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Lyrical Tic

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A Lyrical Tic is an odd, toss-in sound found in a song that a particular singer or a band seems to make in a whole lot of their songs. Sometimes when they're used, it seems the singer is just being enthusiastic and so makes some sort of "Whoo Hoo" or "Yeah!". Other times, Lyrical Tic is used in "Oh crap, I've forgotten the next line" moments. Whether the use of a nonsenical, random sound rather than an actual lyric makes a song better, or breaks the rhythm and the mood, is a matter of opinion.
A musical variant of Verbal Tic. See also Scatting.
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James Hetfield is well known for ending phrases with "-AH!" "All Nightmare Long" has this hilarious line at the end of the chorus: "But your luck! runs! out-AH!" He's also well known for "Yeaah-aaah!" and the occasional "Go!" as a new riff or portion of a song kicks in.
He is also fond of "Yeah!" or "Yeah-eah!". Someone actually took the time to compile all of them.
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Eve has "uh" and "shit".
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Isaac Brock from Modest Mouse has "Well!"
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Tendon Levey has his "HELL!" and "HEH!".
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Alexi Laiho of Children of Bodom likes to go "YA-YOW!" a lot.
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Van Morrison has a whole vocabulary of expressively soulful grunts, moans and vocal expressions for when the words fail him. A classic would be the conclusion of Moondance
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Wynonna Judd uses a lot of "Uhn" in her songs, and sometimes actually ''hisses" in her songs. No, really, she hisses. Like a snake.
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Ronnie James Dio was fond of "Lookout!"
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Celtic Frost's Tom G. Warrior's "ugh".
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The Kaiser Chiefs seem to like going, "Wooooaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!"
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Less so in later years, but on System of a Down's first album, Serj Tankian was notorious for this. The song DDevil is a good example.
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The Songdrops songs, by Bryant Oden, often have "Bom", "Bum", or "Ba-dum" in between the lyrics.
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David Draiman of Disturbed is known for a guttural, animal-like sort of growl/scream, which opened 'Down With the Sickness', Perfect Insanity and 'Stricken', among others. This is often rendered as 'O-wa-wa-a' or 'Uwawawa' or something similar in text.
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Ella Fitzgerald was also well known for scatting.
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Travie McCoy of Gym Class Heroes threw a lot of "So sexy"'s in random places on the As Cruel As School Children album.
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Stuart Adamson of Big Country would often shout "HUP!" "HA!" and "SHA!" in the middle of songs.
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John McCrea from Cake says "all right" somewhere in nearly every song. Often extended to "Aw! Yeah! All right!". There's also the occasional "Yah!", shouted as though he were cracking a whip.
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David Lee Roth has many, including "OH YEEEAAAH" and "woo!".
He's enough of a Large Ham to make long phrases like "I ain't lyin' to ya!" and "I'm gonna tell you one time!" work like this. In multiple songs. To say nothing of the infamous "GODDAMMIT BABY I AIN'T LYIN' TO YA, I'M ONLY GONNA TELL YOU ONE TIMEEEEEAAAAAAAYEEAAAAAHHH" in "Runnin' With the Devil."
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Corey Taylor of Slipknot is quite fond of muttering "huh..." between lyrics or at the beginning of a verse. He also tended to pant heavily into the mic from the force of screaming so harshly. This can be heard in songs such as "Eyeless" and the outro of "The Blister Exists."
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The Cure's Robert Smith seems particulary fond of making meowing noises in a number of their songs, mostly the upbeat tracks such as 'Lovecats' and 'Mint Car'.
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Ian Astbury of The Cult is quite fond of ending lyric lines with "Well..." Example from "Sun King": "I was thinking, what I've been missing/I'll tell you truthfully, well..."
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J. Cole has a tendency to punctuate some of his lines with a quiet "huh".
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Japan's ridiculous debut album Adolescent Sex has David Sylvian saying "whoa babe" and "dancing" a lot.
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Michelle Branch does something similar to Soul Coughing in her song "Everywhere": "Just tell me how I got this far-uh"
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Steven Tyler of Aerosmith seems to favor the "Weeeaooows".
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Damo Suzuki of Can loves manic yelling and high pitched shrieks. He sounds particularly deranged on "Peking O" and "Soup". He also did a James Brown-esque "uh!" at the start of "Halleluwah".
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Parodied on Homestar Runner, where Strong Bad claims that one of the keys to being a Death Metal band is putting a lot of words beginning with "de" in your lyrics, like "decay", "decrepit", and "delouse".
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British comedians Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer labelled this The Club Singer Style after inept singers in Northern working mens' clubs, and took it to a particularly incoherent extreme on their Shooting Stars spoof game show.
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Little Richard loved his "Whooooooh!"s and "Ah Hoooooooo!"s.
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Zac de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine loves to shout "UGH!" both in the studio and onstage.
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Pitbull enjoys breaking out his "wooooOOH!" at least once per song, if not multiple times, along with chuckling at his own punch lines.
He also loves shouting out his nicknames ("Mr. Worldwide!", "Mr. 305!") and saying "dalé" at least once every song.
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Boyz II Men had a sound shared with many black male R&B groups of the time, "Nayhooooo!"
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Chance the Rapper's use of "Igh!"
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Till Lindemann of German band Rammstein usually rolls his R's. Also, when he sings "ach", it sounds like a growl.
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