Carrot on a stick

February 3, 2009 7:18 PM

I'm trying to track down a song I remember hearing on the local college station about 10 years ago (WDBM in East Lansing, MI). I think some of the lyrics were along the lines of "Consider / all the carrots you've been fed / and now they're your ______ ______ / And consider"....etc. I'm 95% sure it was a guy singing, and I think the song had something to do with being led through life by "carrots" of dubious merit. Google hasn't yielded the answer - thanks!
posted by splendid animal to media & arts (16 comments total)

Pavement - Carrot Rope?
posted by polyester.lumberjack at 7:50 PM on February 3, 2009

Nope, that's not it...thanks, though.
posted by splendid animal at 8:01 PM on February 3, 2009

My first thought was Carrot Juice Is Murder, a song I liked as a kid, by a Canadian band called the Arrogant Worms, but I guess you're after a more abstract carrot-related song. Still, y'know, maybe there's a carrot mix tape in here somewhere.
posted by ITheCosmos at 8:31 PM on February 3, 2009

There seems to be a song called "Carrot on a String" by a psychedelic band called the Mystery Trend, I am looking for clips or lyrics.
posted by ITheCosmos at 8:35 PM on February 3, 2009

"Carrots", plural, on a string, sorry.
posted by ITheCosmos at 8:37 PM on February 3, 2009

heres a sample of carrots on a string.....
posted by keep it tight at 8:43 PM on February 3, 2009

It's definitely not "Carrot Juice is Murder," and it's also not the Mystery Trend song ("Carrots on a String"). The Pavement song sounded somewhat similar to the song I'm looking for, though that one is assuredly not it either.

The idea for a carrot mixtape is awesome.
posted by splendid animal at 8:56 PM on February 3, 2009

If this is becoming a carrot mixtape then it must include King of Carrot Flowers 1 , 2 & 3
posted by holdkris99 at 2:01 AM on February 4, 2009

I am assuming the song you are looking for is not King of Carrot Flowers, the lyrics you mention don't fit, but the cadence does.
posted by holdkris99 at 2:19 AM on February 4, 2009

Thanks for the additional carrot song, but nope, those aren't it either (King of Carrot Flowers 1, King of Carrot Flowers 2&3).
posted by splendid animal at 3:12 AM on February 4, 2009

Not an answer to your original question, but if you are looking for carrot related songs to fill out a carrot mixtape, there's Tool's Disgustipated, a song in defense of carrots, with the awesome line "Let the rabbits wear glasses!"
posted by El_Marto at 5:45 AM on February 4, 2009

Hanson's You Never Know is about 9 years old and, although the song's lyrics don't mention carrots, it does have the similar lyrics "Could they be lies that maybe you've been fed/ Consider well the kind of stream where you've been fishing."

On the other hand, Hanson has never really been hip enough for college radio, so this may not be it.
posted by Locative at 7:06 AM on February 4, 2009

It's not the Hanson song. The song I remember had a kind of spare instrumentation - it wasn't anything that had a blatantly "rock" feel to it.
posted by splendid animal at 7:21 AM on February 4, 2009

Any chance it was a Wally Pleasant song?
posted by kc8nod at 12:22 PM on February 4, 2009

Certainly not the song you're looking for, and I don't think it ever mentions carrots, but if you are making that mix tape you might want "Why Don't You Eat Carrots" by Faust, for completeness' sake.

There was also a bubblegum band called Carrot Tree whose songs you could include if you still had room left on the tape.
posted by bink at 1:05 PM on February 4, 2009

Nope, not Wally Pleasant - I'm pretty familiar with most of his stuff so I can say for certain that it wasn't his song. BUT, this definitely was around the time that WDBM played him fairly often (mid to late 1990s). I wish I could find someone who worked there around then; maybe they'd remember???
posted by splendid animal at 7:37 PM on February 4, 2009