Let's Eat!

Music for Compulsive Nibblers

(a mixtape from the '90s)







The other day, in between scoops of Breyer's Dulce de Leche and Almond Butter ice cream with fistful chasers of Skinny Pop popcorn, my omnivorous girlfriend Amy quipped, "Hey, I (mmmmmgrrr) wanna make a (mmmmmslllrrgggr) food-themed mixed tape (smack smack, slurp slurp). Where should I start?" That got me digging out my theme mixtapes from the '80s and '90s - way back before iTunes and CDs made finding, recording, and distributing songs so much easier; before downloads and file sharing, I had to rely on my own personal record collection (yes, every song listed below is from vinyl). Here's the print version of my "Let's Eat!" tape (recorded on a Maxwell UDII 90-minute cassette tape and taking its title from the Nick Lowe Live Stiffs LP song); please feel free to add to and update it! (It is, after all, rather dated - note how I didn't even have Weird Al's "My Bologna" or anything by Southern Culture on the Skids like "Banana Pudding" or "8 Piece Box.")





Amy sez: "Let's eat!"





Amy found her Cheeseburger in Paradise - and Super-sized it!



Side A

Beatles - Savoy Truffle

Collins Kids - Shortnin' Bread

Louis Jordan - Beans & Cornbread

Louis Jordan - Boogie Woogie Blue Plate

Wird Al Yankovic - Girls Just Wanna Have Lunch

John Mellencamp - Hot Dogs & Hamburgers

Nat King Cole - Frim Fram Sauce

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Home Cooking

Tom Waits - Eggs & Sausage

Nick Lowe - Let's Eat!

Undertones - Mars Bar

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Farmer's Market

R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders - Get a Load of This

David Soul - Black Bean Soup

Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Call Any Vegetable



Side B

Andrew Sisters - Hold Tight (Seafood Mama)

Mounds/Almond Joy commercial

Earth Opera - Roast Beef Love

Oreos commercial

Cracker Jack commercial

NRBQ - Hot Biscuits & Sweet Marie

(Note: But how could I not also add NRBQ's "RC Cola and a Moon Pie"!)

Armour Hot Dogs commercial

Butterbeans & Susie - Hot Dog Man

I Love Bosco commercial

Chicquita Bananas commercial

Chordettes - Lollipop

Insiders - Love Like Candy

Ohio Express - Chewy, Chewy

Frank Zappa - St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast

Jimmy Buffet - Cheeseburger in Paradise

Frank Zappa & The Mothers - Muffin Man

Pink Floyd - Apples & Oranges

Steve Goodman - Chicken Cordon Blues

Jonathan Richman - Double Chocolate Malted

Jack Wild - Cotton Candy

Beds Are Burning - TckTckTck Campaign (time4climatejustice)

Taken from Wikipedia...

On October 2 2009, 60 musicians and celebrities from around the world released a free reworked version to highlight climate change issues ahead of the United Nation's talks in Copenhagen. Singers included Lily Allen, Simon Le Bon from the '80s group Duran Duran and Bob Geldof. The former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and French actress Marion Cotillard also added their voices to the cover version. The song is part of Global Humanitarian Forum tck tck tck time for climate justice campaign and is a part of the greater "TckTckTck" project^[3], which aims to draw attention to the urgency of the global warming crisis, by signing a "musical petition" with each download.

It's for the Earth is for our land........! Let's sing it out loud! keep on shining Love and Peace!

Simona...

Do you like music? ... What about James Blunt? He's one of my fav! I couldn't resist to add the lyrics to this video... So, everybody... Let's all sing.


Find more
videos like this on International Collaboration

About the singer..

James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount, February 221974) is a British singer-songwriter whose debut album, Back to Bedlam, and single releases — especially the number one hit "You're Beautiful" — brought him to fame in 2005. His style is a mix of pop, folk and acoustic rock. Along with vocals, James Blunt plays a wide variety of instruments including the piano, guitar, organ, marimba and mellotron. His song "You're Beautiful" reached number one on the Billboard Hot
100 in 2006.

Here we go again..... The first single from All The Lost Souls is called "1973" and was inspired by Blunt's nights out in a club called Pacha, in Ibiza. The song became another hit for Blunt reaching number-one in seven countries and reach the top
in the European overall chart. It reached top 10 in twenty-nine countries.

Thanks so much James for so beautiful music....

Source: Answers.com
video: International Collaboration

Edward's Free hugs video!

Well, this is what our partner Edward Garcia put together in a wonderful video. The music is great, too. I loved it. Please, visit Edward-s blog and leave a comment on his great video!

You can visit his blog here: http://angraxedward.blogspot.com/2007/11/free-hugs_1218.html

Free hugs at urbe Edward garcia
Uploaded by doris3m

"Will You Be There"

Hold Me
Like The River Jordan
And I Will Then Say To Thee
You Are My Friend

Carry Me
Like You Are My Brother
Love Me Like A Mother
Will You Be There?

Weary
Tell Me Will You Hold Me
When Wrong, Will You Skold Me
When Lost Will You Find Me?

But They Told Me
A Man Should Be Faithful
And Walk When Not Able
And Fight Till The End
But I'm Only Human

Everyone's Taking Control Of Me
Seems That The World's
Got A Role For Me
I'm So Confused
Will You Show To Me
You'll Be There For Me
And Care Enough To Bear Me

Hold Me
Lay Your Head Lowly
Softly Then Boldly
Carry Me There

Lead Me
Love Me And Feed Me
Kiss Me And Free Me
I Will Feel Blessed

Carry
Carry Me Boldly
Lift Me Up Slowly
Carry Me There

Save Me
Heal Me And Bathe Me
Softly You Say To Me
I Will Be There

Lift Me
Lift Me Up Slowly
Carry Me Boldly
Show Me You Care

Hold Me
Lay Your Head Lowly
Softly Then Boldly
Carry Me There

Need Me
Love Me And Feed Me
Kiss Me And Free Me
I Will Feel Blessed

[Spoken]
In Our Darkest Hour
In My Deepest Despair
Will You Still Care?
Will You Be There?
In My Trials
And My Tripulations
Through Our Doubts
And Frustrations
In My Violence
In My Turbulence
Through My Fear
And My Confessions
In My Anguish And My Pain
Through My Joy And My Sorrow
In The Promise Of Another Tomorrow
I'll Never Let You Part
For You're Always In My Heart.

Do the Salmon Dance!

The Chemical Brothers - The Salmon Dance Lyrics

Hello Boys and girls, my name is FatLip
and this is my friend Sammy the Salmon

Today, we’re going to teach you some fun facts about Salmon,
And a brand new dance.


Let me introduce to you a brand new dance
I know you’re gonna love it if you give it one chance
It’s not complicated, it’s not too hard
You don’t even have to be a hip hop star

See anyone can do it, all you need is style
Listen up peep gang (?) I’m a show you how
Put your hands to the side, as silly AS SILLY AS IT SEEMs
And shake your body like a salmon floatin’ up stream!

I’ll float up stream
(you know how we do it, you know how we do it)
Again

*All my peeps spend part of their life in fresh water*
*And part of their life in salt water*

Wow, very interesting

*We change round a couple of days after spawning*
*Then we DIE* (?)

When I first did the Salmon all the people just laughed
They looked around and stood like I was on c****
I heard somebody say out loud what the f*** is that
This n***’s dancin like a fish while he’s doin’ the snap

But the more I kept doing it the more they kept feelin’ it
Tnd then I heard some b**** say yo that n**** killin’ it
By the end of the night everyone was on my team
And the whole club was dancing like a salmon floatin’ up stream!

I’ll float up stream
(you know how we do it, you know how we do it)
again.

*Most of our friends find their home waters by their sense of smell*
*which is even more keen than that of a dog or a bear*

Wow.

*My family also rely on ocean currents, tides*
*The gravitational pull of the moon*

The moon? Fish pay attention to the moon? Wow.

*Did you know?*

What?

*That I could go to Japan, and back.*

You’re kidding me. Amazing. Jeez.

*Polluted water can kill both baby salmon, that are developing*
*and the adult salmon, that are on their way to spawn.*

Wow what a shame, what a shame
Huh?
Woah.
Wow. Hey kids, hey give it up for Sammy the Salmon and his amazing salmon dance.
Huh? Whadda ya say?
Who’s Hungry?

Good Bye, Maestro!

This week we lost a great human being... Luciano Pavarotti... I found this in answers.com but belongs to wikipedia:

Luciano Pavarotti (October 12, 1935 – September 6, 2007) was an Italian tenor and one of the most popular contemporary vocal performers in the world of opera and across multiple musical genres. Known for his televised concerts, media appearances, and as one of the Three Tenors, Pavarotti was also noted for his award-winning charity work for raising money on behalf of refugees and the Red Cross.

Pavarotti annually hosted the "Pavarotti and Friends" charity concerts in his home town of Modena in Italy, joining with singers from all parts of the music industry to raise money for several UN causes. Concerts were held for War Child, and victims of war and civil unrest in Bosnia, Guatemala, Kosovo and Iraq. After the war in Bosnia, he financed and established the Pavarotti Music Center in the southern city of Mostar to offer Bosnia's artists the opportunity to develop their skills. For these contributions, the city of Sarajevo named him an honorary citizen in 2006.[17]

Pavarotti came to Venezuela and gave a concert to raise funds for wheel chairs for Children in Venezuela on March 07, 1989 in Valencia. In 2005, he came back again to raise money this time for the children of "National Network of Youth and Children Orchestras of Venezuela" Sistema Nacional de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela (FESNOJIV), directed by el Maestro José Antonio Abreu. The Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de Venezuela, directed by Leone Magiera also had the chance to perform with him and the Soprano Simona Todaro.

You can know more about the work of our Youth and Children Orchestra by watching the movie To play and to Fight.

To Play and To Fight is the captivating story of the Venezuelan Youth and Children’s Orchestra System, an incredible network of hundreds of orchestras formed within most of Venezuela’s towns and villages. Once a modest program designed to expose rural children to the wonders of music, ‘El Sistema’ has evolved into what has been called “one of the most important and beautiful social phenomena in modern history.”Close to half a million students have participated in the program, which was founded in 1975 by musician and former government minister Jose Antonio Abreu as a social program to improve the lives of the country's underprivileged youth.

As we can read he was a great singer and humanitarian person... We are going to miss you.. dear maestro!!! Here let's listen to La Donna e Mobile:




La donna è mobile
Qual piuma al vento,
Muta d'accento — e di pensiero.
Sempre un amabile,
Leggiadro viso,
In pianto o in riso, — è menzognero.

Refrain
La donna è mobile qual piuma al vento
Muta d'accento e di pensier!
e di pensier!
e di pensier!

È sempre misero
Chi a lei s'affida,
Chi le confida — mal cauto il cuore!
Pur mai non sentesi
Felice appieno
Chi su quel seno — non liba amore!

Refrain
La donna è mobile
qual piuma al vento,
Muta d'accento e di pensier!
e di pensier!
e di pensier!

Now The English version I found in Wikipedia:

Woman is flighty
Like a feather in the wind,
She changes her voice — and her mind.
Always sweet,
Pretty face,
In tears or in laughter, — she is always lying.

Refrain
Woman is flighty
Like a feather in the wind,
She changes the tone of her voice and her thoughts,
And her thoughts!
And her thoughts!

Always miserable
Is he who trusts her,
He who confides in her — his unwary heart!
Yet one never feels
Fully happy
Who on that bosom — does not drink love!

Refrain
Woman is flighty
Like a feather in the wind,
She changes the tone of her voice and her thoughts,
And her thoughts!
And her thoughts!

Now, How was that? Did you like it? What's your favorite Luciano's song?