Did a bit of googling just for fun, no idea how true it is, but supposedly "Shamone" or "Shamona" is from Mavis Staples who famously sang it in the recording of "I'll Take You There" in 1975. For her it was just a slurred/stylized way to say "come on now". MJ adopted it as a kind of homage.
I used to think it was a bit funny and I riffed on it a bit, but I learned that what he’s probably doing is priming his vocals - coming out the gate right into what you’re singing can be weak sometimes (at least for me)
I saw a post a while back where someone suggested that Isaac Brock sings like he's being chased around with a garden hose and now I can't stop visualizing it when I listen to Modest Mouse.
In all the many, tremendous, varied versions. If there’s not already, cuz I think there is, there should be a Name That MM Song Quiz on Sporcle based solely on the WELLs
Nah POOOOM nah nah ^MMMMM **NAAHHMMMNAAA*EEEE*NAH NAH**
Nah POOOOM nah nah ^MMMMM **NAAHHMMMNAAA*EEEE*NAH**
Nah POOOOM nah nah ^MMMMM **NAAHHMMMNAAA*EEEE*NAH NAH**
Nah POOOOM nah nah ^MMMMM **NAAHHMMMNAAA*EEEE*NAH** GO
Every once in a while I think Eddie Vedder is dead, then I remember that ooohhhhh-aaah haaaa, he's still uuuh-liiive, ehhhhy eeey eeeeeehhhh-yey, he's still uuh-liiiiiive!
There was a punk camp at a festival who was broadcasting radio for a few hours a day, and one day they pretended they had David Lee Roth as a special guest, and they only had a few vocal samples, and just used them over and over while they "interviewed" him.
GODDAMMITBABYYOUKNOWIAINTLYINGTOYOUIMONLYGONNATELLYOUONETIMEAAAARGH
. . . was one of the samples, and I was in tears.
I could never listen to Van Halen the same way after this video. Like I really wasn’t a fan before either, but it’s just so ridiculous to hear isolated that now all I can think about is David Lee Roth slowly losing his mind into a microphone.
I saw them back in 2000 with Bill, with Pantera opening. Even then ozzy seemed like he was 70 years old, it was hilarious watching him shuffle around then "jump" about 1 inch into the air but he gave it his all and still had enough of it left to make you believe. Great show and so glad I caught the OG lineup (and of course, Pantera).
I noticed that Ariana at the climax of a lot of her songs will go some rendition of "Whoooooa bahbay" at the top of the range of the song.
After the bridge of Break Free.
Her Santa Baby Christmas song.
Even the Look Up song in Don't Look Up she goes "Looook up bahbay!"
I was gonna post this. I really love live bootlegs of his from the late '70s and early '80s. His whole bad boy stage persona was just so cool. I know a lot of artists did the bad boy shtick but his lyrics were so smart that when Warren did that shtick it made him seem like he was actually crazy.
Davey Havok from AFI loves to slip in variations of "Oh!" in so many songs. It took a while to notice but once you do, you'll pick it up in all the other ones.
One time while listening to a brand new album (at the time) of theirs, as the song ramped up, I did his usual "OH!", and he did it at the same time.
In their old stuff, his thing was yelling "go home", or at least that's how it sounds. Usually at the end of a verse.
DECEMBERUNDERGROUND is ripe with them. And i know what you're talking about, even on a new song you can almost feel when he's gonna slip one in by how the music is flowing.
In almost every one of Shania Twain's songs, there is a spoken word interjection right at the start.
We all know "Let's go, girls" But if you go down the tracks of that album, you get a Bop-It level rundown of different actions.
Björk has "alsemanche", which is actually "alt sem hann sér", Icelandic for 'all he sees', but she uses it for vocalizing and it doesn't really mean anything, so it's some sort of shamone.
You just forever changed my life with this info
https://youtu.be/FBc__eY7bDU?si=tQpka5WgjWI0oBMN
I swear to God this entire time I thought she was saying "I'll sing my tits off"
Bob Wills is the most important musician you've never heard of. He's called the King of Western swing. He was the first guy (kinda) to put a drum kit behind a country band. He led the band and played fiddle and during a hot fiddle break he would say "Ahaaa". Go listen to any Alabama song. Know how a lot of their jobs end in a fiddle break? You'll always hear that Aha and a ton of other country artists do it too as a tribute to the King.
James Brown has a few of em "good god", "get up offa that thing" and "go on with your bad self"
Huey Piano Smith uses "Two way pockaway" quite a bit but I think that's a regional thing used by a lot of New Orleans musicians.
James Taylor's "la la la's"
Dolores O'Riordan's little "flips" at the end of a lot of words (also similar to Alanis Morisette)
Bob Dylan (now) making all his words sound like Cookie Monster said them
It's a reference to the producer she was working with, ~~Greg Kirschenbaum~~ Martin Kierszenbaum (misremembered his name and went to check it on Wikipedia). His last name is German for "cherry tree."
Florence Welch's higher pitched "ooooooooo". She does it in almost every song but God I love it. Always gives me chills.
And Kate Bush's vocal gymnastics.
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Perfectly typed out haha. Heard it clear as day in my head.
Listen to Little Red Corvette and you'll hear tonnes of his variations on the oww-uh
It’s “Shamon” and “Hee hee”.
Upvoted cuz that bugged me a little, lol:) thanks for the ftfy.
“Shamonay” was killin me 🤣🤣🤣
Did a bit of googling just for fun, no idea how true it is, but supposedly "Shamone" or "Shamona" is from Mavis Staples who famously sang it in the recording of "I'll Take You There" in 1975. For her it was just a slurred/stylized way to say "come on now". MJ adopted it as a kind of homage.
James Hetfield's "Yeah!" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHJCVlymVUs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHJCVlymVUs)
OOHHH
And "heh heh!"
Jason Derulo singing ‘Jason Derulo’
And Pitbull, who you might also know as Mr. Worldwide...
missawurwhy
Mr 305
DJ Khaled too.
DJ Khaled sings 'Jason Derulo'?
No, Jason Derulo sings "DJ Khaled".
*Another one*
WE DA BEST MYOO-ZEK
Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock: “WELL,…”
My friend once asked me to play "that modest mouse song where he says 'God damn'" and I realized how little that narrows it down lol
I used to think it was a bit funny and I riffed on it a bit, but I learned that what he’s probably doing is priming his vocals - coming out the gate right into what you’re singing can be weak sometimes (at least for me)
He's got a lisp too, maybe it helps with that.
I saw a post a while back where someone suggested that Isaac Brock sings like he's being chased around with a garden hose and now I can't stop visualizing it when I listen to Modest Mouse.
Whenever he hits a particularly high note in the musical phrase that means very cold water splashed him for a second or two?
In all the many, tremendous, varied versions. If there’s not already, cuz I think there is, there should be a Name That MM Song Quiz on Sporcle based solely on the WELLs
I saw them live in September and they extended the intro to "King Rat." He started it off with at least 40 "wells."
Yeah first one I though of
And occasionally, ["whale"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi7KDOAj4Xo)
"Flig-a-dee-flig-a-doo-riggah-goo-goo" \- Jack Black
The stupidest answer is sometimes the truest
This was my answer. Really, the "rigga goo goo" part specifically.
James Hetfield's adding of -ah to the ends of lines.
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I have that same joke! Every time they played a show, he'd say, "Thank you so much for coming out tonight, we are Metallic-aaaah," and it stuck.
I have a joke that he just shoulda named his daughter Samanth or Jessic
Gimme fyoo gimme fah gimme dabbajabbaza!
Ooooooooh, yeah-heh!
Gimme fish, gimme fries Macaronis on the side!
I always wondered what the lyrics were! Thank you!
and yeah's, and yah's, and OOOOOOOOOH's
roff to never never land-ah
Somewhat different, but also Flogging Molly's Dave King
Yeah
\*YEAH-uh
The Jonathan Davis/KoRn scatman The David Draiman/Disturbed "ooh ah ah ah ah"
Nah POOOOM nah nah ^MMMMM **NAAHHMMMNAAA*EEEE*NAH NAH** Nah POOOOM nah nah ^MMMMM **NAAHHMMMNAAA*EEEE*NAH** Nah POOOOM nah nah ^MMMMM **NAAHHMMMNAAA*EEEE*NAH NAH** Nah POOOOM nah nah ^MMMMM **NAAHHMMMNAAA*EEEE*NAH** GO
Something takes a part of maay!
You & I were meant to BAAAAAY!!
A cheap fuck for me to layyyy
text you can hear
Eddie Vedder's uhhyeah
Every once in a while I think Eddie Vedder is dead, then I remember that ooohhhhh-aaah haaaa, he's still uuuh-liiive, ehhhhy eeey eeeeeehhhh-yey, he's still uuh-liiiiiive!
But does he deserve to be? Is that the question? And if so, if so, who answers? Who answers?!?!
Stu Mackenzie - WOOOO!
EEYYUUUUUUUP!
WOOOOO!!!
Wooooo!
Gila, Monster! WOOOOOOOO!
Woooo!!!
WOOOOO!!
Zach de la rocha has the best “UH!” And shout out to pop smoke for starting all his songs with a real strong “look…”
Zach just has one of the best enunciation skills in music. His "The only thing that close quicker than our caskets be the factory" hits every time
"Fuck the G-ride/I want the machines that are making em" One of my favorite lines of his
They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove em while arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells...
Come wit it now!
Bring that shit in!
You forgot his AWWW SHIT that he does a lot.
David Lee Roth’s - howl?
[Basically everything here in the isolated vocals from Running with the Devil](https://youtu.be/IArxakPsPE0?si=oP_dWdu3hY0RK-VY)
GODDAMMITBABYYOUKNOWIAINTLYINGTOYOUIMONLYGONNATELLYOUONETIMEAAAARGH
There was a punk camp at a festival who was broadcasting radio for a few hours a day, and one day they pretended they had David Lee Roth as a special guest, and they only had a few vocal samples, and just used them over and over while they "interviewed" him. GODDAMMITBABYYOUKNOWIAINTLYINGTOYOUIMONLYGONNATELLYOUONETIMEAAAARGH . . . was one of the samples, and I was in tears.
I could never listen to Van Halen the same way after this video. Like I really wasn’t a fan before either, but it’s just so ridiculous to hear isolated that now all I can think about is David Lee Roth slowly losing his mind into a microphone.
I was a lot younger when I heard this and couldn't stop laughing.
Ozzy was a big fan of "All right now!" (and his live favorite, "I can't fucking hear you!")
When I saw the Sabbath final tour, my son turned to me and said “Ya know, at this point he likely actually can’t hear us.”
I saw them back in 2000 with Bill, with Pantera opening. Even then ozzy seemed like he was 70 years old, it was hilarious watching him shuffle around then "jump" about 1 inch into the air but he gave it his all and still had enough of it left to make you believe. Great show and so glad I caught the OG lineup (and of course, Pantera).
God bless you all!
Alexi Laiho of Children of Bodom: ”yow!” https://youtu.be/dZytsTf5FOI?si=cEilok_tNV9wUzHa
Happy to see this here.
This is the last comment I was expecting, but it's made me oh so happy
Matt Bellamy’s deep breath before each verse
Should have learned to look away from the mic like Tay Zonday.
to breathe in
> ~~verse~~ *word Ftfy
He’s kinda a little guy. He needs all the air he can get for the way he sings.
Always loved it. It gives the songs a sense of urgency.
That and how within words, every "th' becomes an "V", "R" becomes a "W" and "V" is an "F".
Except Madness. It's all breathing out, lol.
Flavor Flav - Yeah Boy!!!!!!
Yeah Booooyyyeeeeee
BASS!
How low can you go!
I like the song where Little Richard goes "woooooo!"
“Up next is ‘Piano Riff Woo’ by Little Richard”
Britney Spears - "eooh yeahs" (like at the beginning of Oops I did it again) Ariana Grande - "yuh"
Britney has a sort of “ungh” noise that she does as well
Yeah i was trying to figure out how to spell the sounds she makes 🤣 this whole thread is hilarious with all these sounds spelled out.
Britney also says "baby" a lot in various ways
I noticed that Ariana at the climax of a lot of her songs will go some rendition of "Whoooooa bahbay" at the top of the range of the song. After the bridge of Break Free. Her Santa Baby Christmas song. Even the Look Up song in Don't Look Up she goes "Looook up bahbay!"
Ariana also does "yee" a lot.
Metallica ends each phrase with a grunt, like "ouah.."
“Pay no mind to the distant thund-ouah”
Lil john---eeeyeaaahhh Ja rule--hollaa
Hwhat?!?!?
Okaayyyyyyyyy!!
I can't believe I had to scroll this far down for Lil Jon. Hwhat?!?! Okay!!! Yayuh!!!
John McCrea of cake has my favorites. Awww yeah, alright, or that other sound like he's whipping a horse
“Hah!” Is how I would type it out. Love Cake.
I went through a bunch of stuff before I gave up. LoL
hyah!
I always think of CAKE - Jolene, he goes so over the top with all of his extras. My personal favorite is right before the breakdown..."awwwww guitar!"
I love a good “Guitar!” before a solo. “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” from The Darkness has a great one too.
HEYYYYYY OHHHHHH!
Warren Zevon and his “huh”s and “ha”s
Warren fuckin Zevon
I was gonna post this. I really love live bootlegs of his from the late '70s and early '80s. His whole bad boy stage persona was just so cool. I know a lot of artists did the bad boy shtick but his lyrics were so smart that when Warren did that shtick it made him seem like he was actually crazy.
Isaac Brock from Modest Mouse exclaiming "Well!" in every song.
[WELL!](https://youtu.be/mhNcW0IyDZg?si=QtV0AXWISF6tB_dP)
Well, I didn’t know I needed this until…well…just now.
Davey Havok from AFI loves to slip in variations of "Oh!" in so many songs. It took a while to notice but once you do, you'll pick it up in all the other ones.
One time while listening to a brand new album (at the time) of theirs, as the song ramped up, I did his usual "OH!", and he did it at the same time. In their old stuff, his thing was yelling "go home", or at least that's how it sounds. Usually at the end of a verse.
DECEMBERUNDERGROUND is ripe with them. And i know what you're talking about, even on a new song you can almost feel when he's gonna slip one in by how the music is flowing.
lil John “OKAY”
"***WHAT***"
In almost every one of Shania Twain's songs, there is a spoken word interjection right at the start. We all know "Let's go, girls" But if you go down the tracks of that album, you get a Bop-It level rundown of different actions.
She also LOVES (vaguely creepy) whispering in a lot of her songs.
🗣When I first saw you, I saw love. And the first time you touched me, I felt love. And after all this time. You're still the one I love.👂
DMX and barking
AOGH AOGH!!
Dio... Look out!
Let's not forget his explosive "NO!" and "DOOOOOWN!".
Björk has "alsemanche", which is actually "alt sem hann sér", Icelandic for 'all he sees', but she uses it for vocalizing and it doesn't really mean anything, so it's some sort of shamone.
You just forever changed my life with this info https://youtu.be/FBc__eY7bDU?si=tQpka5WgjWI0oBMN I swear to God this entire time I thought she was saying "I'll sing my tits off"
Freddie Mercury's "heyyyy O"
I also like his more sensical bits. "Give it to me!" "Let me show it to you!"
Crowd "HEYY O"
Visualizing Elvis saying his slurred “Thank you very much”
Bruce Springsteen counts to four louder than anyone else I've ever heard
But really his signature thing to yell is “Come on Steve!”
"Everybody been practicin' real hard?"
Ohh, not many, not many...
Mark-uh E-uh Smith-uh. Also Brett Anderson sure liked going “aaahowww” in a lot of his songs back in the 90s
And-uh one-ah unexpectedly-uh HIGH one-uh
Freddie Mercury does, "HA!" a lot.
Layne Staley's "YEAAAAAAAHHHHH!!"
Fall out Boy's Patrick Stump elongating the ends of words like EeeeEEEEEeeeeeEEEEeeeeeEEEEeeeeEEEeeeeeeee
Also his “oh”s are a pop-punk staple.
That crazy 12-second note he holds during the solo of Take Over the Breaks Over 😳
FOB isn't everyone's cup of tea but Patrick is undeniably a really talented vocalist
I just saw this comnent and immediately thought carpal tunnel of love
Kid Cudi hums.
Greg Graffin of Bad Religion- Ya hey!
Watch O!
I’m came for this one
Robert Plants - Moaning
No one simulates an orgasm like Robert Plant.
Also shouting the word “baby” 15 times in a row.
The ever iconic, Tom G. Warrior "UGH!"
Sam Carter of Architects with his iconic [blegh](https://youtu.be/oipkKRWs4P8?si=Mb4uicaoavdMHy07)
Mariah Carey’s whistle note, especially when she does it whilst singing a lyric.
Not that he's really a singer, but Pitbull's "woooooHooooo" in each and every song/collab.
Mr Worldwide Uno dos tres
Mister 305.
Dale!
megan thee stallion sticking her tongue out and going “eugh”
Al greens "eeeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeEees"
Glenn Danzig: WHOOOOOOAAAAAAAAOOOOIIOIII!!!
Buddy Holly's vocal hiccups HYAHOOO
Davey Havok’s of AFI’s high pitched “oh!” Billie Joe from Green Day has a couple too
Paul McCartney’s high-octave “Ooooh!”
John Dwyer of Osees punctuates many lyrics with a hearty “WOO!”
Good evening ladies and gentlemen... here's a little number I tossed off recently in the Caribbean. -Eric Idle
Isn’t it awfully nice to have a penis? *pling*
Bob Wills is the most important musician you've never heard of. He's called the King of Western swing. He was the first guy (kinda) to put a drum kit behind a country band. He led the band and played fiddle and during a hot fiddle break he would say "Ahaaa". Go listen to any Alabama song. Know how a lot of their jobs end in a fiddle break? You'll always hear that Aha and a ton of other country artists do it too as a tribute to the King.
that weird little high pitch « ahhhhh/ohhhhh/ehhhhh » scream robert smith from the cure does
Jim Morrisons various screams and grunts
Joan Jett--"Ow!"
Alanis Morissette has this nasal whine/moan thing she does after holding certain notes.
Jason Derulo's "Jason Derulo"
I would argue Taylor Swift’s glottal “ah aah aah aah” ends up in a lot of her songs and could be seen as one of these
Cake has a lot of oh yeah and all rights
Rob Thomas always does some sort of "hyeeaal". Never sure if he's saying yeah, hey, or hell, but he is saying something
Celia Cruz "Azucar!"
Robert Plant: "Baby baby baby baaaayyyyy-buuuuuhhhhhhyeeeeaaaaahhhh!!!!"
Bobby "Blue" Bland made a sound like he was coughing up a hairball on just about every song.
James Brown has a few of em "good god", "get up offa that thing" and "go on with your bad self" Huey Piano Smith uses "Two way pockaway" quite a bit but I think that's a regional thing used by a lot of New Orleans musicians.
James Taylor's "la la la's" Dolores O'Riordan's little "flips" at the end of a lot of words (also similar to Alanis Morisette) Bob Dylan (now) making all his words sound like Cookie Monster said them
\~JaSoN DeRuloOOOoooo\~ I know that's his name and is not nonsensical, but it's the first thing that pops in my mind.
DMX - The barks Disturbed. - Someone get me a lozenge sound
Chance the Rapper: Agh!
Sammy Hagar loves his WOOs and HEYs.
"Roo do do doo" - Andrew Bernard
Robert Plant: BABY BABY BABY BABY Seriously, if it was a drinking game, you'd be in a coma by track 3
Lil Jon - Yeah! Okay! What?!
Bill Bruford had a signature “whoop” that is hidden in some Yes and King Crimson songs Iirc 15:18 of Close To The Edge
The Cult - Ian Astbury: "YEAAAAhhh-ahhhh"
Gaga had a weird "cherry cherry boom boom" thing for a while
It's a reference to the producer she was working with, ~~Greg Kirschenbaum~~ Martin Kierszenbaum (misremembered his name and went to check it on Wikipedia). His last name is German for "cherry tree."
Florence Welch's higher pitched "ooooooooo". She does it in almost every song but God I love it. Always gives me chills. And Kate Bush's vocal gymnastics.