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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.

― suzy, Saturday, 2 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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

― Sterling Clover, Saturday, 2 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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.

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 2 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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.

― Maryann, Sunday, 3 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"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.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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?

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"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?

― mark s, Tuesday, 5 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Only 57, alas.

http://www.jayskids.com

― Tom, Tuesday, 5 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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

― mark s, Tuesday, 5 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Anything by Bjork.

― alex, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

two months pass...

inna gadda da vida, baby

― theresa, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The chorus of "She Said" by the Cramps?

― Sean, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

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!")

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

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