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Many pop songs contain lyrics which are erroneous.
I just listened to Alex Chilton. He sings something like "Small town in Indonesia. Bangkok" which is rubbish as Bangkok is the capital of Thailand.
Or Neil Young who sings of "Johnny Rotten who will never be forgotten" when he means Sid Vicious as Johnny Rotten is still alive and kicking.
Have you got more examples of songs with totally wrong lyrics?

― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think it is journey who sing about the south side of detroit, but the south side of detroit is canada.

― keith, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DO NOT MENTION COMMON OR CANIBUS BELOW THIS LINE:

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― ethan, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

is it common for cannibus to go bad after a few weeks?

― jess, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New Order of course managed to combine appalling rhyme (other thread) with misleading financial information: "here comes love: it's like honey, you can't buy it with money". i suppose the get out is that love is only LIKE honey -- one of the more important ways that it doesn't actually resemble honey is that you cannot buy it with money. honey of course being available at very reasonable prices at budgens. still it is poetically insensitive (at least 3 points off the license) to mention that a is like b, and then in the next clause to pick on (nay sing the praise of) one of the few ways that a is entirely unlike b.

― Alan at home, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alanis Morrisette!

― dave q, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Audio Two, "So Whatcha Lookin' At?" - they complain about the Village being infested with 'faggots, like meat on maggots'.

― dave q, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Boney M - Belfast. "Belfast, it's a country that's changing". A COUNTRY?

― Dr. C, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can we mention tautologies?

Leonard Cohen: "The Sisters of Mercy they are not departed or gone"

Say what? I didn't think departed/gone was an either/or option.

I've puzzled over that 'or' so much I am quite willing to accept this as a misheard lyric.

― Alexander Blair, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

U2's "Pride (In the Name of Love)." "Early morning, April 4/Shot rings out in the Memphis sky..." Dr. King was actually shot just after 6 PM.

― Douglas, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SO WHAT'S ALL THIS ABOUT CANIBUS AND COMMON, THEN?

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The whole "when the Winston Churchills are firing their Winston rifles... and smoking their Winston cigarettes" bit from the Lift to Experience album (there's no such thing as a Winston rifle... not that it doesn't sound cool anyway).

― Oliver K., Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

departed suggests a pyshically leaving , gone a metaphoric or philsophical one

― anthony, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Think of Memphis, a small city, home of Elvis and the ancient Greeks'- Talking Heads 'Cities' . Well, it was in Egypt actually, but it sure does scan well. Then there was that illiterate Noel G and Chemicals collaboration- I forget its title ('how does it feel like...')

― Snotty Moore, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stereophonics-Have a Nice Day.

Obviously they don't realise that hearing that song ruins any chance of me having a nice day.

Also doesnt he say something like "cruise around all day, have a drink of cheese". We're from "WORKING CLASS BACKGROUNDS, IF PEOPLE AT HOME IN OUR WORKING CLASS VILLAGE SAW US NOW THEY'D SAY WE WERE POOFTERS, COS THATS WHAT WE WORKING CLASS PEOPLE CALL PEOPLE WHO DONT LOOK WORKING CLASS, PEOPLE WHO DONT DRINK CHEESE, POOFTERS"

Did I mention that fucking drummer? I'll bet it was his idea to dress up as a clown for that bloody awful dirge "Mr Writer" . If Keith Flynt wasn't allowed on TOTP before the watershed how can they let that fuckwit on. He'd scare more small children than any other act.

How have I turned this into a rant about the Phonics, I don't know but I think some things have to be said. Like, "It doesn't matter how many times you mention Bruce Springsteen or Neil Young Kelly, you're never going to be as talented".

Easy target I know but what a bunch of arseholes.

― Ronan, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mr Cow, by Milky

"Mr Cow I know you can't talk and you're busy right now being milked"

― James Kyllo, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Momus, "Lucky Like St. Sebastian."

"Stripping naked in the Circus Maximus with a martyr-eating lioness...." It's the Colosseum. They raced chariots in the Circus Maximus.

― Maria, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven years pass...

Steve Miller Band - Winter Time:

'In the winter time. When all the leaves are brown.'

The leaves are brown in the fall.

― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:13 (seventeen years ago)

"There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time"

Due to Kilimanjaro's equatorial location and high elevation, almost every climate type on earth is represented, including a year-round snow-topped summit.

― chap, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:35 (seventeen years ago)

"Where nothing ever grows, no rain or river flows"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoon#African_Monsoon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Nile

― chap, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:38 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Of Montreal - "Women's Studies Victims"

She draped me in a stole/I think Malaysian mink

there ain't no mink here in malaysia, barnes

― Roz, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 18:06 (sixteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure that the 'New York to East California' line in Kim Wilde's Kids In America wasn't intentionally name checking Tahoe, Fresno, and San Bernadino....sure does rhyme nice though.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 02:43 (sixteen years ago)

1995 Jeru the Damaja: "Desert Eagles, government issue/ probably the same ones that killed Noriega."

2009 Panamanian strongman still alive.

― President Keyes, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 03:24 (sixteen years ago)

ten months pass...

"carbon and monoxide," Lol and Oates

― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Sunday, 14 November 2010 23:36 (fifteen years ago)

see: ivor cutler

― jumpskins, Sunday, 14 November 2010 23:57 (fifteen years ago)

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