"Chromium steel" - "Allentown."
― mike a, Thursday, 6 March 2008 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm guessing "You're So Vain" is the only hit song to reference Nova Scotia...and Saratoga, for that matter...
"Gavotte"
― The Deacon, Thursday, 6 March 2008 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Santeria by Sublime.
Gavotte was mentioned earlier.
― craven, Friday, 7 March 2008 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link
"reaper"...you know the song...
Prince used "reaper" in Let's Go Crazy.
― craven, Friday, 7 March 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
"EINS-ZWEI-DREI-VIER!!!"
Not exactly it, but "Der Kommissar" opens with the line "Zwei drei vier, one two three, it's easy to see..."
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 7 March 2008 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
And though technically not part of the lyrics, Kraftwerk do count in "Eins-Zwei-Drei-Vier" on "Showroom dummies".
― Rob M v2, Friday, 7 March 2008 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, same song: "redefine"
― henry s, Friday, 7 March 2008 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
When you said "you know the song", my first thought was Don't Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult. Sorry.
― craven, Friday, 7 March 2008 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
"funky cold medina"
― jessie monster, Friday, 7 March 2008 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost: that was the song I had in mind...(good catch re: Prince)...
― henry s, Friday, 7 March 2008 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
The B-52s had a bunch of these:
"Give Me Back My Man" - "Korvettes" "Dance This Mess Around" - "limburger" "Rock Lobster" - "earlobe," "lobster," "noseguard," "tanning butter," "stingray," a bunch of other crustaceans "Quiche Lorraine" - "appliques"
― mike a, Friday, 7 March 2008 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" - "somersets"
― mike a, Friday, 7 March 2008 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm guessing "You're So Vain" is the only hit song to reference Nova Scotia
Well, you'd be wrong then, since the Proclaimers' Letter From America contains the line "the day you sailed from Wester Ross to Nova Scotia".
― ailsa, Friday, 7 March 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
"Whore"
in "You little thief" Feargal Sharkey...
― Mark G, Friday, 4 April 2008 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
"Whore" appears in lots of songs.
"Wake Up (Time To Die)" by Pop Will Eat Itself "Four Winds" by Bright Eyes "Shamrocks and Shenanigans" by House of Pain
To name just a few....
― eeyore19, Friday, 4 April 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
As well as at least one huge hit, Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer."
― Joseph McCombs, Friday, 4 April 2008 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
RE: "Wrapped Around Your Finger": Scylla and Charybdis.
― Terrible Cold, Friday, 4 April 2008 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
'masturbation' - "Give Peace a Chance"
Of course, if anyone at the Beeb had noticed, it would probably have been banned...
(yeah, prompted by the original songwords going up for auction)
― Mark G, Friday, 16 May 2008 10:13 (sixteen years ago) link
is there a song, other than My Perfect Cousin by the Undertones which mentions Subutteo?
"All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit" by Half Man Half Biscuit. Not really a hit though.
"Mesmerised" has somehow avoided debunkation so far: it occurs in every song by The Cure, or at least "The Walk"
In addition to the ones that February C mentions above, Marillion's "Garden Party" also has "queueing cumbers" IIRC, but I suppose that falls into the deliberate-neologism bin.
Has anyone made a song featuring "hapax legomena"? :)
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 16 May 2008 10:56 (sixteen years ago) link
it occurs in every song by The Cure, or at least "The Walk"
er wait no, I think I mean another one! Um.
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 16 May 2008 11:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Take it to the "word(s) that appear in every song apart from one, ever" thread.
― Mark G, Friday, 16 May 2008 11:15 (sixteen years ago) link
"The Caterpillar"! That's it.
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 16 May 2008 11:47 (sixteen years ago) link
"Wuthering" Heights by Kate Bush
― craven, Sunday, 22 June 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a lot to choose from in "We Didn't Start the Fire," so I'll just pick one: "Panmunjom"
― Pillbox, Sunday, 22 June 2008 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
The same goes for "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)": "Leonid Brezhnev"
― Pillbox, Sunday, 22 June 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Parthenogenesis as part of Shriekback's Nemesis.
― vacasmagras, Sunday, 22 June 2008 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
"Underwhelmed", Sloan
― 2for25, Sunday, 22 June 2008 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
"Alabaster Lady" by Carole King.
Quote "Wrapped Around Your Finger" by The Police:
"I will turn your face to alabaster, when you find the sermon is your master".
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:25 (sixteen years ago) link
"Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"
Not a hit song (although familiar to a larger number of people than most hit songs have ever been, it can be argued)
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess Acker Bilk's "Summer Set" doesn't count against.
― Mark G, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:33 (sixteen years ago) link
"Pønkebassgitar" (Delillos - Min beibi dro avsted)
― Øystein, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:39 (sixteen years ago) link
"Pønkeruckelektrikgitar" The Members - Sound of the Suburbs
― Mark G, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:41 (sixteen years ago) link
"Checkers" ("MacArthur Park")
"Knees" (MacArthur Park)
― Phil Will, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:42 (sixteen years ago) link
"Watch it bring you to your sha,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,knees, knees"
― ledge, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Loadsa knees!
"California Dreaming" for a kickoff.
― Mark G, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I was beginning to doubt 'knees' as I wrote. Scritti are mentioned above, and are probably a safe bet, though. How about "negation" in 'First Boy in This Town (Lovesick)' which was a single, though whether it was actually a hit?
― Phil Will, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:56 (sixteen years ago) link
That particular spelling of "beibi" may also be unique. (Probably a lot of unique words in the entire "big four" of Norwegian 80s rock - maybe apart from Jokke, who wrote about more "down to earth" subjects)
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 23 June 2008 10:21 (sixteen years ago) link
"Vestibule" - My ding-a-ling, Chuck Berry
Great choice from first post on this thread, but no longer valid after 38 years -- "vestibule" is also in "Love Is A Beautiful Thing" by Phil Vassar, which topped the country chart (and I'm pretty sure also crossed over to the pop chart) earlier this year.
― xhuxk, Monday, 23 June 2008 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Prince: Musicology
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 01:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Was the Tragically Hip's "Bobcaygeon" a 'hit' in Canada? It won a "single of the year" Juno and still gets radio play. Anyway, I don't know of any other hits that reference Bobcaygeon.
― Sundar, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 04:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Show me a song with "anaconda" other that that one song by that rapper guy.
― Pillbox, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 04:46 (sixteen years ago) link
"nadir" used by Metallica in Blackend.
― mei, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 07:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Mariah Carey using "fathomed" in "We Belong Together"
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 07:46 (sixteen years ago) link
BARRACUDA!
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 07:49 (sixteen years ago) link
from "Barracuda" by Heart, and "Summer Fun" by the Barracuda's right?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 08:20 (sixteen years ago) link
what is "Summer Fun" by the Barracuda's right?
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 08:31 (sixteen years ago) link
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:2ecpuIn2MmVKzM:http://recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com/artists/barracudas/summer7uk.jpg
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 09:12 (sixteen years ago) link
In Boogie Down Productions' "My Philosophy" KRS-One says, "a lot of MC's like to use the word dramatical," but I can't think of anyone who does other than him. That was a hit, right?
― dad a, Thursday, 12 March 2009 05:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Les Sexareenos - everybody sexareeno!
― meisenfek, Thursday, 12 March 2009 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Surely 'Everywhere' by Fleetwood Mac is the only pop song to use the word "peculiarly". Double deffo.
― Wax Cat, Saturday, 14 March 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link