Lisa Lisa's "I Wonder If I Take You Home" uses this in the verse, and Pavement's "Stereo" on the "wave to the camera" line. "A Tisket A Tasket" too. What else?
― leon d'amaleon, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:36 (twelve years ago)
Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People ("So on and So on and Scooby Dooby Doo..." etc.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:37 (twelve years ago)
mariah samples lisa lisa's in a bonus track on the emancipation of mimi and it's hella hot
― surm, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:37 (twelve years ago)
not samples, reappropriates
― surm, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:38 (twelve years ago)
The only one that comes to mind right now is the Spitballs cover of "Gino is a Coward" by Gino Washington (not Geno). The original doesn't really have it.
― everything, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:48 (twelve years ago)
martika, "toy soldiers"
― da croupier, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:50 (twelve years ago)
YES
― surm, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:54 (twelve years ago)
Venom's "Teacher's Pet" opens with it, played as a solo guitar lickDonna Summer did it twice - "Bad Girls" and "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)"
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:24 (twelve years ago)
frankie knuckles - baby wants to ride
― hypnotiQ tanqueray (clouds), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:32 (twelve years ago)
XTC - Playground (more or less)
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:58 (twelve years ago)
do any of these songs feature the lyrics."stick your head in doo doo"?
― whose black line is it anyway? (how's life), Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:23 (twelve years ago)
DMB - "crash"
― brimstead, Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:30 (twelve years ago)
Public Enemy - Pollywannacracka
― sleeve, Thursday, 17 January 2013 20:30 (twelve years ago)
Lords Of Acid - "I Sit on Acid"
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 17 January 2013 20:41 (twelve years ago)
Sam & Dave - You Got Me Hummin'
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:29 (twelve years ago)
ring around the rosy
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:48 (twelve years ago)
Does this count?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBDcx0IJY20
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:59 (twelve years ago)
lime - babe we're gonna love tonight
― steaklife (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:01 (twelve years ago)
It kinda shows up in "We Are The Champions", whether or not Queen intended it to
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:54 (twelve years ago)
Venom's "Teacher's Pet" has it before the song officially starts.
― NINO CARTER, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:55 (twelve years ago)
Lipstick on your collar
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:56 (twelve years ago)
Wait, what the fuck is the nan nanny boo boo melody?
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 17 January 2013 23:34 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mVOPcEInB4
― whose black line is it anyway? (how's life), Thursday, 17 January 2013 23:42 (twelve years ago)
Dirtbombs - "Under My Shoe"
(also includes "I'm like rubber, you're like glue" as a lyric, which I think should be worth extra-credit)
― fiscal cliff racer (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 January 2013 23:50 (twelve years ago)
Bananarama - "Love In The First Degree"
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 9 May 2013 20:26 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=silJoHrXsIc
― Moldy ★☆☆☆☆ (wins), Thursday, 9 May 2013 20:43 (twelve years ago)
bahhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=silJoHrXsIc
die antwoord - evil boy
― dyl, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:56 (twelve years ago)
Black Celebration - Depeche Mode
("let's have a blaaaaack celebraaaaation" sounds very close to it, if not exact).
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 10 May 2013 00:00 (twelve years ago)
Book of Love - "I Touch Roses"
― ḉrut (crüt), Friday, 10 May 2013 00:03 (twelve years ago)
Descendents - I Don't Want to Grow Up
― I Occasionally Post on ILX (2x5), Friday, 10 May 2013 00:19 (twelve years ago)
This thing might be a skeleton key of earworm mashups. I'm puttering around the house sorting records and my brain is going "Wave to the camera, now take a giant ram-rod / and crash into me" etc.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 May 2013 02:15 (twelve years ago)
Sam & Dave's "You Got Me Hummin'" opens with them humming it
Archie Shepp snuck it into one of his solos, can't remember the track (I think it's on Fire Music
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 10 May 2013 05:45 (twelve years ago)
Redd Kross - "Kiss the Goat"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvYnBknmW7A
― Poliopolice, Friday, 10 May 2013 05:49 (twelve years ago)
I was convinced Joan Jett had one of these, fell asleep trying to remember what it was. Woke up - duh, it's her cover of 'Everyday People.'
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 May 2013 12:23 (twelve years ago)
https://soundcloud.com/dfa-records/the-juan-maclean-feel-like-2
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 04:27 (twelve years ago)
The bridge of Craig David's "Fill Me In" kinda has it.
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 13:34 (twelve years ago)
One of the background riffs in Cherchez La Femme does this.
― how's life, Monday, 23 December 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-z2D9lo9-8
― Mmm yes hello (crüt), Monday, 23 December 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago)
12 Rods – Make-Out Music
― hhoffman, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago)
Teacher's Pet by Venom
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 25 December 2013 00:22 (eleven years ago)
Black Kids - "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You"
Pretty Poison - "Catch Me I'm Falling"
What about "I Know What Boys Like" by The Waitresses? There's definitely some "Nyah Nyah" taunting in it, but it's a slightly different melody.
― 3×5, Wednesday, 25 December 2013 01:15 (eleven years ago)
Jesse Johnson - Can You Help
― 3×5, Monday, 2 February 2015 22:53 (ten years ago)
Joe South's "Children" incorporates a recording of children singing the "na na na na na" variant of this.
― Bernie Sanders Give You So Much Bro (Doctor Casino), Monday, 7 March 2016 23:16 (nine years ago)
Toby Keith's "How Do You Like Me Now"
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 7 March 2016 23:18 (nine years ago)
Black Celebration - Depeche Mode("let's have a blaaaaack celebraaaaation" sounds very close to it, if not exact).
Loll way to almost ruin this great song for me!
― lute bro (brimstead), Monday, 7 March 2016 23:28 (nine years ago)
Sir mix a lot - posses on Broadway
(Iirc)
― lute bro (brimstead), Monday, 7 March 2016 23:29 (nine years ago)
Poe - Hello
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Monday, 7 March 2016 23:44 (nine years ago)
Sorry, brimstead :P
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Monday, 7 March 2016 23:50 (nine years ago)
every single line uttered by Guy Picciotyo in Fugazi
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 7 March 2016 23:52 (nine years ago)
Repeat-uh, repeat-uhYou gotta dinky ween-uh
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 00:17 (nine years ago)
Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Mischief
― Heiress Too (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 02:38 (nine years ago)
Madonna - Back in Business
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 03:11 (nine years ago)
J-Lo's "I'm Real" (original, not the Ja Rule remix) has her doing that melody a lot when she riffs over the chorus
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 03:53 (nine years ago)
The intro to Let's Get Lost by Carly Rae Jepsen is a variation on this, I'm sure.
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 11:29 (eight years ago)
this very early Can recording seems to have it, but it could be more "it's raining, it's pouring" than nanny nanny boo boo unless they are actually the same thing? pretty solid jam imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPkVQCXaS2c
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 31 March 2018 20:44 (seven years ago)
Re original thread question, “Blue Cheese” by Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile literally uses it, words and all.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Saturday, 31 March 2018 21:05 (seven years ago)
lipservice by beatmaster, 1985https://youtu.be/6w5lWspsC24
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 31 March 2018 21:46 (seven years ago)
(Sandy) Alex G - Southern Sky
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Monday, 13 January 2020 21:17 (five years ago)
Rage - "Neurotic", but teh whole song is a giant pisstake of ridiculousness
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 January 2020 21:37 (five years ago)
that inner space song RULES
― budo jeru, Monday, 13 January 2020 22:16 (five years ago)
lime - babe we're gonna love tonight― steaklife (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:01 (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― steaklife (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:01 (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
^^
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 November 2020 22:06 (four years ago)
bout to ruin y’alls night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ogibWCNKI
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 27 November 2020 22:49 (four years ago)
Big lol when I got to the end of the song, scrolled down to the related recs, and finally saw what their band name is
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Saturday, 28 November 2020 03:43 (four years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZXeFPpPJeI
Hot Drinks incorporates it right before the Chorus (and borrows from Smooth Criminal as well).
Also, the beginning of I Sit On Acid by Lords of Acid.
― Publicradio (3×5), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:25 (four years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPxnyT45xFE
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 May 2021 16:30 (four years ago)
Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Vambo - starting at about 2:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03coeggY_bY
― peace, man, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 02:30 (two years ago)