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...
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― 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 (eleven 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, 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 (eleven years ago) link
me too!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2013 06:12 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
re: The Four Tops' "Bernadette"
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 20 July 2013 06:21 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
<3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2013 08:32 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
how else does crocodile dundee offroad through the outback?
― pass-ag caglia (get bent), Saturday, 20 July 2013 08:34 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
Enter Sandman: 'Eggs to-night / It's your di-eet!'
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 13:26 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (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, 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 (ten 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