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Songs for Self Assessment Season

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14th Jan 2010
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Members of AccountingWEB.co.uk have brought fellow professionals a bit of musical relief during the busy tax season with a Spotify playlist tailored to their tastes and professional concerns. Songs for Self Assessment Season is a 2-hour, 40-song playlist compiled interactively on Spotify with contributions from music enthusiasts in AccountingWEB’s Humour and Fun discussion group.

Accountants and tax advisers regularly work 14- and 16-hour days in January, with this year’s snow adding to their woes. When he couldn’t get to the office after the recent blizzards, one AccountingWEB member said he was preparing to take a sleeping bag into work to ensure he could beat the 31 deadline and save his clients the £100 late-filing penalty.

The Spotify playlist reflects the full sweep of emotions accountants experience as pressure builds and encompasses many musical styles, from Stevie Ray Vaughan’s rocky blues treatment of George Harrison’s anthem ‘Taxman’ to the wistful pop of Pilot’s January (“Sick and tired you've been hanging on me”) and ‘Last of the Melting Snow’ from 2009’s surprise package, The Leisure Society.
The frustrations of dealing with delinquent clients and an unsympathetic HMRC are explored (‘Shot By Both Sides’ - Magazine linking into Blondie’s ‘Hanging On The Telephone’), then things turn a bit manic as deadline day stress increases (‘Time is Running Out’ - Muse; ‘Going Under’ - Evanescence). Relief begins to show as returns are completed (‘Another One Bites The Dust’ - Queen), the deadline is met and clients pay up (‘Beautiful Day’ - U2).
For those who are not members of Spotify, here is the playlist as it now stands:
  • Max From The Income Tax - Sophie Tucker
  • Taxman - Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • Income Tax - Dub Adams
  • Tax Return - New Mexican Disater Squad
  • January - Pilot
  • The Last Of The Melting Snow - The Leisure Society
  • Money - The Flying Lizards
  • Pocket Calculator - Kraftwerk
  • Spreadsheet - Sarah Donner
  • Money, Money, Money - Abba
  • Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
  • Taxman, Mr Thief - Cheap Trick
  • Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie
  • We Have All The Time In The World - Louis Armstrong
  • She Don’t Care About Time - The Byrds
  • Return To Sender - Elvis Presley
  • Time Is Running Out - Muse
  • Dear Mr Fantasy - Traffic
  • Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
  • Misery Business - Paramore
  • Pile Up - She Keeps Bees
  • Panic - The Smiths
  • I Want Out - Pat Benatar
  • Going Under - Evanescence
  • You Ain’t Seen Nothing yet - Bachman-Turner-Overdrive
  • Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now - The Smiths
  • At The Edge - Stiff Little Fingers
  • (t)Axe Victim - Be Bop Deluxe
  • 19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones
  • You Can Move A Mountain - Anton Barbeau
  • Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
  • Get It Right Next Time - Gerry Rafferty
  • Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground
  • Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
  • Stormy Monday Blues - T-Bone Walker
  • Tax Payin’ Blues - J.B. Lenoir
  • Cash On The Barrelhead - The Louvin Brothers
  • My Money - Bap Kennedy
  • I’m So Glad - Cream
  • Beautiful Day - U2
Feel free to add your suggestions below!
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By riches-watts
15th Jan 2010 14:50

31 Jan spotify

You have surely got to have Bon Jovi's 'Livin' on a prayer' - with the imortal words 'Oohh, we're half way there...' to encourage the troops.

 

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By taxip45
15th Jan 2010 20:38

Songs for Self Assessment

A couple of suggestions :-

Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire

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Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band

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By ianthetaxman
18th Jan 2010 13:32

Music for the masses

What about "9 to 5" by Dolly Parton (our playlist last year started with this one!) and "I need a holiday" by Scouting For Girls is another good one.

Some others maybe - "2 minutes to midnight" by Iron Maiden (for all those who will be working right up to the deadline), or "In The Still Of The Night" by Cole Porter or Whitesnake (the phone doesn't ring as much at 8pm).

Roll on 31 January!

 

 

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By sluglet
18th Jan 2010 15:51

Welcome to the Machine - Pink Floyd

and not forgetting:

I think I'm going slightly mad - Queen

Taxman - The Beatles

I hate you so much right now - Kelis

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By Julie Baker
19th Jan 2010 21:40

A must!

Still at the office at 9.35pm on 19th January so I'm thinking 'under pressure' by Queen would be a good one, and on 31st January I'll be playing 'bat out of hell' by meatloaf in the car on the way home!

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John Stokdyk, AccountingWEB head of insight
By John Stokdyk
20th Jan 2012 13:57

Thanks for the suggestions

All the ones I could find have been added to our updated compilation for this year's Self Assessment season.

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