Amen to that.Īnd then there a songs in which someone - deliberately or by accident - sings with a piece of cotton or a hot potato in his or her mouth.
TURN A WHITER SHADE OF PALE LYRICS MEANING FREE
Nonsense can even take you on a free and natural high, like in A Whiter Shade of Pale, where you’ll be pushing a cart on a boat, the roof will disappear as more booze comes in and she will say: there is no reason.
And why not have some kidney bongos and organ fun like Wire do, it sounds infectiously catchy. Listen to the joyous fartsy folly in The Ying Tong Song, or go all Zungguzungguguzungguzeng and experience how nonsense can make you a lot happier than that depressing sense we are supposed to make of everyday life.Īnd who will not go outside and kiss a frog or something after hearing this signature Jon Anderson line: "Make the white queen run so fast she hasn't got time to make you a wife." Followed by a lot of diddits. Enjoy the dénouement of a story in which a man is Really Saying Something and that turns out to be bop bop shoo be doo wah. So bring in The Dixie Cups and Iko Iko and Manfred Mann’s Doo Wah Diddy. The dadaists knew that - the purpose of the movement was to stop making sense – and so the poem I Zimbra by Hugo Ball, founder of the famous nightclub Cabaret Voltaire, really belongs in the skilled hands of The Talking Heads.Įvery sha-la-la-la, every shing-a-ling-a-ling was a serious contester this week. And quatsch can still make a lot of sense musically when the syllables reinforce rhythm or melody.
Maybe it’s far more interesting to look for downright nonsense, although this might prove to be a tricky path: one man’s nonsense is another man’s adage. Four out of 10 people hear Michael Stipe heading for Bob Marleyland. According to a British survey the line "Call me when you try to wake her" from The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight is the king of mondegreens. So although they can be shared, mondegreens are highly personal affairs, unintentional but infectious mishearings of lyrics that were not supposed to become distorted. When Van McCoy released The Hustle in 1974 I was convinced they sang ‘ Turasso’, a strange mythic word I thought sounded very Italian. Growing up in Bruges in a Dutch-speaking family you can imagine my young life was filled to the brim with mondegreens.
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