I just realized I've been mishearing this Thinkin Fellers lyric - "The terror, the horror" as "The turds of war"
― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
always heard in 'rock your body', "the air is thick, it's smelling rank".
― matt h, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Suede-Animal Nitrate"In the council hall, he jumped on you both"
― Hey mighty brontosaurus! (Boxing Kangaroo), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Another "Beat It" mondegreen:
"Show 'em how fucking / strong is your fight!"
I always thought "Breed" by Nirvana woulda been better if it'd been about a girl named Giselle.
"Giselle! Giselle! Giselle! Giseeeeeeeeeeeelle!"
― staggerlee, Thursday, 8 October 2009 05:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Love is the drug - Roxy music"I said COKE, she said yes, dim the lights you can guess the rest"
Found out it was go not coke, personally i like my version better!
― X-101, Thursday, 8 October 2009 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
guess the rest = "damn, cant see it now!"
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 October 2009 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link
wait, the lyric isn't "I said Coke, she said yes?" ...that's what I thought it was, uh, until now.
― sarahel, Thursday, 8 October 2009 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link
When my sister and I were kids we would sing Smooth Operator as "Coast to coast we eat enchiladas, then we sail"
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
DOG WARTS! DOG WAAAARTS!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztRdUuOgEwk
(It's actually 'downwards')
― chap, Thursday, 8 October 2009 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"Ooh, I'm gonna buy shoes and I'm ready for the WEEKEND!"
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Dream Baby Dream
Keep them James Brown runnin, JesusKeep them James Brown runnin forever
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 November 2009 07:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Talking Heads, "Dream Operator". When he sings "three angels above the whole human race", I thought for ages he was singing "the angels above Napoleon in rags". Come to think of it, I prefer my interpretation.
― anagram, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Diana Ross, I'm Still Waiting:
Then someone finally cameHe told me that he loved meI put him off at lastHe could see I had no ass
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Monday, 8 February 2010 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Nirvana - "Scoff"Gimme back my autoharp!Gimme back my autoharp!
Nirvana - "Aneurysm"Beat me, Adam Ant!Beat me, Adam Ant!
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
This must have been mentioned before but, LCD Soundsystem:
"Get your payments from the nationfor your trouser tribulations"
... or does this belong here
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 February 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
We always thought Scoff was saying "Albert Hall"
― dog latin, Thursday, 18 February 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
My mate used to think Mozza was singing "Last of the Famous International Gayboys"
― Jazz Oddity, Thursday, 18 February 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
In smells like teen spirit, I could have swore Kurt Cobain sung "I'm a Beatle" in th chorus after he sings "a mosquito"...but turns out he was singing "my libido"...That guy always sung like he had a shotgun in his mouth...
― acer, Thursday, 18 February 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
lol good one
― Jazz Oddity, Thursday, 18 February 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Chinese like a melody in my head(garbled)Na, na, na, na everydayLike my eyeball's stuck on replay replay
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 18 February 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
They say that girl ya know she act too tough tough toughWell it's till' I turn off the light, turn off the lightThey say that girl you know she act so rough rough roughWell it's till' I turn off the light, turn off the light And I say doggy, doggy, doggy, doggy, meow meow meowtill' you see all my dreamsNot everything in this magical world is quite what it seems
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 21 February 2010 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
an actual mishear from an idiot on mIRC:
"I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the real Shady, all you other Slim Shadys are justin' my teddy"
― Ballistic, Sunday, 21 February 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
when I was a kid I used to think "the Monserrat mystique" was "your mom's a rotten steak"
― Sherman Helmsley Teabag (Cattle Grind), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
in "Kokomo"
I thought it was something like, "Monterrey Jack steak".
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a Nation of Ulysses song where they say "Cough syrup! What are you coughin' up? Cough syrup!"
For some reason I thought they said, in an intentionally bad Japanese accent, "Godzirra! What are you talkin' about? Godzirra!" - as if people were warning someone that Godzilla was right behind him, and he didn't understand.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
there was this chick we used to chat with on IRC that used to love the song "I Got a Man" by Positive K, but she would insist the lyrics were:
"I got a manWHAT'S YOUR MAN GOT TO DO WITH ME?I got a manI'M NOT TRYIN TO HEAD OUT SEA"
She insisted "head out sea" was a metaphor. Then again, this was the same girl who once claimed World War 1 was fought between the North and the South over slaves.
― Sherman Helmsley Teabag (Cattle Grind), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
All these years I've heard a line from B&S's "Shoot the Sexual Athlete" as ".. and he dressed like Sharon Olds." SHOCKED AND DISAPPOINTED to find out that he dresses like Sherlock Holmes.
― CompuPost, Saturday, 17 July 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mapbdUAbcrY
Show me a penis
Just when I thought that love could never be a part of me/that's when you came along/and showed me a penis
(Juvenile, I know)
― is breads of india still tite (admrl), Sunday, 18 July 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
"No more will my green seagull turn a deeper blue"
(paint it black)
― ledge, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
To expand on "Africa" confusion...
"There's nothing that a hundred men on mars could ever doI guess the rain's down in Africa..."
― andrew m., Wednesday, 4 August 2010 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"I just hope my pinball's not too big"
― andrew m., Wednesday, 4 August 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Brother and I used to think Immigrant Song went:
"Always sleeping, and crushing on / I wanna go where there's a wrestling show!"
― Theodore "Thee Diddy" Roosevelt (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey little thing lemon lime sh' can-o-corn/ Uh mama I'm sure the ha nah nah disciplaaan!
― slagterm, Thursday, 5 August 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Bryan Adams' abomination came on the other day and I realized that all these years I thought the lyrics were "I'd die for you / I'd lie for you / I'd walk a mile for you..."
Like, a WHOLE mile. ON FOOT.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Thursday, 5 August 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
always hear: "and he can't be a man cos he doesn't smoke / ten cigarettes a week". worked as i now smoke 10 cigarettes each week, no less.
a friend slept over last night so made breakfast this morning, listening to a bunch of 60s northern soul tracks and patti & the emblems 'mixed up shook up girl' (the great live version from that multi-cd compilation) came on. my friend was shocked and wondered who the 'big fat sugar girl' was
― NI, Friday, 17 September 2010 10:11 (thirteen years ago) link
xp: I have always thought that too.
― Riverside (kkvgz), Friday, 17 September 2010 10:34 (thirteen years ago) link
elvis, burning love: "i missed my turn to smoke, but i feel fine"beach boys: "round round get a round, i'll get a round... i'll get a round in, i'll give you special brew"
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 17 September 2010 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
for context, xp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hyO8L4P-oo
― NI, Friday, 17 September 2010 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
"Ooh, I'm gonna buy shoes then I'm ready for the WEEKEND!!"
― Mark G, Friday, 17 September 2010 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
and i was standing on the side of the roadrain falling on my shoesheading out for the east coastlord knows i've paid some dudes gettin' throughtangled up in blue
― astronomy broheems (haitch), Friday, 1 October 2010 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
roxy music - stranded
actual lyrics: "from courtly love to costly game"
i always hear: "from courtNEY love to costly game"
― charlie h, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"Make me a deal, and make it quickOffside is zeal, I kick it.Doowabeda DEE a ZurrrrrWIT!I really hope we don't blow it..."
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
but which chevrolet i owni drive back to the place you arepeter gabriel, "in your eyes"
― kamerad, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
David Bowie, "Wild is the Wind": "Don't you know, your life- it's hell"
― B'wana Beast, Sunday, 26 December 2010 08:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/x65Fs.jpgbasically what the clean version of the song results in
― We attack the mayor with hummus (kelpolaris), Sunday, 26 December 2010 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
The Jungle Brother's "Black Is Black" I heard "Martin Luther had to shout" as "Martin Buber had to shout." For a brief moment I was impressed that the Jungle brothers were throwing out Buber references before I pieced things together.
― EDB, Friday, 21 January 2011 16:39 (thirteen 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, 21 January 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I always heard INXS 'Don't Change' as:
Don't change the earthDon't change a thing, for me
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 27 September 2009 10:50 (1 year ago)
...you mean it isnt that? *checks*
fuuuuuck.
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Saturday, 22 January 2011 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I also thought "The one thing"'s chorus went "you want my thing". Blargh. Mumbles Hutchence.
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Saturday, 22 January 2011 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link