Mistaken beliefs about music you had when you were younger

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I was a country fan as a youngun, and I remember listening to a song called "Papa Loved Mama" by Garth Brooks, and my dad explained that the song was about the narrator's dad killing the narrator's mom after finding out she was cheating on him and subsequently going to jail. I remarked that Garth must have had a rough time growing up. Dad had to explain to me that songs aren't always based on true stories, and that songs aren't always written by the person singing them.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 03:57 (twenty years ago) link

Did anyone else hear this one? It was a popular story in 5th grade:
There was a grossest man in the world contest and Alice Cooper took a S-H-I-T on stage and said, "I'm the grossest man in the world!"

Then Gene Simmons came out and ate it.

It's a common urban legend, also told of Frank Zappa. See here.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 06:18 (twenty years ago) link

My biggest mistake as a youngster: Around 1984, I did actually like hip-hop.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 11:02 (twenty years ago) link

Drumsticks had little microphones in the tips.

Ya mean they don't?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 14:07 (twenty years ago) link

I thought that Blondie were French, on the basis of 'Denis'.

― cis (cis), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 14:22 (twenty years ago) link

Similarly, I initially thought the Police were French, given their first few album titles, and Sting's bizarre Franco-Jamaican accent.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

and I didn't know that Aerosmith wrote "Walk This Way", I just thought that Run DMC were fans and wanted to hire an out-of-it 70s metal band to sing the choruses on their song.

I'm guilty of this one too.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

I thought that a garage band ment that the band must have recorded in a garage, altho its not necessarily untrue.
eeeeh and i thought Michael Jeckson was woman! scary. altho i was only 4 years of age hehe.

― rexJr., Wednesday, 14 May 2003 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

I thought an electric guitar made noise when you applied pressure to a string with the pick.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

Has someone hacked Geir's account?

― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 19:26 (twenty years ago) link

I thought album was pronounced "Alblum"

― bklynbee, Wednesday, 14 May 2003 19:42 (twenty years ago) link

(clool, ol wlat?)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 19:50 (twenty years ago) link

vlery clool.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 21:17 (twenty years ago) link

Oh...here's another one:
Up until 6 months ago, I thought it was Barry White who did the voice of Chef on South Park. (I think it's an honest mistake...Chef looks more like Barry than he does like Isaac.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 21:31 (twenty years ago) link

I used to think that an electrical current ran through the strings on electric guitars, and when the electric "got stopped", that's how they knew that it made a sound.

By the way, life would be FAR cooler if this was ACTUALLY how guitars worked.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 15 May 2003 09:02 (twenty years ago) link

I used to think the 'She's Leaving Home' by the Beatles was really sad because she like, might get run over or something being away from her parents.

funniest thread *ever* btw

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 15 May 2003 19:34 (twenty years ago) link

When I bought my first album, Kiss' "Love Gun," I was very disappointed to come home and find that I didn't recognize any of the songs on it -- I thought it would have some of the stuff from "Destroyer" or "Alive", etc. on it.

I thought Paul Stanley and/or Ace Frehley might possibly have been women.

I thought the scream on "Love Rollercoaster" was a woman being killed in the park where the song was recorded. I since realized that the song was not actually recorded at an amusement park, and that no females were harmed during its recording.

The first time I heard Bruce Springsteen (my brother in the room next door playing "The River"), I thought it was a new Kiss album, with Peter Criss singing.

Yes, I was a wee bit obsessed with Kiss.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Thursday, 15 May 2003 20:17 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, I was a wee bit obsessed with Kiss.

Nothing wrong with that.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 15 May 2003 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

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