100 Songs About Food (Not a Carl Craig Thread)

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Might be a bit more difficult.

1. Savoy Truffle - Beatles

2. Toot Sweets - from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

― Rumps (Rumps), Friday, 29 December 2006 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link

3. Dead Prez: "Be Healthy"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 29 December 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link

4. Everybody Eats When They Come To My House - I don't know.

But it does contain the classic lines:
"Have a banana - Hannah!
Pasta figiola - Tallulah!"

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Friday, 29 December 2006 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link

5. Kraf Dinner - Annihilator

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 29 December 2006 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link

6. Peaches - The Stranglers
7. Peaches - The Presidents Of The United States Of America
8. Sweet Like Chocolate - Shanks & Bigfoot

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

9. The truncated life of a modern industialised chicken - Matthew Herbert

(of course the whole album - Plat de Jour - is about food but I thought it would be dull to put them all on here)

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

(and without wishing to be a pedant Peaches isn't really about food now is it...unless of course...)

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link

10. Finger Lickin' Chicken - The Radars

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

11. That's Amore - Dean Martin
12. Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Please - Splodgenessabounds
13. That fucking "McDonalds, McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut" Fast Food Rockers thing (getting a bit loose with the definition of "food", I fear)

(xpost, yeah, the Stranglers one isn't, but the PotUSoA one is)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

14. Beef - Gary Clail

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

15 Meat is Murder - The Smiths

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

(which reminds me)

16. Egg Meat - Ivor Cutler

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

17. Shortnin' Bread - The Ready Men

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

18. Biscuit - Spaghetti Vabume! (i fckng love this track)
19. The Chocolate Song - Spaghetti Vabume!

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

(and Cab Calloway did Everyone Eats When They Come To My House - not that I'm obsessed with food or anything)

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link

(I mean 'everybody')

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link

20. Paul Young - Toast

― Dalzinho (Dalzinho), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

21. The Spam Song - Monty Python

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

22. Jambalaya - Hank Williams

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link

23. Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffanys
24. Supertramp - Breakfast in America

(Point of pedantry: Toast was actually Streetband, fronted by Paul Young)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

(23, I can't be bothered listening properly to the lyrics to see if he's just talking about the film or whether he is actually suggesting that they go and have breakfast, at Tiffanys)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

24. Candy and a Current Bun - Pink Floyd

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

25. Roast Fish and Cornbread - Lee Perry

(this thread has a real problem in that there are literally hundreds of songs with food in the title but they're either not about food or are instrumentals and so could be just about be about anything)

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

26. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
27. Some Candy Talking - JAMC
28. Just Like Honey - JAMC

(I'm just going for mentions of edible stuff in titles now)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

29. Chocolate Jesus - Tom Waits

(I'm gonna try and stick with songs actually about food - but I'm running low!)

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

30. Honey to the B - Billie Piper

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link

31. Digsy's Dinner - Oasis

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

32. Big Rock Candy Mountain - Burl Ives

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

33. Bank Holiday - Blur

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

xxxxxx-post to Ned re Matthew Herbert - I love Bodily Functions, is this along the same lines?

I haven't bought music for absolutely ages and I really need to refresh my collection.

― Rumps (Rumps), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link

34. Eat Steak - Reverend Horton Heat

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 29 December 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

35. One Beer - MF Doom (beer is food, right?)

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 29 December 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

36. The Thing That Only Eats Hippies - Dead Milkmen (in this case the hippies are the food)

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 29 December 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

(can I make a similar argument for The Purple People Eater then?)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes!

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 29 December 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

37. John Anderson - Chicken Truck

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

38. Beach Boys - Vegetables

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

don't look

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

39. John Lennon - Cold Turkey

― Johnny Cash Rules Everything Around Me (Modal Fugue), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

40. Fingerlickin' Spring Chicken - Honeymoon Killers
41. Granny's Little Chicken - The Dirtbombs
42. Chicken Walk - Hasil Adkins (who eventually recorded a whole fucking album of songs about chicken [called "Poultry in Motion", natch], so let's just draw the line at one chicken song per rockabilly casualty, shall we?)
43. Chicken Strut - The Meters
44. Chicken Noodle Soup - Webstar
45. Do the Funky Chicken - Rufus Thomas
46. Chick-Inn - The Gories
47. I Feel Like Chicken Tonight - stupid goddam advertisement people in my head
50. Chicken Shit - John Cale (not sure that the chicken qualifies as food at this point, but the fuck, I'm on a roll - hee! "roll," geddit?)
51. Dixie Chicken - Little Feat
52. Hot Chicken - Manu Dibango

― adam beales (pye poudre), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

53. Candy Everybody Wants - 10,000 Maniacs

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

54. Ebenezer Calender & His Maringar Band, The Stolen Chicken

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

55. I Spent My Last Ten Dollars (On Birth Control and Beer) - Two Nice Girls (going with the "beer is food" argument here...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The "beer is food" train of thought must surely lead to 100 Songs about Beer, since beer is not even remotely food (as my hangover last Sunday will tell you) and there are BILLIONS of songs about drink.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

56. Widespread Panic, Coconut
56&1/2. Widespread Panic, Contentment Blues

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

57. Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground
58. Candy Loving - SSM
59. Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
60. Candy Cane Children - The White Stripes
61. Candy-O - The Cars
62. Sugar On My Tongue - Talking Heads
63. Sugar (Gimme Some) - Trick Daddy
64. Sugar Water - Cibo Matto (and they, too, have so many ding-dang food songs that they only get to be on this list once)
65. Juicy Fruit - The Original Sins
66. Sugar Sugar - The Archies
67. Candydiosis - Pop Will Eat Itself
68. Candy Says - The Velvet Underground
69. Gum Drop - The Crew Cuts
70. There's Spider Eggs in Bubba Yhum - Mercury Rev
71. Licorice Whip - The Bangs

― adam beales (pye poudre), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Adam, using Allmusic is cheating.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Sugar On My Tongue - Talking Heads

Besides, I always thought this song was about making out and/or acid.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Slings and arrows...

― adam beales (pye poudre), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

That one was in response to Joe Isuzu's outrageous assertions. As to the meaning of Sugar On My Tongue, I've always assumed that David Byrne was simply expressing a fondness for sweets.

― adam beales (pye poudre), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Pumpkin Soup and Mashed Potatoes - TEH FALL

― dar1a g (dar1a g), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Bananas and Blow - WEEN

― dar1a g (dar1a g), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Turkey Lurkey Time -- Burt Bacharach

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

xxxxxxxxxpost back top rumpie - yes it is.

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 29 December 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

75. Too many dirty dishes - Albert Collins

"I've done your dirty dishes
How much am I suppose to take?
When I left I had cornflakes for breakfast
Now there's a bone from a T-bone steak"

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Saturday, 30 December 2006 08:30 (seventeen years ago) link

76. Grits Ain't Groceries - Little Milton

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Saturday, 30 December 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

(23, I can't be bothered listening properly to the lyrics to see if he's just talking about the film or whether he is actually suggesting that they go and have breakfast, at Tiffanys)

It's just about the film, nothing about a proper breakfast. I think the tune has pretty nice lyrics for a one-hit wonder hit.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 30 December 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

77. Hank Williams - Hey Good Lookin' The lyrics to this ain't half bad at all.

― Wench (jim wentworth), Saturday, 30 December 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

78. "Café On The Left Bank" by Paul Maccasir
79. "Journey Cake" by Andy Biskin Quartet

...since beer is not even remotely food...

Just a moment there, lady! Beer is food, definitely (albeit, remotely). Beer=liquid bread, basically (albeit with, like, supplements :)

― tiit (t**t), Saturday, 30 December 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

80. Doll Parts- Courtney Love (I wanna be the girl with the most cake!)

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

81. Rapper's Delight - the sugarhill gang, with these immortal lines:

have you ever went over a friends house to eat
and the food just aint no good
i mean the macaroni's soggy the peas are mushed
and the chicken tastes like wood
so you try to play it off like you think you can
by sayin that youre full
and then your friend says momma he's just being polite
he aint finished uh uh that's bull
so your heart starts pumpin and you think of a lie
and you say that you already ate
and your friend says man there's plenty of food
so you pile some more on your plate
while the stinky foods steamin your mind starts to dreamin
of the moment that it's time to leave
and then you look at your plate and your chickens slowly rottin
into something that looks like cheese
oh so you say that's it i got to leave this place
i dont care what these people think
im just sittin here makin myself nauseous
with this ugly food that stinks
so you bust out the door while its still closed
still sick from the food you ate
and then you run to the store for quick relief
from a bottle of kaopectate
and then you call your friend two weeks later
to see how he has been
and he says i understand about the food
baby bubbah but we're still friends

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

82. Bobby Binkly-Just a Nickel Piece of Candy

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 04:01 (seventeen years ago) link

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