"Na na na na na na na": The Best Song Containing This Immortal Lyric

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(i'm not kidding either)

I have no idea what that is

Gonna feel like hell tomorrow,
so I won't go to sleep tonight.
Na na na na na na sorrow,
everything's gonna be alright.

"King of Beers" -- Too Much Joy

jacques le cont w/ cecile - na na na na

katamari on the rock gets left out so e-pro & centerfold tied for 2nd

wait wait master p and katamari tied for first

"Nana nana nana nana na na na, baby give it up, give it up, baby give it up"

It's gettin' hot in here:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000DIJLW.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

you forgot "na" by mower. which sucks anyway so no biggie

No Sang And Dance by The Bar-Kays, No Credibility.

see also: gettin jiggy wit it.

You left out "Born to Be My Baby" (not that I think it's better than Journey or the Supremes.)

J. Geils ftw

The Killers - Somebody Told Me

"All The Small Things" shoulda been on this

voting for Geils just over Pickett.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

that awesome Dirtbombs cover of "No Expectations" where they play the conga part from "Sympathy for the Devil" and then do the na-na-nas from "Hey Jude"

http://web.archive.org/web/19991008045908/http://www.bhangra.co.uk/RDB/remixes/PunjabiInsomnia.ra

^don't work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HhTJboI-9A

"Pa Ubu Dance Party" or "Hush" would be nice, but I'll go with "Get A Job". Really, though, I'm more of a "la la la" man.

No Bananarama 'Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye' = No cred.

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No Bananarama 'Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye' = No cred.

shity cover of Supremes' song already listed

Isn't there some Kaiser Chiefs song with that?

Doesn't Train's "Tell Me" have some sorta na-na-na-na chorus towards the end?

Isn't there some Kaiser Chiefs song with that?

yes its poll option no. 6

Wow am I blind today, I looked for it twice!

Land Of 100 Dances Page

100 Dances? Dumbest typo ever.

It's gotta be the Wicked Pickett!

That's what I voted for, despite being off on the title by a factor of ten.

if Hey Jude doesn't get any votes I will be sad

Where's the hell is Geir when you really need him?

*where* the hell, that is...

Are they saying "na" in "Head Over Heels" or some other syllable? Either way it wins.

the Tears for Fears song...?

voted for "Lovin Touchin Squeezin" because that's the song my brain instantly goes to when I try to think of a song with a "na na" refrain.

by that logic, hitler would be the best german ever.

haha I fucking hate "Centrefold". Warrant vs Winger etc.

Where are the write-in votes for "Time To Change," by the Brady Six?

Godwin's Law invoked

(arrgh x-post)

mark ronson, ghostface and nate dogg - ooh wee

Godwin's Law would really be more if I suggested Hitler would vote for "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'" which is absurd, dude is "Hey Jude" all the way.

nothing as fascist as a repetitive singalong tag eh

Totally.

(LTS is remarkably hook-packed and notable for some of SP's most OTT vocalisms. I imagine these are reasons why haters hate it.)

xpost

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
His name is my name, too, God forbid
And whenever we go out, we can hear the people shout
There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

Brilliant poll. This is really quite difficult.

" Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)" by The Supremes?!?!

I love the Na's in that Taylor Dane song "I'll be your shelter" so Dr. Joe gets an O T M.

\" Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)" by The Supremes?!?

huh Wikipedia says the original was released by a fictional band "Steam" in 1969. But yeah, I know the Supremes version and thought that was the original.

I'm surprised you didn't exercise the same historic caution with regard to "Land of 1,000 Dances"

hey I threw this poll together in less than 5 minutes, whadayawant from me

Yeah, I really don't think the Supremes did a version of Na Na Hey Hey, etc.

you are wrong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Ways_But_Love_Stays

Ini Kamoze, "Here Comes The Hotstepper"

oooh, good one!

Actually, when I saw the poll, I was amazed that that song was listed as by the Supremes but I figured I'd just been ignorant all along.

Haha, apparently they DID do a version. For a while I had myself convinced that it was one of those obscure Motown album tracks that was actually the first recorded instance of a well-known song.

that's what I had assumed too, didn't realize it was as late as 1970 and the post-Diana Ross version to boot. Now I'm wondering why/where I ever heard their version in the first place, cuz I certainly don't own it.

excerpt from Bruce Eder's bio for Steam at allmusic.com:

It happened that the night they were cutting what was supposed to be a throwaway, their fellow Chateaus member Dale Frashuer was present and he suggested they cut a song they'd performed eight years previously called "Kiss Him Goodbye," which the three of them had written in 1961. It was Leka's idea to put a chorus into the number, which, at the piano, in the absence of a lyric, became "na na na na, na na na na." Then fate really took a hand when the management at Mercury Records heard the throwaway side and determined that it should be the single. The three musicians, especially DeCarlo, were outraged and they refused to put their names on the record, though they did claim the songwriting credit, which proved to be a shrewd move. "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye," released late in 1969, rose to number one on the charts that December and sold more than a million copies in America alone. In place of their names, the trio okayed it going out under the name Steam.

Suddenly, with a number one single to its credit, however, there were demands for Steam to perform, make appearances on television, and do all the other things that were usually done by groups to support a hit record — except that there was no group. Leka put together a band, consisting of Jay Babina and Tom Zuke on guitar, Mike Daniels on bass, Hank Schorz at the keyboards, Ray Corriea on drums, and Bill Steer (no, not the same one who was in Napalm Death) handling the lead vocals. All came from Leka's hometown of Bridgeport, CT, and toured behind the single during 1970. A self-titled Steam album was cut at Mercury and a handful of follow-up singles appeared, only one of which ("I've Gotta Make You Love Me") ever charted, just missing the Top 40 in 1970.

"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" never did disappear — quite the contrary, it rode the charts for a big chunk of 1970 and then got put into every and any hits anthology that Mercury could release or license, and was quickly accepted as into oldies collections (it qualified as a '60s hit, after all, and offended no one). The song lingered as a favorite of both decades' popular music activities, and then, in the 1980s, became a hit all over again in the hands of megastar British girl group Bananarama, who also featured it on their Top Ten LP Deep Sea Skiving. According to performing rights organization BMI, the song is in the elite company of pop/rock compositions that have had at least three million airings on radio. The song has also been the (ex officio) anthem for the Chicago White Sox and is one of those '70s hits that listeners never seem to tire of.

and Bill Steer (no, not the same one who was in Napalm Death)

lolz

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

"One two three! One two three!"

Hey, "Counting Song for Bitter Children" contains this immortal lyric too!

The Mountain Goats

Not that I like it in any way, but shouldn't "Here Come The Hotstepper" be in there?

Yes, yes it should.

But then again, it's sort of "sampling" Land of 1 dances, so maybe not.

on the road so I missed this poll but I would have gone for "Hey Jude", prob my fav Beatles song. Number 2: Master P, at least judged by how much I sing these songs around the house.

What the hell?! I was sure I voted for "Get A Job"

My second choice, probably.

Ire cum de 'otstepprr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS8UHOFk-KI

Bruce Springsteen, "Tunnel Of Love"

"King of Beers" -- Too Much Joy

-- eeyore19, Monday, 29 October 2007 23:05 (5 days ago) Link

Oh man, this is nowhere near Land of 1,000 Dances or Kiss Him Goodbye, but you absolutely rule for keeping the TMJ faith! To your health, sir!

"The Look" totally missing

the will smith song that samples sister sledge

My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egG7fiE89IU

It's not better than "Hey Jude", which it apes as blatantly as possible, but "Genuine Imitation Life" by the Four Seasons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH4p_MX4YG8

Peggy Gou

I only recently started to wonder if the "na na na-NA na" phrasing in "Lovin Touchin Squeezin" is a depiction of the vocalists taunting the crying girl, repeatedly, for 90ish seconds, in the classic schoolyard style

Songs that incorporate the "nan nanny boo boo" melody

lmao

Steve Petty more like

There’s a hundred Destroyer songs that coulda won this poll

Bruce Springsteen, "Tunnel Of Love"

Springsteen also has "Thundercrack," which uses "sha na na na na na oh-oh" rather than the "sha na na na na na na na oh-oh" of "Tunnel of Love," and with a completely different melody.

https://xkcd.com/851/