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I wrote an article ages ago about the best diabetic music:
http://www.shootuporputup.co.uk/2009/04/the-ultimate-diabetic-mix-tap/
Any other top diabetes-suitable songs you can think of?
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‘Honey honey’, Abba. Our favourites!
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Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones?
… What? Not actually about sugar? Don’t be absurd!
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@mike – it’s a good song, so you still get points
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Thus far, things are tilted towards hyperglycaemia. Let’s get some balance with the traditional “Sweet and low” and “Swing low, sweet chariot” (or rev it up with Dizzy Gillespie’s take on that, “Swing low, sweet Cadillac”…that is, if you’re not wirelessly connected like @annette, and your attitudinal Kittish Lac won’t budge before you fuel up)
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Down Down Deeper ‘n’ Down – Status Quo?
Oh no hang on, I’ve just spotted your ‘points for good song’ ruling… So that’s me stuffed.
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Look this is no good. I’m getting no work done at all.
Hey Ya by Outkast? – “Gimme some sugar… I am your neighbour!”
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Actually he seems to be having quite a severe hypo, what with all that ‘shaking like a polaroid picture’
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How can I not have thought of this… anything by ‘The Low Anthem’
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http://open.spotify.com/user/sneve44/playlist/6cd3quXhawiNFV2iY1HgYF
I use my time in strange ways… Go collaborate!
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I should clarify what on earth the link is… Someone, a while back in this post, suggested that we shoud have a Spotify Playlist. We now have one. The link should open a spotify playlist, which if you already have spotify, will open up in your spotify playlists list. If you don’t have spotify, I doubt that very much will happen. As it’s a clever collaborative playlist, you should be able to add songs to it if you so wish, and everyone will get them. Magic really.
So far, on the playlist, we have (all checked by my good self for quality – I didn’t just pick them for the names…):
Honey honey – Abba
High Low and In Between – Mark Wills, from his exceptional ‘Country Linedancing’ album
Hypo Full of Love (The 12 Step plan) – Alabama 3
Sweetness – Yes
Santa Claus gave me Diabetes – Stuckey and Murray, from the album ‘Destination: Rock Bottom’. It’s not quite a cheery song, this guy needs Shoot Up.More as you wish!
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SWEET LIKE CHOCOLATE by shanks and bigfoot
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Late to the party –
‘Bad Medicine’ by those Bon Jovi chaps.
The ironic joy to be derived from this track is unquantifiable. Such gems as
“I ain’t got a fever, got a permanent disease”
“Gonna take more than a shot to get this poison out of me”
“I don’t need a needle to be giving me a thrill”and of course:
“There ain’t no doctor that can cure my disease”
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@clara – ha ha! Nice one – I never knew Bon Jovi were so diabetes-aware!
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Well I think maybe a little more focus on where we SHOULD be, rather than these extremes of highs and lows…:
The Inbetween is the Everything – Grand Island
Seems to fit the bill?
And on the hyper side again, apologies for the foreign language, but the title is pretty good, I think?
Toxic Blod – Kaizer’s Orchestra
Yes, Blod means blood… I was tempted by ‘Medicine and psychiatry’ by them, but I’m not sure I want to start associating diabetaids with mental health issues too! Fliprons ‘The Man Who Was Eaten by a Pie’ has a certain, erm, metaphorical(?!) appropriateness… (As in: If we eat too much pie, it will, literally, eat away at us!)
I may return with more at some point, any excuse to raid the CD rack!
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Maybe “Weird Al” Yankovic should redo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cBcSok7K5Y>this one and replace “love” with “hate” and “insulin” with “sweet blow all”. -
Maybe “Weird Al” Yankovic should redo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cBcSok7K5Y>this one and replace “love” with “hate” and “insulin” with “sweet blow all”. -
Hi all – I think the lateness of my reply, may result in my choice tracks getting listed on “volume 2”.
Anyways, to start off – anything from BLOOD SUGAR, sex, magic by the RHCPs. I used to wonder if I was the only person who noticed the link to blood sugar in the title of this album.
“Low” by Cracker
and my personal favourite – “Girlfriend in a coma” by The Smiths.
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Hi all – I think the lateness of my reply, may result in my choice tracks getting listed on “volume 2”.
Anyways, to start off – anything from BLOOD SUGAR, sex, magic by the RHCPs. I used to wonder if I was the only person who noticed the link to blood sugar in the title of this album.
“Low” by Cracker
and my personal favourite – “Girlfriend in a coma” by The Smiths.
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I just found this gem. It’s not until about half-way through it’s diabetes related, and then it is a stark warning for us all!
I just hope this ‘Danielle’ isn’t a diabetes hater!
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“A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down” from Mary Poppins.
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i’m surprised no-one has mentioned “Too High” by Stevie Wonder or “Cold Sweat” by James Brown.
For a jazzier take on blood glucose, how about Wayne Shorter’s “It’s a long way down”, Eric Dolphy’s “Out to lunch” or Jan Akkerman’s “You can’t keep a bad man up”, or anything by Blood, Sweat and Tears.
Regarding the amount of clutter to which our lives are subject, two tracks from the Miles Davis album “Miles in the Sky” seem appropriate; “Stuff” and “Paraphernalia”.
And just as a warning to the non-pancreatically challenged, an old jazz standard, written by Johnny Burke and Jimmy van Heusen and featured on dozens of jazz albums, how about “It could happen to you” (try the version on the “Dial ‘S’ for Sonny” by Sonny Clark).
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With recent events Kaiser Chiefs need to rename their song. I Predict A Diet. Or even I Inject A Unit
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