Stuff and Nonsense - gibberish songs
Sometimes I will hear someone say modern music is just nonsense, whereas the music from their youth all had deep meaning. I was thinking about songs through the decades that nonsense. If we can get albums of songs in different languages, what if there was an album with songs with gibberish lyrics?
Some of these songs have nonsense titles but the song makes sense, like the songs by Trio, The Police and The Crystals that start this album. The song "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" tells a story in English with the refrain of "da ba dee". The song "Pinhead" gave us "gabba gabba hey" which became a catchphrase for The Ramones. Robert Baden Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, "Ging Gang Goolie" which intentionally written in gibberish so anyone could sing it. The version I included is from Dirk and Stig (Eric Idle and Ricky Fataar) of the Rutles. Louis Jordan's "Push Ka Pee Shee Pie" tells the story of a young man from Trinidad who only seems to say the words in the title. "Cement Mixer (Put-ti Put-Ti)" is a song with deep meaning co-written by Slim Gaillard. The Police show up again with "Masoko Tanga" (making less sense than in "Da Doo Doo Doo") from the album Outlandos d"Amour, which is also nonsense. In Modern Times Charlie Chaplin loses the lyrics to a song in a foreign language so he makes it up. The Italian musician Adriano Celentano is included with a song in gibberish that approximates what American singers sound like. From the title "Warszawa", you would think the lyrics were in Polish but David Bowie made up his own words. The final song by Enya is the most impressive in that it is sung in an invented language: Loxian.
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