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

xp Some people here have a very bizarre idea of what constitutes a "hit song." (Unless "hit song" in England just means "any song ever recorded.")

I was told the words "finger fucking" appeared (and was played unedited on the radio) in a Blondie hit, though I can't recall which one.

"Macarena"!

I can only think of one instance of the word 'dawdle' in a hit record:

"...Daily, except for Sunday, you dawdle into the cafe where you meet her each day..."

Sparks - this town aint big enough

xp Some people here have a very bizarre idea of what constitutes a "hit song." (Unless "hit song" in England just means "any song ever recorded.")

It means any song which made the UK singles chart is what it means.

"anaesthetise" [UK spelling sic] was also in "radio radio" -- re: someone's placebo comment 500 posts ago.

I'm pretty sure that "Columbo" only appears in Bill Howard's ribtickling 1975 hit "King Of The Cops."

I'm pretty sure that "Columbo" only appears in Bill Howard's ribtickling 1975 hit "King Of The Cops."

-- Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:11 (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Mark B and Blade - Ya Don't See The Signs

Which got to #23 in May 2001, for any confused middle-aged American music critics wandering around this thread.

It's a tough concept to grasp, aye.

I can only think of one instance of the word 'dawdle' in a hit record: Sparks - this town aint big enough

Lovin' Spoonful's "Darling Be Home Soon" used it. (OK, dawdled, pedants.)

"Rolled up a woolie and I watched Columbo" from The New Style, by the Beastie Boys.

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I had a feeling that the Beasties might have something to say in that department.

Yeah, they probably have a few. "Sabotage"?

"Commiserating" from Blink 182's All the Small Things

Also, going back to RHCP, I can't think of any other hit songs that have the word "Wisconsin" in them.

"Hollaback Girl" ?

Psychosomatic?

I have the feeling that Going the Distance by Cake is made entirely of these, but I really don't want to go look up the lyrics. I think dude had a rhyming dictionary AND a thesaurus open on that one, though.

The notable exception from this song is the word "bowel" which, thank you Will Smith.

Lipstuck, Grebos, Crusties - The Only Living Boy in New Cross, Carter USM
Klaus Barbie, Leigh-on-Sea, Abodeless, Rachman - Sherrif Fatman, Carter USM
Chloro-Fluoro-Carbon, Domestos - Rubbish, Carter USM

"Engenders" ("Jenny Ondioline" by Stereolab)

"hit" was "French Disco" so I submit "Bubble withdrawal"

In fact, that I submit that phrase as never appearing anywhere else, ever!

You never heard the remix of "Heal The World" then?

"Victrola" - CCR's Looking out my back door (if counts as a hit single? I still hear it occasionally on our local rock station.)

"Belisha Beacon" - Radiohead's My Iron Lung - and er, "My Iron Lung" probably isn't used that often either.

I believe that CCR song was one of their half-dozen Number Two singles

"Has any other hit song mentioned "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"?"

"Super Band" by Kool & the Gang (#17 on Billboard's soul charts in '77).

- "superficial" (Anita Baker, "Giving You The Best That I've Got")
- "foolhardy," "thereafter," "portrayin'" (Bob Kuban & the In-Men, "Look Out For The Cheater")

"vegemite," "combie," "chunder" -- Men At Work, "Down Under"
"wallabies," "cockatoo," "abos," "platypus," digeridoo" -- Rolf Harris, "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport"

(In the U.S., anyway -- In Australian hits, for all I know, those words show up all the time.)

Is Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" the only U.S. hit to contain the word "pissing"? (Patti Smith's "Pissing in a River" was never a hit anywhere, I'm pretty sure; nor was the Beastie Boys' "Stop That Train," where they're "pissing on the third rail.")

And I doubt it was, but if Elvis Costello's "Busy Bodies" was ever a hit somewhere, it's got "concertina."

"Debonair" -- "When Smokey Sings" (probably the only hit song to *begin* with "debonair," at least...)

Before Dignbod says,

"I should be so debonair, I threw my glass in the air"

Oh what a shame, Roy Wood.

"Buck-toothed" (Ask)

-- Alba, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:12 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

^^^"bucktooth" is used on "La Pastie De La Bourgiese", which was the lead track on B&S's top 40 "3, 6, 9 Seconds Of Light" EP

buck teeth also mentioned in the glorious U.G.L.Y. by Daphne and Celeste.

"Apple Crumble" - Abc - That Was Then But This Is Now

"Gas fires of the refinery" Bruce Springsteen Born In The USA

"Victrola" - CCR's Looking out my back door

Also appears in "Dim All the Lights."

"Alabaster" also in "Wrapped Around Your Finger"

-- ledge, Monday, January 21, 2008 7:12 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

"scylla and charybdis"

I do these with friends as scavenger hunts. Spot the hit song that used each of these words:

accomplished
as yet
carbon (at least two answers)
gunnin'
inclement
James Taylor
misconstrued
prefix
tumble
vibes
whippoorwill

Nabokov.

Carbon=1/2 of Modest Mouse's recorded musical output.

Nabokov.

-- chap, Monday, January 21, 2008 1:54 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

pronounced correctly = 0

Precocious = "Bette Davis Eyes"

Oppenheimer (Sting's 'Russians')

arapahoe (Spitting Image - the Chicken Song)

Deacon Blue's "He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now" mentions Oppenheimer, but that wasn't a single. The album ("Raintown") was a pretty big hit though.

Oh, let me get my hands On your mammary glands - smiths, 'handsome devil'

Precocious = "Bette Davis Eyes"

B-b-but "precocious" was used in "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"! As a rhyme, yet.

plebeian

"James Taylor" was in Cimarron's "Rings."

Also, I'll submit "anarchy."

mmmbop

"I do these with friends as scavenger hunts. Spot the hit song that used each of these words:

as yet"

Sam Cooke, "Another Saturday Night" (which also mentioned "deliverance")

"tumble"

You call THAT an unusual word?!? Already, Top 40 hits by Culture Club and Ziggy Marley come to mind...

As far as "misconstrued," the only place I remember hearing that was in a Swamp Dogg song that was nowhere near a hit ("The Baby Is Mine").

"Precocious = "Bette Davis Eyes"

B-b-but "precocious" was used in "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"!"

B-b-but "Supercalietcetera" wasn't a hit!