Cheesy music

January 22, 2011 10:08 PM

Songs about cheese [MLYT] are a more popular genre than one might expect.

Metafilter's own askmeaboutLOOM is an active contributor to this genre with the Epic Cheese Trilogy, including such deep philosophical pieces as I Like Cheese, Mozzarella (along with Mozzarella: the producer's cut) and The Power of Cheese.

A catchy advertising jingle about cheese from 1968 continues to inspire feelings of nostalgia-tinged patriotism in New Zealanders: if you don't know about the "Boys from down on the farm", you aren't a real kiwi.

posted by lollusc (21 comments total)

Another catchy advertising jingle about cheese!
(seeing them for the first time Monday, excited!!)
posted by mannequito at 10:19 PM on January 22, 2011 [2 favorites]

Blues Explosion got "40 Lb. Block of Cheese" and Slutarded have a song simply called "Cheese".
posted by stinkycheese at 10:27 PM on January 22, 2011

Songs about cheese?

"American Woman"

"American Pie"

"Hit the Road Jack"

"Brick House"

"Stil(ton) the One"

and, of course, The Theme from "The Munsters".
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:02 PM on January 22, 2011

Cheese Roll Call from Animaniacs, sung by Pinky.
posted by knile at 11:05 PM on January 22, 2011 [1 favorite]

Addicted to Cheese by The Evaporators.
posted by philip-random at 11:05 PM on January 22, 2011

A brief bio of the cheese choir
posted by I love you more when I eat paint chips at 11:11 PM on January 22, 2011

Awesome. I was hoping this was going to turn into a thread where everyone lists more cheese songs. How else does one build one's collection?
posted by lollusc at 11:16 PM on January 22, 2011

Somebody ring the cheese alarm.
posted by mintcake! at 11:18 PM on January 22, 2011

Cheese is Good. Remove one letter in that sentence and we might just have the answer to Life-The-Universe-Everything.

it's all about goo?
posted by philip-random at 11:21 PM on January 22, 2011

One of my favorites, from the Mighty Boosh: the "Cheese is a Kind of Meat" song.
posted by andeluria at 11:24 PM on January 22, 2011 [4 favorites]

a single favorite does not remotely do justice to the VOLUME of my laughter
posted by philip-random at 11:43 PM on January 22, 2011

I Like Stinky Cheese by Two Ton Baker
posted by pernoctalian at 11:46 PM on January 22, 2011

My good friend Sulmaz scarred my cousin for life when we were all ten years old by singing a song in the car for over an hour which had lyrics that simply consisted of: "Cheese cheese cheese cheese/Cheese cheese cheese cheese/Cheese cheese cheese cheese/Cheese cheese cheese cheese" to the tune of the "Charge" song used in baseball games. My family has spoken of The Cheese Song ever since.

About 15 years later, Sulmaz turned to me out of the blue and said, "Do you know, I don't even *like* cheese?"

That song will, to me, always be the One True Cheese Song.

(Also, I read the band name above as Two Tom Bakers, which gave me an entirely different mental soundscape.)
posted by ilana at 1:16 AM on January 23, 2011

Harvarti?

Gouda.
posted by twoleftfeet at 1:48 AM on January 23, 2011

Do I have to spell it out?
posted by Decani at 4:12 AM on January 23, 2011

Pretend it's Saturday morning in the 70s and Time for Timer "Hankers for a Hunk o' Cheese"!
posted by jeremias at 4:45 AM on January 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

The catchiest of all cheese songs:
Parmigiano Reggiano
posted by fredludd at 5:46 AM on January 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

Where the cheese go at? All Request Live.
posted by Huck500 at 7:16 AM on January 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

Tywanna Jo Baskette has a short song called "I love goat cheese." Unfortunately, I'm only finding samples rather than the whole track.
posted by Gilbert at 7:58 AM on January 23, 2011

Extra Cheese: The Rap
posted by bzbb at 9:39 AM on January 23, 2011

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -G.K. Chesterton

Alas, it seems good old Gilbert Keith has been proven wrong..
posted by Deflagro at 1:57 PM on January 23, 2011