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

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"Lumbago" (Small Faces, "Lazy Sunday")

Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link

... same song also has "khazi"

Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link

I believe Snoopy had a hit in Holland with "No Time for a Tango"...

Besides I have a lumbago
From dancin' too long

sent from my neural lace (ledge), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Ah! Thread for back pain related songs coming up, I think!

Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Both alt.bosom songs, not "hits"...

Mark G, Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link

now there's a newsgroup.

sent from my neural lace (ledge), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link

Also, no khazi in "Lazy Sunday"

It's got "Crust" though, if you like.

Mark G, Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link

"moot" - rick springfiled, Jesse's girl

Original ~*~*FuNtOwN*~*~ Bunny (peacocks), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link

aw shiz, xpost

Original ~*~*FuNtOwN*~*~ Bunny (peacocks), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link

"To sing in the khazi while you suss out the loon"

sent from my neural lace (ledge), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link

It's "moon", not "loon". Outdoor toilet facility, y'see.

Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link

To sing it at parties while you suss out the moon.

Admittedly a khazi flushes at that point, but...

Mark G, Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link

I thought it was 'loon' as in the idiot who wrote the song with no words and no tune.

sent from my neural lace (ledge), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link

It's makes more sense as "khazi". Maybe they censored themselves. It's definitely "moon" though.

Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link

now i listen again it does sound more like moon.

visible khazi action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhyEMZkfLMo

sent from my neural lace (ledge), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link

Well that's proof enough for me!

Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Hacienda. Been reading the James nice Factory book, but it brought to mind.

The only hit song that has "Hacienda" was Speedy Gonzales,Pat Boone.

Mark G, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link

six months pass...

"Sardines" in Timbaland & Magoo's "Clock Strikes (Remix)"

Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Friday, 3 June 2011 09:20 (thirteen years ago) link

"MCA! Where have ya been?
Packed like sardines in the tin!"
- Beastie Boys, "Body Movin'"

Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 June 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link

Was that a hit?

Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Friday, 3 June 2011 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link

"Transgendered" in "Born This Way".

LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 3 June 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link

http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2586862_lg.jpg

all cats are gay (sic), Friday, 3 June 2011 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link

I can't see what that is

Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Friday, 3 June 2011 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link

Pretty sure 'Body Movin'' was at least an airplay hit, w/ the Fatboy Slim remix? Also I think Biggie said something about eating sardines for dinner one time but it's a little hazy.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 June 2011 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link

my pic was Sardines by the Junkyard Band

all cats are gay (sic), Saturday, 4 June 2011 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link

Top 90s band Radiohead had a song with Sardines in the title but not the lyrics. Sorry that's the best I can do.

everything, Saturday, 4 June 2011 01:37 (thirteen years ago) link

Gavotte - You're So Vain (pace Christgau)

Iago Galdston, Saturday, 4 June 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link

"furry donkey"

(The Who, "Happy Jack")

shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 4 June 2011 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Also I think Biggie said something about eating sardines for dinner one time but it's a little hazy.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, June 3, 2011 3:41 PM Bookmark

Oh yeah good point. But I don't think any hit song has featured sardines as prominently as "Clock Strikes"

Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Saturday, 4 June 2011 05:06 (thirteen years ago) link

"Pitchfork" appears in one hit song.

"Combine Harvester" by The Wurzels.

I thank you.

Mark G, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:27 (thirteen years ago) link

Wow, that's kind of surprising! You'd think it'd be in at least one throwaway line about the devil or something. Good one.

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link

In "Seminole Wind" by John Anderson (#2 country hit, 1992):

Everglades
Seminole
Okeechobee
Micanopy
gar
flood control

Maybe a couple of those have showed up in other hit songs, but I bet most of them didn't.

Also, Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" has "Gitche Gumee" (also "Chippewa," but that's in Tim McGraw's "Indian Outlaw" and maybe other songs too. "Indian Outlaw" also has "Choctaw," though; might be alone with that one.)

xhuxk, Thursday, 16 June 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link

"Ode to Billy Joe" has "Choctaw!"

timellison, Thursday, 16 June 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link

arapahoe (Spitting Image - the Chicken Song)

― ailsa, Monday, 21 January 2008 19:13 (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

3 years late, I'll point out this has been in at least one other v well known and awesome UK #1

Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 16 June 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link

Yes indeed. Which makes me wonder if any other hit songs have "Yucatan" in them?

everything, Thursday, 16 June 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link

"Wrapped Around Your Finger" references Scylla and Charibdes, that's gotta be a one-time thing
"Sprits in the Material World" has "subjugate"

frogbs, Thursday, 16 June 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link

"theosophies"

i'm always touched by your presence dear

Alba, Thursday, 16 June 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link

i know its already been mentioned but 'centrifugal' is my favorite example of this

Lady GaGa's "Judas" has "condom" in it. I don't think I've heard it in another Top 10 hit before.

LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 16 June 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link

Belisha Beacon still wins IMO. I stand by 2008 Lex.

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 16 June 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link

The band Fujiya & Miyagi mention the Belisha Beacon in the lyrics of their song "Ankle Injuries".

But I guess that's not a 'hit' exactly..

Mark G, Friday, 17 June 2011 08:27 (twelve years ago) link

"puff" (as in the derogatory term - not the mythical creature) in Jilted Jonh?

Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 17 June 2011 09:56 (twelve years ago) link

Come to think of it, Barry? Gordon?

Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:00 (twelve years ago) link

Is Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" the only U.S. hit to contain the word "pissing"?

Funeral Pyre got to No. 176 (with a bullet).

Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:14 (twelve years ago) link

four months pass...

"nullify" - 'Heroin', The Velvet Underground

two months pass...

"Architecture" in "You Can Call Me Al," I think?

Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 February 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago) link

i was going to say 'minarets' in 'rock the casbah'

but apparently dave matthews has a song titled 'minarets' lol

mookieproof, Friday, 3 February 2012 00:30 (twelve years ago) link

whippoorwill

Also in "My Blue Heaven"! (Fourth song listed on this thread that uses this word! I'm surprised it took this long: it's the first thing I think of any time I hear the word.)

EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 3 February 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link

Toby Keith "Red Solo Cup" possibilities:

receptacle
testicles (maybe in some rap hits, I'm not sure)
decomposable
forclosable
Freddie Mac
sharpie (as in the writing utensil)

(I assume "yucky" and "smitten" have been in at least a few others, but maybe not.)

xhuxk, Friday, 3 February 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link

"geometric" in Rush's "Subdivisions"

tanuki, Friday, 3 February 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link


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