― dr lulu (dr lulu), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
'caught up like a duce another runner in the night'
DUCE referring to :: a leader or commander; a chief.
that makes sense right?
― Reality Check, Tuesday, 16 May 2006 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
"I'm fighting in a demon fight with you;A demon fight with you."
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 29 May 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
and from the same song:
"Be my little baby, don juan, and only"
That's what you get for letting kids listen to music, I guess.
― musically (musically), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Smoke on the water / And fire in the sky
he thought it was:
Slow-motion Walter / That fire-engine guy
And then the character Phoebe on "Friends" mistook Elton John's (well, Bernie Taupin's) chorus in Tiny Dancer as:
"Hold me closer Tony Danza"
:)
― shorty (shorty), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― P-Dog (p-dog), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:17 (seventeen years ago) link
small world
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
1.) You'll say anything to a butterfly (If this is It)
2.) I wanna new drug, wetherwall made me sick
3.) They say the heart of rock and roll is forbidden
I guess I can make another Louie Louie reference today...
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I wondered why you didn't hear more about Ian Curtis being gay.
― Bumblepuppy (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link
the stones, of course
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bumblepuppy (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Thursday, 28 September 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Sunday, 8 October 2006 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Poor guy.
― musically (musically), Friday, 3 November 2006 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link
As cited in Mojo as one of the best lyrics of all time!
(I hear "I look ill but...")
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Misheard Lyrics:I'm in love with excremental torture.Original Lyrics:I'm in love with extreme mental torture.
Story about this misheard lyric by: Steveritt
A rock journalist in the UK went to press with these misheard lyrics.
― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Not a misheard lyric per se, but for the longest time I refused to believe that Morrissey was actually singing, "No, I'm gonna kill my dog" on "Unhappy Birthday." And for the life of me I still cannot figure out how that has anything to do with the rest of the song.
And there is a line in "Summer's Last Sound" by Disco Inferno that I always hear as "..Which would tell you if you'll spend the next few years/Free from Laffy Taffy petrol bongs."
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
It's black humor, obviously:
Loved and lostAnd some may sayWhen usually it's NothingSurely you're happyIt should be this way ?I say "No, I'm gonna kill my dog"
Like when you're in a bad mood and someone says, "How many dogs did you kick on your way to school today?"
― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
"Three lions on a shirt, jewels remain still gleaming"
!!!!
― musically (musically), Friday, 12 January 2007 08:25 (seventeen years ago) link
What I heard: "I trust the boys in the government".
Real lyrics: "I trust the police and the government".
― GLC (ZakAce), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Luke Slater (Alan Bean), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
i like my version much more!
― AaronK (AaronK), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link
We then realised they're singing "there's a conflicting sound". I liked the other version better.
― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 13 January 2007 07:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Great tune either way, though. The Faint are face-rockingly awesome.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
i always wondered what tom did to piss them off.
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Illiterate (moriarty), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link
i thought of another one
ben harper's 'diamonds on the inside'
"she was a horrible liar"
for ages i was hearing "she was a whore and a liar"
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link
NIN, Hurt - not misheard but I prefer to sing it this way:
"What have I become, my Swedish friend?"
― ledge, Thursday, 12 July 2007 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm surprised no one's mentioned it upthread, but Radiohead's "No surprises" had my brother fooled for a while, doubting the merits of the song:
"such a pretty ass / on such a pretty girl"
when my bro criticized this, my brother-in-law responded "well maybe he's just calling it like he sees it"
― Mark Clemente, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
As a teen one of my friends had "Dreadlock Holiday" (you know, the one that goes "I don't like reggae / I love it") on tape, and after we'd listened to it about a kazillion times, another friend said, "You know, this is a great tune, but why does the singer say he doesn't like cricket?". Holy god did we laugh!
-- Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:22 (1 year ago) Link
He does actually sing "I don't like cricket". One of the most popular sports in the West Indies is cricket, so it makes sense.
― Chriddof, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Mark Clemente, Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:27 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link
I could never figure out if tired_nhappy in the liner notes meant tired AND happy or tired/unhappy. hmm?
― Finefinemusic, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
"I miss my little Danish friend" :' (
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
(I looked around pretty hard for a picture of Mustaine. The emoticon above will have to suffice.)
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
lol I thought I was the only who sang it that way. It's even better on the Cash cover. Also, I always picture him singing it to the sSwedish chef from the muppets.
― l, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
that scene with mustaine is one of the most surreal things i've seen on screen the guy recalls 1982 like it was a week ago
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Just realised that James Carr is not singing 'Sugarplums all dancing in my mind/ everyday you whip me it feels like valentines' in You Got my Mind Messed Up.... (it's 'everyday you're with me')
― sonofstan, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link