Best track on "Cookin' - Music to Cook By" compiled by Jamie Oliver, released 2000

Prediction: gothtard lurkers will lead to a win for the Manics.

Scarlet Division was Joliver's own group, amirite?

Indeed. They were the band Magic Alex could have been.

I might have to sign up for the Gothtard massive.

I'm not nuts for "Motorcycle Emptiness" nowadays but it ain't up against much else on there. Especially cos you missed out the "Batter the Smug Cunt to Death with a Frozen Chicken" option.

wtf would you cook to Begging You?!

I pretty much always cook to jazz.

THE SONGS RATED IN ORDER OF THE LATE LOUIS JAGGER-NESS

Get Myself Arrested - Gomez
Trouble In The Message Centre - Blur
Underground - Sneaker Pimps
Celebrate Your Life - Beloved
Begging You - Stone Roses
Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers
There She Goes - The La's
My Beautiful Friend - The Charlatans
On The Ropes - The Wonder Stuff
This Is How It Feels - Inspiral Carpets
On Stand By - Shed Seven
Take It - Flowered Up
Loose Fit - Happy Mondays
Even After All - Finley Quaye
Right Here Right Now - Fatboy Slim
Blow Your Mind - Jamiroquai
Sundial - Scarlet Division
Dancing In The Moonlight - Toploader

this is hilar. is 'on stand by' by shed seven a hidden gem of a b-side? it does seem to be his choices because this is a pretty weird* selection.

*gomez! wonder stuff!

oic it was released in 2000. but then "ver stuff" was probably as unfashionable then as now.

Gentlemen, we have yet to analyse the cover photo.

Point A. Has he always been cross-eyed?

He seems to be going for a "gay Swiss exchange student on his first night to a Camden indie club" look in the cover.

He has possibly piled on more weight than me since 2000.

One of the top Google results for "on stand by shed 7" is some guy's DJ setlist:

Queen – Death on Two Legs
Cranberries – Free to Decide
Paul Weller – Peacock Suit
Cast – Walkaway
Shed 7 – On Stand By
Lush – 500 (Shake Baby Shake)
Sleeper – Sale of the Century
Kenickie – Punka
Joyrider – Rush Hour
Placebo – 36 Degrees
Boo Radleys – Whats in the Box
EMF – Children
Garbage – I Think I’m Paranoid
INXS – Need You Tonight
Suede – Animal Nitrate
Killers – Mr Brightside
Blur – Parklife
Faith No More – Epic
Breeders – Canonball
Carter USM – Only Living Boy in New Cross
U2 – Mysterious Ways
Skunk Anansie – Twisted
Mudhoney – Touch Me I’m Sick
Janes Addiction – Just Because
Terrorvision – Perseverance
Therapy? – Potato Junkie
Queens of the Stone Age – Feel Good Hit of the Summer
Foo Fighters – Hey! Johnny Park
Libertines – Can’t Stand Me Now
Jesus Jones – International Bright Young Thing
Stone Roses – Elephant Stone
Elastica – Connection
Primal Scream – Loaded
Stereo MCs – Connected
Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground
New Order – blue Monday
Happy Mondays – Step On
Oasis – Cigarettes and Alcohol
Inspiral Carpets – This Is How it Feels
Sleeper – Nice Guy Eddie
Pulp – Disco 2000
Kula Shaker – Govinda
Smiths – How Soon is Now?
Daisy Chainsaw – Love Your Money
Dead Kennedys – Too Drunk to Fuck
Whale – Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe
Killers – Somebody Told Me
Doves – Catch The Sun
James – Sit Down
Idlewild – When I Argue I See Shapes
KT Tunstall – Other Side of the World
Mansun – Wide Open Space
Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc
Kasabian – Club Foot
Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Hard Fi – Cash Machine
Cardigans – My Favourite Game
Neds Atomic Dustbin – Kill Your Television
Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Charlatans – One to Another
Boo Radleys – Wake up Boo
Pixies – Here Comes your Man
Nirvana – Blew
Stone Roses – Fools Gold
Ride – 0x4
Radiohead – Just
The Cure – Friday I’m in Love
Muse – Sunburn
The Kinks – You Really Got Me
Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Woman
Iggy Pop – Lust For Life
Blondie – Heart of Glass
Blur – Girls and Boys
Babylon Zoo – Spaceman

"I know modern pop, I got Jet, I got Libertines... who wanna test me?"

lol DJ at Guantanamo Bay

Loose Fit
Take It
Begging You
On Stand By
There She Goes

Wa-hey!

i googled the lyrics of 'on stand by' and i think i recognize it. if memory serves it was a bit of an indie plodder, would you believe.

awful facial hair

This is terrible music to cook by.

On Standby was one of the many, many, many singles from A Maximum High. Really not the best one.

But still better than e.g. "Stand By" by Roman Holliday.

"I-find-that-hard-to-be-lieve!"

<...>
8 Shed Seven Going For Gold Mar 1996
22 Shed Seven Bully Boy May 1996
12 Shed Seven On Standby Aug 1996
17 Shed Seven Chasing Rainbows Nov 1996
<...>

I remember the first and last here. But not the middle two.

Isn't the Sneaker Pimps tune called "6 Underground"?

No idea what Shed Seven sound like

You're missing out.

They sound like The Stone Roses if they'd got hit by a bus in early life.

"She left me on Friday" got called out for sounding like Blur.

'chasing rainbows' stuck around a bit for a song that only got to no. 17.

Loose Fit

Voted for "This Is How It Feels", that's a straight-up pre-Britpop banger.

What kind of cooking could one do to "This Is How It Feels", though?

not even the best inspiral carpets single off that album. otoh i dunno what to pick. not very APPETIZING amirite.

this is how it peels
goose fit
even afters all

should've been 'ocean pie' by shed seven

I voted for "6 Underground" because nobody else will.

I voted for "loose fit". That's a pretty ropey comp, even the good bands on it (not that there's many) are poorly represented by the tracks selected.

Whjat would be the worst track? Toploader? The Beloved?

i might.

xpost

The Sundial Division, I'd guess; not that I've ever knowingly heard it but I think it's a fairly safe bet.

About Shed Seven: I quite like "Dolphin" because it sounds a bit like Haircut 100 and because Bruno Brookes announced it on the Top 40 show as coming from the album "Change Jiver."

'chasing rainbows' stuck around a bit for a song that only got to no. 17.

"Love Me Do" to thread.

What kind of cooking could one do to "This Is How It Feels", though?

-- William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:39 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Good honest northern cooking you southern jessies wouldn't appreciate.

Ugh, what a predictably horrible comp. The winner is Fatboy Slim.

i voted 'there she goes' it is the only song i could even stomach. but... hell, i really like jamie, and i don't care that he likes shit music.

i mean probably as unfashionable then as now, but i somehow like that he still genuinely loves this dreck, or did then, quite genuinely. better than someone who would try to impress by choosing fashionable choices. i mean, can you imagine what nigella's cd would be like?

Gotan Project, Goldfrapp, Surfjan, Pink Martini

This is how it feels to be Burnley
This is how it feels to be sad
This is how it feels when your sister's shagging your dad

most of these songs are OK. don't think i know the Beloved one tho.

Nigella's predicted choice:
Adele
Duffy
Sia
Annie Lennox
Amy MacDonald
Joan Armatrading
Beverley Craven
Tanita Tikaram
Randy Crawford
Avril Lavigne
Macy Gray
Diamanda Galas Corinne Bailey Rae

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Radiohead.
The Smiths.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20030510.shtml

Weird list

farmed out to assistant

My god that's an awful list.

As opposed to Mr. Ramsay:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20020331.shtml

My friend trained at his restuarant and says he's an extremely nice man, so I always cut him some slack for that.

That's Jamie restuarant, not Gordon's.

Urgh (xxp)

Damn, it is. (xpost Nigella's desert island list)
Looks like that list of Dingbot's was wayy too left field.

Liquid temazi's?

Nigella the staunch popist.

cooking to 'Ye Ke Ye Ke' makes perfect sense

Nigella's predicted compilation CD choice:
Michael Buble
Paul Potts
Simply Red
Curtis Stigers
James Blunt
Lighthouse Family
David Sneddon
Dr Hook
Elton John
Jamiroquai
Andrea Bocelli
Lupe Fiasco Sean Kingston

Michael Buble
Paul Potts

*something about bubbling pots*

Haha 'Mary' Kante

Thrusting Thatcherkids haven't got time to check up on funny saddo names!

Yeah, but it'll be the Beeb at fault there.

nearly typed 'the Beef'!

http://194.255.85.101/images/0888072301573.jpg

"Oh yes, he was a melodiously sexy chappie. I think his Kind Of The Blues record is simply splendid!"

Isn't Nigella's hubby a huge rap fan? Not to say that she listens to it.

I think my dreams mainly consist of Nigella and "Shake Ya Ass".

clipse's 'cookin' is the one to beat

Patty cake, patty cake, I'm the baker's man
I bake them cakes as fast as I can
And you can tell by how my bread stack up
And disguised in this rap so the feds back up
Watch it, like my whip, like my chick, topless
Doing a buck-six with me in the cockpit
Grindin' cousin, I got pot for a dozen

/\/\ http://www.bloomsbury.com/images/Authors/a1193.jpg

I hate Hugh F-W.

Don't hate him, hate the money he see, clothes that he buys
Ice that he wear, clothes that he try, close your eyes
Picture him rollin, sixes, money foldin
Bitches honies that swollen to riches, Hugh get in ya

Has Nigella's hubby ever listened to any music ever?

apart from Blue Is The Colour, Maggie, Back On The Right Track, Horst Wessel Song et obv cetera.

and Let's Work by Mick Jagger

Read 'em and weep..
Nigella joins the hip-hop luvvies

In the fall when the tomatoes come ripe i'll spend the better part of a day putting together a huge pot of red sauce. From the peeling of the San Marzanos to the herb prep, the endeavor is always accompanied with vast quantities of wine and lengthy forays into the depths of my "Italian" collection. This may include opera or kitschy Neapolitan "O Sole Mio"-type selections, a jazz artist playing live at La Scalla, or even Dean Martin's Italian Love Songs. As the sauce simmers hour after hour, i too become steeped in a mélange of traditional ingredients that renders a particularly satisfying essence into my being. This method is also assumed when making fresh frijoles refritos or tamales -- these preparations are bolstered with fandango or mariachi or whatever else the dish might require.

It's a bit long for an album title, but not without precedent:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00002MZ4W.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

This is terrible music to cook by.

-- Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, January 15, 2008 5:54 AM

^^^ this

Nigella actually chose the Hardfloor remix of "Blue Monday". I remember this quite clearly. She also talked about how she loves music with a surging, all-enveloping energy and joyfulness - or words to that effect, but she used poncier language than "I love club bangers".

Jordan otm

I prefer cooking to the telly than cooking to music.

Read 'em and weep..
Nigella joins the hip-hop luvvies

-- Billy Dods, Tuesday, January 15, 2008 5:03 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

is the telegraph like the UK onion or something?

It reads like that sometimes but it's serious.

Nigella actually chose the Hardfloor remix of "Blue Monday". I remember this quite clearly. She also talked about how she loves music with a surging, all-enveloping energy and joyfulness - or words to that effect, but she used poncier language than "I love club bangers".

thought it might be the Hardfloor mix of Mory Kante too because of the 'ffrreedom' label credit but it said 'track 3' so probably the original version from the '95 remix arrrggh no no oy my god what am ah sayin mah wife's gonna kill meee </gregmitchell>

Cooking Up Yah Brain

As opposed to Mr. Ramsay:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20020331.shtml

Ramsay, you plonker -- grow some fucking bollocks, yeah?

It was definitely the Hardfloor mix of Yeke Yeke and - I think - the original version of Blue Monday. Two Hardfloor remixes is a lot for one desert island, surely.

This just in: Antony Worrall Thompson discovers hot new musical movement called "grime."

fuck, that ramsey list is the definition of hell. and i find this indescribably amusing:

His book, apart from The Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare, would be Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain.

Cast iron evidence of Gordon Ramsay ever having listened to any music plz.

How anyone could pick "The Best" after The Office baffles me (unless GR has never seen that either, which is entirely possible).

Considering Ramsay's an ex-footballer it's not really a surprise his music taste is shit though, right? It was just wondering whether it'd be Chris De Burgh shit or Akon shit.

No one has pointed out the real tragedy of this compilation, the hideous cover art.

cover..art? it's his face and a font.

That head looks Photoshopped.

I'm surprised Ramsay didn't go for Wind Beneath My Wings shit, yes?

He was trying to make space for "Yoo Doo Right" but forgot.

Monster Movie - it was available to buy in the shops this week in 1969 - a little unusual, but we all loved it.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I totally cook with the Manics on. Fuck the hataz, etc

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Just had to listen through the second half of this album in work. Shouldn't have gone out to lunch :(

Would you stay on standby
Because I need another alibi
In the wrong place at the wrong time
Could you talk a fine line
I need to know that I'll be fine
Bulletproof
It's like I've never been born
We conceive in the alleyways
It's like I've never been born
We believe in other ways
That you do, and you did
And there's proof that we did wrong tonight

Could you sense a tragedy
Because I saw it on the BBC
There's a panel on that channel
Could you walk a narrow line
I need to know I'll serve my time
With some use

It's like I've never been born
We conceive in the alleyways
It's like I've never been born
We believe in other ways
That you do, and you did
And there's proof that we did wrong tonight

And tonight, you can cry if you want to
But it won't help you
You can cry, if you want to
But it won't help you
To get you through this crime
It will plague you, standby

We did wrong, we did wrong

The Independent on Sunday's Simon Price scanned and tweeted the full CD booklet in all its pukka glory.

sfy.co/cDoU

none of these songs have anything to do with cooking wth

there's not many that are

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x158/simon_price/Pic1.jpg

just a lonely guy thinking baout double denim

If in my late 20s I'd been in a position to have a record company offer to release a compilation CD of my favourite tunes and personal "branding" I can't be entirely certain I'd have had enough common sense and foresight to turn them down. /captain save-a-fat-tongued-chef

oh definitely. I just hope I wouldn't have chosen Toploader.

there's not many that are

― Mark G, Wednesday, February 6, 2013 12:31 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can only think of 'Cook Of The House' by Wings, which is so awful it should be erased from existence, let alone put on a compilation album.

mmm wings

http://images.45cat.com/anneke-gronloh-and-the-rivertown-dixieland-jazzband-home-cookin-philips.jpg

"Heyyyyyy good lookin'... whaaaaaaatcha got cookin'"

(oddly, "Cook of the House" was the 'only' (i.e. 1st) one I was thinking of, also)

let that boy cook

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cookin-Jamie-Olivers-Various-Artists/dp/B000051TU5/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

Some poor fucker got this for Christmas. The Christmas that's just past.

Funny, 4 Dec 2012
By blue eyes (Midlands UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cookin' (Jamie Oliver's Music) (Audio CD)
I bought this for my son for a bit of fun for Christmas as he likes following Jamie Oliver's recipe's, I think it will make him smile. There are a few good songs on there that I know he likes, and I do too!

Jamie's song/band descriptions are hilarious.

Good use of "'Nuff said" then rambling on for a few more fragmentary sentences.

My favorite was the Shed Seven description - "great bands don't always have to write nice tunes"!

According to Jamie, "A good blast of these tunes, a nice bit of tukka and some good company is, without sounding like a cheesy git, the recipe for a nice time, happy days". But this is no gentle background music for a dinner party-there are no gentle jazz doodlings or calm classical cadences, instead it's jam packed with the best in alternative rock and dance, complete with fully annotated sleeve notes from the Naked Chef himself, explaining his love of each and every track. On a dance tip, there is some storming big-beat buffoonery from Fatboy Slim ("Right Here, Right Now") and a classic slice of trip-hop from Sneaker Pimps ("6 Underground"), but the dance end of Jamie's record collection is far outweighed by his love of indie--from fellow Essex boys Blur ("Trouble in the Message Centre") to northern stars Happy Mondays ("Loose Fit") there is more than a decade's worth of tunes on the menu. There is even a late entry from up-and-coming rocksters Scarlet Division ("Sundial") featuring a certain chef on drums, which somewhat lets the side down on the quality front, but it's a small complaint--the rest of the material on offer more than makes up for a couple of duff tracks. Pukka

On a dance tip, there is some storming big-beat buffoonery from Fatboy Slim ("Right Here, Right Now") and a classic slice of trip-hop from Sneaker Pimps

whatever happened to the drummer of up-and-coming rocksters Scarlet Division?

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x158/simon_price/O2.jpg

The Finley Quaye one at the bottom is the best. It's the "great band!" that makes it.

I'm not sure I even want to imagine 2000-era Jamie Oliver putting on a fake Jamaican accent.

Early 2000s CD inlay design is the real reason music sales dropped off in that decade.

Just looking at those images without reading the words makes me feel empty and depressed.

can't believe nobody has posted Jamie's own music yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqSS6s1c2z8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqSS6s1c2z8

*hovers conflicted over play button*

cheap lol