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Friday OT #1 - Onomatopoeia

Angie

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When I am procrastinating from doing a task, I create playlists with themes while I think over the task at hand. Yesterday, I was churning something over, and so I created a playlist of songs with onomatopoeia in the title.

In case anyone wasn’t an English major, onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like the noise it makes. Boom, crash, slap, stomp, knock - all words that sound at least somewhat like their corresponding noises.

I got about 103 songs before I stopped. How many can CF get?
 
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My first was the Stones’ “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” - a great song, and you can say “onomatopoeia” in place of the title words and it fits perfectly.
 
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At risk of starting an ear worm, "Knock Three Times" (on the ceiling if you wa-ant me) by Dawn* is the first song that comes to mind.

*The band billed by that name (no Tony Orlando in the title) played at our small town Iowa community building, probably in 1970. The proprietors of the local music shop said the band came into the shop and acted like they were big shots.
 
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matclone said:
At risk of starting an ear worm, "Knock Three Times" (on the ceiling if you wa-ant me) by Dawn* is the first song that comes to mind.

*The band billed by that name (no Tony Orlando in the title) played at our small town Iowa community building, probably in 1970. The proprietors of the local music shop said the band came into the shop and acted like they were big shots.
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I played that song for my husband a few weeks ago just to annoy him. He had never heard it before!

Some others:

Bang A Gong - T Rex
Keep Their Heads Ringin - Dr Dre
Love Buzz - Nirvana
 
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Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) by Cher. Released as a "Cher" but really a Sonny & Cher because Sonny wrote it. Damn thread, makes me flashback to a song I didn't even like at the time, and sort of hated.
 
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VeloClone said:
I know I keep breaking the rules, but this number may very well be the queen of onomatopoeia despite it not being in the title:

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Made me think of this old Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks song Euphonious Whale. Sort of meets the title criteria since I've always thought "whale" is part a play on words for "wail". Lyrics got your repetitive tweet (as in tweet tweet tweet tweet...), squeak, meow, and bow wow. It's just good silly fun and always makes me smile to hear it. This is the sort of weird **** you get introduced to when you carpenter with bunch of odd seminary students on an ad hoc construction crew in 1979.

 
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A little too early for Christmas or winter music but...



And it has the onomatopoeiac Bing Crosby singing it along with the fantastic Andrews Sisters.
 
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A few:

Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
Shake, Rattle and Roll - Big Joe Turner (and others)
Whoomp! (There It Is) - Tag Team
Pop Goes the World - Men Without Hats
Pop Muzik - M
She Bop - Cyndi Lauper

Part of title, but not in lyrics:
Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
Pop Song ’89 - R.E.M.

Lyrics only:
Beep-beep, beep-beep, yeah - Drive My Car (The Beatles)
Toot-toot, hey, beep-beep - Bad Girls (Donna Summer)
 
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We jerked our guns and he fell with a thud (thump on guitar)--
and I got away on the Tennessee stud.

 
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