I just discovered on the 'favourite opening line' thread that I've spend twenty years mishearing 'I'll get killed but...' in the Only Ones 'I always flirt with death, I'll get killed but I don't care about it' as 'Out at Kilburn'.
I thought it was a nice London/LA bit of irony: I can well imagine the very wired Mr Lonely One hanging around high and pulling women on the sunny boardwalk that is Kilburn High Road.
Frankly, the real lyric is less distinctive, but better. Anyone else with favroutie mishearings that ARE better, or at least very much change the tenor of the song?
― jon (jon), Thursday, 26 September 2002 07:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rob M, Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jon (jon), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rob M, Friday, 27 September 2002 16:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
I thought the first line was "Another blow-head disco," but their online lyrics say "another bloated disco."
I like my version better.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 28 July 2003 04:05 (twenty years ago) link
― duane, Monday, 28 July 2003 04:18 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 28 July 2003 11:35 (twenty years ago) link
I just discovered that the opening line to H-Town's "Knockin Boots" isn't
"Last night I chawed tobacco When we made gooood loooove"
but rather a much more uninteresting "Last night I thought to back to When we made gooood loooove"
OH WELL.
― phil-two, Saturday, 19 April 2008 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought David Sylvian sang "Oh Satan" repeatedly in the Nine Horses song Snow borne sorrow, but it was "Oh save them". I was very disappointed, thought it was a rather refreshing line.
― ConnieXX, Saturday, 19 April 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
"Oss soss a soss soss chuck a budgie"
Dave Davies' "Susannah's still alive"
― Mark G, Sunday, 20 April 2008 08:03 (fifteen years ago) link
"When you were on the phone, couldn't look you in the eye.."
― Mark G, Sunday, 24 August 2014 07:56 (nine years ago) link
"Promised you a miracle, guinea pig's a beauty thing..."
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 8 September 2019 10:01 (four years ago) link
Midnight rockersCity slickersGunmen in Maine
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
I went down to Miami, I let a girl name a salmon.
― CRVTCHΞS (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
there's an obscure song by Ween based on a misheard opening line in an Aerosmith song (Last Child) - "take me back to a south pappy flappy"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 05:26 (three years ago) link