gitchhe gitchhe ya ya ya

Um, can I point out that the chorus to "Lady Marmalade" isn't actually nnonsense?

ok favorite onamanapeiac fragment.

"Da Rockwilda" by Meth and Redman. and I quote from ohhla —

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, laaaaa

There are quite a lot, aren't there? I've been trying to think of nonsense verses and I'm comin up dry...

The Rutles : "You're so pusilanimous"

"Light Flight" by the Pentangle.

Nonsense verses : Liliput's "Split", Elton John's "Solar Prestige A Gammon" ("Hair ring molassis abounding/Common lap kitch sardin a poor floundin"), Talking Heads' "I Zimbra" ("a bim beri glassla granrid/ e glassala tuffm i zimbra"), Sonic Youth's cover of "Ça plane pour moi".

whole song nonsense: Nirvana - "Tourettes" (second mention of this song this week!!)

"Dugory dug and dugory dugridar/dugory dug and dugory dugridar/dugory dug and dugory dugridar/Oh Deborah, always looked liked a zebra": Tyrannosaurus Rex, "Deboraarobed", first cut _Prophets, Seers and Sages/The Angels of the Ages_, before Bolan had quite morphed into his total Hot Goblin phase.

The chorus of Revol. While like Lady Marmalade it's technically not gibberish, it sounds like it and really makes minimal sense translated and it's multpile languages, so it counts.

That Cub tune about their sweet little swim to the otherside.

'ooh ya a ya ooh eee cha cha/ooh ya a ya cha cha cha' (with the oohs rhyming with 'you')

Good gravy I can't believe I wrote that out. Oh good, here comes the nurse.

i was hoping this thread was about glitchrock.

Who's 'Rubber Biscuit' by?

Because 'Rubber Biscuit'...

I'm not going to write it out: I'd have to go into the other room, fast-forward Mean Streets the right bit, play it like a million times so I could scribble it all down, come back into this room, type it in and post it. And actually what I'm going to do is go get a kebab on Lower Clapton Road. Yow-dow-dow-dow.

Ladies and gentlemen, "Rubber Biscuit" by The Chips :

http://www.sneeze.dircon.co.uk/rubber.html

Thank you, Patrick. I like to imagine all five of those named songwriters sitting round in conference hammering that out.

The Police's "do-do-do da-da-da"; their gibberish classic.

Mark's Bolan quote reminded me oddly (but poss. not surprisingly) of Digory out of The Magician's Nephew ...

"ooh Poo Pah Doo" - i'd call that the most.

("Rubber Biscuit" is nonsense verses.)

I mean, that chorus makes perfect sense, right?

Nothing can touch "Surfin' Bird." Everyone knows that The Bird is the word.

WARNING: some of these are little pieces of hell!

O Bla Di, etc. Coochie Wally (bleurgh!) Ning Nang Nong - J Cope Da Doo Ron Ron Bohemian Rhapsody Sha La La La Lee My Ding-A-Ling MMMBop

I'll stop now. Any more and one will become lodged in my brain, rendering me an insomniac.

Dunno which I prefer timba's Fricka-fricka-fricka or the Neptune's (Noreaga) Wha-wha-wha-wha-what, but they're more like punctuation than choruses anyway.

"You gotta pooty poo poo gotta pooty poo poo" - Devo, "Shrivel Up"

"fish heads/fish heads/roly poly fish heads/

fish heads/ fish heads/ eat 'em up/yum."

I can't remember who it's by, but the video was really sick & weird too.

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Norman, it was Ebn-Ozn. Can anyone out there remember the rest of the lyrics to Fish Heads?

Ebn-Ozn? Are you sure? I thought it was Barnes & Barnes.

Yep - it was Barnes & Barnes - thanx to thee wonders ov "google", here are thee lyricks:Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm

Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm

In the morning Laughing, happy Fish Heads In the evening Floating in the soup

Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm

Ask a Fish head Anything you want to They won't answer They can't talk

Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm

I took a Fish head Out to see a movie Didn't have to pay To get it in

Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm They can't play baseball They don't wear sweaters They're not good dancers They don't play drums

Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm

Rolly polly Fish heads Are never seen drinking Cappacino in Italian restaurants With Oriental women...Yeah

Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm

Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm... (Yummm)

Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm

Fish heads, Fish heads Rolly polly Fish heads Fish heads, Fish heads Eat them up, Yummm YEAH!!!!!!!!!

by Barnes and Barnes From the album:

Voohbaha!

I remember the video for this - it was like watching a nightmare.

U reading this doom/paul/ty/whatever??

This one belongs in yer "So Bad It's Good" thread with a bullet!!!

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Suzy: I really should have mentioned "Da Doo Ron Ron" myself ...

Like, WOAH.

Durrrrrr. My mistake: EBN-OZN was AEIOU, another song which should be listed. They must've bled together in the box in my brain marked early MTV. This is why I love ILM; nobody seems at all freaked out by people who know answers to stuff like this. And thanks Norman for Fish Heads lyrics but I know many old trouts who drink cappuccinos with oriental women. Don't you?

How about Witch Doctor by Alvin & The Chipmunks? Oo, ee, oo, aaa, aaa, ching, chang, waalla walla bing bang.

Actually Witch Doctor was by David Seville (of the chipmunks) but was produced pre-chipmunks. End random trivia.

ethan: is there actually something called glitch rock as opposed to glitch techno/electronica? i'm asking seriously because that sounds great. i was actually hoping myself that this was a thread about glitch music.

Thre whole of Marc Bolan's oeuvre. He is a beautiful angel! Magma, the French band, invented a language. This is an excellent question: things that seem like words (or seem like phrases that make sense) but aren't. What's so good about it? It works written down, too; I can think of Samuel Greenberg, the poet. But you have to be a pleasant person; I never liked the 'poetry' of Patti Smith and Bob Dylan. It's not right, I think, to say that you can be cynical and fanciful at the same time; it's obvious, then, that you're just being nonsensical for affect - and who likes dishonesty? Whereas Marc Bolan and others that you've quoted approvingly here seem to be in a happy rapture.

I do believe Maryann has called it. Doesn't hurt I'm a major Bolan/T. Rex freak myself. :-)

One could venture that all of the Cocteau Twins and half of Sigur Ros' oeuvre fits the bill here, but since they're wilfully obscure and not nonsense in the context of other comprehensible material, we'll leave that out. What keeps coming to me is the chorus of an ELO song, "Jungle":

Chooka chooka ho la ley
Looka looka ko la ley

You know, I don't even really like that song. Go figure.

"There's Something Wrong With You" by Screamin Jay Hawkins has mysteriously failed to leave its imprint on the World Wide Web, so I can't find the lyrics for you all. It's an example of a song with nonsense lyrics that are actually words rather than phonemes. SJH goes thru a long list of fantasy dishes like "mosquito pie" and "deep-fried collard greens smothered in bubblegum" and compares them to the mental state of the addressee, probably himself in the mirror. Freako.

If you're going to bring up Screamin' Jay, you might as well mention "Constipation Blues," where the lyrics are pretty much the groans of someone going through the agonies detailed in the title. And isn't that a pleasant thought?

"If you're going to bring up Screamin' Jay": Someone gave me a heads-up last year abt a website [details = lost, unfortunately] dedicated to the MANY ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN of Screamin Jay. More than 2,000, they said it said. Anyone know any more?

Only 57, alas.

http://www.jayskids.com

It says 75+ on the poster. 57 is crossed out.

Anything by Bjork.

inna gadda da vida, baby

The chorus of "She Said" by the Cramps?

Glad that no one's mentioned "Susussudio" by Phil Collins, but INCREDULOUS to see that no one mentioned the eternal gibberish chant from the Ramones' "Pinhead,"

"GABBA GABBA HEY -GABBA GABBA HEY -GABBA GABBA HEY -GABBA GABBA HEY - GABBA GABBA HEY -GABBA GABBA HEY -GABBA GABBA HEY -GABBA GABBA HEY - GABBA GABBA HEY -GABBA GABBA HEY -GABBA GABBA HEY -GABBA GABBA HEY"

Actually lifted from the horror film, "Freaks" ("Gabba Gabba We Accept You - One of us - One of us!")