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