The Orion Online

Issue date: 9/3/08 Section: Entertainment

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Good food and good music typically go hand in hand. You can rarely go to a concert or festival without being intoxicated by the smells of garlic fries or juicy hot dogs.

Even restaurants such as Monstros Pizza make sure to support the music scene by holding rock shows regularly in their small venues. This got me wondering how many food-inspired band names were created on an empty stomach.

Sweet treats

British reggae group Hot Chocolate entered the music scene covering songs by The Beatles. The band made one-hit-wonder history with "You Sexy Thing" in 1975. After a cup of creamy hot chocolate, I too, believe in miracles.

Hot Chocolate - You sexy thing 1975

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An alt-rock band from my hometown of Sacramento, CAKE, tasted sweet success with 2001's "Short Skirt/Long Jacket." The band will leave a tasty trail of crumbs in fall while on tour in Canada.

Rob Van Winkle, aka Vanilla Ice, was the first white rapper to get jiggy, with his 1990 hit, "Ice Ice Baby." If you were alive in the 1990s and you don't know all the lyrics to this song, then word to your mother.

Ice Ice Baby

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Fresh produce

Since 1983, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have been spicing up funk-rock music. Known for wild stage antics and highly publicized past drug addictions, the band expects to be back in the studios in September to satisfy our aural taste buds.

Booty-shaking hip-hoppers the Black Eyed Peas helped introduce the world to the most glamorous part of a woman's body, her humps. Sexy songstress Fergie made sure everyone knew she was sporting some "lovely lady lumps."

Peaches and cream

The 41-year-old Canadian electronica artist Peaches has always pushed the boundaries of censorship with her sexualized songs. Her 2003 album, "Fatherfucker," featured rock legend Iggy Pop and explored topics such as necrophilia and bisexuality.

The male-female duo Peaches and Herb struck disco gold in 1979 with "Shake Your Groove Thing." Make sure you wait 30 minutes after eating before trying any hip thrusts to avoid stomach cramping.

Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb

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To these bands with edible names, the sound of growling stomachs makes sweet music.

Kenna can be reached at
entertainmenteditor@theorion.com

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