Catchphrase / Music

An alphabetical list of musical catch phrases:

• "2 CHAINZ!!!" - Take a wild guess...
• "NOT!" - Anthrax
• "I buried Paul" - The final line in The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967), which was actually John Lennon muttering "cranberry sauce". Nevertheless the phrase "I buried Paul" became an urban legend.
  • "Yeah yeah yeah" - The Beatles. Their early songs often use "yeah yeah yeah" as a refrain. In France early pop music was even named "yéyé music", and Brazil's title for A Hard Day's Night was "The Kings of Ié Ié Ié''.
• "On your feet or on your knees!" - Blue Öyster Cult
• "Jah Rastafari!" - Bob Marley
• "Hi-de-ho!" - Cab Calloway
• "¡Azucar!" - Celia Cruz
• "PERIODT!" - City Girls
• "Say our name with us now, one time together, my brothers, my sisters, my blood... WE ARE! DISTURBED!"
  • "Spread the sickness, infect the world..."
• "Mustard on the beat, ho." - The signature of any song produced by DJ Mustard.
• "So far away" - Dragonforce
• "We love you madly"- Duke Ellington's traditional closing message.
• "Elvis has left the building." - Closing statement after Elvis Presley's concerts
  • "Thank you. Thank you very much." - Elvis Presley
• Eminem:
  • "Guess who's back?" (Sometimes just "Guess who?") - Slim Shady
  • "Hi! My name is... chkka-chkka Slim Shady!"
  • "It feeeeels so good to be baaa-aack!" - Eminem
• "Doobie doobie do" - Frank Sinatra's famous scatting at the end of "Strangers in the Night" (1967)
• "Oops upside your head- I say: oops upside your head" - "Oops Upside Your Head" (1979) by the Gap Band
• "Bow wow wow yippie-yo yippie yeah/ Bow wow wow yippie-yo yippie yeah" - George Clinton in "Atomic Dog" (1983)
• "Turned out nice again!" - George Formby
• "Scream for me, (city name)]! SCREAM FOR ME <city>!" - Bruce Dickinson
  • "Up the Irons!" for Iron Maiden.
• "Ain't it funky now?" - James Brown
  • "Can't pass the people, can't pass me! Hit me!" -James Brown
    • "I feel good!"- James Brown, who used this line in his Signature Song "I Feel Good (I Got You)", but also dozens of other times in other songs and during public appearances.
• "Hi/Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."
• YOU WANTED THE BEST, YOU GOT THE BEST! THE HOTTEST BAND IN THE WORLD...KISS!
  • YOU WANTED THE WORST, YOU GOT THE WORST: THE ONE, THE ONLY, LIMP BIZKIT!
• "I wish my brother George was here." - Liberace
• "Young Moolah, baby!" - Lil Wayne
• "A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bop-bop!" - From Little Richard's 1956 hit Tutti Frutti became a catch phrase still associated with the singer.
  • "Ooh, my soul!" was another of his sayings, usually while catching his breath after a song.
• "Can't touch this!" - MC Hammer
• "Thank you all, you've been great; we've been Megadeth".
• "Shamone" - Michael Jackson (Reference to his song "Bad", though he actually says: "c'mon". It has been spoofed in popular culture as "shamone" and "jah-mo".)
• "We are Motörhead, and we will kick your ass/play rock 'n roll."
• "Dilo!" (idiomatic Spanish for "Say it!") - Perez Prado. He would shout it at his orchestra, multiple times per song.
• OFWGKTA has several. "Fuck Steve Harvey", "GOLF WANG", "swag me out" and of course "free Earl".
• "Yeaaaaaah booooyyy!" - Flavor Flav of Public Enemy
• "Gabba Gabba Hey!" - The Ramones
  • "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" - The Ramones
• "We are R.E.M. and this is what we do."
  • "...when you're not looking."
• "Look out!" - Ronnie James Dio
• In Savatage's Streets: A Rock Opera: "Jesus Saves!" is the catchphrase of both DT Jesus' music fans and his clients from his drug dealing days.
• "No future!" - Sex Pistols. Johnny Rotten mentioned this phrase in their song "God Save The Queen" and it quickly became a nihilistic slogan for punks everywhere.
• "This is your new National-fucking-anthem! This is surfacing!"
• "YOUUUUUU!!!!! Soulja Boy Tell Em..."
• "Put your hands up in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care" - Used zillions of times in any catchy song. The earliest use was probably "Rapper's Delight" (1979) by The Sugarhill Gang.
• "Is everybody happy?" - Ted Lewis
• The announcement "The Official Adventures of..." from Grandmaster Flash.
• Neil Young greeted audiences with a cheery "How ya doin'!", at any point during concert sets.

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