Like Daft Punk’s song of the same name and LCD Soundsystem’s Losing My Edge, “Teachers” lists many of Soulwax’s influences. They are a range of bands, mostly rock, spanning multiple decades and styles, and showing that Soulwax are indebted to their musical predecessors and want to acknowledge this.
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[Verse 1]
Barkmarket
AC/DC
Monster Magnet
Cheap Trick
Thee Hypnotics
Small Faces
Motörhead
TC Matic
MC5
ELO
TCR
T-Rex
Van Halen
Pretty Things
Nirvana
Moving Sidewalks
Urban Dance Squad
Jane's Addiction
Grand Funk Railroad
Sonic Youth
The Sonics
Raging Slab
Guns 'N' Roses
Aynsley Dunbar
[Refrain 1]
ZZ Top are in the house, yeah
The Clash are in the house
Iggy Pop is in the house, yeah
Twig Almond's in the house
[Verse 2]
Red Devils
Black Sabbath
Canned Heat
Roxy Music
Supergrass
Chris Farlowe
James Khan
Killing Joke
[Refrain 2]
Jimmy Page is in the house, yeah
The Cramps are in the house
Kyuss in the house, yeah
The Mudgang in the house
[Verse 3]
Thin Lizzy
The Breeders
Oscar Breth
Millionaire
Rare Earth
Black Flag
The Who
Chris Whitley
Leaf Hound
Paul Weller
Steppenwolf
Sex Pistols
Butthole Surfers
Bad Brains
Captain Beefheart
The Kinks