The list of songs with indecipherable lyrics for which no official version exists.

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Nirvana - tourettes.
Nirvana - Beeswax

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

The 'shit pal boner' song off Faust Tapes?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Paul McCartney - Mumbo
Blur - Music is my Radar
Jona Lewie - I'll get by in Pittsburgh

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

ROLL OUT!!!
j'ai mal aux pieds aussi!
...
Schempal Buddah
ship on a better sea!

Or so it says on the Faust webpage

― Romolo Tobias (Romolo), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Most of the first couple of R.E.M. albums.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

don't mistake indecipherable with nonsensical :)

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

"I'm Not There (1956)"

― p@reene (Pareene), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Er, Louie Louie? Are there official lyrics for the original?

― his sister pam (hissisterpam), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Brian Eno - "Here Come The Warm Jets"

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

What are the actual lyrics of the song "Louie Louie?"

The song is currently owned by EMI Music Publishing. Only they can legally grant permission to reprint the lyrics for this song. While there may be certain websites out there with the supposed "real lyrics," they are non-authorized, and they or may not contain the actual lyrics.

My favorite interpretation of the lyrics, while not necessarily the "real" lyrics can be found at Theo DeGrood's LOUIE website.

If you are interested in reading what the F.B.I. thought the real lyrics were, I'd be happy to sell you a copy of the F.B.I. investigation that I obtained via the Freedom of Information Act. Order your copy from me, and I'll use whatever profits I make to pay for my documentary-in-progress, while you'll be able to stay off certain lists of people that investigate government information.
http://www.louielouie.net/05-louie-faq.htm

So.. I guess it depends on whether you want to take Mark's word or this unknown fellow who is obsessed enough with the song to set up a website for it.

― his sister pam (hissisterpam), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

The Velvet Underground - The Murder Mystery

Oh, wait...

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

The spoken-word bit at the end of YMG's "Eating Noddemix."

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

The closing theme song from WKRP in Cincinnati by Jim Ellis :)

― shorty (shorty), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Don't the Cocteau Twins, like, OWN this thread?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

hasn't anyone heard the original 'Louie Louie'? The lyrics are not in any way difficult to make out.

― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Can-Oh Yeah

― gentoo (gentoo), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Shudder to Think - "Chakka" (I think this is the one I'm thinking of; at any rate, there's one song on Pony Express Record whose incomprehensible lyrics are mysteriously absent from the liner notes)

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Sorry sublime - I was focusing on the 'no official version' rather than the indeciperable bit - but considering the FBI had to launch an investigation to verify the lyrics, I suppose you just have really good ears ;)

― his sister pam (hissisterpam), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Dr John * Gris Gris

― factcheckr (factcheckr), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Don't the Cocteau Twins, like, OWN this thread?

I think they share it with Dead Can Dance.

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

El Mudo - Chacaron Macaron

― mucho (mucho), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

The second voice in Gang Of Four's 'Anthrax'/'Love Like Anthrax'.

― S- (sgh), Friday, 15 September 2006 05:23 (twenty years ago)

half of loveless

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 15 September 2006 05:26 (twenty years ago)

What's the Wire song on Pink Flag that does something like the second voice in 'Anthrax'?

It's 'Surgeon's Girl'... I think

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Friday, 15 September 2006 06:11 (twenty years ago)

>>>What's the Wire song on Pink Flag that does something like the second voice in 'Anthrax'?
It's 'Surgeon's Girl'... I think

There's a lyric sheet with "Pink Flag"; I think the line you're referring to goes;
I've seen you & you've seen me/
I've seen you in glossy mags

"Glossy mags". What a phrase.

Also: >>>Paul McCartney - Mumbo

I have a Japanese press of Wings Wild Life which includes a lyric sheet. It's priceless. "Come on Lulu The Raider" indeed. (The lyric for Bip Bop looks pretty good printed out too).

― harvey.w (harvey.w), Friday, 15 September 2006 07:00 (twenty years ago)

my bloody valentine has a few, IIRC

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 15 September 2006 07:10 (twenty years ago)

Dead Can Dance came with lyric sheets!

(At least the songs that weren't in Medieval French or something.)

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Friday, 15 September 2006 08:40 (twenty years ago)

Harveyw! Any chance of a scan of that? (is that an LP or CD?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 15 September 2006 08:44 (twenty years ago)

Everything by Disco Inferno

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:07 (twenty years ago)

Obituary - slowly we rot

― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:46 (twenty years ago)

a lot of converge's songs, particularly on 'jane doe' and the last record sound like they don't match up to the lyrics printed on the sleeve.

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Butthole Surfers - The O-Men

― W Gary (Schade), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)

"Solid Air", surely?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

"Song 2" (Blur)?

― Bunyip (Bunyip), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:05 (twenty years ago)

The lyrics sheet to Pink Flag has the two official lines and then "rpt. to infinite possibilities"... Much as I love the album, I think that's the most irritatingly pretentious lyric sheet text ever.

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:55 (twenty years ago)

pearl jam's "yellow ledbetter", though i am fairly sure not even eddie vedder has any bloody idea what he's singing about.

― Emily B (Emily B), Monday, 18 September 2006 03:06 (twenty years ago)

superchunk

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

The list of songs with indecipherable reasons for posting here

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Mark! I guess this might work...

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/harveywilliams/Document23.jpg
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/harveywilliams/Document24.jpg
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/harveywilliams/Document25.jpg

― harvey.w (harvey.w), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:35 (twenty years ago)

"Come on people, don't play with Lulu. Come on Benjamin's gonna lay dead", and "Come on (x10)" are my favourites.

― harvey.w (harvey.w), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

The Knife - Kino

None of the lyrics sites have this at all. Dont know if they cant decipher them or if its a big Knife secret.

― Griff Sheridan (Griff Sheridan), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Good call on Shudder to Think's "Chakka" : "A Curse you can't fall bray low"? "Kitchens can't part gray bone"? "You kids just came for bay row"?

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

The Cure - "All Mine"
The Cure - "Forever"

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Kleenex/LiLiPUT, "Split"

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 23 September 2006 19:21 (twenty years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.