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
Indeed!
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, 1 March 2020 13:32 (four years ago) link
had to check, but sadly Weird Al's "Lasagna" - which also features "minestrone"! - did not chart.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 1 March 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
Getty is also in "Last Child" by Aerosmith (#21 in 1976)
― Josefa, Sunday, 1 March 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
"Puttin' on the Ritz" may be the only one with "spats."― Darth be not proud (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, December 15, 2017I feel like that song must have a few others as well. “Cutaway (Coat)”? “(Gary) Cooper”?
― Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Sunday, 1 March 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
re: "slugs," so weird to realize "Teenage Lobotomy" was not a single. not that it would have been a hit anyway, but its ubiquity/significance today certainly outstrips that of "Rubber Bullets."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 1 March 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
"Baccalà" in Rosemary Clooney's "Mambo Italiano"
― Josefa, Sunday, 1 March 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
It's a pity "The Worst Band in the World" flopped for 10cc as that had 'dharma bums' in the lyric.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, 1 March 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
"abacinate" - Slayer, Angel of Death
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 March 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
That’s not a hit song(!)
― Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Sunday, 1 March 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
oh please it was even on South Park
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 March 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
I don't recall ever hearing the word 'unfettered' in anything other than 'Free Man in Paris'.
― whitehallunity, Monday, 2 March 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
'Kegels' in "WAP"
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
Didn't Chuck Berry... no.
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 August 2020 08:25 (three years ago) link
"Whomsoever" in Soundgarden's "Fell on Black Days."
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Monday, 2 August 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
It is also on the title track to the best-selling LP of all time
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 2 August 2021 13:42 (two years ago) link
*smacks forehead*
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Monday, 2 August 2021 13:48 (two years ago) link
Whomsoever be starting somethingWhomsoever be starting something
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 August 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
The doggone girl is whomsoevers.
― peace, man, Monday, 2 August 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
"Huarache," in "Surfin' USA," The Beach Boys
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link
Although maybe this was a hit and I missed it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S0ONyRctyE
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
gonna be a huarache tonight
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
“Huarache Raccoon”
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
“In Every Dream Home a Huarache”
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
here comes the story of the hua-ra-che
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 21:50 (two years ago) link
“amethyst” in Wang Chung’s “Dance Hall Days”
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 23 September 2021 11:10 (two years ago) link
xp huarache comes into Maria Muldaur's "Gringo en Mexico."
― Lily Dale, Friday, 24 September 2021 04:49 (two years ago) link
I had never heard Prefab Sprout before the other day, but apparently I have a very word-for-word memory for lyrics quoted in ilm threads, because I was getting my hair cut a few days ago, heard the word "infrared" in the song that was playing in the salon, and thought, "Ah, this must be 'Faron Young' by Prefab Sprout."
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 4 December 2021 15:28 (two years ago) link
"Naugahyde" in "Randy Scouse Git" by the Monkees, or "Alternate Title" as it was called on the UK where it was a number 2 hit.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 31 December 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
*in the UK
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 31 December 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
heard the word "infrared" … and thought, "Ah, this must be 'Faron Young' by Prefab Sprout."
This is pretty damn impressive, tbh.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 1 January 2022 07:45 (two years ago) link
The Beach Boy's "Custom Machine" has naugahyde in it; wasn't a single, but Bruce (Johnston) & Terry (Melcher)'s cover was and it charted at #85.
― Lee626, Saturday, 1 January 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
'Naugahyde' is in "Powerful Stuff" by the Fabulous Thunderbirds, featured on the Cocktail soundtrack and a #1 US Album Rock hit in '89.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 January 2022 02:59 (two years ago) link
Just in case ABBA's "No Doubt About It" gets released as a single": "forbearance".
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 2 January 2022 22:21 (two years ago) link