Food related music

[StuartHMB]

Want to create a Food related mix...what are your favorite food songs that should go on it?

[masha]

Home Grown Tomatoes by Arlo Guthrie

[MrsBridges]

Has no one suggested Food, Glorious Food from Oliver! Or did I miss it?

[Fydeaux]

The Iguanas--Eatin' With Fingers ["I like eatin' with fingers 'cause when you're done you get to lick'em clean"]

[truman]

"Brownies and Lemonade" - can't remember who sang this, but it's on a HORDE tour 1998 compilation freebie
"Candy" - Mandy Moore
"Day-O (Banana Boat" - Harry Belafonte
"Hospital Food" - David Gray
"Orange Crush" - REM "Piss and Vinegar" - Against Me!
"Pork and Beans" - Weezer

Food-themed:
Anything by Cake or Spoon...
"Hungry Like the Wolf" - Duran Duran
"Lost in the Supermarket" - the Clash
"I am a Grocery Bag" - They Might be Giants
"Cuts Like a Knife" - Bryan Adams

[carbondiamond]

Mojo Nixon-BBQ USA. A song with a motown groove that is just a list of BBQ shacks for lyrics. Great song to boogie down to in the kitchen.

[Tonality666]

"Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" by Stick McGhee and his Buddies

[RUK]

If one doesn't object to some cannibalistic tendencies, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel comes to mind! :-)
Here is one of the food related scenes -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kdWU4a31Ig&feature=related

and the Witch's ride/cooking up a storm
http://bcove.me/cdax14pb

[Veggo]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCUcbRTB6Rs

[Veggo]

My Boy Lollipop - Millie Small (1964)

[Bill Hunt]

"The Days of Wine and Roses." We drink one, and often eat the other.

Hunt

[Tripeler]

I think Martin Mull did an album called "Days of Wine and Neurosis"

[desimax]

"Everybody Eats When They Come To My House" - Cab Calloway
"A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But A Bird" - Cab Calloway
"Salt Peanuts" - arrangements by - Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, The Pointer Sisters

And, I'm Trying To Locate The Theme Song From "Chef!" featuring Lenny Henry - "Serious Profession" by Omar

[aurora50]

Oh, one more, if someone else has brought this up, my apologies -
"Spam, Spam, Eggs and Spam, Spam and Spam and Spam!!!!!!!!

[desimax]

Also,

"Pass The Peas" - Maceo Parker
"Watermelon Man" - Mongo Santamaria
"Cheese" - Rap Master Ronnie (Garry Trudeau Musical Soundtrack)

[willrun4food]

Gotta add an original ones...hm.

"Eat Steak," Rev. Horton Heat
"Rock N' Roll McDonald's," Wesley Willis
"I Just Don't Want Coffee Tonight," Caedmon's Call
"Breakfast," Newsboys

[aching]

Most of these aren't really ABOUT food, but they reference food...

"Applebite" - Soundgarden
"Banana Pancakes" - Jack Johnson
"Big Rock Candy Mountain" - Harry McClintock
"Brown Sugar" - The Rolling Stones
"Candy Everybody Wants" - 10,000 Maniacs
"Champagne Supernova" - Oasis
"Choux Pastry Heart" - Corinne Bailey Rae
"Cookin'" - Beatfanatic
"Crackerman" - Stone Temple Pilots
"Englishman in New York" - The Police (like my toast done on one side)
"Hard Candy" - Counting Crows
"Honey" - Moby
"Ice Cream" - Sarah McLachlan
"Lemon" - U2
"Malted Milk" - Eric Clapton
"Mayonnaise" - Smashing Pumpkins
"Piece of Pie" - Stone Temple Pilots
"Sinkin' Soon" - Norah Jones (the oyster crackers on the soup)
"Strawberry Fields Forever" - The Beatles
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" - REM (Nescafe on ice)
"Wild Honey" - U2

[bitsubeats]

bumblebee tuna - mephiskapheles
beer and sex and chips and gravy - the maccladds.

a lot of maccladd(sp?) songs have food references, but they also have a lot of sex references as well...so you take what you can get

[ibstatguy]

after a quick scroll thourgh the iPod (and ignoring the booze related songs):

red pepper blues - art pepper
jelly roll - charles mingus
finger lickin good - charlie musselwhite (ok, not quite food)
half caf decaf - debbie davies (right, I know, coffee)
cheese cake - dexter gordon
lips like sugar - echo and the bunnymen
big rock candy mountain - harry mcclintock
sno cone - j geils band
chitlins con carne - kenny burrell
sugar mountain - neil young
come on in my kitchen - rob't johnson
sugar never tasted so good - white stripes

[NewSushiFiend]

When a Man Loves a Walnut-oh, no, wait. That's a misheard lyric. Gavin Edwards has a series of books on misheard lyrics. There are quite a lot that are misheard as food!

[Sharuf]

TEQUILA! by the Champs. The lyrics consist of just that one word, spoken three times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequila_...

[hannaone]

The Candyman - Sammy Davis Jr.
Eat it! - Weird Al

[Candy]

Avocado by Small Potatoes

[bananna slug]

Not sure how I stumbled across this thread, but it made me laugh. My wife and I hosted our dinner group last year and, completely out of themes after five or six years of getting together, decided that everyone would have to bring a dish based on a song. I put together a playlist of songs whose titles had something to do with food and burned discs for all everyone. Some of what I chose may already have been mentioned, but here is my playlist:

(Do the) Mashed Potatoes James Brown
American Pie Don McLean
Breakfast in America Supertramp
Brown Sugar The Rolling Stones
Eat to the Beat Blondie
Jambalaya on the Bayou Fats Domino
Fish, Chips and Sweat Funkadelic
Green Onions Booker T. & the M.G's
I Like Food Descendents
Ice Cream Man Van Halen
The Lemon Song Led Zeppelin
Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) Squeeze
Raspberry Beret Prince
Quiche Lorraine The B52s
Savoy Truffle The Beatles
Soul Sauce (Guachi Guaro) Cal Tjader
Sugar Magnolia The Grateful Dead
Tupelo Honey Van Morrison
Vegetables The Beach Boys
Bar-B-Q Wendy Rene
Whipped Cream (Marinelli Remix) Herb Alpert & the Tijuanna Brass
You're My Meat Joe Jackson

[Non Cognomina]

"A Little Sugar in My Bowl," Nina Simone

"Angelina (Zoom Zoom)," Louis Prima (I eat anti pasta twice just because she is so nice...)

"Strange Fruit," Billie Holiday (okay, not really about food, but an important song)

another vote for "Banana Pancakes," by Jack Johnson

[AnneInMpls]

In the Jazz genre:

All That Meat and No Potato - Fats Waller (Louis Armstrong does a nice version, too.)

"All that meat and no potato
Just ain't right, like green tomato ..."

I Want the Waiter (With the Water) - Jimmie Lunceford (Ella Fitzgerald sings the more famous version.)

"I want the waiter
With the water
I want the waiter with the water for my daughter ..."

Frim Fram Sauce - Nat King Cole

Java Jive - Manhattan Transfer (and many others)

And, of course, Cab Calloway's "Everybody Eats When They Come to My House", as mentioned above.

There are lots more on this site:
http://www.jass.com/tom/next/noms/foo...

Anne

[smartie]

anything by Meatloaf!

[Cheese Boy]

Wanted to add one more ...

Larry Groce, "Junk Food Junkie" ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKKUTW...

[aurora50]

Doctor Demento used to play a couple - Can't remember the exact titles:
- "Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, YUM"
- "Green Burrito"

[aurora50]

Oh, and can't forget:
"Glass Onion" - the Beatles!

[aurora50]

Ooooh, one more:
"Savoy Truffle" - the Beatles also!!

[aurora50]

Oh - sorry it's "PINK Burrito" (memory flags a bit)!

[bryan]

Fish heads, fish heads, rolly-polly fish heads. Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up yum. Barnes and Barnes was the name of the group.

[Condimentality]

"Beef Rap" - MF Doom

[Fydeaux]

This is a copy of a list I came up with for a similar thread a while back:

'Jambalaya' by just about anybody.
'Barbecue' by Duke Tumatoe
'Beans & Cornbread' by Louis Jordan
'Rum & Coca Cola' by the Andrews Sisters
'Chicken Cordon Blues' by Steve Goodman
'House of Blue Light' by Alseep At The Wheel (& some others)
'Candy' by Big Maybelle
'McArthur Park' by Richard Harris
'I Want a Hot Dog for my Roll' by Butterbeans & Susie
'Memphis Women & Fried Chicken' by Dan Penn
'Fried Chicken' by Rufus Thomas
'Chicken Heads' by James Cotton (& many others)
'Polk Salad Annie' by Tony Joe White
'Too Much Barbeque' by Big Twist & the Mellow Fellows
'Cheeseburger in Paradise' by Jimmy Buffett
'Chitlins con Carne' by Kenny Burrell
'Greasy Greens' by Pucho & his Latin Soul Brothers
'Drinkin' Wine Spo-dee-o-dee' by Stcks McGhee
'Frim Fram Sauce' by Nat King Cole (but if you can find the Ella Fitzgerald version, she just a spot-on imitation of Louis Armstrong that is hysterical!)
'I Want Some Seafood, Mama' by Fats Waller
'Memphis Soul Stew' by King Curtis
'Chocolate Pork Chop Man' (!) by Pete 'Guitar' Lewis
'One Meat Ball' by Josh White (and also the Andrews Sisters, I think)
'Milkshake' by Kelis (although I suspect this isnt really about food)
'Green Onions' by Booker T & the MGs
'Call Any Vegetable' by the Mothers of Invention
'Everybody Eats When They Come To My House' by Cab Calloway
'Eggs & Sausage' by Tom Waits
'Your Greens Give Me the Blues' by Rev. Billy C Wirtz
'Angelina' by Louis Prima
'Cold Turkey' by John Lennon (I dont think this is about food either.)
'Grits aint Groceries' by Little Milton

[smartie]

Tequila Sunrise - the Eagles

[HLing]

"Hey Pete! Let's Eat More Meat"- (Buster Harding - Dizzy Gillespie - Lester Peterson)

edit: There was a song I think sung by Cab Calloway something about, "Selling my Pork Chops"..but can't find it now, and it may not have really been about food, either....

[rds246]

cigarettes and chocolate milk - rufus wainwright

[Jimmy Buffet]

"Everybody Eats When They Come to My House" by the one and only Cab Calloway.

Have a banana, Hannah,
Try the salami, Tommy,
Give with the gravy, Davy,
Everybody eats when they come to my house!

Try a tomato, Plato,
Here's cacciatore, Dorie,
Taste the baloney, Tony,
Everybody eats when they come to my house!

I fix your favorite dishes,
Hopin' this good food fills ya!
Work my hands to the bone in the kitchen alone,
You better eat if it kills ya!

Pass me a pancake, Mandrake,
Have an hors-d'oeuvre-y, Irvy,
Look in the fendel, Mendel,
Everybody eats when they come to my house!

Hannah! Davy! Tommy! Dora! Mandrake!
Everybody eats when they come to my house!

Pastafazoola, Talullah!
Oh, do have a bagel, Fagel,
Now, don't be so bashful, Nashville,
Everybody eats when they come to my house!

Hey, this is a party, Marty,
Here, you get the cherry, Jerry,
Now, look, don't be so picky, Micky,
'Cause everybody eats when they come to my house!

All of my friends are welcome,
Don't make me coax you, moax you,
Eat the tables, the chairs, the napkins, who cares?
You gotta eat if it chokes you!

Oh, do have a knish, Nishia,
Pass me the latke, Macky,
Chile con carne for Barney,
Everybody eats when they come to my house!

Face! Buster! Chair! Chops! Fump!
Everybody eats when they come to my house!

Everybody eats when they come to my house!

[Bite Me]

Love that. Thanks

[♪♪♪]

"Let's Eat (Real Soon)" - Hatfield & the North

[breadbox]

"Grits Ain't Groceries," by various blues artists.

[StuartHMB]

One of my faavorites, even if the Mona Lisa did turn out to be a man. This is definately going on, along with Memphis Soul Stew.

[smartie]

wow Ian Dury's first band - saw them in the 70s in London - they toured the pubs often!

[nojunk]

Jonathan Edwards....

Gonna sit down in the kitchen , fix me something good to eat
And make my head a little high, make the whole day complete
We're gonna lay around the shanty, mama, and put a good buzz on

[marmite]

"Dinner Bell" by They Might Be Giants.

[Joe O.]

Red Red Wine - The Replacements
Dirty Dirty Rice - Timbuk3

(Yup, yup they both repeat the first word in the title.)

[Panini Guy]

all right, another Mats fan! And to think so many folks considered that song just "filler" when it could be Chris Mars' finest hour...

I'd add :
"Pecan Pie" by Golden Smog
"The Lemon Song" by Led Zep (ok, just pretend it really is about lemons)
"Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" and "Chewy, Chewy", both by Ohio Express

and nobody has yet mentioned
"You put the lime in the coconut and drink it all together,
Put the lime in the coconut then you'll feel better..."
(btw, the PM Dawn version trumps Nilsson's original)

and lastly, let us not forget Stan Ridgway's immortal lyric:

"I wish I was in Tijuana, eating barbecued iguana..."

[Condimentality]

"Fish" - Ghostface Killah ("We eat fish, tossed salads, and make rap ballads...")

[CindyJ]

Ya gotta have this one: Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise http://www.carlinamerica.com/titles/t...

[septocaine_queen]

Chocolate- Snow Patrol
Bandages- Hot Hot Heat

[coastie]

Bisquits in the oven - Raffi ( kids music but not bad)

[cheesemonger]

"Caviar and Chitlins" by the Atomic Fireballs.
" Beans and Cornbread" by Louis Jordan
"Saturday night fish fry", also Louis Jordan.

[King of Northern Blvd]

Creme Brulee by Sonic Youth

[Cheese Boy]

One comes to mind. "Coconut" ---> http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/coconut.htm

One more. "Green Onions" ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhFwA0Isqw

More recent. "Chicken Noodle Soup" ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4_V0b...

[butterchicken2nan]

Ween - Pork Roll Egg and Cheese
Kinks - Maximum Consumption
Ry Cooder - One Meatball
Gong - Camembert Electrique

[hotoynoodle]

"i want candy" by bow wow wow. not really about candy, but very catchy, lol.

[aching]

Also "Candy Everybody Wants" by 10,000 Maniacs and "I Smell Sex & Candy" by whoever that group was. Again, not really about candy, but...

[ajs228]

"Sex and Candy" was by Marcy Playground. How about "Just Like Honey" by the Jesus and Mary Chain?

[mojoeater]

Not my personal favorite, but I would think any food mix should include Jimmy Buffett's "Cheeseburger in Paradise."

[melpy]

I am such a parrot head. On my tenth birthday we all dances up and down the stairs to this song.

[gooseterp]

Any cibo matto song. There songs are all about food

[sarahvagaca]

I second Cibo Matto! For a party mix, I'd particularly recommend Birthday Cake or Know Your Chicken.

[spades]

"Strawberry Fields Forever" - Beatles
"Raspberry Beret" - Prince
"Suzanne" - Leonard Cohen (line: And she feeds you tea & oranges that come all the way from China)
"Ice Cream" - Sarah McLachlan
"Banana Pancakes" - Jack Johnson
"Caramel" - Suzanne Vega
"Lemon" - U2
"Red Red Wine" - UB40
"Shade and Honey" - Sparklehorse
"Cinnamon Girl" - Neil Young

There are also lots of suggestive songs about cherries. Haha.

[bryan]

Have you ever REALLY listened to the words of Raspberry Beret? It ain't about food.

[spades]

This is true. OP! Strike from the list!

[ibstatguy]

red red wine is actually a neil diamond song ;-) covered by others

[hannaone]

hmm Neil Diamond - Porcupine Pie, Crunchy Granola Suite, Soggy Pretzels

[Drew E]

Ther are lots of songs about food. I did this about ten years ago. Hope I can remember...

'Let's Eat' - Nick Lowe from an early Stiff Records collection
'Chicken Cordon Blues' - Steve Goodman
'Home Grown Tomatoes' - Guy Clark
'Eggs and Sausage' - Tom Waits
'Cheeseburger in Paradise' - Jimmy Buffet
'Strawberry Jam' - Michelle Shocked
Skin and Bones -The Kinks
Jambalaya - Dr. John (and many others)
Eggplant - Michael Franks

Having a tough time remembering, but there's a starter list. I'll take a look and try to come up with a few others

[coastie]

Probably not what you are looking for - I like Ween - tastes good on the bun. A bit alternative LOL