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...unless you know better, which I'm sure you do.

Parallelogram:

Anchovies: (From about 6 mins).

Anymore?

We could really piss a lot of people off if someone wrote and recorded a song containing all of them.
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Mammary glands


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 9:49 pm
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Fratricide, Rheostat, Thermostat, Formaldehyde.
These may be in other songs, but they all appear together in one by Andrew Bird, [i]Fake Palindromes[/i]

My dewy eyed, Disney bride what has tried
Swapping your blood with formaldehyde
Monsters, whiskey-plied voices cried fratricide
Jesus, don't you know that you coulda died?
You should have died with the monsters what talk
Monsters what walk the earth
And she's got red lipstick, and a bright pair of shoes
And she's got knee high socks, what to cover a bruise
She's got an old death kit, she's been meaning to use
She's got blood in her eyes, in her eyes for you
She's got blood in her eyes for you
Certain fads, stripes and plaids, some singles ads
They run you hot and cold like a rheostat I mean a thermostat
So you bite on a towel, hope it won't hurt too bad
My dewy eyed, Disney bride what has tried
Swapping your blood with formaldehyde
With the monsters what talk, monsters what walk the earth
She says, I like long walks and sci-fi movies
You're six foot tall and East coast bred
Some lonely night we can get together
And I'm gonna tie your wrists with leather
And drill a tiny hole into your head
And I'm gonna drill a tiny hole into your head

Read more: Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes Lyrics | MetroLyrics


 
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Parallelogram


 
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Parallelogram


 
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Parallelogram


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 10:08 pm
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Pompatus


 
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Anchovies


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 10:10 pm
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THAT many?

I'd not looked it up before hand.
I didn't want to spoil the surprise.

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Posted : 25/03/2016 10:11 pm
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Sorry to spoil your dream


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 10:13 pm
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http://www.lyrics.net/


 
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Kid Creole and The Coconuts

Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy. Will have the onomatopoeia word. Has it been used anywhere else?


 
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http://www.lyrics.net/lyrics/onomatopoeia


 
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'Hexachlorophene'

Probably the only song with 'Keynsham' in it too.


 
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Hexachlorophene


 
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😆


 
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🙂
Another dream dies....


 
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Zigazig-ah


 
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Abasinate


 
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Scaramouche?


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 11:08 pm
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Title of an ABBA song.
😐

I'm now conflicted about the internet.
I'm glad we know the truth.
But I'm not sure I prefer it.
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Mudflaps


 
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Methil, only seems to be in Letter From America.

I looked on that website and it says Methil: No more.

Hah. Decided to check "havering", which also seems to be a winner, but then I tried "haver" and it came up with a load of spanish hits, including "Mas há de haver a hora" which I am translating as "But Hora will talk nonsense"


 
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Narhwals ?


 
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Kirkstall.

In a song by Chumbawumba.

(It's where I live)


 
Posted : 26/03/2016 1:03 am
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This probably holds the record for number of words only used in that song: The Elements by Tom Lehrer


 
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Pulp Disco 2000

"oh deborah do you recall.. your house was very small with [i][b]woodchip[/b][/i] on the wall"

bit disappointed to see a couple of lyrics sites that I looked at had woodchip as two words, incorrect in my opinion


 
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Or "would shit on the wall" as some people (common people no doubt) sing.

I think there's a song in Mary Poppins that has a unique use of a word.


 
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Junketer.

Courtesy of the one and only Mr Freddie Mercury in The Fairy Fellers Masterstroke on their second album, imaginatively titled Queen 2.

Second verse. Crazy lyrics and I figured that if any song that I knew or could remember had any unique words, that would probably be it.

I win the Internet! Yay! 8)


 
Posted : 26/03/2016 7:11 am
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Darn it, though I had one with "parthenogenesis", but there are two results.

[url= http://www.lyrics.net/lyrics/parthenogenesis ]http://www.lyrics.net/lyrics/parthenogenesis[/url]

I knew the Shriekback one.


 
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Genuflecting

In the chorus of Three Bulleits by The Temperance Movement


 
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"Vanderlyle"

The National - Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks


 
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Wonderwall


 
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taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu


 
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"havering", which also seems to be a winner


 
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Leodensian


 
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[b]Singapore, Widnes[/b]: Watch your Step, Costello

[b]Subbuteto[/b]: My perfect cousin, Undertones

Scaramouche

[b]Fandango, Beelzebub, Gallileo[/b] too @deadkenny


 
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[i]slackalice - Member[/i]

He's my hero


 
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Narwhal is in Rock Lobster B-52s


 
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but the one i posted has inifinite nuber of narwhals (they just had to truncate it to 10 hours for youtube)

in which case...

Picallili ? (certainly some unique terms, if not a unique word)


 
Posted : 26/03/2016 11:17 am
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No one mentioned "sericulture" yet


 
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Subbuteo also appears in All I want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit by Half Man Half Biscuit - As does Scalextric.....

Loads of names in Halfies songs which will not appear in other songs EVER. If names count that is..


 
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Rusty Spanner!

Parallelograms by Linda Prehacs - a favourite of mine from the album of the same name...


 
Posted : 26/03/2016 11:58 am
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Great shout on Biscuit. 🙂

It was only an idle thought, I hadn't even considered people or place names but Chris Rand's site has a list of 'em all.
There'll be hundreds.

Fritillary?
Chandlers?
Mallet?
😀

What with Tom Lehrer and all the rest you'd have to write an opera to get 'em all in.


 
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one to make you reach for the sick bucket - look away now


 
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The first word in this song is discorporate .....


 
Posted : 26/03/2016 12:51 pm
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Made up words surely don't count, I've got a bunch of them off the top of my head - Belispeak, Mirrorage, Sweatmother, Karmacoma, Christiansands, Lazaretto etc etc


 
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Made up words surely don't count

good point that's Phil Collins sorted but what about "havering"? can we have a rule for that?


 
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Can't have genuflect I'm afraid...


 
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centralscrutinizer

it means to leave your body.....


 
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Nah, you can't have made up stuff.
That'd be improv, most of The Cocteau Twins and an awful lot of jaaaaaaazz.


 
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If I don't get some appreciation for

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I looked on that website and it says Methil: No more.

I'm going to go on a killing spree. Come on people, that's good!


 
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taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

Damn, I'd forgotten that one! Got the original vinyl single somewhere, in fact I've got both of their singles, not sure they ever released any more.
The Halfies are a great source of interesting lyrics which probably don't appear in any other popular music recordings.
Oven gloves is possibly a fairly rare reference, for example.


 
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Sharona


 
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Fantabulous - or is that made-up too?


 
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Singapore, Widnes

Widnes appears in a Belle and Sebastian song. Stars of track and field I think...


 
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And I offer 'mildewed' in Schism by Tool...


 
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