"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
"geometric" in Rush's "Subdivisions"
― 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
"bon jovi" in joe nichols' "tequila makes her clothes fall off"
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 25 July 2013 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
oh duh "Dom Deluise". and probably matt dillon too.
A Thread For "After The Fire" By Roger Daltrey (composed by Pete Townshend)
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 July 2013 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
"bowakawa" and "pousse" in john lennon's "#9 dream"
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 25 July 2013 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
'neophobia' in 'facing page: top left' by the manics
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 25 July 2013 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
"Jon Bon Jovi" also appears on Ben Folds's "Rockin' The Suburbs," but as that peaked at #28 on the Modern Rock chart, it's less a "hit" than "a single by an established artist that received obligatory airplay for a week."
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 25 July 2013 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
"Hackensack" is in "6 Jerks in a Jeep" by the Andrews Sisters too.
― everything, Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
thanking you for this, i have rarely ranged beyond my one ten-track Andrews Sisters greatest hits and this is not on it. What a great song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k_6_XZ1b4I
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 25 July 2013 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
"Velcro" in "Thrift Shop" - but I feel like I'm probably missing an obvious one.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 28 July 2013 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
dancerie, mjb 'family affair'
― r|t|c, Sunday, 28 July 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
I'm guessing somebody on this thread already pointed out "petrified" from "I Will Survive", right?
― the tune was space, Sunday, 28 July 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
No, but someone who missed the "hit" part brought up a Pere Ubu song.
Also: "Stupify" (sic) from the Disturbed song of the same title.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 28 July 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
'thereof' = Eve 6, "Inside Out"
― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 28 July 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
I would say "blender" also, but the same heart-tender-blender bit appears in "Nookie." I always wondered if that was supposed to be some kind of shoutout or reference or something.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 28 July 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
"Velcro" in "Thrift Shop" - but I feel like I'm probably missing an obvious one.― Doctor Casino, Sunday, July 28, 2013 1:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, July 28, 2013 1:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F89McWFENTs
Hot 100 Peak: 35Mainstream Rock Peak: 15
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 July 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
I cant imagine it wasnt. Durst has done that more than once (dig the extended Suicidal Tendencies shoutout at the beginning of the 2nd verse of Stuck)
― chicken (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 July 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
xp
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, July 28, 2013 3:33 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
a blender features very prominently in "Margaritaville"
― Lee626, Monday, 29 July 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
Buffett has to be a goldmine of these. ''Flip-flops,'' ''pop-top,'' ''latitudes,'' ''carnivorous,'' ''bulghur wheat,'' maybe ''kosher,'' ''hush puppies,'' and (big maybe) ''cheeseburger.''
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 29 July 2013 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
a veritable smorgasbord
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 29 July 2013 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
Sad to discover ''Pencil Thin Mustache'' was not a hit, denying us ''bawana'' and ''Brylcreem.''
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 29 July 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
Steve Miller's "Living in the USA" has a cheeseburger in it. (I checked - yes, it charted)
― Lee626, Monday, 29 July 2013 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
and speaking of Steve Miller, does any other song have a 707 in it? Or any other specific model of airplane for that matter? (there are a few songs with LearJets in them, but that's just a manufacturer's name, like Boeing or Lockheed, not a specific model)
― Lee626, Monday, 29 July 2013 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
"kosher" is also in "c'mon" by ke$ha and "over" by drake, which both peaked higher than "cheeseburger in paradise". it has p widespread slang/idiomatic use. buffett maybe the only one to use "kosher pickle" tho
― 1staethyr, Monday, 29 July 2013 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
xp elo's "calling america" mentions the 747
― chilli, Monday, 29 July 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
far east movement's "like a g6." internet research tells me they were intending to make up a super luxurious gulfstream jet model name for their chorus, but that it turned out there actually is a gulfstream model that the g6 nickname could apply to.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 29 July 2013 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
― Lee626, Sunday, July 28, 2013 9:18 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Peaked at #94, not sure I call that a "hit." However if we're willing to go below Top 40, Buffett can also offer us "Three Mile Island," "Comanche," "Yukon," "buzzards," and "Ayatollah" from "Volcano" (#66).
Oh, and "Fins" (#35) has "reef."
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 29 July 2013 03:03 (eleven years ago) link