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
More possiblities from another overblown epic:
Bustle Hedgerow
― ledge, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link
"Pig skin" - paranoid android
― ledge, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
"Pig skin" - In the End - Linkin Park
― Mark G, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link
System of A Down - Chop Suey, "Self-righteous"
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:54 (sixteen years ago) link
who'd a thought it
xp
― ledge, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link
surely Prince is not alone with 'Corvette'?
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^Eiffel 65 - Blue
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
think we did this before but there really aren't that many hits mentioning 'the internet'. Mousse T's 'Horny' was the first one I recall.
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Has any other hit song mentioned "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"?
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link
kate nash probably
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link
For some reason I'm sorta proud I can write that word correctly without checking the spelling from anywhere.
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
"Defecating" - Fugees, Ready or Not
― ledge, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
"Haver" - Proclaimers - 'I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)'
No doubt there's several other words/places in their songs, Kilmarnock/Stranraer/Leith for starters.
― Billy Dods, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:10 (sixteen years ago) link
There may be some words in "The Logical Song" that haven't been used a lot in other lyrics.
Queen's "Machines (Or Back To Humans)" may not have been a hit, but it's surely the only lyric ever that has included the word "parahumanoidarianised"
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Is "West End Girls" the only international hit song to mention "Finland"?
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, I guess that Monty Python song wasn't a hit. :)
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, I've heard that one. Probably wasn't a hit, yes.
Continuing on the them, Tricky's "Christiansands" is probably the only well-known (outside Finland) tune to mention Helsinki.
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
"Heck-a-slammin'" - Prince: "U Got The Look"
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" surely most be the only hit song to mention mosquito and albino?
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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 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
"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 (three 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 (two weeks ago) link