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Mardi Gras

by DougJ|  February 28, 20171:53 pm| 53 Comments

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What are the best Mardi Gras songs?

I’ve always loved Iko Iko.

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  1. 1.

    NCSteve

    February 28, 2017 at 1:55 pm

    I prefer Dr John’s version.

  2. 2.

    TaMara (HFG)

    February 28, 2017 at 2:01 pm

    Anything by the Dirty Dozen works for me.

  3. 3.

    donatellonerd

    February 28, 2017 at 2:03 pm

    my sister & brother-in-law named their dog Iko, after Dr John’s version.

  4. 4.

    jeffreyw

    February 28, 2017 at 2:06 pm

    St. James Infirmary Blues

  5. 5.

    raven

    February 28, 2017 at 2:08 pm

    Mardi Gras Indians – The Red Flame Hunters

  6. 6.

    PaulW

    February 28, 2017 at 2:09 pm

    I’m Too Sexy always seems to fit the mood

  7. 7.

    Sandia Blanca

    February 28, 2017 at 2:10 pm

    I like the Mardi Gras Mambo. Also, does Meet the Boys by the Battlefront count?

  8. 8.

    ET

    February 28, 2017 at 2:10 pm

    Tipitina
    Go to the Mardi Gras
    Mardi Gras Mambo

  9. 9.

    hovercraft

    February 28, 2017 at 2:10 pm

    I love this Lucky Chops – Hello (ADELE COVER)

  10. 10.

    raven

    February 28, 2017 at 2:11 pm

    Kermit Ruffins – When I Die, You Better Second Line

  11. 11.

    Oatler.

    February 28, 2017 at 2:14 pm

    anything by the Wild Magnolias

  12. 12.

    WereBear

    February 28, 2017 at 2:14 pm

    @jeffreyw: Man, that is a favorite.

  13. 13.

    hovercraft

    February 28, 2017 at 2:15 pm

    The Hot 8 Brass Band – ‘Sexual Healing (Official Video)’ [Marvin Gaye Cover]

  14. 14.

    jacy

    February 28, 2017 at 2:16 pm

    Go to the Mardi Gras — Professor Longhair

  15. 15.

    hovercraft

    February 28, 2017 at 2:17 pm

    Hot 8 Brass Band – Ghost Town

  16. 16.

    Betty Cracker

    February 28, 2017 at 2:18 pm

    Iko Iko is a Mardi Gras song? I always thought it was a jump rope song!

    Here’s the only Mardi Gras song I can think of — and the only one I need! — by the Balfa Bros: La Danse de Mardi Gras.

  17. 17.

    Elizabelle

    February 28, 2017 at 2:19 pm

    @jeffreyw: Never saw that version.

    Love that song. I think Sarah Vowell wrote an essay about it a few years back.

    I love Louis Armstrong’s Do you know what it means, to miss New Orleans? too. Think it’s Mr. Armstrong …

  18. 18.

    jacy

    February 28, 2017 at 2:19 pm

    Alternately — I love me some Trombone Shorty

  19. 19.

    jacy

    February 28, 2017 at 2:23 pm

    And not technically Mardi Gras — But more Trombone Shorty

  20. 20.

    jeffreyw

    February 28, 2017 at 2:23 pm

    @Elizabelle:@WereBear: Check this cover, Yo Yo Ma and Rhiannon Giddens

  21. 21.

    danielx

    February 28, 2017 at 2:25 pm

    Shrove/Fat Tuesday…..pancakes and gumbo…..mmmmmmmm.

    I just won’t eat again for a week.

  22. 22.

    catclub

    February 28, 2017 at 2:30 pm

    @jacy: I was surprised to learn that professor Longhair died in 1980.

  23. 23.

    Alain the site fixer

    February 28, 2017 at 2:31 pm

    https://g.co/kgs/i14pBG
    Paint up, Clean up time
    Technically, a Carnival song. But sweet sweet Calypso.

    Ok, so not the song I thought it was, but some great Calypso and it sorta works.

  24. 24.

    Starfish

    February 28, 2017 at 2:33 pm

    There Ain’t No Place to Pee on Mardi Gras Day

  25. 25.

    Librarian

    February 28, 2017 at 2:34 pm

    I have hated the entire concept of Mardi Gras ever since Bobby Jindal’s SOTU response.

  26. 26.

    VFX Lurker

    February 28, 2017 at 2:35 pm

    Here’s a 22-second earworm for Michiganders: A Pączki Song.

  27. 27.

    Elizabelle

    February 28, 2017 at 2:36 pm

    @jeffreyw: About to check it out.

    Found this version of Saint James by Hugh Laurie with band. Vocal begins almost 4 minutes in. I think it segues into Iko Iko next.

    So talented. And beautiful long fingers. About long enough for him and our depleted SCROTUS.

  28. 28.

    pamelabrown53

    February 28, 2017 at 2:36 pm

    @danielx: #21.

    As much as I love the idea of a Bacchanalia Mardi Gras, I suspect if I actually lived in NOLA, I’d treat it like I do New Years Eve: amateur hour. The food, music and sultry seduction will always be integral to the spirit of NOLA.
    Oh hell, who am I kidding? I’d probably venture out and join with the tourists for a little rambunctious fun.

  29. 29.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 28, 2017 at 2:36 pm

    Does it have to be Mardi Gras? Can it be Mahashivratri (Great Shiva’s night)? It was this weekend.
    Shiva is a cool dude. He is the Lord of dance and music. His dance can destroy the earth and the heavens. He wears his hair in dreads, has the moon on his forehead, river Ganga flows through his matted locks. He is not afraid to cry or show his emotion. He is Ganesha’s father and Parvati’s husband. He usually hangs out in graveyards has disreputable friends, smears himself in ashes, smokes ganja. He can also eat the most potent poison and survive. He is pretty chill but you do not want to get on his bad side.

  30. 30.

    germy

    February 28, 2017 at 2:40 pm

    (WPMI/NBC News) Eleven high school students were injured, three critically, when a vehicle struck members of a marching band taking part in a Mardi Gras parade in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

    Eyewitness accounts say a driver slipped off the brake onto the gas, plowing into the back of the Gulf Shores High School marching band.

    Six members of the band were taken to nearby hospitals.

  31. 31.

    SFBayAreaGal

    February 28, 2017 at 2:40 pm

    @hovercraft: Wow oh wow. Thank you hovercraft for this. I love the horns.

  32. 32.

    dr. bloor

    February 28, 2017 at 2:42 pm

    I’m down with anything this guy wants to sing.

  33. 33.

    John Revolta

    February 28, 2017 at 2:43 pm

    Feel good music
    I been told
    Good for your body
    And it’s good for your soul!
    Hey, hey hey now
    Hey pocky a-way
    Hey, hey hey now
    HEY POCKY A-WAY!!

  34. 34.

    Gelfling 545

    February 28, 2017 at 2:44 pm

    On Saturday at Sportsman’s – a locally famous music venue – these two groups got together for some mardi gras entertainment. Ten Cent Howl and Buffalo Brass Machine. One of my favorite things about my city is the availability of all kinds of music pretty much any time. ETA the guy in the cowboy hat is my elder daughter’s gentleman.

    Link

  35. 35.

    Doc H

    February 28, 2017 at 2:45 pm

    Madi cu defio, en dans dey, end dans day! Indian Red, of course.

    And on a lighter note, Don’t You Know Yockomo.

  36. 36.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 28, 2017 at 2:50 pm

    Shiva Tandava or Shiva’s dance of cosmic destruction

    Bolo Har Harfive names of Shiva in Sanskrit juxtaposed with rap describing Shiva in Hindi

  37. 37.

    raven

    February 28, 2017 at 3:01 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Mardi Gras Indian Music

    Music, typically call-and-response chanting with tambourines and other handheld percussion, plays a central role in the Mardi Gras Indian spectacle, but the members of a few tribes—the Wild Magnolias and the Wild Tchoupitoulas in particular—have released critically acclaimed recordings and many times perform professionally with a full band.

    Mardi Gras Indian music has also permeated into New Orleans funk, soul and R&B. The famous New Orleans tune “Iko Iko” with the lyrics, “My flag boy and your flag boy, sitting by the fire,” is rooted in Mardi Gras Indian tradition as is the New Orleans standard “Hey Pocky Way.”

    Mardi Gras Indian Tribes

    There are more than 50 Indian tribes in the city and each march to the beat of their own drummer, literally. With a formal hierarchy of chiefs, spy boys, flag boys, big chiefs, wild men and other unique monikers, the Indians grace the streets of New Orleans’ neighborhoods in friendly competition over which chief is the “prettiest.” With boastful singing and threatening dances and gestures, on Mardi Gras Day the tribes go out seeking other tribes to do “battle” with. In earlier days, a meeting of tribes often turned violent, and few others would dare to be present. Now, plenty of spectators come out to watch Indian tribes who compete by costume and song one-upmanship. Indians are organized into roughly three dozen tribes with names like the Golden Eagles, the Flaming Arrows, the Yellow Pocahontas, and the Bayou Renegades.

  38. 38.

    waysel

    February 28, 2017 at 3:04 pm

    @Doc H: ‘Indian red’ Ya beat me to it. That whole album is fine. With the Meters, IIRC.

  39. 39.

    Mnemosyne

    February 28, 2017 at 3:07 pm

    We had King Cake at work this morning. The local Cuban bakery makes them, and they’re delish.

  40. 40.

    Yutsano

    February 28, 2017 at 3:09 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I thought it was a Jamaican rhythm song.

  41. 41.

    3Jane Tessier-Ashpool (a/k/a Lorinda Pike)

    February 28, 2017 at 3:15 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Either that one, or the Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys version. And remember, ne pas laisser tomber la pomme de terre …

    And that’s the real Mardi Gras – not the one with the drunken frat boys…

  42. 42.

    ted mills

    February 28, 2017 at 3:20 pm

    Sacrilege for some but here you go: Mardi Gras + Wu Tang mashup:
    http://www.djbc.net/wuorleans/

  43. 43.

    Elizabelle

    February 28, 2017 at 3:23 pm

    @Mnemosyne: What’s the local Cuban bakery? Is it Porto’s?

  44. 44.

    cckids

    February 28, 2017 at 3:29 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    We had King Cake at work this morning. The local Cuban bakery makes them, and they’re delish.

    This is my first Mardi Gras in my new city (Seattle); my aunt is throwing a MG party and I volunteered to make the Kings Cake. My niece usually does it apparently, but she had a baby a week ago & isn’t feeling the baking vibe yet. It’s rising nicely, so I hope this isn’t a fool’s errand. Not sure I can go out & find one last minute if it is. Wish me luck!

  45. 45.

    zzyzx

    February 28, 2017 at 3:50 pm

    Rubin and Cherise

    One of my all time favorite songs

  46. 46.

    ingressus sum

    February 28, 2017 at 3:55 pm

    It’s “Malasada Day” on my island, so

  47. 47.

    Aleta

    February 28, 2017 at 4:00 pm

    If I Ever Cease to Love
    Acker Bilk clarinet, and Ken Colyer (They’re English, but played NO style jazz)

  48. 48.

    ? Martin

    February 28, 2017 at 4:04 pm

    Automated cars are dangerous.

    Twelve members of the Gulf Shores High School marching band were injured, four of them critically, when a car plowed into the band at a Mardi Gras parade Tuesday in Gulf Shores, Alabama, city spokesman Grant Brown said.
    Brown said the car was driven by a 73-year-old man who accelerated and hit the band. It was not immediately clear why the driver accelerated, but authorities do not believe the crash was intentional.

    Add that to the 32 from 2 days ago from the drunk guy who slammed into a different parade. Thank god we have humans behind the wheel.

  49. 49.

    Miss Bianca

    February 28, 2017 at 4:11 pm

    Anything off the Wild Tchoupitoulas album.

    @Betty Cracker: Totally seconded on the Balfa Brothers version!

  50. 50.

    Mnemosyne

    February 28, 2017 at 4:32 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    It is Porto’s. We moved from living within a mile of the Glendale location to living within a mile of the Burbank location. I have never had anything bad from Porto’s.

    @cckids:

    When I walked into Porto’s at 8:00 am, they already had a sign up that said they were sold out of King Cakes. Thank goodness for pre-orders!

  51. 51.

    laura

    February 28, 2017 at 5:21 pm

    @jacy: Oh My, but that is one sweet, sweet, load of talent and charm and dedication to craft, and well, oooh, my! YES!

  52. 52.

    Alain the site fixer

    February 28, 2017 at 8:29 pm

    @ingressus sum: I make somewhat passable malasadas, I like to think! Slow and gentle treatment and I’ve had great success both times I’ve made them.

  53. 53.

    Alain the site fixer

    February 28, 2017 at 8:33 pm

    @Miss Bianca: I wish we’d hung out when I lived in Cañon! I’d never heard the Balfa Brothers but they’re now on my list to explore. I found so few people there who listened to interesting music….

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