Music for Cooking

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So I really like to cook. And I really like to listen to music. The two together just might be my favorite way to spend my free time. And usually when I cook I listen to stuff like Marconi Notaro or Lucinda Williams or the Clean or Prestige-era Miles Davis or Nara Leao. Preferably something that I don't have to concentrate too much on, that I've heard many times before, not terribly noisy, something that is hummable, and that won't offend my roving 2 year-old with gratuitious curse words (pretty much nixing all hip hop). What do you like to cook to, ilm sandboxers?

I'm sure there's a 'real' ilm thread on this but I don't remember seeing it.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Great White

― adam beales (pye poudre), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

the oldies station OR the classic country station on the radio

― AiLien (AMD), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Made A Country Mix Outta Old 45s

― grady (grady), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Juvenile - 400 Degrees (LP)
Ride - Nowhere (LP)

― Cameron Octigan (cameron octigan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

My housemates and I all love to cook. My tastes lean towards techno and more experimental stuff, they're a bit more conventional. So I'll usually compromise with something like the Durutti Column, John Fahey, Caetano Veloso, or seventies funk and soul, they'll usually go for something like the Magnetic Fields or some Bartok or Schumann. However, one of them loves to sing along to opera and showtunes while he cooks and it drives me nuts.

― miki (Super), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought about starting this thread the other day, but I figured everyone would make fun of me for it.

I was going to suggest making bread Miles Davis' On the Corner for making bread (using a breadmaker). Cooking is really stressful for me, and On the Corner has this insistent groove that sort of matches my anxiety.

― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:26 (seventeen years ago) link

MAKING BREAD!

― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Let's Cook: Mental As Anything

― kornrulez6969 (kornrulez6969), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link

All-time favorite cooking album is Miles Davis Pangea. When cooking is going well it feels just like that music.

― Mark (Mark R), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Stereolab was once described to me as "music for hipsters to put on in the background while they cook."

So there's that.

And it's Agharta for my money.

― Keep ya hoos high, shit gets steener/Here comes the grim reaper (hoosteen), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:44 (seventeen years ago) link

haha unintentional xpost?

― Keep ya hoos high, shit gets steener/Here comes the grim reaper (hoosteen), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/pop_albums/3/3/5/c33738yv15s.jpg

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Get your Northern Soul out, you get to groove around the kitchen and pretend to be a beautiful person in an advert for chicken curry.

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.317x.com/albums/f/harryfields/reduced.gif

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

plone

― wogan lenin (doglatin), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Never occurred to me to do Agharta/Pangea but I think I'll try it! I love both of those albums.

Also, along these lines Ornette Coleman's Dancing in Your Head.

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I usually listen to the news on NPR if it's the afternoon, but I also like something I can sing/howl along with like the Smiths' "Singles" or Buzzcocks "Operators Manual."

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

'60-'63 Trane. I pretty much always put this on when cooking.

In general:

late Trane = MDMA music
80s hip-hop/punk = drinking music
news/traffic radio = shower noise
indie pop & new-to-me tunes = driving to work music
ambient = coding music
All Things Considered = exhausted, driving home from work listening

― But Abraham said, Jump! (goodbra), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

bucks fizz's "if you can't stand the heat (get out of the kitchen)"?

― djh (djh), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Pink Floyd - Gastronomy Domine

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Booker T & The MGs

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

ambient stuff is good for chopping and mashing. you don't want any bm or thrash or hip hop, the sped up beats could make you chop off your fingers due to unrestrained headbanging or bopping of your heads to the phat beats yo!

― postie23 (postie23), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

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