[HN Gopher] White Collar Holler - Stan Rogers
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White Collar Holler - Stan Rogers
Author : Phithagoras
Score : 87 points
Date : 2021-11-10 18:44 UTC (2 days ago)
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| rtkaratekid wrote:
| What a good holler!
| hprotagonist wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wy7gRGgeA
|
| _code monkey think maybe manager wanna write goddamn login page
| himself
|
| code monkey not say it / out loud
|
| code monkey not crazy / just proud_
| cobertos wrote:
| Heh, this is pretty good. Can't help but notice this is 15
| years old though
| a2tech wrote:
| That video is from a better time on the Internet. A simpler,
| warmer time. Not to say it was a good time..but a better, less
| terrible internet than todays.
| bjt2n3904 wrote:
| JoCo's album "Solid State" deals with this topic, it's a
| great listen.
| NikolaeVarius wrote:
| IMO this version better
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W_wd9Qf0IE
| handrous wrote:
| That versions so good that I years ago head-canon'd it as the
| official video. I don't usually care for "AMV" stuff, but
| that one's perfect.
| hprotagonist wrote:
| all hail the one true AMV
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziR6oGCUnHQ
|
| downloaded with painfully slow speed, on kazaa, in 2001,
| overnight.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Any love for _Nerdy Boys_?
|
| https://youtu.be/QYRpgM5rILc
| smoldesu wrote:
| Nah, we're all bumping _Nrrrd Grrrls_ instead.
|
| https://youtu.be/gzt7jP5XOtM
| bloat wrote:
| Some nice Unix synthy indie-pop:
|
| Barcelona - I Have The Password To Your Shell Account
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWVGdMPuwVo
|
| From the album "Zero, One, Infinity".
| Guidii wrote:
| This is on my "SW Dev songlist" ever since my CS professors
| (Robin Dawes and James Cordy) ran a singalong event in CISC
| 200/210.
|
| Others include "Under the wings of a transistor"[1] and "The
| Privacy Song"[2]. Also "The System Administrator Song"[3]
|
| Also codemonkey, but others have mentioned that one already.
|
| [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfpYgts-18o [2]
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eIUOUfhoJ8 [3]
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaIhKBYjTXA
| seniorsassycat wrote:
| Stan Rogers has a knack for writing songs that sound older than
| himself, this song shows he doesn't need nautical themes to do
| it.
|
| Some other programming and math songs Kill -9
|
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0rG74rG_ubs
|
| Find the longest path
|
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ww0gwEszo
| cf100clunk wrote:
| "had" and "didn't". Poor guy died in an airliner taxiway fire
| in the 1980s. Anyways, Stan Rogers on HN? Who knew?
| a2tech wrote:
| A true classic. If you like this, his other music is also great.
| Sadly he died in 1983 in Ohio of all places in a plane..on the
| ground, in a fire.
| stinkytaco wrote:
| Legend has it he actually escaped the fire, but died running
| back in to save people. He seems like the kind of figure that
| lends himself to larger than life tales, however, so I've never
| bothered to confirm or debunk that story.
| raldi wrote:
| Lyrics: https://genius.com/Stan-rogers-white-collar-holler-lyrics
| 1-more wrote:
| VDT Blues by Tom Juravich[0]. "It's a hell to earn a livin' on a
| [video display terminal]." This album made me the way I am, I
| think. More so "One Day More" by Elaine Purkey[1]
|
| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1HnsbW3WVg
|
| [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohBUT8FKh3g
| Igelau wrote:
| I love Stan Rogers, but it's worth pointing out this particular
| song was actually written by Nigel Russell. (Source: liner notes
| from _Between the Breaks... Live!_ )
| nsedlet wrote:
| Barrett's Privateers is fantastic if you haven't heard it
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwzRkjn86w
|
| I've always thought of it as a good metaphor for joining a doomed
| startup
| slavik81 wrote:
| I was just debating with a friend whether that or the Northwest
| Passage was his more popular song. https://youtu.be/TVY8LoM47xI
|
| We also learned there was a recent power metal cover by Unleash
| The Archers, which rather surprised me.
| https://youtu.be/XRD3vrSLPaw
| notfbi wrote:
| A classic C Shanty.
| a2tech wrote:
| _golf clap_
| 52-6F-62 wrote:
| Crazy to see Stan Rogers on here. I know he had a large sphere of
| influence, but still wild.
|
| I moved down to his old stomping grounds in Dundas, Ontario at
| the start of the year and if anyone ever visits you'll quickly
| understand how the area could be a great inspiration for folk
| (and other) artists.
|
| If you're in Ontario and you enjoy hiking, it's a worthy stop.
|
| (Maybe off topic, But while I'm here... a couple of other Dundas
| musical staples: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tVvQUAcf4
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Snaith )
| 52-6F-62 wrote:
| Thought I should add that his son is also a performer. I think
| he may still live in the area, but I'm not sure. Never met him.
|
| Also of Dundas as of late is John Ellison ( _Some Kind of
| Wonderful_ )
| TrispusAttucks wrote:
| ytcracker - the link (*bit nerdcore zelda dubstep)
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhebl9oD5Lc
|
| ytcracker - meganerd
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6zuFDDvjVk
|
| YTcracker - #Antisec (With Lyrics) | cc0de
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDyBIpqZcNI
|
| ytcracker - Bitcoin Baron [Support Internet Freedom]
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZfg1Gtcg08
|
| YTCRACKER - IMPRISONED BY THE SYNDICATE + WELCOME TO SAN
| SECUESTRO (FULL COLOR)
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ot2FFc_Qq4
|
| Epic Rap Battle: Nerd vs. Geek
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tvy_Pbe5NA
|
| Full Stack D - My CV
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn4ZlbZZiUM
| ugh123 wrote:
| Song is surprisingly relevant. Lyrics left in a comment:
| Well, I rise up every morning at a quarter to eight
| Some woman who's my wife tells me not to be late I
| kiss the kids goodbye, I can't remember their names
| And week after week, it's always the same And it's
| Ho, boys, can't you code it, and program it right
| Nothing ever happens in the life of mine I'm hauling
| up the data on the Xerox line Then it's code in the
| data, give the keyboard a punch Then cross-correlate
| and break for some lunch Correlate, tabulate, process
| and screen Program, printout, regress to the mean
| Then it's home again, eat again, watch some TV Make
| love to my woman at ten-fifty-three I dream the same
| dream when I'm sleeping at night I'm soaring over
| hills like an eagle in flight Someday I'm gonna give
| up all the buttons and things I'll punch that time
| clock till it can't ring Burn up my necktie and set
| myself free Cause no'one's gonna fold, bend or
| mutilate me
| [deleted]
| helpfulmandrill wrote:
| On this particular Friday, I feel this could have been written
| personally for me...
| curiousgal wrote:
| If you're into rap/hip-hop:
|
| https://youtube.com/watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac
|
| The entire channel is a gold mine
|
| https://youtube.com/c/stdout/videos
| whynotkeithberg wrote:
| I've never listened to Stan Rogers... Thank you for sharing this.
| Enjoyed it much and gave me a new rabbit hole to explore.
| bufordtwain wrote:
| Nice song. I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on this and in case
| anyone else is interested, here is the NTSB report on the
| airplane fire "of undetermined origin" that killed Stan Rogers at
| the age of 33:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20060322014736/http://www.airdis....
| leto_ii wrote:
| Being used to hear Stan Rogers' voice sing about privateers,
| whalers and other such things, at first this song felt odd.
|
| After a bit of thought though, I realize there's no reason why
| that should be the case. Ours is a real life experience that,
| while not physically demanding or adventurous, isn't less worthy
| of being captured in song. We have our own experiences of
| drudgery, adversity, camaraderie that have gone mostly unsung.
| Thank God we at least had Stan Rogers.
| booleandilemma wrote:
| I've had both white collar jobs and a blue collar job and I
| experienced more camaraderie while at the blue collar one.
|
| I think it was created by an us vs them mentality (where "them"
| is management).
|
| We would be out in the field under all weather conditions while
| management would call and give us orders over the phone from a
| comfy, climate-controlled office, and then go back to Skyping
| other office workers (or whatever app it was at the time).
|
| With each of my white collar jobs I've had a boss but he sits
| down the hall from me and we both sit at desks and eat at the
| same places. There's less separation, but there's also less
| camaraderie among my team.
| lapetitejort wrote:
| I've had blue collar jobs and there is indeed a strong sense
| of camaraderie. However, if you're not included in this
| camaraderie for any reason (don't like sports, certain foods,
| views on certain topics, quiet type that doesn't react well
| to jokes) it can be hell. I've never felt included in any of
| my workplaces. I hated watching all of my coworkers jabber
| for hours on end without me. I hated not being included in
| after-work activities. With the few work friends I've had,
| any rift on either end made the relationship unbearable. But
| now working from home, my friends are friends and my
| coworkers are coworkers. I never want to two to meet again.
| leto_ii wrote:
| > I experienced more camaraderie while at the blue collar
| one.
|
| I've never had blue collar jobs, but I've always suspected
| that was the case. I think there's less of a "class"
| consciousness among office workers. We feel like we're
| better, privileged - why, if we apply ourselves maybe one day
| we'll get to be bosses and billionaires too. We just have to
| meritocratically outcompete our peers...
|
| Working folk know better...
| stan_rogers wrote:
| I have to warn you, though, that not all Stans Rogers are
| pleasant to listen to. I come from a family full of 'em. Might
| I suggest Garnet or Nathan as an alternative?
| bjt2n3904 wrote:
| Right on. A lot of sea shanty music in general (like Leave her
| Johnny) focuses on the hardships of life and difficulties with
| higher ups and martial relationships -- and what I love about
| this song is it takes the soul of a sea shanty and puts it to
| the "tune" of Office Space.
| 0xbadcafebee wrote:
| It's probably not surprising that there aren't more songs about
| white collar work. It's such unrewarding, safe, monotonous
| drivel. Maybe because we're all too embarrassed to try to
| romanticize it, and too depressed to make art out of it.
| krick wrote:
| If you ask me about "songs about white collar work", first
| thing that comes to my mind is this[0] (it's a cover, but I
| like this one better). It isn't about white collar work, of
| course, but white collar work is all about that song, I feel.
| And blue collar and whatever else -- it's all about that
| song. The difference is that "blue collar" is about that song
| _and a little bit of something else_ -- like, you know,
| "being out in the field under all weather conditions". That's
| where the romanticism comes from. While "white collar" is
| _only_ about that song. And pretending you didn 't hear it,
| daily.
|
| [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f3BmvVhtW4
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