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

I am not unaware. But even if you consider "Radio Head" a hit, it still doesn't include the word* "Radiohead"

*proper noun, but that counts, yeah? e.g. "Radarrange" mentioned upthread

Close enough for jazz

In "Creque Alley": "mugwumps," "Swarthmore."

"mugwump jism" appears in Bomb the Bass's "Bug Powder Dust"

The Roots namedrop Radiohead (and Paranoid Android) in "Don't See Us", I guess that wasn't a hit though? But Avril Lavigne's Here's to Never Growing Up also mentiones Radiohead by name, and that one made it to the #20 on the US charts, and #14 on the UK charts.

woah, I was totally (blissfully) ignorant of that Avril Lavigne song until now... weird that she & KP both mention "Radiohead" within the first two lines of the song. who is this kind of thing supposed to appeal to, anyway??

Which Vaccuous Pop Irritant's "Influences" list is this?

Kind of a difference between "namedropping" & "prominently using in lyrics" though

Like, I sorta get the work that "Radiohead" is doing in the Katy Perry song—the 'sophisticated' dude, maybe a year or two of college under his belt, seducing the teenage girl with his weird music &/or drugs—but Avril's seems like it almost *has to be* personal & sincere, because I can't read any meaning into it whatsoever.

Should clarify: the reference in the Avril song is something about 'singing along to Radiohead at the top of our lungs' (loose paraphrase). The song is called "Here's To Never Growing Up" & seems to imply that Avril spent/spends a lot of her days doing just that.

Unfurled ("Doctor My Eyes").

If you discount Neil Diamond's "America"

There you go--never knew that. Maybe "libido" in "Bust a Move"?

"A mosquito/My libido"--from "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

Of course...I quit!

Here's your coat..

"Calgon," in Mariah's "Shake It Off."

Any song besides "Do It Again" with either "mourners" or "sanguine"?

Isn't 'mourners' in "He Stopped Loving Her Today"? Or least some other big Country songs (It is in "Long Black Limousine", but was there a hit version of that?)

As far as I can tell, Elton John's "Country Comfort" was never a real hit anywhere (which seems odd to me -- I for sure remember it getting radio airplay back in the '70s: so maybe an AOR "hit" then, at least?), but I was still kind of tickled to notice today that it contains the word "hedgehog" (partially because hedgehogs, like Elton, come from a part of the world where country music doesn't.) Can't think off hand of any other hits where that animal is mentioned, but maybe I'm forgetting something obvious.

Hmmmm! Well, Nicki Minaj's "I been hot since Hedgehog / Sonic, the" was buried in a Young Money "deep cut," so that's no threat...

Probably wrong about this, but "Catalog" in "(Just Like) Romeo & Juliet".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiUEfhyJg0o

My favourite song by them. Shocked, of course, that xhuxk isn't a huge Luna fan.

I heard Rod Stewart's cover of "Country Comfort" on the radio a few times but never Elton John's.

"Eggy Bread" - Dominique - The Singing Nun

OK, so it's a translation of "pains dorés"

http://lyricstranslate.com/en/dominique-dominique.html

Did anyone (most likely a rapper) beat Bruno Mars to "grenade"?

"Illiterate" in "Big Pimpin'"? Surely not?

Would you call "Fiery Jack" by the Fall a hit?

...is this a trick question?

In honor of today's Don'n'Glenn selection:

"Wayfarers" (as in sunglasses) in "The Boys of Summer"

Thalidomide - Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"

Telluride- Glenn Frey's "Smuggler's Blues"

'ambassadress' in Deep & Wide & Tall by Aztec Camera

"fancy" - "fancy", iggy azalea

^^eh? It's not even the first hit called "Fancy"

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

^^Possible entrant from that "Fancy": 'benevolent"

:/

I heard Tempted by Squeeze today and got to wondering if there are any other hits that have the word 'pyjamas'

Hah- I heard Up The Junction by Squeeze the other day and wondered if any other hits had the word "nifty".

"Confidante" on "Thank You For Being A Friend"?

this thread's buzzkill… http://www.lyrics.net/lyrics/CONFIDANTE

but how many of those other songs were hits?

Phew, been racking my brain all day trying to remember what Lovin' Spoonful song has 'confidante' in the lyrics!

Hardly a buzzkill, it doesn't even have "Thank You For Being a Friend" itself! Dismissed as unreliable.

^probably because 'confidante' can also be spelled without the e

http://www.lyrics.net/lyrics/confidant

(results include Paris Hilton's 'Stars Are Blind', lol)

"Confidante" immediately sent me to "Venus and Mars / Rock Show" Macca/Wings

Me too, but I completely forgot it was a single. Hiding in plain sight.

that recent nick jonas song uses the word "hellish." if that's ever been used in a hit before, not nearly as hamhandedly...

"dependencies" in "Orinoco Flow"?

Lady GaGa's "Judas" has "condom" in it. I don't think I've heard it in another Top 10 hit before.

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It's on "Gone till November," (#3 UK, #7 US) but I guess it depends which version was being played.

"Aesop" in Mark Lindsay's "Arizona" (US #10, 1969)