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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
"No more will my green seagull turn a deeper blue"
(paint it black)
― ledge, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 15:02 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
"I just hope my pinball's not too big"
― andrew m., Wednesday, 4 August 2010 16:28 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
xp: I have always thought that too.
― Riverside (kkvgz), Friday, 17 September 2010 10:34 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
for context, xp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hyO8L4P-oo
― NI, Friday, 17 September 2010 13:01 (fourteen years ago) link
"Ooh, I'm gonna buy shoes then I'm ready for the WEEKEND!!"
― Mark G, Friday, 17 September 2010 13:54 (fourteen 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
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), 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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