Continuing with our Friday theme lists, here are ten songs about food:
1. Pico de Gallo – Trout Fishing in America
2. Watermelon Time – Marcia Ball
3. Col. Josh’s Homestyle Barbecue – Asylum Street Spankers
4. Taco Bell Canon – Lager Rhythms
5. Tastes Like Chicken – Austin Lounge Lizards
6. Too Much Barbecue – Big Twist & the Mellow Fellows
7. Potato – Cheryl Wheeler
8. Oreos – Tufts Beelzebubs
9. Corndogs – The Bobs
10. Grapefruit Diet – Weird Al Yankovic
Seems like it’s hard to write a food-themed song that’s not a parody or novelty of some kind; only numbers 2 and 3, and maybe 6, fall outside that realm. I’m not sure why that is, but there you have it. What are you hungry for this week?
Apples and Oranges — Pink Floyd
Bubble Gum – Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot
Chiclete com Banana [Gum and Banana] – Jackson do Pandeiro (also a great version by Gilberto Gil)
Cool Drink of Water – Gun Club
Custard Pie – Led Zeppelin
Hot Burrito #1 – The Flying Burrito Brothers
Hot Burrito #2 – The Flying Burrito Brothers
Hot Dog – Led Zeppelin
House of Blue Lights – Asleep at the Wheel (about a barbeque joint and its food)
The Lemon Song – Led Zeppelin
Milk – Judy’s
Mushroom – Can
etc…
Homegrown Tomatoes – Guy Clark
My eyes are getting too old to scan 3,600 songs for recognizable food words. Have you got some fancy algorithm that searches for them? 😉
No fancy algorithm, though I suppose a compulsive song-tagger could simply do a search. For a lot of these theme posts, I start off knowing about half the songs I’m going to include before I look in iTunes. After that, it’s just an exercise in scrolling and eyeballing.
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