The Weekly Playlist: Fast Food Tunes
With their immortal lyrical couplet to open “Danger! High Voltage”—“Fire in the disco/Fire in the Taco Bell”—Detroit rockers Electric Six joined the exclusive ranks of these franchise chain name-checkers:
1. Run-DMC, “You Be Illin’” (Raising Hell, 1986)
“Day when I was chillin’ in Kentucky Fried Chicken/Just mindin’ my business, eatin’ food and finger lickin’”
2. Ramones, “Oh, Oh, I Love Her So” (Leave Home, 1977)
“I met her at the Burger King/We fell in love by the soda machine”
3. Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, “Pump Me Up” (Adventures of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & The Furious Five: More of the Best, 1996)
“So don’t ask where’s the beef, baby/Here is the meat” [Wendy’s]
4. Guttermouth, “23 Things That Rhyme With Darby Crash (Shave the Planet, 2006)
“Let’s beg for change and eat at Arby’s/Two beef and cheddar for my friend Darby Crash”
5. Ben Folds, “Army” (The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, 1999)
“Grew a moustache and a mullet/Get a job at Chick-Fil-A”
6. Wesley Willis, “Rock N’ Roll McDonald’s” (Greatest Hits, 1995)
“McDonald’s will make you fat/They serve Big Macs/They serve Quarter Pounders/They will put pounds on you” –SP/JS
Electric Six with Test Your Reflex, Night Kills the Day. April 17, 10 p.m., $12-$15. Beauty Bar, 598-1965.