As a treat after swim practice, we sometimes swing by Ricky’s Candy Cones & Chaos, where the butter pecan ice cream is what every other butter pecan ice cream I’ve ever had was trying to be.
The trouble with Ricky’s, if you should ever spend more than 10 minutes there, is the candy-themed music. In a half an hour at the place, I heard two different versions of “Sugar” (one by the Archies and one by, I think, the Bradys), and both Gene Wilder and Sammy singing “The Candy Man.”
They need help. Here’s what I came up with:
“Candy,” Iggy Pop
“Candy,” Morphine
“So Like Candy,” Elvis Costello
“Big Rock Candy Mountain,” Woody Guthrie
“Ice Cream,” Sarah McLachlan
“Ice Cream,” Muscles
“Chocolate Jesus,” Tom Waits
“Banana Splits Theme,” The Dickies
“Tupelo Honey,” Van Morrison
“Sugar Water,” Cibo Matto
“I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl,” Nina Simone
What else? Something from the Mighty Lemon Drops maybe? Further suggestions, please, in comments.
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