Does it bother you when a reviewer misquotes lyrics?

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This is one of my biggest pet peeves, and I can't decide whether I'm being totally ridiculous (because who honestly cares? the only people who will pick up on it are those who've already heard the song in question, and we don't really need to read the review anyway) or eminently reasonable (because even without liner notes, most lyrics are not that hard to figure out, and if they are of the unintelligible variety then why are you quoting them?!?).

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:16 (twenty years ago)

(and I think the review that set me off may have been a case of "lyrics printed in liner notes obviously contradict those sung on album", but I refuse to make an exception for these cases! if anything, that's even worse, because it tells me that you just read the liner notes and didn't really pay any attention to the song!)

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

The worst has to be Jeremy Paxman on University Challenge. The team correctly identified the song Voodoo Chile ... and he didn't give them the point, saying this was a different song, pronouncing it chilli.

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:42 (twenty years ago)

if that had been me, I think I would've set a guitar on fire and then smashed his face in with it

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:48 (twenty years ago)

i am firmly on paxman's side it must be said

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:51 (twenty years ago)

I am on the side of whatever's not the side of righteous-nerd anger.

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure they didn't answer "Voodoo Chile", whatever the pronounciation.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:43 (twenty years ago)

You know what Barbara Strysand said...

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 10:16 (twenty years ago)

Haha, Paxman didn't know that Voodoo Chile is pronounced "Crosstown Traffic"

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 10:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure I'm guilty of this at times just due to deadlines and brain-keyboard misfires. In other people's reviews, it only bothers me when they're quoting the lyrics positively (like, don't they even KNOW what they LIKE?).

Of course, I've done that, too, so fuck.

― marc h. (marc h.), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:12 (twenty years ago)

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