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

Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis, y'all.

"balsa" in Suede's 'It Starts and Ends With You'.

steely dan has a song where fagen's "building the andrea doria out of balsa wood."

also in Jerry Lee Lewis - "Great Balsa Fire"

Btw, "titanium" from upthread was also in Wings' "Magneto and Titanium Man," which was the b-side of a hit record ("Venus and Mars/Rock Show")

I can't believe I of all posters forgot ''Magneto and Titanium Man.'' It's a technicality, sure, but still.

"sacroiliac" in Grandmaster Flash's Melle Mel's "The Message"

"anesthetize" in Girls Aloud's "No Good Advice"

"Are you waiting for loneliness to paralyze?
Are you waiting for sister midnight to anesthetize?"

~American Music Club, "Firefly"

"my rap snaps your sacroilliac" - Jeru

Sacroiliac also in Blondie's Rapture

no one but Tina Turner has ever sung the word "Thunderdome"

I think Club Country by The Associates might be the only song that features the word "Refrigeration"

"Disinclined" in The Loving Kind by Girls Aloud.

Sacroiliac also in Blondie's Rapture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xFVh0UoY6c

... not a hit single though

I have heard a version of "Do the Hucklebuck" that uses "Sacroiliac"

"Macaroons" in "Sweet City Woman."

"Incomprehensible" -- ABBA, "Lay All Your Love On Me"

Thread seems to make fairly liberal interpretations of what constitutes a "hit".

I'll toss in "I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna" from Me and Bobby McGee (went #1 in the US for Miss Joplin, #12 for Roger Miller, and #13 for Gordon Lightfoot).

I feel like Mariah Carey has to have a bunch of these

"Gnome" and "overfed" in "Spill the Wine" by Eric Burdon & War.

Is Thrift Shop the only hit song to have the word "skeet" in it?

"Get Low!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYH7_GzP4Tg

lol xp

"Dukedom" in "Duke of Earl." Good thing he didn't go with "duchy."

("Duke," of course, reappears in Billy Joel's "Keeping The Faith," not to mention "Rappin' Duke," while "Earl" had to die at the hands of the Dixie Chicks.)

"geometric" in Rush's "Subdivisions"

― tanuki, Friday, February 3, 2012 3:28 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Suddenly Everything Has Changed" by The Flaming Lips ("And the clouds all form a geometric shape")

"incontrovertible" in Pink Floyd's "The Trial"?

"bon jovi" in joe nichols' "tequila makes her clothes fall off"

oh duh "Dom Deluise". and probably matt dillon too.

A Thread For "After The Fire" By Roger Daltrey (composed by Pete Townshend)

"bowakawa" and "pousse" in john lennon's "#9 dream"

'neophobia' in 'facing page: top left' by the manics

"Jon Bon Jovi" also appears on Ben Folds's "Rockin' The Suburbs," but as that peaked at #28 on the Modern Rock chart, it's less a "hit" than "a single by an established artist that received obligatory airplay for a week."

"Hackensack" is in "6 Jerks in a Jeep" by the Andrews Sisters too.

― everything, Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanking you for this, i have rarely ranged beyond my one ten-track Andrews Sisters greatest hits and this is not on it. What a great song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k_6_XZ1b4I

"Velcro" in "Thrift Shop" - but I feel like I'm probably missing an obvious one.

dancerie, mjb 'family affair'

I'm guessing somebody on this thread already pointed out "petrified" from "I Will Survive", right?

No, but someone who missed the "hit" part brought up a Pere Ubu song.

Also: "Stupify" (sic) from the Disturbed song of the same title.

'thereof' = Eve 6, "Inside Out"

I would say "blender" also, but the same heart-tender-blender bit appears in "Nookie." I always wondered if that was supposed to be some kind of shoutout or reference or something.

"Velcro" in "Thrift Shop" - but I feel like I'm probably missing an obvious one.

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, July 28, 2013 1:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F89McWFENTs

Hot 100 Peak: 35
Mainstream Rock Peak: 15

I cant imagine it wasnt. Durst has done that more than once (dig the extended Suicidal Tendencies shoutout at the beginning of the 2nd verse of Stuck)

xp

I would say "blender" also, but the same heart-tender-blender bit appears in "Nookie." I always wondered if that was supposed to be some kind of shoutout or reference or something.

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, July 28, 2013 3:33 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a blender features very prominently in "Margaritaville"

Buffett has to be a goldmine of these. ''Flip-flops,'' ''pop-top,'' ''latitudes,'' ''carnivorous,'' ''bulghur wheat,'' maybe ''kosher,'' ''hush puppies,'' and (big maybe) ''cheeseburger.''

a veritable smorgasbord

Sad to discover ''Pencil Thin Mustache'' was not a hit, denying us ''bawana'' and ''Brylcreem.''

Steve Miller's "Living in the USA" has a cheeseburger in it. (I checked - yes, it charted)

and speaking of Steve Miller, does any other song have a 707 in it? Or any other specific model of airplane for that matter? (there are a few songs with LearJets in them, but that's just a manufacturer's name, like Boeing or Lockheed, not a specific model)

"kosher" is also in "c'mon" by ke$ha and "over" by drake, which both peaked higher than "cheeseburger in paradise". it has p widespread slang/idiomatic use. buffett maybe the only one to use "kosher pickle" tho

xp elo's "calling america" mentions the 747

far east movement's "like a g6." internet research tells me they were intending to make up a super luxurious gulfstream jet model name for their chorus, but that it turned out there actually is a gulfstream model that the g6 nickname could apply to.