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Songs About Food
WHAT IF? An imaginary record cover for a compilation of food-inspired music.
AOL recently contacted me to create a playlist of food-inspired songs for its "Blogger Radio" station on AOL Radio (see below for details on how to listen). After much digging through my own music collection (and some serendipitous searching online), I came up with 100 songs.
There's a heavy emphasis upon jazz and blues, a slathering of R&B, a douse of hip-hop, along with a sprinkling of pop classics and a dusting of heavy metal (o.k., just one -- Def Leppard's cheesetastic "Pour Some Sugar on Me").
As I pored over all of this gastro-music, it became pretty clear that food is more often than not a (barely veiled) euphemism for sex. Candy seems to trump just about everything edible as the most frequent object of desire. Other songs are culinary in name only (take Taste of Honey's "Sukiyaki," for example), while others immerse themselves in a heady contemplation of appetite -- I'm thinking here of the Fat Boys' great, tragicomic "Jail House Rap." And then there's food as abstraction in the form of Dizzy Gillespie's manic be-bop standard, "Salt Peanuts."
You can find the complete playlist (in alphabetical order) below. It's not comprehensive, so if you have a favorite food song that isn't covered here, please share it in the comments.
Tune In: For PC Users, listen by clicking here. If you're on a Mac, download the AOL Radio player, log in with your AOL/AIM screenname, and select "Blogger Radio" under the "Soundtracks & Themes" category. The playlist will be up until June 14, when the station gets turned over to the next DJ/blogger.
Tasty! Songs for Food Lovers
- All That Meat And No Potatoes by Fats Waller
- All You Can Eat by the Fat Boys
- Artichoke by Cibo Matto
- Augustus Gloop by Danny Elfman
- Augustus Gloop by The Poozies
- Banana Boat (Day-O) by Harry Belafonte
- Beans And Cornbread by Louis Jordan
- Beef Jerky by Cibo Matto
- Birthday Cake by Cibo Matto
- Black Coffee In Bed by Squeeze
- Bowl Of Oranges by Bright Eyes
- Brown Sugar by D'Angelo
- Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones
- Candy by Cameo
- Candy by Morphine
- Candy (Drippin' Like Water) by Snoop Dogg
- Candy Shop by 50 Cent
- Catfish by Bob Dylan
- Catfish Blues by Jimi Hendrix
- Chicken Grease by D'Angelo
- Chicken Noodle Soup by Webstar & Young B
- Chicken Soup With Rice by Carole King
- Chocolate Buttermilk by Kool & The Gang
- Chocolate City by Parliament
- Chocolate Factory by R. Kelly
- Choux Pastry Heart by Corinne Bailey Rae
- Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk by Rufus Wainwright
- Cookin' by Clifford Brown
- Crawfish by Elvis Presley
- Days Of Wine And Roses by Henry Mancini
- Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost by Lonnie Donegan
- Drinks by Twista
- Egg Man by the Beastie Boys
- Eggs And Sausage by Tom Waits
- Fried Chicken by Ice-T
- Giblet Gravy by George Benson
- Gimme That Wine by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
- Gin And Juice by Snoop Doggy Dogg
- Glass Onion by The Beatles
- Gone Sugaring by Mirah
- Green Onions by Booker T & The MG's
- Grits by James Brown
- Ham 'N' Eggs by A Tribe Called Quest
- Happy Meal II by The Cardigans
- Home Cookin' by Horace Silver
- Honey by Moby
- Honey Pie by The Beatles
- I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl by Nina Simone
- I Want Candy by Bow Wow Wow
- Ice Cream Castles by The Time
- Ice Cream Man by Tom Waits
- Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice
- It Should Have Been Me by Ray Charles
- Jail House Rap by Fat Boys
- Juicebox by The Strokes
- Juicy Fruit by Mtume
- Know Your Chicken by Cibo Matto
- Lady Marmalade by LaBelle
- Le Jazz Et Le Gin by Coralie Clement
- Le Pain Perdu by Cibo Matto
- Milkcow Blues Boogie by Elvis Presley
- Milkshake by Kelis
- Mother Popcorn by James Brown
- My Sweet Potato by Booker T & The MG's
- Old Joe's Place by The Folksmen
- One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer by John Lee Hooker
- Orange Crush by R.E.M.
- Oregano Flow (Gumbo Soup Mix) by Digital Underground
- Otha Fish by The Pharcyde
- Pimp Juice by Nelly
- Pot Kettle Black by Wilco
- Potato Head Blues by Louis Armstrong
- Potato's In The Paddy Wagon by The New Main Street Singers
- Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard
- Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) by Squeeze
- Quiche Lorraine by The B-52's
- Rapper's Delight by Sugarhill Gang
- Red Apples by Cat Power
- Red Vines by Aimee Mann
- Salt Peanuts by Dizzy Gillespie
- Salt Peanuts by Joshua Redman
- Savoy Truffle by The Beatles
- Shanghai Noodle Factory by Traffic
- Spanish Grease by Willie Bobo
- Straight, No Chaser by Thelonious Monk
- Struttin' With Some Barbecue by Louis Armstrong
- Sukiyaki by A Taste Of Honey
- Sweets For My Sweet by The Drifters
- Taco WIth A Pork Chop by Ray Brown, John Clayton, Christian McBride
- Tacos, Enchiladas And Beans by Doris Day
- Tea For Two by Ella Fitzgerald
- Tea For Two by Fats Waller
- The Coffee Song by Frank Sinatra
- The Lemon Song by Led Zeppelin
- Too Much Sugar For A Dime by Merle Travis
- Watermelon Man by Mongo Santamaria
- White Pepper Ice Cream by Cibo Matto
- Wild Honey by U2
- Yes! We Have No Bananas by Louis Prima
- You're Not The Only Oyster In The Stew by Fats Waller
POSTED BY JOSH FRIEDLAND
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