h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

OK, once again, it's time to distract me with a fun list of song titles / band names. The subject this time is food. So post any songs with foods in the titles, or by bands with food names.

Here are some to start us off:

Beef Baloney- Fear
Der Weinerschnitzel- Descendents
Green Onions- Booker T & the M.G.s
Strange Fruit- Billie Holliday
Cinnamon Girl- Neil Young
Muffin Man- Frank Zappa
Just Like Honey- The Jesus and Mary Chain
Filet of Sole- Deak Milkmen
Soup Is Good Food- Dead Kennedys
Mars Bars- Undertones
Cheeseburger- Gang of Four
Ice Cream for Crow- Captain Beefheart
Taco Wagon- Young Fresh Fellows
Cheese Plug- Scratch Acid
Heinz Baked Beans- The Who
Hot Potatoes- The Kinks
Hot Sauce- Thomas Dolby
Eggs and Sausage- Tom Waits
Egg Cream- Lou Reed
Quiche Lorraine- B-52s
Mayonnaise- Smashing Pumpkins
Buttermilk Biscuits- Sir Mix-A-Lot
Egg Man- Beastie Boys
Jambalaya- Hank Williams
Sukiyaki- Kyu Sakamoto
Chicken- The Cramps
Do Fries Come With that Shake?- George Clinton
White Castle Blues- Smithereens
Black Coffee- Black Flag
Fruit Nut- XTC
Guava Jelly- Bob Marley
Tupelo Honey- Van Morrison
Jumbo Malt- Skatalites

And of course, from South Park, Chef's "Chocolate Salty Balls"

I know there are lots of songs which reference food in the lyrics, but let's stick to titles and names.

Dear god, my head is blank! Quick, what do I do?

I don't even know where I've left it so can't begin to look.

Oh thank bod, I can at least think of obvious ones..

Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones (you wanna explain to me it's not about brown sugar??)
Coffee & Cigarettes - Blur

Sweet like Chocolate - Phats and Smalls
The Honeyz (short-lived UK R&B band)
Honey to the B - Rose Tyler... I mean Billie Piper
Champagne Supernova - Oasis
Fast Food Song - Fast Food Rockers
Hard Candy - Madonna
Pop - N'Sync
Just Like a Pill - Pink

I'm sure I'll be back with more

I can't raid the CD collection to find songs - they're all in boxes. And I can't think of anything offhand. Goodness how frustrating...

Poor Ivan! I'd be annoyed.

I did mine off the top of my head, since I didn't have my mp3 player with me, but then again, I spent a few hours tapping my brain and jotting them down before posting.

I'll leave this one going for a while though.

Oh good. I'll have a go sometime next week once I've unpacked.

With a lil' help from iTunes...

Wonder Milky Bitch - Air
Caramel Prisoner - Air (I know, I know Adjectives, right?)
Strawberry Swing - Coldplay
Syrup & Honey - Duffy
Melon - Home Video
Ball & Biscuit - White Stripes


Near misses: Buffalo Soldier and Jamming, by Bob Marley and some other particularly carnivorous sounding things.

Wild Honeypie; Honeypie; Savoy Truffle- the Beatles, all from the White album, and a cover from the same album:
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da- Marmalade
Lady Marmalade- LaBelle
Anything by The Jam
Bluberry Hill- Fats Domino

(Probably UKcentric) Vindaloo- Fat Les

And, more confectionary than food, Life on Mars- David Bowie

Not to forget Strawberry Fields Forever

I'd like to forget it if I could. Along with all Beatles tunes.

Imagine there's no Lennon, It's easy if you try...

Must think of more for this. You guys have some good stuff here (except for the Beatles ). Keep 'em coming.

Does Alice's Restaurant count?

Sure, why not? I'll "allow" anything that references food. So bands like Eater could be included, "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega counts, etc.

But I'm not quite looking to stretch it to songs that have references in the lyrics as opposed to the title. I have to draw a line somewhere or this list will get unwieldy.

Good thing I happen to need the laptop in the office with me at the moment

A Kegga Beer and Potato Chips - Red Elvises
American Pie - Don McLean
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
Champagne from a Paper Cup - Death Cab for Cutie
Jazz Delicious Hot Disgusting Cold - Bonzo Dog Band
Spoonboy - Ashley MacIsaac
Turkey Chase - Bob Dylan (from Billy the Kid)
Laughing Apple - Cat Stevens
Lemon Tree - Fool's Garden
Sake in the Jar - The Chieftains
Half A Guava - 7 Seconds of Love
Grapevine Fires - Death Cab for Cutie
Grampa Benny's Chicken Market - Extreme Klezmer Makeover
Smoke & Strong Whiskey - Christy Moore
Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
Wine In - Nigun Out - Giora Feidmann
Fied Neckbone And Some Home fries - Santana
Second Cup of Coffee - Gordon Lightfoot
Das Bier in dieser Kneipe - Hannes Wader
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Champagne and Quail - Mancini Pops Orchestra
Cholesterol - The McCalmans
Spam Song - Monty Python
Tutti Frutti - Little Richard
Wytches' Brew - Omnia
Schwefelhoelzer, Fenchel, Bricken - Ougenweide
Bitter Honey - Khartoum Heroes
200 Flying Cheese - Red Elvises
Coconut Grove - Carlos Santana
Avocado Green - Johnny Winter

And since you're trying to forget, I won't mention Mean Mr. Mustard or Sgt. Pepper

Well, you had to mention that godawful "American Pie". That's worse than all the Beatles crap put together.

"Fried Neckbone and Some Home Fries" in an awesome song title. I'm not a huge Santana fan but I am totally checking that out.

I thought it'd make you feel all patriotic

I'm currently eating green peppers and hummous. Wonder whether I should write a song about it.

30 Seconds to Mars.

Hummus and green pepper... yum! I'd listen to that.

And although I grew up exactly a mile west of the M&M-Mars Corporate headquarters and factory, I have never had a Mars bar.

Need to think of more for this list...

Can't remember if Lemon Jelly was a song or a band and wasn't there Captain Beefheart? Sounds disgusting and I'm not even a vegetarian Although Weird Al would tell us to 'Just Eat It'.

Some drink songs:
Lilac Wine- too many artists to list
Milkshake- Kellis
Milk and Alcohol- Dr Feelgood
Mindless Boogie- Hot Chocolate

And come on, PC, you must appreciate Lennon's sentiment to give peas a chance!

P.S. I can't believe no one has mentioned Meatloaf!