Best Non-Word Lyrics
 

I'll start off with Journey's chorus to Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'

"na nana na nana, na nana na na, na nana na na nana nana nanaaa"

Monk chants.

Mendellssohn's Song Without Words, of course.

Roger Daltrey's scream in Won't Get Fooled Again.

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in a gadda da vida

No, the Witch Doctor has that beat:

ooo eee ooo ahhh ahhh...

Of course, a sort of lifetime achievement award should go to Magma (whose lyrics are written entirely in an imaginary language) and the Cocteau Twins (whose lyrics lean heavily towards incoherent babbling).

I'll see your Won't Get Fooled Again...
...and raise you one Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (featuring what is rumored to be the sound of a guitar amp being dropped on Bon Scott's foot).

Anything sung by Bob Dylan or Tom Petty...

"Sha la la. Doobie wah. bum bum bum, yip yip bum.

"Blue Angel" - Roy Orbison

la da di diddum
la da da de do, didduh
lah dah dee dih doo


Tally Hall, Haiku.

I'm partial to Robert Plant's miscellaneous wailings...

I'm also very fond of a sort of ascending, strangled howl Prince emits near the end of God Created Woman.

R. Plant in the middle section of Whole lotta love.......wauh, wauh, waauuuuuugghhhhhhh!......

'.....and then there's this cosmic ...energy!.... and everybody goes, "Yeah!" Bash!'

Naaah na na na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, hey Jude.

a do do do a da da da- The Police

do wah diddee? nah, i hate that shit.

Menny Dabid Ibe

--Buh-weet

(Doesn't really count, but I never resist a chance to get one of those in.)

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Who put the bomp in the bomp-ba-bomp-ba-bomp?
Who put the ram in the ramma-lamma-ding-dong?
Who put the bop in the bop-shoo-bop-shoo-bop?
Who put the dip in the dip-da-dip-da-dip?

Who was that man?
I'd like to shake his hand!
He made my baby fall in love with meeee!

OK I ADMIT IT. I put the ram in the rama lama ding dong. Is there anything so wrong with that?:right:

:p

Mmm mmm mmm mmm

nice

ooga chaka oga chaka oga chaka...

boom boom shakalaka boom boom - from the beginning of was?notwas walk the dinosaur.

Well, the worst would have to be "shipoopy, shipoopy, shipoopy, the girl who's hard to get." AAAH I hate that song!

For best I would include Bowie's "fa! fa! fa! fa! Fashion!", the strangely mournful "shoop shoop, shoop galang galang..." from the Libertines' "What Katy Did," and the background singers who sound like they're saying "oolong gato*" or maybe "Ulan Bator" in Sophie B. Hawkins' "As I Lay Me Down."


*is that a Spanish cat that drinks tea?

You dissin' "The Music Man" when there's a gay man around?!!!

:D

I can't find the lyrics anywhere, and don't have the song with me to transcribe, but it goes something like this:

Bow bow bow...
hey wanna chika wabba limman naba
bar babba stick a lada dibba daba
mow mabba loomma lama nimanaba
nur naba numa lama dooba dabba
Dell rown ay wanna lubba hubba
Mull an a mound chicka lubba hubba
Fay down ah wanna dip-a-zip-a-dip-a

Have you ever heard of a wish sandwich? a wish sandwich is the kiiiiiind of a sandwich where you have two slices of bread and you wish you had some meat...

Rubber Biscuit, by The Chips. I'm listening to them now. But you're still wrong.

that came from a tom jones song, i thought.

I was actually thinking of the Blues Brothers version.

I think this calls for a CMEP to be fair.

rules, baby...

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Up the Beach - Janes Addiction

The first one may have - hooked on a feeling - is that by tom jones.

The second is from the Was not was song.

Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd

Sigur Ros

parts of Mas Que Nada--Brasil 66
(what a kick ass song!)

Aw crap. That beats my Rubber Biscuit.

Edit: And you know, it makes me wonder how that song was done. Did they write the "vocals" as part of the overall musical piece and then find someone to sing it? Or did they just let the obviously talented woman come in and just do what she wanted, they they put their music to it after? Or was it like stage directions *insert amazing vocals here.* I should google this.

Edit again: Wikipedia has a cool article on it. She just came in and improvised based on very vague instructions from the band. Only got paid 30 pounds for it, and sued decades later for songwriting royalties and won.

Peter Frampton's guitar talking

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

Monk chants are words. Just because they are in Latin and you don't understand what "Pie Iesu Domine, dona eis requiem" means doesn't make them not words.

My favorite non-lyric lyrics are from Hocus Pocus by Focus, which also gets the best song and group title combo award

It's fascinating how that actually works. The guitar plugs into a little black box, with a 50 watt amp and a small speaker, sealed inside. The box has a plastic tube which the output from the speaker is forced out of. The operator tapes the tube to their microphone, and inserts it into their mouth. Now, the guitar is being amplified to the inside of their mouth. As the operator changes the shape of their mouth, the output from the guitar is influenced by the cavity it is being broadcast into. The resulting sound is captured by the vocal mic, and is heard through the main PA system.

Awesome description. I had always heard it was a mouth thing, but not the details. I thought the guitar had nothing to do with it. I thought it was just an effect put on the microphone's signal after normal singing. This is way cooler.

My brother used to have one. I played around with running a drum machine through it.

Later on, I heard Carmine Appice would run his snare drum through a wah-wah pedal.

That's not what these guys are saying...



I used to put this cd in to fall asleep to.

Prayers in Tibetan or Sanskrit or whatever, but they are still prayers. They aren't just toning, although that technique is also used in meditation.

I know a bunch of Native American chants ... some of them are of the "Hey Ya" variety, but others have translatable lyrics.

You have a point. I kinda forgot about this one...


"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII can play dominos better than youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu cannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn"

They used to sing that one a lot in church when I was growing up.

oh wah tagoo sayam

aah wah tah ka q av.

it's small, but it's fierce!

George W. Bush singing the National Anthem. The boy claims to have been sober for years, but he still sounds like he's shit-faced.

La la la la la la la la la la la

Sounds a lot better when Yes sings it.

A-haw-haw-haw.

ZZ Top for the win.



Yai Yai by Steve Vai.
"a-ca-d'-she-el-da-shoom-bee" from Hey Sandy by Polaris (the Pete&Pete theme) (s'posedly 'can you settle to shoot me' but I dont buy it)
I guess Ladysmith Black Mombazo doesnt count, even though it sounds like nonsense to me
Pompitous of love!
A-whoooo! Werewolves of london!

okay thats all i got for now

What was that abstracty, melodious thing from the late 1970s from Ian Anderson? Words it had, but they did not make sentences, mostly.

La la la la la la la la la...means I love you. --The Delfonics

(No it doesn't. It means La la la la la la la la la):meanface:

She's so swishy in her satin and tat
In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat!
Oh god I can do better than that...

The background sounds on "Your Best Nightmare" by London After Midnight =)

That's "Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga". "Hooked On A Feeling" by Blue Swede.

And what about Wilson Pickett w/"Land Of A Thousand Dances":

"Naaa, nana na naaa, nana na naaa, nana, na nana, na, nana na naaa."

Or anything that ever came out of Bon Scott's mouth.

Bopbopbopbopbopbopbopbopbopbopbopbopboppaoomamawmaw, boppaoomawmaw, baboppaoomamawmaw, boppaoomawmaw


Or haven't you heard? "The Bird Is The Word".

There's a bit in a doors song.... Gotta find it.....

That bit from "Roadhouse Blues"?