"Le-e-et's groove/be sick in your shoes" - Let's Groove by Kool And The Gang
"My whole body won't fit in a glove"-Let's Get It On by by Marvin Gaye (does he REALLY say this?)
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 19 December 2002 20:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 19 December 2002 20:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jay K (Jay K), Thursday, 19 December 2002 20:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 19 December 2002 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Thursday, 19 December 2002 20:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Count Violence, Thursday, 19 December 2002 21:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― JasonD (JasonD), Thursday, 19 December 2002 21:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
...not that THAT makes any sense either
I was just thinking about this earlier, about how sometimes what you think the lyrics are is sometimes better than the actual lyrics, like I thought this System of a Down lyric: "pushing little children/with their fully-automatics" was "pushing little children/with the folly of their madness".
Um, yeah.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 December 2002 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 19 December 2002 21:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
ahahahahahahahahahaha
― Curtis Stephens, Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 19 December 2002 23:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 December 2002 23:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
And I still can't figure out the lyrics of 'Remember Me' by Blue Boy. Is it "I'm the one who hurt you, baby, aight", "I'm the one who had your baby's sight"or "I'm the whore who hurt your baby's eye"?
― jot eff pe, Thursday, 19 December 2002 23:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― man, Friday, 20 December 2002 00:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
Every picture tells a story, Tony. Every picture tells a story, Tony.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 20 December 2002 00:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ferg (Ferg), Friday, 20 December 2002 01:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― minna (minna), Friday, 20 December 2002 01:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
aaliyah's we need a resolution
"snoop video, looks at the ceiling"(really: stupid yo? looks are deceiving)
― minna (minna), Friday, 20 December 2002 01:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Friday, 20 December 2002 02:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
* "Microphone Fiend:" I thought Rakim was describing his love of rapping as "sort of an addiction/magnetized like Nixon." Hmm, I thought, clever allusion to Watergate. It turns out he was saying "magnified by the mixing." Honestly, I prefer the former.
* "Whip It:" "Go forward! Move ahead! Run to the taxi! It's not too late!" That one isn't mine, but I like it all the same.
* "Goodbye Stranger:" "to Rabbi Josen/every day." It was actually "is the life I've chosen/every day."
* The Cars' "Bye Bye Love:" "Substitution asked Confucius, 'What's inside your head?'" It was actually "Substitution, mass confusion, clouds inside your head."
* speaking of The Cars: "Let's Go" takes on a more sinister tone when you think Ric Ocasek's singing "she never liked the Jews." (Again, not mine, but I've never heard it the same way!)
― mike a (mike a), Friday, 20 December 2002 02:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jot eff pe, Friday, 20 December 2002 10:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
La Isla Bonita
― Rick, Friday, 20 December 2002 11:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 20 December 2002 12:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
I believe that was Maxell tapes (before they got Pete Murphy looking windswept).
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 December 2002 12:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rick, Friday, 20 December 2002 13:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― meg, Friday, 20 December 2002 17:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― minna (minna), Friday, 20 December 2002 18:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
"I like juice and that's the truth!!"
― original bgm, Friday, 20 December 2002 18:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 23 December 2002 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― phil-two, Tuesday, 24 December 2002 09:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 10:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Darren, Tuesday, 24 December 2002 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
anyone, my all-timer -- when i was a little kid, i used to think that the buggles' "video killed the radio star" was "vinnie, don't kill the radio star" (and listening to the song, it never made sense why "vinnie" wanted to kill the radio star)
and i used to think that the line from "le freak" by chic that goes "le freak, c'est chic" was "bo-beep, go sheep!"
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 December 2002 06:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
'He met Marmalade down in old New Orleans/Struttin' her stuff for Mister Heath'
― Fred Nerk, Thursday, 26 December 2002 11:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also googled as:"Wrapped up like a deuce""revved up like a deuce" (Seems to be the consensus on the Manfred Mann version.)
Wrapped up like a goose in the middle of the night Held up by a ...deuce... another ruler in the night ...douche... ..."dooshent"... Slapped up by a dude... Knocked up by...
..From "The Straight Dope" :"Bruce's lyrics were no paragon of clarity, but at least you could understand the words: "Cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night." Some claim the "deuce" being referred to is the 1932 Ford Coupe beloved of hotrodders (cf. the Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe"). Maybe, but when you're talking about a song whose opening line goes on about madman drummers, bummers, and Indians in the summer, I'm not making any definite claims.
The Manfred Mann's Earth Band ("Quinn the Eskimo") did a cover version of the tune in 1976. It became a hit, no doubt because the band made the lyrics even more opaque than they already were. They changed the line in question to "wrapped up like a deuce."
What's it mean? I'm barely on speaking terms with my own subconscious. Don't ask me to explain someone else's."
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 26 December 2002 14:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 December 2002 20:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 December 2002 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Celeste (Celeste), Sunday, 29 December 2002 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― pete porchos, Monday, 30 December 2002 13:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
Everlast, watching the Discovery Channel.
― jot eff pe, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 22:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
(NERD - Provider)
― man, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
also an ex-gf thought that brand new heavies - you are the universe was "you are my unicorn".
― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
Truer words were never misheard.
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 15:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 1 August 2003 02:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 1 August 2003 02:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 1 August 2003 02:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Prude (Prude), Friday, 1 August 2003 03:05 (twenty years ago) link
― man, Thursday, 27 November 2003 05:10 (twenty years ago) link
"You are everything to me/You are Wayne's World" - Containe, "You" (should have been 'you always were')
moral to the story: never assume a proper noun is the correct lyric.
― doug (doug), Thursday, 27 November 2003 09:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Thursday, 27 November 2003 12:05 (twenty years ago) link
Michael Jackson: "Smooth Criminal"
(In reality it goes: "Annie are you okay?")
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 27 November 2003 12:36 (twenty years ago) link
Madonna: La Isla Bonita
― The Spotlight Kid (kid), Thursday, 27 November 2003 13:20 (twenty years ago) link
"Where the sheep have no name" instead of "where the streets have no name" (Where The Streets Have No Name)"I have pierced holy lips" isntead of "I have kissed honey lips" (Where The Streets Have No Name)"Hell, damnation" instead of "Elevation" (Elevation)"Gonna take a walk with your sister Lorraine" instead of "Johnny take a walk with your sister the rain" (Mysterious Ways)
― Miggie (Miggie), Thursday, 27 November 2003 13:39 (twenty years ago) link
"You can go your own way / You can call it thunder and 'oh-nee-baaaay" (i know that one falls apart but when I was a wee lad that's how my sister and I sang it in the car)
"Living on a Cheerio pole" - male background vox on Material Girl - sang more as a joke, in retrospect - another Kerry-and-James-back-of- the-car-on-family-vacation classic
and another from that same era: Rick Astley's "Never gonna Give you Up" sang as "Then I'm gonna give you up, then I'm gonna let you down / then Im gonna run around and dessert you"
We'd also do this weird thing with our hands along with the opening descending keyboard riff in "Carribean Queen" that made it look like we were casting a spell and it never failed to make us giggle uncontrollably. Man, my parents were into some shitty music.
― roger adultery, Friday, 28 November 2003 04:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 28 November 2003 05:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 28 November 2003 05:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 16 January 2004 12:30 (twenty years ago) link
"Have a nose...what kind of fool am I?"
from Robert Plant's "Heaven Knows." my aunt used to babysit me when i was little, you see. she played guitar, and was avidly into Led Zep and Pat Benatar and Heart, amongst other things. she was more amused by this than i think i was, and one night we stayed up rewriting all the lyrics to the song, starting with what i'd heard. i don't remember them all, although "the finesse of the old grey goose" was involved somewhere...
― janni (janni), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago) link
Kiss - "I want to rock and roll all night. . .and part of every day"
― rainman (rainman), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
― angel duster, Thursday, 12 February 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 12 February 2004 00:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 12 February 2004 00:36 (twenty years ago) link
Also, I think I've said before that I thought "Smoke on the water" was "Slow comin' home girl."
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 12 February 2004 00:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 15 February 2004 03:38 (twenty years ago) link
― webcrack (music=crack), Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 16 February 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 00:23 (twenty years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago) link
"It was never my intentionTo blindly feed the boy cocaine"
*loses shit*
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 02:03 (twenty years ago) link
"volunteer your fear of the blue sky"
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 02:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 02:48 (twenty years ago) link
I didn't realize it was "Caught in the crowd" until I heard the No Doubt version. I like mine better. Angst/depression/etc.
2) I thought that when the Doobie Brothers sang "Take me in your arms/Love me, love me a little while," it was "Take me in your arms/Lovely lovely Louelle." At the time, I had never heard of a woman named Louelle, but I was like 7, so I figured what did I know? More than 25 years later, I heard it in the car and said, "You know, I've heard of exactly one person, ever, who was named Louelle. Maybe they're saying something else." Once I empowered myself, it didn't take long to detect the lyric. I'd still like to actually meet a woman named Louelle, though.
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago) link
― soniclifer, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link
Look at me--"Her Monty Knee"It makes up for the shortcomings of being poor
When you're 15, you want a rapportYou do unto others, and run like a motherI don't want a rapport anymoreNo, I don't want a rapport anymore
― otto, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link
Oh, and Blur - "This is Hullo"
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 11 March 2004 06:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 11 March 2004 08:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Thursday, 11 March 2004 08:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago) link
"I'm a water slideYou're an air slide"
Water slide = wet pussy, air slide = stiff, "inflated" penisMade sense at the time
― LC, Friday, 19 March 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago) link
"Life in the hive puckered up my night"
Always sounds to me in my head, like:
"Life in the hamburgers of my night"
Neither of them make much sense.
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:32 (twenty years ago) link
― big asshat, Saturday, 1 May 2004 09:16 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Saturday, 1 May 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link
"'seulement entre toi et moi'means that our love will always be..."
April Wine
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 1 May 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago) link
― bimble (bimble), Saturday, 1 May 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link
― bimble (bimble), Sunday, 2 May 2004 00:04 (twenty years ago) link
I later learned he was saying "I got the hook up, holla if you hear me"
My confusion was based on the premise that, if Master p had the hook up, then their should have been no difficulty in hearing him. I articulated this confusion to a group of self described "rap heads" and was promptly laughed at.
― theodore fogelsanger, Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:15 (twenty years ago) link
This isn't true, is it?
And if she keeps walking like that she will need a new spine soon.
― Sasha (sgh), Sunday, 2 May 2004 07:27 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 2 May 2004 08:07 (twenty years ago) link
― uh, Monday, 3 May 2004 03:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Maradonna, Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link
For most of my childhood I thought Sade was singing "Ooooooh Bopper Ator"
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 February 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 February 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I thought the backup singers were singing "Lot's wages" on "Showbiz Kids."
I thought Huey Lewis was singing "Now the oboe may be better tweeting, but the heart of rock and roll, the heart of rock and roll is still beating."
― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 20 February 2005 00:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 20 February 2005 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link
When i was younger for some bizarre reason i though that smoke on the water was soap on a rope
― poopsiekeepsie, Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
haha. I might use this for comic relief sometime.
― Aaron A., Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Also: "Charleeeene don't like it / Rock the Casbah, Rock the Casbah"
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 February 2005 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link
A certain WFMU DJ and myself thought Lowell Fulson was singing about having a "fatback roll" in his pocket in "Tramp."
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 28 February 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
It wasn't until I heard a crappy cover of it this weekend during some equally crappy tv show or something that I realized it's actually "stay with your man awhile."
*hangs head in shame*
― jedidiah (jedidiah), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
For the rest of our drive we couldn't stop going "Platypus...Platypus...Platypus..."
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
'caught up like a duce another runner in the night'
DUCE referring to :: a leader or commander; a chief.
that makes sense right?
― Reality Check, Tuesday, 16 May 2006 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
"I'm fighting in a demon fight with you;A demon fight with you."
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 29 May 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
and from the same song:
"Be my little baby, don juan, and only"
That's what you get for letting kids listen to music, I guess.
― musically (musically), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Smoke on the water / And fire in the sky
he thought it was:
Slow-motion Walter / That fire-engine guy
And then the character Phoebe on "Friends" mistook Elton John's (well, Bernie Taupin's) chorus in Tiny Dancer as:
"Hold me closer Tony Danza"
:)
― shorty (shorty), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― P-Dog (p-dog), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:17 (eighteen years ago) link
small world
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
1.) You'll say anything to a butterfly (If this is It)
2.) I wanna new drug, wetherwall made me sick
3.) They say the heart of rock and roll is forbidden
I guess I can make another Louie Louie reference today...
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I wondered why you didn't hear more about Ian Curtis being gay.
― Bumblepuppy (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link
the stones, of course
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bumblepuppy (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Thursday, 28 September 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Sunday, 8 October 2006 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Poor guy.
― musically (musically), Friday, 3 November 2006 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link
As cited in Mojo as one of the best lyrics of all time!
(I hear "I look ill but...")
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Misheard Lyrics:I'm in love with excremental torture.Original Lyrics:I'm in love with extreme mental torture.
Story about this misheard lyric by: Steveritt
A rock journalist in the UK went to press with these misheard lyrics.
― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Not a misheard lyric per se, but for the longest time I refused to believe that Morrissey was actually singing, "No, I'm gonna kill my dog" on "Unhappy Birthday." And for the life of me I still cannot figure out how that has anything to do with the rest of the song.
And there is a line in "Summer's Last Sound" by Disco Inferno that I always hear as "..Which would tell you if you'll spend the next few years/Free from Laffy Taffy petrol bongs."
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
It's black humor, obviously:
Loved and lostAnd some may sayWhen usually it's NothingSurely you're happyIt should be this way ?I say "No, I'm gonna kill my dog"
Like when you're in a bad mood and someone says, "How many dogs did you kick on your way to school today?"
― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
"Three lions on a shirt, jewels remain still gleaming"
!!!!
― musically (musically), Friday, 12 January 2007 08:25 (seventeen years ago) link
What I heard: "I trust the boys in the government".
Real lyrics: "I trust the police and the government".
― GLC (ZakAce), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Luke Slater (Alan Bean), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
i like my version much more!
― AaronK (AaronK), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link
We then realised they're singing "there's a conflicting sound". I liked the other version better.
― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 13 January 2007 07:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Great tune either way, though. The Faint are face-rockingly awesome.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
i always wondered what tom did to piss them off.
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Illiterate (moriarty), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link
i thought of another one
ben harper's 'diamonds on the inside'
"she was a horrible liar"
for ages i was hearing "she was a whore and a liar"
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link
NIN, Hurt - not misheard but I prefer to sing it this way:
"What have I become, my Swedish friend?"
― ledge, Thursday, 12 July 2007 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm surprised no one's mentioned it upthread, but Radiohead's "No surprises" had my brother fooled for a while, doubting the merits of the song:
"such a pretty ass / on such a pretty girl"
when my bro criticized this, my brother-in-law responded "well maybe he's just calling it like he sees it"
― Mark Clemente, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
As a teen one of my friends had "Dreadlock Holiday" (you know, the one that goes "I don't like reggae / I love it") on tape, and after we'd listened to it about a kazillion times, another friend said, "You know, this is a great tune, but why does the singer say he doesn't like cricket?". Holy god did we laugh!
-- Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:22 (1 year ago) Link
He does actually sing "I don't like cricket". One of the most popular sports in the West Indies is cricket, so it makes sense.
― Chriddof, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Mark Clemente, Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:27 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link
I could never figure out if tired_nhappy in the liner notes meant tired AND happy or tired/unhappy. hmm?
― Finefinemusic, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
"I miss my little Danish friend" :' (
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
(I looked around pretty hard for a picture of Mustaine. The emoticon above will have to suffice.)
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
lol I thought I was the only who sang it that way. It's even better on the Cash cover. Also, I always picture him singing it to the sSwedish chef from the muppets.
― l, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
that scene with mustaine is one of the most surreal things i've seen on screen the guy recalls 1982 like it was a week ago
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Just realised that James Carr is not singing 'Sugarplums all dancing in my mind/ everyday you whip me it feels like valentines' in You Got my Mind Messed Up.... (it's 'everyday you're with me')
― sonofstan, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
My brother thought Billy Jo was saying "sell doughnuts at my door" on 'When I Come Around'.
This girl insisted that the lyrics to Positive K's "I Got a Man" were "I'm not tryin to head out sea", and claimed it was a 'metaphor'.
one of my friends in middle school thought James Hetfield was saying "to constipate his grace" in Metallica's 'Unforgiven'
Someone on Internet Relay chat thought the chorus to "The Real Slim Shady" went "I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the Real Shady, all you other Slim Shadys are justin my teddy".
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link
oh and this foreign guy who spoke broken english on IRC was convinced that the chorus to Metallica's 'One' went "Hold my breathless, I wish go dead"
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:29 (sixteen years ago) link
british nobodies freerunner have a song called 'friday don't need it' and it sounds exactly like "fried egg, don't eat it" which amuses me somewhat
― electricsound, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:29 (sixteen years ago) link
vegan anthem
― electricsound, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link
my brother used to think one of the lyrics on Shaquille O'neals debut was "Rhymin is like poopin, I'm already a legend"...
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I knew someone who thought it was "Oh, my breath is Irish for death".
― chap, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
that just made me lol
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh my breath is Irish for death....Oh please Zod spank me.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Split Enz 'I See Red'
hurt my penis walking down the street I see red I see red I see red
Still no idea what the actual lyric is.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i always used to hear the Big L line "you see what happened in my last fight friend?/aight then" as "you see what happened to my last white friend/ aight then"
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 January 2008 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
just mis-heard again today, as I have forever, the Hollies "Bus Stop"
"By all goods she was mine" (instead of) by August she was mine.
― Soren Kierkegaard Existential Light Orchestra, Thursday, 3 January 2008 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
can't believe that i am the 1st to mention this one (b/c i'm not the only one whose misheard this song), but anyway:
the cocteau twins, "sugar hiccup on cheerios"
― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 06:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I just posted this in the Muxtape thread, but:
In the Rose Tattoo song "Remedy" I mistook the line "Baby you know they call it...Rock and rollll!" for, "Baby you're not retarded...ROCK AND ROOOLLLLL!"
― RabiesAngentleman, Friday, 11 April 2008 09:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Until last week, in Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry," I always thought he sang:
"And then we'll cook corned beef porridge, of which I'll share with you"
Saw someone sing it in Karaoke and when they printed the actual "a meal for it" lyrics, I nearly fell over.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 25 August 2008 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Am I the only one who for years thought the chorus to Toto's "Africa" goes "I guess the rain's down in Africa", not "I bless the rains down in Africa"?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.amiright.com/misheard/ >>> mega LOL
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 19 February 2009 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Tori Amos: "God, sometimes you're a stone cold fool"
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 14 May 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Theres a song on that last Burial album that me and my mates keep hearing as "I cant take no more in my eye". No idea wtf it actually is, mind.
― Sylvia Blap (Trayce), Friday, 15 May 2009 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
From "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts":
"Rosemary combed her hair and ... took a cabbage into town."
Mott, I'll always love ya for that one.
― staggerlee, Friday, 15 May 2009 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Carrot glide, carrot glide, no he can't read my poker face.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Not only did you get the lyric wrong but the band too.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 12:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Paul Young, "Every Time You Go Away":
Every time you go awayYou take a piece of meat with you
― anagram, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 12:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Life Without Buildings - Juno: "Mad as a seal, mad as a seal"
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Roger hold a pumpkin, in the cold November rain
― man saves ducklings from (ledge), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
anagram, I always used to think it was 'you take a piece of cheese with you'
― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Gang of Four - Anthrax
"ought to control what I do to my mind" >>Actual lyrics
Better lyric that I always heard<<<<<"Oh to control what I did to my mind."
I used to always think "how spooky. What on earth did he do to his mind that makes him wish he could go back and take the mental reigns? Was he brainwashed?"
― Cunga, Thursday, 18 June 2009 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Cars "Shake It Up" - "Dance all night with anyone/ Don't let nobody pick your bum"
― Julio Afrokeluchie, Thursday, 18 June 2009 03:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Cher - "Shit, seeds, crappin' beans"
― Julio Afrokeluchie, Thursday, 18 June 2009 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Just heard "Rich Man's Spiritual" by Gordon Lightfoot for the first time, and seriously thought the 1st verse ended "I'm gonna get me a long white rope, and get me hung". The following verses made me look up the lyrics, though.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 16 July 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
For years I thought Morphine's "Candy" went:
"Candy says she's made arrangements / for me in her cell"
Instead of "in the sand."
Huh. Not very interesting. Carry on.
― thirdalternative, Thursday, 16 July 2009 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought that when James Murphy shouts "Joy Division!" in Losing My Edge that he was shouting "Chinavision!" and I figured it was probably a really cool band I should learn more about.
― Chinavision (altair nouveau), Thursday, 16 July 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
same with the band NCC (10cc)
"Break my knees so I can't move" in Destiny's child's Bug-a-boo.
― Christyles, Saturday, 26 September 2009 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
more than a lovermore than a lammamore than enough, for you-aaliyah
― samosa gibreel, Saturday, 26 September 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I always heard INXS 'Don't Change' as:
Don't change the earthDon't change a thing, for me
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 27 September 2009 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"And you can act real rude and totally removedLike an African in Brazil"
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
― dlp9001, Sunday, 27 September 2009 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Beat it, beat it, no one wants to beat it, beat it
― billstevejim, Monday, 28 September 2009 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
: D
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 28 September 2009 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
"just like a ONE-winged dove, sings a song sound like she singing"
― surge gainsbourg protector (haitch), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 07:48 (fourteen years ago) link
If I only couldMake a deal with GodGet him to swap our faces
- Kate Bush
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 08:11 (fourteen years ago) link
ya learn something every day.
― this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 09:48 (fourteen years ago) link
"Lasagne!!!!"
http://www.prostamerika.com/soundersfc/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Uefa_Champions_League_roma.jpg
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 09:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Champignon!
― Gunther von Hagen Daas (NickB), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 09:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I just realized I've been mishearing this Thinkin Fellers lyric - "The terror, the horror" as "The turds of war"
― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
always heard in 'rock your body', "the air is thick, it's smelling rank".
― matt h, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Suede-Animal Nitrate"In the council hall, he jumped on you both"
― Hey mighty brontosaurus! (Boxing Kangaroo), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Another "Beat It" mondegreen:
"Show 'em how fucking / strong is your fight!"
I always thought "Breed" by Nirvana woulda been better if it'd been about a girl named Giselle.
"Giselle! Giselle! Giselle! Giseeeeeeeeeeeelle!"
― staggerlee, Thursday, 8 October 2009 05:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Love is the drug - Roxy music"I said COKE, she said yes, dim the lights you can guess the rest"
Found out it was go not coke, personally i like my version better!
― X-101, Thursday, 8 October 2009 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
guess the rest = "damn, cant see it now!"
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 October 2009 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link
wait, the lyric isn't "I said Coke, she said yes?" ...that's what I thought it was, uh, until now.
― sarahel, Thursday, 8 October 2009 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link
When my sister and I were kids we would sing Smooth Operator as "Coast to coast we eat enchiladas, then we sail"
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
DOG WARTS! DOG WAAAARTS!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztRdUuOgEwk
(It's actually 'downwards')
― chap, Thursday, 8 October 2009 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"Ooh, I'm gonna buy shoes and I'm ready for the WEEKEND!"
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Dream Baby Dream
Keep them James Brown runnin, JesusKeep them James Brown runnin forever
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 November 2009 07:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Talking Heads, "Dream Operator". When he sings "three angels above the whole human race", I thought for ages he was singing "the angels above Napoleon in rags". Come to think of it, I prefer my interpretation.
― anagram, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Diana Ross, I'm Still Waiting:
Then someone finally cameHe told me that he loved meI put him off at lastHe could see I had no ass
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Monday, 8 February 2010 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Nirvana - "Scoff"Gimme back my autoharp!Gimme back my autoharp!
Nirvana - "Aneurysm"Beat me, Adam Ant!Beat me, Adam Ant!
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
This must have been mentioned before but, LCD Soundsystem:
"Get your payments from the nationfor your trouser tribulations"
... or does this belong here
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 February 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
We always thought Scoff was saying "Albert Hall"
― dog latin, Thursday, 18 February 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
My mate used to think Mozza was singing "Last of the Famous International Gayboys"
― Jazz Oddity, Thursday, 18 February 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
In smells like teen spirit, I could have swore Kurt Cobain sung "I'm a Beatle" in th chorus after he sings "a mosquito"...but turns out he was singing "my libido"...That guy always sung like he had a shotgun in his mouth...
― acer, Thursday, 18 February 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
lol good one
― Jazz Oddity, Thursday, 18 February 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Chinese like a melody in my head(garbled)Na, na, na, na everydayLike my eyeball's stuck on replay replay
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 18 February 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
They say that girl ya know she act too tough tough toughWell it's till' I turn off the light, turn off the lightThey say that girl you know she act so rough rough roughWell it's till' I turn off the light, turn off the light And I say doggy, doggy, doggy, doggy, meow meow meowtill' you see all my dreamsNot everything in this magical world is quite what it seems
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 21 February 2010 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
an actual mishear from an idiot on mIRC:
"I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the real Shady, all you other Slim Shadys are justin' my teddy"
― Ballistic, Sunday, 21 February 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
when I was a kid I used to think "the Monserrat mystique" was "your mom's a rotten steak"
― Sherman Helmsley Teabag (Cattle Grind), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
in "Kokomo"
I thought it was something like, "Monterrey Jack steak".
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a Nation of Ulysses song where they say "Cough syrup! What are you coughin' up? Cough syrup!"
For some reason I thought they said, in an intentionally bad Japanese accent, "Godzirra! What are you talkin' about? Godzirra!" - as if people were warning someone that Godzilla was right behind him, and he didn't understand.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
there was this chick we used to chat with on IRC that used to love the song "I Got a Man" by Positive K, but she would insist the lyrics were:
"I got a manWHAT'S YOUR MAN GOT TO DO WITH ME?I got a manI'M NOT TRYIN TO HEAD OUT SEA"
She insisted "head out sea" was a metaphor. Then again, this was the same girl who once claimed World War 1 was fought between the North and the South over slaves.
― Sherman Helmsley Teabag (Cattle Grind), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
All these years I've heard a line from B&S's "Shoot the Sexual Athlete" as ".. and he dressed like Sharon Olds." SHOCKED AND DISAPPOINTED to find out that he dresses like Sherlock Holmes.
― CompuPost, Saturday, 17 July 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mapbdUAbcrY
Show me a penis
Just when I thought that love could never be a part of me/that's when you came along/and showed me a penis
(Juvenile, I know)
― is breads of india still tite (admrl), Sunday, 18 July 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
"No more will my green seagull turn a deeper blue"
(paint it black)
― ledge, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
To expand on "Africa" confusion...
"There's nothing that a hundred men on mars could ever doI guess the rain's down in Africa..."
― andrew m., Wednesday, 4 August 2010 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"I just hope my pinball's not too big"
― andrew m., Wednesday, 4 August 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Brother and I used to think Immigrant Song went:
"Always sleeping, and crushing on / I wanna go where there's a wrestling show!"
― Theodore "Thee Diddy" Roosevelt (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey little thing lemon lime sh' can-o-corn/ Uh mama I'm sure the ha nah nah disciplaaan!
― slagterm, Thursday, 5 August 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Bryan Adams' abomination came on the other day and I realized that all these years I thought the lyrics were "I'd die for you / I'd lie for you / I'd walk a mile for you..."
Like, a WHOLE mile. ON FOOT.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Thursday, 5 August 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
always hear: "and he can't be a man cos he doesn't smoke / ten cigarettes a week". worked as i now smoke 10 cigarettes each week, no less.
a friend slept over last night so made breakfast this morning, listening to a bunch of 60s northern soul tracks and patti & the emblems 'mixed up shook up girl' (the great live version from that multi-cd compilation) came on. my friend was shocked and wondered who the 'big fat sugar girl' was
― NI, Friday, 17 September 2010 10:11 (thirteen years ago) link
xp: I have always thought that too.
― Riverside (kkvgz), Friday, 17 September 2010 10:34 (thirteen years ago) link
elvis, burning love: "i missed my turn to smoke, but i feel fine"beach boys: "round round get a round, i'll get a round... i'll get a round in, i'll give you special brew"
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 17 September 2010 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
for context, xp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hyO8L4P-oo
― NI, Friday, 17 September 2010 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
"Ooh, I'm gonna buy shoes then I'm ready for the WEEKEND!!"
― Mark G, Friday, 17 September 2010 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
and i was standing on the side of the roadrain falling on my shoesheading out for the east coastlord knows i've paid some dudes gettin' throughtangled up in blue
― astronomy broheems (haitch), Friday, 1 October 2010 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
roxy music - stranded
actual lyrics: "from courtly love to costly game"
i always hear: "from courtNEY love to costly game"
― charlie h, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"Make me a deal, and make it quickOffside is zeal, I kick it.Doowabeda DEE a ZurrrrrWIT!I really hope we don't blow it..."
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
but which chevrolet i owni drive back to the place you arepeter gabriel, "in your eyes"
― kamerad, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
David Bowie, "Wild is the Wind": "Don't you know, your life- it's hell"
― B'wana Beast, Sunday, 26 December 2010 08:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/x65Fs.jpgbasically what the clean version of the song results in
― We attack the mayor with hummus (kelpolaris), Sunday, 26 December 2010 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
The Jungle Brother's "Black Is Black" I heard "Martin Luther had to shout" as "Martin Buber had to shout." For a brief moment I was impressed that the Jungle brothers were throwing out Buber references before I pieced things together.
― EDB, Friday, 21 January 2011 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
When I was a kid I always heard that Dire Straits song as 'money for nothing and your chips for free'. I mean, who's gonna turn down free chips? I'll take mine with salt and loads of vinegar, thanks.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 27 September 2009 10:50 (1 year ago)
...you mean it isnt that? *checks*
fuuuuuck.
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Saturday, 22 January 2011 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I also thought "The one thing"'s chorus went "you want my thing". Blargh. Mumbles Hutchence.
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Saturday, 22 January 2011 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
"Oh, give me the Beach Boys and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock n roll and drift away ..."
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 10 March 2011 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Is the band name Half Man Half Biscuit derived from the Birthday Party song She's Hit in which A Monster Half Man Half-beast climbs the stairs?Think that's the right correct words but Cave sounds odd at that point.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 10 March 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0CiQlwtyVk&feature=related
Wo-Woh it's a Rock and Roll Dalmatian....
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
"I'm not talking 'bout a live-in""I'm not talking 'bout milennia"
(England Dan and John Ford Coley - "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight")
― timellison, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
There's a warlock blowin the stars around...
― i drive a wood paneled station dragon (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't she lovelyIsn't she wonderfulIsn't she preciousLess than one minute oldI never thought through love we'd beMaking one as lovely as sheBut isn't she lovely, yes or no
― the four HOOSmen of the STEENpacolypse (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
misheard lyric: "bad day at the cattery, they're making a mess of me" actual lyric: "bad day at the cannery, they're making a mess of me"
from Meet Me In The Dollar Bin by Les Savy Fav.
― spellcheck is really advanced these days (cajunsunday), Saturday, 12 November 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
I don't want my pizza burnin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXq3r1Kq0Q
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 January 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
Creepy.
Pixies lyrics I have misheard:
"losing my penis to a horrid disease" I refused to believe that he was saying "whore with disease"
"I am moved -- SHIT! and I lose ya!" ("I am un chien andalusia")
― the Smurf who'll snatch your money (Je55e), Monday, 2 January 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
max b
"spending all my money on jewellery and vehicles"
as
"spending all my money on jewellery and bagels"
― gucci gyoza (tpp), Sunday, 15 April 2012 10:15 (twelve years ago) link
An alternative take on Neil Young's classic 'Broken Arrow'...
"Did you see them in the river?They were there to wave to you.Could you tell that the empty quiver? Groundskin.In the inn on the banks that were crowded and narrowHeld a broken arrow?"
Now I know that italicised part makes absolutely no sense and I know now that its actually "empty-quiverred brown-skinned Indian", but for years that's how I heard it (no lyric sheets in those Buffalo Springfield albums!).
― Bloody Snail, Sunday, 15 April 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
I'M THE ILLEST MUTHAFUCKA FROM HERE TO GARDENIA
Until last week, I though this line was "I'm the illest muthafucka since Vincent Gardenia", thus continuing the Beastie Boys tradition of surpassing the hip hop prowess of Italian-American character actors, cf. Abe Vigoda.
― bendy, Sunday, 20 May 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
"Enter Sandman"
Say your prayers!It's a won--derful gift my son,To include everyone.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
Fork display
http://www.kissthisguy.com/538misheard.htm
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 6 August 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
war of the masses / outcome disastrous / many of the victim's families shaved their asses
― Poliopolice, Monday, 6 August 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
my friend missy posting abt her daughter on facebook: A-- asked to hear "Missy in the sky with dominoes."
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 October 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
<3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 October 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
tinie tempeh - pass out
"i've never been to scunthorpe"
wait a minute he DOES say that
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 11:29 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtOruhlCRpU
― Paul, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAFBjmdNPKo&feature=related
― Paul, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
^ both engrained in my brain
― itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
"spit on the streets/don't hesitate"
― qiqing, Monday, 26 November 2012 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
everyone's misheard "how soon is now," of course ... i originally thought that the opening lyric was "i am the sun and the air/of a shiner that is criminally vulgar." that is, that someone had punched Morrissey and gave him a black eye (or maybe that's me projecting?) what the "sun and air" had to do with getting a black eye, though, was an unsolved teenage mystery.― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 December 2002 20:23 (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
How Soon Is Ow?
(timing!)
― Mark G, Monday, 26 November 2012 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
I got the money and the juiceTwin sisters in my bedTheir father had AndySo i shot him in the head
i assumed it was some kind of Andy Griffith reference.
― how's life, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
Speaking of the Smiths, I always heard it as "Haunted bicycle"
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 10:54 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not talking bout my linenand I don't wanna change your mindbut there's a warm wind blowin the stars aroundand I'd really love to see you tonight
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
Was pretty sad to find out that on Money Trees off Good Kid Maad City, "Dolla Mike" had not just fucked my main bitch.
― Andrew W, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
When I was little and I would listen to "All I Really Want" I thought Alanis was singing "The conflicts, the craziness, and the sound of credenzas falling all around"
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 6 December 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
That's actually how I learned what a credenza was
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 6 December 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
Humpty Dance
"I'm sick with this, straight gangsta mack"
"I'm sick with this, straight 'gainst the max"
and in fact, used to describe things as "straight 'gainst the max" as a term of derision.
― how's life, Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
u should bring it back
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
creepin on the comeup:
"Stocking cat food, plotting jack moves"
still not sure the actual lyric, but i like the image of bizzy working in a pet store...
.
― m0stlyClean, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIZJfUmhNcQ
Dusky's "Nobody Else" is one of my favorite tracks of the year, slightly mitigated when my daughter asked if they're singing, "No body....no body hair."
― bendy, Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
eating dick with janus, jeanie, and george harrison
― Spectrum, Monday, 1 April 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
hey-e-ey bud or amstel light?
("alive," PJ)
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 19 July 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Friday, January 21, 2011 10:54 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
when I was a kid I was convinced it was "money for nothing and your checks for free."
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 20 July 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link
me too!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2013 06:12 (ten years ago) link
I'm not talk bout my linenand I don't want to change your blinds
(I'd Really Love To See You Tonight)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2013 06:15 (ten years ago) link
True story: until two months ago, my wife thought this song was called 'Burn to Death'
—ArchCarrier in the Motown discussion thread
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 20 July 2013 06:20 (ten years ago) link
re: The Four Tops' "Bernadette"
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 20 July 2013 06:21 (ten years ago) link
when i was a kid i thought ac/dc's "dirty deeds" took place "in a dunder jeep."
― pass-ag caglia (get bent), Saturday, 20 July 2013 08:31 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2013 08:32 (ten years ago) link
i just googled "dunder jeep" and apparently this is a common misconception.
― pass-ag caglia (get bent), Saturday, 20 July 2013 08:33 (ten years ago) link
how else does crocodile dundee offroad through the outback?
― pass-ag caglia (get bent), Saturday, 20 July 2013 08:34 (ten years ago) link
Until 2001, I thought it was "dirty deeds and the dunder cheek," which didn't make sense, but it I figured it was some kind of Australian slang, like, "Crikey, you really bollocksed up that bloomin' onion, you dunder cheek."
― potatoes-in-law (Je55e), Saturday, 20 July 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
Used to mishear "rockin in Atlanta at Tattletails" as "rockin in Atlanta at the tidal table" in Motley Crue's Girls, Girls, Girls. Somewhere along the line I glanced at a map and discovered that Atlanta was not a seaside community.
― how's life, Sunday, 4 August 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
Is there not a specific misheard rap lyrics thread? anyway in the intro of Shook Ones part II it sounds like Mob Deep gives a shot out "to all my real n_gg_s who aint got no fillings" and i'm now fantasizing about a remake of this song which is all about dental health.
― dsb, Friday, 9 August 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
Enter Sandman: 'Eggs to-night / It's your di-eet!'
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
In Aladdin Sane I misheard "Paris or maybe hell" as "Paris or maybe Hull" for ages, which is much better IMO.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 19 September 2013 13:04 (ten years ago) link
Woah, just looked this thread up to post some misheard Bowie!
African Night Flight:
One of these days/One of these days/Gotta get a boyfriend one of these days
― how's life, Thursday, 19 September 2013 13:08 (ten years ago) link
Well Hull is where the Spiders from Mars were all from, so are you sure he isn't singing that?
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 September 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
When I was a kid, I heard the first line of Peace Sells as:
What do you mean I don't believe in God / Tu-tu Mary Lee?
― how's life, Friday, 1 November 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
I wouldn't say I was convinced it was correct, but I have been hearing "infinity" as "in Tennessee" in Infinity Ink's "Infinity" (the artist and title of which I just discovered).
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 29 December 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link
real lyric: "The greater is the beauty"
misheard lyric: "february is the s.a.t.'s."
-- stereolab, Pack Yr Romantic Mind
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 18 January 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link
For years, I thought Billy Joel was singing "rock and roll's a color war and I can't take it anymore." I was so disappointed to learn that he was really singing, "rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore."
― Ex Slacker, Sunday, 19 January 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
Overheard my gf singing to herself this evening:
"Why do boats suddenly appear/Every time you are near?"
― a man with legs made of sausages - that's not real! (seandalai), Saturday, 25 January 2014 02:45 (ten years ago) link
"He screams in the night / Ice cream in the day"-Laura Marling "Night After Night"
― Being (rattled), Monday, 27 January 2014 00:55 (ten years ago) link
Hold on to the nightHold on to the mammaries
Richard Marx, Hold on to the Night
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 January 2014 01:00 (ten years ago) link
it really does sound like he's saying mammaries
my mom always said the same thing!
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Monday, 27 January 2014 01:01 (ten years ago) link
First line from The Shy Retirer:
"Another blue-haired desk girl"
― epistantophus, Monday, 27 January 2014 01:32 (ten years ago) link
I misheard (and probably still do) tons of lines from Springsteen's thickly-accented & slapback-heavy "Johnny 99" vocal, but the one that made me pause & wonder abt my own subconscious was "Down in the part of town where when you hit her at night, you don't stop"
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
(for "... when you hit a red light, you don't stop"—which suggests pretty much the same thing, albeit in a much less chilling manner)
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
almost posted that to this thread instead
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
The opening line of the second verse of YG's Left Right is obviously 'I'm a pirate / she's a tourist' and... I think I get it?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 12:43 (ten years ago) link
From "Lisztomania":
Ending this love for gentlemen onlyYou can have a cannoliNow that you're lonelyGoogle it google it google it google it google it google it google it
― poopsites attract (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 23:38 (ten years ago) link
from green earrings by steely dan
"the rings of randy's eyes"
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 9 June 2014 00:11 (ten years ago) link
Lol
― how's life, Monday, 9 June 2014 10:18 (ten years ago) link
I always hear "I'm nodding my head like yeah" from "Party in the U.S.A." as "I'm not in my head like yeah, which is really fitting for a song about escaping a panic attack.
― Evan R, Monday, 9 June 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
"the rings of randy's eyes" is so believable tho, good line for "everyone's gone to the movies"
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 9 June 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
because my hatred of the band Train cannot be confined to one thread: I recently heard their song "If It's Love" for the first time, and, at a certain point in the song, I was *sure* I must have badly misheard the word 'kingdom'... but nope! it turns out the dude really was singing:
Can't be a queen beeWithout a bee-throne
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 06:33 (ten years ago) link
(sorry if that was unclear--I think we need a catchy neologism to refer to "no way is the actual lyric that terrible" double-reverse mishearing, especially if the band Train is going to continue making hit songs for another decade)
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 06:35 (ten years ago) link
Elvis - Burning Love : 'I missed my turn to smoke / but I feel fine'
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 06:43 (ten years ago) link
Not misheard but I've been going round singing 'You to me are everything / A Swedish song that I can't sing / Oh baby'
― 3kDk (dog latin), Thursday, 26 June 2014 09:59 (nine years ago) link
When I was a kid, I heard the first line of Peace Sells as:What do you mean I don't believe in God / Tu-tu Mary Lee?― how's life, Friday, November 1, 2013 11:50 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― how's life, Friday, November 1, 2013 11:50 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Just listening to this again and also:
What do you mean I don't support your sister?/I go to court when I have to.
― how's life, Friday, 18 July 2014 08:36 (nine years ago) link
tell them n*ggas free miccio
― lool at the herrlich (wins), Sunday, 5 October 2014 11:10 (nine years ago) link
My kids always sing "it's just like cheese in another world" to the Libertines' Up the Bracket
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 5 October 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
Surprised it hasn't been posted already:"'scuse me while I kiss this guy" from "'scuse me while I kiss the sky"
― ringworm, Monday, 6 October 2014 10:57 (nine years ago) link
Oh, I always thought that was "bluestreak, robots in disguise".
― how's life, Monday, 6 October 2014 11:03 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3u22OYqFGo
"black widdle baby!!!"
i am so sorry
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 October 2014 12:06 (nine years ago) link
Billy Joel - Downeaster Alexa:
"I've got bills to pay and children who need booze"
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 09:53 (nine years ago) link
Fuse ODG - T.I.N.Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6_xBp2l3Y8
"she hurt my head, obama!!"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 October 2014 11:18 (nine years ago) link
But if you go carrying pictures of Geminowwwww You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow
Like he was talking to all the 1960s pickup artists who were deploying "what's your sign, baby" astrological techniques.
― how's life, Friday, 5 December 2014 10:52 (nine years ago) link
Always thought that was a particularly forced rhyme.
― how's life, Friday, 5 December 2014 10:53 (nine years ago) link
For so long I always heard that one Kooks song (which Google tells me is called 'Naive' and not 'Not Fond Of Asking' as: "I know, she knows / I'm not from the Ruskin". So naturally I assumed it's about a guy gatecrashing a students-only night in Anglia.
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 11:00 (nine years ago) link
For so long I always heard that one Kooks song
Sorry to hear this traumatic news, hope you made it through ok.
― ledge, Friday, 5 December 2014 12:17 (nine years ago) link
there's this song on the new New Pornographers album ("Fantasy Fools") where they say "muscle memory, dreaming fever" and I can only hear "muscle memory dream divas"
― fgti jaq, it's chinavision! (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 6 December 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
Mmmm just now I realized that Bon Iver was not actually holding any dickheads:
Real lyrics:"I'll be holding all the tickets and you'll be owning all the fines"
― Moka, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 07:58 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/fcl9LLC.jpg
― 龜, Monday, 13 April 2015 11:23 (nine years ago) link
hahahahahaha dying
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 13 April 2015 12:32 (nine years ago) link
I had "Hit Em Wit Da Hee" on in the background and thought Lil' Kim just said "Me and my girl Missy eating pussy up in Bennigan's"
i got so excited
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 7 June 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
when I first heard 'Big Pimpin' as a 12-year-old in 2000, I thought maybe Jay-Z was saying 'big campin' (my family was big into camping at the time). in retrospect, I'm pretty sure I invented Kidz Bop.
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
I always heard the line in "Good Year for the Roses" that goes:
After three full years of marriageIt's the first time that you haven't made the bed
as "made the grade".
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
Tourettes! Tourettes! Did I build this shit, tourettes?
― StanM, Friday, 24 July 2015 04:02 (eight years ago) link
At the beginning of REM's "Pilgrimage," I've always heard "Take a turn / take a fortune" as "Take a turn / take up bocce." I still think that makes more sense.
― Sam Weller, Friday, 24 July 2015 10:20 (eight years ago) link
We're going to party/karate/siesta/forever, come on and sing-a-long
― (no offence to people) (dog latin), Friday, 24 July 2015 10:27 (eight years ago) link
Guns 'N Roses - It's so Easy'See me hit you, new born chi-i-ild'See me hit you, you fall down
― Ito_is_an_eating_boy, Friday, 24 July 2015 12:38 (eight years ago) link
xxp "take up bocce" is how I always sing it to myself too. Don't think I ever actually knew what the real lyrics were.
― early rejecter, Friday, 24 July 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link
i hear 'take a prawn tree' which makes no sense
― (no offence to people) (dog latin), Friday, 24 July 2015 13:46 (eight years ago) link
Take a turn / take a fortune
Until this very minute I thought he was saying Take up watching.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 24 July 2015 13:49 (eight years ago) link
MJ: "Keep on // to the Post Office // Don't stop 'til you get enough" (Jon Wurster)
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 25 July 2015 12:09 (eight years ago) link
Sly & the Family Stone - "Hot buttered summertime"
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 25 July 2015 14:00 (eight years ago) link
You're out of touchI'm out of timeBlood runs out of my head when you're not around
― Party Your Body (Old Lunch), Saturday, 25 July 2015 14:05 (eight years ago) link
I heard Cheerleader on radio once some months ago, liked it, tried to find, but I thought it was 'Chariot' so couldn't find it. Also, that lyric didn't really make much sense.
― Frederik B, Friday, 31 July 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link
Japanese singles/albums would often have lyric sheets, transcribed phonetically:
The Jam, David Watts : "I am a dull and simple lad, Kind of not want to rush at me"
Madness, Driving in my car: "It says "Morris" on the door, the cheapie O.O.D.T.4"
― Mark G, Thursday, 20 August 2015 10:21 (eight years ago) link
"Make you feel like the queen of Rome, make him love you til you can't come down", until abt 30 seconds ago when my bf sang it to me the right way
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 12:12 (eight years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
"Dreams": when the rainbow shaves you clean you'll knowlove that one
― Paul, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:42 (eight years ago) link
Up until I learned who he was, I misheard pretty much every reference to Al B. Sure as "Alvie Shore", who (given associations with Annie Hall) I always assumed was a stereotypical Jewish nebbish that rappers would namecheck for some reason.
― ed.b, Friday, 6 November 2015 04:11 (eight years ago) link
omg "Blood runs out of my head when you're not around"
― Frump 'n' Dump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 6 November 2015 04:22 (eight years ago) link
Actually in general this thread has a lot of gems - I can't really imagine anyone mishearing it as "two chickens to paralyze" but that's totally how I'm singing it from now on.
― Frump 'n' Dump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 6 November 2015 04:26 (eight years ago) link
Keep thinking about that place Statison Boulaye which must be near The Monkee's Pleasant Valley.Certainly what I heard it as in my early teens.Think it's clearer on the cd though not heard in a while.
― Stevolende, Friday, 6 November 2015 08:47 (eight years ago) link
Adolescent residentWastin' another night on Planet Maury 'vichWant it deadWant it deadWANT IT DEAD!Don't wanna be your monkey wrenchWant warranties on accidents
― Frump 'n' Dump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 6 November 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
MAHHHHHHH-CHINE, GIVE ME MAHHHHHHH-CHINEhttp://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=muse+mercy
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Sunday, 10 January 2016 04:03 (eight years ago) link
sryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj8Xpdx60Ws
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Sunday, 10 January 2016 04:04 (eight years ago) link
That weren't no D.J. that was hazy cosmic Jedi
― remove butt (abanana), Monday, 11 January 2016 23:39 (eight years ago) link
fwiw I think that Muse chorus sounds a lot like Boston, which is not exactly a good thing for me, but an unusual reference point in 2015/6
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 02:40 (eight years ago) link
slap that baby make him pee
― how's life, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link
Always thought "Changes" was "Turn and face the strain." Some kind of boating lingo.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 19:17 (eight years ago) link
I now defy you to ever hear anything other than "hot potatoes" sung over the chorus of 'Rock Me Amadeus'.
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Friday, 29 April 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
i will raise you this: just today in a meeting we were talking about a coworker named w@ta@nab3 and that is the same tune that leapt to mind
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 29 April 2016 18:53 (eight years ago) link
oops i thought this was the "i can't stop singing the song this way now" threadnm!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 29 April 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link
Dead Ringer For Love
"Rock 'n roll and brew, rock 'n roll and brew"
i don't know what i thought these lyrics were for the last 35 or so years, but they weren't this. he really underpronounces the b in brew so i've heard it as 'rock and roll and roo', whatever that means.
― koogs, Friday, 1 July 2016 07:05 (seven years ago) link
'Round round get a round I'll get a round Get a round round roundI'll get a roundI haven't got no bread I'll get you Special Brew
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 1 July 2016 08:33 (seven years ago) link
Elton John - Can't Stay Alone Tonight
what I heard (while shopping): 'your vagina in my rearview'what Bernie Taupin actually wrote: 'you're the diner in my rearview'
― schrute dwyte (unregistered), Sunday, 1 January 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link
To this day, I still hear Justine singing about Sto-vo-kor on "Connection" and have no clue what the real lyric is supposed to be.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link
whereabouts?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 14:06 (seven years ago) link
At 0:44, in the first verse.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 19:33 (seven years ago) link
You can't really blame her because this particular misheard lyric is in Spanish, but my wife thought at the end of Spanish Bombs by The Clash, they keep repeating "Oh my car is on."
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 24 April 2017 19:35 (seven years ago) link
In John Cale's Buffalo Ballet, whose third verse goes:
Gold came and went, quickly spentAnd the people broke down, and often drownedIn the wealth and pain of old Abilene
I always hear:
And the people broke down, and often dreamt/wept
I get how 'drowned' makes an AABB pattern, but I think it fits better as AABA. He even changes the articulation in many of the live versions to make it that way.
― wallace, Monday, 24 April 2017 20:42 (seven years ago) link
speaking of AABBBA, "Dancing Queen." the chorus will always be "YOU CAN DANCE!!!!!! YOU CAN DIE!!!!! HAVING THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE!!!!!"
― flappy bird, Monday, 24 April 2017 20:45 (seven years ago) link
I had a friend in high school who came to me ( i having been, and still am, the goto guy for such matters)with this question pertaining to Alice Coopers No More Mr. Nice Guy. Upon hearing the line, "I went to church incognito" he quite earnestly enquired "Hey Joel, where's Cognito"? I should've said Southern California! Instead I politely corrected him. Not a lyric but another time, at a party where we were all listening to Ozzy's live lp Speak of the Devil, in the intro to The Wizard, the Ozzman says " this reminds me of the old Fillmore East. Anyone remember old Fillmore East "? At which point Ronnie turned to me and said, " Hey Joel, who's Phil Maurice? I don't recall my response but I'm pretty sure I laughed and gently corrected him. That guy could be a real bonehead at times. Lol!
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 07:41 (seven years ago) link
And I must admit, as Flappy Bird says, I've always heard the chorus of Dancing Queen that way too. I was quite disappointed to discover it was "you can jive" at the age of..oh..45 maybe. I still prefer "die" though. Overgrown arrested adolescent to the end, I suppose.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 07:54 (seven years ago) link
Just heard Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative" and remembered when I was a kid I used to think he sang:
"Don't get me wrong / I'm really not sick / Beetlejuice is not my thing"
I assume it's because the film and the song were hot around the same time and my 8-year-old self probably thought he wasn't feelin' it.
― Chantilly Bass, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link
I wasn't so familiar with the Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter until recently, but when I heard it I had to check the lyrics for the chorus to check ("War, children") - as I thought it was unlikely that it went "Booooob Dylaaaan!"...which is what I kept hearing.
I used to think that the Spice Girls' Wannabe, instead of 'get with my friends' went:"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get rid of my friends."
― Valentijn, Thursday, 25 May 2017 06:31 (seven years ago) link
that Gimme Shelter variant is amazing.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 25 May 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
"Shane Wright like a diamond"
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/resources/images/5772602.jpg
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/14946511._Prolific_offender__arrested_after_multiple_burglaries/
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 June 2017 12:52 (seven years ago) link
On Today by Smashing Pumpkins, I still maintain that Corgan sings "My willy stings" at one point.
― Grantman, Sunday, 11 June 2017 14:31 (seven years ago) link
Last week Guy Garvey introduced this with "Here's a song about Les Dennis"
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 11 June 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
For nearly 30 years I've misheard the greatest moment in the greatest Warren Zevon song, The French Inhaler.
It's I-I-I thought you'd be a star. Not I-I-I passion fiesta.
Another illusion shattered.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
I always heard INXS 'Don't Change' as:Don't change the earthDon't change a thing, for me― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 27 September 2009 10:50 (1 year ago)...you mean it isnt that? *checks*fuuuuuck.― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Friday, January 21, 2011 8:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Friday, January 21, 2011 8:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
holy shit y'all just blew my mind
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 30 December 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
This one is embarrassing: I had gone my entire life thinking "Satisfaction" went "I can't get no girly action."
Happened to be listening to a cover recently and realized that it must have been "no girl reaction" all along, which makes much more sense and is a better lyric.
― twas in the fleek midwinter (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 30 December 2017 03:04 (six years ago) link
I probably first got to know those lyrics through Weird Al's "Hot Rocks Polka," where it really sounds like "girly action," and that's how I heard it for years and years.
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 30 December 2017 03:12 (six years ago) link
Listening to it now, I'm certain Al is actually singing "girly action." So, you're in good company!
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 30 December 2017 03:19 (six years ago) link
I always thought it was “girly action” too, til about 10 yrs ago.
One I was reminded of recently was my longstanding misconception of the last verse of “The Green, Green Grass of Home”:
There’s a garden, there’s a saddled padre
― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 30 December 2017 03:34 (six years ago) link
I've always thought it was "girly action". I reckon Bono does too.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 December 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
Along Came Jones by the Coasters. As a kid, I always heard 'along came long, lean, lankey Jones' as 'along came lonely, naked Jones'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFyr49TwuiI
― how's life, Sunday, 18 February 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
Was disappointed to realize that the bridge from Nothing But Flowers by Talking Heads was not
The highways and carsWere sacrificed for angry cultureI wish that we'd start overBut I guess I was wrong
I feel it works just as well in context.
― how's life, Saturday, 14 April 2018 11:54 (six years ago) link
A couple years ago my in-laws bought my daughter K (then 4 years old) a little stuffed dog that would sort of bop its head and sing "Thank You For Being A Friend" (aka the Golden Girls' theme). I guess as a result of this juxtaposition, K used to sing "Your heart is true, you're a pal and a comfy dog."
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
that's great
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
I'm watching this gator glide by on the lakeIce frozen six feet deep just how long does it take
first time i heard this i thought Neil was talkin' about alligators slowly sliding across a frozen lake
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
Black Grape, Kelly's Heroes.
I originally heard it as: "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sing like Suggs.", wondering whatever poor Graham McPherson did wrong & imagining Superman singing Baggy Trousers.
Then, for ages, I thought the correct lyrics were: "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs." - which I thought was fairly intruiging & worked alright.
Only now I found out that the real thing apparently is: "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sing like surfs."
― Valentijn, Monday, 1 October 2018 11:31 (five years ago) link
For a considerable time, I thought The Tubes' "Don't Touch Me There" contained the phrase "I love the way you're built, Fritz".On reflection I reckon it's probably "I love the way your belt fits". Still hear it wrong, though.
― Maltrsnapper, Monday, 1 October 2018 11:52 (five years ago) link
Another one: Peter Gabriel, Games Without Frontiers. That bit where you hear the French version of the title: "Jeux sans frontieres", that initially sounded to me like: "She's so funky, yeah!". (I did look up the lyrics then right away as I suspected I might have been off.)
― Valentijn, Monday, 1 October 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link
"Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs."
I believe this to be the actual lyric...
Actually, it was supposed to be "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men do cocaine." which at least rhymes with the next line "Who's got the biggest, Who's got the biggest, Who's got the biggest brain...."
― Mark G, Monday, 1 October 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
"She's so funky, yeah!"
I had it as "She's So Popular".
Anyway, Kate Bush sings that bit, I always had it "hey, that Peter Gabriel has a range!"
― Mark G, Monday, 1 October 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
"Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs." I believe this to be the actual lyric...
Really thought it was too, I found that 'surfs' line earlier through a Google search for the lyrics. It's claimed to be that on the majority of lyrics sources, but now I'm thinking that those pages are all wrong.(In any case, it's nothing to do with Madness' frontman either...)
― Valentijn, Monday, 1 October 2018 13:38 (five years ago) link
I speak French and I had always heard "she's so popular" instead of "jeux sans frontières". Even now, having known it's "jeux sans frontières" for years, it still sounds a lot closer to "she's so popular" to me.
― silverfish, Monday, 1 October 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
"Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs."I believe this to be the actual lyric...
I thought it was this too, all this time. But you listen to the song again and you hear the "f"s, mostly.
"Serfs" not "surfs" though.
They're both doing "f"s, I think, at 1:10 here.
But then, at 1:18, one of them definitely does a "b".
I think it's both.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 1 October 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
Actually it's Smurfs.
― Dancing with the Tsars (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 00:54 (five years ago) link
I always thought it was "most of these men seem like sods". As if I even know what a "sod" is!
― henry s, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link
Roky Erickson - Two Headed Dog:
Beast bark back bark back
According to all the lyrics sites it's 'peace brought back brought back'
― peace, man, Friday, 18 January 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
We All Came Up To MontraFrom The Waves Beneath The Shore LineTo Make Wickets With Them AllWe Didn't Have Much TimeFrank Sipper And The MorgansWill Have The First Real SurroundSome Stupid Little Flare DoBurn The Place To The GroundThey Burned Down The Diamond HouseIt Died With An Awful SoundTown Was Running I And OutIt Was Calling Kids Out To FoundWhen It Was All OverHad To Find Another PlaceWish Time Was RunningSeeing We Would Lose The RaceCome On Baby
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Friday, 18 January 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
when i was a kid i used to think santana’s “evil ways” went like this:
“when i come home, baby,my house is dark and my butts are cold”
as opposed to “pots” (the “woman you don’t cook for me” thing would’ve gone over my head anyway)
― budo jeru, Saturday, 19 January 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
As a kid i heard the line in Livin On A Prayer as “Take my hand, we’ll make it elsewhere”
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 January 2019 08:37 (five years ago) link
When that song came out, there was a kid in my class who thought it was Livin' on a Prairie, like Laura Ingalls Wilder.
― peace, man, Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
that's great!
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
I like my version better, but in the song Sugar n' Spikes, Captain Beefheart says Whoopin' hope, not Poopin' hope.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
yesterday i learned that the dutch word for "mondegreen" is "mama appelsap", after a michael jackson song (presumably the soul makossa thing)
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Thursday, 7 February 2019 01:14 (five years ago) link
Correct, it's because a lot of people thought they heard/wanted to hear 'mama appelsap' in 'Wanna Be Startin' Something'. 'Mama appelsap' means 'mama apple juice'.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 7 February 2019 08:26 (five years ago) link
mamasay mamasa mamakusa puts me in mind of the epic Rusted Root neologism thread
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 February 2019 12:33 (five years ago) link
In "Man In The Mirror", the line "a summer disregard, a broken bottle top" I always sing in my head as "a Baby Bottle Pop"
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
"So when you call up that shrink in Beverly HillsYou know the one, goddammit everything's going to be alright."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 February 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
Runnin With the Devil:
I found the simple life ain't so simpleWhen I jumped out, on that roadI got no love, no love in Korea ...
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 February 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link
Party Rock Anthem, I always heard them declare "No Lennon or Zeppelin."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 February 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
Saint Etienne, Girl VII: "Blazer y-fronts blazer y-fronts"
― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 12:24 (five years ago) link
when I was first getting into Metallica, due to James's weird elocution, I kept thinking he was singing "tied to machines that make me pee", and kept wondering what the main character had left to pee out of
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 03:28 (five years ago) link
Though I know the real lyrics, my whole life my brain has persisted in hearing Ex Lion Tamer's chorus as going "be good to your geniuses!"
― mick signals, Sunday, 31 March 2019 18:45 (five years ago) link
Might be an old chestnut, but The Police's Walking on the Moon: "Tomorrow's another day, Tuesday"
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Thursday, 4 April 2019 11:23 (five years ago) link
In "Tempted," I always end up singing "tempted by the fruit of your mother."
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 April 2019 12:06 (five years ago) link
I'm telling you, babeThat I don't think it's true, babeOr even if it is, keep kissing mine
― mick signals, Sunday, 14 April 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/E3gQ0km.png
― mick signals, Friday, 31 May 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
Whenever I listen to the Red Crayola song Former Reflections Enduring Doubt, I hear the opening words as: "Martha Plimpton..."
(I like that so much, I don't even wanna know what Mayo's really singing!)
― Theodor Adorno, perhaps the greatest philosopher alive today (morrisp), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
We can try to understandThe New York Times' effect on man
lol u gotta be shitting me
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 July 2019 05:38 (four years ago) link
That's gonna bug me...
Back later
― Mark G, Sunday, 7 July 2019 11:55 (four years ago) link
Got it.
Carry on...
― Mark G, Sunday, 7 July 2019 13:01 (four years ago) link
Wayward son
― CumuloNIMBY (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 8 July 2019 02:05 (four years ago) link
There'll be peas when you are done
― CumuloNIMBY (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 8 July 2019 02:06 (four years ago) link
I was sure "Stayin' Alive" said "The New York Times don't make no sense"
(even before my recognition of their warmongering corporate liberalism)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 July 2019 02:32 (four years ago) link
Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Cold Shot." Was stunned to find out he's not singing "at nights I go shopping"
(real lyric = "and that's a cold shot, baby")
― Josefa, Monday, 8 July 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
All I ever wantedAll I ever neededIs here in my arse
― mick signals, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
that sort of reminds me:
Kylie - Made of Glass "where dogging is rarely that necessary"
― kinder, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
I always thought the Mr Belvedere theme began:
Streets of ChinaNever met him before
And not
Streaks on the chinaNever mattered before
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Silver Jews - Ablemarle Station
Bad roads, bad snow, bad bridgesTed Turner wants Batman religious
(could turn a once bad man religious)
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
'Breathe' - Shaggy ft. Blu Cantrell
I've always always always heard the line as 'So what's that supposed to be, a bald lady?'
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 10:37 (four years ago) link
idk if this fits here but I've heard "Caribbean Queen" probably every day for the past two years and I still cannot understand why Billy weights it like "Carob Bean Queen"
It is ca-RIB-be-yan right? Not care-ob-BEEN? *does a google* what the fuck he recorded three versions of this song? European Queen? African Queen?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 11:36 (four years ago) link
I would say something like CA-ro-BE-yan?
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 11:43 (four years ago) link
not much different to how he sings it I guess? I have heard people pronounce it Cuh-RIB-ian but that sounds non-standard
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 11:44 (four years ago) link
ah this is a UK vs American thing https://www.google.com/search?q=caribbean+pronounce
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link
Ocean is English/Trinidadian
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
Also that's how it's pronounced in the Caribbean, isn't it?
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:06 (four years ago) link
How is it pronounced in Pirates of the Caribbean?
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link
I've heard "Caribbean Queen" probably every day for the past two years
y tho
― hoostanbank de reason lyrics mp4 hd video download (unregistered), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
My boyfriend has two playlists, a daytime list and a nighttime list, Ocean is on both
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:51 (four years ago) link
Both pronunciations suggest four syllables, whether you're weighting on the rib or the care/bee. European is four syllables; does Ocean sing "Europe Peen" when he adjusts the origin story of his queen?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
I'm gonna write a song called "Euripidean Queen"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
He sings it with four syllables though? Admittedly I don't hear it every day.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
do you say you-ROW pee-an?
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
I hear it every day too because work and it's definitely 4 syllables
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
also here's a random fact I found out the other day: Billy Ocean sings backup vocals on Scott Walker's Track Three on Climate of Hunter
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
Nope I say YER-rope-EE-an, the opposite of fa-LOPE-ee-an.
It is four syllables? OK I'll take it. I guess it's more my own aesthetic barometer swinging more toward the melodious possibility of a "ca-RIB-be-yan QUEEN" over "CARE-ob-BEE-yan QUEEN". Having the phoneme "bean"/"BEE-yan" weighted heavily next to an also-weighted-heavily "queen" is unappealing to my ears? Bean Queen. Lots of 'ee' sounds.
Anyway "now our hearts they beat as one / no more love on the run" is a fabulous lyric, but I always like it when a lyricist names an object and then follows it with a pronoun, "our hearts, they..." "my father, he..." "my lover, she..." etc.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
*a subject, rather, I guess
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link
I keep hearing mentions to Felix Leiter in the "I’d be a fearless leader/I'd be an alpha type" lines in Swift's "The Man". I really liked the clever nod to Ian Fleming and addressing her own americanity.
― cpl593H, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
That's Sean Paul, not Shaggy
― kinder, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 September 2019 10:48 (four years ago) link
xp - oh yeah, course it is.
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 08:58 (four years ago) link
Just remembered that when I first heard 'Motorcycle Emptiness' as a teenager at a local indie night, I heard 'Under neon loneliness' as something like 'La la-la la lovely boots' and now that's what it is
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 08:59 (four years ago) link
Bob Dylan - Are You Ready?
Are you ready for the judgment?Are you ready for that Taylor Swift song?
For a moment I thought he was making a joke, but the recording is from 80
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 12:45 (four years ago) link
Woah-oh, in a coupla days, they come and take me awayBut the press let the story leakAnd when they're outta Capri-Sun, they get me a releaseWe was all on the cover of Newsweek
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 January 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
I feed you dignity to stand with prideRealize that all in all you stand tallGo ahead, Mr. Window
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 January 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
From my mom: "I always thought it was 'Hold me closer, Tony Danza.' "
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 10 February 2020 03:43 (four years ago) link
look, mommythere's an airplane up in the sky
oo - oo - oo - oo - oooo - oo - oo - oo - oo
did did did did you see the frightened ones?did did did did you hear the falling bombs?
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 10 February 2020 03:52 (four years ago) link
Not sure ifI mentioned this but my French grandmother used to think the middle-eight in Paul McCartney's 'Just Another Day' was:
'Sau-sage / Sau-sage / Sometimes she feels sau-sage'
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 10 February 2020 10:43 (four years ago) link
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas:
Heard: Has bad depression got a hold on me/Or is this the way love's supposed to be?
Actual: Has high blood pressure got a hold on me/Or is this the way love's supposed to be?
― ☮️ (peace, man), Friday, 21 February 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
Put that magic jump on me/Slap that baby, make him pee!
― ☮️ (peace, man), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
Today I learned it's "Have you got it? Do you get it? If so, how often?" not "Have you got it together, if so how often?".
― neith moon (ledge), Friday, 5 June 2020 11:05 (four years ago) link
Ooh, now I learned that today.
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 09:08 (four years ago) link
In Gorillaz 19-2000 they sing
"There's a monkey in the jungleWatching a vapor trail"
turns out my wife has thought the monkey was "watching a baby drown" all these years
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 10:03 (four years ago) link
Thursday, Understanding in a Car Crash
Heard:'Tis time 'tis time 'tis time 'tis time to go
Actual:It starts and stops and starts and stops again
― peace, man, Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
hard to hear the words clearly when the singer is beating you over the head for 5 minutes
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
Korea Korea Ko-Reverend Al Green
― neith moon (ledge), Friday, 26 June 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link
hahaha up til this moment looking it up, i thought it was "reoccuring like the reverend al green"
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 26 June 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
Kendrick Lamar, Money Trees
Heard: Everybody gon' respect the shoe/But the one in front of the gun lives forever
Actual: Everybody gon' respect the shooter/But the one in front of the gun lives forever
― peace, man, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
Black Sabbath
Heard: Can you help me? Thought you were my friend.Actual: Can you help me occupy my brain?
― peace, man, Friday, 18 September 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
I figured out the right lyrics decades ago, but was reminded of it today
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Heard: the only cola that I support would be a union C.O.L. that costs your flaming allowance!Actual: the only cola that I support would be a union C.O.L.A.(Cost Of Living Allowance)!
― peace, man, Friday, 21 May 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
not sure why that's tickling me so much, but bravo
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 21 May 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
Maybe you only heard it on the radio but the lyrics came with the album so you could fully enjoy their hilarious po-faced politicisms. (I kid, slightly, but that one is a highlight.)
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 21 May 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link
I read a Christgau review of an early Emmy Lou Harris album a few months ago and then absolutely misheard it this morning as "I would rub my asshole / in the bosom of Abraham"
― kermit the grouch (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 27 September 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
Listening to New Order for the first time in years after reading Hooky's book and remembered this one:
"Oh Allah is like the flowers..."
― visiting, Saturday, 9 October 2021 02:22 (two years ago) link
"Let me take you down""(Why?)""Because I'm going to!"
― Mark G, Saturday, 9 October 2021 12:00 (two years ago) link
"And I wanna liquefy everybody gone by". Is it "gone by" or "gone dry"? I've always heard it as "gone by".
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Monday, 11 October 2021 06:33 (two years ago) link
My first exposure to 'Wild Horses' was hearing the Sundays' cover back in my teen years, and because enunciation wasn't always Harriet Wheeler's strong suit, I heard her sing something like
Oh, let's do supperBut don't ache and painA lovely disorderJust like Lois Lane
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 October 2021 13:11 (two years ago) link
I always heard the woman’s voice in the refrain of Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money as “Feed my little baby”.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 4 November 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
I was just listening to a podcast yesterday where the host had (in childhood) heard it the same! It was on Rob Harvilla's 60 Songs that Explain the 90s, but I can't remember which episode I was listening to at the time.
― peace, man, Thursday, 4 November 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
the woman in question: Ronnie Spector!
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 4 November 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
that was the part I only just learned like a year ago, or that the lyric before was "just like Ronnie sang" (though Eddie Money sings so mush-mouthed sometimes that's probably why)
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 November 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
it is the 'My Heart Will Go On' episode, and the thought of it made me die laughing. that you, Rob?
― What it's like. Havana Syndrome. What it's like. Havana Syndrom (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 4 November 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
SaraSaraStop operatin’ your eyes
― epistantophus, Saturday, 1 January 2022 04:40 (two years ago) link
For years I thought that the line in Dylan's 'Jokerman' about "a small dog licking your face" was actually "a small dark look in your face".
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 1 January 2022 09:47 (two years ago) link
I discovered a few minor Dylan mishearings on "Isis" while watching the Scorsese Rolling Thunder film the other day. A song I've been singing along to for 25 years, mind you."where the creek used to rise" I had as "where the creek hits the rise.""You mystical child" as "Oh, I missed ya, good child.""In the drizzlin' rain" as "with your dress all in rags."
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 1 January 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link
I used to hear the lyrics of "Tangled Up in Blue" wrong and have never quite reconciled the written lyric vs. my sense of what the lyric *ought* to be. E.g.:
We drove that car as far as we could, abandoned it out westSplit up on the docks that night, both agreein' it was best
vs.
Split up on a dark sad night, both agreein' it was best
― ; (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 1 January 2022 22:46 (two years ago) link
For years I thought that the line in Dylan's 'Jokerman' about "a small dog licking your face" was actually "a small dark look in your face".Huh… I guess I did too, until just now.
― best BASSMAN sticker on Etsy (morrisp), Saturday, 1 January 2022 22:54 (two years ago) link
I used to hear the lyrics of "Tangled Up in Blue" wrong and have never quite reconciled the written lyric vs. my sense of what the lyric *ought* to be. E.g.:We drove that car as far as we could, abandoned it out westSplit up on the docks that night, both agreein' it was bestvs.Split up on a dark sad night, both agreein' it was best― ; (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, January 1, 2022 5:46 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ; (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, January 1, 2022 5:46 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Damn, I've thought it was "docks that night" for decades.
― peace, man, Saturday, 1 January 2022 23:18 (two years ago) link
woah. also in the "docks" camp.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 2 January 2022 01:52 (two years ago) link
I feel obligated to inform the Swedish Academy.
― peace, man, Sunday, 2 January 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
― A Little Bit Meme, a Little Bit URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 January 2022 13:33 (two years ago) link
For 25 years I thought the line in "Maybe Partying Will Help" was "what about the people who don't have what I ain't got" but apparently it's D. Boon's singing "what I have got" with a weird inflection?!?! I always thought the double negative was purposely opaque.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 06:41 (two years ago) link
Cheese On FireAnd Cheese Burnin'
Amy Holland - Cheese On Fire
― feed me with your clicks (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 23:51 (two years ago) link
Ramones - Somebody Put Something in My Drink
Another night out on the streetStopping for my usual seatThe bartender bleats
(Oh, bartender, please)
― peace, man, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link
Suzi Quatro - Shine My Machine
You can't knock the rock 'n' roll rocketIt's what keeps this city alive
but really:
You can't knock a rocker for rockin'It's what keeps this city alive
Hers is good too, but I think I'll cling to what I've been hearing for 15 years. After typing it out, I also think "rock 'n' roll racket" might do even more favors for the rest of the song's lyrics.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
At the drive-in/In the old man's barn Ford
― peace, man, Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link
Gorillaz - Rhinestone Eyes
I got a feeling now my heart is frozenAll the birdseeds and Michael Rosen
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:16 (one year ago) link
In XTC's "Easter Theatre," I'd always heard one line of the chorus as:
"If we all breathe in and roll away the stone"
...which makes a semipagan springtime song actually about Easter.
― Moniker? I barely know 'er! (SlimAndSlam), Monday, 27 February 2023 02:28 (one year ago) link
Faith No More - Death March
It's Dove Bars Death March, baby!
― peace, man, Monday, 27 February 2023 18:40 (one year ago) link
I just discovered today that the Climax Blues Band sang "Kept on looking for a sign in the middle of the night"
I always heard "Kept on looking for the sun in the middle of the night"
Which I think I still prefer.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 22:03 (one year ago) link
I wonder whyHe's the greatest dancer
― ledge, Monday, 13 March 2023 09:47 (one year ago) link
Oh, what, wow
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 March 2023 09:55 (one year ago) link
I don't blame myself for not hearing that unusual exclamation correctly.
― ledge, Monday, 13 March 2023 09:59 (one year ago) link
You and I and everyone, aliveWe can run into the fireI’m a trust fund babyYeah, I’m a trust fund baby
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 8 May 2023 19:18 (one year ago) link
I went down to Miami,I let a girl name a salmon.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Monday, 8 May 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link
I remember long ago thinking the “you know I’m such a fool for you” line in Let it Linger by the Cranberries as “I’m searching for food for you” which gave me a pretty skewed wilderness-survival impression of the song
― ed.b, Thursday, 1 June 2023 03:04 (one year ago) link
loooool
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 June 2023 04:00 (one year ago) link
so that's where they got their band name!
― peace, man, Thursday, 1 June 2023 10:29 (one year ago) link
I know of a Cranberries cover band called the Craisins.
― Landfill Collins (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 June 2023 15:05 (one year ago) link
For years I thought the "it's a game, it's a game, well let's call it a shame" couplet in "Goin' Through The Motions" by Blue Oyster Cult was "it's a girl, it's a girl, well let's call it a-Shirl."
― henry s, Thursday, 1 June 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
higher and higher and higher and higher and higher and higherkissing the spider
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:19 (eleven months ago) link
For as long as I’ve been alive, I thought the lyric was “my regal robes of the forest / would be satin, not cotton, not tinse”.
I always thought that “tinse” was some actual fabric, or a reference to tinsel. The word Bert actually sings is “chintz”.
― Snoopy is a cat, who lives in a cage (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 21 August 2023 22:22 (nine months ago) link
I had always heard it as chintz, but had no idea what that meant until looking it up just now. I knew that the adjective "chintzy" usually means cheap/lousy. Actually refers to woodblock-printed cotton originating in India. It's one of those things where I'm scrolling through GIS results like, "ohhhhh, so that's what that's called."
https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2015HN5366_jpg_l_93a4c450a85b16fe802d93e616d43963.jpg
― peace, man, Monday, 21 August 2023 22:57 (nine months ago) link
Bob Marley - Jammin'
Jah seated in Mount ZionAnd rules all creationhttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/26/58/78/26587861afe4afbd77f92ff00f99eff5.jpg
(yeah, we're...)
― peace, man, Monday, 23 October 2023 15:16 (seven months ago) link
from green earrings by steely dan"the rings of randy's eyes"― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Sunday, June 8, 2014 8:11 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Sunday, June 8, 2014 8:11 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Came here to post this, glad I ctrl+F'd first. Though I hear "Randy's eye" singular lol
― J. Sam, Friday, 27 October 2023 22:33 (seven months ago) link
I always thought the line in The Pet Shop Boys "Being Boring"--"We dressed up and fought and thought 'make amends'"--was "We dressed up in thoughts and thoughts make amends". I was wrong, but I still think mine is better.― The Illiterate (moriarty), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I also thought it was "we dressed up in thoughts and thoughts make amends" for the last however many decades I've been listening to this song for, and it was always one of my favourite PSB lyrics, but their official website says "dressed up and fought and thought 'make amends'", so I guess that must be what Neil is actually singing
― soref, Friday, 15 March 2024 19:20 (three months ago) link
I was part of a hip hop channel on mIRC (DALnet) once and the 'summary' for the room that loaded up when you entered was this quote from a member of the channel from like a year or two earlier, where they had thought the lyric to The Real Slim Shady was
I'm Slim ShadyYes, I'm the real ShadyAll you other Slim Shadysare justin my teddy
and were still being clowned for it years later
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 March 2024 19:34 (three months ago) link
Justin, my teddyI love it
― kinder, Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:13 (three months ago) link
Neil Young sings to his car:
When you're old enough to repaintBut young enough to sell
― Brad C., Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:22 (three months ago) link
Prong - Prove You Wrong
Heard: Dependence on no one, I just trust animalsActual: Dependence on no one, I distrust and oppose
― peace, man, Sunday, 21 April 2024 20:32 (one month ago) link
lol yours is better!
At a music festival last year my friend heard
We'd be lucky to survive, wrapped up in a dreamasWomen are here to survive not to penetrate
― ledge, Monday, 22 April 2024 14:22 (one month ago) link
Brandy, you're a fine girlwhat a good wife you would bebut my life, my lover, my ladyis deceased
― Lee626, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:54 (one month ago) link
doo doo doodoo doot doo doo doot doo
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:57 (one month ago) link
As I write this, I do not know if in ETBG's "Each and Every One", Tracey Thorn is being offered:- the same thing in a different guise- the same thing in different guys- or maybe something else entirely?
― Lee626, Friday, 3 May 2024 08:35 (one month ago) link