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** "Louie Louie" is famous for this, and is often picked on for it by [[Music/Dave Barry|Dave Barry]]. There was also a commercial in the late '90s which featured the song and scrolled nonsensical gibberish in place of actual lyrics to parody how difficult it was to understand the song.
*** [[Animal House]] also lampshades the difficulties when [[John Belushi|Bluto]] teaches the freshmen frat members a more obscene version of the song. To their credit, though, the soundtrack actually has a well-sung—even comprehensible! -- version sung by none other than Mr. Belushi himself!
*** ''[[Bloom County]]'' did a Sunday strip during the 1988 Presidential elections where each of the candidates (George Bush, Michael Dukakis, and Bill the Cat) [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20080719170850/http://tafkac.org/songs/louie_louie_real_words.html translated the song] based on what they could understand, as if it would tell the public something about them all. Since the ad was sponsored by Bill's people, it takes jabs at Bush ("Iran-Contra thing makes me phlegm") and Dukakis ("Kitty she leads me everywhere") while saying Bill's translation, which isn't even legible English half the time, "revealed a simple honesty".
* "Even Flow" by [[Pearl Jam]] - "Oooooeeeeeeyeeeeeahahhhhhh... da da da da da da something concrete". And most of their other songs, but this one gets made fun of the most once people realize they don't know it.
** Most would contend that "Yellow Ledbetter" is the more quintessential garbled Pearl Jam (not that there is a dearth of selection, mind you) as illustrated by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU this slice of hilarity]