'which is more important to you: the words or the music?'

as I said in my response, a lot of people have trouble maintaining any sort of separation between the words to a song and the melody of that song.

If the words were more important, it seems to me that you'd spend more time reading the lyrics on the inner sleeve (where they exist virtually independent of the music) rather than listening to the record it holds. but that's not what you're asking.

>Would you say this is like Lodi Dodi without beatboxing or
>the
>rhymes girls used to say on the playground, etc.?

No, I generally consider that music too. In fact one of my favorite recordings I've discovered recently IS actually a playground chant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_6IyLSdDYM

>The only way to remove melody seems to be to just talk, which
>not even rap music does.. well, most of it.

>>the real test here is:

>What are we testing?

we're testing whether the words, independent of the music, are as important as or more important than the music. Simply listening to an a capella doesn't create the necessary division between the two to help advance one's thoughts on the matter.

So, sing one of those songs you mentioned, but vocalize sounds not words. Is it still good? Catchy? Does it lose that magic something?

Or, recite the words, or read them on the paper. Do they charge you as much as listening to them in song form does?