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

'oceanography' In The Navy

"tardis" in "Doctorin' The Tardis" by The Timelords.
"twister" in "Man On The Moon" by REM.

"salute" in "School's Out" by Alice Cooper.

"excitations" in "Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys. The things I will do to avoid work...

"For those about to rock, we ______ you" AC/DC

What's that flyin up there
is it a bird?
is it a plane?
or is it a _____
(Chubby Checker, let's twist again)

"bosh bosh bosh, loadsamoney" in "Doctorin' The Tardis" by The Timelords.

"hookah", "chessboard", "mushroom", "caterpillar", and "doormouse" in "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane.

"skibobble" in "I Wish" by Skee Lo.

"Notwithstanding" and "contractual" in Legal Man by B&S
"Brewers droop", "gut lord" and "porklife" in Parklife by Blur
"Terylene" in Filmstar by Suede

And I'm not sure this counts, but
"Cemetry" and "plague-arise"

Didn't Loadsamoney have a hit song called Loadsamoney? (x-p)

What's that flyin up there
is it a bird?
is it a plane?
or is it a _____

The answer is Twister, innit?

Twister was also mentioned in "Man On The Moon" by R.E.M.

"caterpillar"

ever heard of a little number by The Cure called THE CATERPILLAR

"One night in Bangkok" has a chessboard in it.

"Asp" shows up in Man on the Moon. Only three letters! Now wracking brain for an unmatched two-letter word.

"One night in Bangkok" has a chessboard in it.

Not in so many words.

oh, just checked and it's "chess boys" so OK.

Do acronyms count? Ice-T, "OG"

Do acronyms count? Ice-T, "OG"

-- dad a, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:28 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Shitload of rap hits contain this, most notably "Cold As Ice" by MOP

All from the same song:
Cornflake
Eggmen
Walrus
Custard
Crabalocker
Fishwife
Priestess
Texpert
Semolina
Pilchard
Eiffel Tower
Edgar Allen Poe

And even then I don't count nonsense words such as "Goo goo goo joob"

I'm sure some of those are not unique.

cornflake girl, for one

"Tintinabulation"

(Wait, I blew it by not doing a spell check first.)

"eloquence" from When Smokey Sings by ABC
"Vermissimilitude" from Vermissimilitude by Teenage Fanclub

is there a song, other than My Perfect Cousin by the Undertones which mentions Subutteo?

phil collins

"Cheese on toast"

"Brewers droop"

Nope. Dire Straits' "Industrial Disease."

Noddemix.

When Paul McCartney mentioned paparazzis in "The World Tonight" it was before the Diana incident. It may not be unique now, but I believe it was then.

Has any song besides White Town's "Your Woman" used the word Marxist, let alone "highbrow Marxist ways?"

Manics maybe?

"salute" in "School's Out" by Alice Cooper

Well, Tom T. Hall had "Salute To A Switchblade," but I guess the country Top 40 doesn't count.

"love" in that one song by wet wet wet.

"For Those About To Rock" by AC/DC was a pop hit anyway. The next line in the chorus is "We salute you".

"intoleration"

REO Speedwagon, "Time For Me To Fly"

"Abhor" ("Electric Avenue" by Eddy Grant).

hanson - mmmbop

MMMbop tick a ta ba do ba
dubi da ba do ba
tick a ta ba doo
yeah eh yeah
MMMbop tick a ta ba do ba
dubi da ba do ba
tick a ta ba doo
yeah eh yeah

Kurosawa-Barenaked Ladies "One Week"

to the guys at the top of this thread:
"FANCY" BY REBA McENTIRE~! HELLO!?

i mighta been born just plain white trash
BUT FANCY WAS UH MA NAME!!

the pretenders - brass in pocket
"reet"

groos
ELO - "don't bring me down"

the pretenders - brass in pocket
"reet"

Jackie Wilson beat them to it by more than 20 years.

Now wracking brain for an unmatched two-letter word.

Om (Across the Universe)?

zigazig-ha

'progenitorship' in 'The Attic' by Van Dyke Parks. Probably a handful also from his Song Cycle. 'Hackamore'?

'snozzed' in Mike Doughty's 'I Hear Them Bells'? ("you snooze you lose, well I snozzed and lost" - totally pulls this off!). Maybe that doesn't count, since it's slang.

I'm guessing The Fall and maybe Jandek have some.

'haplocanthosaur' on Pere Ubu's 'Petrified'. They probably have heaps too.

My favourite use of unusual words used in song = 'Parallelograms' by Linda Perhacs. The title word takes the cherry.

quadrahedral/tetrahedral... semi-parabolic (?)

sorry, overlooked the 'hit' part of thread q.
Only the Mike Doughty could fit anywhere into that from my stabs.

Om (Across the Universe)?

Moody Blues had an "Om" too.

"Mitsubishi Zero" and "Red Star Belgrade"
from Billy Bragg's "Sexuality"

"Equilibrium"
from "Falling to Pieces", Faith No More

"Hijacking your equilibrium/Midnight snacks in the mauesoleum" Beck, "Sexxlaws"

I'm sure quite a few dodgy Eurodance #28 for one week hits may disprove this, but:

"Eurobeat" ("Twisting By The Pool" by Dire Straits).