Though both "Rock n' Roll Band" and "Have a Cigar" share the same idea of rise to fame, becoming the "sell-out," "Rock n' Roll Band" incorporates upbeat tone, and crazy imagery to remenisce upon the "streets of Hyannis," while "Have a Cigar" displays cynical tone, and hollow imagery to sarcastically mock the record industry and riding the "Gravy Train."
Boston incorporates tone into their song to represent how they feel about their past and how "people came alive" when they were playing gigs. They remenisce about sleeping in their "cars" and "playin' all the bars," in an upbeat manner, almost as if they're trying to say that their rise to success was "getting' crazy." However, Pink Floyd's approach to their tone is not only to explain the road they took to gain wealth, but to criticize record companies, as they are a "monster" that is "just green;" only made out of money. They prove their tone to be sarcastic and critical in the "most sincere" way possible, as that is "really what [they] think." Boston and Pink Floyd utilize tone to amplify the meaning of their rise to fame, but also to speak of their own smaller accounts.
Boston further provides meaning to their song through their "anticipating" imagery of their lives, aiding in explaing their pasts. Their description of the man who "smoked a big cigar" and "drove a Cadillac car" is a representation of wealth and success that they wanted, and the man gave it to them. Pink Floyd provides a smililar descriptive nature towards the "cigar" being symbolic of wealth, but also use it and the "chart" to say that the record company only wanted them for more money for themselves. They further state their definition as criticizing the company for "riding the Gravy Train," taking the easy way out and using others for their own dirty work of getting money. Although both songs are similar to one another in terms of what they display, they both have different, deeper meanings from what they experienced on their rise to fame.
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