Sending our clawed little crustaceans off in style...

September 12, 2009 8:35 AM

Suggestions on funny/clever/good songs to use when compiling a soundtrack for a lobster boil?

I have no idea what started it, but my friends and I are going to be boiling up some tasty lobster tonight, and I want to have a good soundtrack to go along with it.

So far, I have the obvious Rock Lobster by the B-52s, and the following others (some a bit silly, some a bit morbid):
1) Killing Me Softly by Roberta Flack
2) Splish Splash by Bobby Darin

Any other ideas?

Thanks!

posted by Ham_On_Rye to food & drink (29 comments total)

Its Gettin' Hot in Herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre - by Nelly
Slip Slidin' Away - Paul Simon
Octopus's Garden- beatles
Spongebob themesong?
posted by ian1977 at 8:47 AM on September 12 [1 favorite]

Down by the Bay

Heat Wave

Second Nelly, Hot In Here

The Cure, Hot Hot Hot

Little Mermaid, Under the Sea
posted by ramenopres at 8:48 AM on September 12

Mama I'm Coming Home - Ozzy Osbourne
posted by ian1977 at 8:49 AM on September 12

AWEsome suggestions! Thanks! I think I may do every single one of those.
posted by Ham_On_Rye at 8:56 AM on September 12

Ooh! Apparently there is a song about lobsters that rugby players sing (?)

Some highlights:

Fisherman fisherman
home from the sea
have you got a lobster
you can sell to me?

Chorus:
Singing aye-tiddly aye,
S**t or bust,
Never let your b*****ks dangle in the dust

So I took the lobster home
and I couldn't find a dish
so I put it in the place
where the missus has a piss

In the middle of the night
as you well know,
the missus she got up
to let the waters flow

So the missus grabbed a brush
and then I grabbed a broom
and we chased the f***ing lobster
all around the room

Well we hit it on the head
and we beat it on the side
and we hit the f***ing lobster
until the b*****d died
posted by ian1977 at 8:59 AM on September 12 [1 favorite]

ring of fire - everybody
(hunka hunka) burnin' love - elvis
rock lobster - b-52s
while my heart is still beating - roxy music
who by fire - leonard cohen
cold water - tom waits
posted by mr. remy at 9:02 AM on September 12

ian1977,
Excellent -- was able to locate that on iTunes as sung by "The Fish Brothers".
posted by Ham_On_Rye at 9:03 AM on September 12

Nifty Ham_On_Rye!

Speaking of Fish....

Fish Heads by....umm, the dudes who sing Fish Heads

and speaking of Roxy Music...

Baby's On Fire by Brian Eno
(baby's on fire, better throw in her in the water)
posted by ian1977 at 9:09 AM on September 12

The Human League - Being Boiled
posted by dirm at 9:22 AM on September 12 [1 favorite]

You can go with general ocean-going songs as well:

"Son of a Son of a Sailor" by Jimmy Buffet (a bit more mellow)
"Fisherman's Blues" by the Waterboys
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 9:42 AM on September 12

Under Pressure and Another One Bites the Dust – Queen
Hot Hot Hot – Buster Poindexter (same title as the Cure, but a different song)
posted by jamaro at 9:50 AM on September 12

Why would you have anything but Rock Lobster playing on repeat?
posted by Think_Long at 9:56 AM on September 12

ooops, scratch that - didnt catch your last statement. but really, you don't need anything else.
posted by Think_Long at 9:57 AM on September 12 [1 favorite]

Ian1977 -- can't believe I didn't think of the Brian Eno song. Kudos on that one.

Empress Callip -- ditto on The Waterboys

Jamaro -- triplo on Under Pressure.

Thanks to you all!
posted by Ham_On_Rye at 9:59 AM on September 12

I'd suggest a different song from Little Mermaid Les Poissons.
posted by jalexc at 10:08 AM on September 12 [1 favorite]

Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water
Monster of Love by Sparks
Pinkard and Bowden's I Lobster and Never Flounder
The Beatles' Octopus's Garden
posted by EnsignLunchmeat at 10:11 AM on September 12

You could play the album The Mollusk from Ween. Now with bonus brickmation!
posted by boba at 10:30 AM on September 12

A bit of a stretch but: Violent Femmes' "Blister In The Sun". When somebody has a sunburn, they're often said to resemble a lobster...? That's really the first thing I thought of.

Jimi Hendrix's "Fire"
Missy Elliot's "I'm Really Hot"
They Might Be Giants's "Catching On Fire"
Louis Armstrong's "Kiss of Fire"
Glenn Frey's "The Heat Is On"
Bubba Sparxxx's "Heat It Up"
posted by knile at 10:35 AM on September 12

These are all COMPLETELY different from anything I would have suggested as someone with Maritimers in the family. Cape Breton fiddle music, Newfoundland drinking songs. My Nova Scotian brother-in-law is saying ''Paddy Murphy!". Fiddler's Green has some crazy interpretations of trasitional Irish folk songs that are along the lines of what I'm trying to describe.

Sounds like awesome fun, enjoy your boil.
posted by variella at 10:36 AM on September 12

trasitional -> traditional. Although I'll claim it's a new word describing their music as a transient form linking the past and present.
posted by variella at 10:37 AM on September 12

Oh man, this is so great. I'm doing a lobsterfest next month and totally stealing this idea!

If you want to get sick about it, I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles.

Hold Tight (I want some seafood mama) - here's a fun Muppets version
(I have great versions by Sidney Bechet and Fats Waller I can send you)

Pressure Cooker.

Pot's On, Gas on High, John Lee Hooker

There are a million great versions of Too Darn Hot - here's a newer one

Tab Benoit's Crawfishin'

And of course,

Supper's Ready
posted by CunningLinguist at 10:38 AM on September 12

Oh and Beyond the Sea!
posted by CunningLinguist at 10:41 AM on September 12

Elvis - Crawfish from King Creole?
posted by peagood at 11:10 AM on September 12

And, since I'm on the Elvis movie roll - Ito Eats?
posted by peagood at 12:14 PM on September 12

Too Hot by Kool & The Gang
Timbaland & Jay-Z's Lobster and Shrimp
posted by EnsignLunchmeat at 2:01 PM on September 12

Pisco Bandito - Moxy Fruvous
posted by ilana at 2:05 PM on September 12

Fish Heads was Barnes and Barnes, if I recall correctly.

I still have the fish shaped vinyl somewhere.
posted by flabdablet at 6:58 PM on September 12

Ah, yes. Here we are.

The intarwebtubes are a marvelous thing.
posted by flabdablet at 7:03 PM on September 12

So how did it go?




For posterity, I'm adding Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) to my list because we'll have steamers and mussels too. Love this idea!
posted by CunningLinguist at 1:30 PM on September 13