Songs about being in a band

[lazyhour]

Get the bleeper ready, here's "Stupid Band" by Fuck:

[Tombola]

50 Song Memoir by the Magnetic Fields has a few of these - here's one:

[Durance Vile]

Another one from HMHB is Whit Week Malarkey, which contains what might be my favourite ever line in a song:

Spoiler alert

We had a 96-track studio, and it was haunted by a Red Indian

[close]

[Jockice]

Formed A Band by Art Brut.

[ASFTSN]

Egg - A Visit to Newport Hospital


Fantastic bit of prog that I would have never heard of if it wasn't for this place.

Best Egg song!!

Mountain - The Animal Trainer and the Toad

[SpiderChrist]

Garageland or Four Horsemen by Thr Clash

[4000Foals]

Urge For Offal by HMHB

Why Don't You Like Me? by The Lovely Eggs

Novelty by Joy Division

[Mr Farenheit]

Manfred Mann- The One in The Middle

The Coasters- Speedo's Back In Town

[Mr Farenheit]

Randy Alvey And The Green Fuz ‎ - Green Fuz

[badaids]

No Chorus by Dr Dooom aka Kool Keith. His stinging coat down of wack rappers.

Not about the band but the roadies: We are the Road Crew by Motorhead.

And no one has mentioned It's a Long Way to the Top yet?

[Dr Rock]

Torn and Frayed - The Rolling Stones
One Man Band - Leo Sayer

[RenegadeScrew]

10cc - "The Worst Band In The World"

Came to post this but you've beaten me to it in the OP.  It's a terrible terrible song but Dilla's sampling of it for 'workinonit' is so wonderful wonderful.

Merry Christmas.

[the ouch cube]

Soul Asylum 'Sometime To Return'

[dontpaintyourteeth]

It's a terrible terrible song

It's good actually

[timahall]

Formed A Band by Art Brut.

Speaking of terrible songs, it doesn't get much worse than this steaming pile of catsick.

[twosclues]

D12 - My Band

S Club 7 - S Club Party

[Crabwalk]

Electric Guitars - Prefab Sprout
Destiny Calling - James
My British Tour Diary - Of Montreal
Tonight - New Kids on the Block

[Maurice Yeatman]

The Who - Postcard

The Jackson Browne album Running on Empty is all about being on the road.

[Ascent]

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good
The 1975 - Guys

The Jackson Browne album Running on Empty is all about being on the road.

Oh yeah, perfect! Love that album. And it all comes together on The Load-Out/Stay at the end.

[letsgobrian]

HMHB - Fretwork Homework
HMHB - Eno Collaboration
HMHB - Bad Review

Forgot "Get Kramer" from the Eno Collaboration EP about Liquid Greek, "shoegazing also-rans" who've got the ex-MC5 man to produce them.

The bulk of the track is a letter they've written to Alan McGee, which ends

PS – We don't like sport of any kind, and friends at school were very much thin on the ground

[lazyhour]

They Might Be Giants - Hi, We're The Replacements
They Might Be Giants - They Got Lost
They Might Be Giants - The Mesopotamians
They Might Be Giants - Hollywood

[kalowski]

Tenth Avenue Freeze Out.
Especially

When the change was made uptown
And the Big Man joined the band
From the coastline to the city
All the little pretties raise their hands
I'm gonna sit back right easy and laugh
When Scooter and the Big Man bust this city in half

[Ron Maels Moustache]

"Ballad Of Tindersticks" by Tindersticks

"The Story Of The Six" by Scaramanga Six

"We set up our stuff/we play to our friends/we go through this shit, man/again and again!"

[jobotic]

The Pastels - Yoga

[Toki]

Allo Darlin - Kings and Queens. Not so much the nitty gritty but it's fun and I think it counts.

[soaking wet, mate]

Gentle Giant - Another Show
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Gentle Giant - A Dog's Life
Gentle Giant - Betcha Thought We Couldn't Do It
Gentle Giant - Interview
Bauhaus - Spirit

[Glyn]

Wannadies - Might Be Stars

Manic Street Preachers - Close My Eyes, The Last Jet to Leave Moscow, Masses Against The Classes, You Love Us and probably more that I've forgotten.

[Famous Mortimer]

D12 - My Band

Luckily, there's a radio edit of this, not sure I'd have the energy to bleep out all the muckiness.

My British Tour Diary - Of Montreal

Just one profanity! I'll take it!

[Better Midlands]

Came to post this but you've beaten me to it in the OP.  It's a terrible terrible song but Dilla's sampling of it for 'workinonit' is so wonderful wonderful.

Merry Christmas.

Beaten to it twice.

I was watching the film Swan Song just before Christmas and in one short scene Mahershala Ali's future wife is flicking through his record collection and you briefly see a copy of Donuts, a few moments later she comes across his piano and plays a two bar refrain from Stop!/Dionne Warwick- You're Gonna Need Me as she walks past it, fun obscure reference.

[Captain Z]

Mark B & Blade - The Unknown