has the c-word ('cuckold' or 'cuck') ever appeared in a hit song? asking for a friend...
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Monday, 22 August 2016 03:18 (eight years ago) link
Megadeth Anarchy In The UK The Libertines What A Waster And I think there was a Paul Weller one, but I can't remember which apart from that it was in lieu of the Libertines (i.e. after it)
― Mark G, Monday, 22 August 2016 09:30 (eight years ago) link
Unless you actually mean cuckold or cuck. In which case, no I don't think so.
― Mark G, Monday, 22 August 2016 09:31 (eight years ago) link
Is your friend a Trump fan/the author of We Hunted the Mammoth?
― emil.y, Monday, 22 August 2016 12:37 (eight years ago) link
"Antibody," in Smash Mouth's "Then The Morning Comes."
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Friday, 23 September 2016 01:14 (seven years ago) link
"Quotient" in Led Zeppelin's "Rain Song"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 23 September 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
"Profitful", it's a real word alright. And a real hit, measuring 30+ on the rock hit scale, uh.
― sbahnhof, Friday, 23 September 2016 05:44 (seven years ago) link
You link the song instead of telling us what it is?
― Mark G, Friday, 23 September 2016 06:31 (seven years ago) link
For the record: Rage Against The Machine, "No Shelter." One of their best singles IMO. Funny, 'cause that song's actually been in my head this week and I've run my brain over that line/word more than once.
Although, looking it up, I'm sad to realize the first line is not "The main attraction is retchin'!" and that he is not saying either "Chained to the drain" or "Funk right, vulture - Americana" in the pre-chorus.
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Friday, 23 September 2016 15:30 (seven years ago) link
ughhhhhhhh now it's really been in my head all evening - just the opening "werrr-REW, werrr-REW," leading up to and including "The main attraction is retchin'- like the number they nubbled to numb!" and then it starts over.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 23 September 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
From Matchbox 20's 'Real World': 'honcho'
(Thank you, store radio station, for triggering the now incessant mental repetition of this song which I'd blessedly forgotten.)
― People Have No Idea The Support (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 October 2016 12:35 (seven years ago) link
Clearly you missed out on my Matchbox 20 poll! :-(
''Honcho'' is also on T.I.'s ''About The Money'' though IIRC the video subtitles it with a variant spelling.
― DOCTOR CAISNO, BYCREATIVELABBUS (Doctor Casino), Monday, 17 October 2016 13:01 (seven years ago) link
Not counting semi-word "upriser," "Give It Away" includes "kaiser," "hoosegow," "kingpin," and "pauper."
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Monday, 19 December 2016 01:06 (seven years ago) link
"pauper" is in "That's Life": I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
― soref, Monday, 19 December 2016 01:20 (seven years ago) link
Oof, yeah, I had a feeling 'pauper' might be a can of worms. Just remembered a similar use in ''King of Spain'' and there must be others.
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Monday, 19 December 2016 05:01 (seven years ago) link
I was about to throw this out re:"Kaiser", but doh! Instrumental.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fRS5nxYxoo
― a full playlist of presidential apocalypse jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 December 2016 05:22 (seven years ago) link
"Hoosegow" is used in W.A.S.P.'s "Blind in Texas". :-)
― A. Begrand, Monday, 19 December 2016 06:03 (seven years ago) link
"Kingpin" is in J Lo's "I'm Gonna Be Alright," in the rap part by Nas
― Josefa, Monday, 19 December 2016 06:05 (seven years ago) link
'Upsot' in 'Jingle Bells' (maybe also 'Lank')
similarly 'apparel' from 'Deck The Halls'
― koogs, Monday, 19 December 2016 08:45 (seven years ago) link
You look so perfect standing thereIn my American Apparel underwear
5 Seconds of Summer - "She Looks So Perfect"
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 December 2016 08:51 (seven years ago) link
pretty sure "apparel" must feature in at least one Jethro Tull song too but
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 December 2016 08:55 (seven years ago) link
'bruising' in Basia's 'Cruising for Bruising'
― Froyo On My Slacks (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 December 2016 13:20 (seven years ago) link
'prostrate' in Indigo Girls' 'Closer to Fine'
― Froyo On My Slacks (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 December 2016 13:21 (seven years ago) link
Virility, procurer, bordellos, opium, Twickenham from Scott Walker's "Jackie". Opium probably not.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Monday, 19 December 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
Politics !
"The Politics of Dancing" - Re-flex
(actually, I know of one other, see how long it takes....)
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 December 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
'Sowing The Seeds Of Love'
― nashwan, Thursday, 22 December 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
'Politician granny' iirc
― the year of diving languorously (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2016 16:12 (seven years ago) link
also "the politics of greed" towards the end
― nashwan, Thursday, 22 December 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
oh aye
― the year of diving languorously (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
''Politic'' on ''Incarcerated Scarfaces,'' too. Also ''politicriffs'' in ''Channel Z.'' Pretty sure both charted.
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 22 December 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
Um... "no fronts, no tricks, no soapbox politics"?
― emil.y, Thursday, 22 December 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
"Landscaping" in Busta's "Dangerous."
Thought of another "pauper" - "Love In An Elevator."
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 24 December 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
"bubonic" in "Gin & Juice" ?
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Friday, 30 December 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
Your user name just reminded me: has "Neanderthal" been used in any other hit besides "Neanderthal Man" by Hotlegs (No. 2 in the UK on 15 August 1970)?
holly valance - kiss kiss - uk no. 1 in may 2002
― new noise, Friday, 30 December 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
The line 'her boyfriend is neanderthal" chimes, but don't remember from where.
― Mark G, Friday, 30 December 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link
'my rival is neanderthal', sting, seven days, no. 25 in the uk in 1993
― brekekekexit collapse collapse (ledge), Friday, 30 December 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
I do now: "Sister Europe" The Psychedelic Furs.
Oh wait, you are right.
― Mark G, Friday, 30 December 2016 22:47 (seven years ago) link
I looked up Frozen Ghost's 1988 Canadian hit "Pauper in Paradise" and found that Gino Vanelli had earlier done a whole album titled Pauper in Paradise.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Friday, 30 December 2016 23:16 (seven years ago) link
Did all the Brits here really not remember that their national anthem contains the line "Confound their politics"?
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Friday, 30 December 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link
I'd be surprised if there was a Brit ilxor who gave a fuck about our national anthem tbh. I don't know anything past the first line.
Not sure if a national anthem counts as a "hit" song anyway though I suppose it does in a way
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 30 December 2016 23:27 (seven years ago) link
Be more surprising if they did remember. Difficult to remember something you never knew in the first place basically.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 30 December 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link
Fuck a national anthem.
― emil.y, Saturday, 31 December 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
is Crimes of Passion by Rough Trade the only hit song to include the word "moistness"?
― soref, Sunday, 1 January 2017 03:29 (seven years ago) link
Methuselah
(on Christine & The Queens - Tilted)
― nashwan, Thursday, 5 January 2017 11:46 (seven years ago) link
I don't know if peaking at #93 on the UK charts counts as a "hit," but:
gelignite
"There Goes a Tenner," Kate Bush
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 13 January 2017 13:11 (seven years ago) link
Ooh...
― Mark G, Friday, 13 January 2017 22:16 (seven years ago) link
Blimey, its the internet!
http://www.lyrics.com/lyrics/gelignite
Anyway, Siouxsie and the Banshees 'Fireworks' , #22
― Mark G, Friday, 13 January 2017 22:22 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Bronski Beat "It ain't necessarily so" has Methuselah featured.
― Mark G, Friday, 13 January 2017 22:25 (seven years ago) link
That's not really a Bronski Beat tune, it's from Porgy and Bess originally.
― Tuomas, Monday, 16 January 2017 10:05 (seven years ago) link
Mark G isn't 7 years old, so I imagine he knows that already.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 16 January 2017 10:18 (seven years ago) link