So far as I know the word "efficacious" has only appeared in one single, and that was for "New Language" by The Pursuit of Happiness which was a minor hit in Canada at least.
― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 03:58 (fourteen years ago) link
"Habitations" in Where It's At by Beck
― mashup, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
whoa! xpost!
Check "Lily The Pink", which was what I thought you were going to say!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 07:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Weird...it's quite possible that that one was more popular everywhere but Canada? Either way, was not expecting there to be another!
― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 12:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, certainly in the UK.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
"Encumber" in "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (Hollies or whoever)
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
The word "Bosom" is fairly archaic, and could conceivably have been considered as to not appear in any hit song, as previously would have been considered too "rude" to be used as such, and too old-fashioned to be used after it was OK to do so.
And then...
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
"Disillusionment" Alanis Morissette - "Thank U"
― Miles "Tails" Davis (Daruton), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
― Mark G, Thursday, June 3, 2010 10:00 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
And then....
― Otherwise you're kinda being comp-lit in his racism. (kkvgz), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_npVuxx3medM/R5lrWeeAdWI/AAAAAAAACxc/b4OE4zu5OcE/s400/cornershop-brimful_of_asha_s.jpg
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Sadly, "The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray" was not a hit:
"Lady, if your bosom is heaving don't waste your bosom on me.Let it heave for a man who's breathing, a man who can feel, a man who can see."
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Back in the days when saying "bosom" would get you banned from Radio 1.
Radio4 would be OK with it tho.
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Elvis Presley:
Well! You rock my soul (Down in the bosom of Abraham)Rock rock rock (Down in the bosom of Abraham)Rock my soul (Down in the bosom of Abraham)Rock hmm, rock oh yeah,Oh Lordy Lord,Oh rock my soulWhy don’t you rock my soul
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Ladies and Gentlemen, Ms Bea Arthur:
We'll always be bosom buddies,Friends, sisters and pals;We'll always be bosom buddies,If life should reject you,There's me to protect you.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"Lumbago" (Small Faces, "Lazy Sunday")
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
... same song also has "khazi"
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I believe Snoopy had a hit in Holland with "No Time for a Tango"...
Besides I have a lumbagoFrom dancin' too long
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah! Thread for back pain related songs coming up, I think!
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Both alt.bosom songs, not "hits"...
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
now there's a newsgroup.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, no khazi in "Lazy Sunday"
It's got "Crust" though, if you like.
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
"moot" - rick springfiled, Jesse's girl
― Original ~*~*FuNtOwN*~*~ Bunny (peacocks), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
aw shiz, xpost
― Original ~*~*FuNtOwN*~*~ Bunny (peacocks), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
"To sing in the khazi while you suss out the loon"
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
It's "moon", not "loon". Outdoor toilet facility, y'see.
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
To sing it at parties while you suss out the moon.
Admittedly a khazi flushes at that point, but...
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought it was 'loon' as in the idiot who wrote the song with no words and no tune.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
It's makes more sense as "khazi". Maybe they censored themselves. It's definitely "moon" though.
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
now i listen again it does sound more like moon.
visible khazi action:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhyEMZkfLMo
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Well that's proof enough for me!
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Hacienda. Been reading the James nice Factory book, but it brought to mind.
The only hit song that has "Hacienda" was Speedy Gonzales,Pat Boone.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link
"Sardines" in Timbaland & Magoo's "Clock Strikes (Remix)"
― Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Friday, 3 June 2011 09:20 (thirteen years ago) link
"MCA! Where have ya been?Packed like sardines in the tin!"- Beastie Boys, "Body Movin'"
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 June 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Was that a hit?
― Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Friday, 3 June 2011 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
"Transgendered" in "Born This Way".
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 3 June 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2586862_lg.jpg
― all cats are gay (sic), Friday, 3 June 2011 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't see what that is
― Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Friday, 3 June 2011 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Pretty sure 'Body Movin'' was at least an airplay hit, w/ the Fatboy Slim remix? Also I think Biggie said something about eating sardines for dinner one time but it's a little hazy.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 June 2011 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
my pic was Sardines by the Junkyard Band
― all cats are gay (sic), Saturday, 4 June 2011 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Top 90s band Radiohead had a song with Sardines in the title but not the lyrics. Sorry that's the best I can do.
― everything, Saturday, 4 June 2011 01:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Gavotte - You're So Vain (pace Christgau)
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 4 June 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
"furry donkey"
(The Who, "Happy Jack")
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 4 June 2011 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Also I think Biggie said something about eating sardines for dinner one time but it's a little hazy.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, June 3, 2011 3:41 PM Bookmark
Oh yeah good point. But I don't think any hit song has featured sardines as prominently as "Clock Strikes"
― Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Saturday, 4 June 2011 05:06 (thirteen years ago) link
"Pitchfork" appears in one hit song.
"Combine Harvester" by The Wurzels.
I thank you.
― Mark G, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, that's kind of surprising! You'd think it'd be in at least one throwaway line about the devil or something. Good one.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
In "Seminole Wind" by John Anderson (#2 country hit, 1992):
EvergladesSeminoleOkeechobeeMicanopygarflood control
Maybe a couple of those have showed up in other hit songs, but I bet most of them didn't.
Also, Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" has "Gitche Gumee" (also "Chippewa," but that's in Tim McGraw's "Indian Outlaw" and maybe other songs too. "Indian Outlaw" also has "Choctaw," though; might be alone with that one.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 16 June 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
"Ode to Billy Joe" has "Choctaw!"
― timellison, Thursday, 16 June 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
arapahoe (Spitting Image - the Chicken Song)
― ailsa, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:13 (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
3 years late, I'll point out this has been in at least one other v well known and awesome UK #1
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 16 June 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes indeed. Which makes me wonder if any other hit songs have "Yucatan" in them?
― everything, Thursday, 16 June 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
"Wrapped Around Your Finger" references Scylla and Charibdes, that's gotta be a one-time thing"Sprits in the Material World" has "subjugate"
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 June 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link