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

"Fake plastic submarine" - from a long-forgotten rock radio hit from 2000, "Right Now" by SR-71

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dY4KjMdMVE

Pant(s) that only appeared in one (hit) video, ever.

I find it delightful that "parthenogenesis" appears 3 (now 4!) times on this thread

Saw Tori Amos upthread: Sneeze?

"membrane," "mainframe," and "Sumo" in "Insane in the Brain"
"wonderland" in "Your Body Is A Wonderland"
"The Bronx" and "Oprah" in "Jenny From The Block" (can't be true, surely?)
"redecorated" and "field trip" on "Who Dat"
"Pez," "Fun Dip," and "macaroni and cheese" in "Summer Girls." Excepting "Cherry Coke" on principle vs. "chicka-cherry cola."

Well, there's 'Wonderland' by XTC for a kick-off..

Hrm! Wiki doesn't show that one charting anywhere...

at one point I wanted to compile a list of unusual words mentioned in Pet Shop Boys songs. potential candidates here include "jasmine" (as in the plant) and "Issey Miyake"

Ok "Jasmine" is in Summer Breeze The Islets..

The Isleys. My spelling corrector!

boogie wonderland ffs

think winter wonderland might've been a hit

exalted, in the new clean bandit

oh duhhhhh re: both of those wonderlands. That'll teach me to cruise my Spotify pop junk playlist tipsy at 2 AM.

"membrane," "mainframe," and "Sumo" in "Insane in the Brain"

"Membrane" appears in Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" and LL Cool J's Rock the Bells.
"Sumo" appears in Big Pun's "I'm Not a Player".

Don't think there are any other hits with "Mainframe" though.

"strongly" on Silverchair's "Tomorrow"?

Candidates from "Simply Irresistible": 'inscrutable,' 'irreversible,' 'irrefutable.' 'Permissible' and 'mythical' maybe less likely.

Prodigy - Breathe

"Psychosomatic"

The Avalanches' Frontier Psychiatrist has psychosomatic in it, though it is obviously a sample from somewhere.

Was gonna say "not a hit but the first thing I thought of too" - but was pleased to just discover it hit #18 in the UK. Way to go, Avalanches!

And the sample, it turns out, is from a comedy routine entitled... "Frontier Psychiatrist." http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Frontier+Psychiatrist/2gfJCf?src=5

OK, how about "Hydromatic"

(You know the song)

On "This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide": "zoomy," maybe "mobilize" and "hoot."

Ha -- definitely way to go, Avalanches. Now about that second album...

Okay, I feel good about this one - "amoebas" in John Hiatt's "Thing Called Love." A #11 on US Rock for Bonnie Raitt.

Amoeba wasn't in "Kokomo"?

hahaha, would go well with the "mounds of rotten steak" reportedly found in Martinique (thanks, ILX)

"Bravado" in "Baby Come Back" by Player?

"Worcestershire sauce" in "Crack a Bottle." Kind of a wretched song but it would be cool if the "bottle" in question actually contained a tangy condiment for beef dishes.

"Cargo," in "Rock the Boat"?

Well, there's also this, but I doubt it was ever a hit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayfZKdE5OOw

Has there ever been a hit single version of 'This Old Man'? If not, I'm going to nominate Pop Muzik by M as the only hit to include 'knick knack paddy whack'

― ferret is followed! (soref), Wednesday, January 1, 2014 4:10 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Knick knack paddy whack" is also in Ludacris's "Get Back."

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, January 1, 2014 12:51 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...and Ludacris's "How Low!" Wish he'd really followed through and tried to include it, somewhere, in every song.

Any other uses of soppy aside from slap & tickle? (Squeeze)

"Orphanages" in "You Can Call Me Al"

"TransPass" and probably "corns" (the things people get on their feet) and maybe (though I doubt it) "alakazam" (not to mention all sorts of pseudo-words in Carnese or whatever the made-up language is -- not Double Dutch, apparently): "Double Dutch Bus" by Frankie Smith

"Alakazam" is indeed in "Open Sesame" by Kool & the Gang.

Also there's the old bubblegum classic "Wham Bam Ala Cazam" by The Tricks but dunno if it was a real hit or not.

Now I'm wondering if "skippers" is in any other songs other than McLaren's "Double Dutch".

"Alakazam" is in Nat King Cole's Orange Coloured Sky, as well as The Marvelettes' My Baby Must Be A Magician.

"eloquence" from When Smokey Sings by ABC

This one is also in De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

when Sting's 'eloquence' escapes you...

And Elton's "Sartorial Eloquence" ..

(I read that as Trio's "Da da da", and was thinking "probably the 12" version..")

God, "Sartorial Eloquence" - got introduced to that through the Elton ballot poll and I swear it now gets stuck in my head more than any of his classic hits. DON'T YOU WANNA PLAY THIS GAME NO MORE???

It also has "indisposed," but I'm sure that has to be on other things.

Black Hole Sun:

"In my eyes. Indisposed. In disguise as no one knows..."

oh duhhhh

Lightning Crashes -- Placenta? As in...

"Her placenta falls to the floor"

"By the middle of March when the pregnancy starts in your lady's placenta - that means L just entered"

"cavalier" in "She's Out of My Life". Probably there's some other hit song that has used it but I can't think of it

no fear, cavalier, renegade and steer clear
a tournament, a tournament, a tournament of flies