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
from green earrings by steely dan"the rings of randy's eyes"― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Sunday, June 8, 2014 8:11 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
"the rings of randy's eyes"
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Sunday, June 8, 2014 8:11 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Came here to post this, glad I ctrl+F'd first. Though I hear "Randy's eye" singular lol
― J. Sam, Friday, 27 October 2023 22:33 (six months ago) link
I always thought the line in The Pet Shop Boys "Being Boring"--"We dressed up and fought and thought 'make amends'"--was "We dressed up in thoughts and thoughts make amends". I was wrong, but I still think mine is better.― The Illiterate (moriarty), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I also thought it was "we dressed up in thoughts and thoughts make amends" for the last however many decades I've been listening to this song for, and it was always one of my favourite PSB lyrics, but their official website says "dressed up and fought and thought 'make amends'", so I guess that must be what Neil is actually singing
― soref, Friday, 15 March 2024 19:20 (one month ago) link
I was part of a hip hop channel on mIRC (DALnet) once and the 'summary' for the room that loaded up when you entered was this quote from a member of the channel from like a year or two earlier, where they had thought the lyric to The Real Slim Shady was
I'm Slim ShadyYes, I'm the real ShadyAll you other Slim Shadysare justin my teddy
and were still being clowned for it years later
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 March 2024 19:34 (one month ago) link
Justin, my teddyI love it
― kinder, Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:13 (one month ago) link
Neil Young sings to his car:
When you're old enough to repaintBut young enough to sell
― Brad C., Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:22 (one month ago) link
Prong - Prove You Wrong
Heard: Dependence on no one, I just trust animalsActual: Dependence on no one, I distrust and oppose
― peace, man, Sunday, 21 April 2024 20:32 (one week ago) link
lol yours is better!
At a music festival last year my friend heard
We'd be lucky to survive, wrapped up in a dreamasWomen are here to survive not to penetrate
― ledge, Monday, 22 April 2024 14:22 (one week ago) link
Brandy, you're a fine girlwhat a good wife you would bebut my life, my lover, my ladyis deceased
― Lee626, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:54 (two days ago) link
doo doo doodoo doot doo doo doot doo
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:57 (two days ago) link