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* [[Tom Waits]]' screaming.
* The Used's Bert McCracken often makes "mm"s "pow"s and "chk-chkow"s, some of which are reminiscent of Michael Jackson.
* Eddie Vedder of [[Pearl Jam (Music)|Pearl Jam]] makes quite a variety of sounds, the most common are probably "Mmmm", "Unh-huh" and "Oooooo".
* [[The Cure]]'s Robert Smith seems particulary fond of making meowing noises in a number of their songs, mostly the upbeat tracks such as 'Lovecats' and 'Mint Car'.
* Dave Chappelle immortalized [[Lil Jon]]'s "YAA-EE-AAH!" "OKAY!" and "WHAT!"
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* The early [[The Beatles]] were fond of "Whoo!", in imitation of Little Richard.
* [[Aimee Mann]] is fond of tossing the word "baby" into her songs at random.
* [[Led Zeppelin (Music)|Led Zeppelin]]'s Robert Plant had his easily recognizable array of wails and high-pitched screams, along with his randomly inserted "Oh baby"'s.
* [[Metallica (Music)|James Hetfield]] is well known for ending phrases with "-AH!" "All Nightmare Long" has this hilarious line at the end of the chorus: "But your [[This Is Sparta|luck! runs! out-AH!"]] He's also well known for "Yeaah-aaah!" and the occasional "Go!" as a new riff or portion of a song kicks in.
* Japan's ridiculous debut album Adolescent Sex has David Sylvian saying "whoa babe" and "dancing" a lot.
* [[Regina Spektor]] goes "tsk-tsk" to the beat of the music a lot. It's often accompanied by snapping.
* It seems sometimes that [[Will Smith]] can't begin a song without a "Whooooo!", "Uhn!", or "Ha ha!". For that matter, he doesn't seem able to end a song without one, either.
* [[Buddy Holly (Music)|Buddy Holly]] had the glottal stop, as in "We-eh-ell, the little things you say and do, make me want to be with you-uh-oo."
* Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing almost always pronounces an additional vowel at the ends of words which end stanzas. It's rather unusual at first, but eventually, you can't imagine Soul Coughing music without it. "When you were languishing in rooms I build to file you in-ah, and when the wind set down in funnel-form and pulled you in-ah."
* Wynonna Judd uses a lot of "Uhn" in her songs, and sometimes actually ''hisses" in her songs. No, really, she hisses. Like a snake.
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** Keith Jarrett fits too, with added grunting.
* Jazz musician Phil Harris had a habit of tossing in the occasional "Oh", "Hey", "Tell me" and "Yeah, man" on every song he sang. He would also make sounds that mimicked the music that was backing him (like going "ba-pa-pa-ba-dah" to accompany a trumpet flourish).
* Mark E. Smith of [[The Fall (Musicband)|The Fall]] is known for adding an "-ah" at the end of lines in a way similar to the Mike Doughty example above. It's not quite after ''every'' line, and generally seems to be his way of emphasizing certain lyrics. It's particularly rampant in "Repetition" - "Ah-we dig-ah, Ah-we dig-ah repetition-ah!".
** British comedians Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer labelled this ''The Club Singer Style'' after inept singers in [[Phoenix Nights Northern|working mens' clubs]], and took it to a particularly incoherent extreme on their [[Shooting Stars]] spoof game show.
* Redman always starts his songs (or at least his own verse when rapping on someone else's track) with one or more "Yo's".
* Legendary actor/singer Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers got his nickname("Scatman") ''because'' of this trope. He'd toss in nonsense sounds and "Hey, man"s into every song he sang. As with Phil Harris, a lot of the sounds he made duplicated the music being played behind his vocals, a technique known in jazz as "[[Scatting]]".
* The Kaiser Chiefs seem to like going, "Wooooaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!"
* [[U 2U2|Bono]] likes his "ohhhhhhh"s.
* [[Ronnie James Dio]] was fond of "Lookout!"
* Till Lindemann of German band [[Rammstein (Music)|Rammstein]] usually rolls his R's. Also, when he sings ''"ach"'', it sounds like a growl.
* Matisyahu never fails to drop a "Yaiyo!" or "Yiggi yiggi yo!" or two into his songs.
* Steven Tyler of [[Aerosmith (Music)|Aerosmith]] seems to favor the "Weeeaooows".
* Less so in later years, but on [[System of a Down]]'s first album, Serj Tankian was notorious for this. The song [[D Devil]] is a good example.
* Michael Stipe would often go 'ho''ooh' or 'whoa' in the early [[REM|R.E.M.]] songs, for instance in "Harborcoat" and "Just A Touch". He would often stretch these noises over the melody for harmony purposes. Another one, which he still does, is shout some of the words in a particular line rather than sing them (for instance in "Just A Touch" and "Discoverer").
* New artist Awolnation (a.k.a Aaron Bruno) enjoys randomly screaming "Yeah!" or "Hey!" between verses, the beginning of the song 'Soul Wars' being a prime example.
* Stray From The Path's Drew York does this a lot with "Bleagh".
* David Draiman of [[Disturbed (Music)|Disturbed]] is known for a guttural, animal-like sort of growl/scream, which opened 'Down With the Sickness', Perfect Insanity and 'Stricken', among others.
* [[Christina Aguilera]] throws Woo Hoo's, Hoo woow's, aha's and WOOOH into her tracks!
* [[Billy Idol]] is rather fond of "ow!"
* [[Lady Gaga]] likes stuttering syllables in whatever phrase is the hook - "puh-puh-puh-poker face", "stop telephoning me-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh", "Judas, Juda-ah-ah!", "Muh-muh-muh-marry the night"...
* [[BrokenBroke CYDENCYDE]] go 'bree bree', a high-pitched piggie-squeal noise, which expresses adolescent rage, presumably. This was common for [[Crunkcore]] bands when they started doing it, but they continued long after others realized how awful it was, [[Self-Deprecation|and named their pig mascot 'Bree']].
* Brazilian singer Samuel Rosa, from the band Skank, is an expert in [[Scatting]]. His most repeated one is "Ehhhhh!".
* In the case of [[Evanescence]] Amy Lee uses AH AH AH rather a lot on their 2011 album.
* [[Imogen Heap]] was rather fond of "Da da ooooom" in her early years. It seems to have carried on in the [[Frou Frou]] cover of [[Holding Out for Aa Hero]] and in Speak For Yourself's Loose Ends, albeit with the "oom" changed to "dum" and with more "da da".
* [[Van Halen|David Lee Roth]] has many, including "OH YEEEAAAH" and "woo!".
* [[Say Anything]]'s lead singer Max Bemis tends to use "woah!" as a filler -- played with in the song "Woe".
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