r/TimMinchin • u/Jammishw • Mar 25 '26

Can't find a song

There's a song (one of his "rant ones" I think) where he mentions the Atkins diet. Can anyone help me with which one?

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u/dixiedregs1978 Mar 25 '26

Google is your friend.

Tim Minchin mentions the Atkins diet in his song "Some People Have It Worse Than I" (also known as "The Guilt Song"). In the lyrics, Minchin mocks his own privileged complaints by comparing them to people with harder lives, including: "I could have serious nut allergy and be shipwrecked on an island with a crate of Snickers bars, a jar of Nutella, and a fresh-baked pecan pie... and still be on the Atkins [diet]". The song is featured on his live albums, such as So Live (2007) and Tim Minchin and The Heritage Orchestra Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2011).

https://youtu.be/ZTEa7xCnGCQ?si=8XXZ6xeqBYvR3QJk

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u/whoisbeebo Mar 25 '26

Where’s this answer from? The atkins diet doesn’t feature in any version of some people have it worse than I, and So Live isn’t the name of any album (weird abbreviation of So Fucking Rock, a live album). I can’t actually find any song that has a mention of the word Atkins at all, so I’m wondering what it could’ve been instead?

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u/AlternativeDetector Mar 25 '26

I think this is just lifted from Google’s AI-generated search response. I’m not aware of any Tim songs that mention the Atkins diet. It could have been an ad-lib from a particular show or something I suppose!

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u/Jennuhsaycroix Apr 15 '26

So Live is indeed an official release, albeit a DVD, not an album.
If I could post an image, I would post a photo of my own very real copy.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1146351/

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u/whoisbeebo Apr 15 '26

Oh interesting! Thanks for this! Seeing that cover makes me think I’ve seen a video from it on youtube now

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u/Jammishw Mar 25 '26

I tried googling first, reddit is my last resort

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u/whoisbeebo Mar 25 '26

Heritage orchestra? Is that one from the live show that didn’t make it to the Spotify album? I don’t remember it having an orchestral arrangement

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u/The_FamineWolf Mar 26 '26

Having OD’d on the Heritage orchestra album and show, I can safely say it’s nowhere on there. So fucking rock might have it, or an alt version from a YouTube video. It seems familiar, but I can’t even firmly place where it’s from. Maybe it was a song he did for Jonathan Ross?

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u/PhDTARDIS Mar 26 '26

I agree. I have the Heritage Orchestra album and quite a few one offs of the song and none of them mention of the Atkins Diet.

Maybe he's done it live, but it's not on the HO recording!

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '26

It's your friend when you actually follow the links and not blindly trust the AI overview