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Songs where you misheard the lyrics and like your version better

Started by Kishi the Bad Lampshade, April 10, 2015, 02:30:14 PM

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Ambient Sheep

Quote from: Vodka Margarine on May 19, 2016, 01:25:44 AM
I've been on a bit of an early 80s synthpop binge of late and was reminded of the chanty bit in The Human League's wonderful 'The Things That Dreams Are Made Of' that I can never hear correctly, either by accident or design -

New York, ice cream, TV, travel, good times
Norman Wisdom, Joey Joey Deacon, good times


Reminds me of that fictional couplet from the League's mega-hit Don't You Want Me:

QuoteYou spread your legs to find, that you think you've changed your mind...

(It's actually "It's much to late to find...")

Not sure I prefer that to the original though!


However one that I think I still do prefer to the original is one I've mentioned a couple of times before:

Until I read the lyrics online somewhere, I thought that the second line of the second verse of Electricity by Spiritualized was "I'm calling Nietzsche on a one-way phone".  It is, of course, "I'm gonna meet you on a one-way road".

Yup, I prefer my version.

However it's only this time round that I've spotted the irony that the very next line in the song contains a phrase that Hendrix fans have long mondegreened:

"Gonna crash, kiss the sky"

:-)

Ambient Sheep

Quote from: doppelkorn on October 23, 2015, 01:15:35 PM
Roasanna by Toto has a few:

"All I wanna do when I wake up in the morning is theorize."

"Michu all the way [ba-da-da] Rosanna, yeah." (Michu is a Spanish footballer)

Are you sure it wasn't "Michio", because then that would fit in really well with "theorise"?

This is a ridiculous bump but when I first started getting into Sparks I thought the line from This Town... was

you hear the thunder of stampeding rhinos, elephants and turkey tigers

I just assumed they were like turkey dinosaurs that kids eat, but tiger-shaped. Fuck knows.

daf

Quote from: Ambient Sheep on May 20, 2016, 06:38:09 AM
However it's only this time round that I've spotted the irony that the very next line in the song contains a phrase that Hendrix fans have long mondegreened:

"Gonna crash, kiss the sky"

There's a live version of Purple haze on The 'Purple Box' that has hendrix clearly sing 'Kiss THAT Guy' - and apparently he often pointed to Noel Redding during this bit, so he knew what he was doing, the cheeky roister-doister!

Not the same performance, but you can see him larking around at that bit 56 seconds in :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHdlSolwktU

Golden E. Pump

For years I thought the lyrics 'first born unicorn, hardcore soft porn' in 'Californication'1 by the Red Hot Chili Peppers were 'fuseball me to call, haikus are fun'.

Mine's better even if it is, disappointingly, not a haiku.

1. Their 'Jump the Shark' moment.

Petey Pate

I can't help hearing the chorus of this little known soul tune as 'shut the fuck up bitch'.

Larry Williams - I'd Rather Fight Than Switch


canadagoose

Old topic, but I only just found out that the lyrics to this part of "Royals" by Lorde aren't actually

"We're buggered if we ever dreamed
And I'm in love with being Queen"

but actually

"We're bigger than we ever dreamed
And I'm in love with being Queen"

Still going to pretend it's the former.

nero

Quote from: buttgammon on March 13, 2016, 10:28:00 AM
From Bowie's Suffragette City - "the smell of fat chicks just put my spine out of place". I'm still not 100% convinced this isn't the lyric but it's so ridiculous, it can't be.

'Mellow-thighed chick' I looked it up years ago for a similar reason.

My best one is the Cure 'lullaby'. I would swear it's:
'I'm being eaten by a thousand hungry children from the holocaust.'
Dark, even for those goth types, I thought to myself back in the day.
In reality it's something about holes. But I'm keeping my version.

phantom_power

Quote from: nero on April 28, 2017, 11:48:23 AM
'Mellow-thighed chick' I looked it up years ago for a similar reason.


I always thought it was the mid-point of "mellow fat chick"

nero

Quote from: phantom_power on April 28, 2017, 12:03:40 PM
I always thought it was the mid-point of "mellow fat chick"

Well that's it, a mellow fat chick is infinitely more likely to put weedy David Bowle's spine out place!

Rocket Surgery

"Mellowed-back" surely?

I love the fact that none of the different interpretations make a scrap of actual sense.

zomgmouse

David Bowie's "DJ":

I am the DJ
And I got the lemurs


I prefer thinking the song is about a DJ who has lemurs.

hedgehog90

XTC - Senses Working Overtime

And all the world is football-shaped
It's just for me to kick its face


To my disbelief, moments ago I realised the actual lyric is 'in space'.
I much prefer my version. I imagine an earth with a smiling face getting hoofed into the sun.

Dr Rock

Quote from: hedgehog90 on January 30, 2018, 01:12:11 PM
XTC - Senses Working Overtime

And all the world is football-shaped
It's just for me to kick its face


To my disbelief, moments ago I realised the actual lyric is 'in space'.
I much prefer my version. I imagine an earth with a smiling face getting hoofed into the sun.

That's what I always thought it was too.

Jockice

Quote from: another Mr. Lizard on October 09, 2015, 12:15:01 PM

A a teenager in late-1970s Derbyshire, I was thrilled when 'Strange Town' was released as a single. Not only The Jam's best record, in my opinion, but complete with Weller barking out a tribute to a renowned aspect of Midlands farming life by yelling the words "Dry Stone Wall!" right in the middle of the song.

Or "it's nice and warm now", as he apparently actually says.

For a very long time I thought the line in Eton Rifles 'what chance have you got against a tie and a crest?' was actually 'what chance have you got against the tired aggressed?"

Sin Agog

I'm a big fan of this out there J-Pop singer/songwriter, Seiko Oomori, and she's definitely playing mindgames with me on the lead-off track to her last proper album.  It could be a coincidence, or perhaps she's taking the piss out of Westerners mishearing Japanese lyrics as swear words, but looking at the video right now before posting in this thread, I now reckon those 'fuck yous' and 'lick my ass's here are legit and I've been hearing them right all along. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOqYBwBmX-0

So...actual misheard lyrics I prefer: The Stooges' Shake Appeal.  Always used to think the lyrics were: "I wanna shaaaaaag a Beatle", and considering it sounds a bit like an early Beat Group track, I almost suspect Iggy enunciated it that way on purpose.

DrGreggles

Quote from: hedgehog90 on January 30, 2018, 01:12:11 PM
XTC - Senses Working Overtime

And all the world is football-shaped
It's just for me to kick its face


That's wrong!?

Ray Travez

the Ting-Tings- that's not my name

Are you calling me darling?
Are you calling me Bert?


What are the original lyrics? Don't know don't care

non capisco

Quote from: hedgehog90 on January 30, 2018, 01:12:11 PM
XTC - Senses Working Overtime

And all the world is football-shaped
It's just for me to kick its face


To my disbelief, moments ago I realised the actual lyric is 'in space'.
I much prefer my version. I imagine an earth with a smiling face getting hoofed into the sun.

To be fair there is a bit later where he sings "And all the world is biscuit shaped/It's just for me to feed my face".

My XTC one is when they sing "They use the head and not the fist" on 'Beatown'. I thought it was "They used to have an octopus." and that is indeed what I still sing.

Sherman Krank

As a smallish child I occasionally heard the Neil Diamond song 'Forever in Blues Jeans' and thought he was singing 'Reverend Blues Jeans'.
For years I thought it was a song about a trendy vicar.

Dr Rock


Jockice

Quote from: Dr Rock on January 30, 2018, 10:43:30 PM
One ex of mine thought he was singing 'he's a right one, he's a right one'

And of course there's 'beaten and bloody and I had shit down my shirt."

phantom_power

I thought it was "all this shit down my shirt" until recently and wondered how they got away with playing it on the radio all the time. It's the same with That's Entertainment and "Lights going out and a kick in the balls"

magval

Always thought the line "your mind is not your own" in Addicted to Love was "you're mine and not your own", which I still prefer.

famethrowa

I work hard (he works hard)
Every day of my life,
I worked till I ate my balls



look at Freddie, thinks he's Mr T

TheMonk

As a kid when hearing "Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones on the radio I thought he was saying-
If you stub-be ya
If you stub-be ya your big toe


famethrowa

We had it all (we had it all)
Just like boggin' in the shores


Key Largo?

famethrowa


Isnt Anything

I love the thought that Kid Creole and the Coconuts might be chanting 'onna .... onna .... onomatopoeia' eight times in the middle of Annie Im Not Your Daddy but sadly it is not the case.