Key Moments of Stridency In Songs Where You Have No Idea What They're Talking About But You Sing Along Anyway

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Fugazi: "1-2-3 repeater!"
Sleater-Kinney: "All hands on the bad one!"

I could swear I had more of these.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Have memorized the words to Flipper's "Brainwash."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

That's the opposite of strident, though.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe "1-2-3 REPEATER" satirizes the urge to sing along. Maybe by conning Liberals into celebrating guns, but maybe mainly by making you shout "1 2 3eeeeee REPEATER". Maybe shouting along won't make you go Hell.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

GBV: well i'd like to go
and kiss them away
well i'd like to know
another way

etc.

works for lots of guided by voices

― badg (badg), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Mark E Smith to thread.

"Stick 'em in the gut! Stick 'em in the gut!"

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Stick it in the gut.
Stick it in the mud.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Tiiiiiiiiin roof! Rusted!

― musically (musically), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link

shows how long it's been since I listened to This Nation's Saving Grace.

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh I'm guessing there mike like every other Fall listener. I was just amplifying yr comment.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

"Aye yai yai!
Sharpen yer boot and bludgeon yer eye!
Aye yai yai!
The blarney stone brings a tear to me eye!"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

"I've seen what you're doing to me,
Destroying puppet strings to our souls"

Muse, "Microcuts", at a level that only domestic aninmls can hear

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

"I keep my AD-dress to yourself! 'Cause we need secrets, we need secret cret cret cret crets back right now!" -- Pavement, "Gold Soundz"

― xero (xero), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link

xero OTM, lots of this in Pavement

Forty! Million! Daggers!
Forty! Million! Daggers!

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Shalalalala! Lalalalala, lala! OOOooo OOOooo OOOooo OOOooo!!!

― xero (xero), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link

LUCY IN THE SKY-Y WITH DIE-UH-UH-MUNDS!!!

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Chorus of The Mars Volta's 'Cicatriz ESP': "IIIIIIIII DEEEEEEEEEFECTED!" (those moght not actually be the lyrics, but that's how I hear 'em.)

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Alice Cooper, "Dead Babies"

"daddy's now an agrophile in Texas"...

didn't know then, don't really know now, what the hell an "agrophile" is...

― hank (hank s), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost: yeah, Malkmus was one of the all-time greats.

I got a lotta things I want to sell, but
not here, babe!
(indistinguishable utterance I usually sing as "don't go" or sometimes "choto")

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Friday, 15 September 2006 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I always thought he was singing "Tok-yo"...

― hank (hank s), Friday, 15 September 2006 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought it was "y'TOOK it AAAAAAALLLLLLL"

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Friday, 15 September 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I understand that it's "It's torture" but I liked it better when I thought it was "Tokyo."

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 15 September 2006 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha, Repeater is a great example. And I always wind up singing it so purposefully and angrily too.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 15 September 2006 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Pretty much all the lyrics to "Letter from an Occupant" for me.

― Nick Disabato (nickd), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh. And a few REM ones too, mainly on the early records where you may have no idea what the overall song is about because you can't make out the words, but there's one point that comes through clearly and you're all about it, e.g. "HYyyyyyena!" Closely related to, but not the same as, the Chronic Town songs, which are fairly discernable but all pure delicious nonsense: "Boxcars ARE TURNIIIIIING out of town!" and my favorite, "Noooot only DEADLIER but SMARTER TOOO!" The last is my tentative title for my next album, until I think of something better...

I think musically has nailed the thread, though - "Tiiiiiin roof! Rusted!" is it, period.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Does Folsom Prision Blues count? If you know all the lyrics, they're pretty clear cut, but doubtless countless karaoki drunks have fudged every line except "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die!"

― BrianB (BrianB), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Check the record check the record check the guy's track record! Check the record! Check the guy's track record!

HE!

IS!

NOT!

And after that I have no idea not only what they're talking about but what they're saying.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

oh man how could I forget

he's CHALK!
he's a DART BOARD!
his SEX IS DISEASED!
he's a STOP SIGN!

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

The Patio Song. Especially at the end.

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

helmet

"you better....DIIIEEEE!"

radiohead

"idioooot slow down"

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

the boo radleys

"I've got more to fiiiiiiind!" (preferably whilst trying to add the distortion effects to your vocals through manipulation of uvula &c)

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I was going to post "WHO ANSWERRRRRRRS???" from "Alive" by Pearl Jam, but I just looked it up and it turns out it's actually a logical sequence: "Is that the question? And if so, if so, who answers?" Man. For a decade I've had no idea. (Didn't help that the first time around I thought it was "And it suuucks!")

Oh, and lots of songs with foreign-language bits I guess would count here if you don't speaky the lingo.

I always thought "Idiot, slow down" had something to do with the car crash at the beginning of the album...

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

oh hey, that reminds me that there's a thread I've been meaning to start

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

hahah. admittedly i took a bit of license and neglected the "no idea what they're talking about" part of the the thread.

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

a licky boomboom down

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Friday, 15 September 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

BERNARD where's the thread? I'm interested now.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

haha just noticed yr nickname is an anagram of yr real name! whoo go me!

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

no, wait, it's not. 'Bernard Snowy' would be, though.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i like your bum bum now, i always thought it was

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

where's the Y?

― Lazy Comet (plsmith), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

nevermind xxpost

― Lazy Comet (plsmith), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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