whereabouts?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 14:06 (seven years ago) link
At 0:44, in the first verse.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 19:33 (seven years ago) link
You can't really blame her because this particular misheard lyric is in Spanish, but my wife thought at the end of Spanish Bombs by The Clash, they keep repeating "Oh my car is on."
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 24 April 2017 19:35 (seven years ago) link
In John Cale's Buffalo Ballet, whose third verse goes:
Gold came and went, quickly spentAnd the people broke down, and often drownedIn the wealth and pain of old Abilene
I always hear:
And the people broke down, and often dreamt/wept
I get how 'drowned' makes an AABB pattern, but I think it fits better as AABA. He even changes the articulation in many of the live versions to make it that way.
― wallace, Monday, 24 April 2017 20:42 (seven years ago) link
speaking of AABBBA, "Dancing Queen." the chorus will always be "YOU CAN DANCE!!!!!! YOU CAN DIE!!!!! HAVING THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE!!!!!"
― flappy bird, Monday, 24 April 2017 20:45 (seven years ago) link
I had a friend in high school who came to me ( i having been, and still am, the goto guy for such matters)with this question pertaining to Alice Coopers No More Mr. Nice Guy. Upon hearing the line, "I went to church incognito" he quite earnestly enquired "Hey Joel, where's Cognito"? I should've said Southern California! Instead I politely corrected him. Not a lyric but another time, at a party where we were all listening to Ozzy's live lp Speak of the Devil, in the intro to The Wizard, the Ozzman says " this reminds me of the old Fillmore East. Anyone remember old Fillmore East "? At which point Ronnie turned to me and said, " Hey Joel, who's Phil Maurice? I don't recall my response but I'm pretty sure I laughed and gently corrected him. That guy could be a real bonehead at times. Lol!
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 07:41 (seven years ago) link
And I must admit, as Flappy Bird says, I've always heard the chorus of Dancing Queen that way too. I was quite disappointed to discover it was "you can jive" at the age of..oh..45 maybe. I still prefer "die" though. Overgrown arrested adolescent to the end, I suppose.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 07:54 (seven years ago) link
Just heard Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative" and remembered when I was a kid I used to think he sang:
"Don't get me wrong / I'm really not sick / Beetlejuice is not my thing"
I assume it's because the film and the song were hot around the same time and my 8-year-old self probably thought he wasn't feelin' it.
― Chantilly Bass, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
I wasn't so familiar with the Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter until recently, but when I heard it I had to check the lyrics for the chorus to check ("War, children") - as I thought it was unlikely that it went "Booooob Dylaaaan!"...which is what I kept hearing.
I used to think that the Spice Girls' Wannabe, instead of 'get with my friends' went:"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get rid of my friends."
― Valentijn, Thursday, 25 May 2017 06:31 (six years ago) link
that Gimme Shelter variant is amazing.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 25 May 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
"Shane Wright like a diamond"
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/resources/images/5772602.jpg
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/14946511._Prolific_offender__arrested_after_multiple_burglaries/
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 June 2017 12:52 (six years ago) link
On Today by Smashing Pumpkins, I still maintain that Corgan sings "My willy stings" at one point.
― Grantman, Sunday, 11 June 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
Last week Guy Garvey introduced this with "Here's a song about Les Dennis"
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 11 June 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
For nearly 30 years I've misheard the greatest moment in the greatest Warren Zevon song, The French Inhaler.
It's I-I-I thought you'd be a star. Not I-I-I passion fiesta.
Another illusion shattered.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 19:50 (six 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), Friday, January 21, 2011 8:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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), Friday, January 21, 2011 8:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
holy shit y'all just blew my mind
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 30 December 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
This one is embarrassing: I had gone my entire life thinking "Satisfaction" went "I can't get no girly action."
Happened to be listening to a cover recently and realized that it must have been "no girl reaction" all along, which makes much more sense and is a better lyric.
― twas in the fleek midwinter (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 30 December 2017 03:04 (six years ago) link
I probably first got to know those lyrics through Weird Al's "Hot Rocks Polka," where it really sounds like "girly action," and that's how I heard it for years and years.
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 30 December 2017 03:12 (six years ago) link
Listening to it now, I'm certain Al is actually singing "girly action." So, you're in good company!
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 30 December 2017 03:19 (six years ago) link
I always thought it was “girly action” too, til about 10 yrs ago.
One I was reminded of recently was my longstanding misconception of the last verse of “The Green, Green Grass of Home”:
There’s a garden, there’s a saddled padre
― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 30 December 2017 03:34 (six years ago) link
I've always thought it was "girly action". I reckon Bono does too.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 December 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
Along Came Jones by the Coasters. As a kid, I always heard 'along came long, lean, lankey Jones' as 'along came lonely, naked Jones'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFyr49TwuiI
― how's life, Sunday, 18 February 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
Was disappointed to realize that the bridge from Nothing But Flowers by Talking Heads was not
The highways and carsWere sacrificed for angry cultureI wish that we'd start overBut I guess I was wrong
I feel it works just as well in context.
― how's life, Saturday, 14 April 2018 11:54 (six years ago) link
A couple years ago my in-laws bought my daughter K (then 4 years old) a little stuffed dog that would sort of bop its head and sing "Thank You For Being A Friend" (aka the Golden Girls' theme). I guess as a result of this juxtaposition, K used to sing "Your heart is true, you're a pal and a comfy dog."
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
that's great
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
I'm watching this gator glide by on the lakeIce frozen six feet deep just how long does it take
first time i heard this i thought Neil was talkin' about alligators slowly sliding across a frozen lake
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
Black Grape, Kelly's Heroes.
I originally heard it as: "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sing like Suggs.", wondering whatever poor Graham McPherson did wrong & imagining Superman singing Baggy Trousers.
Then, for ages, I thought the correct lyrics were: "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs." - which I thought was fairly intruiging & worked alright.
Only now I found out that the real thing apparently is: "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sing like surfs."
― Valentijn, Monday, 1 October 2018 11:31 (five years ago) link
For a considerable time, I thought The Tubes' "Don't Touch Me There" contained the phrase "I love the way you're built, Fritz".On reflection I reckon it's probably "I love the way your belt fits". Still hear it wrong, though.
― Maltrsnapper, Monday, 1 October 2018 11:52 (five years ago) link
Another one: Peter Gabriel, Games Without Frontiers. That bit where you hear the French version of the title: "Jeux sans frontieres", that initially sounded to me like: "She's so funky, yeah!". (I did look up the lyrics then right away as I suspected I might have been off.)
― Valentijn, Monday, 1 October 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link
"Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs."
I believe this to be the actual lyric...
Actually, it was supposed to be "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men do cocaine." which at least rhymes with the next line "Who's got the biggest, Who's got the biggest, Who's got the biggest brain...."
― Mark G, Monday, 1 October 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
"She's so funky, yeah!"
I had it as "She's So Popular".
Anyway, Kate Bush sings that bit, I always had it "hey, that Peter Gabriel has a range!"
― Mark G, Monday, 1 October 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
"Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs." I believe this to be the actual lyric...
Really thought it was too, I found that 'surfs' line earlier through a Google search for the lyrics. It's claimed to be that on the majority of lyrics sources, but now I'm thinking that those pages are all wrong.(In any case, it's nothing to do with Madness' frontman either...)
― Valentijn, Monday, 1 October 2018 13:38 (five years ago) link
I speak French and I had always heard "she's so popular" instead of "jeux sans frontières". Even now, having known it's "jeux sans frontières" for years, it still sounds a lot closer to "she's so popular" to me.
― silverfish, Monday, 1 October 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
"Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs."I believe this to be the actual lyric...
I thought it was this too, all this time. But you listen to the song again and you hear the "f"s, mostly.
"Serfs" not "surfs" though.
They're both doing "f"s, I think, at 1:10 here.
But then, at 1:18, one of them definitely does a "b".
I think it's both.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 1 October 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
Actually it's Smurfs.
― Dancing with the Tsars (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 00:54 (five years ago) link
I always thought it was "most of these men seem like sods". As if I even know what a "sod" is!
― henry s, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link
Roky Erickson - Two Headed Dog:
Beast bark back bark back
According to all the lyrics sites it's 'peace brought back brought back'
― peace, man, Friday, 18 January 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
We All Came Up To MontraFrom The Waves Beneath The Shore LineTo Make Wickets With Them AllWe Didn't Have Much TimeFrank Sipper And The MorgansWill Have The First Real SurroundSome Stupid Little Flare DoBurn The Place To The GroundThey Burned Down The Diamond HouseIt Died With An Awful SoundTown Was Running I And OutIt Was Calling Kids Out To FoundWhen It Was All OverHad To Find Another PlaceWish Time Was RunningSeeing We Would Lose The RaceCome On Baby
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Friday, 18 January 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
when i was a kid i used to think santana’s “evil ways” went like this:
“when i come home, baby,my house is dark and my butts are cold”
as opposed to “pots” (the “woman you don’t cook for me” thing would’ve gone over my head anyway)
― budo jeru, Saturday, 19 January 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
As a kid i heard the line in Livin On A Prayer as “Take my hand, we’ll make it elsewhere”
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 January 2019 08:37 (five years ago) link
When that song came out, there was a kid in my class who thought it was Livin' on a Prairie, like Laura Ingalls Wilder.
― peace, man, Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
that's great!
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
I like my version better, but in the song Sugar n' Spikes, Captain Beefheart says Whoopin' hope, not Poopin' hope.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
yesterday i learned that the dutch word for "mondegreen" is "mama appelsap", after a michael jackson song (presumably the soul makossa thing)
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Thursday, 7 February 2019 01:14 (five years ago) link
Correct, it's because a lot of people thought they heard/wanted to hear 'mama appelsap' in 'Wanna Be Startin' Something'. 'Mama appelsap' means 'mama apple juice'.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 7 February 2019 08:26 (five years ago) link
mamasay mamasa mamakusa puts me in mind of the epic Rusted Root neologism thread
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 February 2019 12:33 (five years ago) link
In "Man In The Mirror", the line "a summer disregard, a broken bottle top" I always sing in my head as "a Baby Bottle Pop"
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
"So when you call up that shrink in Beverly HillsYou know the one, goddammit everything's going to be alright."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 February 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
Runnin With the Devil:
I found the simple life ain't so simpleWhen I jumped out, on that roadI got no love, no love in Korea ...
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 February 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link
Party Rock Anthem, I always heard them declare "No Lennon or Zeppelin."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 February 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
Saint Etienne, Girl VII: "Blazer y-fronts blazer y-fronts"
― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 12:24 (five years ago) link