no fear, cavalier, renegade and steer cleara tournament, a tournament, a tournament of flies
― how's life, Friday, 18 April 2014 13:16 (ten years ago) link
That song has too many words in it, invalidates half the songs on this thread
― Vinnie, Friday, 18 April 2014 14:05 (ten years ago) link
Does "Hormones" appear in any other song besides "Genie in a Bottle" ?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 08:01 (ten years ago) link
''Area Codes'' for one...
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
'streamers' in 'Cars and Girls'?
― soref, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 14:30 (ten years ago) link
Dean Friedman's "Ariel" has "vertical hold" - and, a long shot, "Jewish."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 27 April 2014 03:23 (ten years ago) link
"faculty" in Bowie's 'Blue Jean'
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 27 April 2014 11:47 (ten years ago) link
"trepidation" in pet shop boys - being boring
― clouds, Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:43 (ten years ago) link
"congruent" in Eve 6's "Leech." Not a great song by any stretch, but came on my ipod this morning.
― LimbsKing, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
"finagling" in "Chug-a-Lug"
"chancellor" and probably a few other things in "Triumph"
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 13:09 (ten years ago) link
Sheryl Crow discussion elsewhere suggests "vending machine," "intellectualism," "brochure," and "nicotine" in "Every Day Is A Winding Road."
"Communist" on "Soak Up The Sun" has to have appeared elsewhere. "Crummy," maybe?
"If It Makes You Happy" has some good proper names (Geronimo, Benny Goodman) and "mosquito" which is probably in a bunch of things I can't place right this second (not to mention "Red Mosquito" by Pearl Jam, which wasn't a commercial single but barely cracked the Modern Rock top 40 anyway).
"A Change Will Do You Good" had "Falstaff," "bottom-feeder," "cement shoes" and "jack off."
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 May 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
Also - "poultry" on "Long Tall Glasses"?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 May 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
(nothing to do with Sheryl Crow)
'Sodomy' in "What's My Age Again?"
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 May 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
got halfway through typing "it's in 'Disarm'" before I caught myself.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 May 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
"mosquito" which is probably in a bunch of things I can't place right this second
Smells Like Teen Spirit?
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 30 May 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
(slaps forehead, squashes mosquito)
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 May 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
This wasn't a big hit, but...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOe5ie_cZa0
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 May 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
"2011" in Chromeo's Jealous, which is currently a modest hit in Canada.
― MarkoP, Friday, 30 May 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
there's also loco mosquito by iggy, a jonathan richman song about them, and I think a Stan Ridgway solo track
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Friday, 30 May 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
"Alabaster?" (Wrapped Around Your Finger)
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Friday, 30 May 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
In a few things - discussed upthread. And wow, that Ike & Tina b-side is something.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 May 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah, written by Tina's sister about Ike!
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 May 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
In honor of the current poll:
'Braille' in "Subterranean Homesick Blues" 'Mathematicians' in "Tangled Up In Blue"
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 May 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
[Sheryl Crow's] "A Change Will Do You Good" had "Falstaff," "bottom-feeder," "cement shoes" and "jack off."
― Doctor Casino, Friday, May 30, 2014 2:02 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also while there are a few hit songs with generic microwave ovens in them, only "A Change Will Do You Good" has a RADARANGE™
― Lee626, Friday, 30 May 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
tentatively going to suggest 'ciggies' in Looking for Linda by Hue And Cry
― Groovy Wordbender (soref), Thursday, 5 June 2014 07:57 (ten years ago) link
also possibly 'errand' and 'intercity'?
― Groovy Wordbender (soref), Thursday, 5 June 2014 08:05 (ten years ago) link
Also - "poultry" on "Long Tall Glasses"?― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 May 2014 18:06 (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 May 2014 18:06 (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I thought this was 'poetry'..?
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 June 2014 12:40 (ten years ago) link
"carbon and monoxide"
Hall and Oates--She's Gone
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 5 June 2014 13:19 (ten years ago) link
"I am a man of the road, a hobo by name / I don't seek entertainment, just poultry and game." He just showed up for the food, but if dancing's what's required, well, then...
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 5 June 2014 13:26 (ten years ago) link
"An intercity disco..." is in We Like To Party by the Vengaboys but since you mention Hue & Cry, can I propose "pseudo-satisfaction" from Labour Of Love?
― everything, Thursday, 5 June 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
Well, that's two words, but 'pseudo' hmmmmmm
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 June 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link
pseudonym in "babooshka"
― clouds, Friday, 6 June 2014 13:18 (ten years ago) link
On "This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide": "zoomy," maybe "mobilize" and "hoot."
― Doctor Casino, Monday, February 10, 2014 1:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oops - there's a "hoot-owl" in "Wildfire."
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
anyone besides the Soft Boys ever sing about Anglepoise lamps?
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Monday, 9 June 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link
Aw man, I just heard "She's Gone" and came to post "monoxide," but kornrulez beat me 5 days ago.
― wild-eyed, high-volume bursts of pious indignation (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
"Septuagenarians" in Deadeye Dick's "New Age Girl"
― Frontier Psychiatrist, Friday, 20 June 2014 12:40 (ten years ago) link
Pretzels: Those hazy crazy days of summer, Nat King Cole
Cashews: Let me take you there, Betty Boo
― Mark G, Friday, 20 June 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link
"newsroom" in "Dirty Laundry"?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link
In "Creque Alley": "mugwumps," "Swarthmore."
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 1 August 2014 23:26 (ten years ago) link
"Radiohead" — Katy Perry, 'The One That Got Away'
― dont even make sense right now because of my shoulder medication (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 August 2014 04:57 (ten years ago) link
There was a talking heads song called Radio Head, it's where they took the name from. Was a single and got to #52 in UK charts.
― koogs, Saturday, 2 August 2014 05:51 (ten years ago) link
I am not unaware. But even if you consider "Radio Head" a hit, it still doesn't include the word* "Radiohead"
*proper noun, but that counts, yeah? e.g. "Radarrange" mentioned upthread
― dont even make sense right now because of my shoulder medication (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 August 2014 07:13 (ten years ago) link
Close enough for jazz
― koogs, Saturday, 2 August 2014 08:03 (ten years ago) link
"mugwump jism" appears in Bomb the Bass's "Bug Powder Dust"
― why you gotta be Joe Root? (Daphnis Celesta), Saturday, 2 August 2014 10:12 (ten years ago) link
The Roots namedrop Radiohead (and Paranoid Android) in "Don't See Us", I guess that wasn't a hit though? But Avril Lavigne's Here's to Never Growing Up also mentiones Radiohead by name, and that one made it to the #20 on the US charts, and #14 on the UK charts.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 2 August 2014 10:40 (ten years ago) link
woah, I was totally (blissfully) ignorant of that Avril Lavigne song until now... weird that she & KP both mention "Radiohead" within the first two lines of the song. who is this kind of thing supposed to appeal to, anyway??
― dont even make sense right now because of my shoulder medication (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
Which Vaccuous Pop Irritant's "Influences" list is this?
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 23:26 (ten years ago) link
Kind of a difference between "namedropping" & "prominently using in lyrics" though
― dont even make sense right now because of my shoulder medication (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link
Like, I sorta get the work that "Radiohead" is doing in the Katy Perry song—the 'sophisticated' dude, maybe a year or two of college under his belt, seducing the teenage girl with his weird music &/or drugs—but Avril's seems like it almost *has to be* personal & sincere, because I can't read any meaning into it whatsoever.
― dont even make sense right now because of my shoulder medication (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link