Pretty much the best songs I've ever heard about being in a band and writing albums.

what a wonderful puddle, killing a camera and the nathan detroits - all by braid.

i think one armed scissor is about touring but i'm not 100% sure of that.

by The Wannadies.

tour song by jawbreaker.

tim kasher is the master of writing songs about writing songs

'Yr All Just Jealous of My Dutch Von Hat', by Johnny Foreigner.

With that "we three ghosts from Birmingham" line in it.

'I play in a band but I've got no talent'

by Reuben

by Billie The Vision & The Dancers. a silly but sweet love song to a band that almost wasn't, so to speak...

IF YOU WANNA ROCK N ROLL

*bagpipe solo*

much every band i saw on Saturday played songs about being in a band. said songs sucked.

by suburban kids with biblical names

I wanted Formed A Band :(!

belle & sebastian

singers that sing about being in a band

and about half the other songs there.

though i guess that's more about being in love with someone while in a famous band rather than just about being in a band.

:D

Running Order Squabblefest. And loads more...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this already.

Fuck This Band

...Cos they swear too much

Machine Gun Fellatio before but this is the 2nd time in a few hours.
My ex girlfriends boyfriend, is really quite good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mQ5xiG6Wkc sound quality is awful.

all songs by bands since (arbitrary point in the 60s) are, to some extent, about being a band as much as they are about anything else, what with the weight of rock history resting on the writers' shoulders

every single million dead song

it's very amusing. :D

by Art Brut is one of the more blatant examples.

Touring by the Ramones - off one of their later albums (Mondo Bizarro perhaps)

The Top Seven Singles Club by the hideously underrated Wolf Colonel (RIP).

And perhaps my favorite song about the joys and tribulations of being in a band - This Boy Is Exhausted by The Wrens, which probably sums up the highs (and lows) of band life more articulately than anyone else has ever managed.

Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't. And Million Dead - Living The Dream. These two and their sentiments are brilliantly portrayed.

I hope this song starts a craze!

Time to Pretend

Les Savy Fav. tune.

They're Playing a Cover Version Of Our Third Favourite Song

by i concur

by Neil Young
Barfruit Blues by The Hold Steady?

by Nickelback. Massive.

by Million Dead, incredible. Also, We're an American Band by Grand Funk Railroad comes in a close second

About going on tour when your hearts not in it

"I wrote more postcards than hooks
I read more maps than books
Feel like every chance to leave
is another chance I should've took"

by I, Ludicrous - about how Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine went on to be ridiculously successful by pretty much ripping off their sound, what with them coming from the same postal district and riding on the same bus and all. Great sour grapes "it should have been us" fare.

by The Unicorns

also, "Anyone Else But You" by The Moldy Peaches does contain the lines:

You want more fans, I want more stage

So I guess that could count!

- reinventing axl rose