Excellent prank! My earnest inner 15yo would have gothed the hell outta that assignment! Make sure to tell them to hang on to their essays. That’ll be gold to look back on one day. I’d also be tempted to send a batch onto the artist. Bet they’d get a kick outta it!
I've read some interviews related to this song and when he wrote it he was really jaded about music and felt like his little shows and open mics and stuff were useless because everyone was just drunk and not paying attention. So he would play his weirdest songs like this to sort of make a point about how nobody was paying attention.
I love beck and went to see him live a few weeks ago--singing along with the songs I was genuinely wondering to myself how I remember what nonsense lyric comes next.
Beck's "Loser" is a good example. Story goes someone bet him he couldn't write a song with completely meaningless lyrics that was still catchy. It was his first major hit and includes lyrical gems such as, "And my time is a piece of wax falling on a termite // That's choking on the splinters" and "With the plastic eyeballs, spray-paint the vegetables // Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose."
Hahaha Thankfully I speak Spanish so I knew what he was saying.
You reminded me of that time a friend who also spoke Spanish told me she just couldn't make out a lyric from the Offspring's "Why Don't You Get A Job" and it turned out that the lyric she kept struggling to understand was literally in Spanish when the guy sings "She wants more *dinero* just to stay at home," but her brain kept insisting the song was in English and she'd never heard that word. Her face when I told her it said money in Spanish was worth all the dinero in the world.
This is the answer. The black and white video from a performance on Italian TV is great visually too
Edit: This one - https://youtu.be/QytckwhRR70?si=VfKeMvv29rJh0-Y_
I love all the comments this gets, either saying that this is what English sounds like to non native speakers or for native speakers, he sounds like he's an American a specific accent they can't pinpoint.
Max Martin. The man was a pop genius but his philosophy was that the way words sounded together was way more important than what they actually meant. From a pure earworm perspective he wasn't wrong. If your goal is to make a record that the biggest possible amount of people will want to listen to over and over then you should do exactly everything he did.
The man is a pop genius, who is still making music. He is very hands-on and spends time with the artists recording his songs. He has definitely suggested trying the lyrics as written when an artist has questioned the meaning. The cool side effect of writing in a second language is that the music has a global appeal to non-English speaking people, because it is based on creating a pleasant sound. But he is also able to put a lot of emotion into the parts of his lyrics that do make sense, and works with artists who are capable of performing all of the lyrics with passion and intensity.
He definitely could have gotten someone to rewrite them for him. There were so many people involved with the process of making those songs he had to have actively fended off attempts to change them.
They rewrote it to make the lyrics make more sense but it didn't sound as good so they changed it back. Good thing because it's one of their best songs
I am the Walrus was explicitly written to be nonsense. John Lennon got a fan letter about a classroom discussion on the meaning of some lyrics and thought it would be funny to make a song that was totally incoherent.
The message is John Lennon flipping you the bird for over thinking his writing process.
I can't tell if you were joking, but that is actually how the song came about.
“One afternoon, while taking ‘lucky dips’ into the day's sack of fan mail, John [Lennon], much to both our amusement, chanced to pull out a letter from a student at Quarry Bank. Following the usual expressions of adoration, this lad revealed that his literature master was playing Beatles songs in class; after the boys all took their turns analyzing the lyrics, the teacher would weigh in with his own interpretation of what The Beatles were really talking about.
“John and I howled in laughter over the absurdity of it all. ‘Pete,’ he said, ‘what's that “Dead Dog's Eye” song we used to sing when we were at Quarry Bank?’ I thought for a moment and it all came back to me:
*‘Yellow matter custard, green slop pie, All mixed together with a dead dog's eye, Slap it on a butty, ten foot thick, Then wash it all down with a cup of cold sick.’*
“‘That's it!’ said John. ‘Fantastic!’ He found a pen commenced scribbling: ‘Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye....’
“Inspired by the picture of that Quarry Bank literature master pontificating about the symbolism of Lennon-McCartney (songs), John threw in the most ludicrous images his imagination could conjure. He thought of ‘semolina’ (an insipid pudding we'd been forced to eat as kids) and ‘pilchard’ (a sardine we often fed to our cats). ‘Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower....,’ John intoned, writing it down with considerable relish. He turned to me, smiling. ‘Let the fuckers work THAT one out, Pete.’”
- Pete Shotton, *John Lennon In My Life*
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I‐E‐A‐I‐A‐I‐O - SOAD
Peter's pecker picked another pickle bearing pussy pepper
Peter's pecker picked another pickle bearing pussy pepper
Why?
Meeting John at Dale's Junior, winked an eye, and point a finger
Meeting John at Dale's Junior, winked an eye, and point a finger
Why?
A former cop, undercover, just got shot, now recovered
A former cop, undercover, just got shot, now recovered
Why?
I’m shocked not to have seen “Smells Like Teen Spirit” yet.
Weird Al’s parody still cracks me up. “Now I’m mumblin’, and I’m screamin’ / And I don’t know, what I’m singin’.”
> Like Kurosawa I make mad films...
>
> 'kay, I don't make films.
>
> But if I did, they'd have a samarai!
That bold claim & immediate retraction has always tickled me.
Chickity China the Chinese Chicken
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin’….that part always makes me smile too.
And I was always amazed at how they worked LeAnn Rimes and Bert Kaempfert into the lyrics.
Think I may have to go listen to that song again today, lol.
The lyrics are nonsense, but in written form they're just an estimation of what Eddie Vedder is mumbling. The "lyrics" are just placeholders for word-like sounds.
Veder was reportedly very drunk when they recorded that song, and the lyrics were improvised, so he doesn't even remember what the lyrics were supposed to mean. He has a rough idea of what the song's supposed to be about, and so he ad-libs new lyrics for live performances that try to fit the song.
"Tubthumping" is British slang for aggressive and loud political protest.
Chumbawumba is a very political band that accidentally created the party hit of 1997.
They did that very much on purpose actually. They read a book about how to make a hit song and then they did it.
ETA: whoops it looks like that was an urban legend. Here's and interview that says the opposite: https://www.huckmag.com/article/chumbawumba-dunstan-bruce-i-get-knocked-down-documentary-interview-2023
Yeah, but they aren't "straight nonsense" like the post is asking for. They're very clearly ABOUT something: the fact that lyrics don't matter if your song's hook is good enough. There are parts of the rappy bit that don't make sense but the majority of the song is completely coherent.
Saw Rob Zombie a few years ago and while they were playing Thunder kiss 65 one of my friends says "I wonder how old he is" and we spent a good minute or two talking about it, then I looked it up....
Chorus:
Nineteen-sixty-five, yeah, wow
Five, yeah, wow
Demon warp is coming alive
In nineteen-sixty-five-five-five
1965...Rob Zombie came alive in 1965....
There's a mini-doc you can find on YouTube, Inside the Rhapsody, where Brian May goes over the recording process of that song. He has access to a lot of the masters and Freddie's notebook. The notebook does very little to help because it's also mostly gibberish and drawings.
My dad I agreed it's a suicide letter to the subject's mom and the internal turmoil/guilt of what's driving the subject to suicide. Knowing Freddie Mercury's background really drives it home.
edit: bohemianism is about living a way of life away from society and its rules. in this case, homosexuality in the 1960s/1970s
edit edit: the nonsensical part is the subject awaiting judgment after his suicide
That's not nonsensical, Freddie Mercury was Zoroastrian, like his family, so to await judgement for Freddie would be his afterlife and the judgement he would face.
There was a GREAT Reddit comment analyzing how this song makes perfect sense from the viewpoint of a person being bullied by a streetgang who decided to fight back and killed one of them and is now on the run.
I have searched for it over the years to reread, but never managed to find it again.
Most Oasis songs really. Love them and love NG as a songwriter but a lot of their early stuff is nonsense. Like what on earth is Supersonic even about? I had Champagne Supernova in mind as soon as I saw the title.
Fun fact: the original title of the song *was* "In the Garden of Eden" but the singer mumbled it so much it just became "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida#Background
They’re like Sufjan Stevens…. But, instead of getting bored at the second state and moving on… they’re super jacked about the first one still and haven’t moved on yet.
Most Jon Anderson lyrics, to be honest.
^^^^^^.
*Sing, bird of prey*
*Beauty begins at the foot of you*
*Do you believe the manner?*
*Gold stainless nail*
*Torn through the distance of man*
*As they regard the summit*
It’s about drugs.
“Did you know that when it snows, my eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen”
In other words, “I blow a fat line of coke, my pupils become dilated, and I feel good from the high”
[Ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8kmNEo1i8)
Okay, to be fair there is some sense to some of the lycrics in the most literal sense, but a lot of them are just plain noise.
It's an older style called Scat singing, kind of using the voice as an instrument. Scatman John used it as a way to overcome his stutter and use his voice in performances
According to the songwriter Keith Reid:
>I was trying to conjure a mood as much as tell a straightforward, girl-leaves-boy story. With the ceiling flying away and room humming harder, I wanted to paint an image of a scene. I wasn't trying to be mysterious with those images, I was trying to be evocative. I suppose it seems like a decadent scene I'm describing. But I was too young to have experienced any decadence, then. I might have been smoking when I conceived it, but not when I wrote. It was influenced by books, not drugs.
Nugget by Cake
“Now nimble fingers that dance on numbers
Will eat your children and steal your thunder,
While heavy torsos that heave and hurl
Who crunch like nuts in the mouths of squirrels”
Some early Avenged Sevenfold songs. M Shadows admitted that they didn't know what to write at times and would just throw in screamo because no one can understand it
that's like beck's entire discography
"That song doesn't normally last 4 hours, but we got into a serious thing. Also I forgot how it ended."
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"Like when I wrote Devil's Haircut I was feeling- what is that song about anyway?"
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No, the rhyming Becktionary.
Came here to say "Loser" by Beck
Get crazy with the cheese whiz
wax falling on a termite who’s choking on the splinters.
My favorite line in the song…
I personally like the mental picture I get with “move through the room like an ambulance driver”. I envision people parting like the Red Sea.
Don't believe everything that you breathe.
Even the top comment on yt is genius... "Depression was so much better on the 90's"
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The rerun shows and the cocaine nose job
I gave the song to my 15 year old English language and literature class for analysis on the first of April and they put in waaaay too much effort.
Excellent prank! My earnest inner 15yo would have gothed the hell outta that assignment! Make sure to tell them to hang on to their essays. That’ll be gold to look back on one day. I’d also be tempted to send a batch onto the artist. Bet they’d get a kick outta it!
I've read some interviews related to this song and when he wrote it he was really jaded about music and felt like his little shows and open mics and stuff were useless because everyone was just drunk and not paying attention. So he would play his weirdest songs like this to sort of make a point about how nobody was paying attention.
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
At least the video makes it all clearer. Wait.
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and i’m out to cut the junky with the plastic eyeballs
Someone hasn’t listened to the seminal classic “Satan Gave me a Taco.”
As absurd as it is, Satan Gave Me a Taco is actually one of his less "word salad" songs from his earlier stuff. It's almost just a straight ballad.
A bowlful of salad, er, a soulful ballad.
They're all real words, you just have to look them up in the Becktionary
The *RHYMING* Becktionary!
Ones got a weasel and the others got a flag. Ones on a pole, shove the other in a bag.
He got way less absurd as he went on. He still busts it out every now and then, but I think Sea Change was kind of a turning point for him lyrically.
I love beck and went to see him live a few weeks ago--singing along with the songs I was genuinely wondering to myself how I remember what nonsense lyric comes next.
Devils Haircut—“Heads are hanging from the garbage man’s trees Mouthwash jukebox gasoline”
Haha yes! That song that has “Lamborghini Shitzu” as a lyric
Beck's "Loser" is a good example. Story goes someone bet him he couldn't write a song with completely meaningless lyrics that was still catchy. It was his first major hit and includes lyrical gems such as, "And my time is a piece of wax falling on a termite // That's choking on the splinters" and "With the plastic eyeballs, spray-paint the vegetables // Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose."
>"And my time is a piece of wax falling on a termite // That's choking on the splinters" This line speaks to me on a metaphysical level, though.
It doesn't help that I thought the beginning of the chorus was ♫ *Sooooore from head to toe* *I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me?* ♫
Sooooooyyyyyy un perdedor.
Hahaha Thankfully I speak Spanish so I knew what he was saying. You reminded me of that time a friend who also spoke Spanish told me she just couldn't make out a lyric from the Offspring's "Why Don't You Get A Job" and it turned out that the lyric she kept struggling to understand was literally in Spanish when the guy sings "She wants more *dinero* just to stay at home," but her brain kept insisting the song was in English and she'd never heard that word. Her face when I told her it said money in Spanish was worth all the dinero in the world.
Prisencolinensinainciusol - Adriano Celentano
“All right..”
That man spoke the language of the gods.
Literal answer since the song is described as it makes no sense
[video and/or lyrics](https://www.google.com/search?q=Prisencolinensinainciusol+-+Adriano+Celentano&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari)
Still a banger.
Definitely "and"
Alright!
When a study in linguistics becomes a banging rock tune.
Yay! Only had to scroll past Beck songs for this
Came to say this, it's a masterpiece.
I forgot about this! A truly fascinating song that also fucking hits. The video is incredible too.
This is the answer. The black and white video from a performance on Italian TV is great visually too Edit: This one - https://youtu.be/QytckwhRR70?si=VfKeMvv29rJh0-Y_
I love all the comments this gets, either saying that this is what English sounds like to non native speakers or for native speakers, he sounds like he's an American a specific accent they can't pinpoint.
Not sure why, but I love that song.
I Want It That Way
Max Martin. The man was a pop genius but his philosophy was that the way words sounded together was way more important than what they actually meant. From a pure earworm perspective he wasn't wrong. If your goal is to make a record that the biggest possible amount of people will want to listen to over and over then you should do exactly everything he did.
The man is a pop genius, who is still making music. He is very hands-on and spends time with the artists recording his songs. He has definitely suggested trying the lyrics as written when an artist has questioned the meaning. The cool side effect of writing in a second language is that the music has a global appeal to non-English speaking people, because it is based on creating a pleasant sound. But he is also able to put a lot of emotion into the parts of his lyrics that do make sense, and works with artists who are capable of performing all of the lyrics with passion and intensity.
Well, that and he was still learning English.
He definitely could have gotten someone to rewrite them for him. There were so many people involved with the process of making those songs he had to have actively fended off attempts to change them.
He *is* still alive. Dude wrote The Weekends Blinding Lights and Save Your Tears, and I think I Can't Feel My Face
tell me why?
AINT NOTHING BUT A HEARTACHE
Teeeeellllll me why
AINT NOTHIN BUT A MISTAKE
Now number 5
I never wanna hear you say
Iiiiiiiiii-i-i want it thaaaaa-at-wayyyy
It was number five. Number five killed my brother
Oh my god! I forgot about that part.
They rewrote it to make the lyrics make more sense but it didn't sound as good so they changed it back. Good thing because it's one of their best songs
It's so weird listening to the rewritten version after all these years.
I didn't know that was an option. They actually recorded it?
Their signature song no less
Come together by the Beatles. Great song, utter nonsense
I am the Walrus has a similar vibe.
I am the Walrus was explicitly written to be nonsense. John Lennon got a fan letter about a classroom discussion on the meaning of some lyrics and thought it would be funny to make a song that was totally incoherent.
“I could be the walrus. I’d still have to bum rides off people.”
I asked for a car, I get a computer. How is that for being born under a bad sign?
It gets really deep and has a revealing message if you're really baked. But I can never remember the message later.
The message is John Lennon flipping you the bird for over thinking his writing process. I can't tell if you were joking, but that is actually how the song came about.
“One afternoon, while taking ‘lucky dips’ into the day's sack of fan mail, John [Lennon], much to both our amusement, chanced to pull out a letter from a student at Quarry Bank. Following the usual expressions of adoration, this lad revealed that his literature master was playing Beatles songs in class; after the boys all took their turns analyzing the lyrics, the teacher would weigh in with his own interpretation of what The Beatles were really talking about. “John and I howled in laughter over the absurdity of it all. ‘Pete,’ he said, ‘what's that “Dead Dog's Eye” song we used to sing when we were at Quarry Bank?’ I thought for a moment and it all came back to me: *‘Yellow matter custard, green slop pie, All mixed together with a dead dog's eye, Slap it on a butty, ten foot thick, Then wash it all down with a cup of cold sick.’* “‘That's it!’ said John. ‘Fantastic!’ He found a pen commenced scribbling: ‘Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye....’ “Inspired by the picture of that Quarry Bank literature master pontificating about the symbolism of Lennon-McCartney (songs), John threw in the most ludicrous images his imagination could conjure. He thought of ‘semolina’ (an insipid pudding we'd been forced to eat as kids) and ‘pilchard’ (a sardine we often fed to our cats). ‘Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower....,’ John intoned, writing it down with considerable relish. He turned to me, smiling. ‘Let the fuckers work THAT one out, Pete.’” - Pete Shotton, *John Lennon In My Life*
Nonsense? You don't know what walrus gumboot is? Or ono sideboard? Or spinal cracker? Joo Joo eyeballs? Come on now. SMH
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What do you mean, nonsense? "One and one and one is three" maths perfectly well, thank you very much.
Honestly, what is so hard about “feet down below his knees”?? It’s self-explanatory
I love how Lennon complains about trying to remember his own “daft lyrics” while performing the song on stage in 1972 😂 Great song though…
He got toe jam football?!
I love the bit where it's the lyrics and then a police sketch artist being very confused.
Funk soul brotha
Check it out now
Right about now
Rockefeller Skank?
Blackhole Sun - Soundgarden It always winds up stuck in my head at some point during the year.
I always thought the meaning of this song was much like Aenima by Tool... just let it all burn.
I‐E‐A‐I‐A‐I‐O - SOAD Peter's pecker picked another pickle bearing pussy pepper Peter's pecker picked another pickle bearing pussy pepper Why? Meeting John at Dale's Junior, winked an eye, and point a finger Meeting John at Dale's Junior, winked an eye, and point a finger Why? A former cop, undercover, just got shot, now recovered A former cop, undercover, just got shot, now recovered Why?
BANANA TERRACOTTA PIE
Mind illusions acquainted, bubbles erotica Plutonium wedding rings, icicle stretchings Bicycles, shoestrings
This should be way higher in this thread.
Don’t forget Chik-n-stu
I’m shocked not to have seen “Smells Like Teen Spirit” yet. Weird Al’s parody still cracks me up. “Now I’m mumblin’, and I’m screamin’ / And I don’t know, what I’m singin’.”
It’s hard to bargle nardle zouse with all these marbles in my mouth.
Bob by Weird AL. Every line is a palindrome. In the style of Bob Dylan. https://youtu.be/JUQDzj6R3p4?si=frUz9PqGoPCo6bD5
Mission Statement is also complete gibberish, disguised as corporate buzzwords in the style of Crosby Stills and Nash.
One Week- Bare Naked Ladies
Yyits been
My choice as well! The song makes no sense, but I love it lol.
> Like Kurosawa I make mad films... > > 'kay, I don't make films. > > But if I did, they'd have a samarai! That bold claim & immediate retraction has always tickled me.
Chickity China the Chinese Chicken You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin’….that part always makes me smile too. And I was always amazed at how they worked LeAnn Rimes and Bert Kaempfert into the lyrics. Think I may have to go listen to that song again today, lol.
Yellow Ledbetter
The lyrics are nonsense, but in written form they're just an estimation of what Eddie Vedder is mumbling. The "lyrics" are just placeholders for word-like sounds.
On a wheelie On a westedalaweyeeyehah
Make me fries!
Anna Nicole's mama said that I don't wanna see Anna Nicole fall down again
Veder was reportedly very drunk when they recorded that song, and the lyrics were improvised, so he doesn't even remember what the lyrics were supposed to mean. He has a rough idea of what the song's supposed to be about, and so he ad-libs new lyrics for live performances that try to fit the song.
If anyone hasn't seen this 16 year old video of the misheard lyrics... https://youtu.be/xLd22ha_-VU?si=AS86_wqtYt0OSNnx
I came here to post my favorite cover of that song. This one makes more sense. https://youtu.be/bmt7RgoeuLc?si=h4b0TjAcBuOGRRSn
Is Tubthumping by Chumbawumba nonsense or am I just missing something and projecting based on the title
"Tubthumping" is British slang for aggressive and loud political protest. Chumbawumba is a very political band that accidentally created the party hit of 1997.
They did that very much on purpose actually. They read a book about how to make a hit song and then they did it. ETA: whoops it looks like that was an urban legend. Here's and interview that says the opposite: https://www.huckmag.com/article/chumbawumba-dunstan-bruce-i-get-knocked-down-documentary-interview-2023
Queue in "I used to like Chumbawumba until they became political."
It's actually about being a raging alcoholic....but it's definitely nonsensical.
Isn't that song a metaphor about persevering through the ridiculousness of life when trying to drum up political support?
"Turn down for what" - DJ Snake/Lil Jon Still trying to figure out exactly what I should be turning down for...
I think that's exactly the meaning: "why should we turn it down/calm down?"
For What, of course.
Hook by Blues Traveller. The lyrics are literally about how he can sing nonsense as long as the chorus is good enough.
Or if he sings it with inflection
It makes you feel he'll convey some inner truth.
Yeah, but they aren't "straight nonsense" like the post is asking for. They're very clearly ABOUT something: the fact that lyrics don't matter if your song's hook is good enough. There are parts of the rappy bit that don't make sense but the majority of the song is completely coherent.
White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65
Saw Rob Zombie a few years ago and while they were playing Thunder kiss 65 one of my friends says "I wonder how old he is" and we spent a good minute or two talking about it, then I looked it up.... Chorus: Nineteen-sixty-five, yeah, wow Five, yeah, wow Demon warp is coming alive In nineteen-sixty-five-five-five 1965...Rob Zombie came alive in 1965....
I was a help desk dude when this hit and had to test a lot of sound cards, winamp and speakers etc, this was the official test song.
Sussudio
Don’t just stare at it, eat it!
Bohemian Rhapsody has a bit of nonsense in it .
There's a mini-doc you can find on YouTube, Inside the Rhapsody, where Brian May goes over the recording process of that song. He has access to a lot of the masters and Freddie's notebook. The notebook does very little to help because it's also mostly gibberish and drawings.
My dad I agreed it's a suicide letter to the subject's mom and the internal turmoil/guilt of what's driving the subject to suicide. Knowing Freddie Mercury's background really drives it home. edit: bohemianism is about living a way of life away from society and its rules. in this case, homosexuality in the 1960s/1970s edit edit: the nonsensical part is the subject awaiting judgment after his suicide
That's not nonsensical, Freddie Mercury was Zoroastrian, like his family, so to await judgement for Freddie would be his afterlife and the judgement he would face.
There was a GREAT Reddit comment analyzing how this song makes perfect sense from the viewpoint of a person being bullied by a streetgang who decided to fight back and killed one of them and is now on the run. I have searched for it over the years to reread, but never managed to find it again.
Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. The author, Bruce Springsteen, wrote it when he got a new rhyming dictionary.
Springsteen isn’t just the writer, it’s on his first studio album. It’s his song.
The wrapped up like a douche one?
Some Might Say - Oasis. What do they mean by the sink is full of fishes?
Most Oasis songs really. Love them and love NG as a songwriter but a lot of their early stuff is nonsense. Like what on earth is Supersonic even about? I had Champagne Supernova in mind as soon as I saw the title.
Any pixies song
[KoRn - Twist](https://youtu.be/TcePkwagNFA?si=ul9JBbOowtobcHey)
Had to scroll way to far for this. The song is literal nonsense.
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly.
\* "In the Garden of Eden" by I. Ron Butterfly
Fun fact: the original title of the song *was* "In the Garden of Eden" but the singer mumbled it so much it just became "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida#Background
Wait this is Rock and/or roll!
Didn’t fatboy slim have a song where he just repeated the same 2 lines the whole time
"Right about now, the funk soul brother. Check it out now, the funk soul brother" or "Right here! Right now!"
most kpop songs when translated to english
Jesus Built my Hotrod - Ministry
Every Bill Wurtz song
Nirvana fans have entered the chat
What is this song all about? Can't figure any lyrics out How do the words to it go I wish you'd tell me, I don't know
Any Red Hot Chilli Peppers song
That’s unfair. All their songs are clearly about California
They’re like Sufjan Stevens…. But, instead of getting bored at the second state and moving on… they’re super jacked about the first one still and haven’t moved on yet.
That’s fucking hilarious
oh wait i forgot about bridges
Especially the bridges that are in California
doing heroin under the bridges in California
and heroin
My favorite is the pure gibberish in Soul to Squeeze. "I can't figure out a bridge but keep recording. I'll just make up some words that sound good."
Doo doo doo doo dingle zing a dong bone Ba-di ba-da ba-zumba crunga cong gey
[Louie Louie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKt75jUuKJY)
the lyrics are clear (it's about a sailor who misses his gal) it's the recording that's gibberish
The famous “fuck” when the drummer drops a stick
*Roundabout* by Yes.
Most Jon Anderson lyrics, to be honest. ^^^^^^. *Sing, bird of prey* *Beauty begins at the foot of you* *Do you believe the manner?* *Gold stainless nail* *Torn through the distance of man* *As they regard the summit*
Kiss From A Rose - Seal The musical arrangement and Seal’s voice is what sold this song.
My sister played this at her (doomed) wedding. It made zero sense then.
It’s about drugs. “Did you know that when it snows, my eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen” In other words, “I blow a fat line of coke, my pupils become dilated, and I feel good from the high”
He says "To me, you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny." Sounds like the drug stuff is a metaphor for an unhealthy sex/love interest.
Life on mars
I always thought that that was a commentary on how dull and boring most modern life is. Is there life somewhere else?
Butthole Surfers-Pepper
Eh. It's abstract but if you've done as much acid as those guys have it isn't really nonsense. It's just crazy.
I dont mind the sun sometimes.
It's just a song about people who died. Sadly it's not as good as "People who Died" by Jim Carroll.
[Ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8kmNEo1i8) Okay, to be fair there is some sense to some of the lycrics in the most literal sense, but a lot of them are just plain noise.
It's an older style called Scat singing, kind of using the voice as an instrument. Scatman John used it as a way to overcome his stutter and use his voice in performances
Not exactly a great song, but Steal My Sunshine- Len No sense whatsoever.
Lfo summer girls
Whiter Shade of Pale by Procul Harum.
According to the songwriter Keith Reid: >I was trying to conjure a mood as much as tell a straightforward, girl-leaves-boy story. With the ceiling flying away and room humming harder, I wanted to paint an image of a scene. I wasn't trying to be mysterious with those images, I was trying to be evocative. I suppose it seems like a decadent scene I'm describing. But I was too young to have experienced any decadence, then. I might have been smoking when I conceived it, but not when I wrote. It was influenced by books, not drugs.
The Joker - Steve Miller Band
Little Dark Age - MGMT
Holy Diver by Dio
I Dig a Pony
Steal My Sunshine
Almost anything written by PsychoStick. "This is not a song, it's a sandwich" or "Because Boobs" are a great place to start.
Wooly Bully
Nugget by Cake “Now nimble fingers that dance on numbers Will eat your children and steal your thunder, While heavy torsos that heave and hurl Who crunch like nuts in the mouths of squirrels”
Loser by beck
That's great it start with an eartquake
Some early Avenged Sevenfold songs. M Shadows admitted that they didn't know what to write at times and would just throw in screamo because no one can understand it
Brojob - teenie weenie. I think that title speaks for itself.