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

'bruising' in Basia's 'Cruising for Bruising'

'prostrate' in Indigo Girls' 'Closer to Fine'

Virility, procurer, bordellos, opium, Twickenham from Scott Walker's "Jackie". Opium probably not.

Politics !

"The Politics of Dancing" - Re-flex

(actually, I know of one other, see how long it takes....)

'Sowing The Seeds Of Love'

'Politician granny' iirc

also "the politics of greed" towards the end

oh aye

''Politic'' on ''Incarcerated Scarfaces,'' too. Also ''politicriffs'' in ''Channel Z.'' Pretty sure both charted.

Um... "no fronts, no tricks, no soapbox politics"?

"Landscaping" in Busta's "Dangerous."

Thought of another "pauper" - "Love In An Elevator."

"bubonic" in "Gin & Juice" ?

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)?

holly valance - kiss kiss - uk no. 1 in may 2002

The line 'her boyfriend is neanderthal" chimes, but don't remember from where.

'my rival is neanderthal', sting, seven days, no. 25 in the uk in 1993

I do now: "Sister Europe" The Psychedelic Furs.

Oh wait, you are right.

Oof, yeah, I had a feeling 'pauper' might be a can of worms. Just remembered a similar use in ''King of Spain'' and there must be others.

I looked up Frozen Ghost's 1988 Canadian hit "Pauper in Paradise" and found that Gino Vanelli had earlier done a whole album titled Pauper in Paradise.

Did all the Brits here really not remember that their national anthem contains the line "Confound their politics"?

I'd be surprised if there was a Brit ilxor who gave a fuck about our national anthem tbh. I don't know anything past the first line.

Not sure if a national anthem counts as a "hit" song anyway though I suppose it does in a way

Did all the Brits here really not remember that their national anthem contains the line "Confound their politics"?

Be more surprising if they did remember. Difficult to remember something you never knew in the first place basically.

Fuck a national anthem.

is Crimes of Passion by Rough Trade the only hit song to include the word "moistness"?

Methuselah

(on Christine & The Queens - Tilted)

I don't know if peaking at #93 on the UK charts counts as a "hit," but:

gelignite

"There Goes a Tenner," Kate Bush

Ooh...

Blimey, its the internet!

http://www.lyrics.com/lyrics/gelignite

Anyway, Siouxsie and the Banshees 'Fireworks' , #22

Yeah, Bronski Beat "It ain't necessarily so" has Methuselah featured.

That's not really a Bronski Beat tune, it's from Porgy and Bess originally.

Mark G isn't 7 years old, so I imagine he knows that already.

Ar, that is true.

Anyway, back to the spirit of the original post:

"Bungalows" - Roadhouse Blues by The Doors.

I mean, Bungalows, Jim? You want to tell us all about the Bungalows? Oh, OK then...

What about "LA Woman"...

They have bungalows in there as well?

Blimey, it does!

Jim Morrison - He sang of Bungalows like no-one else ever did!

Or will again.

By the way, there's also "Bungalow Bill," although I wouldn't call that a hit song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYA5tReVNmE

Lot of early 20th century hits with "bungalow" also, as it had come to signify the kind of generic small detached house you and your sweetheart might acquire someday, once you are wed, etc.

Yes, but this is The Doors..

I dunno, just seemed incongruous for some reason..

This play is run, my love
Your time has come, my love
I pledge my troth to lady Jane

i don't think any other hit song uses "troth"

"Ariel" has been described as a "quirkily irresistible and uncategorizable pop song about a free spirited, music loving, vegetarian Jewish girl", from Paramus, New Jersey, where he grew up.[8] It is the only Billboard Top 40 song to contain the word Paramus. It describes the girl Ariel, "standing by the [since dismantled] waterfall at Paramus Park", one of the many shopping malls in Paramus.

Oh come on (Wikipedia, not DocC), proper place names don't count.

Like, has there been another song that has "Palisades", or "Itchycoo", or or or ..

Haha yeah I know I know, and in fact I've already cited that song itt for its brilliant use of "vertical hold," just couldn't resist that Wiki-graph.

How about "Representative"?

Alexei Sayle, "Ullo John Got A New Motor"

"Stimuli," in The Adverts' "Gary Gilmore's Eyes."

groos
ELO - "don't bring me down"

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i got this record recently and was playing it for a friend and they asked me what they were singing during the chorus. i always thought it was "Don't bring me down, oooooh!" then i looked at the lyric sheet. lol it is actually written out "grooss":

A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Lynne shouts "Bruce!" In the liner notes of the ELO compilation Flashback and elsewhere, Lynne has explained that he is singing a made-up word, "Grooss," which some have suggested sounds like the German expression "Gruß." After the song's release, so many people had misinterpreted the word as "Bruce" that Lynne actually began to sing the word as "Bruce" for fun at live shows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Bring_Me_Down

He has to make his own entertainment..

Stevie Wonder, "I Was Made to Love Her" has 'boohooed', though I think the Beach Boys sing 'hoohooed' in their version.

I saw someone on the bus in Prestwich with a record called (I think) 'Ted Christie's Brexit Bangers' but I can find any mention of it on discogs so chances are I got the name wrong

I did find this instead, though I wouldn't go as far as brexit banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36gK-6kkXiI

The definition of "Hit" has changed so much in nine years...