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

"academia" - Saint Etienne, He's On The Phone

"Academia Blues" - Perfect Skin, Lloyd Cole

"shtick" - Barry White, "Never Never Gonna Give You Up"

"TVC15", not much of a word.

But it counts.

Re. Scritti: is "Wood Beez" the only hit to include the word "intravenous" (again I suspect there may be several dozen rap-related responses to that)?

Is it not in "Just like a pill" pink?

Good call.

http://www.spinaltapfan.com/atozed/images/intravsm.jpg

"symbolic" as featured during a verse of that earth's-core-shakingly massive hit tune "Mr. Jones", performed by Counting Crows.

"antediluvian" - Donovan, "Atlantis"

is "Wood Beez" the only hit to include the word "intravenous"

Partial credit to Stars of 45 for beginning the titling of their Beatles medley "Intro: Venus ..."

er, Stars ON 45 ...

"Chromium steel" - "Allentown."

I'm guessing "You're So Vain" is the only hit song to reference Nova Scotia...and Saratoga, for that matter...

"Gavotte"

Santeria by Sublime.

Gavotte was mentioned earlier.

"reaper"...you know the song...

Prince used "reaper" in Let's Go Crazy.

"EINS-ZWEI-DREI-VIER!!!"

Not exactly it, but "Der Kommissar" opens with the line "Zwei drei vier, one two three, it's easy to see..."

And though technically not part of the lyrics, Kraftwerk do count in "Eins-Zwei-Drei-Vier" on "Showroom dummies".

"reaper"...you know the song...

Prince used "reaper" in Let's Go Crazy.

OK, same song: "redefine"

When you said "you know the song", my first thought was Don't Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult. Sorry.

"funky cold medina"

xpost: that was the song I had in mind...(good catch re: Prince)...

The B-52s had a bunch of these:

"Give Me Back My Man" - "Korvettes"
"Dance This Mess Around" - "limburger"
"Rock Lobster" - "earlobe," "lobster," "noseguard," "tanning butter," "stingray," a bunch of other crustaceans
"Quiche Lorraine" - "appliques"

"Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" - "somersets"

I'm guessing "You're So Vain" is the only hit song to reference Nova Scotia

Well, you'd be wrong then, since the Proclaimers' Letter From America contains the line "the day you sailed from Wester Ross to Nova Scotia".

"Whore"

in "You little thief" Feargal Sharkey...

"Whore" appears in lots of songs.

"Wake Up (Time To Die)" by Pop Will Eat Itself
"Four Winds" by Bright Eyes
"Shamrocks and Shenanigans" by House of Pain

To name just a few....

As well as at least one huge hit, Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer."

RE: "Wrapped Around Your Finger": Scylla and Charybdis.

'masturbation' - "Give Peace a Chance"

Of course, if anyone at the Beeb had noticed, it would probably have been banned...

(yeah, prompted by the original songwords going up for auction)

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

"All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit" by Half Man Half Biscuit. Not really a hit though.

"Mesmerised" has somehow avoided debunkation so far: it occurs in every song by The Cure, or at least "The Walk"

In addition to the ones that February C mentions above, Marillion's "Garden Party" also has "queueing cumbers" IIRC, but I suppose that falls into the deliberate-neologism bin.

Has anyone made a song featuring "hapax legomena"? :)

it occurs in every song by The Cure, or at least "The Walk"

er wait no, I think I mean another one! Um.

Take it to the "word(s) that appear in every song apart from one, ever" thread.

"The Caterpillar"! That's it.

"Wuthering" Heights by Kate Bush

There's a lot to choose from in "We Didn't Start the Fire," so I'll just pick one: "Panmunjom"

The same goes for "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)": "Leonid Brezhnev"

Parthenogenesis as part of Shriekback's Nemesis.

"Underwhelmed", Sloan

"Alabaster Lady" by Carole King.

Quote "Wrapped Around Your Finger" by The Police:

"I will turn your face to alabaster, when you find the sermon is your master".

"Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"

Not a hit song (although familiar to a larger number of people than most hit songs have ever been, it can be argued)

I guess Acker Bilk's "Summer Set" doesn't count against.

"Pønkebassgitar" (Delillos - Min beibi dro avsted)

"Pønkeruckelektrikgitar" The Members - Sound of the Suburbs

"Checkers" ("MacArthur Park")

"Knees" (MacArthur Park)

"Watch it bring you to your sha,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,knees, knees"

Loadsa knees!

"California Dreaming" for a kickoff.

I was beginning to doubt 'knees' as I wrote. Scritti are mentioned above, and are probably a safe bet, though. How about "negation" in 'First Boy in This Town (Lovesick)' which was a single, though whether it was actually a hit?

"Pønkebassgitar" (Delillos - Min beibi dro avsted)

That particular spelling of "beibi" may also be unique.
(Probably a lot of unique words in the entire "big four" of Norwegian 80s rock - maybe apart from Jokke, who wrote about more "down to earth" subjects)

"Vestibule" - My ding-a-ling, Chuck Berry

Great choice from first post on this thread, but no longer valid after 38 years -- "vestibule" is also in "Love Is A Beautiful Thing" by Phil Vassar, which topped the country chart (and I'm pretty sure also crossed over to the pop chart) earlier this year.

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