Soundtracks
by Mark Gottlieb
Answer: 🧚
Each cryptolist contains five songs with nonsense titles. The movie header provides a light clue to their nature.
(Nonsense titles whose last word is repeated)
(Song titles made of individual nonsense syllables)
(Really long nonsense titles, perhaps portmanteau-ish)
(Nonsense titles with repeated elements)
(Nonsense titles with two words that rhyme)
(Short single-word nonsense titles)
(Nonsense titles that are supposed to sound like
other words)
(Nonsense titles that have some kind of logological
element)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
DA DOO RON RON (The Crystals) LF LJJ TJS TJS DO WAH DIDDY DIDDY (Manfred Mann) LJ CFA LQLLG LQLLG DE DO DO DO, DE DA DA DA (The Police) LZ LJ LJ LJ, LZ LF LF LF PAPA-OOM-MOW-MOW (The Rivingtons) WFWF-JJH-HJC-HJC EEP OPP ORK AH-AH (Jet Screamer) ZZW JWW JTD FA-FA
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
VOO-VEE-AH-BEE (The Platters) QWW-QLL-ZO-VLL MY COO CA CHOO (Alvin Stardust) TF XWW XZ XOWW MAH NA MAH NA (Pierro Umiliani) TZO GZ TZO GZ OB-LA-DI, OB-LA-DA (The Beatles) WV-DZ-IB, WV-DZ-IZ OOH POO PAH DOO (Jessie Hill) WWO UWW UZO IWW
Frankenweenie
CHARMICARMICAT (Melvins) ACUIONAUIONAUR HYPERBOLICSYLLABICSESQUEDALYMISTIC (Isaac Hayes) CKSWIQFGNAXKGGUQNAXWXLZWTUGKONXRNA RIPOPGODAZIPPA (Prince) INSFSHFTUPNSSU EARSCHPLITTENLOUDENBOOMER (Steppenwolf) WUIXACSGNRRWJGFZTWJQFFOWI SUPERFUNKYCALIFRAGISEXY (Prince) XZSWIMZJVKAUGNMIUHNXWYK
High School High
NEE NEE NA NA NA NA NU NU (Dicky Doo and the Don’ts) CKK CKK CM CM CM CM CX CX CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP (Lally Stott) ELQFBV ELQFBV ELKKB ELKKB IP DIP CHIBBERDY DIP (Frank Carson) QB UQB ELQYYKFUV UQB OOH-WAKKA-DOO-WAKKA-DAY (Gilbert O’Sullivan) SSL-ZMIIM-USS-ZMIIM-UMV DUM DUM DIDDLE (ABBA) UXJ UXJ UQUUWK
Hocus Pocus
TUTTI FRUTTI (Little Richard) GZGGU AXZGGU OOCHIE COOCHIE (M.C. Brains) JJVQUM VJJVQUM WAKA/JAWAKA (Frank Zappa) NYRY TYNYRY CHACARRON MACARRON (El Chombo feat. Andy Val Gourmet) VQYVYXXJF KYVYXXJF RAMA LAMA DING DONG (The Edsels) XYKY IYKY WUFC WJFC
Jumanji
ZABADAK! (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich) BGTGNGW! MMMBOP (Hanson) HHHTLE SUSSUDIO (Phil Collins) KDKKDNXL BAWITDABA (Kid Rock) TGCXRNGTG BARABAJAGAL (Donovan) TGZGTGAGJGY
The Sound of Music
MAIRZY DOATS (Al Trace and his Silly Symphonists) FWKGNU SRWMB (“Mares eat oats”) IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA (Iron Butterfly) KX-W-TWSSW-SW-PKSW (“In the Garden of Eden”) DO-WACKA-DO (Roger Miller) SR-LWHJW-SR (“Do like I do”) D’YER MAK’ER (Led Zeppelin) S’UQG FWJ’QG (This is Led Zeppelin’s reggae-ish song, and the title is intended to sound like “Jamaica” when pronounced with an English accent) PRISENCOLINENSINAINCIUSOL (Adriano Celentano) YGKBQXHRVKXQXBKXWKXHKCBRV (This song, by an Italian singer, is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent, but the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish.)
Wordplay
THELA HUN GINJEET (King Crimson) JDYKO DLG TQGNYYJ (An anagram of “heat in the jungle”) TZIMA N’ARKI (Eno, Moebius, and Roedelius) JPQUO G’OBHQ (This song’s lyrics are all written backwards. “Emoc ylerus lliw ti, emoc lliw ti, emoc lliw ti…” I suspect the title is also backwards, but haven’t been able to decode it.) SWLABR (Cream) VIKOFB (An initialism for “She Walks Like a Bearded Rainbow”) EFILNIKUFESIN (N.F.L.) (Anthrax) YWQKGQHLWYVQG (G.W.K.) (Read it backwards) CHANA IN DE BUSHWOP (Frank Zappa) ZDOGO QG RY FLVDIMC (A slurred spoonerism variant of “bull in the china shop”)
Put the strips in alphabetical order of the ciphertext letters that decode to A and you get the fairy from Zelda
(8-bit):
The answer is the :FAIRY: emoji, 🧚.