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

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Clearly you missed out on my Matchbox 20 poll! :-(

''Honcho'' is also on T.I.'s ''About The Money'' though IIRC the video subtitles it with a variant spelling.

DOCTOR CAISNO, BYCREATIVELABBUS (Doctor Casino), Monday, 17 October 2016 13:01 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

Not counting semi-word "upriser," "Give It Away" includes "kaiser," "hoosegow," "kingpin," and "pauper."

mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Monday, 19 December 2016 01:06 (seven years ago) link

"pauper" is in "That's Life": I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king

soref, Monday, 19 December 2016 01:20 (seven years ago) link

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.

mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Monday, 19 December 2016 05:01 (seven years ago) link

I was about to throw this out re:"Kaiser", but doh! Instrumental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fRS5nxYxoo

a full playlist of presidential apocalypse jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 December 2016 05:22 (seven years ago) link

"Hoosegow" is used in W.A.S.P.'s "Blind in Texas". :-)

A. Begrand, Monday, 19 December 2016 06:03 (seven years ago) link

"Kingpin" is in J Lo's "I'm Gonna Be Alright," in the rap part by Nas

Josefa, Monday, 19 December 2016 06:05 (seven years ago) link

'Upsot' in 'Jingle Bells' (maybe also 'Lank')

similarly 'apparel' from 'Deck The Halls'

koogs, Monday, 19 December 2016 08:45 (seven years ago) link

You look so perfect standing there
In my American Apparel underwear

5 Seconds of Summer - "She Looks So Perfect"

Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 December 2016 08:51 (seven years ago) link

pretty sure "apparel" must feature in at least one Jethro Tull song too but

Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 December 2016 08:55 (seven years ago) link

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

Froyo On My Slacks (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 December 2016 13:20 (seven years ago) link

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

Froyo On My Slacks (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 December 2016 13:21 (seven years ago) link

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

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Monday, 19 December 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link

Politics !

"The Politics of Dancing" - Re-flex

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

Mark G, Thursday, 22 December 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link

'Sowing The Seeds Of Love'

nashwan, Thursday, 22 December 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link

'Politician granny' iirc

the year of diving languorously (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2016 16:12 (seven years ago) link

also "the politics of greed" towards the end

nashwan, Thursday, 22 December 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link

oh aye

the year of diving languorously (ledge), Thursday, 22 December 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link

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

mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 22 December 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link

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

emil.y, Thursday, 22 December 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link

"Landscaping" in Busta's "Dangerous."

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

mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 24 December 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link

"bubonic" in "Gin & Juice" ?

mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Friday, 30 December 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link

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

new noise, Friday, 30 December 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link

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

Mark G, Friday, 30 December 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link

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

brekekekexit collapse collapse (ledge), Friday, 30 December 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link

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

Oh wait, you are right.

Mark G, Friday, 30 December 2016 22:47 (seven years ago) link

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.

My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Friday, 30 December 2016 23:16 (seven years ago) link

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

My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Friday, 30 December 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link

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

ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 30 December 2016 23:27 (seven years ago) link

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.

Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 30 December 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link

Fuck a national anthem.

emil.y, Saturday, 31 December 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link

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

soref, Sunday, 1 January 2017 03:29 (seven years ago) link

Methuselah

(on Christine & The Queens - Tilted)

nashwan, Thursday, 5 January 2017 11:46 (seven years ago) link

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...

Mark G, Friday, 13 January 2017 22:16 (seven years ago) link

Blimey, its the internet!

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

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

Mark G, Friday, 13 January 2017 22:22 (seven years ago) link

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

Mark G, Friday, 13 January 2017 22:25 (seven years ago) link

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

Tuomas, Monday, 16 January 2017 10:05 (seven years ago) link

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

Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 16 January 2017 10:18 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

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...

Mark G, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 10:20 (seven years ago) link

What about "LA Woman"...

Sam Weller, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 10:39 (seven years ago) link

They have bungalows in there as well?

Mark G, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 10:42 (seven years ago) link

Blimey, it does!

Mark G, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 10:43 (seven years ago) link

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

Mark G, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 10:44 (seven years ago) link

Or will again.

Sam Weller, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 10:55 (seven years ago) link

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

Sam Weller, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 10:57 (seven years ago) link

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

Raul Chamgerlain (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 11:06 (seven years ago) link

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.

long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 12:16 (seven years ago) link

Yes, but this is The Doors..

I dunno, just seemed incongruous for some reason..

Mark G, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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"

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 5 May 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link


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