"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
In "Creque Alley": "mugwumps," "Swarthmore."
"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
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 (ten years ago) link
Unfurled ("Doctor My Eyes").
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 August 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
If you discount Neil Diamond's "America"
― Mark G, Sunday, 10 August 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
There you go--never knew that. Maybe "libido" in "Bust a Move"?
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 August 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
"A mosquito/My libido"--from "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 10 August 2014 22:50 (ten years ago) link
Of course...I quit!
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 August 2014 23:18 (ten years ago) link
Here's your coat..
― Mark G, Monday, 11 August 2014 06:57 (ten years ago) link
"Calgon," in Mariah's "Shake It Off."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 7 September 2014 18:54 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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
"Eggy Bread" - Dominique - The Singing Nun
OK, so it's a translation of "pains dorés"
http://lyricstranslate.com/en/dominique-dominique.html
― Mark G, Monday, 20 October 2014 09:50 (nine years ago) link
Did anyone (most likely a rapper) beat Bruno Mars to "grenade"?
― Vomits of a Missionary (bernard snowy), Monday, 20 October 2014 13:02 (nine years ago) link
"Illiterate" in "Big Pimpin'"? Surely not?
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 20 October 2014 13:11 (nine years ago) link
Would you call "Fiery Jack" by the Fall a hit?
― Mark G, Monday, 20 October 2014 13:42 (nine years ago) link
...is this a trick question?
― Vomits of a Missionary (bernard snowy), Monday, 20 October 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
In honor of today's Don'n'Glenn selection:
"Wayfarers" (as in sunglasses) in "The Boys of Summer"
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Thalidomide - Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Saturday, 13 December 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
Telluride- Glenn Frey's "Smuggler's Blues"
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 December 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
'ambassadress' in Deep & Wide & Tall by Aztec Camera
― soref, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 07:36 (nine years ago) link
"fancy" - "fancy", iggy azalea
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 09:29 (nine years ago) link
^^eh? It's not even the first hit called "Fancy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psOSOGQQijc
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 10:00 (nine years ago) link
^^Possible entrant from that "Fancy": 'benevolent"
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 10:08 (nine years ago) link
:/
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 10:35 (nine years ago) link
I heard Tempted by Squeeze today and got to wondering if there are any other hits that have the word 'pyjamas'
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
Hah- I heard Up The Junction by Squeeze the other day and wondered if any other hits had the word "nifty".
― everything, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
"Confidante" on "Thank You For Being A Friend"?
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 8 February 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
this thread's buzzkill… http://www.lyrics.net/lyrics/CONFIDANTE
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Sunday, 8 February 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
but how many of those other songs were hits?
― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Sunday, 8 February 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link
Phew, been racking my brain all day trying to remember what Lovin' Spoonful song has 'confidante' in the lyrics!
― Utterly huggers (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 February 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
Hardly a buzzkill, it doesn't even have "Thank You For Being a Friend" itself! Dismissed as unreliable.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 9 February 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link
^probably because 'confidante' can also be spelled without the e
http://www.lyrics.net/lyrics/confidant
(results include Paris Hilton's 'Stars Are Blind', lol)
― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Monday, 9 February 2015 01:57 (nine years ago) link
"Confidante" immediately sent me to "Venus and Mars / Rock Show" Macca/Wings
― Mark G, Monday, 9 February 2015 04:29 (nine years ago) link
Me too, but I completely forgot it was a single. Hiding in plain sight.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 9 February 2015 06:46 (nine years ago) link
that recent nick jonas song uses the word "hellish." if that's ever been used in a hit before, not nearly as hamhandedly...
― soyrev, Monday, 9 February 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
"dependencies" in "Orinoco Flow"?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 6 March 2015 13:22 (nine years ago) link