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
"Cargo," in "Rock the Boat"?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 April 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Well, there's also this, but I doubt it was ever a hit...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayfZKdE5OOw
― Tuomas, Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:05 (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, January 1, 2014 4:10 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"Knick knack paddy whack" is also in Ludacris's "Get Back."― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, January 1, 2014 12:51 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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...and Ludacris's "How Low!" Wish he'd really followed through and tried to include it, somewhere, in every song.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 6 April 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
Any other uses of soppy aside from slap & tickle? (Squeeze)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 6 April 2014 04:31 (ten years ago) link
"Orphanages" in "You Can Call Me Al"
― MarkoP, Sunday, 6 April 2014 04:33 (ten years ago) link
"TransPass" and probably "corns" (the things people get on their feet) and maybe (though I doubt it) "alakazam" (not to mention all sorts of pseudo-words in Carnese or whatever the made-up language is -- not Double Dutch, apparently): "Double Dutch Bus" by Frankie Smith
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 14:18 (ten years ago) link
"Alakazam" is indeed in "Open Sesame" by Kool & the Gang.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
Also there's the old bubblegum classic "Wham Bam Ala Cazam" by The Tricks but dunno if it was a real hit or not.
Now I'm wondering if "skippers" is in any other songs other than McLaren's "Double Dutch".
― everything, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
"Alakazam" is in Nat King Cole's Orange Coloured Sky, as well as The Marvelettes' My Baby Must Be A Magician.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 10 April 2014 08:55 (ten years ago) link
"eloquence" from When Smokey Sings by ABC
This one is also in De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
― It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Thursday, 10 April 2014 09:05 (ten years ago) link
when Sting's 'eloquence' escapes you...
― It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Thursday, 10 April 2014 09:06 (ten years ago) link
And Elton's "Sartorial Eloquence" ..
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 April 2014 12:57 (ten years ago) link