"Recipe" is in "Lilac Wine," a hit single by Elkie Brooks in 1979, also recorded by Jeff Buckley and Miley Cyrus.
"Recipe" is also in "What Love Is Made Of" by Katy B.
"Cherokee" and "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads" are jazz-pop standards.
― Josefa, Monday, 14 October 2013 03:04 (ten years ago) link
Plus, technically speaking, "strip-ed" is also in Donna Summer's hit version of that song.
― Josefa, Monday, 14 October 2013 03:06 (ten years ago) link
'Recipe(s)' is in Joni Mitchell's "Raised On Robbery" (which only went to #65 US anyway)
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 14 October 2013 04:04 (ten years ago) link
This word will most certainly be popping up on the charts via Katy Perry sometime soon, but 'Prism' in "Joanne" by Michael Nesmith (#21 US in 1970)
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 14 October 2013 04:07 (ten years ago) link
Ha, I sort of knew all those were going to be duds when I posted them. All part of the fun I guess.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 October 2013 04:12 (ten years ago) link
"injustice" in "Easy To Be Hard." "Social injustice," no less...
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 30 December 2013 00:56 (ten years ago) link
"social injustice" appears in Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation.
― everything, Monday, 30 December 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
"trigonometry" from Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World".
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Monday, 30 December 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link
Also puts in a forgettable appearance on will.i.am's ''T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)'' but that peaked at #36 and I'm not convinced anybody in the world remembers it, so ''hit'' is probably a stretch.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 00:05 (ten years ago) link
was that the one with (yeesh) Jagger on it?
if so, not a hit. forgotten dud already.
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
Hahhaa, yes, that one.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 00:24 (ten years ago) link
I think "Ancoats" only appears in "Matchstalk Men etc"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 01:05 (ten years ago) link
Has there ever been a hit single version of 'This Old Man'? If not, I'm going to nominate Pop Muzik by M as the only hit to include 'knick knack paddy whack'
― ferret is followed! (soref), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 09:10 (ten years ago) link
Is Ultravox's Vienna the only hit song to include the word 'pizzicato'?
― ferret is followed! (soref), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 09:13 (ten years ago) link
sometimes I have an idle reverie about being hired to write the lyrics for the X-Factor winner's song, and writing a lyric composed entirely of words from this thread
― ferret is followed! (soref), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 09:16 (ten years ago) link
or comprised, even
― ferret is followed! (soref), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 09:23 (ten years ago) link
wtf you took seven minutes to decide to replace the right word with the wrong one
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 14:27 (ten years ago) link
"Knick knack paddy whack" is also in Ludacris's "Get Back."
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 17:51 (ten years ago) link
'Club Country' by the Associates has 'refrigeration' and 'soldered', both of which feel like they might be contenders?
― ferret is followed! (soref), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
Squonk - Steely Dan, "Any Major Dude (Will Tell You)"
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
Long shot, but "devious" on "Sex and Candy"?
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 16 January 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
"Fake plastic submarine" - from a long-forgotten rock radio hit from 2000, "Right Now" by SR-71
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dY4KjMdMVE
― Frontier Psychiatrist, Thursday, 16 January 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
Pant(s) that only appeared in one (hit) video, ever.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 16 January 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
I find it delightful that "parthenogenesis" appears 3 (now 4!) times on this thread
― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, 16 January 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
Saw Tori Amos upthread: Sneeze?
― LimbsKing, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
"membrane," "mainframe," and "Sumo" in "Insane in the Brain""wonderland" in "Your Body Is A Wonderland""The Bronx" and "Oprah" in "Jenny From The Block" (can't be true, surely?)"redecorated" and "field trip" on "Who Dat""Pez," "Fun Dip," and "macaroni and cheese" in "Summer Girls." Excepting "Cherry Coke" on principle vs. "chicka-cherry cola."
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 24 January 2014 06:54 (ten years ago) link
Well, there's 'Wonderland' by XTC for a kick-off..
― Mark G, Friday, 24 January 2014 07:01 (ten years ago) link
Hrm! Wiki doesn't show that one charting anywhere...
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 24 January 2014 07:12 (ten years ago) link
at one point I wanted to compile a list of unusual words mentioned in Pet Shop Boys songs. potential candidates here include "jasmine" (as in the plant) and "Issey Miyake"
― struggle blogger (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Friday, 24 January 2014 07:58 (ten years ago) link
Ok "Jasmine" is in Summer Breeze The Islets..
― Mark G, Friday, 24 January 2014 08:38 (ten years ago) link
The Isleys. My spelling corrector!
― Mark G, Friday, 24 January 2014 08:39 (ten years ago) link
boogie wonderland ffs
― koogs, Friday, 24 January 2014 09:20 (ten years ago) link
think winter wonderland might've been a hit
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 24 January 2014 10:21 (ten years ago) link
exalted, in the new clean bandit
― chekhprivan (wins), Friday, 24 January 2014 10:49 (ten years ago) link
oh duhhhhh re: both of those wonderlands. That'll teach me to cruise my Spotify pop junk playlist tipsy at 2 AM.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 24 January 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
"membrane," "mainframe," and "Sumo" in "Insane in the Brain"
"Membrane" appears in Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" and LL Cool J's Rock the Bells."Sumo" appears in Big Pun's "I'm Not a Player".
Don't think there are any other hits with "Mainframe" though.
― MarkoP, Friday, 24 January 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
"strongly" on Silverchair's "Tomorrow"?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 24 January 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
Candidates from "Simply Irresistible": 'inscrutable,' 'irreversible,' 'irrefutable.' 'Permissible' and 'mythical' maybe less likely.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
Prodigy - Breathe
"Psychosomatic"
― LimbsKing, Thursday, 6 February 2014 01:38 (ten years ago) link
The Avalanches' Frontier Psychiatrist has psychosomatic in it, though it is obviously a sample from somewhere.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 6 February 2014 10:18 (ten years ago) link
Was gonna say "not a hit but the first thing I thought of too" - but was pleased to just discover it hit #18 in the UK. Way to go, Avalanches!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 6 February 2014 12:14 (ten years ago) link
And the sample, it turns out, is from a comedy routine entitled... "Frontier Psychiatrist." http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Frontier+Psychiatrist/2gfJCf?src=5
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 6 February 2014 12:22 (ten years ago) link
OK, how about "Hydromatic"
(You know the song)
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 February 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
On "This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide": "zoomy," maybe "mobilize" and "hoot."
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 10 February 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
Ha -- definitely way to go, Avalanches. Now about that second album...
― LimbsKing, Monday, 10 February 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
Okay, I feel good about this one - "amoebas" in John Hiatt's "Thing Called Love." A #11 on US Rock for Bonnie Raitt.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 March 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
Amoeba wasn't in "Kokomo"?
― voodoo chili, Friday, 14 March 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
hahaha, would go well with the "mounds of rotten steak" reportedly found in Martinique (thanks, ILX)
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 March 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
"Bravado" in "Baby Come Back" by Player?
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 17 March 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
"Worcestershire sauce" in "Crack a Bottle." Kind of a wretched song but it would be cool if the "bottle" in question actually contained a tangy condiment for beef dishes.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 13:43 (ten years ago) link