Words that you have only ever heard used once in a song.

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by elaterium, Mar 5, 2019.

  1. Joshua Hudson

    Joshua Hudson Forum Resident

    Whatever Chuck raps in The Crab Song.

    More than one word, granted, but the following injunction stands:

    'Hey! Quit talkin' that terminal jive!'
     
  2. swandown

    swandown Under Assistant West Coast Forum Resident

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    Philomath is a city in Georgia (although it is also a Greek word that means "a person who loves to learn").
     
  3. swandown

    swandown Under Assistant West Coast Forum Resident

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    Joe Walsh says it in "Vote For Me":

    Well, there's a awful lot of issues important to me
    Here's my campaign policy:
    Legislation! Education!
    Occupation! Arbitration!
    Modernization! Legalization!
    Immigration! United Nations!
    Integration! Restoration!
    Imitation! Hospitalization!
    Space Station! Accusation!
    Every Nation Violation!
    Compensation! Realization!
    I'm freakin' out! Vote for me! Vote for me!


     
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  4. markrj

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    Hogweed
    Heracleum Mantegazziani

    From The Return of the Giant Hogweed - Genesis.
     
  5. El Rich-o

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    ok, but it's not part of the chorus now, is it?
     
  6. Nitrous

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    Wham Bam Thank You Mam.
     
  7. onlysleeping

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    "Looptid" - The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
     
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  8. classicrockguy

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    Other than the Beatles of course, how many singers other than Johnny Rivers managed to fit the entire title "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" into the chorus? (I know that's twice, but I don't care:rolleyes:)

     
  9. drpep

    drpep Whizzing and pasting and pooting through the day

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    From Pete Townshend's All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes

    Selbstdarstellung from the song Communication
    Briolette from the song Communication
     
  10. wrappedinsky

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    "Boy what happen to Michael Bolton dues!"

    Oh, wait, that was on a Steve Hoffman Forum thread.

    My bad. Carry on.
     
  11. simon-wagstaff

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    I am going with "copacetic" from The Dead West LA Fadeway and " bromodrosis" from Zappa Stinkfoot.
     
  12. ToddH

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    Minger.

    Super Furry Animals "Hello Sunshine"

    I don't think I have ever heard the word before!
     
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  13. Catbirdman

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    "Copacetic" is also used in the song "Perfection" by Run-DMC.
     
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  14. scousette

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    Judy Collins - Albatross

    "Behind the isinglass windows of your eyes"
    "Scattering the sand and foam into amethyst fountains"
     
  15. pig bodine

    pig bodine God’s Consolation Prize

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    Lady Jane - “troth”
     
  16. Antidisestablishmentarianism

    The Okee Dokee Brothers - "Antidisestablishmentarianism"

     
  17. Jeff Kent

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    Cradle Of Filth has a tune called 'Heaven Torn Asunder.'
     
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  18. john hp

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  19. ARL

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    Also used by The Comsat Angels in "Psychedelic Dungeon"
    "I can't waste a precious second of this copacetic dream"
     
  20. ShockControl

    ShockControl Bon Vivant and Raconteur!

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    Purloined.
     
  21. Chuckworld

    Chuckworld Well-Known Member

    Anyone mention “gavotte”?
     
  22. mavisgold

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    haven't read thread for other replies



    https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/972/in-steve-millers-the-joker-what-is-the-pompatus-of-love/

    Some sharp-eared music fan noticed the “Enter Maurice” lyric above bore a marked resemblance to some lines in a rhythm and blues tune called “The Letter” by the Medallions. The song had been a hit in R & B circles in 1954. J.K. found the record. It had the lines, “Oh my darling, let me whisper sweet words of [something like epismetology] and discuss the [something like pompatus] of love.” J.K. tried to find the sheet music for the song, but came up only with the Box Tops hit (“My baby, she wrote me a letter”).
     
  23. pig bodine

    pig bodine God’s Consolation Prize

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    Pompatus is also said in Clap For the Wolfman
     
  24. classicrockguy

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    Just thought of this one after watching the Buddy Holly doc on PBS,

    Buddy Holly, "Heart Beat",
    only time I've ever heard "Fiddly Pat", not sure what it means either:shrug:

     
  25. MortSahlFan

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    Eiderdown
     

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