Welcome to this week’s edition of Friday Playlist where members of the Times-Tribune staff submit their music picks based on a theme.
This week's theme is Food Songs.
Enjoy:
Nick Lowe's Last Chicken in the Shop - Let's Eat
John Cole
"I wanna move move move move move my teeth."
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five - Struttin' with some Barbecue
John Cole
Satchmo's 1927 recording of this standard is a jazz landmark, and likely has nothing to do with "food," per se.
Descendents - I Like Food
Ted Baird
"I'm going to turn dining back into eating"
mewithoutYou - The Dryness and the Rain
Jon O'Connell
mewithoutYou recently announced a 2020 farewell tour, so I'm feeling nostalgic. A lot of their songs mention food, and it appears throughout this one in the form of trampled pumpkins and and crushed grain for bread, which all seems appropriate for the upcoming holiday. Surely, I'll be eating pumpkin pie and too much bread in a couple days.
King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew
John Cole
"Now I need a pound of fatback drums ..."
Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)
Ed Pikulski
One of their many great songs--and it mentions mussels!
Beck - Steve Threw up
Ted Baird
and a side order of: !@$#$%!!!&!!!@@@**!
Rockpile - Knife and Fork
Jim Haggerty
This most un-PC tune from the rockabilly band fronted nearly four decades ago by Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds is a howler, even though it insults overweight women. It's also lip-synched and ripped from a British TV program, but the objectionable lyrics are uproarious.
Beat Happening - Indian Summer
Ted Baird
A lot of good food mentions in this one
Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band - Jambalaya
Pat McKenna
Love Jambalaya and the song; don't forget the crawfish pie....
Gov't Mule - Goin Out West
Chad Sebring
I think this is actually a Tom Waits song and not a Mule but it's a great one.
Doja Cat - Juicy featuring Tyga
Gia Mazur
This isn't a food song per se BUT it does mention lunch and the video is loaded with food visuals. Doja is SO fun and takes an approach to fashion and videos in the kind of weird, outrageous way that we haven't seen in a while. This song also is a straight BOP and makes it feel like a hot, sticky summer day in the middle of NEPA's seemingly never-ending winter.
The Beatles - Savoy Truffle
Jim Lockwood
Always loved this George Harrison song on The White Album; the horns; the stabbing distortion guitar to me mimics what must be excruciating pain of getting bad teeth yanked, necessitated by gorging on sweets and presumably lax dental hygiene; more broadly, I take this song as a warning from George the spiritual Beatle about excesses, that what's so sweet turns sour.