jack Johnson? Or is that more “I’m gonna sit on this beach and do nothing but strum my guitar for the ladies”?
It’s interesting isn’t it? Those who project a cool indifference are often some of the most productive musicians – I would put Beck, Eels and Neil Young in this category.
From the last days of Reagan’s America, this is the lovely proto-slacker tune from the actually well-educated trio, Galaxie 500.
I would also choose this melancholy Blur song as an English piece of slacker music, a nephew of I’m Only Sleeping in its torpid mood, in fact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWT3GjkvykE
Scottish hip-hop anybody? Who in their right mind takes a horse tranquiliser?
(“Get Out Of Bed” – Stanley Odd)
I’m wicked and I’m lazy…
I reckon I could post anything off of Swell’s 41 album & it’d fit here. It’s the king o’ slacker albums. He sounds almost narcoleptic throughout most of it. I love it greatly.
Swell – Don’t Give
https://youtu.be/z1M2QeeI6jg
Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
“As I’m getting older, chip upon my shoulder,
Rolling through life to roll over & die”
or 2nd verse
“Always feeling tired, smiling when required,
Write another year off & kindly resign”
Reckon Mac’s havin’ trouble just staying vertical.
Sex Pistols – I’m A Lazy Sod
Reckon this passes as a slacker version of a Sam Cooke song
The Monks Kitchen – Shake
The Frowning Clouds – Beetle Bird
The Kingsbury Manx – Let You Down
Wiskey Biscuit – I Like Sleeping
(whatever happened to Wiskey Biscuit?)
At the time, this song would attract dancefloor-deniers everywhere. Although the title “what difference does it make?” Sounds very oh-dear-me I’m so-so-sad, like many Smiths songs, its effect is joyful.
G Love and Special Sauce – Take You There. The John the Baptist to Jack Johnson and his surfer/stoner schtick…
One from Lowell