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Some songs feature lyrics that appear to be complete gibberish. The listener might sometimes be able to hazard a guess at what's being sung, but such a guess is overwhelmingly unlikely to be anywhere near the mark. Distinguished from a Mondegreen by the fact that a Mondegreen tends to be sung relatively clearly, but with the listener perceiving word breaks in the wrong place. And distinguished from Word Salad Lyrics because that one features actual words, only not in a way it makes much sense. Often caused by the Perishing Alt-Rock Voice. The difference between this and Lyrical Shoehorn is that this would be where nonsense isn't intended... it just sort of happened. Maybe the recording sucks. Maybe the singer is singing too fast to be heard clearly. Maybe he was drunk off his ass and thus couldn't pronounce his own name clearly, much less sing coherently. But there is a difference. The Trope Namer is a round from British Panel Game Never Mind the Buzzcocks, in which contestants are asked to make sense of such lyrics—typically they first come up with a comedic nonsensical version and sing it along, and only then attempt to come up with the actual lyrics. Compare The Unintelligible and Scatting. If the lyrics are unintelligible except for one line or two, then that's Something Something Leonard Bernstein. |
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Most English-speaking Versailles fans don't realize that 90% of the lyrics to "The Revenant Choir" are in English until it's pointed out to them. Kamijo's pronunciation is that bad. The fact that the song has Word Salad Lyrics doesn't help. | |
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Parodied in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air when Will is singing along to a song by Shabba: | |
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"Twister," the theme of The World Ends with You, is almost incomprehensible thanks to the heavy Auto-Tune on the vocals. It's barely any better in the various remixes of the song. You might be able to hear the words, but they're so fast-paced and random that you'll never be able to comprehend what they mean. | |
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Everything by Joe Cocker, especially "Feelin' Alright". Lampshaded hilariously in this video, "captioned for the clear-headed". | |
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The opening theme to the TV series The Adventures of Pete & Pete is notorious for its "unknown line", the third line of the title song "Hey, Sandy", which for years remained a mystery to fans. Recent sources have begun speculating anew as to the exact wording of the line; however, no confirmation has been forthcoming from the artist as of yet. | |
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"Kiss Kicker '99" by The Fontanelles, as performed by the band itself in Hobgoblins. | |
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Infant Annihilator falls victim to this thanks to frontman Dickie Allen's absolutely demonic screams and growls. | |
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Most of The Angelic Process' discography is this, especially Weighing Souls wih Sand | |
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The entire Coraline soundtrack is made of these. Bruno Coulais may be a frickin' wizard, but hey, True Art Is Incomprehensible. | |
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Shenmue has the Tomato Mart jinglenote "Anata no conveni Tomato Maato!", lit., "Your convenience store Tomato Mart", which especially applies for those not familiar with Japanese. | |
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Guren no Yumiya, the theme song to Attack on Titan. The first lyric of the Memetic Mutation theme song to most is either "Yipee, a Datsun, yabeedee YEAH!" or complete gibberish. (It's only made worse by the fact that it's actually Gratuitous German, rather than the Gratuitous English a casual listener might expect.) | |
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"1979" from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins has a few intelligible sentences where it counts, but most of the song is a dreamy slur. | |
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Darby Crash of The Germs would fall under this in studio most of the time (not aided at all by terrible production quality), however live - and especially towards the end of his life - he would go onstage completely intoxicated, heavily slurring his words, and sometimes being too wasted to properly finish a show. A good example of this would be their performance in The Decline of Western Civilization. | |
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The Vines has Craig Nicholls, who in the band's heyday was infamously prone to Freak Outs on stage that inevitably lead to mush-mouth vocals. On record, he's a little more Something Something Leonard Bernstein. | |
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Dethklok frontman Nathan Explosion lampshades this hilariously: | |
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Final Fantasy XIV's theme for Titan, "Under the Weight", supposedly starts out with "Bow down overdweller!/Bow down overdweller!/Bow down overdweller!/Titan!", but good luck hearing anything intelligible besides "TIIITAAAAN!!"—a standard the rest of the song is more than happy to live up to. The lyrics are so infamously inscrutable that the devteam had to put out a partial lyrics sheet to set the record straight. | |
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Persona 4 and Persona 3 music is in English, but you are forgiven for not knowing this. Even if you look up the lyrics, it's still hard to tell what they're saying. Same with the major boss theme and the "fierce battle" theme in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne. | |
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The Agonist, due to the singer's tendency to combine growling vocals with Motor Mouth. She is very much aware of this and has stated in interviews that she would enjoy seeing what the "misheard lyrics" videos would be like. | |
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Spawn of Possession is an amusing example: the indecipherable part actually comes from how fast the lyrics are being growled than said growls themselves. | |
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Many System of a Down songs. The opening riff of "F the System" is a rapid-fire string of syllables that may or may not mean something. The most well-known example is probably Chop Suey ("WAKE UP! grababrushandputalittle MAKEUP hidethescarstofadeawaythe SHAKEUP"). | |
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"Ball of Ballos", from the Cave Story Remix Project. The remixer, Tackle, explained that the track is a medley of the Cave Story tune "Running Hell", and Opeth's "Closure". After recording it, he wasn't happy with how his vocals turned out, so he manipulated them electronically and mixed them real low in the final version, so they wouldn't sound as bad. | |
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"Sure Thing" from St Germain's Tourist makes use of a John Lee Hooker sample, but it's quite difficult to make out what the man is mumbling half of the time. We can make out: "It's so hard, morning, droning, to you-ou, and that ain't right". | |
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DeVotchKa. Nick Urata's singing style can leave what he's singing hard to understand. It's worse when he sings in another language (mostly Spanish) as his mastery of them is...questionable. They also dip into Something Something Leonard Bernstein. | |
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Lamb of God falls victim to this due to the style of their singer Randy Blythe. If you sit down with the lyrics and read them as you listen to the song, you can get 99% of it (and remember it), with the notable exception of their first record Burn The Priest, where it is all but impossible to understand a single thing that comes out of Randy's mouth. There are also some songs from "New American Gospel"; a radio station even had a competition where the fans had to try and decipher the lyrics to the song "Black Label" | |
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The lyrics to the theme from The State seem to consist of "na na na na" and unintelligible screaming. However, once you learn that the song is officially named "Boys And Girls Action", it becomes apparent that what's actually being screamed is "Boys and girls! Action! Action!". It's also more intelligible in an alternate version heard on some of the menus on the DVD of the series since the lyrics are being yelled by children instead. | |
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Snow's "Informer", particularly the chorus. At one point, MTV actually ran the video for it with subtitles. According to British series Never Mind the Buzzcocks (see above), it's about him opening a bed shop using cheap "leaky boom-boom down" to stuff the pillows with. | |
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The obvious example is "Louie Louie", as performed by the Kingsmen in 1963. The song was a radio hit with a totally indecipherable slur of syllables, and some of the song's popularity came from public discussion of what the song was about. As rumors flew wildly, the song even caught the attention of the FBI, which investigated the song, believing that a song slurred so seriously must contain obscenity or pro-drug propaganda. The FBI agents were never able to decipher the song's mushy audio, and charges were dropped. The singer admitted he was so drunk that he couldn't remember exactly what he did sing at the time. (Other sources say that he had vocal strain that day, and was a little far from the mic due to its being so high.) Famously, Bloom County spoofed this during the 1988 election with an ad by the Meadowcrats (the political party formed by the main characters) which tried to use the candidates' respective interpretations of the lyrics to show their character. | |
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So much of this in Fugazi whenever Guy Picciotto is on vocals. Ian MacKaye just blares the words in the listener's ears, but it seems that Guy Picciotto has a strange way of pronouncing things when singing, and it often makes the lyrics a jumbled mess, when in fact, they are very poetic in nature. It feels very much like he puts his Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable. | |
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Many The Rolling Stones' songs. Mick Jagger often intentionally slurred certain lyrics so nobody would be able to tell how dirty they were. | |
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"What's Up People", the second theme to Death Note. | |
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There are two verses in "Who You Are" which are so distorted that they almost sound like the "wah-wah" noises spoken by the adults in Peanuts cartoons. | |
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Some Mogwai songs seem to have lyrics. Or at least sounds made using a human mouth. There might be words in there. If you can figure it out there are probably some guys in signal processing research who will pay you a lot of money. | |
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The Jesus Lizard, so much so that even the lyrics sheets are sometimes wrong. Just try to figure out what the hell Yow is saying on most of their songs, particularly off their "Down" album. | |
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An excerpt from a recent Bill Simmons article (a running diary of Wrestlemania XXVI) demonstrates this well: | |
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Most Pale Saints songs are rife with this, particularly on The Comforts Of Madness. Mostly averted on Slow Buildings, however. | |
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Much of Nightwish's music before "Dark Passion Play". Special mention should go to the last part of the song "Fantasmic". Then again, even with the lyrics next to you, you don't have a clue what it all actually means. It's one long nerdgasm about the Disney Animated Canon. No, really. | |
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Korn has their song "Twist". | |
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Good luck trying to understand more than three words in Foo Fighters' "White Limo". And its spiritual predecessor, "Weenie Beenie" (which is already in an album chock full of Word Salad Lyrics, but like "White Limo" has modulated vocals to top it). | |
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Yuri!!! on Ice: "In Regards To Love: Agape" is Yurio's short program's song. It has an angelic voice chanting during the song, but it's difficult to understand what is being sung or even in what language it is. The official release of the soundtrack reveals that the lyrics are in Latin. | |
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The first Meat Puppets album, from when they were more of a noisy hardcore band, was consistently unintelligible even for Hardcore Punk: Curt Kirkwood seemed to be imitating the frequently slurred vocals of The Germs' Darby Crash, only taking it even further; you frequently couldn't tell there were any consonants in the songs, let alone words. Interestingly, if you find the official lyrics for the album, it was full of very silly and tongue-in-cheek songs about mundane topics like cats ("Litter Box"), playing concerts in front of a rowdy audience ("Saturday Morning"), and spending all of one's money on marijuana ("Blue Green God"), as opposed to the Word Salad Lyrics they started using once you could understand them. | |
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"Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly. Its intended title was "In the Garden of Eden." | |
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Anal Cunt's lead, the late Seth Putnam, sung in a screechy voice. You can make out the words, but only under the right conditions or if you have a really good ear. | |
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No More Heroes: Bad Girl's theme. "I love you something something yes no something yadda something like this, so let's go." | |
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Parodied on the panel show Shooting Stars with the "Club Singer" round. Vic Reeves would be asked to perform a song in the style of a club singer, which in reality was just Reeves singing in complete gibberish. After a guess was made, Reeves would reveal how the song "should" have sounded, which would just be the same nonsense song but using different gibberish. | |
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Part of the chorus of Smile Empty Soul's "Bottom of a Bottle". The specific part is "I do it for the drugs. I do it just to feel like ahh ahh ahhhhahhh (it's supposedly "I do it just to feel a-liii-ive", but it's hard to tell)." Note to any bands here: when singing a song about drugs it ISN'T required to be under the influence of those drugs. | |
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Forbidden Broadway parodied Patti LuPone's performance in Anything Goes, with her sloppy diction making the lyrics increasingly incomprehensible. | |
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The opening music to the first Rune Factory game is nearly indecipherable. Even if you try to figure out what the lyrics are, they still don't make any sense. | |
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Sum 41 is this with their short, fast songs. The most egregious example is 'Never Wake Up', in which the only intelligible line is the Title Drop. Another example is the bridge from 'Motivation', in which Deryck sings a mouthful of words at an insane speed, which ends up sounding like "LeaLeavingfriendsjustbecomeatrendjanamsnsndnIcan'tpretend, afraidofbeingthisway, it'snotthrsamebutwho'stoblameforallthe STUPID THINGS I NEVER SAID!" Have fun singing that on Guitar Hero. | |
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Very often, Glass Animals, especially on Zaba. | |
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Wakusei's cover of "Gigantic" by The Pixies, owing to the fact that they're a Japanese band who apparently attempted to learn the original's lyrics phonetically. The chorus is much more intelligible than the verses, although they do consistently pronounce "gigantic" with two hard g's, making it sound like the separate words "gig" and "antic". | |
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The song "Cyberbird" for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. If you open up the booklet for the OST, you'll find the lyrics in both Japanese and English. Whatever language the song is being sung in, it definitely isn't either of those. | |
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Most of Converge's music would fall under this trope. | |
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Can during the Damo Suzuki years. Very much intentional - Damo sang whichever syllables he felt like singing at any given moment, regardless of whether they formed words or were clearly articulated. ("Did anybody see the snowman? Stannah wit deleeeeaux.") | |
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SZA is known for this, as like Ariana Grande she doesn't always enunciate when singing. For example the chorus of "All the Stars" is often interpreted as "This may be the night that my dreams might let me know/All the stars are kosher" instead of "All the stars are closer". And that's assuming they're able to understand the first line. | |
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There is the scene in the movie Jumpin' Jack Flash when Whoopi Goldberg's character, Terry, is trying to decipher the lyrics of the title track by listening to the song over and over again. | |
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As Family Guy pointed out, several Sting songs are incomprehensible except for a few words. | |
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Caravan Palace has plenty of songs where the lyrics are unknown and there's no concrete agreement on what they are. "Clash" is not as bad as other examples, since you can more or less understand about half of the words, but still, good luck trying to comprehend the singers. (The lyrics come from a song called Shadrack, but they're jumbled and garbled.) "Wonderland", in part due to the singer's French accent and some odd wording choices. |
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"Lookalike" from Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie. It doesn't help that most of the lyrics make little sense. | |
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The closing music to WKRP in Cincinnati. | |
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Dragonforce, Dragonforce, Dragonforce. It's fairly easy to guess (at least vaguely) what any given song is about, though, since most of the band's music is about fire, war, and dragons. The bridges in "Starfire" deserve special mention here. | |
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