"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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
"newsroom" in "Dirty Laundry"?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
In "Creque Alley": "mugwumps," "Swarthmore."
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 1 August 2014 23:26 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
Close enough for jazz
― koogs, Saturday, 2 August 2014 08:03 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
Which Vaccuous Pop Irritant's "Influences" list is this?
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 23:26 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
Should clarify: the reference in the Avril song is something about 'singing along to Radiohead at the top of our lungs' (loose paraphrase). The song is called "Here's To Never Growing Up" & seems to imply that Avril spent/spends a lot of her days doing just that.
― dont even make sense right now because of my shoulder medication (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
Unfurled ("Doctor My Eyes").
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 August 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
If you discount Neil Diamond's "America"
― Mark G, Sunday, 10 August 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
There you go--never knew that. Maybe "libido" in "Bust a Move"?
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 August 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
"A mosquito/My libido"--from "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 10 August 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
Of course...I quit!
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 August 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
Here's your coat..
― Mark G, Monday, 11 August 2014 06:57 (nine years ago) link
"Calgon," in Mariah's "Shake It Off."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 7 September 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
Any song besides "Do It Again" with either "mourners" or "sanguine"?
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 7 September 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
Isn't 'mourners' in "He Stopped Loving Her Today"? Or least some other big Country songs (It is in "Long Black Limousine", but was there a hit version of that?)
― I Don't Wanna Ice Bucket With You (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 7 September 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
As far as I can tell, Elton John's "Country Comfort" was never a real hit anywhere (which seems odd to me -- I for sure remember it getting radio airplay back in the '70s: so maybe an AOR "hit" then, at least?), but I was still kind of tickled to notice today that it contains the word "hedgehog" (partially because hedgehogs, like Elton, come from a part of the world where country music doesn't.) Can't think off hand of any other hits where that animal is mentioned, but maybe I'm forgetting something obvious.
― xhuxk, Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
Hmmmm! Well, Nicki Minaj's "I been hot since Hedgehog / Sonic, the" was buried in a Young Money "deep cut," so that's no threat...
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 11 October 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
Probably wrong about this, but "Catalog" in "(Just Like) Romeo & Juliet".
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 October 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiUEfhyJg0o
My favourite song by them. Shocked, of course, that xhuxk isn't a huge Luna fan.
― clemenza, Monday, 20 October 2014 02:52 (nine years ago) link
I heard Rod Stewart's cover of "Country Comfort" on the radio a few times but never Elton John's.
― and in his absence, she (Lee626), Monday, 20 October 2014 04:00 (nine years ago) link