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

From Matchbox 20's 'Real World': 'honcho'

(Thank you, store radio station, for triggering the now incessant mental repetition of this song which I'd blessedly forgotten.)

Clearly you missed out on my Matchbox 20 poll! :-(

''Honcho'' is also on T.I.'s ''About The Money'' though IIRC the video subtitles it with a variant spelling.

Not counting semi-word "upriser," "Give It Away" includes "kaiser," "hoosegow," "kingpin," and "pauper."

"pauper" is in "That's Life": I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king

Oof, yeah, I had a feeling 'pauper' might be a can of worms. Just remembered a similar use in ''King of Spain'' and there must be others.

I was about to throw this out re:"Kaiser", but doh! Instrumental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fRS5nxYxoo

"Hoosegow" is used in W.A.S.P.'s "Blind in Texas". :-)

"Kingpin" is in J Lo's "I'm Gonna Be Alright," in the rap part by Nas

'Upsot' in 'Jingle Bells' (maybe also 'Lank')

similarly 'apparel' from 'Deck The Halls'

You look so perfect standing there
In my American Apparel underwear

5 Seconds of Summer - "She Looks So Perfect"

pretty sure "apparel" must feature in at least one Jethro Tull song too but

'bruising' in Basia's 'Cruising for Bruising'

'prostrate' in Indigo Girls' 'Closer to Fine'

Virility, procurer, bordellos, opium, Twickenham from Scott Walker's "Jackie". Opium probably not.

Politics !

"The Politics of Dancing" - Re-flex

(actually, I know of one other, see how long it takes....)

'Sowing The Seeds Of Love'

'Politician granny' iirc

also "the politics of greed" towards the end

oh aye

''Politic'' on ''Incarcerated Scarfaces,'' too. Also ''politicriffs'' in ''Channel Z.'' Pretty sure both charted.

Um... "no fronts, no tricks, no soapbox politics"?

"Landscaping" in Busta's "Dangerous."

Thought of another "pauper" - "Love In An Elevator."

"bubonic" in "Gin & Juice" ?

Your user name just reminded me: has "Neanderthal" been used in any other hit besides "Neanderthal Man" by Hotlegs (No. 2 in the UK on 15 August 1970)?

holly valance - kiss kiss - uk no. 1 in may 2002

The line 'her boyfriend is neanderthal" chimes, but don't remember from where.

'my rival is neanderthal', sting, seven days, no. 25 in the uk in 1993

I do now: "Sister Europe" The Psychedelic Furs.

Oh wait, you are right.

Oof, yeah, I had a feeling 'pauper' might be a can of worms. Just remembered a similar use in ''King of Spain'' and there must be others.

I looked up Frozen Ghost's 1988 Canadian hit "Pauper in Paradise" and found that Gino Vanelli had earlier done a whole album titled Pauper in Paradise.

Did all the Brits here really not remember that their national anthem contains the line "Confound their politics"?

I'd be surprised if there was a Brit ilxor who gave a fuck about our national anthem tbh. I don't know anything past the first line.

Not sure if a national anthem counts as a "hit" song anyway though I suppose it does in a way

Did all the Brits here really not remember that their national anthem contains the line "Confound their politics"?

Be more surprising if they did remember. Difficult to remember something you never knew in the first place basically.

Fuck a national anthem.

is Crimes of Passion by Rough Trade the only hit song to include the word "moistness"?

Methuselah

(on Christine & The Queens - Tilted)

I don't know if peaking at #93 on the UK charts counts as a "hit," but:

gelignite

"There Goes a Tenner," Kate Bush

Ooh...

Blimey, its the internet!

http://www.lyrics.com/lyrics/gelignite

Anyway, Siouxsie and the Banshees 'Fireworks' , #22

Yeah, Bronski Beat "It ain't necessarily so" has Methuselah featured.

That's not really a Bronski Beat tune, it's from Porgy and Bess originally.

Mark G isn't 7 years old, so I imagine he knows that already.

Ar, that is true.

Anyway, back to the spirit of the original post:

"Bungalows" - Roadhouse Blues by The Doors.

I mean, Bungalows, Jim? You want to tell us all about the Bungalows? Oh, OK then...

What about "LA Woman"...

They have bungalows in there as well?

Blimey, it does!

Jim Morrison - He sang of Bungalows like no-one else ever did!

Or will again.

By the way, there's also "Bungalow Bill," although I wouldn't call that a hit song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYA5tReVNmE

Lot of early 20th century hits with "bungalow" also, as it had come to signify the kind of generic small detached house you and your sweetheart might acquire someday, once you are wed, etc.

Yes, but this is The Doors..

I dunno, just seemed incongruous for some reason..