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« on: May 06, 2015, 08:32:15 PM »

There are lots...

"enemas"
"lengthy"
"cuckoo"
"slit"
"whole grains"

the list is practically endless  LOL
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« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2015, 08:41:07 PM »

Nude
shave
tomboy
blouse
Joshin'
 
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« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2015, 08:46:07 PM »

Fair weather friends cop out
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« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2015, 08:52:57 PM »

Pat, pat, pat her on her butt.....
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« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2015, 08:53:53 PM »

I'd Love Just Once To See You In The Nude

Probably the weirdest phrase in the Beach Boys catalogue
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« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2015, 09:09:33 PM »

You can probably leave it at "enemas" -- tough to top.
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« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2015, 09:10:13 PM »

Vega-tables
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« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2015, 09:46:31 PM »

You can probably leave it at "enemas" -- tough to top.

There's no way I can conceive that that word is in any other song by any other famous band.  With the potential exception of Tool, and possibly a punk/metal band or two.  The BBs broke ground (and wind) with that one. Kinda like the band Live with "placenta".
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« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2015, 10:20:04 PM »

"Emancipate"

NP: Frank Zappa-"The Illinois Enema Bandit"


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« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2015, 11:03:52 PM »

Gosh o Gee
Run
Raise
Pink Slip
Daddy
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeen
Es gibt ein Ort da geh ich hin
Um Bop
Pencil
Sharpened
Radio


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« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2015, 11:53:05 PM »

Vegetables
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« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2015, 12:45:04 AM »

I can see this thread will get me cross as the "any lyric that isn't a simple boy and girl love story is weird" brigade have a rampage.

"Radio" is not a strange word for a pop song. Or was that a joke?


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« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2015, 12:59:06 AM »



Marauders
jasper glaze
Barrancas
Chaparral
Copenhagee (etc.)
Tootsie roll
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« Reply #13 on: May 07, 2015, 01:19:10 AM »

Croissant
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« Reply #14 on: May 07, 2015, 02:15:18 AM »

You can probably leave it at "enemas" -- tough to top.

There's no way I can conceive that that word is in any other song by any other famous band.  With the potential exception of Tool, and possibly a punk/metal band or two.

There's always Frank Zappa's slightly iffy "The Illinois Enema Bandit"...
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« Reply #15 on: May 07, 2015, 03:57:20 AM »

cellunoid (the most unusual word of all, no-one else has ever used it)

I've got my picky slippers on here... but wasn't the word actually supposed to be 'solenoid'? As in a coil of wire, as used in an electromagnetic door locking system? I can't even remember where I heard that that's what that word was — but I think I did. If so, Mike definitely mispronounced it, or was given lyrics to sing that misspelt it, resulting in the mispronunciation, because it really does sound like he sings 'cellunoid'...

columnated

...and wasn't it asserted years ago on here (or possibly on another board that was one of the forerunners to this one) that the word 'columnated' in Surf's Up ISN'T actually a word at all, but a poetic combination (in true Van Dyke Parks style) of the words 'colonnaded' and 'calumniated' (as in 'beslandered, ill-spoken-of')? Or possibly just even a slurred rendering of the word 'colonnaded', which was then incorrectly written down on lyric sheets for the Surf's Up album? I forget...
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« Reply #16 on: May 07, 2015, 04:09:31 AM »

"columnated" is in my Collins Dictionary.
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« Reply #17 on: May 07, 2015, 04:26:03 AM »

Is it? Oh, cool!
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« Reply #18 on: May 07, 2015, 05:13:57 AM »

Nepenthe
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« Reply #19 on: May 07, 2015, 05:28:57 AM »

It's paradise when I
Put up my antenna
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« Reply #20 on: May 07, 2015, 05:30:23 AM »

Nepenthe

not on any official BBs records it's not Smiley


And how about 'arbitrarily', for unusual.

who can guess what song it's from without looking it up?
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« Reply #21 on: May 07, 2015, 05:31:15 AM »

It's paradise when I
Put up my antenna

none of those words are that unusual in a pop song.
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« Reply #22 on: May 07, 2015, 05:38:51 AM »

It's paradise when I
Put up my antenna
From Latin - antenna, a nautical term, to stretch or extend - plural is "antennae" pronounced (eye) or (I)

I though it was "antennae" when I first heard it...for the rhyme... Wink

Could have misheard it?
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« Reply #23 on: May 07, 2015, 05:40:05 AM »

Nepenthe

not on any official BBs records it's not Smiley


And how about 'arbitrarily', for unusual.

who can guess what song it's from without looking it up?

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« Reply #24 on: May 07, 2015, 05:51:50 AM »

cellunoid (the most unusual word of all, no-one else has ever used it)

I've got my picky slippers on here... but wasn't the word actually supposed to be 'solenoid'? As in a coil of wire, as used in an electromagnetic door locking system? I can't even remember where I heard that that's what that word was — but I think I did. If so, Mike definitely mispronounced it, or was given lyrics to sing that misspelt it, resulting in the mispronunciation, because it really does sound like he sings 'cellunoid'...

I seem to remember that it's 'solenoid' as well.

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