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* An excerpt from a recent Bill Simmons article (a running diary of [[Professional Wrestling|Wrestlemania XXVI]]) demonstrates this well:

{{quote|'''0:01:''' For our first match, tag-team championship belts are on the line: R-Truth (a rapper/wrestler) and John Morrison (an entertaining Jim Morrison ripoff) challenging the champs, The Big Show and The Miz (carrying two belts apiece, for some reason). R-Truth came out prancing and singing his hit song, "What's Up?" The lyrics go like this: "Shshshn cnbcnsbdb fhdehsh fhdhs dhdhan dbdjdndjd dbdbdbdbdb shshsnhs ffrhdhhjs xbcxbbffgfhhj WHAT'S UP? WHAT'S UP? WHAT'S UP? WHAT'S UP?" I don't think he wrote that one with Burt Bacharach and Carly Simon.}}

* "Ball of Ballos", from the ''[[Cave Story]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101000131/http://kwixmusic.com/cavestory/ Remix Project]''. The remixer, Tackle, [http://csremixproject.myfastforum.org/sutra1133.php&highlight=#1133 explained] that the track is a medley of the ''Cave Story'' tune "Running Hell", and [[Opeth]]'s "Closure". After recording it, he wasn't happy with how his vocals turned out, so he manipulated them electronically and mixed them real low in the final version, so they wouldn't sound as bad.

* "Ball of Ballos", from the ''[[Cave Story]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101000131/http://kwixmusic.com/cavestory/ Remix Project]''. The remixer, Tackle, [http://csremixproject.myfastforum.org/sutra1133.php&highlight=#1133 explained]{{Dead link}} that the track is a medley of the ''Cave Story'' tune "Running Hell", and [[Opeth]]'s "Closure". After recording it, he wasn't happy with how his vocals turned out, so he manipulated them electronically and mixed them real low in the final version, so they wouldn't sound as bad.

* Any song by [[Queens of the Stone Age]] that former bassist Nick Oilivieri [[Careful with That Axe|"sang".]]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDl_s6GAzt4 Emptiness and] from ''[[The World Ends With You]]''. Really, the only thing you can understand ''in the entire song'' are the words "emptiness and". And even then, you can't tell if she's saying that or "happiness and".

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* Wakusei's cover of [[The Pixies|"Gigantic"]], owing to the fact that they're a Japanese band who apparently attempted to learn the original's lyrics phonetically. The chorus is much more intelligible than the verses, although they ''do'' consistently pronounce "gigantic" with two hard g's, making it sound like the separate words "gig" and "antic".

* Try understanding the lyrics in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zd6DrceGyI "Ants"] by ''Devin Townsend''... Good luck.

* [[The Decemberists]], frequently. The most triumphant example is probably [http://www.4shared.com/audio/GtQMpnDp/13_-_The_Decemberists_-_The_Pe.html The Perfect Crime #1], [[Word of God|said to be]] a consequence of an absinthe binge (if you can tell apart the English and the French, congratulations). It's pretty common in all of their songs, though, thanks to Colin's... ''distinctive''... accent.

* [[The Decemberists]], frequently. The most triumphant example is probably [http://www.4shared.com/audio/GtQMpnDp/13_-_The_Decemberists_-_The_Pe.html The Perfect Crime #1]{{Dead link}}, [[Word of God|said to be]] a consequence of an absinthe binge (if you can tell apart the English and the French, congratulations). It's pretty common in all of their songs, though, thanks to Colin's... ''distinctive''... accent.

* Good luck trying to understand more than three words in [[Foo Fighters]]' "White Limo".

** And its spritual predecessor, "Weenie Beenie" (which is already in an album chock full of [[Word Salad Lyrics]], but like "White Limo" has modulated vocals to top it).