# Nonsense Songs You Love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 17, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130 "2021-03-17T21:54:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/61 "2021-03-20T13:25:57Z")
A friend who had a radio show back in college used to start it off with “Vista” by Guadalcanal Diary. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wGkOHgw4u6Y/hqdefault.jpg "Guadalcanal Diary - ...Vista") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGkOHgw4u6Y) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/62 "2021-03-20T14:56:09Z")
_America_? Really? It seems very straight-forward to me. Nothing nonsensical at all about it. Some explanation here: [https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/32487/](https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/32487/) ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/63 "2021-03-20T15:08:34Z")
Camp songs count? Ever so often I would try to find a song, but the words are so nonsensical, I have yet to find it. I sing parts of it in the shower rather often. Flee Fly Flo is the runner up. The second video from [this](https://www.mamalisa.com/?p=3225&t=es) page is quite similar to how we sung it in scouts. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/64 "2021-03-20T15:48:36Z")
Several Beatles songs have been mentioned, but so far I haven’t seen “Sun King.” (And, while they’re not songs, there’s a lot of nonsense in Lennon’s books _Spaniard in the Works_ and _In His Own Write_.) I don’t know of any good nonsense lyrics that Lennon wrote _after_ the Beatles. But Paul (and Linda) McCartney’s “Monkberry Moon Delight” would qualify. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IrthE_waCV8/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AKKAgwIABABGGUgSyg9MA8=&rs=AOn4CLDTUeo6ZQz1ug4OF2L2ZuWIChMRxA "Paul McCartney - Monkberry Moon Delight (MusicVideo)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrthE_waCV8) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/65 "2021-03-20T19:34:48Z")
The “Blinded By the Light” lyric that really picks me is maybe also the most horrid one, capped off by the most painfully-delayed verb: _But mommaaaaaaaa, that’s where the fun iiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssss_ oh, and then into chopsticks, and then “AAAAAAA - AAAAAA - AAAAAA - AAAAAA”. Another pick-any-song band: Pere Ubu If anyone can make sense of what David Thomas is going on about, here, you have an IQ of roughly 250. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZDahpJK0FUQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Pere Ubu - One Less Worry") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDahpJK0FUQ) ---
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/66 "2021-03-20T22:23:04Z")
Loituma: _Ievan Polka_ It isn’t actually nonsense other than the parts that are ‘scat’ but indistinguishable from Finnish anyway. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yh9i0PAjck) ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/67 "2021-03-21T00:50:59Z")
I love _Bob_, Weird Al’s parody of Dylan’s _Subterranean Homesick Blues_. Bonus: every line is a palindrome. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JUQDzj6R3p4/maxresdefault.jpg ""Weird Al" Yankovic - Bob") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQDzj6R3p4) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/68 "2021-03-21T01:06:17Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > (And, while they’re not songs, there’s a lot of nonsense in Lennon’s books _Spaniard in the Works_ and _In His Own Write_ .) Joshua Rifkin adapted a passage from _In His Own Write_ as a baroque-style recitative: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/U--0t8rJlyk/maxresdefault.jpg "Recitative: "In They Came Jorking"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U--0t8rJlyk) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/69 "2021-03-21T01:19:14Z")
@markn_1 I love that one too. Ever seen it played backwards? https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xu82jIkEKR8?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=FLkKiDfuotcMiliNjptWCnsg ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/70 "2021-03-21T01:52:38Z")
Warning - I have weird/eclectic tastes in music. # Caramba - Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sJ___C9l-W8/maxresdefault.jpg "Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ___C9l-W8) # Sigur Rós - Sæglópur [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IP4kUjIXOMk/maxresdefault.jpg "Sæglópur") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP4kUjIXOMk) Part of the song is in Icelandic, part of it is intentional gibberish that is meant to sound somewhat like Icelandic (it has been referred to as “Hopelandic”) From Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > _Vonlenska_ (English: _Hopelandic_ ) is a term coined by the band to refer to the vocalizations that Jónsi sings on _( )_ in lieu of lyrics in [Icelandic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_language) or [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language).[[81]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigur_R%C3%B3s#cite_note-81) It takes its name from “Von”, a song on Sigur Rós’s debut album _Von_ where it was first used. However, not all Sigur Rós songs are in Hopelandic; many are sung in Icelandic. ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/71 "2021-03-21T08:31:49Z")
Number 9 Dream ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/72 "2021-03-21T10:18:24Z")
does surrender by cheap trick count? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/73 "2021-03-21T15:15:54Z")
> [@alovem](#): > > Number 9 Dream Okay, good one! That one (like “Sun King”) is an example of a song that includes nonsense words, as opposed to a song where all the words are real English words and the nonsense comes from how they’re put together. We’ve gotten examples of both kind of nonsense in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/74 "2021-03-21T15:19:43Z")
Why that one? The imagery may be in snippets, but it makes sense (at least to me.) Basically, you think your parents are a bunch of squares, but actually, they’re quite hip with a lot of experiences they went through in life. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/75 "2021-03-21T16:31:30Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > does surrender by cheap trick count? Only the part that implies Rick Nielsen may have once been a KISS fan. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/76 "2021-03-21T16:38:10Z")
I don’t see that being odd as all. I didn’t listen to Kiss, but a lot of my musical heroes liked them. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/77 "2021-03-21T16:41:33Z")
Just my personal take as a teen of the ‘70s when Cheap Trick was at the top of my list of favorite bands and KISS was at the very bottom. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/78 "2021-03-21T16:51:50Z")
Little nightmare fuel for you: [![](https://www.paulstanley.com/wp-content/uploads/rickpaul.jpg) ](https://www.paulstanley.com/wp-content/uploads/rickpaul.jpg) Speaking of, I used to be absolutely terrified of the covers of my cousin’s KISS records as a child. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/79 "2021-03-21T17:12:27Z")
Yikes! Keep your pix of Jello Biafra at Club 54 to yourself, please. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130/80 "2021-03-21T17:19:51Z")
This is feckin’ brilliant. Plus my mom’s name, Naomi, is in the lyrics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsense-songs-you-love/938130.md?page=5)