parahumanoidarianised taken from Queen "Machines or back to humans" from the works album It's software is hardware It's heartbeat is time-share It's midwife's a disc drive It's sex life is quantised It's self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised
Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street? is full of them. vistavision imps nymphs gyroscope Now I'm sure some of these words have appeared in other songs, but none that I've ever heard.
"kelp" - Sara - Bob Dylan "Monsanto" - Monsanto Years - Neil Young "politesse" - Sympathy for the Devil - Stones
"Stook" - Pete Townshend From "Cry If You Want" by The Who ("Now my son you're well in stook") "Bakelite" - Elvis Costello From "No Action" ("But when I hold you like I hold that Bakelite in my hands")
Can people please give the source of the word, i.e. the song it appears in and the artist , as well as the word itself? -------------------------------------- A couple from Joni Mitchell: arbutus (For the Roses) keloids (Talk To Me) Also undinal (Genesis - Firth of Fifth) and Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick is the only place I know of in popular music where one encounters the word "jockstraps".
My winner is Avanti (10 Don'ts for Honeymooners) by the Monochrome Set. There seem to be several versions of the lyrics but I'm claiming: Ganges Madras Dhoti soliloquy stickleback brae Frosties pasteurise "I'd ski naked down Mt. Everest With lilies up my nose I'd punt up the Ganges in a vest And holler 'Thar she blows' I'd fish for tunny in Meat Madras With blotting pads as bait I'd converse with shrimps of higher class About the church and state I'd play hoop-la with Saturn's rings I'd tie a knot in Erroll Flynn's Sing, yi yi yip, yip yipee ying For you I'd dance the polka in a dhoti And whistle the Rite of Spring I'd recite Hamlet's soliloquy While munching onion rings I'd plant a stickleback in a field On St. Augustine's Day I'd sharpen your sword and beat your shield And somersault up a brae I'd juggle with Mercury's moons I'd flatten the Sahara's dunes Sing, yi yi yip, yip yipee yoon I'd build a pyramid on the pole With Frosties packets and glue I'd serve rubber bullets in a bowl And call it Irish Stew I'd change all the water into wine And walk on the Dead Sea I'd sing the Song of the Golden Rhine And then it's time for tea I'd make a world in seven days I'd pasteurise the Milky Way Sing, yi yi yip, yip yipee yay I'd play hoop-la with Saturn's rings I'd tie a knot in Erroll Flynn's Sing, yi yi yip, yip yipee ying I'd juggle with Jupiter's moons I'd flatten the Sahara's dunes Sing, yi yi yip, yip yi pee yoon"
I took the OP's post to mean a word I have only once heard in a song, though I may have heard it elsewhere. It was stipulated that the word should have a definite meaning, in which case I would expect to have heard or read it elsewhere.
The word "pasteurised" also appears in "The Hive", written by Jimmy Webb and sung by Richard Harris. I think that counts as a second occurrence.
Local singer Carla Geneve has an amusing song called "Greg's Discount Chemist" - it's the name of an actual chain of pharmacies. The words in bold are all words I have never heard in any other song. Fitzgerald Street, by the way, is only four blocks away from my place of residence. Sadly the particular pharmacy she sings about is no longer a Greg's; it has changed allegiance and is now part of a different chain.
Kugel - A Jewish casserole of noodles, butter and sugar, name-checked in the Beastie Boys song, "Hey **** You." In fact, on the food tip, the Beastie Boys also name-checked the Dutch pancake pannekoeken in their 1998 song, "Super Disco Breakin'." Try to find those, elsewhere.
(In) Quintessence - Squeeze - Opening track on "East Side Story". Peripatetically - The Divine Comedy, in "My Imaginary Friend", on the "Absent Friends" album..... Daddy drives the mobile library He works peripatetically, that's right He doesn't get much time to play with us So we just read and make up stuff And it drives him round the bend Me and my imaginary friend.
Well, it's a shortened version, but "Boobs a Lot" by The Fugs (and later the Holy Modal Rounders) contains the lines: Down in the locker room, just three boys Beatin' down the locker room with all that noise Singin' do you like boobs a lot? (You gotta like boobs a lot) Boobs a lot, boobs a lot (You gotta like boobs a lot) Do you wear your jock a lot? (Yes, I wear my jock a lot) Got to wear your jock a lot (Got to wear your jock a lot) Jock a lot, jock a lot (You gotta wear your jock a lot) Got to wear your jock a lot (You gotta wear your jock a lot) Well, down on the football Football field You never can tell What a heel can wield So you gotta wear your jock a lot (You gotta wear your jock a lot) Jock a lot, jock a lot (You gotta wear your jock a lot)
I was about to respond that this is not what the OP is after - but on reflection I think it qualifies, because most of the words in this song are actual English words, just put together in a nonsensical manner. Some of the other submissions, eg concocted words such as "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" are not admissible. Read the OP, folks! Words should be actual words with a definite meaning.
