"Loxian" and other made-up languages in music

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Enya sings in a tongue from a 'distant planet'

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Magma to thread!

k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Hopelandic

a Side-walkin' Street Wheeler (aaron ef.), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

sun city girls

m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Circle to thread

Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link

the songs in loxian are the best ones on the new enya. unknown languages are good buffer against sappy lyrics.

fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link

E-40 to thread!

mucho, Thursday, 8 December 2005 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link

the melvins on stoner witch

Robin Samples (Robin Samples), Thursday, 8 December 2005 09:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Melvins: isn't Hooch on Houdini?

Los ticka toe rest.
Might likea sender doe ree.
Your make a doll a ray day sender bright like a penelty.
Exi-tease my ray day member half lost a beat away.
Purst in like a one way sender war give a heart like a fay.
Cuz I can ford a red eed only street a wide a ree land.
Die-mond make a mid-evil bike a sake a like a ree caste.
Cuz I can ford a red eed only street a wide a ree land.
On a ree land. Find a ree land.
You sink a my swan.
Rolly a get a worst in.
Maybe minus way far central poor forty duck a pin.
Milk maid dud bean. Master a load a head.
Pill pop a dope a well run general hash pump a gonna led.

StanM (StanM), Thursday, 8 December 2005 09:36 (eighteen years ago) link

"Solar Prestige a Gammon"

mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 8 December 2005 09:43 (eighteen years ago) link

What about the Cocteau Twins? Was that a real language she was singing in?

k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 8 December 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Some of Damo Suzuki's most outre vocalizings might count.

Nathaniel (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

What about the Cocteau Twins? Was that a real language she was singing in?

The short answer is "yes." The long answer is on countless fan sites.

Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:34 (eighteen years ago) link

pompatus

musically (musically), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Bjorkish

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:56 (eighteen years ago) link

And so: the Swedish Chef's theme song.

k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Bolloxian

fandango (fandango), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link

oh yeah stan yer right it is houdini, and yes, that's the song i'm thinkin of.

hmm also pink floyd somewhere in the middle of the atom heart mother suite

and boac - war of the worlds and bibablab, both on the album modern originalis

and frank zappa rhymes 'dental floss tycoon' with 'mental toss flycoon' on apostraphe/overnite sensation.

luke sick of the disturbers makes up a good deal of slang and alliteration gibberish

Robin Samples (Robin Samples), Friday, 9 December 2005 08:55 (eighteen years ago) link

somebody start a companion thread called "looptid" and other made-up words in music.

fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 9 December 2005 09:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Kobaian English

emgalai apocalypse
andaksik flow
antsik ask
blum people
bradia speak
bunder pillar
da the
de of
deuhl flood
dewa tree
di the
dihhel life
dindol your
do you
doia not, step
dreiak hypocrisy
drest explosion
dros from
dun heart
dusz your
eden without
ek who
etnah heredity, outline
falt sweat
fennh blade, gold cloth
fu a, an
fur for
furwolt while
fuwest crack
geun poor
glao blood
gorkeulhzenht convulsions
hamtaahk hate
hamtai, hamatai to salute
hell, hel life
helolesz drop
hiweusz pulse
hoi one
host ?
hundin infinite
hurt first
ihwa wait
is as, like
itah earth
kalain passion
klawiehr keyboards
kobaia eternal
krematohm cremation, crematory
l^em noise
l^emworitst^em dark
lah air
lants^em ghost
lantsei to run away
lidente destiny
lihns rain
loff lose
lohessi lengthen
loi to drink
loile thirsty
lud it
luszt perfect
m^em in
Malawelekaahm incantation
maneh ensemble
mennh, meletsi smell
met on, upon, above
muss vital
nansei forever, never, ever
noszfeuhl endless
otsilennhet^e imaginary, imagination
rait, raitah burn
reugh eat
rinst^e prisoner
rogh appearance
rownah purge
runhd^e unperturbed
saaht painful
setnait breast
sewolawen silence
siri cry
slibenli wave
soia night, high
sowilei delicate
steuhn torwards
stauhi ashes
strain to tear
sun is
sunh and, be
surra pure
tendiwa soul
theusz time
tuduwan lie
ud it, that
udea fruit
umennh breathe
und^em ocean
undazir vision
unsai past
urfakt last
urwa violence
uz and
wainsaht forward
walomend^em universe (all together)
warrei why
wi where
wlasik forgive, pardon, ascension
wol from
wurdah death, dead
wurdin nothingness, nothing
zain brain
zanka sun
zess master
zeuhl celestial music
zort surly (?)
zunh sound
zur you

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry, that's the Kobaian word followed by the English translation.
Now translate this :

HUR
DEH ANTZIK KOHNTARKOSZ KREUHN KOHRMAHN
STOHT WURDAH MELEKAAHM
UZ, DEH ORKBAHNN KREUHN KOHRMAHN
ZËBËHN STRAIN DE GEUSTAAH WORTSIS, DA REUS STOAH

LAH WORTZ REISFUNK DEH WEHRESTEHGEUHNZUR,
UND, DEH BUNDEHR DRAKAIDA KOMMANDOH,
WUHR DI HEUL ZORTSUNG.
UTS FUR KALAIN, HIMEUHN ZËBËHN DEH REUSTIIHN,
EWEHN DEUH LANTSIN SLAKEHNDO

I'll be back in half an hour to see how you've all done.
HAMATAI!

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Gotta big up the Dada here:

Eno - Kurt's Rejoinder
Talking Heads - I, Zimbra

We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Search results for Kobaian:

Did you mean: Cobain?

StanM (StanM), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Kurt's Kobaian Rejoinder

We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
No Sigur Ros?

js (honestengine), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Terry Dolan, professor of English at University College Dublin, said: “It’s a very eclectic language. It seems to choose elements at random. It brings in a whole wealth of different language forms such as Anglo-Saxon, Hindu, Welsh and, I think, Siberian Yupik as well.

Not too hard to imagine the first three, but that last one has got to be a lucky coincidence.

naus (Robert T), Thursday, 5 January 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

"Even in my home town
My friends make me write it down
They look at me when I talk to them
And they shrug their shoulders
They go, what's he talking about
But you, you speak my language:
Kabrula kaysay Brula Amal amala senda Kumahn Brendhaa"

Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 5 January 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Quando paramucho mi amore de felice care-a-thon
Mundo paparazzi mi amore chickaferdy parasol
Questo abrigado tantamucho que can't eat it carousel

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Dead Can Dance. Don't know if she has a name for it though.

LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

No Sigur Ros?

-- js (roc...), January 5th, 2006 6:26 PM.

The second reply = Hopelandic = the made-up language Sigur Rós used before "Takk..."

StanM (StanM), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Ghostfacish!
http://www.hoopshype.com/ghostface.jpg

R. J. Greene, Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

i just found out that Les Thugs used to sing mostly in "yoghurt" which is a fake language imitating the sounds of English. I don't know if they coined that term or not though!

1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Thursday, 15 August 2013 19:11 (ten years ago) link

eight years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBFH9R3cg4

Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 April 2022 12:31 (two years ago) link

weaky amirite

mark s, Saturday, 9 April 2022 12:32 (two years ago) link

Not often you saw a jawbone on TOTP.

Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 April 2022 12:35 (two years ago) link


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