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
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
xpost
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
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 (eight months ago) link
I think that's where the conversation started.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:31 (eight months 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 (eight months ago) link
xp ah yes, my bad
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:43 (eight months ago) link
is "aenima" by tool a hit?
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:45 (eight months ago) link
(xxp) never heard of, that is
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 15:47 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months ago) link
"Proofread" in Zebra Katz's "Ima Read"?
― clemenza, Sunday, 20 August 2023 19:08 (seven months ago) link
Forgot--"hit song." Well, it was a big hit in my house.
― clemenza, Sunday, 20 August 2023 19:52 (seven months ago) link
From "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes":
Thrill me to the marrow
― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 11 February 2024 04:51 (two 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 (two months ago) link