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10 Songs From 10 Chefs We scanned the archives of KCRW’s Guest DJ series for notable song selections from chefs and food personalities:  Tom Colicchio (Craft) - “Alex Chilton”, The Replacements “It was almost music like someone didn’t care so much about creating a single or making hits. They were just doing their thing, you know?” Anthony Bourdain (No Reservations) - “Sonic Reducer”, The Dead Boys “It’s one of the most pure punk albums, I think, ever recorded and a classic punk song.  The musicianship is not the best, they were really one of the ugliest band to ever walk a stage.  But in that sense, it really encapsulated punk at its lowest and best.” Eric Greenspan (The Foundry) - “I Want To Conquer The World”, Bad Religion “This song really meant a lot to me because it was kind of an anthemic, rally, me-against-the-world kinda fight song. I always thought that that was the most beautiful thing about punk rock.” Jonathan Gold (Pulitzer Prize-winning writer) - “Forming”, The Germs “I had gone to see both Bob Marley and the Grateful Dead within a couple weeks of each other thinking that one or the other was going to change my life and I’m sad to say that neither of them did. But — The Germs. It’s all about The Germs.” David Chang (Momofuku) - “Shady Lane”, Pavement “It was the first time I ever listened to a lyric where I was like it makes no sense, but it makes complete sense. It’s playing on words and it’s just a fun song, so, Shady Lane is something that I love, I still listen to, and my life wouldn’t be the same without Pavement.” Jose Andres (Minibar) - “Alone In Kyoto”, Air “It relates to these kind of life is like a soundtrack, and these images of Tokyo, Kyoto, very powerful images with that wonderful music that for a second, you wish you were there, in complete silence and only observing people passing by.” Alice Waters (Chez Panisse) - “Reckoner”, Radiohead “I’ve always been a kind of classical music person, in my heart, and yet the voices and the orchestration I think is really so rich and so magical.” Sang Yoon (Father’s Office) - “St. Augustine”, Band of Horses “I love the line “Your best is still your worst.” It’s sort of contemplative you know, I’m not sure what that means but that song just sticks and I find myself repeating it over and over again.” Jon Shook (Animal) - “Long Hair Redneck”, David Allen Coe I think one of the true gospel country singers that really should be looked at more seriously and taken in the same way Johnny Cash was is David Allan Coe. Adam Richman (Man vs. Food) - “Let There Be Rock”, Drive By Truckers “I think that there is a universality of not just the transportive power of rock and roll, whether you’re playing it or listening to it, but there is a kind of universal hope and a universal rebellion that’s inherent in this song.”

10 Songs From 10 Chefs

We scanned the archives of KCRW’s Guest DJ series for notable song selections from chefs and food personalities: 

Tom Colicchio (Craft) - “Alex Chilton”, The Replacements

“It was almost music like someone didn’t care so much about creating a single or making hits. They were just doing their thing, you know?”

Anthony Bourdain (No Reservations) - “Sonic Reducer”, The Dead Boys

“It’s one of the most pure punk albums, I think, ever recorded and a classic punk song.  The musicianship is not the best, they were really one of the ugliest band to ever walk a stage.  But in that sense, it really encapsulated punk at its lowest and best.”

Eric Greenspan (The Foundry) - “I Want To Conquer The World”, Bad Religion

“This song really meant a lot to me because it was kind of an anthemic, rally, me-against-the-world kinda fight song. I always thought that that was the most beautiful thing about punk rock.”

Jonathan Gold (Pulitzer Prize-winning writer) - “Forming”, The Germs

“I had gone to see both Bob Marley and the Grateful Dead within a couple weeks of each other thinking that one or the other was going to change my life and I’m sad to say that neither of them did. But — The Germs. It’s all about The Germs.”

David Chang (Momofuku) - “Shady Lane”, Pavement

“It was the first time I ever listened to a lyric where I was like it makes no sense, but it makes complete sense. It’s playing on words and it’s just a fun song, so, Shady Lane is something that I love, I still listen to, and my life wouldn’t be the same without Pavement.”

Jose Andres (Minibar) - “Alone In Kyoto”, Air

“It relates to these kind of life is like a soundtrack, and these images of Tokyo, Kyoto, very powerful images with that wonderful music that for a second, you wish you were there, in complete silence and only observing people passing by.”

Alice Waters (Chez Panisse) - “Reckoner”, Radiohead

“I’ve always been a kind of classical music person, in my heart, and yet the voices and the orchestration I think is really so rich and so magical.”

Sang Yoon (Father’s Office) - “St. Augustine”, Band of Horses

“I love the line “Your best is still your worst.” It’s sort of contemplative you know, I’m not sure what that means but that song just sticks and I find myself repeating it over and over again.”

Jon Shook (Animal) - “Long Hair Redneck”, David Allen Coe

I think one of the true gospel country singers that really should be looked at more seriously and taken in the same way Johnny Cash was is David Allan Coe.

Adam Richman (Man vs. Food) - “Let There Be Rock”, Drive By Truckers

“I think that there is a universality of not just the transportive power of rock and roll, whether you’re playing it or listening to it, but there is a kind of universal hope and a universal rebellion that’s inherent in this song.”

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Momofuku + Malkmus

David Chang prepares a Kentucky classic to the sounds of Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks because why not.

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Latest issue of Lucky Peach includes contributions from Mark Ibold (Pavement, Sonic Youth), album cover artist Steve Keene (Pavement, Apples In Stereo), and music journalist Douglas Wolk.

Latest issue of Lucky Peach includes contributions from Mark Ibold (Pavement, Sonic Youth), album cover artist Steve Keene (Pavement, Apples In Stereo), and music journalist Douglas Wolk.

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