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

As much as I like the song, they're alot of that going on in the Everly Brothers' "Gone, Gone, Gone" - "If you change your way, baby/you might get me to stay, baby/better hurry up if you don't want to be alone", as if it weren't possible (or likely) she could find someone else.

*there's

I was listening to the "Sound of the sixties" and they were playing "Are You Sure" The Allisons, and at first it's all conciliatory, careful even, "Are you sure you won't be sorry?" until near the end where it's all "It's just your foolish heart" you stupid person, etc...

Definitely a worthy thread topic. I feel it should rightfully be Dr. Casino's, though.

but we alrezdy had an Eagles thread

"Mr. Big Stuff" fits the called-for "no thanks" genre.

y'all should start it! i'm swamped right now and the labor of thread-starting is beyond me.

re: Edmund Fitzgerald: "capsize" is in "Jumper" by Third Eye Blind (#5 on the Hot 100).

Or...wait. He's saying "cut ties with all the lies," not "capsize under the lies." Wow. Never mind.

M's "Pop Muzik" (mentioned upthread for a different phrase, later disproved to be specific to it) also has "infiltrate," "Molotov," "gunslinger," and "hotcake." I bet at least a couple of those have shown up in other hits (though as far as I can tell "Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger" never pop-charted), but maybe one or two haven't.

Sean Paul's "Infiltrate" certainly wasn't a US hit, but it looms large in his legend and I feel like I've heard it out in the world here and there. The rest are toughies.

It wasn't a huge hit (#28), but Janet Jackson's 'Son of a Gun' had the lyric "Gunslinger shoot em up".

Can't find anything with hotcake or Molotov though.

I keep thinking "I Gotta Feeling" and going "er, no."

"Molotov cocktail, the local drink" starts the second verse of Don Henley's "All She Wants to Do is Dance."

In the not-hits-but-notable department, Carly Simon has a song called "Hot Cakes" and The Fall have a song called "Hot Cake" - the word appears in both!

Well, there's always "Love and a Molotov Cocktail" The Flys, but not a hit.

Probably Pet Shop Boys have ..

Molotov:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_She_Wants_to_Do_Is_Dance

They're pickin' up the prisoners and puttin' 'em in a pen
And all she wants to do is dance, dance
Rebels been rebels since I don't know when
And all she wants to do is dance
Molotov cocktail- the local drink

^ U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #9

The song with the most unique words?

Well, let's propose "I'm in love with the girl on the Manchester Megastore Checkout Desk"

As she sells her records on such labels as

EMI, CBS, A&M, RCA, Hansa, Stateside, Creole, Apple, Decca

Charisma, Virgin, Zapple, RSO, Island too. Stiff, Jet, Logo

Factory, Zoo, who all turned me down

And not forgetting there's

Bell, Gull, MAM, WEA, RAK, Phonogram,

Rediffusion, Swan, Atlantic, Carousel, Transatlantic

Chrysalis, Polydor, Warner Brothers, Manticore

So with Molotov well covered, is "Don't Stand so Close to Me" the only one with Nabokov?

And yes I know there are two versions and both charted. Whether they count as two songs is debatable.

Artist: The Genius/GZA
Album: Liquid Swords
Song: Labels
Typed by: OHHLA Webmaster DJ Flash

Intro: RZA

Lot of people, you know what I'm sayin, they be gettin misinformed
thinkin everything is everything, that you could just get yourself
a little deal, whatever, youknowhatI'msayin you gonna get on you
gonna get rich. And all these labels be trying to lure us in like
spiders, into the web, knowhatI'msaying. So sometimes people gotta
come out and speak up, and let people understand, that you know you
gotta read the label you gotta read the label if you don't read the
label you might get poisoned...

Lyrics: Genius

TOMMY ain't my motherfuckin' BOY
When he fake moves on a nigga you employ
Well I'll EMIRGE off ya set, now ya know God damn
I show LIVIN LARGE niggaz how to flip a DEF JAM
And RUFF up the motherfuckin' HOUSE
Cause I smother you COLD CHILLIN' mother fuckers are still WARNER BROTHERS
I'm RUTHLESS my clan don't have to act wild
That shit is JIVE, an old SLEEPING BAG/PROFILE
This soft comedian rap shit ain't the rough witty
On the reel to reel it wasn't from a TUFF CITY
Niggas be game, thinking that they lyrical surgeons
They know their mics are formed at VIRGIN
And if you ain't boned a mic you couldn't hurt a bee
That's like going to Venus driving a MERCURY
The CAPITOL of this rugged slang, is WU-TANG
Witty Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game
I DEATH ROW an MC with mic cables
The EPIC is at a RUSH ASSOCIATED LABELS
From EASTWEST to ATCO, I bring it to a NEXT PLATEAU
But I keep it phat though
Yo, I'm hittin' batters up with the WILD PITCH style
I even show an UPTOWN/MCA style
Who thought he saw me on 4TH & BROADWAY
But I was out on the ISLAND, bombing MC's all day
My PRIORITY is that I'm FIRST PRIORITY
I bone the secret out a bitch in a sorority
So look out for A&M, the abbot and the master
Breakin' down your PENDULUM
As I fiend MC's out with a blow that'll numb the
a-ppendix, I'm holdin more more weight than COLUMBIA
Index INTERSCOPE, we RCA. clan
That's comin' with a plan to free a
slave of a mental death MC don't panic
Throw that A&R nigga off the boat in the ATLANTIC
Now who's the BAD BOY character, not from ARISTA
But firin' weapons released on GEFFEN
So duck as I struck with the soul of MOTOWN
While CENTRAL BROADCASTING SYSTEMS are slowed down
You're Dirty, like that Bastard
It's gettin drastic

(xpost to Mark)

Nabokov

http://genius.com/Nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-there-she-goes-my-beautiful-world-lyrics

#45 in UK charts

Hotcakes is in Charlie Daniels' "Dixie on My Mind" but that's not the same "Dixie on My Mind" that was a Country #1 for Hank Williams Jr.

"Kismet" in Teena Marie's "Square Biz"

Kismet also in I'm always touched by your presence dear and misirlou. Elvis also had a song with the same name but I don't think it was a single.

"Obscenities" in "Automatic" by the Pointer Sisters?

And murmured vague obscenities - Janis Ian 'At Seventeen'

'At Seventeen' is definitely the only hit song to contain the word 'debentures'

Who else used the word "thong" in a hit song but Sisqo?

"Timber" by Pitbull has thong in it "I have 'em like Miley Cyrus, clothes off twerking in their bras and thongs", I'm sure others too.

too bad this wasn't a bigger hit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPtqzE1Bi8

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)?

Cool video btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e0qYP_PTlY

Jimmy Castor Bunch's wild "Troglodyte" mentions Neanderthals. Gotta be more. Hmmm.

Is "I Want You" by Savage Garden the only hit song to use "likened" in the lyrics? A quick search revealed a couple of non-hits but was not conclusive.

White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane is surely the only hit song to feature the word 'dormouse'

Just looking up the thread and Jay Z's verse on Mr Carter by Lil Wayne features the word Molotov. Not sure if it counts as a hit song though

[Verse 3 ‒ Jay-Z]
Shyea
I'm right here, in my chair
With my crown and my dear
Queen B, as I share
Mic time with my heir
Young Carter, go farther
Go further, go harder
Is that not why we came?
And if not, then why bother?
Show no mercy in Murciélaga's
Far from being the bastard that Marcy had fathered
Now my name's been mentioned with the Martyrs
The Biggie's and the Pac's, and the Marley's and the Marcus'
Garvey, got me a Molotov cocktail
Flow, even if you box well, can't stop the blows
Kaboom! The Roc Boy in the room
The Dopebwoyy just came off the spoon
Also, I'm so fly I'm on auto-
Pilot, where guys just, stare at my wardrobe
I see euros, that's right, plural
I took so much change from this rap game it's your go
Young!

And besides,

"Molotov cocktail, the local drink
And all she wants to do is dance, dance
They mix 'em up right
In the kitchen sink
And all she wants to do is dance"

(oops, shoulda read the whole threat through first again. disregard.)

has the c-word ('cuckold' or 'cuck') ever appeared in a hit song? asking for a friend...

Megadeth Anarchy In The UK
The Libertines What A Waster
And I think there was a Paul Weller one, but I can't remember which apart from that it was in lieu of the Libertines (i.e. after it)

Unless you actually mean cuckold or cuck. In which case, no I don't think so.

Is your friend a Trump fan/the author of We Hunted the Mammoth?

"Antibody," in Smash Mouth's "Then The Morning Comes."

"Quotient" in Led Zeppelin's "Rain Song"

"Profitful", it's a real word alright. And a real hit, measuring 30+ on the rock hit scale, uh.

You link the song instead of telling us what it is?

For the record: Rage Against The Machine, "No Shelter." One of their best singles IMO. Funny, 'cause that song's actually been in my head this week and I've run my brain over that line/word more than once.

Although, looking it up, I'm sad to realize the first line is not "The main attraction is retchin'!" and that he is not saying either "Chained to the drain" or "Funk right, vulture - Americana" in the pre-chorus.

ughhhhhhhh now it's really been in my head all evening - just the opening "werrr-REW, werrr-REW," leading up to and including "The main attraction is retchin'- like the number they nubbled to numb!" and then it starts over.

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.)