Close enough for jazz
― koogs, Saturday, 2 August 2014 08:03 (nine 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 (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
"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
Lady GaGa's "Judas" has "condom" in it. I don't think I've heard it in another Top 10 hit before.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, June 16, 2011 4:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's on "Gone till November," (#3 UK, #7 US) but I guess it depends which version was being played.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 March 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
"Aesop" in Mark Lindsay's "Arizona" (US #10, 1969)
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:49 (nine years ago) link
That song is so entertaining. Maybe Arizona the hippie chick will stick around for the Aesop's fables. The singer is kind of unhinged throughout ("and all you can do is laugh at her, doesn't anybody know how to pray?") much as the long-haired freaky person singing "sign sign everywhere a sign" and the woman shrieking "go ahead hate your neighbor" are similarly only possible on the top of the pop charts for this brief period.
Essentials of my childhood - a lot of self-righteous grownups, some of whom were the "cool" schoolteachers.
― Vic Perry, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link