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"Repeat after me / It's a scoo-be-doo-bee-doo-bee, scoo-be-doo-bee mel-o-dy"Scatting is vocalization that isn't lyrics. It is, for the most part, improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables, whistling, or even humming without words at all. It's sometimes used to mimic the sound of other instruments. Scatting gives the singer a chance to improvise his own melody and rhythm, basically creating the vocal equivalent to an instrumental solo. Rappers who do this during their songs are sometimes said to be "beat-boxing." Not to be confused with anything regarding bowel movements. Compare Indecipherable Lyrics and Word Salad Lyrics. Many Lyrical Tics are this.
— Scatman John note "Scatman"
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- This is a major component in jazz music.
- The earliest scatting on a recording is generally acknowledged to be Louis Armstrong's Heebie Jeebies (available from The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings.
- Ella Fitzgerald's facility with scatting is legendary.
- Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers got his nickname for his absolute skill at scatting, which he did in nearly every song he sang.
- Similarly, "Scatman" John Larkin. What makes him particularly amazing is that he had a stutter... which incidentally gave him amazing scatting abilities.
- Just about every up-tempo song by Roger Miller is bound to have some of this.
- His song "Dang Me" may be his best example, as it opens with scatting, and has further scatting all through the rest of it.
- "Shooby" Taylor made a "career" of scatting in such a hilariously terrible way that it has to be heard to be believed. Here, start believing.
- Installation from the soundtrack of Coraline.
- Goldfrapp's songs Voicething, Slippage, Oompa Radar and Felt Mountain- although the last two have lyrics that are basically 'Do do do do do', Slippage has her clearly saying, 'La la la la la la la' and 'Oh, yeah' before screaming.
- Orbital had several songs like this: "Dŵr Budr", "Out There Somewhere?" (both featuring the aforementioned Alison Goldfrapp), and "Way Out".
- Ray Barretto's song Acid.
- "The Great Gig In The Sky" from The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.
- "Pow R Toc H" from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is mostly instrumental aside from a section of really strange scatting.
- "A Saucerful of Secrets" from A Saucerful of Secrets.
- "Atom Heart Mother" from Atom Heart Mother, with the choir scatting lines that sound like choir warm-up exercises.
- Sigur Rós have a name for their gibberish, Vonlenska (or Hopelandic).
- The Police songs that do this include "Masoko Tanga" from Outlandos d'Amour, "De Do Do Do De Da Da Da" (yes, it's the song name, and it gets a Title Drop in the chorus!), and "A Kind of Loving". Sting likes to interject his popular "Eee-yooooh!" into a lot of songs as well.
- Jack Black often does this (or as he calls it, the "Ventrila-solo") in his singing.
- Some songs by Liv Kristine.
- Disturbed are an interesting case - when lead singer David Draiman is writing lyrics, he listens to the band's completed track until he can imagine a tune to follow, scat-sings until his voice satisfactorily gels to the song, and then applies actual lyrics as late as possible. Basically, every Disturbed song was Scatting at one point.
- And in some cases, Draiman decided that any lyrics he wrote didn't have quite as much punch as the Scatting, so he left it in. Examples include The Game (Ramidi ma ma ba di ma, ramidi ma ma din do) and This Moment (Bi-ya-ta! Bi-ya-ta!note ).
- If vocal bridges qualify under this trope, then Korn's "Freak on a Leash" definitely fits in.
"Boom na da mmm dum na ema / Da boom na da mmm dum na ema / Go!."
- Seed, BBK, Twist and Ball Tongue are a few examples.
- Talking Heads' "I Zimbra", which is based on a dada poem full of nonsense words by Hugo Ball.
- Otherwise, lead singer David Byrne used the same method as Disturbed, singing nonsense over the band's instrumentals and then coming up with lyrics to fit. The title of Speaking In Tongues is a reference to this.
- Ponytail do these kinds of songs exclusively: their vocals generally consist of "ooh", "whooo!", nonsense syllables and screaming - although "Sky Drool" starts with a very clear "mmm baby, mmm mmm".
- Lamb Of God's "Black Label". Even with the lyrics handy, you can hardly make out what Randy Blythe is singing there.
- Focus' song "Hocus Pocus" has a Dutch man yodeling as the only lyrics. And it's awesome.
- It picked up real words by the time it appeared on an album, but the lyrics to Weezer's "Burndt Jamb", as heard in demos and live performances, were originally just long stretches of "do" and "ah". The Maladroit version did still retain some scatting in the backing vocals ("doot do doo doo").
- Projects related to musician Mike Patton almost always feature at least a little bit of this. As the title might suggest, Mr Bungle's "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz". "Chemical Marriage" off of the same album is just scat singing. At one point in time you could have sent two dollars to a P.O. box listed in the Disco Volante liner notes to get some stickers and the "lyrics" to "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz" and "Chemical Marriage."
- Another Mike Patton project, Fantomas, plays this straight. Their self-titled debut features Patton singing on every track without ever uttering a single word. Suspended Animation, which came after, has him using his voice to emulate sound effects from The Golden Age of Animation.
- Patton also released two solo albums, one of which is just him making sounds into a tape recorder with his voice in various hotel rooms. The second one is a series of songs based off of bizarre recipes from an Italian Futurist cookbook.
- Yet another Patton project with saxophonist John Zorn has him blabbering nonsense in the vein of Crowleyist high-magic.
- Animal Collective is made of this trope. Most of their songs have got actual lyrics, but they love to include all sort of non-word shouting, singing, speaking in their songs. Particularly noticeable on Sung Tongs, or any live performance.
- Jean-Michel Jarre's song 'Zoolookologie'.
- The whole "Zoolook" album, for that matter, what with all those voice samples.
- Robert Maxwell's "Solfeggio", best known as the song Ernie Kovacs used in his Nairobi Trio sketch, has "lyrics" consisting of the scale notes of the melody ("mi sol la, re fa re sol...").
- David Crosby's "Tamalpais High (At About 3)".
- Bob Dylan's "Wigwam" from Self Portrait, with Dylan mostly singing variations on "la da da dee." It was actually a minor hit in 1970.
- Most Dead Can Dance songs are like this. As are most songs by Lisa Gerrard since going solo.
- And "One Perfect Sunrise" by Orbital, which features her.
- The instrumental version of CAKE's Arco Arena. No real lyrics, just John McCrea occasionally muttering something or interjecting with his usual Lyrical Tics ("Yah!").
- The Beatles instrumental "Flying" from Magical Mystery Tour with no words aside from chanting "Lah, la-la, la-laaa" near the end.
- "Girl" from Rubber Soul has a rather amusing background harmonic vocal accompaniment of 'tit tit tit tit' appear before the chorus.
- "Hey Jude" from Magical Mystery Tour has about four minutes of "nana na na".
- In Abbey Road, 'Sun King' segues into 'Mean Mr. Mustard' with a lovely triplet of harmonically sung lines in some kind of mock-Italian.
- John Lennon's solo hit "#9 Dream" from Walls And Bridges has a chorus with the phrase "Ah! böwakawa poussé, poussé" repeated over and over.
- Brazilian singer Vanessa da Mata actually named a song "Ai, Ai, Ai" after the inane singing on it.
- Also from Brazil, Samuel Rosa of the band Skank loves scatting. It gets even worse during concerts.
- Brazil has arguably an entire genre for this: axé music! "Aê aê aê aê!Ê ê ê ê! Ô ô ô ô ô ô ô ô!"
- So much that the question "What would Bahian music be without the vowels?" already was asked.
- Fleet Foxes' "Heard Them Stirring", which has nothing but harmonized "whoa-oh"'s for vocals.
- "Mah Na Mah Na".
- Doo doo, doo-doo-doo!
- Chacarron Macarron, also known as the "Ualuealuealeuale" song, is a dance-esque song that's comprised entirely of...something. The singer originally composed the song using the David Draiman method mentioned above — he intended to write actual lyrics, but decided at some point that the mumbling sounded too funny to drop.
- The song "Davnesaur," by To Slay Zombie Newton, contains a few genuine lyrics, but mostly it's nonsense that the band members claim is an ancient Scandinavian language... but were actually written by a random syllable generator on a graphing calculator.
- The band Relient K has a song titled "Gibberish" that is comprised of mostly gibberish, outside of the chorus, which tells you to "Stop talking gibberish or just stop talking."
- Adriano Celentano's "Prisencolinensinainciusol", gibberish specifically written to sound like English.
- The much-covered song "Land Of A Thousand Dances" consists of pretty much nothing but "na na na na na na". Dave Barry once commented on how easy it was to make song lyrics by quoting the chorus in its entirety.
- Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" starts with "doo doo doo-doo doo doo doo... dee dee dee dee de dee" (with some more "doos" and "dees" in there).
- From the same duo, The Boxer's choruses go "Lie la-lie, lie la-lie lie lie la-lie..."
- The plurality of Roxette's "The Look": "Na." I.e, "Na na na na na, na na na na na, na na na na na na na, na na na na na, na na na na na na na na, she's got the look."
- Robbie Williams' (formerly of Take That fame) song "Road To Mandalay" has a refrain consisting of him going "dah duh duh dum, da, duh, dum dum" a few times.
- Eiffel 65 has the song "Blue (Da Ba Dee)". The lyrics are Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
- Pendulous Skin by Mastodon has this. The vocals are so unclear that the band actually describes the song as an instrumental.
- Nadia Oh has a song called "Hot Like Wow". The final minute is nothing but chorus and la la la la.
- ''Rah rah ah-ah-ah / Ro mah ro-mah-mah / Gaga Ooh-la-la!''
- The bridge of Metallica's "The Memory Remains" is Marianne Faithful singing nonsense syllables in a very creepy tone of voice.
- The Ting Tings, "Impacilla Carpisung" is the closest to actual Scatting ever heard.
- Cab Calloway was famous for this. He admitted that he first began singing 'scat' it was because he'd forgotten the words to a song, but after it went over well with his audience he began to purposely write it into his songs.
- Ska-swing band Cherry Poppin' Daddies has some scatting in the song "Zoot Suit Riot" right before the coda (basically during the bridge).
- The Gorillaz song "Rockit" consists mostly of "blah blah blah".
- Frou Frou really liked this trope.
- So does Akara.
- Insects vs. Robots, Sacred Moose.
- Karl Jenkins' Adiemus is several albums full of this trope - while the words sound like they're in some exotic foreign language, they're just nonsense syllables arranged into a pleasing order.
- Bonus points for the Scat being constructed for appropriate influences. All albums have a certain 'world' component, but the first has quite a Latin feel to mirror the more classical nature of the music. The second plays around with scales: do lah mi so fah etc, because it's an album playing with structure. The fourth is influenced by Celtic sounds (especially from Jenkin's native Wales) and has a lot that sounds rather like Welsh.
- In Five Iron Frenzy's early years, they would test their songs at live shows before the lyrics were finished, and Reese would just sing gibberish for the unwritten parts. Only one of these performances was ever recorded and released, but this particular performance (the version of "Fistful of Sand" on the b-side album Cheeses of Nazareth) was so embarrassing that they never did it again.
- Cocteau Twins.
- Morrissey of The Smiths likes this trope.
- Many of Blue Amazon's early works, eg "Never Forget" "The Javelin", and "Four Seasons", the last of which sounds like Gaelic chanting.
- The refrain of O-Zone's "Dragostea Din Tei": "Maya hi, maya hu, maya ho, maya ha ha". Often mistaken for the title, as is "Numa Numa".
- Very nearly the complete works of Meredith Monk except for Do You Be. The only actual lyrics in Monk's brilliant "Book of Days" are a humming "these things, these things, these things" and a rhythmic, rising-and-falling "come and go and go and come and come and go and go and come". I am ready to swear there is an entire stanza of "hop bdlyena hop bdlyena hop bdlyena hop pah, hop bdlyena hop bdlyena hop bdlyena hop pah ... "
- "Give It Up" by KC and the Sunshine Band. "Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na, baby, give it up..."
- R.E.M.'s "Endgame" is mostly instrumental, aside from some wordless harmonizing and Michael Stipe singing variants on "ba ba ba" a few times.
- "Rubber Biscuit" by the Chips. If you don't know it, you might be more familiar with the Blues Brothers versions. The original does have lyrics of sorts, though...
- "Centerfold" by the J. Geils Band has a Scatting part right after the second chorus and one near the end.
- "Godspeed" by BT, featuring Jan Johnston. "If, if, if, nyow nyow aah", and "uh hoooo, you you you". The vocables appear to be snippets from their earlier collaboration "Remember".
- Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On (Dub of Doom and its re-remixes): "Er/Their lives again/Er/Their li/To pull us/Er"(Looped Lyrics). The rarely-heard original had full lyrics, which were chopped up into vocables in the remixes.
- Woven Hand's "Slota Prow" has David Eugene Edwards speaking in tongues, set to music.
- The refrain of Opus III's "It's a Fine Day": "Nanananana nee na nee nah". This part was Sampled Up ( backmasked) by Orbital in "Halcyon".
- Rise Against actually performed a Simlish version of Savior (youtube link) written for a Sims 3 advertising campaign. It is remarkably similar to the actual version ("it kills me not to know this" becomes "ta kil me naka no dis", for example), suggesting that either Simlish is closer to English than thought or that Rise Against is unimaginative.
- There are other Scatting song versions too, including Katy Perry's "Hot n Cold." Quite a number of the lyrics are also remarkably similar to the original.
- "Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot" by Caramba.
- Much of Supertramp's material, especially with Roger Hodgson on vocals.
- Soul Coughing songs contain a little bit of scatting on occasion in general, but the most Scat-heavy song is "Paint", which ended up that way as sort of a Throw It In moment: Mike Doughty had written chorus lyrics, but not any verses, so he just started spouting rhythmic nonsense over the verse section, then decided it sounded cooler that way.
- Doughty's live album Smofe + Smang features an early version of "Grey Ghost" where he admits he didn't write any lyrics for the bridge yet, so he has to sing "fake words". The title of the album actually comes from part of that very same scat bridge.
- Haru Mamburu by the Russian band Nogu Svelo! has "lyrics" made of vaguely English-like gibberish.
- Bla Bla Bla by Gigi D'Agostino (Exactly What It Says on the Tin), and the refrain of Elisir(Your Love).
- Nirvana's "Tourette's" from In Utero has no lyrics, just lots of screaming that sounds vauguely like it might be lyrics. Of course, given that some people think all Nirvana lyrics sound like "garbled, vaguely word-like gibberish", many are convinced that is also true of this song, and that there are real lyrics there if you listen hard enough. There aren't. It's just gibberish.
- To make it worse, Kurt Cobain had habits of decending into this anyway. If you listen to a lot of the unreleased stuff on the "With The Lights Out" box set you'll know what I mean.
- "Witch Doctor": "Ooh ee, ooh ah ah, ting, tang, walla walla bing bang..."
- Death Metal vocals are rarely if ever this. More likely Indecipherable Lyrics.
- Cows' version of the Midnight Cowboy title theme substitutes the string part of the original with vocalist Shannon Selberg singing "ooh".
- A good part of the lyrics of Queen's "Under Pressure".
- The refrains of many Eurodance and Bubble Gum Dance songs used this, such as "oh la oh la eh"(La Bouche's "Sweet Dreams"), "iai iai iai"(Smile.dk's "Butterfly"), "na na na na way-oh"(Alice Deejay's "Will I Ever"), "li da di da di da di"(Amber's "Sexual"), etc.
- Hush by Deep Purple, what with its unforgettable "Na nana na na nana na" opening the song.
- The last twenty or so seconds of "Bloodsucker" from Deep Purple in Rock, where Ian Gillan starts screaming incomprehensibly.
- Pretty much the basis of the chorus from "Goodbye": "Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye."
- My Chemical Romance has a new song called "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)". Guess how the chorus goes.
- There's also a version literally in Simlish.
- From the same album is "Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back" which also has parts of the chorus that come with five na's.
- Hanson song "Mmmbop".
- John Zorn's famous Jazz deconstruction band Naked City featured Yamatsuka Eye of The Boredoms and Mike Patton (see above) doing everything except singing: screaming, crying, babbling, gurgling, screeching, howling, gargling, barking, snarling, croaking, growling and generally sounding like men possessed by demons.
- Aretha Franklin is well-known for scatting in pretty much all her songs. Especially since the 80's. Even on a cover of "Jumpin' Jack Flash".
- Yes could really make this work when they used it, e.g. on "Leave It" from 90125.
- Trevor Rabin's 90124, a collection of old demo versions of songs he'd later record with Yes, included an excerpt of an acoustic version of "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" recorded before he'd really written any verse lyrics. Needless to say, it's sort of amusing to hear the first few lines rendered as "move yourself, ya da da da da da, ya da dada da da dada".
- King Crimson weren't immune. "Easy Money" featured the repeated line "Ooooo da di dow dow, da diddy dow, da dow dow- da do doooo -"
- The Rhinemaidens from Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle engage in this frequently. Weia! Waga! Wagala weia! Also, anyone listening to "Ride of the Valkyries" in its original context for the first time may be surprised to hear that the Valkyries are singing "Hojotoho! Hojotoho! Heiaha! Heiaha! Hojotoho! Heiaha!" over the music. This is usually left off when the piece is played by itself.
- "Played" by Mindless Self Indulgence features a part sung/shouted in gibberish.
- "I'm the One" by Van Halen features this phrase towards the end: "Bop-ba-da, shooby-doo-wah, bop-ba-da, shooby-dooby-shooby-doo-wah."
- "Ooby Dooby" by Roy Orbison has the chorus "Ooby dooby, ooh, ooby dooby, ooby dooby, ooby dooby, ooby dooby, ooby dooby, doo wah doo wah doo wah doo wah."
- "I Like to Sing" by Teresa Jennings has the lyrics "I like to scat like minnie mop mop moop moop me/I like to scat like oo-wee mummy mummy/I like to scat like that dat dab-a dab-a dat dat dat..."
- Vocaloid producer Hachi is very fond of this; "la lu la" with variations can be found in many of his songs. Matryoshka has "chu-chu-chu-chu, la lu la, pa-i-ya-i-ya-aa-ah i-ya-pa-pa" and Panda Hero has "pa-pa-pa-ra pa-pa-pa-ra-pa," to name a few.
- "Bawitdaba" by Kid Rock, unsurprisingly. This last the entire chorus and is the song's hook.
- Loreena McKennitt's Tango to Evora is like this, essentially "lalalala" repeated over and over.
- French parody band The Bratisla Boys composed an entire album with gibberish and meaningless words. Their first single, "Stach Stach", is the 30th best selling single in French history.
- Most vocals in spacesynth are vocodered scat-singing, although a few songs like Laserdance's "Digital Dream" have real, albeit hard to decipher, lyrics.
- "184.108.40.206.188.8.131.52.18.1.1110" by iamamiwhoami is nicknamed "papachoo" for its meaningless lyrics.
- Ministry's "Jesus Built My Hotrod"; five minutes of Motor Mouth Scatting ("ding-a-ding-dang my dang-along-ling-long"?) to an equally energized background.
- The Crystalline Effect's "Where The World Ends".
- Prince Buster does some semi-scatting in the song "Al Capone", by making "Chk-a-tk" noises to mimic a snare drum, along with "Hik" noises towards the end of the song. This scatting had an effect on later Ska songs.
- Ah Oh, a song by the israely band Gazoz, is about the band trying to write a song, but only comeing up with a tune, but no words. the chorus is basically the band Scatting the tune
- Similarly, Kaveret, un older and more well-know israely band (that share some band members) have Lu Lu, another song with a Scatted chorus.
- Kaveret also got שיר המחירון (The Price List Song). Na Na Na Na Na...
- an even better exmaple will be Doda's (that had most of the same members as Gazoz, but a Different style) שקט שקט הגרסה הפחות משודרת (Quite Quite - The Less Aired Version) , is basically "Quite Quite" , but shorter and all the lines beside the first and the last are Scatting
- they also have ריקוד הגשם (Rain Dance), which is pure Scatting
- Similarly, Kaveret, un older and more well-know israely band (that share some band members) have Lu Lu, another song with a Scatted chorus.
- נוף אחר (A Different View) by the israely artist Yoni Bloh might be a love duet, but all of the woman's lyrics is "A-ah-a"
- another song of his, תפוזים (Oranges), is mostly the same- but the woman get more variety of sounds (she starts with Oh whoa Whoa, and ends with Badi-ba-da)
- a very unknown song by the israely singer Danny Sanderson הגיע ממטולה (Came From Metoola)got a lot of this. but it's not like the parts with REAL WORDS make any sense
- Danny Sanderson is also the voice of your conscience. Wo oh oh oh oh!
- and there's also Ole Le-La, another song whose chorus is mostly nonsense sounds
- Mashina's רכבת לילה לקהיר (Night Train to Cairo) also has a chorus of Oh-oh oh oh-oh-oh oh...
- Aerosmith: even when Steven Tyler isn't actually trying to sing the drum parts (Heart's Done Time, Livin' on the Edge) he's quite happy to go off the end of the lyric sheet (Rag Doll, Livin' on the Edge, many others).
- I am very glad, because I'm finally returning back home (Trololo) by Eduard Khil, was performed with Scatting in place of the original lyrics, ostensibly for artistic reasons. Since then it's been embraced as the official Troll song of the Internet. Go figure.
- The fadeout of "What Can't Be Seen" by Everything Else features the melody scatted at a faster tempo.
- Many songs by Imogen Heap.
- Jaga Jazzist: "Swedenborgske Rom" has an a cappella lyricless interlude. And "All I Know Is Tonight" has lyricless singing in unison with the main horn riff.
- Scott Walker starts doing this over the fade out of "The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated To The Neo-Stalnist Regime)".
- Towards the end of The Doors' "Cars Hiss By My Window" from L.A. Woman, Jim Morrison takes a wordless vocal solo where he imitates a harmonica: "whoooh, wha-wha-whaoo-ooh...".
- "My Wild Love" is entirely acapella (with stomping and hand-claps as the only non-vocal accompaniment), so naturally there's a lot of this.
- Jason Mraz does quite a bit of this, especially in his live performances. It features at least once in the majority of his songs.
- Led Zeppelin does this in "D'yer Mak'er" and "The Ocean" from Houses of the Holy.
- "Zeitgeist" by Solarstone uses this, along with One-Woman Wail. Same for "Ultraviolet" and "The Last Defeat"(both versions).
- Bon Jovi's "Born to Be My Baby" has a "na na na" chorus at the beginning and end of the song.
- The chorus to Otis Redding's "Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa", surprisingly, goes
Fa fa fa fa fa
Fa fa fa fa
Fa fa fa fa fa
Fa fa fa
- P.D.Q. Bach's madrigal "My bonnie lass she smelleth" ends with a long scat cadenza.
- The Simple Minds' have done this occasionally. Most famously during the coda of Don't You (Forget About Me)
"I say la, lalalala, lalalala, la la la la la la lalala la!"
- Stands out as one of the only parts of the song they actually wrote (aside from the intro.) Singer Jim Kerr has expressed that this part is "very meaningful"
- Devastatin' Dave the Turntable Slave does some scatting in his anti-drug song "Zip Zap Rap".
- Pretty much all of the vocalizations on Damo Suzuki-era Can albums are wordless.
- "Into the Ether" by The Crüxshadows solely has ominous gibberish chanting for vocals.
- Too many novelty songs to count, from "Three Little Fishies" to "Chickery Chick" to "The Hut Sut Song."
- The Rolling Stones had a couple:
- "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" from Goat Heads Soup, which had those six "doos" in the song along with the lyrics about street life and the police in The Big Rotten Apple.
- And "Miss You" had it's "woo-oo WOO-oo woo-oo-oo" line between the verses.
- Ylvis: "What does the fox say? Ring-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding gering! Hatty-hatty-hatty-ho! Jacha-chacha-chacha-chow!", etc.
- Phil Collins redid "Trashin' The Camp" for Tarzan's soundtrack and employed *NSYNC to help him pad it out.
- Van Morrison often employs this, most notably on the intro to "Jackie Wilson Said".
- THePETEBOX, in addition to his usual beatboxing, occasionally ventures into scat. Seen most prominently in the song V.O.D.K.A.
- Country music singer Steve Wariner incorporated scat signing in a guitar solo bridge of his 1989 No. 1 hit "I Got Dreams," later reported as the first chart-topper at least in that genre to have scat singing..
- Scatting actually became a minor religious controversy in Churches of Christ during the late 80s and early 90s, because of "a capella vocal bands", which exist somewhere between old-style gospel music and Christian Rock. For complex historical reasons, Churches of Christ generally don't permit the use of musical instruments in religious music, which made it difficult to perform popular religious music. To compensate, vocal bands began scatting, in particular to imitate the sound of certain instruments, whereupon conservative elements began to argue that proper religious music should contain only meaningful words, and bands engaging in scatting were heteroprax.
- The Scottish Traveller and storyteller Duncan Williamson would sometimes work "the mouth music" into his stories.
- Zapp & Roger songs tended to have scatting in them in the vain of 1950s Doowop groups. Examples include "Heartbreaker", "Computer Love", and "Slow & Easy".
- Eurythmics' "There Must Be an Angel (Playing With My Heart)" opens and closes with Annie Lennox scatting something like this: "Doo da da da doo da". Even the karaoke version includes that!
- The Four Freshmen would sometimes perform a number in wordless vocals. Examples include "Tuxedo Junction", "Satin Doll" and "Dynaflow".
- In Macross Plus, Some of Sharon Apple's songs are in a made-up "language" of nonsense words chosen only for their sound and the emotional tone they conveyed.
- Common in Yoko Kanno's soundtracks in general. She's done the same thing in Earth Maiden Arjuna, Cowboy Bebop and The Vision of Escaflowne.
- In a similar vein, some of the pseudo-Latin song in the soundtrack of Puella Magi Madoka Magica qualifies. The best-known example would be Credens Justitiam.
- May's lullaby in Pokémon: Jirachi: Wishmaker is just singing, "Doo-doo-doo". And gaining a Japanese accent in the process.
- Many had wondered what were the lyrics behind Hellsing opening theme World Without Logos. When the official soundtrack included nonsensical lyrics where half of the words weren't actually English, people started realizing something.
- It was, however, obvious from the outset that "Shubidubidu, shubidubidu, shubidubidu turu" was supposed to be scat singing.
- The refrain of "Cha La Head Cha La" from Dragon Ball Z.
- "Komm, Süsser Tod", being inspired by "Hey Jude", has the backing chorus chanting "Ah-ah-ah-ahaaaa."
- Some other tracks on the End of Evangelion soundtrack feature indistinct "aaaah" sounds as well.
- Yes, Shinkou e no Kinkyuhinan and Hajimari e no Touhi are both based off of Splitting of the Breast from the Original Series' soundtrack. And yes, all of them involve the nonsense "aaaah" sounds, although both Hajimari e no Touhi and Shinkou e no Kinkyuhinan do have lyrics in, you guessed it, Gratuitous English!
- Are we forgetting the background choir in the theme song, Zankoku na Tenshi no Teize, itself? First of all, they go "aaaah" in the intro, and then, during the chorus, you're tone deaf if that "Ahhh-ahhh-ahhh-ahhhh, haa-haa-haa-ah, haa-haa-haa-ah, ahhh-ahhh-ahh-ahhh-ahhhh" doesn't get stuck in your head for weeks.
- Some other tracks on the End of Evangelion soundtrack feature indistinct "aaaah" sounds as well.
- A track from one of the Bleach soundtracks has lyrics composed solely of some particularly weird vocalizations.
- Scatting is omnipresent in the soundtrack for .hack//Legend of the Twilight.
- "Rose and Release" from Revolutionary Girl Utena is a version of the Opening sung entirely in "la-s".
- "Dogs and Angels" from Wolf's Rain.
- The Smurflings in the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story adaptation "The New Smurfs On The Block" do this with an anachronistic parody of a Hanson song: "Smurfbop, smurf a bop, I smurf a bop, smurfy smurfy do wop, smurfbop, smurf a bop, I smurf...yeah, yeah".
- Played with in The Simpsons Movie: as Green Day perform the Simpsons theme, the 'lyrics' are shown on their prompter as a scrolling wall of "Da Da Da Da Da Da..."
- Some of the Coraline songs fit. Try Exploration and the end credits song.
- Charlie Chaplin's one and only speaking role as The Tramp in Modern Times features him singing a gibberish song that sounds vaguely French/Italian. Chaplin didn't want the character to be limited by language barriers.
- Most of the musical score of Winged Migration is Scat... sometimes it's even hard to distinguish from percussions. The trailer.
- The composer, Bruno Coulais, also did the Coraline soundtrack.
- "Humuhumunukunukuapua'a" from High School Musical 2 has the Hawaiian gibberish lines "maka hiki mala hini hu" and "waka waka waka niki pu pu".
- The March of the Winkies from The Wizard of Oz: "Oh eeh uh, yo ah", and repeat.
- Tarzan has a sequence where Terk and the other animals singing in gibberish as they obliviously break everything in the camp as the noise of things breaking make up the music.
- The Aristocats featured the voices of jazz singers Phil Harris and Scatman Crothers in both speaking and singing roles. During their songs, the two would scat constantly.
- Phil Harris also sang some scat with Louie Prima toward the end of "I Wanna Be Like You" in The Jungle Book. Harris also does this when he makes his first appearance in the movie.
Baloo: Do-be-do-be-do-be-do-be-do-be-de-do. Well, it's a do-bah-de-do. Yes, it's a do-bah-de-do. I mean a do-be-do-be-do-be-do-be-do-be-de-do.
- The Ankh-Morpork national anthem, We Can Rule You Wholesale, has a second verse composed almost entirely of gibberish. It was written that way because the writer figured people would sing it that way anyway. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performed it.
- Dadaist poet Kurt Schwitters wrote a fairly long poem called the Ursonate ("primitive sonata") that goes on for quite some time like this. You can listen to a excerpt of it here.
- In Edward Eager's Seven-Day Magic, the father of the protagonists works as a backup singer, and it's because he's short not because he doesn't sing well enough for a star. So the kids make a wish that he'll be noticed during a TV show... and all the other music falls silent, leaving the father's voice to ring out, singing the lines that the backups had been scatting: "Chickadee tidbit, chickadee tidbit, skedaddle skedaddle pow!" It's a sensation, of a sort: the newspapers rave about what a novel comedy idea that was, and how "the look of surprise on the little man's face was priceless." And he gets an offer to sing "piccalilli kumquat, piccalilli kumquat," which he turns down; but it comes out all right in the end.
Live Action TV
- Many of the musical cues in Hannah Montana are of Miley scat-singing whoa-ohs and yeah-yeahs for a line or two.
- The theme for Farscape has an alien version of this trope.
- In The Mighty Boosh, music snob Howard mocks Vince for being confused and unsettled by the formless flow of jazz. He starts scatting, which causes Vince to panic and punch him.
- For what was believed to be one week only, the Theme Tune to the game show All-Star Blitz had some scatting mixed in. The results were surreal.
- HGTV's Divine Design has a noticeable scat solo over light jazz as its theme song.
"Whee-dow, ba-bop-bop-bah-bwee..."
- The Clarissa Explains It All theme song. "Na na na-na-na na...na na na na na-na! Hey cool!"
- Vic and Bob use it in the theme tune for The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer. Vic also uses it when "singing a song in the club style" in Shooting Stars.
- Various Ultra Series, Mirrorman, and Fireman all feature a variation of the scat chant "Wandabadadbada, Wandabadadabada" featured for the Science patrol teams.
- A scene in Jeeves and Wooster had Bertie wondering aloud about the lyrics to Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher".
"All this 'ho dee ho dee ho' stuff is pretty clear, but what do you suppose is a hoochie coocher?"
- Impractical Jokers: Joe does this as an apparent attempt to distract diners that he's stealing food from their plates. It doesn't work.
- Andy does this in a band practice on The Office (US). He's got the "words" written on a piece of paper, and at the end of the song apologises because "I think I sung a bebop instead of a doowop in there somewhere."
- This trope becomes a creepy distant cousin of the One-Woman Wail in "Missy's Theme" in Doctor Who, with a solo, dreamy female voice scatting. As composer Murray Gold puts in the Series 8 soundtrack liner notes, "It's not backwards — in that, if you reverse it, it doesn't become the right way round. But it sounds backwards."
Professional Wrestling
- In SHIMMER, Courtney Rush scatted The Final Countdown or its basic melody in the presence of Sara Del Rey.
Puppet Shows
- The Sam and Friends sketch "Visual Thinking" shows what happens when you combine scatting with Painting the Medium. It's not pretty.
- The opening theme to Fraggle Rock starts with Gobo (Jerry Nelson) and Wembley (Steve Whitmire) scatting, before the other Fraggles join in for the words.
- There's a scene in The Muppet Christmas Carol in which Kermit/Bob Cratchett (Steve Whitmire) and Robin/Tiny Tim (Jerry Nelson) scat "One More Sleep To Christmas".
- Most Cirque du Soleil songs use "Cirquish" nonsense vocals. Such as "Elma om mi lize, elma om mi lize away, baby o ma ley, m baby o ma ley", from Amaluna. Only on rare occasions do they perform a song in English or a real foreign language.
- In the misleadingly cheerful opening number of Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, members of the Greek Chorus sing scat phrases like "skid a lit day" and "ratty boo, sofa so far so."
- In Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Judge Turpin hums "Ladies In Their Sensitivities" while waiting to be shaved by Sweeney Todd.
- The intro and outtro of "Setting Your Sights" from Vanities: A New Musical, as well as the ending of "Looking Good", use "do do da da da" singing.
- "Alleluia" from Leonard Bernstein's Mass is mostly scat syllables sung in canon.
- "Da Doo" from Little Shop of Horrors has the Greek Chorus mostly doing this under a spoken word monologue.
- In Fiddler on the Roof, "If I Were A Rich Man" represents some sort of Yiddish version of this trope.
- From time to time in Sunday In The Park With George, Georges hums "Bum-bum-bum, bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum..."
- The above is parodied lovingly in Jonathan Larson's tick, tick... BOOM! when he sings about working in a diner on an ordinary Sunday, and seeing all the "Bums, bums, bums, bums bums bums..."
- "It Ain't Necessarily So" from Porgy and Bess has a refrain which combines scatting with call-and-response.
- The chorus of "Good Morning Starshine" from Hair is practically nothing but nonsense syllables.
- "Keep-A-Hoppin'" from The Unsinkable Molly Brown uses the 19th century music-hall version:
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Me-hi, me-low, humdrum pennywinkle
Tit tat, pitty pat, pussy cat,
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- While Bye Bye Birdie surprisingly doesn't feature this in any of its actual songs, Rosie jokes that she knew Albert was giving up on being an English teacher when he wrote a hit song for Conrad Birdie titled "Ugga Bugga Boo."
- In Closer Than Ever, "Miss Byrd" and "Back on Base" both have jazzy codas which the singer (originally Sally Mayes) is encouraged to improvise in her own style.
Video Games
- The Grox Empire's anthem in Spore.
- Much of the music in the Metroid Prime Trilogy features wordless chanting as a backing track. No words, just "Oooo-oooo-oooo-OOOOOO-ooo..."
- Even the regular Metroid games have it at times.
- Loco Roco used this for all its music in order to have a universally accepted soundtrack that wouldn't need translating. The nonsense sung by the Rocos sounds uncannily like real language due to the way it's structured, but it's just cute-sounding gibberish.
- The sound "Giant Egg" from Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg is mostly composed of children going "La la la la la la la lalala..." They do spell "G-I-A-N-T E-G-G" at one point, but that's it.
- A number of the playable songs in Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times feature random vocals. "Cerulean" has a guy yelling "Yeaaah, behbeh!" at several points, and "Corusican Betrayal" has a wordless soprano wail in it, for example.
- Beyond Good & Evil has several BGM songs in Simlish to help create the impression of an alien world (and one in Spanish).
- Venus's song in EarthBound.
- Super Mario Bros.:
- The background music to the "Secret of..." levels in Super Mario Sunshine is "Do-do-do" sung to the tune of the classic Mario theme.
- The choir added into the Bowser battle themes from both Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 whenever Bowser takes damage.
- The secret level theme of Battleblock Theater features gratuitous scatting by William Stamper.
- The original Aria di Mezzo Carattere from Final Fantasy VI.
- Technically it has lyrics—it is part of an opera, after all—but the SNES couldn't really handle extended voice recordings, so they're displayed as subtitles while the MIDI voice synth goes "ooo-OOOOO-ooo-OOOO".
- In Animal Crossing, K.K. Slider's singing consists of "we" "oh" and other such sounds. His voice is even an instrument in Wii Music.
- The Grand Fonic Hymn from Tales of the Abyss, made up of seven short verses, uses single-syllable words that don't come from any particular language, used to explain why only the first verse works like a magic spell. Each verse apparently has a "deeper meaning" that must be learned before its magic can manifest.
- As The Sims characters speak Simlish, the songs heard on the radio are also sung in gibberish, in all three installments and their respective expansions. The Sims: Unleashed hired a real band (Zydeco Flames) to perform their songs in Simlish, and The Sims 2: University started the now-famous series tradition of getting a whole selection of artists to re-record their songs in Simlish for each expansion.
- On Katamari Damacy's pre-game tutorial level, there's a version of the theme song that just has the "na na na na na na na" for vocals, on top of the backing beat from the NES version of Lode Runner.
- Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil has a snowboarding level with a very catchy song. Sung by Klonoa. In Phantomilian. Check out the lyrics.
- Awakening The Chaos, v-13's theme from BlazBlue, has lots of Ominous Wordless Chanting.
- Yoshi's Story has the eponymous dinosaurs singing in an incomprehensible chatter that would become the establishing voice of Yoshi forever on.
- Many songs in the Dawn of War II soundtrack feature a choir singing made-up lyrics. Some (Angels of Death, Khaine's Wrath, For The Craftworld) are presumably supposed to represent the fictional languages of the 40K universe, while in others (The Green Horde Rises, The Great Devourer) it's most likely just for effect.
- Rouge's levels in Sonic Adventure 2 all have this. Her theme is about half Scat, half English.
- Sonic Mega Collection Plus includes a video with an early version of the Sonic Heroes theme. The words "Sonic Heroes" are in place, but everything else is nonsense.
- The Tidal Tempest Present theme in the US version of Sonic CD has jazz-style scatting.
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask use this for the singing of Malon and Lulu, respectively. Use of this trope goes back to The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, where Marin (of whom Malon is an Expy) sings "The Ballad of the Windfish".
- Final Fantasy X has a really cool version of this. The Hymn of the Fayth sounds like Japanese, but it's actually nonsense syllables. However, when you rearrange the syllables into a square, and read them from top to bottom, it actually does spell out words in Japanese. They roughly translate into "Praise be to Yevon".
- Into a Square, you say?
- Much of the music in Black & White and its sequel has wordless singing or chanting.
- In some entries in the My Sims series, some songs have Simlish vocals. There's a lovely example in My Sims Kingdom, which plays on The Royal Academy island. Also, in My Sims, a Sim can activate a karaoke machine, and sing the song in his or her particular voice.
- The soundtrack to Grandia II has a piece called "DangerousZone" that features a woman who sounds like she's trying to blow her voice out. There are no lyrics; this would be a true One-Woman Wail, except that it's not sad at all. Given that this track is only played in dangerous areas, it works.
- The song "Rainy Rose" and its remix "Poison Queen" from the God Hand soundtrack (Shannon/Demon Shannon's boss themes, respectively) are entirely sung in "nya"/"nyo" sounds.
- In Machinarium, the song "Clockwise Operetta" has a part where a robot sings glibberish.
- How come Halo is not mentioned anywhere? From the moment you hit the main menu in Halo/Halo:CE you are treated to wordless chanting.
- In some parts of the second game you can find holograms of the Prophets chanting the series theme in alien gibberish.
- Xenosaga episodes 2 and 3 had plenty of songs with nonsense words. It's a preferred style of Yuki Kajiura, a composer for both games.
- The track "Knight of Fire" in Xenogears sparked countless debates among fans as to what a voice was saying in a certain portion of the song. After years of speculation, somebody simply messaged Yasunori Mitsuda via Twitter, and he replied that the words were "coined" for the song.
- Wasn't the entire point of The Urbz to build a game around The Black Eyed Peas Scatting?
- Much of the soundtrack of The Neverhood consists of this. To quote the liner notes of the official soundtrack: "Note to the listener: Should you choose to sing along to any of the following songs, we wish you luck. You're gonna need it!"
- A few Dance Dance Revolution songs break into this. "Golden Sky" earns bonus points for the lyrics devolving into "la de da" at two separate points in the chorus.
- "Wild Rush", whose vocal samples are also used in "Genom Screams" and "Paranoia Survivor", as well the "Lavande Bleu" music in Ray Crisis and the outdoor shooting range music in Silent Scope 2.
- The "sharara shaara" part of TËЯRA's "Flowers" after the Truck Driver's Gear Change.
- "Howling" by PON from beatmania IIDX. One who doesn't understand Japanese could be forgiven for thinking PON is actually singing something coherent.
- In Warcraft 3, some parts of the Frozen Throne Human and Night Elf songs do this.
- Most of the music in NieR is sung in a made up language, stated to be a "possible future evolution of our current languages" by the composer. There's several versions of the ending theme depending on the ending and at least 1 of them is in English though.
- Eve's Asylum Int Music from LittleBigPlanet 2.
- Team Fortress 2: One of Heavy's quotes as he destroys a building is him singing the Sabre Dance melody with the lyrics "Ya ta ta ta!"...
- Hideki Naganuma's sampling tends to turn vocals into this. A good example is "Ethno Circus".
- Fuka's theme in Disgaea 4 is a remixed version of a previous song ("You Go, Girl!") With Lyrics... well, sort of. More accurately, it has a lyric ("la") repeated about six hundred times or so.
- Several songs from Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow, which was soundtracked by Azam Ali, have this type of vox.
- In Groove Coaster, many of Shohei Tsuchiya's songs feature this. Notable examples include "Play merrily", "Just no friend", "Sleep", and "Fess up!".
Web Animation
- Parodied in Homestar Runner, where Strong Bad includes "Songs that try to pass off na-nas, hey-heys and doot-doos as legit lyrics" in his Bottom Ten. As an example, he plays a track from the fictional Limozeen album "Feed the Childrens", which meets this description to the letter.
Limozeen: Na, na, la la laaaaa,Hey, hey! Doo-doot doo!Na, na, la la laaaaa,Hey, hey! Doo-doot doo!Na, na, la la laaaaa,Hey, hey! Doo-doot doo!Strong Bad: Ugh. What were they thinking? More like, "We need to feed our children, so we made this terrible song."
- The Leekspin video is set to a 20-second loop of Finnish scat singing from the bridge of Loituma's cover version of "Ievan Polkka". (The song lyrics available on the internet obviously don't include the random gibberish, leading to confusion among Internet denizens trying to find the part that the girl is singing.)
- Napster Bad, in the "Sue All The World" short:
There are people stealin' our copyrighted tunes
Bwaighlo weirhlo, bwaighlo weirhlo lailolailo... prunes!
- In Ultra Fast Pony, Scootaloo only communicates by scatting. She requires subtitles for anyone else to understand her. Also, during Rainbow Dash's verse in the song "At the Gala", she realizes she's not very good at improvising lyrics, so she sings gibberish to fill time for a few lines.
Web Original
- History of Lyrics That Aren't Lyrics is a three-minute medley of 26 of these.
Western Animation
- Phineas and Ferb have a lot of fun with this trope when they sing "Gitchy Gitchy Goo".
- Futurama uses this behind the scenes. Bender's singing is almost always John DiMaggio scatting. Frequently mentioned (and demonstrated) on the DVD commentaries.
- 75% of the background music in the Nickelodeon version of Doug...and it was awesome.
- Bradford Marsalis capped off his Space Ghost Coast to Coast appearance by leading the cast in a round-robin scat session (although Zorak had to threaten him with a laser rifle first).
- The opening theme to The Tick. Bop TWEEE-dot-dot-dot TWEEE dah!
- Popeye had a charming habit of scatting to himself as he went about his business.
- This is a characteristic of the Mothersbaugh Brothers, such as their work on Rugrats.
- During its first season, the closing theme of Muppet Babies was basically the opening theme with its lead vocals mixed out - leaving just the scatting in the background.
- The VeggieTales song "I Love My Lips".
- In The Simpsons episode "Springfield Up", Declan Desmond does this when Homer asks him to join in on his rock song "Satan, You're My Lady". Homer isn't impressed.
Declan: Shooby dooby doo-wah, shooby dooby...Homer: Those aren't the lyrics! It goes "Satan, you're my lady"!Both: Satan, you're my lady, stick me with your pitchfork thing!Declan: Shooby doo-wah, shooby doo-wah!
- The ChalkZone song "Scat", which consists mainly of the main trio singing scat. It's considered by many viewers to be one of the best songs in the series.
Ba dee ba da ladda (scat)/Ba doo bee a ba na ba (scat)/Ba de ba da ladda lady lo dee oh do...


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Cadillac scores winner with CTS-V
Sport sedan mixes comfort, power
The Cadillac CTS-V is a proud performance statement from General Motors, but after GM received a bridge loan from the government, there was some confusion that the high-performance division was going to be dismantled to avoid the appearance of evil.
Would this be the end of the line for an American-made, world-class, supersport sedan?
Not this time. There was a change, but it relates to the interior of the engineering organization and has nothing to do with this car, Cadillac spokesman David Caldwell said.
"The people who developed (CTS-V) continue on, they just are no longer sequestered in their own 'performance' organization," he said.
There might not be as many high-horsepower cars with big engines in the future for GM, but V-Series is important for Cadillac. "The men and women who develop this car are working on the next one," Caldwell said.
The 2009 CTS is an impeccable luxury sedan and the high-performance V model brightens the halo for Cadillac.
The CTS-V does not try to emulate any of its competitors – among them the BMW M3, Audi RS4, Mercedes-Benz C63 and Lexus IS-F. It is, simply, a defining American sport sedan. The CTS-V has full-bodied comfort – for the way drivers in the United States use their cars – and hard-knuckled performance when needed.
While many drivers of imported sport sedans have to live with or comply with the engineering and cultural tastes of foreign lands, the CTS-V is a purebred American, even if it deploys shared knowledge from GM's global divisions.
The CTS-V is the most powerful production Cadillac ever, highlighted by a supercharged, 556-horsepower, 6.2-liter V-8 and six-speed manual or optional six-speed automatic. Fuel economy is 12 mpg city and 18 highway, and from my experience, every drop of fuel is appreciated in the sound, force and presence of this car.
I've driven both transmissions and I prefer the manual for its ease and pleasure of shifting. Several times I asked myself, "Who needs fifth and sixth gears?" The expression of power is THAT penetrating.
Pricing starts at $58,695, including a $775 freight charge. With options, the test car was $67,360, which included a $2,600 gas-guzzler tax.
Recaro high-performance seats and metal pedals ($3,400) were among the extras, and they may only be necessary for those who attend monthly SCCA slalom II events. The seats have strong side bolsters, which will soon show the wear of backsides sliding across them every time the car is driven. But the seats are comfortable.
There are Brembo disc brakes all around, slotted and vented – 15.2 inches front, 15 inches rear – with six-piston calipers in the front, four-piston rear. Standard stopping features include four-channel ABS, hydraulic brake assist and dynamic rear-brake proportioning.
Wide rolling, Z-rated Michelin Pilot Sport 2 tires put the grab in braking – 255/40 front and 285/35 rear. But don't think about replacement costs, just enjoy the ride.
The suspension is four-wheel independent with stabilizer bars front and rear plus elastomeric handling and ride bushings, which provide tighter control than rubber and help dampen road noise. Magnetic Ride Control with electromagnetically controlled shocks can be push-button selected for Touring or Sport modes.
The shocks can sound rattly in Touring mode, but tighten up and quiet down in Sport mode. Caldwell acknowledges "there can be a bit of a rumble at low speeds," and said there have been recent, minor adjustments to the Magnetic Ride system to mitigate that sound.
I also noted that the front vents are aimed directly at the 9 and 3 o'clock positions on the wheel, which is hand-chilling with AC. And I wonder about the long-term durability of the navigation screen that powers up and down like a billboard from the top of the center stack of controls.

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After "No One Killed Jessica", Rani Mukherjee is set to don the garb of a journalist once again for "Bombay Talkies".
"Bombay Talkies" is a bouquet of four stories directed by four different directors - Anurag Kashyap, Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar and Dibaker Banerjee. It is an ode to 100 years of Indian cinema.
The story directed by Karan features Rani, Randeep Hooda and Saqib Saleem. Both Karan and Rani have been best friends ever since the actress made her debut in the film industry with "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" and have shared a long professional relationship.
"Rani will be essaying the role of a journalist in the film. She is paired opposite Randeep. The duo are sharing screen space for the first time," the spokesperson of film said in a statement
Added the source: "Rani was briefed on her character nuances by Karan and she effortlessly got into her character."
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The Coolest Beatle
Light, Alan, Newsweek
Byline: Alan Light
At 70, more than half the man he used to be.
When the Beatles went to India in 1968 for a meditation retreat with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the folk-rock star Donovan was part of their traveling party. The musicians had all brought their acoustic guitars, and Donovan wandered around the grounds of the Maharishi's compound in Rishikesh, playing in a traditional folk-bluegrass style known as fingerpicking.
After a few days, Donovan recently recalled, John Lennon stopped him and said, "How do you do that? That finger style, that picking, will you teach me?" He demonstrated the technique to Lennon, but he also noticed Paul McCartney occasionally hovering in the background. "Paul would stand around, he'd steal a look, and then he'd walk away into the woods. He was listening."
Too proud or too impatient to sit for instruction, McCartney eavesdropped enough to figure out the method on his own. Then he went off and used the style as the basis for "Blackbird," "I Will," and "Mother Nature's Son," three of the acoustic masterpieces on the Beatles epic double-LP set generally known as the White Album. With just a glimpse of a new direction, he instantly began blazing a musical trail.
This capacity for constant, lightning-quick creative revelation has characterized McCartney's music for 50 years. When he turns 70 years old on June 18, perhaps the only thing more remarkable than the idea of this eternally youthful icon reaching that landmark is the fact that he has gotten there without having lost the boundless inventiveness and creative curiosity that redefined the very possibilities of rock and roll. Though McCartney is often overshadowed in the public imagination by John Lennon's hard-edged cool, and frequently taken for granted after so many years in the pop spotlight, there is simply no other figure in pop who can claim a track record so deep.
The Guinness Book of World Records identifies McCartney as "the most successful musician and composer in popular music history." He's had 15 top 10 albums and 21 top 10 singles--and that's not including his work with the biggest band of all time. His tours still sell out stadiums around the world. His solo compositions have been covered by artists from Michael Jackson to Guns N' Roses. And his marriage last year to Nancy Shevell, the daughter of a U.S. trucking magnate, helped take his estimated worth from [pounds sterling]495 to [pounds sterling]665 million, making him the wealthiest performer in British music.
But this ongoing commercial juggernaut exists in tandem with an impressive eagerness to challenge himself and expand musically. At an age when most rockers have long eased into life as oldies acts, McCartney has undergone a startling creative renaissance. His most recent release, Kisses on the Bottom, is a smoothly orchestrated set of such Great American Songbook standards as "Bye Bye Blackbird" and "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive," while (entirely unverified) rumors have buzzed that his next album will be a straight-up rock-and-roll record, produced with Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters.
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And they look much better than they did last year. That doesn't mean the changes at ISU will result in improvement, but it doesn't mean they will get worse either. After making CU's terrible offense look suddenly great, how can things look much worse.
Just had a horrible play call on that fake punt, though. Cost them 7 points and the momentum.
21-14 KSU as of now
Geez. I changed the channel for a few minutes and K-State scored 14 points?! WTF happened?
And keep in mind, this coach wasn't a favorite of the media and K-State fans. He was really ripped on in the off-season and early weeks of this season.
Now they're set to go to a bowl game and have Texas down 7 at the half.
Make that 7-4 - nice win.
Doesn't it upset you that ISU had a chance to win the Big 12 North twice and choked both times... Then you see K-State upset Texas...Time for a change...Tim Brewster, I hope you da man...also saw where your son QB Mullen over Jack Elway and Cherry Creek and Mullen is 11-0...HITMAN
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Originally Posted by CyCloned
That doesn't mean the changes at ISU will result in improvement, but it doesn't mean they will get worse either.
Is it possible to get worse than we were this year?
Also, I met a lot of Iowa State fans and I dont want to leave any of that behind. - DARIUS DARKS on Staying a CLONE!!!
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Is it possible to get worse than we were this year?
Or the past 4+ seasons? 8-27 now in the past 35 conference games...
In the morning paper it said that ISU is going to finish last in the conference for the 6th time in mac's 12 years. That says a lot.
Originally Posted by CyCloned
In the morning paper it said that ISU is going to finish last in the conference for the 6th time in mac's 12 years. That says a lot.
I thought that the program was on solid footing, that is all I have heard the past week.
In all seriousness, I think that the improvements to the program are that the facilities are improved, and that there is an administration in place that has a commitment, i.e. money, to the athletic programs (football especially).
The performance on the field, in spite of attempts at revisionist history that we have read so much about the last week, has been completely inadequate. In 1/2 of the seasons that Dan has been the coach we have finished last in the conference. Even allowing for the rebuilding process that took place the first 5 years, where we finished last in 4 of them, we have two last place finishes this decade.
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At least three local financial institutions are doing their part to speed Oklahoma's adoption of compressed natural gas as a transportation fuel.
Citizens Bank of Edmond, Allegiance Credit Union and Communication Federal Credit Union have launched new loan programs to help individuals and businesses convert their vehicles to run on CNG.
"By converting fleet vehicles to CNG, businesses of all sizes can have opportunities to reap significant fuel savings," said Jill Castilla, Citizens Bank's chief credit officer. "Our program is designed specifically to help businesses realize the expected financial benefits a CNG fleet can offer."
Meanwhile, Allegiance Credit Union is focused on helping individuals with their vehicle conversions.
"CNG conversions offer drivers serious savings and our low-cost signature loans can help individuals capture those benefits for themselves," said Laurel Pope, vice president of corporate development for Allegiance. "We can help our members declare their energy independence from high gasoline prices."
Communication Federal also will help finance natural gas vehicles, conversions and home-fueling appliances, said Stephen Lark, the credit union's vice president of marketing and corporate development. Loan rates for new vehicles can be as low as 1.99 percent.
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State tax incentives also can help reduce the cost of making the switch, and regulators this year approved an Oklahoma Natural Gas rebate program that applies to conversions and home-fueling stations.
CNG Interstate in Edmond converts vehicles to run on natural gas. President Craig Wright said the loan programs will help more people and businesses benefit from switching to natural gas.
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Sure, the Stoic Burls Welded Duffel would love to get dragged through mud, across rocks, strapped to pack animals, and tossed in and out of sketchy cabs in foreign countries—that's what it was made for. Heavyweight shell fabric resists all the abuse you can deliver, and water-resistant coatings keep moisture from soaking your duffel, inside and out. Did we mention the welded construction? Yeah, Stoic went for the high-end seam solution first, which is pretty sweet.
- Heavy-duty 840D nylon shell material is highly resistant to abrasion, punctures, and your abusive outdoor travels
- External PU coating repels water, and the light TPU-laminated interior offers additional protection against water
- Internal TPU coating makes it easy to slide gear in and out of this bag quickly
- Fully welded construction eliminates the need for taping at fabric seams, without sacrificing weatherproofing
- Backcountry.com is the exclusive distributor of Stoic products
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What do you think about this product?
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Gets four stars due to price
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Given its cost relative to Black Hole bags and TNF duffels this thing is great. If you're packing larger items you may need to look at the TNF bag with a bigger opening. The bag is likely not as tough as my Black Hole bag, but its also not showing any holes (can't say that about my Black Hole Bag). For the price - and its often on sale, it can't be beat.
Bulletproof gear bag
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Great bag, straps work well, love the overall construction. I haven't tried to fit my tent or anything inside this bag, but it's great for my assorted ski gear. It's my go-to bag that I grab when I want to head to the mountains after work on a Friday. I have enormous ski boots (Scarpa TX Pro) and have no problem getting any of my things in there.
I suppose the next generation Stoic duffel could use a U-shaped zip-around top that doesn't compromise the seams on either end. That should let people fit their tents and sleeping pads without lengthening the zipper. Or make the zipper diagonal across the top. No one's done it--doesn't mean Stoic can't change things up.
Not 85L
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Not my favorite. Opening is way too small. Bag is way smaller than 85L. Go with TNF.
Not a fan
- Familiarity: I returned this product before using it
Not a fan of this item. It is smaller than listed, definitely not 85L. The zipper opening is very small. I was wanting this to transport my tent, air mattress, and shade canopy. It just will not do.
opening not big enough; otherwise great
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I really wanted to love this bag. The price is right, the backpack straps made it really easy to carry around heavy loads, and the bag material seems bomber and keeps its contents dry in wet conditions.
HOWEVER, the opening is not big enough! Doesn't sound like a big deal, but after a few trips with this bag, it was infuriating how relatively small the opening is for a bag of this volume. Ultimately it was a dealbreaker for me and I returned it. Really wanted to keep it, but I knew in the long run that I would pick other bags I already own over this one. If you're someone who empties their bag when you reach your destination(s), then it could work, but I found living out of this bag (for only 2-3 day trips) nearly impossible.
vs patagonia black hole
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
120L my arse. must be the european sizing as my patagonia black hole 90L is pretty much the same size. & the yellow color is actually really dull ... more like mustard. compared to a patagonia black hole, the fabric is water-resistant (even on the bottom, where the patagonia isn't) but definitely cheaper. originally intended this to be my backcountry skiing duffel but i'm afraid to put hard goods (ski boots, crampons) in it so now it holds my surfing softgoods, i.e. boardshorts, wetsuits, flip-flops ... patagonia black hole is still the backcountry ski bag. i have a hard time believing the regular price on this is $129 ... i could see it being $51.58 regularly.
It's NOT red, it's more like PINK
This bag just arrived the other day. I ordered the medium size in Red. I thought based on the picture that the bag was going to be bright red. Seemed pretty cool to me. Well, it's not even close! It's like a red bag that been faded by the sun and now it looks pink or salmon colored. Buyer beware. As far as the bag itself goes, the construction seems good and the size medium should be small enough to get through airport security as a carry-on, but big enough that you'll probably have to gate check it, especially if you fill it up. Good price for this type of travel water resistant gear bag.
Check the price...
Haven't received mine yet but I've ordered 2, one from S&C the other backcountry.com, the backcountry bag was cheaper and came with free shipping. Kinda defeats the purpose of steepandcheap doesn't it? I'll change the stars once I get a chance to test them out.
Good thing I just looked here before buying on SAC, $2 more + shipping on SAC, free two day shipping on backcountry. Almost all bags still sold on the SAC deal, bummer.
Yeah, I noticed that too and decided to buy on backcountry instead of SAC.
Stoic Burls Duffle......TNF substitute
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I purchased this on SAC and I am pleasantly surprised. I pulled it out of the box and I thought "oh NO, thats a little smaller than I was thinking. I was looking to replace a canvas duffle that I have traveled with for more than ten years that finally gave up the ghost. Having the Welded duffle and the burls duffle side by side i have to say the welded duffel looks bigger. Alas after a few times packing the Burls duffel it does fit everything I need and then some.
As with other reviews, the zipper opening is just too small. It needs to be the 'D' opening. I would sacrifice water proof-ability for larger opening. Also an exterior pocket would be nice. Nothing to big but just something small.
Overall it is a great bag for the price. I plan on snagging the 120L when it shows up on SAC. As for a TNF substitute.... for the price on SAC I think it is worth the small design flaws.
Good Bag
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
Overall, I think it's a really good bag. I picked mine up on SAC and it is totally worth the money I spent on it. I would love it, but there are two things I would prefer were built into this bag. First, I wish it had a "D" shaped flap for packing in. There is only a straight zipper across the top. Although this contributes to the Burls' overall water resistance, I think it would be easier to pack if it was easier to get in to. Second, I was hoping for at least one exterior or interior accessory pocket- something to put a toothbrush or glasses in. Other than that, I am completely in love with the bag. My favorite parts are the removable backpack straps. It makes the bag really easy to take on an airplane, because they simply clip off and you can shove them in the bag. I have the 85L and it will easily carry my 0 degree bag, pad, clothes & small tent. It is exactly the size I was looking for. The slightly waterproof feature is a bonus for me. I have suggested this bag to others, and think that it is a great bag.
How big/size in the Stoic duffle bag
How big/size in the Stoic duffle bag
What are the dimensions of the duffel?
What are the dimensions of the duffel?
The dimensions of the duffel are 12x12x29 for the 120L and 10x10x25 for the 85L.
Really? I assume your 12x12x29 is in inches, which works out to less than 70 liters for the "120L" duffel. I had not seen this before ordering. If these really are the dimensions I'll be sorely disappointed.
Arthur, your measurements give for the 120L gives 68L (4176 cu in) and for the 85L I get 40L(2500 cu in). Do you or anyone else have the true measurements?
If it is a true duffle then you need to take the volume for a cylinder not a rectangle. That would be pi times (radius) squared times the length (height) or 3.14 x 36 x 29 which equals 3290 cubic inches which is much less than 120 liters.
These are the true dimensions I got from the warehouse the other day. I understand that the Liter measurements don't make sense and we are looking into that right now.
How much does this bag weigh for the 120L...
How much does this bag weigh for the 120L and the 85L?
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Looking forward to seeing some reviews for this item. The Stoic welded duffel I have (older model) has held up pretty well over the last year, but I am hoping (and it looks like) this newer model has a more rigid design, more like TNF's basecamp duffel.


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The Gory Details: Aiden slipped around the far side of the pool to try and flank the bear. He failed his stealth check and the bear charged him. The rest of the party couldn't get to him before he was mauled to death.
Why do all my favorite characters have to die?!?
Would it be possible to cast geas (or something like it) on a person tell them to tell the wife they witnessed the death then use hidden knowledge or Sequester Thoughts to make him believe he actually did?
As far as just killing him. He believes he is holding the party back. He knows they would never just let him leave, so he recruited the enchantress to help fake his death.
On polymorphing: He's a druid. He can change his own shape.
On imprisoning: The husband asked the enchantress for help in faking his own death.
The only reviving magic I have access to is the husband is a druid with reincarnate (can't cast it on yourself). The Enchantress wants the wife to believe he is dead and then make the wife forget she was ever there.
In one game that I am playing we are doing a darkest timeline version. All of our PC's from RotR, JR, SS, & CC are falling to the darkest versions of themselves all centered around one event that was altered.
My question involves the corrupting of one of my PC's. I have a high level Kitsune Enchantress that needs to make another PC believe that her husband is dead. The problem is that the PC is a mythic Heirophant with the ability to know when someone is lying to her so her +39 bluff isn't gong to help.
Does anyone have a suggestion of magical ways of making this happen? A magic item, spell, or combination thereof?
Lol You shouldn't have put that idea in his head.
My GM suggested tear away clothes for quick undressing (a standard action). Are those one use or can they be reused?
Wear a collar with permanent disguise self on it. It might get a little chilly going au natural but should save on clothing repair.
Sadly, that is too expensive for a first level PC, lol.
As far as the baggy clothes, Nikolai, the werewolf, is actually rather cocky. He prefers tight fighting apparel.
To the undressing, the more likely, how long would that take in combat?
I'm going to play a werewolf in an upcoming AP and am in need of some advise. In the hybrid form he will still be in his gear and as we all know clothes get torn to shreds during the transformation.
I guess what I'm asking is, how do I avoid having to constantly buy new clothes?
Thanks guys! That's what I thought but I wasn't 100% sure.
I'm working on building a character whose dexterity modifier is -1. If flat-footed AC denies the dex bonus, does that mean his flat-footed is higher than his regular AC?
Thanks. :) we're going back in time and running Rise of the Runelords. We played Jade Regent last year and are running Shattered Star right now. We thought it would be cool to go back and see where our other characters were then.
My character for RotR is Nikolai Vassly. He was born a wolf in the forests of Ustalav. He's hiding in Varisia from his crazed siblings and ends up on Sandpoint just in time for the adventure to begin.
I'm playing a werewolf in a campaign in a few months. He's going to have a love interest who is a kitsune. The thought crossed my mind: what would happen if a kitsune was bitten by a werewolf? Would anything happen? Or would it be a weird fox/wolf hybrid?
The combat ended up being one player and myself rolling back and forth opposing prof sailor checks. the other player sat bored until we managed to grapple the ship and start regular combat. I am mainly wondering if there is any way to include the other player? or would it be better to just skip it?
I am having a problem with ship to ship combat. It doesn't keep all of my players entertained. One is really excited about it while the other sits bored until its done. Any suggestions?
Great minds think alike Trinite! In my game, Plugg and Scourge met the PC's on the island to dispose of them. During battle Plugg fled into the forest. The night before The still living Aaron Ivy in a fit of madness "killed" our undine PC, Ondir. The rest of the PC's searched the island, after the mutiny, for their missing companion, not thinking to search the sunken ship for their water-breathing friend. When he comes out of the water he is caught by Plugg and his shackles of compliance. After having his mind poisoned by Plugg, Ondir agrees to help him escape the island. He goes down into the grindylows' lair and, using is wild empathy ability, convinces the remaining pests that he is their new king. Plugg and Ondir then use the grindylows to "commandeer" a passing ship. Now I just have to figure out when they will make their comeback. I had waaay too much fun coming up with this!
We lost a undine PC on Bonewreck Island. In honor of him, We named ours "The Undine's Revenge."
I played a boreal sorcerer in jade regent and loved it. I multiclassed one level of magus to be able to wear light armor, but regretted it a later levels. While profession sailor will be useful, remember that the pc's have been press ganged. It's possible that they've never set foot on a boat before.
I don't know why, but in my game Sandara is Aussie, Conchobar is a french flirt, and Kroop has a thick drunken cockney accent.
We have a very small group (me, my wife, and our friend), so we take turns GMing AP's and we all play.
Two of ours speak Aquan and two speak Infernal. I have a feeling some secret conversations going on. lol
Our party has an Undine Druid and a Kitsune Bard. We haven't started playing yet, so I'm hoping we have enough healing power.
I probably missed it some where, but what happens to the crew assigned to take "commandeered" ships to port to sell? Any ideas on how to get them back to the ship or are they released from service (and if that's the case, what happens to the money)?
I love this! I was already thinking of keeping him alive, but wasn't sure on what to do with him. I was thinking of having him hanging by his foot by a snare he was working on, but this has so much more personality. :)
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Sani Pass is the only road link between KwaZulu-Natal and the mountain Kingdom of Lesotho. A 4x4 adventure into a different world - the land of the People of the Blanket - the proud Basotho Nation. Starting at 1540m above sea level in Himeville you will follow the deep valley incised by the Mkhomazana River to breast the summit at 2873m - with almost 1000m climbed in the last 8km of your trip in our 4x4 vehicles.
It is an amazing drive - and not for the faint hearted - allowing magnificent vistas whilst one climbs up this rugged and steep road. The road is being "maintained" by the Lesotho government beween the South African and the Lesotho border post - yet during most of my visits I have never seen anyone do something on the road.
Plans are to tar the road all the way to the top of the pass - so go now - it is an amazing adventure!
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From the Mississippi cotton fields of a century ago to the main stages of festivals in 2012, the blues is an ever-evolving art form. And if you like your blues simple and acoustic, loud and full of energy, traditional and rootsy, or challenging and fresh, we have something for you. Over the past year, we have likely been to a venue somewhere near you, recording the unique live experience so it's right at your fingertips — through Concerts on Demand.
Here is a short list of some of the 2012 concerts you can sample when you are looking for that bluesy distraction to your day.
Mavis Staples at Koerner Hall, Toronto, Jan. 29, 2012
AUDIO Kicking the year off right, we were at Koerner Hall in Toronto for a remarkable performance from one of the most highly regarded voices in popular music, Mavis Staples. Growing up in the politically charged '60s, working alongside iconic figures such as her father, Pops Staples, and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., it is easy to see how a voice like Staples' still rings with authenticity. After more than a half century in music, one might think Staples' raspy tone is a sign of age. Nope — she has had that distinct gravel all along.
Watch: Ndidi Onukwulu at the Edmonton International Jazz Festival, Jun. 23, 2012
Perhaps a little cooler and cleaner than Staples is the Canadian expat, now based in France, Ndidi Onukwulu. Onukwulu doesn't have the depth of life experience as Staples, but her authenticity comes in the form of original material. With a flair for the jazzier side of blues, Onukwulu has spent much of her decade in the business asserting herself as a songwriter. Her knack for creating almost immediately recognizable melodies will have you singing along as if you've known the songs forever.
Colin James's Up Close session in Studio 211 at CBC Toronto, Apr. 19, 2012
AUDIO There is no more recognizable name for pop-infused blues in Canada than Colin James. The beauty of putting James, and his band, into an Up Close session is the opportunity of combining the energy of a live show with the impeccable quality of a recording studio. The blues riffs that come naturally to James's guitar playing are not lost in the wall of sound coming from his world-class band.
Watch: Garrett Mason and Keith Hallett at the 2012 Halifax Jazz Festival, Jul. 7, 2012
Now, if it is a blues guitar showcase you are looking for, this is the concert you'll not only be listening to, but watching. In the old days, aspiring blues guitar players would wear out records, playing key licks over and over, trying to match them note for note, by ear. CBC Music is more than happy to help would-be guitarists along with some beautifully shot close-ups from Garrett Mason and Keith Hallett's show at the Halifax Jazz Festival.
Cold Specks at St. James Hall in Vancouver, Nov. 21, 2012
AUDIO When I spoke to Al Spx, a.k.a. Cold Specks, a few weeks back, she was not too certain about being listed in the blues category — and rightfully so, if you listen simply to her ethereal, ambience-driven sound. But the words she writes, the themes she conveys, and the lead-off tune, "Peace in the Valley," of this concert, will assure you that Cold Specks is as blues as the best of them.
Almost 20 blues concerts of all shapes and sizes can be found in CBC Music's Concerts on Demand archive. The year 2012was a good one for recording. Let's hope 2013 adds more great blues to the audio and video playlist.
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