This play is run, my loveYour time has come, my loveI pledge my troth to lady Jane
i don't think any other hit song uses "troth"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 5 May 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link
"Ariel" has been described as a "quirkily irresistible and uncategorizable pop song about a free spirited, music loving, vegetarian Jewish girl", from Paramus, New Jersey, where he grew up.[8] It is the only Billboard Top 40 song to contain the word Paramus. It describes the girl Ariel, "standing by the [since dismantled] waterfall at Paramus Park", one of the many shopping malls in Paramus.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 13:07 (seven years ago) link
Oh come on (Wikipedia, not DocC), proper place names don't count.
Like, has there been another song that has "Palisades", or "Itchycoo", or or or ..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:16 (seven years ago) link
Haha yeah I know I know, and in fact I've already cited that song itt for its brilliant use of "vertical hold," just couldn't resist that Wiki-graph.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link
How about "Representative"?
Alexei Sayle, "Ullo John Got A New Motor"
― Mark G, Friday, 21 July 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
"Stimuli," in The Adverts' "Gary Gilmore's Eyes."
― Noel Emits, Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:45 (seven years ago) link
groos ELO - "don't bring me down"
― Steve Shasta, Monday, February 4, 2008 2:28 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i got this record recently and was playing it for a friend and they asked me what they were singing during the chorus. i always thought it was "Don't bring me down, oooooh!" then i looked at the lyric sheet. lol it is actually written out "grooss":
A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Lynne shouts "Bruce!" In the liner notes of the ELO compilation Flashback and elsewhere, Lynne has explained that he is singing a made-up word, "Grooss," which some have suggested sounds like the German expression "Gruß." After the song's release, so many people had misinterpreted the word as "Bruce" that Lynne actually began to sing the word as "Bruce" for fun at live shows.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Bring_Me_Down
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Bring_Me_Down
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 13 October 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
He has to make his own entertainment..
― Mark G, Friday, 13 October 2017 14:12 (six years ago) link
Stevie Wonder, "I Was Made to Love Her" has 'boohooed', though I think the Beach Boys sing 'hoohooed' in their version.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Monday, 23 October 2017 10:59 (six years ago) link
I saw someone on the bus in Prestwich with a record called (I think) 'Ted Christie's Brexit Bangers' but I can find any mention of it on discogs so chances are I got the name wrong
I did find this instead, though I wouldn't go as far as brexit banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36gK-6kkXiI
― saer, Monday, 23 October 2017 11:43 (six years ago) link
The definition of "Hit" has changed so much in nine years...
― Mark G, Monday, 23 October 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
"placenta" - "Lightning Crashes" / Live― Pillbox, Tuesday, January 22, 2008
"placenta" -- live, lightning crashes― bug, Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Lightning Crashes -- Placenta? As in..."Her placenta falls to the floor"― LimbsKing, Friday, April 18, 2014
I came here to post "placenta" and found that it's been posted three times already. What a weird hit, by the way.
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:16 (six years ago) link
C'mon people, We can find another placenta!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
.. guess not.
― Mark G, Friday, 15 December 2017 11:39 (six years ago) link
"cosmonaut" on "Low" ?
― the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 December 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
"Scampi" in "That's What I Like"
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Friday, 15 December 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
"London Calling" may be the only song with "truncheon."
I wonder also about "loch" in "Synchronicity II."
"Puttin' on the Ritz" may be the only one with "spats."
― Darth be not proud (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 December 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
"Dweeb" in "Self Esteem" ?
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:43 (six years ago) link
Came here to say 'Thunderdome' and was disappointed to find that it was already mentioned but then I remembered 'nicety' from the song of the same name, so that.
― St. Boniface, patron saint of boner faces (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 February 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
"chrysalis" in Kacey Musgraves' "Butterflies" comes to mind
― Indexed, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
“mentality” (in “No Tears Left to Cry”)?
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
mentality is in "I've Got You Under My Skin"
― Josefa, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
Ah ok. How about “compass” — from R.E.M.’s “Stand”?
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
Compass is in Human Behaviour by Bjork
― thomasintrouble, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
Compass is also in "Get Me to the Church on Time" from My Fair Lady
― Josefa, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
Were those, like, Hot 100 hits? (Not sure how we're defining "hit" for purposes of this thread...)
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
Like if other charts count, I could say "detachable penis" or whatever...
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link
feel like stevie wonder must've used "chrysalis"somewhere...
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
Feels like "Get Me to the Church on Time" should count as a hit since it's one of the more memorable tunes from one of the best selling original cast albums of all time, one which incidentally predates the Hot 100
― Josefa, Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
I won't quibble, but it doesn't quite feel like an apples-to-apples comparison...
How about "serpentine," from "Welcome to the Jungle" (#7 on Hot 100)?
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
"Serpentine Fire" by Earth, Wind, and Fire (#13 Billboard pop chart)
― Josefa, Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
If you're going all the way up to 100, then Wire's "Outdoor Miner" got to No. 51 and has 'serpentine' too. And 'silverfish'.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
I don't consider that a hit song though.
Yeah I feel like it should at least be in the, well, Top 40 to qualify as a "hit"
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
(btw I appreciate and am awed by Josefa's instant song knowledge!)
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
oh thank you
Backing up a bit, I think "nicety" is a good submission. The word has probably been in songs before (hits, I don't know) but not in the way that Michel'le is using it, which is as an adjective meaning nice + nasty. Which puts it in the category of words/usages that were coined just for one song. Another one like that is the verb "surry" which was coined by Laura Nyro just for the song "Stoned Soul Picnic."
― Josefa, Thursday, 21 February 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
I saw 'nicety' and quickly thought of Massive Attack's 'Safe From Harm' but that's niceties anyway.
― nashwan, Friday, 22 February 2019 00:02 (five years ago) link
I submit for consideration, from Another Bad Creation's 'Iesha', the word 'monkeybars'. Possibly also the word 'Nintendo'. I was tempted to go even further and include 'Cheerios' but then I remembered that it also appears in Al Jarreau's 'Mornin''.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 March 2019 13:10 (five years ago) link
"Nintendo" is a key line of American Hi-Fi's "Flavor of the Weak," a US modern rock hit in 2001.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 March 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
do-lang do-lang do-lang
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 15 March 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
Also "Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis" in "Juicy," probably the highest-profile use.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 March 2019 13:36 (five years ago) link
All right, but I'm doubling down on 'monkeybars'.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 March 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
https://www.lyrics.com/lyrics/monkey%20bars
― Mark G, Friday, 15 March 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
Those are certainly some search results.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 March 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
Don't wanna be your monkey barsFall in, fall out
― ☮, 🐸 (peace, man), Friday, 15 March 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
9 years ago today, @ladygaga's "Born This Way" debuted at #1 on the Hot 100.It became the first #1 song in history to feature the words "gay, lesbian, bi, transgender" in its lyrics and the chart's 1000th #1 single overall.— chart data (@chartdata) February 26, 2020
is it also the first #1 song in history to feature the word "chola"?
(unrelated pet peeve about tweets like this: 'today ___ years ago' always really means 'on the chart dated today minus ____ years', which is rather different indeed. billboard's charts have always been post-dated: "born this way," for example, was actually revealed to have reached #1 on feb. 16th, 2011 -- not feb. 26th, which is the date indicated on that week's chart.)
― dyl, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 07:52 (four years ago) link
In "My True Story" by the Jive Five I've always heard the opening couplet as "...about two lovers that I knew well," but many online sources give the line as "that I bewail," which is actually how I now hear it. (Although it seems if one internet source gets a lyric wrong, a billion others pick up that error.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glOMdK8gfbo
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link
10cc have a few of these:
bullhorn / padre / slugs ("Rubber Bullets)
Milton (as in John) ("The Dean and I")
Getty/ Rothschild/ Howard Hughes ("The Wall Street Shuffle")
Crosby (as in Bing)/ toupees ("Silly Love")
minestrone/ parmesan/ lasagne/ constipated/ Pluto/ Pisa/ crepe suzette ("Life Is a Minestrone')
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, 1 March 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
Bullhorn = "I Don't Like Mondays"
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 March 2020 13:26 (four years ago) link
Padre = "Green Green Grass of Home"
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 March 2020 13:29 (four years ago) link