Best Non-Word Lyrics

Flint · 03-29-2007, 01:51 PM

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"

Beestie · 03-29-2007, 01:54 PM

Monk chants.

wolf · 03-30-2007, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Beestie

Monk chants.

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

jinx · 03-30-2007, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by wolf

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.

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

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

wolf · 03-30-2007, 08:32 PM

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.

lumberjim · 03-30-2007, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

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.

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Beautifully recorded, it features the monks, each singing two and three note polyphonics from the throat, accompanied by occasional percussion and ceremonial horns in trance-inducing meditations to the Buddhist deities Yamantaka and Mahakala

Beestie · 03-30-2007, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

Monk chants are words.

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.

Shawnee123 · 03-29-2007, 01:54 PM

Mendellssohn's Song Without Words, of course.

BigV · 03-29-2007, 01:58 PM

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

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glatt · 03-29-2007, 02:02 PM

in a gadda da vida

Flint · 03-29-2007, 02:05 PM

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).

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Originally Posted by BigV

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

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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).

SquadRat1 · 03-29-2007, 02:09 PM

Anything sung by Bob Dylan or Tom Petty...

Shawnee123 · 03-29-2007, 02:02 PM

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No, the Witch Doctor has that beat:

ooo eee ooo ahhh ahhh...

Sheldonrs · 03-29-2007, 02:09 PM

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

"Blue Angel" - Roy Orbison

Ibby · 03-29-2007, 02:12 PM

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

Tally Hall, Haiku.

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