Words only used in one song?

[Patrick Thistle]

Dang.

[Jah Womble]

Jason and the Argonauts - XTC (from English Settlement)...

...and probably one or two prog efforts.

[Patrick Thistle]

Birdhouse in Your Soul was on the radio the other day and I thought of this thread. Are there any other songs that reference Jason and the Argonauts?

[Jah Womble]

Oh well, at least I’m not alone.

(Whereas I might be, regarding my 35-year-plus mishearing of the lyrics to Billy Don’t Be a Hero.)

[Sporting]

Forty years? A Forest was released in April 1980, so I assume you’re just discovering this...now?

I am ashamed to say so but yes.

[Jah Womble]

I spent more than 40 years thinking the same. But it's still none too clear to me.

Forty years? A Forest was released in April 1980, so I assume you’re just discovering this...now?

[willie1foot]

Psychomodo by Cockney Rebel - album and song, but the word isn't mentioned in the lyrics

[willie1foot]

'Reminiscing' also appears in Mockingbird by Eminem.

I think we did this a few of years ago and I suggested there were several in British Sea Power tracks, like:

Victorian Ice (whitebait, carbonate, hoopoes, Edwardian)
It Ended on an Oily Stage (elegiac)
Waving Flags (Carpathians, Vistula)
Oh Larsen B (desalinate)
Carrion (brilliantine)

There's Little River Band song called reminiscing (and it has the word in the lyrics too)

[Amor de Cosmos]

Gilly, Gilly, Ossenfeffer, Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea — Max Bygraves, The Four Lads et al.

[3 Colours Red]

Do neologisms count? Even if they do, Steve Miller would later use it in other songs in that constantly self-referential way of his.

[Diable Rouge]

Surprising we've gotten to page 3 without "pompatus" from The Joker.

[BallochSonsFan]

I reckon that there are loads of Half Man Half Biscuit songs with lyrics you'd never find anywhere else.

Doubt theres many more songs about Chatteris - a song that features the word "chandler".

[hobbes]

"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"

[San Bernardhinault]

The missus was convinced that they were singing a version of "Warm smell of ocotillos", which makes sense for a desert highway. But ocotillos don't smell much as far as I can tell.

[ursus arctos]

3 Colours Red has got the Eagles lyric

[Sporting]

I think I spent the best part of three decades thinking that Robert Smith was singing ‘across the Red Sea’ in the opening line of The Cure’s A Forest.

But that’s a different thread, eh?

I spent more than 40 years thinking the same. But it's still none too clear to me. The official video:

"Come closer and see"? Takes a lot to convince me.

Of course, the lyrics were once completely different, Or is this At Night?

[elguapo4]

Colitis is the shits, isn't it?

It is, hence the warm smell.

[Guy Profumo]

I'd never thought about it, but I've spent 30 years thinking they were singing "warm smell of cool heat dust"

Colitis is the shits, isn't it?

[Jah Womble]

I think I spent the best part of three decades thinking that Robert Smith was singing ‘across the Red Sea’ in the opening line of The Cure’s A Forest.

But that’s a different thread, eh?

[pebblethefish]

"Colitas" in Hotel California. They give off a warm smell. And no one knows what they are.

I'd never thought about it, but I've spent 30 years thinking they were singing "warm smell of cool heat dust"

[3 Colours Red]

Patrick Thistle Cannabis buds, aren't they?

[delicatemoth]

'Niceties' in Massive Attack's 'Safe From Harm'. Someone else may have used it, but I bet they didn't sing it so beautifully.

[Patrick Thistle]

"Colitas" in Hotel California. They give off a warm smell. And no one knows what they are.

[Eggchaser]

Definitely not "popular music" (Rev Lovejoy) but Carcass win this hands down.

[elguapo4]

If we're talking charting songs rather than album tracks, has Vegemite been used anywhere apart from "Down Under" and Terry Wogan's "The Floral Dance" uses Euphonium.