― 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
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."
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― 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
"the rings of randy's eyes"
― 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