"Taumatawhakatangihangakoayauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukypokaiwhenuakitanatahu" ("The Lone Ranger" by Quantum Jump)
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
what "Boogiemen" ? (xpost)
― Mark G, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
"Muezzin" and possibly "Bedouin" may be relevant here.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
xp Some people here have a very bizarre idea of what constitutes a "hit song." (Unless "hit song" in England just means "any song ever recorded.")
― xhuxk, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I was told the words "finger fucking" appeared (and was played unedited on the radio) in a Blondie hit, though I can't recall which one.
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"Macarena"!
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I can only think of one instance of the word 'dawdle' in a hit record:
"...Daily, except for Sunday, you dawdle into the cafe where you meet her each day..."
Sparks - this town aint big enough
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
It means any song which made the UK singles chart is what it means.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
"anaesthetise" [UK spelling sic] was also in "radio radio" -- re: someone's placebo comment 500 posts ago.
― Lie Bot, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure that "Columbo" only appears in Bill Howard's ribtickling 1975 hit "King Of The Cops."
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:11 (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
Mark B and Blade - Ya Don't See The Signs
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Which got to #23 in May 2001, for any confused middle-aged American music critics wandering around this thread.
It's a tough concept to grasp, aye.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I can only think of one instance of the word 'dawdle' in a hit record: Sparks - this town aint big enough
Lovin' Spoonful's "Darling Be Home Soon" used it. (OK, dawdled, pedants.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
"Rolled up a woolie and I watched Columbo" from The New Style, by the Beastie Boys.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I had a feeling that the Beasties might have something to say in that department.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, they probably have a few. "Sabotage"?
"Commiserating" from Blink 182's All the Small Things
Also, going back to RHCP, I can't think of any other hit songs that have the word "Wisconsin" in them.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"Hollaback Girl" ?
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Psychosomatic?
― musically, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I have the feeling that Going the Distance by Cake is made entirely of these, but I really don't want to go look up the lyrics. I think dude had a rhyming dictionary AND a thesaurus open on that one, though.
The notable exception from this song is the word "bowel" which, thank you Will Smith.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Lipstuck, Grebos, Crusties - The Only Living Boy in New Cross, Carter USM Klaus Barbie, Leigh-on-Sea, Abodeless, Rachman - Sherrif Fatman, Carter USM Chloro-Fluoro-Carbon, Domestos - Rubbish, Carter USM
― ledge, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
"Engenders" ("Jenny Ondioline" by Stereolab)
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
"hit" was "French Disco" so I submit "Bubble withdrawal"
In fact, that I submit that phrase as never appearing anywhere else, ever!
― Mark G, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
You never heard the remix of "Heal The World" then?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
"Victrola" - CCR's Looking out my back door (if counts as a hit single? I still hear it occasionally on our local rock station.)
"Belisha Beacon" - Radiohead's My Iron Lung - and er, "My Iron Lung" probably isn't used that often either.
― Finefinemusic, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I believe that CCR song was one of their half-dozen Number Two singles
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
"Has any other hit song mentioned "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"?"
"Super Band" by Kool & the Gang (#17 on Billboard's soul charts in '77).
― Rev. Hoodoo, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
- "superficial" (Anita Baker, "Giving You The Best That I've Got") - "foolhardy," "thereafter," "portrayin'" (Bob Kuban & the In-Men, "Look Out For The Cheater")
― Rev. Hoodoo, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
"vegemite," "combie," "chunder" -- Men At Work, "Down Under" "wallabies," "cockatoo," "abos," "platypus," digeridoo" -- Rolf Harris, "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport"
(In the U.S., anyway -- In Australian hits, for all I know, those words show up all the time.)
Is Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" the only U.S. hit to contain the word "pissing"? (Patti Smith's "Pissing in a River" was never a hit anywhere, I'm pretty sure; nor was the Beastie Boys' "Stop That Train," where they're "pissing on the third rail.")
And I doubt it was, but if Elvis Costello's "Busy Bodies" was ever a hit somewhere, it's got "concertina."
― xhuxk, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
"Debonair" -- "When Smokey Sings" (probably the only hit song to *begin* with "debonair," at least...)
― Fitzcarraldo, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Before Dignbod says,
"I should be so debonair, I threw my glass in the air"
Oh what a shame, Roy Wood.
― Mark G, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
"Buck-toothed" (Ask)
-- Alba, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:12 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
^^^"bucktooth" is used on "La Pastie De La Bourgiese", which was the lead track on B&S's top 40 "3, 6, 9 Seconds Of Light" EP
buck teeth also mentioned in the glorious U.G.L.Y. by Daphne and Celeste.
― ailsa, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
"Apple Crumble" - Abc - That Was Then But This Is Now
― Mark G, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
"Gas fires of the refinery" Bruce Springsteen Born In The USA
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
"Victrola" - CCR's Looking out my back door
Also appears in "Dim All the Lights."
― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"Alabaster" also in "Wrapped Around Your Finger"
-- ledge, Monday, January 21, 2008 7:12 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link
"scylla and charybdis"
― Edward III, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I do these with friends as scavenger hunts. Spot the hit song that used each of these words:
accomplished as yet carbon (at least two answers) gunnin' inclement James Taylor misconstrued prefix tumble vibes whippoorwill
― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Nabokov.
― chap, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Carbon=1/2 of Modest Mouse's recorded musical output.
― Finefinemusic, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
-- chap, Monday, January 21, 2008 1:54 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
pronounced correctly = 0
― Edward III, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Precocious = "Bette Davis Eyes"
― jaymc, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Oppenheimer (Sting's 'Russians')
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
arapahoe (Spitting Image - the Chicken Song)
― ailsa, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Deacon Blue's "He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now" mentions Oppenheimer, but that wasn't a single. The album ("Raintown") was a pretty big hit though.
― ailsa, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, let me get my hands On your mammary glands - smiths, 'handsome devil'
― Michael B, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
B-b-but "precocious" was used in "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"! As a rhyme, yet.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
plebeian
― Sandy Blair, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
"James Taylor" was in Cimarron's "Rings."
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 21 January 2008 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, I'll submit "anarchy."