Songs About Coffee

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I love coffee. I never used to. But, it's now my bestest, oldest and dearest friend. Just enjoyed my second cup this morning (the wife and child are both sick, so I've been on the insane detail). They're both finally asleep after a rough night, and I'm basking in the solace of quiet time with ILM and some great fuckin' coffee, and I'm seeking to wed these two great things, but I just can't think of many songs. Help me out, won't ye?

"Black Coffee in Bed" by Squeeze
"Coffee" by Brak

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 13 February 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Coffee Mug" by the Descendents.

― Øystein (Øystein), Sunday, 13 February 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"One more cup of coffee" - Dylan/White Stripes

― mike donnelly, Sunday, 13 February 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Macabre - How'bout Some Coffee
Kate Bush - Coffee Homeground
Can - Bring me Coffee or tea
Nearly God - Black Coffee
Carmen McRae - Coffee Time
Wimme - Morning Coffee

Enjoy!

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 13 February 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Cafe Tacuba - Ojala que llueva cafe
Cowboy Junkies - The Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning
- Anniversary Song
Manhattan Transfer (or Whiffenpoofs) -- Java Jive

― Vornado (Vornado), Sunday, 13 February 2005 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Blur - "Coffee and TV"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 13 February 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

All Saints - Black Coffee
Garbage - Cup Of Coffee
Hefner - Hymn For The Coffee

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Sunday, 13 February 2005 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

BLACK COFFEE BLACK FLAG

― ddb (ddb), Sunday, 13 February 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Java Blues - Rick Danko
Coffee Cold - Galt MacDermot

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Prince - 'Starfish and Coffee'
Otis Reading - 'Cigarettes and Coffee'

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Redding bah.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Nearly God - Black Coffee

If this is referring to the Tricky song that appears on Nearly God, it's a standard originally written by Solomon Burke and performed by Ella Fitzgerald, among others.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Morning Coffee by Morning Musume - I admit it's not very good, but it'll certainly wake you up with it's dozen screechingly nasal Japanese teenage voices.

― darren (darren), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Anthrax - Cup o' Joe

― Avi (Avi), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm Black and I'm Proud"

Okay, I'll stop.

― Austin (Austin), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Coffee and Tea by Cessna
Black Coffee by Peggy Lee (I prefer her version to Ella's. She's got the proper note of wistful weariness)
Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee by Glenn Miller
One Cup of Coffee by Sublime (or the original by Judge Dredd)

― jazzler (jazzler), Sunday, 13 February 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

One More Cup Of Coffee - Bob Dylan

― stew, Sunday, 13 February 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"Fixing Coffee" by Joey Sweeney

― youn, Sunday, 13 February 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bad Coffee" by Funk D'void

too black too strong too black too strong

― Scott Warner (thream), Sunday, 13 February 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Station Coffee" Jonathan Fire Eater

― Magic City (ano ano), Sunday, 13 February 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Coffee Achievers" by 76% Uncertain. Great Hardcore band.

― bluno, Sunday, 13 February 2005 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Gandharvas - the coffee song

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 13 February 2005 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Blur - "Coffee and TV"
Braid - "Do You Love Coffee?"

― Cameron (raygun), Sunday, 13 February 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Alton Clarke - Java On The Brain

― bahtology, Sunday, 13 February 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

MC Lyte "Cappucino"

― PeterALopez, Sunday, 13 February 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fall - Totally wired

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 13 February 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

these aren't "coffee" songs, necessarily, but that one Beth Orton track she did with the Chemical Brothers from Dig Your Own Hole and the A:xus cut "Callin' U" have coffee references.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 13 February 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to drink coffee as well. Until I read about the health benefits of tea. Apparently they did some study where they found that if you drink 4 cups of tea a day you were less likely to get sick, and they tried it with coffee and it didn't do the same thing. I also recalled drinking green tea once when I was about to get sick and the bug went away. So I switched to tea, and I've come to love it. But to each his own, of course. Sorry I can't think of any coffee songs.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 13 February 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom T. Hall wrote at least 2 good ones, "Coffee Coffee Coffee" and "Don't Forget the Coffee Billy Joe". (Both are on the marvy Real tribute album, sung by Freedy Johnston and R.B. Morris respectively.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 13 February 2005 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

can only think of songs about speed

― come on sock it to me (kephm), Sunday, 13 February 2005 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"Caffeine" -- Babylon Zoo

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 13 February 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Frank Sinatra, "The Coffee Song"

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Sunday, 13 February 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

And if references count, surely the awful "black coffee and feta cheese" bit from Luomo's "Visitor" is worthy of mention...

― Telephonething, Sunday, 13 February 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

MC Lyte "Cappucino"

CLASSIC!

Tea is nice, but it doesn't provide the benefits I that coffee seamlessly provides.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 13 February 2005 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"Caffeine" - Faith No More.

Quite possibly their best toon! Not particularly soothing though.

― PiersT, Sunday, 13 February 2005 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"Coffee Black" by As Friends Rust, though it's about coffee in name only.

― Oblivious Lad (Matthew Lazowski), Sunday, 13 February 2005 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"Pour me another cup of coffee
for it is the best in the land
I'll put another quarter in the jukebox
and play the Truck Drivin' Man"

― Avi (Avi), Sunday, 13 February 2005 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

a cup a cup a cup a cup a cup

Java Jive - Inkspots / Manhattan Transfer

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

This one is great:

"Tasse Kaffee" by Californiae (I heard it on the Bunglalow Ro 3003 comp)

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"Amphetamins and Coffee," Afghan Whigs
"Black Coffee," Ella Fitzgerald, also covered by Martina Topley-Bird on Tricky's Nearly God album.

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I know there's a Kristen Hersh song with a coffee lyric, but I can't remember which one. I am fairly certain it's on Hips and Makers.

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Saint Etienne, "Mr Donut"

another coffee yeah/ can you sense it in the air

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm tempted to say Serge Gainsbourg's "Couleur Cafe" and "La Javanese," but I don't think either one is about coffee. There's another German song called "Der Kaffee ist fertig," but I don't remember who did it.

Finally, there is a sense in which the entire Guided By Voices catalogue is "about coffee."

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

key coffee ref in "You're So Vain."

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Instant Coffee - The Tremors
"Ineed a quick fix / I ain't messin' around"

― dwayne dibley (frownland), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

oops - I need

― dwayne dibley (frownland), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Another vote for "Fixing Cofee" by Joey Sweeney. Still disappointed about the non-release of Girls High.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Monday, 14 February 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The Sugargliders - Coffee

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 14 February 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

key coffee ref in "Just a Little Lovin"

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 February 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I am fairly certain it's on Hips and Makers.

"I can't drink this coffee till I put you in this closet"? From "Your Ghost" on said album, yes.

― OleM (OleM), Monday, 14 February 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

coffy is the colour - roy ayers

― see ar (see ar), Monday, 14 February 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

there are a couple of brilliant tom t hall coffee songs but i cannot think of them right now (they are on the tribute album, track 5 and 9, i think.)

― anthony, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Flipper's Guitar - 'Coffe Milk Crazy'
Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - 'Sneaker Song!'
On a fine holiday, I'll down a cafe au lait/au-au-au-au-au au lait-ait-ait-ait

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah Vaughan - "Black Coffee"

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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