3. Dead Prez: “Be Healthy”

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!”

5. Kraf Dinner—Annihilator

6. Peaches—The Stranglers

7. Peaches—The Presidents Of The United States Of America

8. Sweet Like Chocolate—Shanks & Bigfoot

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)

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

10. Finger Lickin’ Chicken—The Radars

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)

14. Beef—Gary Clail

15 Meat is Murder—The Smiths

(which reminds me)

16. Egg Meat—Ivor Cutler

17. Shortnin’ Bread—The Ready Men

18. Biscuit—Spaghetti Vabume! (i fckng love this track)

19. The Chocolate Song—Spaghetti Vabume!

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

(I mean ‘everybody’)

20. Paul Young—Toast

21. The Spam Song—Monty Python

22. Jambalaya—Hank Williams

23. Deep Blue Something—Breakfast at Tiffanys

24. Supertramp—Breakfast in America

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

(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)

24. Candy and a Current Bun—Pink Floyd

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)

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)

29. Chocolate Jesus—Tom Waits

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

30. Honey to the B—Billie Piper

31. Digsy’s Dinner—Oasis

32. Big Rock Candy Mountain—Burl Ives

33. Bank Holiday—Blur

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.

34. Eat Steak—Reverend Horton Heat

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

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

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

Yes!

37. John Anderson—Chicken Truck

38. Beach Boys—Vegetables

don’t look

39. John Lennon—Cold Turkey

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

53. Candy Everybody Wants—10,000 Maniacs

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

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

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.

56. Widespread Panic, Coconut

56&1/2. Widespread Panic, Contentment Blues

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, using Allmusic is cheating.

Sugar On My Tongue—Talking Heads

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

Slings and arrows...

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.

Pumpkin Soup and Mashed Potatoes—TEH FALL

Bananas and Blow—WEEN

Turkey Lurkey Time — Burt Bacharach

xxxxxxxxxpost back top rumpie—yes it is.

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”

76. Grits Ain’t Groceries—Little Milton

(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.

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

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 :)

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

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

82. Bobby Binkly-Just a Nickel Piece of Candy