Bands singing about going to school

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

You're adults now, you aren't required to attend school.

"I see her in her underwear, I can't help but stop and stare
That's what I go to school for"

That's why the singer is on the sex offenders register.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Does it count if it's retrospectively recalling it, like that Cat Stevens song, which I quite like, except for the line 'my love-lovey-dove," which is unbearably twee.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

There was Mary of the Fourth Form, by the Boomtown Rats, and Don't Stand so Close to Me, by the Police; both songs about teachers turned on by pupils, by bands with lead singers who were former teachers.

[The Culture Bunker]

Does it count if it's retrospectively recalling it, like that Cat Stevens song, which I quite like, except for the line 'my love-lovey-dove," which is unbearably twee.

Or:

Baggy Trousers by Madness
Hot for Teacher by Van Halen
The Headmaster Ritual by the Smiths

The narrator of "Maggie May" is contemplating going back to school about being on the skive due to the eponymous lady, if that counts?

[jobotic]

Chuck Berry - School Days, like, obvs.

Workin' your fingers right down to the bone
And the guy behind you won't leave you alone

[Sean Ymphs]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1uw8-fLo-I

[Sebastian Cobb]

What about bands singing about school when they were still in school or sixth form? You know, like Ned's Atomic Dustbin and that.

[Dr Rock]

Alice Cooper 'School's Out'
The Runaways 'School Days'
'Another Brick in the Wall' by Pink Floyd
'Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton
'Fight for Your Right (To Party!) by Beastie Boys

[buzby]

Radiohead - Bishop's Robes

[PaulTMA]

inb4 XTC Playground

[spamwangler]

this i guess

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Another School Day by Hello is a glam rock classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVXFkM88HPE

[Phil_A]

Quite a lot of early Belle & Sebastian tunes - We Rule The School, Expectations, Stars Of Track & Field, probably more.

Also Pixies b-side Weird At My School.

And We're Going To Be Friends by the White Stripes.

[studpuppet]

The start of Napoleon Dynamite.

[itsfredtitmus]

a little man and a house and the whole world window

[studpuppet]

And We're Going To Be Friends by the White Stripes.

Pipped me to it!

[Brundle-Fly]

I used to love this Martin Newell ditty but whenever I played it my ex-girlfriend used to scream "Turn off this twee bollocks, NOW!!!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFIkS9tk-Qk

[Danger Man]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ugm8UHpiI

The Stranglers - School Mam

Being a school mam
One and one make two if you're very lucky
Being a school mam
Two twos make four if I remember correctly
Being a school mam
Four fours make sixteen and sixteen's over age
Sixteen and sixteen makes thirty two
That's approaching middle age
Thirty two and thirty two makes sixty four
That's OAP land

[Nobody Soup]

Quite a lot of early Belle & Sebastian tunes - We Rule The School, Expectations, Stars Of Track & Field, probably more.

to be fair on Murdoch, he had spent the 7 years or so since school in his room with M.E. and had written the bulk of the songs on the first albums while in that state. so it's not totally unsurprising that his one reference point for human interaction was school (I suppose he could have gone the other way and wrote long epics on loneliness).

kinda the same deal with morrisey actually, who'd finished school and gone to spend the next 4 years writing letters from his room before marr showed up at his door.

[Dr Rock]

I Don't Like Mondays by The Boomtown Rats

[Absorb the anus burn]

Playground XTC.

[Glebe]

Did AC/DC ever do one about going to school? Angus Young has certainly spent enough years bunking off it!

[smudge1971]

School by Nirvana

[ajsmith2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ugm8UHpiI

The Stranglers - School Mam

Being a school mam
One and one make two if you're very lucky
Being a school mam
Two twos make four if I remember correctly
Being a school mam
Four fours make sixteen and sixteen's over age
Sixteen and sixteen makes thirty two
That's approaching middle age
Thirty two and thirty two makes sixty four
That's OAP land

I betcha 68-year old Hugh Cornwell doesn't stand by those lyrics these days.

[purlieu]

"I see her in her underwear, I can't help but stop and stare
That's what I go to school for"

That's why the singer is on the sex offenders register.

To be fair, the song is about fancying a teacher, I don't think there's any paedo stuff in there.

[ollyboro]

Good morning little school girl
Good morning little school girl
Can I go home with
Can I go home with you?
Tell your mother and your father
I once was a schoolboy too

Muddy Waters in fine form. Can't quite work out whose lyrics I find more uncomfortable. Muddy's, or  Greatful Dead's twist were they tell the schoolgirl to tell her parents that the protagonist is STILL a schoolboy. But by the time we get to:

I want to be your chauffeur, I want to ride your little machine
I want to be your chauffeur, I want to ride your little machine
I want to put a tiger, baby I want to put a tiger, baby.
I want to put a tiger, baby, hey in your sweet little tank.

   it becomes clear the Dead have trumped Muddy in the dodgy lusting after children stakes.

[doppelkorn]

Bobby Brown by Frank Zappa, although the use of the word "school" might mean university in that song

[Phil_A]

to be fair on Murdoch, he had spent the 7 years or so since school in his room with M.E. and had written the bulk of the songs on the first albums while in that state. so it's not totally unsurprising that his one reference point for human interaction was school (I suppose he could have gone the other way and wrote long epics on loneliness).

Oh sure, no criticism of Murdoch intended. You have to write what you know, I guess.

[ajsmith2]

The Kinks entire 'Schoolboys in Disgrace' concept album from 1975 of course. One of their very best in my book (just don't judge it by it's cover).

[Crabwalk]

Quite a lot of early Belle & Sebastian tunes - We Rule The School, Expectations, Stars Of Track & Field, probably more.

'Lord Anthony' is another one, from later in their career. "Bunking off, though you're a toff' is a contender for worst B&S line ever.