someone must've said "fancy that" in a hit song once. maybe jay-z.
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I want hard facts.
I did start The dearth of lyrics talking about "fancying" people but nothing on there is a hit single.
― Alba, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:02 (sixteen years ago) link
"I fancy this, I fancy that" ("Cool For Cats" by Squeeze)
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
"fancy" is also in Fit But You Know It by The Streets
xposts
― ailsa, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
wondering if any other UK hit other than Kraftwerk's mentions 'Autobahn'.
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
"Chip Shop" - Jilted John
― Mark G, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^There's a guy works down the....
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
"Checkers" ("MacArthur Park")
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
"Filibuster" - Birdhouse in Your Soul
― ledge, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
"Looptid", from Digital Underground's "Humpty Dance":
I get stoopid, I shoot an arrow like Cupid I use a word that don't mean nothin', like 'looptid'.
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
"Underpass" (There Is A Light That Never Goes Out)
― Alba, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:08 (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
REM - Man On The Moon
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah yes.
Alba xpost - you forgot "Underpass" by John Foxx.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link
"Alabaster" (Shoplifters Of The World Unite)
― Alba, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad, also.xp
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I never knew about Underpass. I am bad at this game.
― Alba, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Is "Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmmm" the only hit single to use the word "birthmarks"?
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
"Buck-toothed" (Ask)
― Alba, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Underpass also known as Underpants! cause that's what it sounds like he's shouting, ho ho.
"Alabaster" also in "Wrapped Around Your Finger"
― ledge, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
"anaesthetised" (Placebo 'Bitter End' - tho i know Girls Aloud use it in the present tense on 'No Good Advice')
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:13 (sixteen years ago) link
not a hit per se but 'underpass' also in well known 'Warm Leatherette'
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
"Peckham" ("'Ullo John Gotta New Motor?")
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/gallery/ha/haleas5000934812935510.jpg
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
"Apropos" - Sheryl Crow 'All I Wanna Do'
― Billy Dods, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Alba, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:12 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
^^^"bucktooth" is used on "La Pastie De La Bourgiese", which was the lead track on B&S's top 40 "3, 6, 9 Seconds Of Light" EP.
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:15 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
^^^Goldie Lookin' Chain - You Knows I Love You
rebuffed cordon bleu parsons (green)
all from 'you will always find me in the kitchen at parties'
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
argh palmers green i mean
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:18 (sixteen years ago) link
"Underpass" is surely represented in John Foxx' "Underpass" as well.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:18 (sixteen years ago) link
"The Clapping Song" has "materialize" and "rowboat". Any joy there?
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Not a hit song as such, but there's an early Elton John song entitled "Grimsby" which includes the line "No Cordon Bleu can match the beauty of your pies and peas."
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:20 (sixteen years ago) link
D12 - My Band "acapellas"
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
missy doesn't pluralise that in 'lose control'
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Caramba's "Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot" is crowded with words that have only ever appeared in that particular song:
Hubba hubba zoot zoot Num Deba uba zat zat Num A-hoorepa hoorepa a-huh-hoorepa a-num num A-num Hubba hubba zoot zoot Num Deba uba zat zat Num A-hoorepa hoorepa a-huh-hoorepa a-num num A-num Hubba hubba zoot zoot Deba uba zat zat a-num num Hubba hubba zoot zoot Deba uba zat zat a-num num A-hoorepa hoorepa a-huh-hoorepa a-num num A-hoorepa hoorepa HAH A-huh-hoorepa a-num num A-num Hubba hubba zoot zoot Deba uba zat zat a-num num Hubba hubba zoot zoot Deba uba zat zat a-num num A-hoorepa hoorepa a-huh-hoorepa a-num num A-hoorepa hoorepa a-huh-hoorepa HAH A-num num A-num Hubba hubba zoot zoot A-huh zoot a-huh Deba uba zat zat a-num num Hubba hubba zoot zoot Deba uba zat zat a-num num A-hoorepa hoorepa a-huh-hoorepa a-num num Num A-hoorepa hoorepa a-huh-hoorepa a-num num Deba uba zat zat A-hoorepa hoorepa a-huh-hoorepa a-num num a-num Hubba hubba zoot zoot deba uba zat zat HAH A-hoorepa hoorepa a-huh-hoorepa a-num num A-num Hubba hubba zoot zoot Deba uba zat zat a-num num Hubba hubba zoot zoot Duuh Deba uba zat zat a-num num A-hoorepa hoorepa a-huh-hoorepa a-num num A-hoorepa hoorepa a-huh-hoorepa a-num num HAH A-num Hubba hubba zoot zoot Deba uba zat zat a-num num Hubba hubba zoot zoot Deba uba zat zat a-num num A-hoorepa hoorepa a-huh-hoorepa a-num num A-hoorepa hoorepa a-huh-hoorepa a-num num HAH Hubba hubba zoot zoot Deba uba zat zat a-num num HOH Hubba hubba zoot zoot Hubba hubba mo-re mo-re Deba uba zat zat a-num num A-hoorepa hoorepa a-huh-hoorepa a-num num A-hoorepa hoorepa a-huh-hoorepa a-num num A-num
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Did Orinoco ever appear in another song but "Orinoco Flow"?
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Not in the Womble song.
"clarify" and "classify" - 99 red balloons
― ledge, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Abacab Paranoimia (mentioned in the song iirc) Paninaro
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link
"Classify" is in "Pop" by N'Sync
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link
(That Caramba song may not have been a worldwide hit, but it was huge in Scandinavia)
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Interactive (Bis, 'Kandy Pop') CD-Rom (Will Smith, 'Just The Two Of Us') Will Oldham (Biffy Clyro, 'Saturday Superhouse')
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link
someone gonna write a song with all these words in so we can launch it top 40 (must beat that shitty Lloyds song)
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link
CD-Rom (Will Smith, 'Just The Two Of Us')
^^^Busta Rhymes - Fire It Up
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Busta sez 'CD-Rom' in 'Fire It Up'
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
"Firestarter" ?
"Get Busy" has "percolate" and "oscillate"
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Born Slippy gauntlet:
succulent derailed high-density
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Scaramouche Fandango Bizmillah
― ledge, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
fandango also in Whiter Shade of Pale
― ailsa, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Of course.
― ledge, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:36 (sixteen years ago) link
"Vestal Virgins"...?
― ledge, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link
“Sideboard” in “Come Together” also
― Josefa, Saturday, 4 February 2023 20:43 (one year ago) link
But did that reach the dizzy heights of No. 55* in the charts like "The Sideboard Song" did?
(It only reached 55? What the hell?!?!)
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 February 2023 20:47 (one year ago) link
Chas & Dave's "Snooker Loopy" (No. 6 in the charts) has:
snookerbaizebogglesTaffgaffbarnetsod
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 February 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link
The lyrics for Snooker Loopy are so precise and expressive. I love them.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
'boggles' is in Starshaped by Blur (not a single, though)
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 22:34 (one year ago) link
"well-thumbed" in Bowie's "John I'm Only Dancing"?
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 23:20 (one year ago) link
Surely surely ba-burly this has already been mentioned, but in case not:
virtually every single word in "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis (U.S #6)
― henry s, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 23:30 (one year ago) link
'jugulate' in Lisztomania
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link
also, 'Lisztomania'
but was it a hit? yeah, sort of
It peaked at #11 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart in the US[1] and as well as #15 in Belgium.[2] ... The song came in at #4 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2009,[3] making Phoenix the first French band to finish in the top 5 of the Hottest 100.
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 23:45 (one year ago) link
Also not a single but Gilbert has a 'The Mind Boggles' from his self-titled 2018 album - making this maybe the third or fourth time he's been mentioned here by me or houdinisaid.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link
Women of Country thread made me think of "Easy from Now On" and the word "fandangle"
― Indexed, Friday, 10 March 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
Heard "Don't Sleep in the Subway" on the radio today: "wherefore."
Also has "deflated".
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 April 2023 12:00 (one year ago) link
"allegorically" in Edwyn Collins' 'A Girl Like You'.
― PaulTMA, Thursday, December 3, 2009 7:04 AM (thirteen years ago)
Also, how about "metaphorically"?
― Day 1 fan (morrisp), Monday, 22 May 2023 22:30 (one year ago) link
Has any song besides White Town's "Your Woman" used the word Marxist, let alone "highbrow Marxist ways?"
― mike a, Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:43 PM
Just saw the video, wondered the same thing, and was compelled to check this thread… (late by 15.5 yrs)
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 05:18 (one year ago) link
Not the same but Bros' When Will I Be Famous has 'Karl Marx' (I'm guessing Marx is more common than Marxist).
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 06:00 (one year ago) link
'Dostoevsky' in Belle & Sebastian's 'This is Just A Modern Rock Song'.
― (picnic, lightning) very very frightening (Chinaski), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 16:22 (one year ago) link
Thankfully not a hit song.
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
xxp (to myself) Worth noting that personal (and ILM EOY poll!) fave "High School in Jakarta" went to #2 in Indonesia and #9 in Malaysia – and its lyrics, of course, include the phrase "Marxist girl with marijuana"
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
'time' by david bowie contains the word WANKING
― ava (paolo), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 07:45 (one year ago) link
not really a hit song tbf but it was on a hit album and off the top of my head i can't think of any other songs that feature that vile term
― ava (paolo), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 07:46 (one year ago) link
'I'm a wanker' (as in wanking, not the insult) is the chorus of Ivor Biggun and the Red Nosed Burglars' 1978 No. 22 chart smash "The Winker's Song (Misprint)"
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 08:18 (one year ago) link
Er, what is "wanking" if not a term to describe masturbating?
― henry s, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 12:32 (one year ago) link
Wanker not wanking
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 12:33 (one year ago) link
I doubt that.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link
Has anyone other than the mighty Train ever had a hit song containing the words “soy latte”?
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:05 (one year ago) link
I don’t know but there is a lyric on the verve’s “comeback album” that goes:“New York, I was JudasShe said 'A latte, double shot for Judas'”
― brimstead, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
Madonna's American Life hit number 37 on the Top 100. Does that count?
I'm drinking a soy latteI get a double shotte
― peace, man, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
Also "mocha chocolate latte" in #1 "Lady Marmalade"
j/k
― Josefa, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link
regret to inform you that the word "latte" appears in train's "drops of jupiter"
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link
I think that's where the conversation started.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
It also has Tae Bo in it, though I've heard of Tae Bo or, indeed, this song.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link
xp ah yes, my bad
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
is "aenima" by tool a hit?
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link
(xxp) never heard of, that is
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
Good question. Do we define "hit" in terms of chart performance and/or radio play? Or familiarity with the general populace?
I am an adult American urban human who is reasonably well-versed in popular rock and roll music. I have never willingly heard a song by Tool (or Primus or Dream Theater or a thousand other bands with fervent followings).
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
By now, I think "Familiarity" has taken hold. But, bonus points for an actual chart hit...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
"Tae Bo" is actually an even better pull from that same song (although I could see a rule where "proper nouns" don't count)
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
Jay-Z bragged about doing Tae-Bo on Girls, Girls, Girls (US #17) and Nas dissed him for it on Ether.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
"Proofread" in Zebra Katz's "Ima Read"?
― clemenza, Sunday, 20 August 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link
Forgot--"hit song." Well, it was a big hit in my house.
― clemenza, Sunday, 20 August 2023 19:52 (one year ago) link
From "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes":
Thrill me to the marrow
― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 11 February 2024 04:51 (seven months ago) link
"Pitchfork" appears in one hit song.
"Combine Harvester" by The Wurzels.
I thank you.
― Mark G, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:27 (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Which also has "gaiters", "wurzels" and "gallivanting".
The Wurzels' "I Am a Cider Drinker" has "britches", "tadpoles" and "newts"
("scrumpy" appears in both songs so is disqualified.)
Meanwhile their minor (#32 hit) "Farmer Bill’s Cowman" has "smock", "broody", "faggots" (the foodstuff), "squelching", "drake", "muck", "shovel", "milking", "ploughman" and "Somerset".
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 February 2024 10:54 (seven months ago) link
isinglassnoun 1. a kind of gelatin obtained from fish, especially sturgeon, and used in making jellies, glue, etc. and for fining real ale.
Blossom Dearie "Surrey With the Fringe On Top".
― fetter, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 06:25 (four months ago) link