20 Best Gibberish Lyrics: No. 20
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Frank Sinatra once called rock 'n' roll's lyrics "imbecilic." To prove him wrong, we've compiled 20 examples of rock at its most poetic -- which is when it doesn't concern itself with actual words.
--'Icky Thump,' White Stripes (2007)
Jack White bought a vowel and tweaked a slang term he borrowed from wife Karen Ellson to title this tune. Folks from the north of England -- a genus that includes Mrs. White -- will often yelp "Ecky Thump" when surprised or dismayed (with 'eck being a PG-13 tone-down of 'ell). The term was also employed by the comedy troupe the Goodies, who created the Ecky Thump martial art -- in which participants do battle with elongated tubes of black pudding, or, as Yanks know it, blood sausage.
--'Icky Thump,' White Stripes (2007)
Jack White bought a vowel and tweaked a slang term he borrowed from wife Karen Ellson to title this tune. Folks from the north of England -- a genus that includes Mrs. White -- will often yelp "Ecky Thump" when surprised or dismayed (with 'eck being a PG-13 tone-down of 'ell). The term was also employed by the comedy troupe the Goodies, who created the Ecky Thump martial art -- in which participants do battle with elongated tubes of black pudding, or, as Yanks know it, blood sausage.
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randyat 2-17-2008
how on God's green earth could "do wah diddy diddy dum diddy doh" have been left off????????
Jimat 2-17-2008
Just proves that young people will listen to anything.
randyat 2-17-2008
it's:
mares eat oats and does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy; a kid (baby goat) will eat ivy, too.
this may be silly, but it is not "gibberish".
brianat 2-17-2008
Wasn't "ee-ecky-thump" from an old monty python skit?
Paulus von Inghamat 11-20-2009
No definately the Goodies.
brandonmil3at 1-30-2009
Thank God they didn't include KEEP ON ROCKIN IN THE FREE WORLD...has some dated references in it but still kicks ass!!!! ("We got a kinder gentler machine gun hand" and also "A thousand points of light for the homeless man" all references to George Bush Sr.).
Jakeat 1-30-2009
Frank Sinatra's line in "strangers in the night" was, doobee doo bee doo.
jcdinformat 1-31-2009
This Article is just more covert BullS??t useless dribble from the Government to keep the Public mentally distracted while the coffers are being Looted.
pledge2rockat 2-16-2009
Jack White can say whatever the fuck he wants, he's THAT AWESOME!!!
monkeyman987at 5-12-2009
what about Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones?
josefat 6-05-2007
jack white is king of gibberish.
Jeff Wagnerat 6-13-2007
Where's Billy Joel's "Piano Man"? That's always been my favorite gibberish song. And maybe all the records by McCartney after the Beatles.
scholar300at 6-13-2007
#1 should be Michael Jacksons "Wanna Be Startin Sumthin" Phrase: Mama Say, Mama Sa, Ma Ma Cu Sa!!! Am I right???LOL
hoopjnkyat 6-13-2007
Gibberish first hit the charts when the Boswell Sisters used a pig-latin like language to sing a verse on Victor records in 1925 in a song called "Nights When I am Lonely." It's been a part of hot popular music ever since.
aliciaat 6-13-2007
the most gibberish song should be the sugar hill gang with hiphopdahibbithiphopudontstoprockwithdabangbangboogie or something like that
Zinniaat 6-13-2007
Many of the Rolling Stones lyrics come to mind... particularly: Shattered
"All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter bout Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta"
paul dobsonat 6-13-2007
what about Louie-Louie?
William Austinat 6-13-2007
In the second edition add Niki Hokey.
poogle102at 6-13-2007
Dirty Deeds and the Dunder Cheif.(Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap)heh heh!
paladin469at 1-31-2009
Dirty Deeds "and they're done dirt cheap"....Dunder Chief? Lmao..what are we, 5?