Words only used in one song?

[Sporting]

"purblind" ('Ghost Town Blues')

Tom Lehrer, who is still alive and has just released all his songs into the public domain, used "smidgen" in 'Poisoning Pigeons In The Park'.

Lehrer is fab.

[Sits]

Did Verisimilitude by Teenage Fanclub get mentioned already?

[delicatemoth]

Prefab Sprout likely have a few

"purblind" ('Ghost Town Blues')

Tom Lehrer, who is still alive and has just released all his songs into the public domain, used "smidgen" in 'Poisoning Pigeons In The Park'.

[MrLeam]

The winning song is Nature of the Threat by Ras Kass. So many words you only find in that song. The lyrics are a regurgitated mess of half-digested history, a Roget's Thesaurus, and the obsessively homophobic rantings of your second cousin who no-one in your family talks about...

[Gangster Octopus]

Gabardine Angus appears in something that I can't quite remember by John Cooper Clarke.

[Walter Knight]

That reminds me, Simon & Garfunkel’s For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her features “organdy”.

It also includes “crinoline” but it’s less likely that’s unique.

Also, America features reference to a man in a 'gabardine suit' - are there any other songs that mention 'gabardine'?

[delicatemoth]

Just occurred to me that Prefab Sprout likely have a few. Might have a Sproutathon, but from memory 'Cruel' boasts "tuppentup", which they may have made up. Also, isn't this the sort of thing Steely Dan would go in for?

[ale]

Clash Straight To Hell -Amerasian. Maybe Beatlemania in London Calling?

[Jah Womble]

Have we had Ian Dury's "This Is What We Find" yet?

Jubblified, waggy, dexterity, Omo, vanitas vanitatum, gratified, uncut.

'Dexterity' features in at least two songs by Will 'Fresh Prince' Smith.

Plus a track by LL Cool J. And one by Carcass.

[Sits]

That reminds me, Simon & Garfunkel’s For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her features “organdy”.

It also includes “crinoline” but it’s less likely that’s unique.

[DPDPDPDP]

A fewlyrics that I’ve only heard in one sog only:

interventionist - Nick Cave from “”into my arms”


Also Chris Thomson the main man from the fabulous Bathers is a wonderful singer and songwriter but he regularly makes me search on google for the meaning of certain lyrics, eg,

organza - from “Candide” - means a lightweight, sheer, plain-woven fabric

cinnabar - from “Kelvingrove Baby” means - A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide,

Svetlov - from “Latta’s Dream” - a Russian Composer

soporific - from “Time Regained” - means to induce sleep

Cadmus - from “If Love Could Last Forever” - the first king of Thebes

[Balderdasha]

This is what playing Googlewhack used to be like. Took a while but I found a word that only appears in one song on lyric.com

"Amlettes" as in young Amish only appears in Amish Paradise by Weird Al Yankovich. Though it's probably not a real word.

[treibeis]

Have we had Ian Dury's "This Is What We Find" yet?

Jubblified, waggy, dexterity, Omo, vanitas vanitatum, gratified, uncut.

[Artificial Hipster]

Close but no cigar then.

On the subject of Harriet Wheeler and supercilious smiles I saw a tweet a while back about an appearance by The Sundays on a TV show I think to which someone had replied along the lines of, "Can you believe I was actually there and saw her in the flesh that night 25 years ago!" Who should tweet next? Only OTF's favourite unapologetic blackface performer, David Baddiel with a comment like, "Can you believe I was actually at her house for dinner and saw her in the flesh only last weekend!"

There is clearly no limit to the man's unlikeability.

[Jah Womble]

Hazel O'Connor previously spoke of a 'supercilious smile' in Give Me an Inch, from the Breaking Glass soundtrack (1980).

[Artificial Hipster]

Apologies if it's been mentioned already but does 'supercilious' get any airings aside from The Sundays' I Won?
"Oh your supercilious smile.."

[3 Colours Red]

Lungfish has a song called Parthenogenesis and yes, it's in the lyrics.

[delicatemoth]

Big black Nemesis! Parthenogenesis!

[Satchmo Distel]

Smeaton two veg.

In the Wolf Hall account, Mark Smeaton was bullied by Anne Boleyn because he had a crush on her. He then boasted to Cromwell that he'd had her (to overcompensate for his humiliation) and that was a key opening for Cromwell to go after the others he needed to bring down with her. But historical accounts suggest he was simply tortured until he "confessed" and gave up the other names (perhaps he was also lied to that his life would be spared or he'd have a less cruel method of execution).

[Bermuda Iron]

Tom Waits uses the words “barrettes”, “derrick” and “batwing” in the song ‘Burma Shave’ alone and I’ve never heard them used elsewhere.

The Cramps use 'batwing' in 'Sheena's in a Goth Gang'

[Sporting]

Scunthorpe in Pass Out by Tinie Tempah: "I been Southampton but I've never been to Scunthorpe"

[Tony C]

Tom Waits uses the words “barrettes”, “derrick” and “batwing” in the song ‘Burma Shave’ alone and I’ve never heard them used elsewhere.

[Discordant Resonance]

Got one - the Kaiser Chiefs had a weird reference to "Smeaton" which I thought was a name from Dickens but now am not so sure.

I believe an unrelated Smeaton was embroiled in the trial of Anne Boleyn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Smeaton

[irony towers]

Scunthorpe in Pass Out by Tinie Tempah: "I been Southampton but I've never been to Scunthorpe"

[Patrick Thistle]

Thanks for the explanations. The song was "I Predict a Riot" ursus arctos