What’s your favourite One Word Song? Forget verbosity, Dylanesque poetic abandon, the Celtic mystical impressionism of Van the Man. Who can float your boat with just one word? Come …. all.
Greatest One Word Songs
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Revolution
Heroes
Elected
Innuendo
Peaches
Time
Delilah
Spaceman (well I liked it)
Geno
Thanks Jack but … what I am after is songs which feature only one word in the lyrics. Lemon Jelly’s offering features only word repeated more than 20 times.
Nice choices all the same.
I should have explained better. To qualify, the song’s lyrics must entirely consist of just one word.
Geno is a superb call.
Off the top of me bounce, I would add two more from The Clash
1. Bankrobber
2. Clampdown
Again, great choices but verbose compared with the majestic Lemon Jelly
Tequila!
My go-to karaoke choice
I am not claiming greatness for this, but at least I understand the rules, if you can permit the dismissal of the introductory ‘oh!…….’
First I thought of was “Return of the Los Palmas 7” (“Waiter!”) by Madness, but then remembered there’s some background chuntering at the start too.
So let’s go for this from Caribou
TEQUILA!
Lemons! (If you can excuse the spoken word intro, the main choon has only one word…)
They also had one called “Mince”. To my tastes, it was.
I dunno, I thought they really ground it out.
Y’ gotta beef with that?
One
Doop. Absolute banger
Easy… 🙂
You’ll be surprised to learn that the “John McLaughlin” who plays the swingin’ lead and rhythm guitar on this fab disc is the the “Birds Of Fire” hitmaker!
“Crucified!” – to date Fletch’s only lead vocal in any Depeche Mode platter. I am convinced the noises at the end are from the Eraserhead baby”.
https://youtu.be/2ASOA8V7_fQ
Two words, but in spirit this belongs here.
Waiter!
Seeing that no-one else has gone there…
Prefer this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnFR_5-EyiA
Love this song.
It’s an exceptionally good song – one of my absolute favourites.
I can get it down to three words…
So can I.
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Only if you consider “everything” to be 3 words. As indeed Elton does.
See also Sacrifice.
Four words to this song, but in this version you’ll have to sing them yourself.
One word that says it all. He should have simply called another of his toe-tappers “…Ello”.
Easy. “Willin'” by the Feat. The first music Twang Jr heard, age 1 day. Also to be played when I check out.
And as this is my Tullbro Steerpike’s thread, “Moths” by TMT.
Go by Moby?
The last known sighting of EC’s bonce?
One of the most toe curling performances I’ve ever heard. Give me Aznavour any time.
The song that causes us Costello fans to cringe, and is exhibit A for non fans. His most successful, and, by some distance, his worst recording.
I thought we’d established that the term for that coincidence is it’s his ding-a-ling..
He looks remarkably and wonderfully like Tommy Cockles in that still.
Wipeout!