Selection #12: Musical Meals

This month, our theme was provided by another Selective Service draftee: my lovely, talented, and patient wife Alexis. And away she goes:

The wonderful thing about music is that it can be so filling in so many ways: songs can make you smile, make you cry, bring you comfort, or even make you a bit randy. I like to think of music’s dynamism like a meal — allow me to parallel its’ power to a recent Ruth’s Chris dining experience: A fruity drink beforehand to get the juices flowing; warm buns with creamy butter to comfort you and set your tummy’s table; followed by the highly-anticipated, succulent, chunk of beefy goodness that melts in your mouth (STEAK) paired with good-for-you asparagus and broccoli, which defer the indulgent guilt until you top off the tantalizing experience with the perfect, creamy crème brûlée.

My challenge to the boys is to come up with a stream of hits that can encapsulate a dining experience similar to the one above or to a meal one would have in a dingy, delicious dive in Brooklyn — your choice.

So, being the good husband and, by extension, attentive listener that I am, when she told me the idea for the playlists, I only heard “food” and ran off to tell Matt & Rudi all about it. By the time we were done hashing out ideas, our interpretation had morphed into “More Songs about Buildings and Food, Minus the Buildings”: our playlists are loaded with songs about food, featuring food, or by bands named after food, all forming loose, delicious menus. Hope you enjoy the tasty results…

• Uncle Sam’s “Fondue is good, and it puts you in a good mood”
• Onkel Rudi’s “The Food Pyramid”
• U.N.K.L.E. Matt’s “Edible Arrangements”