Word(s) that only ever appeared in one (hit) song, ever.

Interactive (Bis, 'Kandy Pop')
CD-Rom (Will Smith, 'Just The Two Of Us')
Will Oldham (Biffy Clyro, 'Saturday Superhouse')

someone gonna write a song with all these words in so we can launch it top 40 (must beat that shitty Lloyds song)

CD-Rom (Will Smith, 'Just The Two Of Us')

^^^Busta Rhymes - Fire It Up

Busta sez 'CD-Rom' in 'Fire It Up'

"Firestarter" ?

"Get Busy" has "percolate" and "oscillate"

Born Slippy gauntlet:

succulent
derailed
high-density

Scaramouche
Fandango
Bizmillah

fandango also in Whiter Shade of Pale

Of course.

"Vestal Virgins"...?

More possiblities from another overblown epic:

Bustle
Hedgerow

"Pig skin" - paranoid android

"Pig skin" - In the End - Linkin Park

System of A Down - Chop Suey, "Self-righteous"

who'd a thought it

xp

surely Prince is not alone with 'Corvette'?

^^^Eiffel 65 - Blue

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.

Has any other hit song mentioned "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"?

kate nash probably

For some reason I'm sorta proud I can write that word correctly without checking the spelling from anywhere.

"Defecating" - Fugees, Ready or Not

"Haver" - Proclaimers - 'I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)'

No doubt there's several other words/places in their songs, Kilmarnock/Stranraer/Leith for starters.

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"

Is "West End Girls" the only international hit song to mention "Finland"?

Well, I guess that Monty Python song wasn't a hit. :)

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.

"Heck-a-slammin'" - Prince: "U Got The Look"

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" surely most be the only hit song to mention mosquito and albino?

Maybe even "rammin'" from same song.

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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 ;)

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,

It's Grim Up North,
It's Grim Up North.

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,
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PICK THE CHANGE OUT OF THAT LOT

Most of those cities have probably been mentioned in other songs too. Only not at the same time.

"cities"

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

Surely this thread hasn't gotten this far without a mention of the word "prerogative".

Yeah, Jay-Z's not the kind of guy who'd drop camp-ass British expressions into his lyrics. xp

"Tractatus" immediately springs to mind, in Gettin and Havin and Holdin by Scritti Politti

Y'know that bit in the thread title where it says "hit", right?

99 Palavers But A Nincompoop Bain't Being One Of Them

Ah yes, I forgot about the 'hit' element. Still, you can't argue with managing to squeeze the word Tractatus into any song!

i came to this thread to say Ilkley a la Grim Up North
damn you Noodle ..
however, i cant see too many people using the word : parthenogenesis other than the glorious Shriekback ?

Nemesis was a hit for them wasn't it ?

Is "Ossie's Dream" by Chas and Dave the only song to contain the word "blinder"?

There's a good 60 percent of "It's Grim" that I'd be very surprised if they'd ever been in another hit song. I'm looking at you, Lytham St Anne's.

i saw Old Man Gartside in the pub on Saturday, should've grilled him on Wittgenstein

"Nemesis" by Shriekback rose to the dizzy heights of #94 in June 1985.

"Moot" ("Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield)

"True like the Tractatus" is kind of a joke that keeps on giving.

Re. "Ossie's Dream" - surely "trembly" is a nonce word there too?

"Defecating" - Fugees, Ready or Not

Defecating also mentioned in a Bowie song, I think We Are The Dead

fair point about this hardly being a 'hit'.

Yeah no aspersions on you, giraffe; if you look upthread there are a lot of pretty niche suggestions.

This got me to wondering if Paul Simon's "Boy in the Bubble" is the only major hit with the word staccato in it.

Back in 2020 Tory Lanez released a whole song called "Staccato", but it didn't chart anywhere, and I can't find another example. Staccato is a common enough word, but it's slightly too posh-sounding, and also it has too many syllables to use easily in a rhyme. You say star-car-toe, I say stack-a-toe.

Lanez' song has the lyrics "I'm hotter than Folgers / money so thick, can't fold it, I told-ya / came back, put my baby mama in a Rover / Card got no limit, bitch, I'm a soldier", which is presumably supposed to be about a Range Rover, but I can't help but imagine him giving his girlfriend a Rover Metro 1.3HLS and bragging about the fuel economy.

"Staccato signals of constant information / a loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires". They had millionaire and billionaires in the 1980s. And lasers in the jungle. Now there are more of them.

I have never heard another human being pronounce staccato in the ways you mention.

If you grew up with holes in your stack-a-toes, you'd celebrate the minute your star car gets towed.