foodmex wrote:If you want to hear a real good song about the state of fast food, listen to " Junk" by Bronski Beat, a British band from 80's.

Ahhhhh...Mssr. Somerville(you and your backup dancers were so cute in your Houston Astros T's vogueing? at the Vortex once upon a time).

anyway

how about an obvious one, "Meat is Murder"-The Smiths, or, intratextually: the t-shirt Morrissey wears in the "Everyday is Like Sunday" video reading "I don't eat my friends."

from these stages one might jump to Otto Muehl's actions/musical compositions, at least I do

The Lonely Tomato: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFjv9P_Kxsk

Das Racist's "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" and the pretty awesome remix

Also, Das Racist's "Chicken and Meat" (about lots more than food)

One my favorite songs of all time, ripe with suggestive lyrics, the Willie Dixon penned Howlin' Wolf sung 1961 banger Back Door Man.

One line relates ostensibly to food, but of course is about something else that is equally, if not more satisfying. Anyways, the lyric:

"When you come home you can eat pork and bean,
I eats mo' chicken any man seen."

LTH,

We heard a wonderful Mahler 4th yesterday at Orchestra Hall with Markus Stenz conducting the CSO and soprano Nicole Cabell.

Text to the forth movement:


Das himmlische Leben
(aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Wir genießen die himmlischen Freuden,
D'rum tun wir das Irdische meiden.
Kein weltlich' Getümmel
Hört man nicht im Himmel!
Lebt alles in sanftester Ruh'.
Wir führen ein englisches Leben,
Sind dennoch ganz lustig daneben;
Wir tanzen und springen,
Wir hüpfen und singen,
Sanct Peter im Himmel sieht zu.

Johannes das Lämmlein auslasset,
Der Metzger Herodes d'rauf passet.
Wir führen ein geduldig's,
Unschuldig's, geduldig's,
Ein liebliches Lämmlein zu Tod.
Sanct Lucas den Ochsen tät schlachten
Ohn' einig's Bedenken und Achten.
Der Wein kost' kein Heller
Im himmlischen Keller;
Die Englein, die backen das Brot.

Gut' Kräuter von allerhand Arten,
Die wachsen im himmlischen Garten,
Gut' Spargel, Fisolen
Und was wir nur wollen.
Ganze Schüsseln voll sind uns bereit!
Gut' Äpfel, gut' Birn' und gut' Trauben;
Die Gärtner, die alles erlauben.
Willst Rehbock, willst Hasen,
Auf offener Straßen
Sie laufen herbei!

Sollt' ein Fasttag etwa kommen,
Alle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen!
Dort läuft schon Sanct Peter
Mit Netz und mit Köder
Zum himmlischen Weiher hinein.
Sanct Martha die Köchin muß sein.

Kein' Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden,
Die unsrer verglichen kann werden.
Elftausend Jungfrauen
Zu tanzen sich trauen.
Sanct Ursula selbst dazu lacht.
Kein' Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden,
Die unsrer verglichen kann werden.
Cäcilia mit ihren Verwandten
Sind treffliche Hofmusikanten!
Die englischen Stimmen
Ermuntern die Sinnen,
Daß alles für Freuden erwacht.
Heaven's Life
(From Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
We enjoy heavenly pleasures
and therefore avoid earthly ones.
No worldly tumult
is to be heard in heaven.
All live in greatest peace.
We lead angelic lives,
yet have a merry time of it besides.
We dance and we spring,
We skip and we sing.
Saint Peter in heaven looks on.

John lets the lambkin out,
and Herod the Butcher lies in wait for it.
We lead a patient,
an innocent, patient,
dear little lamb to its death.
Saint Luke slaughters the ox
without any thought or concern.
Wine doesn't cost a penny
in the heavenly cellars;
The angels bake the bread.

Good greens of every sort
grow in the heavenly vegetable patch,
good asparagus, string beans,
and whatever we want.
Whole dishfuls are set for us!
Good apples, good pears and good grapes,
and gardeners who allow everything!
If you want roebuck or hare,
on the public streets
they come running right up.

Should a fast day come along,
all the fishes at once come swimming with joy.
There goes Saint Peter running
with his net and his bait
to the heavenly pond.
Saint Martha must be the cook.

There is just no music on earth
that can compare to ours.
Even the eleven thousand virgins
venture to dance,
and Saint Ursula herself has to laugh.
There is just no music on earth
that can compare to ours.
Cecilia and all her relations
make excellent court musicians.
The angelic voices
gladden our senses,
so that all awaken for joy.

I was researching kishka and came across Walter Dana's "Who Stole the Kishka?"

Someone stole the kishka
Someone stole the kishka
Who stole the kishka,
from the butcher's shop?
Who stole the kishka?
Who stole the kishka?
Who stole the kishka?
Someone call the cops!

Fat and round and firmly packed
It was hanging on the rack
Someone stole the kishka
When I turned my back
Who stole the kishka?
Who stole the kishka?
Who stole the kishka?
Someone bring it back!
Someone stole the kishka
Someone stole the kishka
Who stole the kishka,
from the butcher shop?
Who stole the kishka?
Who stole the kishka?
Who stole the kishka?
Someone call the cops!
Yusef found the kishka
Yusef found the kishka
Yusef found the kishka
And he hung it on the rack.
He found the kishka
He found the kishka
He found the kishka
Yusef brought it back
Heeeeeyyyyyyyy
Hey!
huh-huh-huh-huh

Better perhaps than finding the song was finding all of the YouTube videos made for it. These are the best music videos I've seen in a long time.





I've got two kishka from Gene's in my refrigerator right now. I kind of feel inspired to make my own video.

Vaseline and tangerines!

I love herring!

EvA wrote:I love herring!

Cute. I like her reggae Passover song, too.

Have some more herring!

LAZ wrote:

EvA wrote:I love herring!

Have some more herring!

Who knew there were two good herring songs on youtube... For the herring lover in you!

Rathergood.com does a lot of great food songs.

I just learned about Audio Ahdeo Awdio (AAA), the project of Vancouver-based artist Chris von Szombathy. AAA has put out two food-themed albums of spacey pop-electronica, the most recent this past May, Good For What Fails You... According to the artist, "This new album has been designed with the re-emerging scientific understanding of how sounds effect your digestion in mind." Tracks include:

Good For What Fails You
Vitamin AAA
Craft Single
Canned Music
Lettuce Dance
Take-out
Lite Spreads
Soft Serve
Spaghetti & Gumballs
Esophagus Now
Pop & Lox

Here is the video for "Soft Serve":



Von Szombathy also creates food-themed visual art--illustrations, paintings, sculpture--some of which may not be suitable for sensitive viewers.

My all-time favorite song about food (places to get food, actually), it's catchy as hell and a cool blend of pleasantly cheerful and wistful:

"Diner" by Martin Sexton (click here and here for a couple of good live performances)

Diner

You might have seen one out in Minnesota
Or maybe down by the sea in Sarasota
But they were made back in Worcester Mass
Of aluminum and bakalite and glass

Like a locomotive they were streamlines
And the blue prints were drawn up from a dream of mine
Slap 'em up put 'em on the train
Out to Michigan up to Maine

You may find a diner down in Georgia or
Carolina off the twenty by the piggly wiggly
In the country out of Waynsboro

Or when it's getting late and rainy out in New York State
You hang a louie off the thru-way
And you go and grab yourself a cheeseburger
At the little gem diner off the six niner

Chorus:
Diner my shiny shiny love
In the night you're all I'm thinking of
Diner my shiny shiny love

The cruiser pulls in where the trooper's always stop
As we dine over the chrome and formica table top

The cashier she always squints
By the gum and the bowl of mints
She's tapping her toe
To the Dean Martin on the consolette
Booth service and a cigarette we're loving it so

Side of fries a dollar
Or the haddock plate two ninety five
A rootbeer float a pepsi
And be sure to save some room for some apple pie
Better make it a-la-mode

Chorus

Dean Martin god rest his soul
Talkin' to me from the cereal bowl
There's a couple from the show me state
Knockin' back a little meatloaf plate

Diner my shiny shiny love.

Khaopaat wrote:My all-time favorite song about food (places to get food, actually), it's catchy as hell and a cool blend of pleasantly cheerful and wistful:

"Diner" by Martin Sexton

Nice. Thanks for posting!

In Foodie quotations for all occasions, eatchicago wrote:My children are currently very fond of this poem by Jack Prelutsky, and so am I:

Bleezer's Ice Cream

I am Ebenezer Bleezer,
I run BLEEZER'S ICE CREAM STORE,
there are flavors in my freezer
you have never seen before,

That reminds that a couple of artists have set this to music:

From 2005, Wax Banks.

A recently released version from Natalie Marchant.

Banks' is a rough draft and lacks polish compared with Marchant's jazzy professional recording, but I think his tune fits the words better.

More ice cream:

Not about food exactly, rather Wu-Tang's St. Ide's spot is probably one of the greatest booze related radio jingles ever recorded. 40oz of high gravity liquor never sounded so good.

This GOOD post from last year, posted to Twitter yesterday, made me think of this thread.

"Your Love is Like Bad Venison"

I had never heard of mondegreens (or eggcorns for that matter). I also like how the terms for these literary phenomena sound like comestibles. The emphases below are mine. Make any music food music! In my experience, love can, indeed, more closely resemble bad venison than bad medicine.

...Then there are eggcorns, which are misspellings based on logic, such as writing the Yiddish tuchas as tuckass or moot point as mute point.
...
Eggcorns are a newly identified type of misunderstanding, but a goof doesn’t have to be new and shiny to be awesome and hilarious. The mondegreen is sort of like an eggcorn, but it involves a misunderstanding of song lyrics, and there’s no logic required.
...
Indeed, part of what makes mondegreen-collecting so rewarding is that the “wrong” lyrics so often sound so very, very right. The fraked-up collaboration between poor enunciation and worse hearing results in a type of poetry that, unlike so many lyrics themselves, is unpretentious and fresh.

Light Opera Works is doing a terrific version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel" through Aug. 28. It contains one of the best seafood songs ever written, "That was a Real Nice Clambake," with its full list of the edibles served and how to eat them, too.

I can't find a professional recording online, but this version done by an unknown theater company isn't bad:



Light Opera Works' is better, though. See it if you can.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, since it's still the appropriate weekend how about Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie.

There's Junk Food Junkie by Larry Groce. I kind of associate this with the second city liver song. They had a bicarbonate of soda song with them on the midnight special a few years back.

Public School and American Drink have put out a compilation of drink(ing)-related songs, free to download.

My favorite song about drinking is Nirvana's cover of Tad's alcohol, a rare gem, available only on bootlegs before the days of YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t7rtvoWVZ4

Well as long as we're offering our own boozy tunes, The Replacements' Beer for Breakfast is a favorite of mine

Really enjoyed listening to that mix happy_stomach, thanks for posting it

Habibi wrote:My favorite song about drinking is Nirvana's cover of Tad's alcohol, a rare gem, available only on bootlegs before the days of YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t7rtvoWVZ4

Himself: "What are you watching?"
Me: "Nirvana."
Himself: "What?"
Me: "Nirvana. They're a band."
Himself: "They don't sound like a band...."

Red Beans-Marcia Ball

Mama's Cooking-Marcia Ball

Chicken N' Dumplings-either Art Blakey or Kermit Ruffins

Red Beans and Rice-Horace Silver

Dive In the Gumbo-Anders Osborne & Big Chief Monk Boudreaux

Panini-Steve Wilkerson

Headed Out to Vera's-John Pizzarelli

Chicken,Gravy & Biscuits-Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials

Fried Neckbones-Willie Bobo

Cookin' At the Continental-Horace Silver

The Last Meal-Johnny Nicholas

A long time favorite:

Brown Rice by Don Cherry

bean wrote:A long time favorite:

Brown Rice by Don Cherry

Far out.

I can't believe nobody's posted this yet.





Yes, I sing this whenever I cook.

"The Gefilte Fish Song" from "Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad."

I hope some of you caught the new Simpsons episode this past Sunday evening, "Food Wife." Marge, Bart, and Lisa end up at an Ethiopian restaurant when Marge's car breaks down. Marge asks to order the "weirdest thing on the menu" (Lisa helpfully says, "she means the most authentic"), and they are served something from the untranslated menu. The foodies who come in (love their characterization) are jealous, and thus begins the "Three Mouthkateers," Marge and the 2 kids' food blog. There's a wonderful rap song included, which you can see and hear in the clip. And here are most of the lyrics from -- what else? -- a food blog, albeit one in a Palm Beach newspaper.

I'm throwing down mad foodie game, knowing all the chefs' names
Rolling into K-Town for beepin' boppin' bulgogi
The hotties I chill with are sriracha and kimchee
Housemade terrines, my ducks are always confit
I braise with a billion more BTUs than I need
I cook a Thanksgiving turkey in a trash-bag, sous vide
Afumatoare in Brindisi Fed-Exes me salami
Don't scoop me gelato unless it's got umami
I'll be "Frank" like Bruni, "Ruthless" like Reichl "Wiley" like Dufresne, and when I take the mike, I'll Rhyme about radicchio, criticize Colicchio
Every pub is gastro, and all my beef carpaccio

Guest voices in the episode (not the song) include Tony Bourdain, Mario Batali, and Gordon Ramsay...

There's a more in-depth discussion of all the in-jokes (for those in need of same) at Eater.