Maybe even "rammin'" from same song.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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Tricky's "Christiansands" is probably the only well-known (outside Finland) tune to mention Helsinki.
Surely the only international hit tune to mention Kristiansand anyway ;)
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Bolton, Barnsley, Nelson, Colne, Burnley Bradford, Buxton, Crewe, Warrington, Widnes, Wigan, Leeds, Northwich, Nantwich, Knutsford, Hull, Sale, Salford, Southport, Leigh, Derby, Kearsley Keighley Maghull, Harrogate, Huddersfield, Oldham, Lancs, Grimsby, Glossop, Hebden Bridge,
It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North.
Brighouse, Bootle, Featherstone, Speke, Runcorn, Rotherham, Rochdale, Barrow, Morecambe, Macclesfield, Lytham St. Annes Clitheroe, Cleethorpes, The M62,
Pendlebury, Prestwich, Preston, York, Skipton, Scunthorpe, Scarborough-on-Sea, Chester, Chorley, Cheedle Hulme, Ormskirk, Accrington Stanley, and Leigh, Ossett, Otley, Ikley Moor, Sheffield, Manchester, Castleford, Skem, Doncaster, Dewsbury, Hali-fax, Bingley, Bramall, Are all in the North.
It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North.
It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North, It's Grim Up North
PICK THE CHANGE OUT OF THAT LOT
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Most of those cities have probably been mentioned in other songs too. Only not at the same time.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
"cities"
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
someone must've said "fancy that" in a hit song once. maybe jay-z.
-- blueski, Monday, January 21, 2008 4:01 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
lol @ the idea of an American using that phrase
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Surely this thread hasn't gotten this far without a mention of the word "prerogative".
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, Jay-Z's not the kind of guy who'd drop camp-ass British expressions into his lyrics. xp
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
"Tractatus" immediately springs to mind, in Gettin and Havin and Holdin by Scritti Politti
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Y'know that bit in the thread title where it says "hit", right?
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link
99 Palavers But A Nincompoop Bain't Being One Of Them
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah yes, I forgot about the 'hit' element. Still, you can't argue with managing to squeeze the word Tractatus into any song!
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i came to this thread to say Ilkley a la Grim Up North damn you Noodle .. however, i cant see too many people using the word : parthenogenesis other than the glorious Shriekback ?
Nemesis was a hit for them wasn't it ?
― mark e, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Is "Ossie's Dream" by Chas and Dave the only song to contain the word "blinder"?
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a good 60 percent of "It's Grim" that I'd be very surprised if they'd ever been in another hit song. I'm looking at you, Lytham St Anne's.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw Old Man Gartside in the pub on Saturday, should've grilled him on Wittgenstein
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
"Nemesis" by Shriekback rose to the dizzy heights of #94 in June 1985.
"Moot" ("Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield)
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
"True like the Tractatus" is kind of a joke that keeps on giving.
Re. "Ossie's Dream" - surely "trembly" is a nonce word there too?
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
"Defecating" - Fugees, Ready or Not
Defecating also mentioned in a Bowie song, I think We Are The Dead
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, probly several dozen Metal songs too. None of which were hits.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Faith Hill's "This Kiss" has "pivotal moment," "unthinkable," "unsinkable," and "centrifugal motion"; are all of those words in other hits? (And if so, where?)
Ricky Skagg's '80s country hit "Heartbroke" has "impending goodbyes," "consolation," "sheer madness," and "human condition."
Both deserve credit for a bunch of possibilities where you wouldn't expect them, if nothing else.
(Supertramp's "Logical Song" has plenty of multisyllabic words, but none of them as rare as the ones above, I don't think.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
"Fancy" - the Kinks use of defecate - Pink Floyd, "The Trial" (something something "fills me with the urge to defecate")
So, I guess not *that* uncommon.
― Sara Sara Sara, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"Jacques Derrida" (yes, it was a hit, kind of)
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
There was even an act called Fancy. A German 80s Europop act kind of influenced by Italo disco and partly famous across continental Europe for songs such as "Slice Me Nice" and "Chinese Eyes".
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link
PRS, Philippa, pencil case, fountain pen, luvvie (The Beautiful South, 'Song For Whoever') Shite (The Beautiful South, 'How Long's A Tear Take To Dry') Sandra Bullocks/sweaty bollocks (The Beautiful South, 'Don't Marry Her') Crow's feet (The Beautiful South, 'Prettiest Eyes') Anorexic (The Beautiful South, 'Perfect 10')
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
petrochemical - Laurie Anderson O Superman
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Manfred Mann via Springsteen's "Blinded By the Light" has "caliope," "dictaphone," "silicone," and "moonstone."
Actually, early Springteen lyrics might have a bunch of these, come to think of it...
― xhuxk, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" also has "albino" in addition to the ones I've already mentioned.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"Pringles" - Half Man Half Biscuit, Twenty Four Hour Garage People.
― nate woolls, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
"Horace" ("Diary Of Horace Wimp" - ELO)
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
(in terms of hit songs, i.e. not including Bonzo's "Intro & Outro")
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
The word "fancy" also appeared in "Fancy" by Bobbie Gentry (among several other hits), fwiw.
― xhuxk, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
"Fuck me" - Don't Marry Her (Beautiful South)
― Mark G, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
2Touch Me I'm Sick" never charted, did it? That's got "fuck me" in it as well.
― ailsa, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
How about "shindig" from that RHCP song which seems to be background music every time I turn on the TV (can't stop, addicted to the...)?
I'm sure there are more "bustles" out there (Try a Little Tenderness starts with one, I think), and as far as "internet" goes, did Beyonce's mother not teach her better than that?
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, there's quite a few fuck me songs, Wayne County, oh, and others. But the Beautiful South one charted. And had sincerity, rather than in a Gordon Ramsay sense, or like they just dropped a wine bottle or something.
― Mark G, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
email - "get here" by her out of Tears for fears..
― Mark G, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Wicket-keeper (Pavement, 'Carrot Rope') Ventolin, asthma, French bread, 24-hour garage, service station (Super Furry Animals, 'Hermann Loves Pauline') Vermillion, dartboard (Super Furry Animals, 'Demons')
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Ultravox - "Vienna": pizzicato? Was "Eisbär" a hit in Germany? Come to think of it, Peter Schilling's "Major Tom": stabilisers?
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Gordon Ramsay's Wonderful World Of Pop: "Fucking Imagine, Yes?" "Fucking God Save The Queen, Yes?" "Fucking You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve, Yes?" "Fucking Save Your Kisses For Me, Yes?"
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
"Rock The Casbah" most likely has maybe 3-5 otherwise unused words, I'd bet. All of 'em Arabic.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
"Taumatawhakatangihangakoayauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukypokaiwhenuakitanatahu" ("The Lone Ranger" by Quantum Jump)
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
what "Boogiemen" ? (xpost)
― Mark G, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
"Muezzin" and possibly "Bedouin" may be relevant here.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
xp Some people here have a very bizarre idea of what constitutes a "hit song." (Unless "hit song" in England just means "any song ever recorded.")
― xhuxk, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I was told the words "finger fucking" appeared (and was played unedited on the radio) in a Blondie hit, though I can't recall which one.
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"Macarena"!
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I can only think of one instance of the word 'dawdle' in a hit record:
"...Daily, except for Sunday, you dawdle into the cafe where you meet her each day..."
Sparks - this town aint big enough
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
It means any song which made the UK singles chart is what it means.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link