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Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibberish

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 4:46 pm
by Jorge
I'm going through a bit of a Tanya Donelly phase and I love how the hook of this Throwing Muses song is just Tanya making guitar noises



It got me thinking... what are some other great songs where the vocals feature gibberish / non-word vocalizations? "Yellow Ledbetter" aside

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 4:52 pm
by McParadigm
Does the scatting in Under Pressure count?

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 4:54 pm
by VinylGuy
Around the world and Soul To Squeeze

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Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 4:54 pm
by Jorge
VinylGuy wrote:Around the world and Soul To Squeeze

Lock this one
Those songs suck. Unlock this

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 4:54 pm
by Jorge
McParadigm wrote:Does the scatting in Under Pressure count?
Yeah it does

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 4:58 pm
by VinylGuy
Jorge wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:Around the world and Soul To Squeeze

Lock this one
Those songs suck. Unlock this
They are classics and you can’t do anything to change that

LOCKED WITH LIKE A VERY HEAVY METAL THING THAT MAKES A METAL NOISE

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 4:59 pm
by Farmer John

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 5:07 pm
by Ms Harmless
Yellow Ledbetter

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 5:09 pm
by McParadigm
I don’t know this, but I assume Jack Black’s work is full of this stuff

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 5:10 pm
by dad
McParadigm wrote:I don’t know this, but I assume Jack Black’s work is full of this stuff
oh man, good call.

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 5:29 pm
by Kevin Davis
I always liked the scatting at the end of Tom Waits’s “Jitterbug Boy”

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 5:53 pm
by warehouse
evenflow

does the beginning of 'tootie fruity' count?

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 8:31 pm
by Ms Harmless
Freak on a Leash

Witch Doctor by David Seville

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 8:49 pm
by Ello Sailor
Jorge wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:Around the world and Soul To Squeeze

Lock this one
Those songs suck. Unlock this
I can see a case being made for Around the World sucking, but Soul to Squeeze? You're trying way too hard, bud.

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 10:01 pm
by Jorge


This song?

Goddamn this is boring

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 10:05 pm
by BurtReynolds

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 10:06 pm
by Jorge
That's way better than "Soul to Squeeze"

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 10:57 pm
by Ello Sailor
Like I said. Trying way too hard.

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 11:00 pm
by Ello Sailor
We all miss LV, but reaching so hard for hot take bravery points is a bad look and you should feel bad.

Re: Great songs where the singer sometimes just sings gibber

Posted: Wed March 06, 2024 11:03 pm
by Ello Sailor
Never mind, I forgot that "Chili Peppers boring" was at least 20% of your Twitter personality.

Carry on.