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Posted by steve_swift (U2177659) on Wednesday, 17th June 2009
In CAPITALS..........
The satellite looks down right now and forever
What it has pulled apart let no man TETHER his
own body to his dream,
His dream to someone else
Oh no, oh no.
Elvis Costello - Satellite
She says that she's sick
But she won't get specific
The SUTURES and bruises are none of my business
This guy from the north side comes down to visit
His visits, they only take five or six minutes
The Hold Steady - Lord, I'm Discouraged
I have no idea how this happens
All of my maps have been overthrown
HAPPENSTANCE has changed my plans
So many times my heart has been outgrown
Wilco - You Are My Face
If you take me back
Back to your place
I'll try not to bother you I promise
'Cause it's cold in here
And I wish it was hot
The sink's broke, it's leaking from the FAUCET
Ryan Adams - Two
The sink's broke, it's leaking from the FAUCETÂ
what about "don't push it, don't FAUCET, let it happen naturally?" (avoids smiley)
Cure-wise:
Of course, if he'd said "Tap", we could pinpoint 6.15 on a Saturday night" and go "drip drip drip..."
but these compound nouns are surely unique (re-reads the rules - "single words" - d'oh!) (leaves the contribution in)
"Each set includes
A turntable
A nine inch icing bag
With SIX HIGH-DEFINITION NOZZLES and adaptor
And a FIFTEEN INCH FOOD DECORATING BAG
With three piping nozzles!"
so what? I say.
, in reply to message 3.
Posted by File-Under-Water (U13817253) on Wednesday, 17th June 2009
Tell me what's gone wrong. I tilt my head there, under the FAUCET, but when I turn it on -- dry as paper. Call the neighbors. Who's to blame for what's going on? In the dark without a clue I'm just the same as you.
Poison in the Well by 10,000 Maniacs. I'm sure other faucet based songs are available.
Well done on FAUCET - who would have thought it would have inspired at least two songs. I suppose its more romantic than SINK WASTE PIPE, although only just.
TETHER must have cropped up before, maybe in an old cowboy tune.
Promising thread thanks Steve. I think it could be about FAUCETS in song and nothing else. That said there is a Sarah Harmer song called TETHER. It's lovely as well. I think it's on the You Were Here LP but I'll have to check.
Other than that I agree that there must be a cowboy tune featuring TETHER. Perhaps we need Timperley Rob to investigate.
I reckon that the Human League could have a double here.
There's "Being Boiled" which has the great line,
"Listen to the voice of Buddha, Saying stop your SERICULTURE"
Surely that's a one off lyric right there?
Then there's that other song of their's that totally escapes me now but shamelessly crow-bars in a word which I can only guess Phil had a bet with someone about.
Dang, what's the name of the song now? I think he even says that it is "a very long word" in the lyrics. A little help here? Anyone?
Supercalifragilisticborussiamunchengladbach?
i beg to differ on TETHER - Sarah Harmer has a song of that name.
how about EVISCERATE... as mentioned by R.E.M. in "you are the everything"
HELIOTROPE - Robyn Hitchcock. that can't pop up many times in song.
I got to see the AVATAR
To talk the world away
(Scritti Politti, "Philosophy Now", 1988).
Now ten a penny. The first time I had seen this word...
Can I claim Top Trump with The Joker by the Steve Miller Band? He made up his own word for crying out loud! Or did he? (see small but fiesty strand of blog debate about this.....)
Some people call me the space cowboy.
Some call me the gangster of love.
Some people call me Maurice,
Cause I speak of the POMPATUS of love.
Nervous Wreck by Radio Stars is conceivably the only song to include the wordELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH :
You……destroyed my confidence, you broke my nerve
I’ve gone to pieces, now this I don’t deserve
Wish you could see what you’re doing to me
You made me a nervous wreck
My hands are twitching and I can’t settle down (can’t settle down)
My scalp is itching and my eyes roll around (they roll around)
I chew my nails right down to the quick
‘Cos you made me a nervous wreck
Now I’ve endured for years and years your tricks and your games
My confidence is long gone
You said you’d changed but it’s always the same
Is this love ? (I don’t think so !)
ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH (wreck wreck) x 2
ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH (plug it in my brain)
I’ve been around through thick and thin, now what can I say ? (what can I say)
My mental health’s declining (my mental health)
You said you’d changed but it’s always the same
Is this love ? (I don’t think so !)
I know in future this won’t happen again (happen again)
I’ll close my eyes and I’ll just count to ten (1, 2, 3, 4)
And when I’m tempted then I know I’ll resist
‘Cos you’ve made me a nervous wreck………..
If it helps (and it almost certainly doesn't) "Local and/or General" by Models includes the words "It that an ENCEPHALOGRAM?"
Sorry....
Frank Zappa- Camarillo Brillo
I was born
To have adventure
So I just followed up the steps
Right past her fuming incense STENCHER
To where she hung her castanets
And of course...
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of COLITAS, rising up through the air
I would like to submit an infrequent multisyllabic word that I don't know appearing in any other songs (but I may of course, be wrong)...
FORMALDEHYDE makes an appearance in the terrifying spoken poetry song 'What's He Building In There' by the musical genius from California, Tom Waits...
Now what's that sound from under the door?
He's pounding nails into a
Hardwood floor... and I
Swear to god I heard someone
Moaning low... and I keep
Seeing the blue light of a
T.V. show...
He has a router
And a table saw... and you
Won't believe what Mr. Sticha saw
There's poison underneath the sink
Of course... But there's also
Enough FORMALDEHYDE to choke
A horse... What's he building
In there. What the hell is he
Building in there? I heard he
Has an ex-wife in some place
Called Mayors Income, Tennessee
And he used to have a
consulting business in Indonesia...
but what is he building in there?
What the hell is building in there?
I think special mention should also go to the Stranglers for using a word in Peaches which I don't think I have heard in another song (sheltered I may be) and which doesn't even fit in to the sentence in which they use it (unless my anatomy knowledge is seriously lacking).
I won't of course repeat the word here - I'm sure you all know what I mean: I haven't seen a mod round here since Year Zero was declared and don't want to invite them back....
Made for good You Tubing...I think if I've ever heard it, it would have been on 6Music (obviously, the radio edit version)...good counterpoint to 'God Save The Queen' which was also popular at the same time...
I think special mention should also go to the Stranglers for using a word in Peaches which I don't think I have heard in another song (sheltered I may be) and which doesn't even fit in to the sentence in which they use it (unless my anatomy knowledge is seriously lacking).Â
yes, I agree, no reason to mention the word.
Isn't there a radio edit (I first heard on Radio 6) which leaves that word in...eek smiley...
...but where they say "Oh NO, there goes the charabanc?) lol tolhurst
Hi All:
The following line from "A Day Such as This" by Pere Ubu contains two possibly unique single words:
The FOLDEROL of fretful PEREGRINATION.
If I'm wrong, I'd love to know where else they can be found in song.
"Formaldehyde" has been used before. It makes a memorable appearance at the end of "New Kind of Kick" by the Cramps, along with Draino and several other possibly unique to one song substances!
Blind Youth! That's the one. Blimey, it took me long enough to work that one out, didn't I?
The superb lyrics go thusly;
"Dehumanisation
Is such a big word
It's been around since
Richard The Third
Dehumanisation
It's easy to say
But if you're not a hermit
You know the city's OK"
That's some clunky lyric-writing there, me thinks. The Human League proving to be a two-trick pony when it comes to using words in songs that were never likely to be used ever again.
Bye Bye Miss American Pie
I drove my Chevy to the LEVEE... ?
When the levee breaks.....?
The dear old Smiths have at least a couple in Panic (and I'm sure many more). One is a placename but a placename which is poetry:
"Hopes may rise on the GRASMERE
But Honey Pie, you're not safe here"
and a bit later:
"On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down
PROVINCIAL towns you jog 'round
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ"
and on Doves' It Ended on an Oily Stage:
"He found God
In a parking lot, and you did not
I, I headed for the COASTALRY
Regions of mind
To see what I'd find"
Sorry, my head was wrongly attached just then.
"It Ended on an Oily Stage" is obviously by British Sea Power and not Doves!!
Apologies to anyone offended!
Warren Zevon, Mr Bad Example:
I started as an altar boy, working at the church
Learning all my holy moves, doing some research
Which led me to a cash box, labeled "Children's Fund"
I'd leave the change, and tuck the bills inside my CUMMERBUND
I got a part-time job at my father's carpet store
Laying tackless stripping, and housewives by the score
I loaded up their furniture, and took it to Spokane
And auctioned off every last NAUGAHYDE divan
...
Then on to Monte Carlo to play CHEMIN DE FER
I threw away the fortune I made transplanting hair
I put my last few francs down on a prostitute
Who took me up to her room to perform the flag salute
There is, of course, almost every song by the Cocteau Twins...
don't know if any other group sang FRITILLARY. Not too sure whether *they* did TBH....
Good work SomersetRed, but you forgot PAUPERIZED also from the same song. Has to be the winner. Admittedly he was always a wordy b*gger was Zevon.
, in reply to message 26.
Posted by browngravydavey (U13912729) on Tuesday, 23rd June 2009
Sorry to rain on your parade a bit SomersetRed, but Loudon Wainwright III used Cummerbund in 'Westchester County'.
How about VERISIMILITUDE by Teenage Fanclub?
How about VERISIMILITUDE by Teenage Fanclub?Â
Well, I have to say that seems true...
, in reply to message 31.
Posted by stonelephant (U11708853) on Wednesday, 24th June 2009
Great track too.
I was about to suggest "BLUEBERRY" from the song Blueberry Pies off Prefab Sprout's wonderful album Steve McQueen.
Then I remembered Fats Domino...........
However, on the first track Faron Young:
Antiques, every other sentiment's an antique
As obsolete as warships in the BALTIC
If you're allowed German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Russian, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Polish seamen's songs, I wouldn't have thought BALTIC was all that unusual TBH.
Sure enough, I find a 1995 track by Behemoth - "Sventevith - Storming near the Baltic" on a Romanian metal site. Given another reference to Pomerania, I had guessed Behemoth might have been Polish...and they are indeed from Gdansk...
...Maybe I mean "*lost* Norwegians" if the Baltic starts at the Oresund... (note I haven't crossed that O to avoid giving the impression that I can write Danish!)
EQUIVOCATE the past - When Heroes Go Down (Suzanne Vega)
Somewhere in the QUIZLING clinic - Green Shirt (Elvis Costello)
My legs were GENUFLECTING in the rain - 32 West Mall (Stackridge), although Tom Lehrer previously used 'genuflect' in the Vatican Rag!
Tom Lehrer previously used 'genuflect' in the Vatican Rag!Â
sings "genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!"...
Quisling was of course a (Nazi collaborator) person, staying on the "lost Norwegians" theme - but if one's dad allegedly sang "I'm a Secret Lemonade Drinker", one probably knew that!
The Shins in "Phantom Limb" may have scored twice in the same verse:-
A week of rolling eyes
And cheap shots from the TRITE
And we're off to Nemarca's porch again
Another afternoon of the goat-head tunes
And PILFERED booze
A good one from the Pixies' 'Debaser' (my personal favorite track from them):
I am un CHIEN ANDALUSIA...
I am un CHIEN ANDALUSIA...Â
a reference to the highly-regarded 1929 film "Un Chien andalou" by Salvador Dalà und Luis Buñuel.
Can't say I've ever heard of a group called "Buñuel's Car" TBH though I was wondering if Visage, Air, Stereolab, Blondie or "The Kids from Tots' TV" had ever sung the word "chien".
Through the magic of the interrent I have established that in the opening credits to "Belle and Sebastien" the word "chien" does not feature, heightening the suspense that "Belle" is actually a dog. In fact, it's like a love song where the boy is singing that he has been waiting so long for Belle...
And the "Hector's House" tune has no lyrics - in French he is called "Toutou" (doggy) anyway...
"LUMINITZA" is Romanian for "little light" AFAIK but I don't think the Balanescu Quartet actually sing it...
Tol, I need to see if I can find some Tom Tom Club lyrics...Tina Weymouth always seemed to give us listeners a smorgasbord of lyrical twists and turns in her solo work...
Stay tuned...
On the subject of Bunuel (can't do a tilde, how do you do them Tol?) I once wrote an essay on L'Age D'or. Not a very good one mind.
Back from Pilton. Looking forward to the show tonight. And to a sleep after the show.
gid
can't do a tilde, how do you do them Tol)Â
1) Copy off a website, then you don't have to worry about the accent on Dalà either.
2) Use the character map: an "n" with a tilde is on the penultimate line of the first page, fifth from the right, just after "ðe" thorn but before the ò. ñ - it works!
3) If you have a 101-key keyboard (with a numerical keypad on the right) then keeping the "Alt" key down with one hand, then, with the other, type keypad numbers 0 2 4 1. ("ASCII code", IIRC). I normally use Alt + 0228 (ä), Alt + 0246 (ö) and Alt + 0252 (ü). Other "funny foreign letters" (neither my opinion nor that of the Â鶹ԼÅÄ) are available (though you probably can't get a decent cup of Ť ).
Warning - this message board doesn't support the following variants of "t": Alt + 0356, 0357 or 0358. Which is quite ironic, really.
Actually, didn't Edith Piaf sing
"Non! Je ne regrette CHIEN!"?
(though if those are the words she read, she should probably have gone to otherchainsofopticiansareavailable)...
Tol, that's a dog of a different color...
CORNGRINDERS, DEXTERITY, HALCYONIC, MDF, OVEN GLOVES.......
All Half Man Half Biscuit; plus names of people and bands.....Fred Titmus, Slipknot.....but you can't play them on the radio, sadly. And Dukla Prague.
, in reply to message 44.
Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Monday, 29th June 2009
"Somedays I'll order chicken
Somedays I'll order fish
Somedays I'll have PIROSHKIS
That's a Polish dish"
- Considering A Move To Memphis, Colorblind James Experience
A faucet being an American tap, I suspect it will be relatively common in use, transAtlantically.
'I will never use the word PROCASTINATE...' - Dead, They Might Be Giants.
Thanks for mentioning Colorblind James Experience's 'Considering A Move To Memphis', Cyril!
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