Right. But I figure they would have to be real words to qualify, not something made up by one person like the aforementioned Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic & Haboglabotribin.
I never got into his music, but I can remember looking at the back of Shawn Phillips albums and shaking my head at some of his rather dense lyrics. There must be a few candidates among them!
"I'm living in parentheses" (Steven Wilson - Happy Returns) I don't believe I've heard "parentheses in any other song.
According to the band, Dave is actually singing "I got puddin' pie banana, dixie cups" (although to my ears it sounds more like "I got puddin' and banana pops, dixie cups"). (The original John Brim version says "I got cream sammich, dixie cups, popsicles"). At any rate, I would suspect that all of those words (lemonade/puddin'/banana/dixie/cups/ice/cream/popsicles) have appeared in many songs, although "sammich" might be a pretty rare word.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. From Mary Poppins, I believe. It ma y not be real but I've only heard it once.
Elton John - Amoreena Eiderdown Lyric by Bernie Taupin "And when it rains, the rain falls down Washing out the cattle town And she's far away somewhere In her eiderdown" This is a better example than my previous post.
Same song, "no more acting lowly worm" - I take it Townshend had been reading up on his Richard Scarry. Steely Dan definitely has a bunch of these - "piaster" and "Kirschwasser" came to mind for me.
I was talking about Donovan's early pre-"Sunshine Superman" work in another thread, and mentioned "The Ballad of a Crystal Man," which contains the lines: As you fill your glasses with the wine of murdered Negroes Thinking not of beauty that spreads like morning sun-glow Given that this term for African-Americans was already on its way to becoming passé at the time, I wonder if it appeared in many songs (or any at all) before this.
Dan Baird: I love you, period. Do you love me, question mark? Please, please, exclamation point! I want to hold you in parentheses.
"Eiderdown" appears in the song "Flaming" from Pink Floyd's debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn: Alone in the clouds all blue Lying on an eiderdown Yippee, you can't see me But I can you
Africa by Toto has a line that includes 3 words I haven't heard in other songs: "As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti"
The longest English word with no letters repeated is supposedly the concocted word "pubvexingfjordschmaltzy". The inventor provided a definition of the word, something to do with people drinking at the inn and being all sloppily sentimental about fjords. It's a wonder some smartarse band, such as TISM, has not written a song with that title. Perhaps they have.
Yep. And it also appears on a rare live album by Brute Force that was released on his buddies The Tokens' B.T. Puppy label. Definitely fun to hear the giggles from the audience as he inverts the title.
Love that little ditty to the point that I look for opportunities to squeeze it into conversation beyond explaining what the word means. It's not an easy task. Off topic a bit but another word I look to insert in conversation is "penultimate" (meaning next to last) Another "real" word not yet mentioned is "Bromodosis" used in Frank Zappa's Stinkfoot.
More from Townshend: "Intellect" - Jools and Jim "Bear pit" - Cache Cache "Knee pants" - Slit Skirts "Fire stoking" - Misunderstood "Playpen" - Zelda
