"bruise" - Natasha Bedingfield "I Bruise Easily"
-- ailsa, Monday, 21 January 2008 23:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
"Bruise/Pristine/Serene/We were born to lose"
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry, that was a response to snoball claiming it was just in The Reflex.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ Ah, so it ("reet petite") does (appear in that Dexy's song), right at the beginning of the song too! (several xposts)
"shroud", "backwash", "carbon", and "alignment" from "Sound Of The Crowd" by Human League. "capitalise" and "socialistic" from "Yellow Pearl" by Phil Lynott.
― snoball, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah but Dexy's got it wrong and sang "It was real you see"..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I've just gone and listened to the record and it does sound like "it was real you see". Excuse anyway for the TOTP "Jockey Wilson" clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eCOll4T-zo
― snoball, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
what about the Van Morrison version? I'm sure that's reet petite as well.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Errrrr, I don't have the VM version, so I had to search on the 'Tube for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDnxmGzQ2Mo Yep, Van the Man definately sings it as "reet petite". Kevin Rowland's not exactly known for singing clearly - took me ages to work out what he was singing on "Geno"!
― snoball, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link
"placenta" - "Lightning Crashes" / Live
― Pillbox, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:42 (sixteen years ago) link
copacetic - Local H ("Bound for the Floor")
― Tape Store, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie wasn't really a hit song. The lead track was A Century Of Fakers. I stand by my buck-toothed.
― Alba, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Luftballons, all 99 of them. Nena.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 04:05 (sixteen years ago) link
"camber sands" "harold robbins" and "mantlepiece" all from Squeeze ("Pulling Muscles")
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 04:25 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^mussels
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
"Double jeu" and "Yherushalaim" in Army Of Lovers' "Crucified",
"Filet mignon" in Ciara's "1,2 Step",
"Bourgeoisie" in Madonna's "Music".
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 04:37 (sixteen years ago) link
"Et cetera" in Eleanor by The Turtles
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 04:45 (sixteen years ago) link
"Hypermediocrity" - "Emerge" by Fischerspooner
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 05:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I love that there are other fans of that Cymarron song here.
Here were the rest: accomplished - dunno that Jah Wobble song; I was going for Tavares, "It Only Takes a Minute" carbon - "Ride the Tiger" and "Woodstock" gunnin' - "Do It Again" misconstrued - "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" prefix - Smokey/Miracles, "Yesterlove" vibes - Jefferson Starship, "Miracles" whippoorwill - "Phila. Freedom"
― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
"Depoliticise", "linoleum", "bompalompalomp", "ramalamadingdong" in Le Tigre's "Deceptacon".
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"ramalamadingdong" is also in "ramalamadingdong" Rocky Sharpe and the Replays.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 09:56 (sixteen years ago) link
"Sericulture" from Being Boiled by Human League
(I suspect) "Argonauts" from Birdhouse In Your Soul by They Might be Giants
"Toulouse" from State of the Nation by New Order.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link
xp to Joseph mcCombs
'whippoorwill' appears in 'I'm So Lonesome I could Cry'
― sonofstan, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
vibes - Jefferson Starship, "Miracles"
"One (Always Hardcore)" by Scooter
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Sericulture is good... Also from the League 'dehumanisation (is a very big word, it's been around since Richard the third)' can't remember the song.......
― sonofstan, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Has "backhander" ever been used elsewhere than in Scritti Politti's "Perfect Way"?
Scritti Politti may have others that fit in this thread too. Although "Aretha Franklin" has been namechecked in at least one Steely Dan hit as well.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyway, "Chocolate Cake" by Crowded House is the only song that namechecks Andrew Lloyd Webber, or at least the only one expressing the wish that Lloyd Webbers trousers fall down when he bows to the queen and the crowd. :)
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
"Mork and Mindy"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Doo-wah-diddy-diddy-dum-diddy-doo
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
C'mon, does wacky jibberish really count?
Mogey-pah
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
There was a song called "Copasetic" by The Rulers, available on the Club Ska '67 comp. I don't know if that counts as a hit. It's a crucial song.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link
'oceanography' In The Navy
― Alan, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link
"tardis" in "Doctorin' The Tardis" by The Timelords. "twister" in "Man On The Moon" by REM.
― snoball, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link
"salute" in "School's Out" by Alice Cooper.
― snoball, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:44 (sixteen years ago) link
"excitations" in "Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys. The things I will do to avoid work...
― snoball, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link
"For those about to rock, we ______ you" AC/DC
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
What's that flyin up there is it a bird? is it a plane? or is it a _____ (Chubby Checker, let's twist again)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
"bosh bosh bosh, loadsamoney" in "Doctorin' The Tardis" by The Timelords.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
"hookah", "chessboard", "mushroom", "caterpillar", and "doormouse" in "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane.
― snoball, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 13:04 (sixteen years ago) link
"skibobble" in "I Wish" by Skee Lo.
― snoball, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link
"Notwithstanding" and "contractual" in Legal Man by B&S "Brewers droop", "gut lord" and "porklife" in Parklife by Blur "Terylene" in Filmstar by Suede
And I'm not sure this counts, but "Cemetry" and "plague-arise"
Didn't Loadsamoney have a hit song called Loadsamoney? (x-p)
― Madchen, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 13:14 (sixteen years ago) link
What's that flyin up there is it a bird? is it a plane? or is it a _____
The answer is Twister, innit?
Twister was also mentioned in "Man On The Moon" by R.E.M.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
"caterpillar"
ever heard of a little number by The Cure called THE CATERPILLAR
― ledge, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
"One night in Bangkok" has a chessboard in it.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
"Asp" shows up in Man on the Moon. Only three letters! Now wracking brain for an unmatched two-letter word.
― dad a, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Not in so many words.
― ledge, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, just checked and it's "chess boys" so OK.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Do acronyms count? Ice-T, "OG"
― dad a, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
-- dad a, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:28 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Shitload of rap hits contain this, most notably "Cold As Ice" by MOP
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
All from the same song: Cornflake Eggmen Walrus Custard Crabalocker Fishwife Priestess Texpert Semolina Pilchard Eiffel Tower Edgar Allen Poe
And even then I don't count nonsense words such as "Goo goo goo joob"
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 24 January 2008 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm sure some of those are not unique.
― Mark G, Thursday, 24 January 2008 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link
cornflake girl, for one
― blueski, Thursday, 24 January 2008 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link