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
"theosophies"
i'm always touched by your presence dear
― Alba, Thursday, 16 June 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i know its already been mentioned but 'centrifugal' is my favorite example of this
― (.づ☀‿☀)づ ~da post-modernist struggle~ (.づ☀‿☀)づ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 16 June 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Lady GaGa's "Judas" has "condom" in it. I don't think I've heard it in another Top 10 hit before.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 16 June 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Belisha Beacon still wins IMO. I stand by 2008 Lex.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 16 June 2011 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
The band Fujiya & Miyagi mention the Belisha Beacon in the lyrics of their song "Ankle Injuries".
But I guess that's not a 'hit' exactly..
― Mark G, Friday, 17 June 2011 08:27 (thirteen years ago) link
"puff" (as in the derogatory term - not the mythical creature) in Jilted Jonh?
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 17 June 2011 09:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Come to think of it, Barry? Gordon?
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Is Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" the only U.S. hit to contain the word "pissing"?
Funeral Pyre got to No. 176 (with a bullet).
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:14 (thirteen years ago) link
"nullify" - 'Heroin', The Velvet Underground
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Sunday, 6 November 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
"Architecture" in "You Can Call Me Al," I think?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 February 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
i was going to say 'minarets' in 'rock the casbah'
but apparently dave matthews has a song titled 'minarets' lol
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 February 2012 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
whippoorwill
Also in "My Blue Heaven"! (Fourth song listed on this thread that uses this word! I'm surprised it took this long: it's the first thing I think of any time I hear the word.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 3 February 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
Toby Keith "Red Solo Cup" possibilities:
receptacletesticles (maybe in some rap hits, I'm not sure)decomposableforclosableFreddie Macsharpie (as in the writing utensil)
(I assume "yucky" and "smitten" have been in at least a few others, but maybe not.)
― xhuxk, Friday, 3 February 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
"geometric" in Rush's "Subdivisions"
― tanuki, Friday, 3 February 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
"Titanium" in David Guett feat. Sia, "Titanium"
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
er, Guetta
Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis, y'all.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
"balsa" in Suede's 'It Starts and Ends With You'.
― Prisoner: Cell Block J/K (snoball), Saturday, 2 February 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
steely dan has a song where fagen's "building the andrea doria out of balsa wood."
― johnny hit and run paul lynde (get bent), Saturday, 2 February 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
also in Jerry Lee Lewis - "Great Balsa Fire"
Btw, "titanium" from upthread was also in Wings' "Magneto and Titanium Man," which was the b-side of a hit record ("Venus and Mars/Rock Show")
― Josefa, Sunday, 3 February 2013 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
I can't believe I of all posters forgot ''Magneto and Titanium Man.'' It's a technicality, sure, but still.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 3 February 2013 07:37 (eleven years ago) link
"sacroiliac" in Grandmaster Flash's Melle Mel's "The Message"
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
"anesthetize" in Girls Aloud's "No Good Advice"
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
"Are you waiting for loneliness to paralyze?Are you waiting for sister midnight to anesthetize?"
~American Music Club, "Firefly"
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 06:40 (eleven years ago) link
"my rap snaps your sacroilliac" - Jeru
― From the home of the underground railway and stuff (symsymsym), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 07:58 (eleven years ago) link
Sacroiliac also in Blondie's Rapture
― today's tom soy yum, mean mean thai (Spectrist), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 08:04 (eleven years ago) link
no one but Tina Turner has ever sung the word "Thunderdome"
― today's tom soy yum, mean mean thai (Spectrist), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 08:07 (eleven years ago) link
I think Club Country by The Associates might be the only song that features the word "Refrigeration"
"Disinclined" in The Loving Kind by Girls Aloud.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 09:38 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xFVh0UoY6c
... not a hit single though
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 10:42 (eleven years ago) link
I have heard a version of "Do the Hucklebuck" that uses "Sacroiliac"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 11:19 (eleven years ago) link
"Macaroons" in "Sweet City Woman."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 2 June 2013 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
"Incomprehensible" -- ABBA, "Lay All Your Love On Me"
― katherine, Monday, 3 June 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
Thread seems to make fairly liberal interpretations of what constitutes a "hit".
I'll toss in "I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna" from Me and Bobby McGee (went #1 in the US for Miss Joplin, #12 for Roger Miller, and #13 for Gordon Lightfoot).
― bodacious ignoramus, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like Mariah Carey has to have a bunch of these
― give life back to usic (The Reverend), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
"Gnome" and "overfed" in "Spill the Wine" by Eric Burdon & War.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 8 July 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
Is Thrift Shop the only hit song to have the word "skeet" in it?
― MarkoP, Monday, 8 July 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
"Get Low!"
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 8 July 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYH7_GzP4Tg
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Monday, 8 July 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
lol xp
"Dukedom" in "Duke of Earl." Good thing he didn't go with "duchy."
("Duke," of course, reappears in Billy Joel's "Keeping The Faith," not to mention "Rappin' Duke," while "Earl" had to die at the hands of the Dixie Chicks.)
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
― tanuki, Friday, February 3, 2012 3:28 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"Suddenly Everything Has Changed" by The Flaming Lips ("And the clouds all form a geometric shape")
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
"incontrovertible" in Pink Floyd's "The Trial"?
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link