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Please share your thoughts on the matter at on the Articles for deletion page. Feel free to edit the article, but the article must not be blanked, and this notice must not be removed, until the discussion is closed. For more information, particularly on merging or moving the article during the discussion, read the . ---- : & The following is a list of songs in which the lyrics are exclusively nonsensical words. Many songs have scat singing. Scat singing can count as an element.
Excluded items Bands Some bands produce significant amounts of vocal work sung in no known language. This is sometimes referred to as glossolalia, though the word is more often used in religious contexts. Two bands on the 4AD label are of this type. Dead Can Dance features a mixture of folk-inspired lyrical music, ancient music, and ethereal songs where the vocals are verbal but the words theselves are made up. The latter are sung by Lisa Gerrard. A second 4AD group with indecipherable lyrics is Cocteau Twins. The avant-garde singer Diamanda Galás also includes glossolalic elements in her work, as well as non-verbal sounds. The Spanish rock band Música Dispersa used this approach in their only album. Other bands, such as the pillows, sing songs that are in languages other than English though the lyrics are complete nonsense, which is obvious when they are translated. They are almost always comprised of actual words, however the words have no relation to each other, and sometimes don't even form sentences. The songs (in alphabetical order) See also | ||||||||
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