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
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
Hahaha, totally! "Go ahead, hate your neighbor" also echoed on Henson Cargill's super preachy country smash "Skip-A-Rope." Listening to "One Tin Soldier" now (the Coven version) for the first time - wow.
"Arizona" has several times made me want to start a thread about songs where the singer/protagonist comes off as a serious dick without meaning to. In the first verse he seems to be identifying with this hippie chick muse, standing against the misunderstanding crowd, but then he spends the whole rest of the thing demanding she ditch her passing bohemian affectations and hang around with him. I guess the idea is that he wishes the crowd would pray for her to make these changes that he's going to wheedle out of her? Love how he belts out the title, though.
Maybe the apex of this kind of thing is "Once You Understand" by the appropriately imperative band Think. The evocation of strife, generational struggle and troubled consciences actually takes over the entire track to where there's basically not even a song there.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 15:15 (nine years ago) link
Will definitely check that out, thanks, I can't get enough of that stuff. I have one for you too: Albert Hammond "The Free Electric Band".
The one kind of cool thing about Henson Cargill is that he actually got that song high up on country music radio....theoretically, one could hear "Okie From Muskogee" followed by "Skip-A-Rope"
I believe there's a clip on Sonny & Cher of "One Tin Soldier", poorly animated. Also it was the theme to Billy Jack.
― Vic Perry, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah, I got into "Free Electric Band" about a year ago, love that one. That's one where I actually do still feel the intensity of the guy's desire to run away and join the free electric band, even as I see the total bubblegummy fakeness and artificiality of the whole story.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
Never heard (or heard of) this Arizona song.
― Betel-chewing Equipment of East New Guinea (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
"Arizona" has several times made me want to start a thread about songs where the singer/protagonist comes off as a serious dick without meaning to.
Yeah, "Young Girl" Gary Puckett is another one..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
― Betel-chewing Equipment of East New Guinea (Tom D.), Tuesday, March 24, 2015 11:41 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I basically recommend it! Depends how much "CUT OFF YOUR INDIAN BRAID!" you can stomach I guess, but it's a pretty good turn-of-the-70s number. I think I got it off this wonderful thread: Trippy Country-tinged Pop with AM radio hooks from the late sixties to mid-seventies
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
#1 "Rock Me Amadeus" probably has a couple - "Amadeus," of course, but probably also "Freemason."
May be cheating but foreign-language lyrics in general would seem to kill in this category: "Der Kommissar," "99 Luftballons," "Michelle"...
― Ye Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
some possible candidates from "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald":
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Hey Doctor Casino I thought of another condescension song from 1969, #3, revolting, lame, entertaining: Bobby Sherman "Little Woman"
― Vic Perry, Friday, 27 March 2015 05:20 (nine years ago) link