"Gnome" and "overfed" in "Spill the Wine" by Eric Burdon & War.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 8 July 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
Is Thrift Shop the only hit song to have the word "skeet" in it?
― MarkoP, Monday, 8 July 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
"Get Low!"
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 8 July 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYH7_GzP4Tg
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Monday, 8 July 2013 16:45 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
"incontrovertible" in Pink Floyd's "The Trial"?
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:32 (ten years ago) link
"bon jovi" in joe nichols' "tequila makes her clothes fall off"
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 25 July 2013 01:40 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
"bowakawa" and "pousse" in john lennon's "#9 dream"
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 25 July 2013 02:19 (ten years ago) link
'neophobia' in 'facing page: top left' by the manics
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 25 July 2013 02:27 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
dancerie, mjb 'family affair'
― r|t|c, Sunday, 28 July 2013 18:18 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
'thereof' = Eve 6, "Inside Out"
― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 28 July 2013 19:29 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
a veritable smorgasbord
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 29 July 2013 01:07 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
xp elo's "calling america" mentions the 747
― chilli, Monday, 29 July 2013 02:28 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
"kosher" is also in "rock the casbah."
speaking of which, are there any other top 40 "sharif"s?
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 29 July 2013 03:08 (ten years ago) link
Eric Clapton shot one, yuk yuk
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 29 July 2013 03:17 (ten years ago) link
CCR's "Travelin' Band" mentions the 737, probably the last time that unfashionable aircraft will be name-dropped in a hit.
"Hush Puppies" is in Pete Townshend's "Rough Boys" and also in Oran "Juice" Jones' "The Rain."
"Latitudes" is in B-52s "Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland"
"Flip-Flops" is in Leighton Meester's "Summer Girl"
― Josefa, Monday, 29 July 2013 03:38 (ten years ago) link
Peaked at #94, not sure I call that a "hit."
The first time, yes, but then it was reissued 3 years later and reached #49. That was enough to ensure occasional AOR airplay in the '80s. A mini-hit anyway.
― Lee626, Monday, 29 July 2013 08:22 (ten years ago) link
Whoa whoa ...
"The Magnificent Seven" The Clash can has "Cheeseboiger!
― Mark G, Monday, 29 July 2013 12:03 (ten years ago) link
John Sebastian - toddled (Darling Be Home Soon)
― lambchopelbow, Monday, 29 July 2013 12:41 (ten years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, July 28, 2013 3:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Let me tell you about this fantastic American art form called "rap music"
― Does the RS Tsarnaev Cover Offend You, Yeah? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 July 2013 13:09 (ten years ago) link
Sometimes the lyrics in rap music are so full of references that self-proclaimed "rap geniuses" actually create entire databases documenting and decoding them
― Does the RS Tsarnaev Cover Offend You, Yeah? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 July 2013 13:11 (ten years ago) link
― Lee626, Monday, July 29, 2013 4:22 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oops, you're right - it's in!
re: rap, yeah, uh, i get that, just the particular way Fred Durst delivers the line always made me feel like he thought it was his original awesome rhyme.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 29 July 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
Another 'Blender', from "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" (written by Warren Zevon, a #31 hit for Linda Ronstadt)
Yes he really worked me over goodHe was a credit to his genderPut me through some changes LordSort of like a Waring blender
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 July 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
wow, even a specific brand of blender!
― Lee626, Monday, 29 July 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
"If I Were A Carpenter", which has been a hit for several artists, "onlyness"? There's a Birthday Party song with that word, but it wasn't a hit.
― Lee626, Monday, 29 July 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
"calamine lotion" - Poison Ivy, The Coasters
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 July 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
supertramp's "logical song" must have a few: dependable, presentable, clinical, etc
― chilli, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 00:28 (ten years ago) link
"calamine lotion" - Poison Ivy, The Coasters― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Monday, July 29, 2013 10:47 AM (8 hours ago)
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Monday, July 29, 2013 10:47 AM (8 hours ago)
Calamine Lotion features a few times in "Foggy Notion" by the Velvet Underground
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
You know, that hit song by the velvet underground
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 02:59 (ten years ago) link
"Rolleiflex" in Jobim's "Desafinado". Not sure if that's a hit, but it was covered by a zillion people and everyone knows it.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 03:28 (ten years ago) link