Which song has fewest words ever?


One comes into mind quick is "Is There Anybody Out There?" which is just 5 words throughout song.
Another song's short lyrics is Chris Botti song "Ever Since We Met" has only 2 4-liner chorus.
czarivey
Raunchy, Rebel Rouser and Happy Organ all have no words. Zero. What do I win?
Geoff,
no words does NOT mean words or word.
check the contest :-)

Good hit on Tequila! Tadam tadadada dam tam!
Clint Eastwood was a man of few words. Sometimes he didn't say anything. One word is fewer than than two words and zero words is fewer than one word. QED

They Might be Giants - "Minimum Wage"
Two words...should be good for 2nd Place.
Yellow, Oh Yeah.
I believe only the words, oh, yeah, and beautiful are used, several times, but just those words.
There’s one on an old David Crosby album, "Song with no Words".
Quite terse indeed.
rja, geoff,
Frank Zappa has whole album "Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar"
This one has songs with no words whole box set.
czarivey

geoff,
Frank Zappa has whole album "Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar"
This one has songs with no words whole box


Bingo!! See, that wasn’t so hard was it?

Album with most words???????? Never mind, I guess I probably shouldn't care. Cheers,
Spencer
There are millions of songs with no words. John Handy has a song "Hard Work" and that's it. YOU Tube it, it's really great.
Agree, there are plenty of chants with mixes of vowels, but I meant really WORD or WORDS
Plenty of fusion albums with AUWEEU type of stuff, but I don't think that it can be defined as WORD.
"One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces"  This may be a little wordy for this thread, but it sure get's your attention.
Best ONE word:
"Koyaanisqatsi" - (Life out of balance)
Phillip Glass from the movie of the same name.
@papermill ,
I must agree. It's great title and super great music!
@mizike,
As long as it's song's words, nothing's wordy :)
THANKS for keeping up!
Y'all have had your headphones on backwards with too much bass again...

Let's see....current One Word contenders is:

Tequila
Dead
Wipeout
Koyaanisqatsi

('One word' in my local focal locus is at least a syllable, two letters, and 'ah' or 'oy' or 'ya' or the like might be disqualified as more a note sung by a human voice or the eq....ideally, it should have some sort of 'meaning' other than a sound...)

But, looking over the list, it seems more an Rx for a real lousy day that started out promising....

But, anyway....back to the festivities... ;)
How about songs you still want to listen to and are considered excellent?

Maggot Brain.... is then a contender.
Maybe not the fewest words, but "Dan Blocker" by Gurf Morlix hasn't many, and they're great ones. On his album Toad of Titicaca, Gurf was Lucinda Williams' original guitarist/bandleader/producer.
Many, many years ago Mad Magazine included a floppy 45 RPM recording of a song where the music had frequently stop-time gaps, into which they injected the sound of belching.  Nothing else was vocalized.  Sometimes just one belch, sometimes three or four belches.
I'll leave it up to the judges to decide whether a belch qualifies as a word, an aborted word, or no word at all.

mmm....a belch might qualify as a 'word' only if modulated into a word.  I knew a guy back in college who was quite proficient at that.  Gave him something to do with 'beer backup', the former very fond of, the latter creator of prodigious quantity and length of 'degassing '.  Could literally speak sentences, albeit short and curt.

Maggot Brain...

...and the hunt for outrageous band  names rolls on...

I can't wait for the retirement home...geezers arguing over which band was better Back When....

"Maggot Brain!"
"No, you idiot!  The Scabs!"
(Lashing each other with I-Phone earpiece wires...)

Marc cerrone, "give me love".  Few words on a good groove at the time of release and beyond.

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