― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
Classic Swedish chartbuster by 70's boy wonder Ted Gärdestad and ABBA engineer Michael B. Tretow.
― mrjackhandey (mrjackhandey), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Adrian (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago) link
― SexyDancer, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:35 (twenty years ago) link
― mike a, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago) link
― otto, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 00:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 07:07 (twenty years ago) link
"benezedrine telephone" - Bush
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 04:59 (three years ago) link
Solar Prestige a Gammon
Because when you're Elton John in 1975, you can release whatever you damn please.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 30 July 2020 04:43 (three years ago) link
"Cabin Fever"
818, I'm on the way (I'm on the way)I'm thinking about you every day (Everyday)I think we should spend some time away (Stay on the beach)Stay with me in heaven everyday (Everyday)
I wanna feel your body on meTall palm trees and kaleidoscope dreamsI'm at home thinking about you and me
'Cause girl, I got that cabin feverYou made me a believerEating marshmallow pies, I can see it in your eyesGirl, you're speaking and I wanna believe ya
Girl, I really wanna believe yaIf you love me, how come I never see ya?Eating marshmallow pies while we're flying through the skyGirl, I got that cabin fever
310, we're on the go (We're on the go)Our life just like roller coast (Rollercoaster)I sip slow, you took too longMy heart and soul, I call your phone, I'm on the road
Up every night, got me up every nightStuck on your eyes, this life it's full of surprisesHand on your thigh, I got your bed on my mind
Dreaming 'bout it, summertimeThinking 'bout it, summertimeShe's a goddess, body divineGirl, you're sweeter than a grape off the vineDreaming 'bout it, summertime
(I got that cabin fever)(I got that cabin fever)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 30 July 2020 05:07 (three years ago) link
What's that super-amped soul record that's all scat, like "band dang di di bang dang a booga booga a dang dang a booltey bang"?― SexyDancer, Tuesday, March 9, 2004 11:29 PM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
"Remember Me?" Blue boy maybe..
(Woman of the Ghetto" by Marlena Shaw is the sample)
Oh, they've gone..
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 July 2020 06:43 (three years ago) link
I'm sure I posted this in some other meaningless lyrics thread. I worry about myself sometimes, knowing them all by heart.
Miss Shapiro - Brian Eno/Phil Manzanera
All the peasants in the squaresAt their tables and their chairsSet to salvage certain numbersFrom the wonder of the tundraAnd the muses in the gloomCounting needles in their roomsOn the carpet in the cornerIn a kind of secret slumberWhile the in formation rainSlashed the dirty window pane to the square.
Smoky broads and smoky windows in the squareCome come charmer come on over for the dayDisappearing cocoa forests flash and dieFortunes crumble all demolished in the bay.
Over forty pointed peopleIn the perfect pointed steepleLooked to see the lucky numberYes the wonder of the tundraHad come up to fame and fortuneSinging his tune, my tune, your tuneWooing daughters of the giftedOn the carpets of the courtroomsWhile the tickets were expensiveThe show was quite relentless in the square.
Dalai llama lama puss pussStella maris missa nobisMiss a dinner miss shapiroShampoos pot-pot pinkies pamperedMovement hampered like at christmasHa-ha isn't life a circusRound in circles like the archersAlways stiff or always starchyYes it's happening and it's fatteningAnd it's all that we can get into the show.
― Orson Well Yeah (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 30 July 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
Ah, sorry, looking for lyrics in no language. Carry on...
― Orson Well Yeah (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 30 July 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
Mmm if we’re going for songs with made up languages or dadaist experiments these come to mind:
Elton John - “Solar Prestige A Gammon”Talking Heads - “I zimbra”Tom Waits - “Kommienezuspadt”Adriano Celentano - “Prisencolinensinainciusol”Magma’s discographyMost of Sigur Ros’ discography
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 30 July 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
Most of these have been mentioned already...
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 30 July 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
Enya and Cocteau Twins also have a couple of lyrics in made up languages I think?
Forgot to mention Yoko Kanno, she also does the fake language thing a lot.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 30 July 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
Prisencolinensinainciusol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpuXudaGHGs
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 11:37 (two years ago) link
Pretty much all of Lisa Gerrard in Dead Can Dance
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 12:39 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMyDN7V3d7M
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 12:44 (two years ago) link
I mentioned prisencolinensinahshdhdvdhdlusol a year ago.
Mmm iirc Pearl Jam’s “yellow ledbetter” is also gibberish.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
LLaverne is doing a "gibberish" section on tomorrow's 6music breakfast show, lots of suggested Cocteau Twins and suchlike - I did suggest the pris song, but not this version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydC6cX3TCP4
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
The breakdown in Lionel Richie's 'All Night Long' (TOMBOLIKOSEKIMOJAH, etc.) is totally made up.
― I Scream For Ice Cream But Also Just All The Time And For No Reason (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 14:39 (two years ago) link
Here’s a list with partial gibberish lyrics
https://www.songfacts.com/category/songs-with-some-lyrics-that-are-gibberish
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
think list compiler has basically just listed any song that has a "doo-wah", "shooby-dooby" or similar backing vocal, rather than finding songs that are just like complete nonsense, like, Korn's "Twist"
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
Leftfield's Afro Left, which I once made a good stab at memorising and assumed was in an African language, is in fact absolute gibberish.
― In the wastelands of Birmingham and Manchester, massages are back (ledge), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
xpost: yeah i think most of those are just titles with madeup words and shooby dooby doo wahs
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
Here's the coda of "2nd Emotion" by Rosie Vela, words transcribed from the lyrics sheet:
How could you leave me standin' there, darlin'?How? Ki me kin no von. So sorry nowI'll never come back. I'm in piecesI can't decide about youAh. Ki me kin no von zin zorryAh. Ki me kin no von zin zorry nowA communo-bi-causeI'm in "decide" I'm in. I can't seeAnd I can't know it nowI'm in "decide" I'm in. I can't seeKin dy zin teasin'. A call it a dayI coulda been a bison. Ooh I on a veeOn din dy coulda beenOn din dy con a zee. Oh, lover la lie. Da daI can't see and I can't know and I can't feel ya
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
Bill Callahan, "Eid Ma Clack Shaw" (transcription from Genius, idk if there's an official lyrics sheet):
I fell back asleep some time later onAnd I dreamed the perfect songIt held all the answers like hands laid onI woke halfway and scribbled it downAnd in the morning, what I wrote, I readIt was hard to read at first, but here's what it said:
"Eid ma clack shaw zupoven del baMertepy ven seinur cofally ragdah""Eid ma clack shaw zupoven del baMertepy ven seinur cofally ragdah"
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
Several early Clinic songs are almost entirely nonsense syllables, notably 'D.P.' and 'The Second Line'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQVfLxuH7IE
There's a discernable "1,2,3,4" in there! Other than that, I'm lost.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
Sun City Girls have a bunch.....
....."the language of before birth and after death"....
― m0stlyClean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
The Mongolian folk metal band The Hu recorded a song for the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order video game in a made up alien language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJZfEh3EciU
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 22:32 (two years ago) link
Huh I love “second line” and hadn’t focused on the lyrics before and yeah they don’t make any sense.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 8 July 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
LLaverne is doing a "gibberish" section on tomorrow's 6music breakfast show, lots of suggested Cocteau Twins and suchlike - I did suggest the pris song, …
..and it seems she played it this morning!
Will have to check it out…
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 July 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
The Chipmunks' "Witch Doctor" is a good one, in that the chorus is complete gibberish:
I told the witch doctor I was in love with youI told the witch doctor I was in love with youAnd then the witch doctor he told me what to do
He said thatOoo eee ooo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bangOoo eee ooo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bangOoo eee ooo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bangOoo eee ooo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang
― o. nate, Thursday, 8 July 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
― ✖✖✖ (Moka)
Ha, they're not even WORDS! The chorus goes 'Diggy diggy tommommonon' or something.
Another one from around the same time - the rap and the end of 'House Song' by the Beta Band. Sounds a lot like Kan Takagi's verse on 'Long Island Wildin', so probably fake imitation Japanese in the vein of Prisencolinensinainciusol
― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 8 July 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
This thread has made me think of
Do be do be do do do ohDo be do be do do do ohDo be do be do do do ohDo be do be do do do oh
And now I'll have to go and put toothpaste in my ears.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 8 July 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
Xpost re prisencolen..
.. yeah, first track on the “gibberish people’s playlist” although it was the one track she didn’t back-announce. Hmm, wonder why?
(Eyes)
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 July 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link