hard to hear the words clearly when the singer is beating you over the head for 5 minutes
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
Korea Korea Ko-Reverend Al Green
― neith moon (ledge), Friday, 26 June 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link
hahaha up til this moment looking it up, i thought it was "reoccuring like the reverend al green"
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 26 June 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
Kendrick Lamar, Money Trees
Heard: Everybody gon' respect the shoe/But the one in front of the gun lives forever
Actual: Everybody gon' respect the shooter/But the one in front of the gun lives forever
― peace, man, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
Black Sabbath
Heard: Can you help me? Thought you were my friend.Actual: Can you help me occupy my brain?
― peace, man, Friday, 18 September 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
I figured out the right lyrics decades ago, but was reminded of it today
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Heard: the only cola that I support would be a union C.O.L. that costs your flaming allowance!Actual: the only cola that I support would be a union C.O.L.A.(Cost Of Living Allowance)!
― peace, man, Friday, 21 May 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
not sure why that's tickling me so much, but bravo
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 21 May 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
Maybe you only heard it on the radio but the lyrics came with the album so you could fully enjoy their hilarious po-faced politicisms. (I kid, slightly, but that one is a highlight.)
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 21 May 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
I read a Christgau review of an early Emmy Lou Harris album a few months ago and then absolutely misheard it this morning as "I would rub my asshole / in the bosom of Abraham"
― kermit the grouch (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 27 September 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
Listening to New Order for the first time in years after reading Hooky's book and remembered this one:
"Oh Allah is like the flowers..."
― visiting, Saturday, 9 October 2021 02:22 (two years ago) link
"Let me take you down""(Why?)""Because I'm going to!"
― Mark G, Saturday, 9 October 2021 12:00 (two years ago) link
"And I wanna liquefy everybody gone by". Is it "gone by" or "gone dry"? I've always heard it as "gone by".
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Monday, 11 October 2021 06:33 (two years ago) link
My first exposure to 'Wild Horses' was hearing the Sundays' cover back in my teen years, and because enunciation wasn't always Harriet Wheeler's strong suit, I heard her sing something like
Oh, let's do supperBut don't ache and painA lovely disorderJust like Lois Lane
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 October 2021 13:11 (two years ago) link
I always heard the woman’s voice in the refrain of Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money as “Feed my little baby”.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 4 November 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
I was just listening to a podcast yesterday where the host had (in childhood) heard it the same! It was on Rob Harvilla's 60 Songs that Explain the 90s, but I can't remember which episode I was listening to at the time.
― peace, man, Thursday, 4 November 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
the woman in question: Ronnie Spector!
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 4 November 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
that was the part I only just learned like a year ago, or that the lyric before was "just like Ronnie sang" (though Eddie Money sings so mush-mouthed sometimes that's probably why)
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 November 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
it is the 'My Heart Will Go On' episode, and the thought of it made me die laughing. that you, Rob?
― What it's like. Havana Syndrome. What it's like. Havana Syndrom (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 4 November 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
SaraSaraStop operatin’ your eyes
― epistantophus, Saturday, 1 January 2022 04:40 (two years ago) link
For years I thought that the line in Dylan's 'Jokerman' about "a small dog licking your face" was actually "a small dark look in your face".
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 1 January 2022 09:47 (two years ago) link
I discovered a few minor Dylan mishearings on "Isis" while watching the Scorsese Rolling Thunder film the other day. A song I've been singing along to for 25 years, mind you."where the creek used to rise" I had as "where the creek hits the rise.""You mystical child" as "Oh, I missed ya, good child.""In the drizzlin' rain" as "with your dress all in rags."
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 1 January 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link
I used to hear the lyrics of "Tangled Up in Blue" wrong and have never quite reconciled the written lyric vs. my sense of what the lyric *ought* to be. E.g.:
We drove that car as far as we could, abandoned it out westSplit up on the docks that night, both agreein' it was best
vs.
Split up on a dark sad night, both agreein' it was best
― ; (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 1 January 2022 22:46 (two years ago) link
For years I thought that the line in Dylan's 'Jokerman' about "a small dog licking your face" was actually "a small dark look in your face".Huh… I guess I did too, until just now.
― best BASSMAN sticker on Etsy (morrisp), Saturday, 1 January 2022 22:54 (two years ago) link
I used to hear the lyrics of "Tangled Up in Blue" wrong and have never quite reconciled the written lyric vs. my sense of what the lyric *ought* to be. E.g.:We drove that car as far as we could, abandoned it out westSplit up on the docks that night, both agreein' it was bestvs.Split up on a dark sad night, both agreein' it was best― ; (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, January 1, 2022 5:46 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ; (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, January 1, 2022 5:46 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Damn, I've thought it was "docks that night" for decades.
― peace, man, Saturday, 1 January 2022 23:18 (two years ago) link
woah. also in the "docks" camp.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 2 January 2022 01:52 (two years ago) link
I feel obligated to inform the Swedish Academy.
― peace, man, Sunday, 2 January 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
Lol
― A Little Bit Meme, a Little Bit URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 January 2022 13:33 (two years ago) link
For 25 years I thought the line in "Maybe Partying Will Help" was "what about the people who don't have what I ain't got" but apparently it's D. Boon's singing "what I have got" with a weird inflection?!?! I always thought the double negative was purposely opaque.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 06:41 (two years ago) link
Cheese On FireAnd Cheese Burnin'
Amy Holland - Cheese On Fire
― feed me with your clicks (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 23:51 (two years ago) link
Ramones - Somebody Put Something in My Drink
Another night out on the streetStopping for my usual seatThe bartender bleats
(Oh, bartender, please)
― peace, man, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link
Suzi Quatro - Shine My Machine
You can't knock the rock 'n' roll rocketIt's what keeps this city alive
but really:
You can't knock a rocker for rockin'It's what keeps this city alive
Hers is good too, but I think I'll cling to what I've been hearing for 15 years. After typing it out, I also think "rock 'n' roll racket" might do even more favors for the rest of the song's lyrics.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
At the drive-in/In the old man's barn Ford
― peace, man, Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link
Gorillaz - Rhinestone Eyes
I got a feeling now my heart is frozenAll the birdseeds and Michael Rosen
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:16 (one year ago) link
In XTC's "Easter Theatre," I'd always heard one line of the chorus as:
"If we all breathe in and roll away the stone"
...which makes a semipagan springtime song actually about Easter.
― Moniker? I barely know 'er! (SlimAndSlam), Monday, 27 February 2023 02:28 (one year ago) link
Faith No More - Death March
It's Dove Bars Death March, baby!
― peace, man, Monday, 27 February 2023 18:40 (one year ago) link
I just discovered today that the Climax Blues Band sang "Kept on looking for a sign in the middle of the night"
I always heard "Kept on looking for the sun in the middle of the night"
Which I think I still prefer.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 22:03 (one year ago) link
I wonder whyHe's the greatest dancer
― ledge, Monday, 13 March 2023 09:47 (one year ago) link
Oh, what, wow
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 March 2023 09:55 (one year ago) link
I don't blame myself for not hearing that unusual exclamation correctly.
― ledge, Monday, 13 March 2023 09:59 (one year ago) link
You and I and everyone, aliveWe can run into the fireI’m a trust fund babyYeah, I’m a trust fund baby
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 8 May 2023 19:18 (eleven months ago) link
I went down to Miami,I let a girl name a salmon.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Monday, 8 May 2023 19:49 (eleven months ago) link
I remember long ago thinking the “you know I’m such a fool for you” line in Let it Linger by the Cranberries as “I’m searching for food for you” which gave me a pretty skewed wilderness-survival impression of the song
― ed.b, Thursday, 1 June 2023 03:04 (eleven months ago) link
loooool
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 June 2023 04:00 (eleven months ago) link
so that's where they got their band name!
― peace, man, Thursday, 1 June 2023 10:29 (eleven months ago) link
I know of a Cranberries cover band called the Craisins.
― Landfill Collins (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 June 2023 15:05 (eleven months ago) link
For years I thought the "it's a game, it's a game, well let's call it a shame" couplet in "Goin' Through The Motions" by Blue Oyster Cult was "it's a girl, it's a girl, well let's call it a-Shirl."
― henry s, Thursday, 1 June 2023 16:58 (eleven months ago) link
higher and higher and higher and higher and higher and higherkissing the spider
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:19 (ten months ago) link
For as long as I’ve been alive, I thought the lyric was “my regal robes of the forest / would be satin, not cotton, not tinse”.
I always thought that “tinse” was some actual fabric, or a reference to tinsel. The word Bert actually sings is “chintz”.
― Snoopy is a cat, who lives in a cage (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 21 August 2023 22:22 (eight months ago) link
I had always heard it as chintz, but had no idea what that meant until looking it up just now. I knew that the adjective "chintzy" usually means cheap/lousy. Actually refers to woodblock-printed cotton originating in India. It's one of those things where I'm scrolling through GIS results like, "ohhhhh, so that's what that's called."
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― peace, man, Monday, 21 August 2023 22:57 (eight months ago) link
Bob Marley - Jammin'
Jah seated in Mount ZionAnd rules all creationhttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/26/58/78/26587861afe4afbd77f92ff00f99eff5.jpg
(yeah, we're...)
― peace, man, Monday, 23 October 2023 15:16 (six months ago) link