"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
Have to sadly rule out a bunch of things from upthread (having sat and read this whole thing):
"Foolhardy" is in "One Dyin' and a Buryin'" (#10 country, #34 Hot 100) by Roger Miller, in addition to the Bob Kuban & The In-Men song.
"Anaesthetize" has already been ruled out but here's another: REM's "Bad Day"
"gunnin'" is probably in tons of things and certainly is in "Method Man."
"whippoorwill" is also in "Don't It Make You Want To Go Home?" by Joe South.
"contradiction" shows up in "Walking Contradiction" by Green Day in addition to "Karma Chameleon." Green Day also gave us "masturbation" in "Longview."
Eiffel Tower was brought up for some reason and was also in "I Can See For Miles" by the Who.
"Stance" is in "Drop" by the Pharcyde (#5 on the US rap charts, #4 US dance), not just "Buffalo Stance."
pesos, waffle-house, damning, boy-shorts, doubling- R Kelly feat Usher 'Same Girl'
"Pesos" is in "Banditos" by the Refreshments. "Waffle House" must be in some country songs.
"stingray" is in that Jimmy Ray song, not just "Rock Lobster."
Also not just in Rock Lobster: "lobster," which features prominently in the Red Lobster scene of "Big Ole Butt" by LL CooL J.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 15 March 2009 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Speaking of LL, though, I think he might have a unique word with "locusts" from "Deepest Bluest (Shark's Fin)."
"shih tzu" -- "Brand New Girlfriend," Steve Holy (#1 country single, 2005)
― xhuxk, Sunday, 15 March 2009 04:24 (fifteen years ago) link
"reciprocity" : Lauryn Hill 'Ex-Factor'
― sheets was skeeted on (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 15 March 2009 04:31 (fifteen years ago) link
"flatulant" in frankly, mr. shankly.
― carahNYC, Sunday, 15 March 2009 04:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Debunked: "anarchy" also shows up in Sheryl Crow's "Every Day Is A Winding Road."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 15 March 2009 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
"Orthopaedic Shoes"
(Rock and roll baby, the Stylistics)
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 April 2009 09:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn you, beaten to the punch!
― Chris in Belfast, Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
"Verisimilitude"
Teenage Fanclub - Verisimilitude
― Chris in Belfast, Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
"samin'"
"These Boots Are Made For Walking"
― henry s, Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Wire and Brian Eno are helpful here.
Cartologist: Map Reference, WireMaisonettes: Cindy Tells Me, Brian Eno
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
One would imagine John Cale would also have a bunch. But I just don't have the energy....
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
John Cale has "hits"? (I dunno, maybe he does in Wales.)
And where were Wire's "Map Reference" and Eno's "Cindy Tells Me" hits? (Not being sarcastic; just curious. I might want to move there.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 30 April 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link