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 (five years ago) link
That's gonna bug me...
Back later
― Mark G, Sunday, 7 July 2019 11:55 (five years ago) link
Got it.
Carry on...
― Mark G, Sunday, 7 July 2019 13:01 (five years ago) link
Wayward son
― CumuloNIMBY (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 8 July 2019 02:05 (five years ago) link
There'll be peas when you are done
― CumuloNIMBY (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 8 July 2019 02:06 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
All I ever wantedAll I ever neededIs here in my arse
― mick signals, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 21:17 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
I would say something like CA-ro-BE-yan?
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 11:43 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Ocean is English/Trinidadian
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 11:47 (five years ago) link