Favorite song featuring indecipherable lyrics

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: Favorite song featuring indecipherable lyrics

(ie, you can't pick out the actual words) as against incomprehensible (ie, you can decipher the words, but not the meaning).

As ever, Other votes can be registered by using the Reply function.

[FlashHarry]

1. Louie Louie!

So indecipherable, it was banned for being obscene! (Even though it's just a sweet love song about a sailor who misses his girl.)

[FloridaJudy]

10. Louie, Louie!

Ever tried playing the 45 at 33 1/3 so you could hear the "dirty stuff"? Me too!

Like me, all you probably got was "Lloouuiiee, Llooeeiiee, Heeey, Heeeeey, Weee gotta goohhh NOWWW...."

But you can't beat the rhythm!

[seamarq]

2. where the hell is Stevie Nicks??????

eom

[Bossy Monkey]

4. I never had any trouble hearing her lyrics

not least because half of them are either "the velvet underground" or "angel of my dreams" (Ducking, running away)

[seamarq]

8. lol...well maybe it was all that spinning that was distracting.

[zbird]

3. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" by The Rolling Stones.

Love the scene in the movie where Whoopi Goldberg is trying to decipher the lyrics... "fuck a duck, Mick... speak English!"

[arwalden]

20. I Was Raised By Two LESBIANS? WHAT?

Loved that movie too, Zbird!

[FlashHarry]

5. You forgot 'Blinded by the Light' by Manfred Mann

(I know it's a Boss song, BTW)

[Terwilliger]

16. wracked up like a douche, you know, the roamer in the night

right? ;-)

[Rocinante]

17. Ha!

you nailed it.

[dobak]

33. I always wondered..

Here are the real lyrics

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

[HEyHEY]

6. Luoie Louie

a win wiitelthain idwai fome

[FlashHarry]

7. Huh?

[Bossy Monkey]

9. See? You understood the words perfectly! n/t

[SmileyBoy]

15. A fime mibble surl, mait for nee...

Tah kop da shif, makrof du see...

OHHHH, Leu-Louie-Louie-Louie,
Oh yeah, na beda be meh somf...

Yeah yeah yeah yeah-LET'S GO...

[Character Assassin]

11. Anything from the first, oh, 5 Cocteau Twins albums

The first three REM albums, as well.

[7th_Sephiroth]

37. yeah what about the cocteau twins

and was louie loui sung after snorting like a pound of coke or something?

[Bossy Monkey]

43. Nah, the singer just had braces

More here: http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/louie.htm

[Raenelle]

12. Walk Away Renee, by the Left Banke

[FlashHarry]

13. Brilliant song!

I was listening to it just the other day!

[NightTrain]

18. Listen to the Four Tops' version some time

You can make out the lyrics perfectly!

[OneTwentyoNine]

31. Or..Pretty Ballerina...

Hard enough even when you have they lyrics. Hauntingly beautiful to say the least.

David



I had a date with a pretty ballerina
Her hair so brilliant that it hurt my eyes
I asked her for this dance
and then she obliged me
Was I surprised, yeah
Was I surprised, no not at all

I called her yesterday,
it should have been tomorrow
I could not keep
the joy that was inside
I begged for her to tell me
if she really loved me
Somewhere a mountain is moving
Afraid it`s moving without me

I had a date with a pretty ballerina
Her hair so brilliant that it hurt my eyes
I asked her for this dance
and then she obliged me
Was I surprised, yeah
Was I surprised, no not at all

And when I wake on a dreary Sunday morning
I open up my eyes to find there`s rain
And something strange within said,
go ahead and find her
Just close your eyes, yeah
Just close your eyes and she`ll be there

She`ll be there...

David

[SmileyBoy]

14. That song by Pearl Jam where Vedder sings "I don't wanna staaayyy..."

It was in the same album that had "Black" in it. Damn, I forgot the song. You couldn't understand a DAMN thing Eddie was singing. he must've been SOOOO high during that recording.

It goes "Ahm ma sayyy, onna mid nyohhhh weddahh.... Ah ih go and I go, I don't wanna staaaayyyy...."

[Nailzberg]

22. Yellow Ledbetter

Vedder consistantly alters the lyrics from day to day. There are no set lyrics to the song.

It was not released on the Ten, the album with Black on it. It was not included on a studio album, but part of a single.

[SmileyBoy]

23. Yeah, that was the song.

That's kinda weird that it wasn't included in an album.

[newyawker99]

19. Tub Thumping!!

:shrug:

[peekaloo]

39. I take a whiskey drink, I take a vodka drink

when I have to pee, I use the kitchen sink.

Homer Simpson

:D

[Richardo]

42. LOL peekaloo!

A nice Simpsons' reference first thing in the morning MUST be a good thing. :D

[nuxvomica]

21. "Scott Tissue" by Red Hot Chili Peppers

It's the one that goes "With the Burma Shave it's a lonelier view."

[SmileyBoy]

24. "Scott Tissue" LOL!!!

"With birds of shed, it's a lonely view-ehh...":shrug:

[nuxvomica]

25. Your version just can't be right. It doesn't make sense

The song is about someone who made a mess in a bathroom, hence the line "Scott tissue that I wish you saw."

[zelda7743]

26. Burning Down the House

I couldn't figure out what the hell David Byrne was talking about.

[Philostopher]

27. There's a song off the first Robert Plant solo album ...

I think it's 'Fat Lip' that has a line that, from the very first time I heard it, sounds like "Keep your hands in your pocket/she can shit more gold than a kangaroo."

He never published lyrics for the song, and I've seen a couple of interpretations that made more sense, but they didn't sound like what Bob's singing. Until I die, I'm going to be convinced she can shit more gold than a kangaroo.

Also, I nominate approximately 87% of the Replacements catalogue. There are only four or five songs that are remotely comprehensible.

I used to subscribe to a fan newsletter where people tried to interpret 'Mats lyrics. One of them approached Westerberg after a solo show to ask him about a lyric to a certain song that nobody had been able to parse. He said, "aw, man -- good luck. I have no f'in idea what I was singing, I was so ripped all the time, back then. If you get something that sounds good could you, you know, send it to me?"

[RandomKoolzip]

28. "Exile on Main Street," the entire album.

I can make out like two sentences at a time, but that's it. "You can be my partner in crime," "Don't wanna talk about Jesus, I just wanna see his face...." All the more frustrating because the lyrics I CAn understand sound brilliant.


Also, just about any average "BlingBling" type rapper in the last few years...Oh, for the lucidity of Public Enemy or NWA! Ever hear the song "Never Scared" by Bonecrusher? Sounds like the Hulk regurgitating cookies and reading divorce court transcripts at the same time. Really fucked up.

[maveric]

30. Ahh, you beat me to this one!!

I love that album. The best that the Stones ever released IMO but for the life of me, I cant decipher more than a few words here and there.
Tumblin Dice is the most undecipherable of all on that great album.

[AntiCoup2K4]

40. Great site for deciphering Stones lyrics....

http://www.keno.org/Songlistnlyrics.htm

He's even got lyrics for bootlegs

And for the record.....

TUMBLING DICE
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

Wo Yeah! (Wo, wo)

Women think I'm tasty, but they're always tryin' to waste me
And make me burn the candle right down,
But baby, baby, I don't need no jewels in my crown.

'Cause all you women is low down gamblers,
Cheatin' like I don't know how,
But baby, baby, there's fever in the funk house now.
This low down bitchin' got my poor feet a itchin',
Don't you know you know the duece is still wild.

Baby, I can't stay, you got to roll me
And call me the tumblin' dice.

Always in a hurry, I never stop to worry,
Don't you see the time flashin' by.
Honey, got no money,
I'm all sixes and sevens and nines.
Say now baby, I'm the rank outsider,
You can be my partner in crime.

But baby, I can't stay,
You got to roll me and call me the tumblin',
Roll me and call me the tumblin' dice.

Oh, my, my, my, I'm the lone crap shooter,
Playin' the field ev'ry night.

But baby, I can't stay,
You got to roll me and call me the tumblin' dice, (Call me the tumblin')
Got to roll me (yayes), Got to roll me, Got to roll me (Oh yeah)
Got to roll me
Got to roll me (yeah)
Got to roll me (Keep on rolling)
Got to roll me (Keep on rolling)
Got to roll me (Keep on rolling)
Got to roll me
My baby, call me the tumblin' dice, yeah
Got to roll me
Baby sweet as sugar (Got to roll me)
Yeah, my, my, my yeah (Got to roll me)
I went down baby, oh
Got to roll me (hit me)
Baby I'm down

[srubick]

29. Hearing loss?

Maybe a better sound system is in order.

[Deb]

32. Israelites by Desmond Dekker

For 30 years those lyrics were a mystery to me, then came Google. :-)

[Ellen Forradalom]

34. What?? Nothing by R.E.M.?

My brother played in a bar band in the 80s. He always liked covering R.E.M. tunes because you could make up the words and no one would know the difference. Later on Michael Stipe learned to e-nun-ci-ate, but who can figure the lyrics to 'Radio Free Europe' without looking them up?

[Bossy Monkey]

35. To the contrary: everything by REM

Option #4

[catpower2000]

41. Callin out in transit, callin out in transit...

Stall the signs the stand the stand in my sight...

Is that right? :)

Cat

[trigz]

36. "Two turn tables and a microphone" by Beck

was surely made while he was stoned off his face...

[BarbaRosa]

38. Closing theme WKRP

Went to a bartender yldfng jlkfo; ldifo ihlrli dhfug... ?????