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TheRedWizard 03-09-2007, 22:12 Sorry if this has come up before, but are there any songs out there that you've misheard the lyrics to?
For years I thought:
Police sang about... 'Sue Lawley, Sue Lawley, Sue Lawley'
The Stranglers sang 'Lay me down, with my mysheerons' (a type of moccasins perhaps?)
On a lads' holiday away we spent several nights coming to the conclusion that Gala sang: 'My lover's got no money, he's got his trumble-eese' (maybe a kind of brass instrument?)
Marooned 03-09-2007, 23:05 Sorry if this has come up before, but are there any songs out there that you've misheard the lyrics to?
For years I thought:
Police sang about... 'Sue Lawley, Sue Lawley, Sue Lawley'
The Stranglers sang 'Lay me down, with my mysheerons' (a type of moccasins perhaps?)
On a lads' holiday away we spent several nights coming to the conclusion that Gala sang: 'My lover's got no money, he's got his trumble-eese' (maybe a kind of brass instrument?)
How about "I'm gonna kiss this guy" (I'm gonna kiss the sky) Jimmi Hendrix?
happyhippy 04-09-2007, 00:26 The Jam showed their name was just a pun when they were "Eating Trifles".
How about "I'm gonna kiss this guy" (I'm gonna kiss the sky) Jimmi Hendrix?
Let's have it right - the classic Hendrix misheard lyric is actually:
'scuse me while I kiss this guy
T Rex's "Metal Guru" still sounds like "Metal Guru is a Jew" to me.
There is also the rather ungrammatical sounding "in this ever changing world in which we live in" from "Live and Let Die" (although it is in reality "if this ever changing world in which we're living").
There is also the issue of weather we ARE in fact misshearing lyrics or if there are things there we hear but are told we don't hear. For example John Lennon admitted to putting "mastication" on the lyric sheet of "Give Peace a Chance" but singing a different word. There is also allegedly a different word subsituted for "shocked" on one repeat chorus of Kylie's "Shocked", and I am convinced there is a very rude word hidden in Captain Sensible's version of "Happy Talk".
Phanerothyme 04-09-2007, 11:00 "Kinda lingers" by the Not the Nine O clock News team was written to be mis-heard as "Cunnilingus"
In Floorshow by the sisters of mercy, Eldritch appears to sing
"Soap, Soap, Liquid Soap"
And then there's "The Israelites" by Desmond Dekker.
Not sure who sings it but it was last summer and I was singing what's that coming over the hill is it a modster! My reasoning was we fell upon a Mod night and thought it was their song! Oh well! :)
donuticus 04-09-2007, 12:02 My mum banned me from listening to Def Leperd (with hindsight I shouldnt complain). She took serious exception to "Lets Get Rocked" which she interpreted as "Lesbians Rock". Soppy old bugger.
As a slight side note she asked me the other day why footballers wear different strips !!
The Beatles "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" was banned by several American radio stations I thought they were singing "I get high" rather than "I can't hide". It does actually sound a lot like "I get high".
I always thought that UB40 were singing "wise men say, only fools wear jeans" (instead of "rush in").
There's a really good website for this somewhere...http://www.kissthisguy.com/ Well worth a browse if you need a giggle.
happyhippy 04-09-2007, 15:17 "Kinda lingers" by the Not the Nine O clock News team was written to be mis-heard as "Cunnilingus"
In Floorshow by the sisters of mercy, Eldritch appears to sing
"Soap, Soap, Liquid Soap"
And then there's "The Israelites" by Desmond Dekker.
I've got "The Memory Kinda Lingers" somewhere on vinyl! I'll have to dig it up.
Anyway, "The Israelites" always reminds me of a Maxell tapes advert from years ago on the TV, where the song was played, and idiot boards were held up with the misheard lyrics.
"Wake up in the morning,
Sleeping for bread, sir,
Sold out to every monk and beefhead.
Oh, oh, me ears are alight.
Why find my kids?
They buck up and-a-leave me,
Darling cheeshead,
I was yards too greasy.
Oh, oh, me ears are alight."
They also did The Skids "Into The Valley" as well
"Into the valley,
peas sure sound divine.
That cissy suffered you,
but who can Viv iron?
The soldiers go marching,
there's masses of lamb.
Who's disease is catskin?
My picture is Hugh's toe.
Ahoy! Ahoy!
Len see a sty!
Ahoy! Ahoy!
Barman and Soda!
Ahoy! Ahoy!
Juicy men embalmed her!
Ahoy! Ahoy!
Lung nearly gave!"
happyhippy 04-09-2007, 15:20 In fact, just watch them.
Into The Valley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAsmf1LGcpA)
The Israelites (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxELSzay2lc&mode=related&search=)
EdnaKrabappe 04-09-2007, 21:44 I did a thread re this not long ago but can't find linky.
Marooned 04-09-2007, 22:07 Let's have it right - the classic Hendrix misheard lyric is actually:
'scuse me while I kiss this guy
I stand corrected, sorry I typed it after a long day at work and a few cans of a strange pale brown fluid. :hihi:
The Beatles "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" was banned by several American radio stations I thought they were singing "I get high" rather than "I can't hide". It does actually sound a lot like "I get high".
That's what got Bob Dylan interested in the Beatles. He heard the record on the radio and also thought they were singing "I Get High" and decided to find out more about this new British group. They met in a New York hotel room in 1964 and as a result music was changed forever.
The influence worked both ways: Shortly afterwards Dylan went electric and the Fabs began writing more serious songs with deeper lyrics
steveb2007 05-09-2007, 09:42 My nephew used to sing "popadom preach" to the Madonna song papa don't preach.My ex brother-in-law also sang "for the sake of old lambs eyes"on new years eve!!
Malachy McCourt's book "A Monk Swimming" is thus called because he thought the line in the "Hail Mary" was "Blessed art you, a monk swimming". When I was a young child I thought "gloria in excelsis deo" was "gloria, in a chelsea stable". Which was a bit confusing because I already knew chelsea wasn't in Bethlehem.
BasilRathbon 05-09-2007, 10:06 Who can forget the immortal Spice Girls calssic "Wannabe"?
"If you wanna be my lover
You gotta get with my friends
Naked lust forever
Friendship never ends"
Imagine my disappointment when it turned out the third line was actually "Make it last forever"......
Phanerothyme 05-09-2007, 10:29 In fact, just watch them.
The Israelites (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxELSzay2lc&mode=related&search=)
Thanks for that!
"Me ears are alight" - splendid.
Treatment 05-09-2007, 11:13 La Isla Bonita by Madonna used to confuse me.
When she sang '' Tropical the Island breeze '', I thought it was '' Chop the goolie I can scream''.
BasilRathbon 05-09-2007, 11:49 La Isla Bonita by Madonna used to confuse me.
When she sang '' Tropical the Island breeze '', I thought it was '' Chop the goolie I can scream''.
"I fell in love with some dago".....
For many many years I heard "Cuba, quiero bailor salsa" from that disco hit, as "Cuba, get up and eat lasagne".
follow the garden snail......metallica
happyhippy 08-09-2007, 03:24 On the Metallica theme, from "The Unforgiven":
"In constant pained disgrace", became "In constipated slurries"
And of course, the truly great "Sweaty Bo**ocks" instead of "Sweating Bullets" from Megadeth.
There's always the classic from Queen's Bohemian Raphsody
Beelzeebub has a devil for a sideboard - wheeeeeeeee
James7x7 11-09-2007, 20:24 Our friend Charlotte thought Simon and Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence" began "hello Douglas my old friend".
Now, when I pop upstairs to check if our baby is still asleep, i report back to my wife "Douglas" if he is.
Chicago - 'Hard to Say I'm Sorry'. I always heard 'after all The Who we've been through' instead of 'after all that we've been through'.
And the classic from Paul Young - 'Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you'.
happyhippy 12-09-2007, 00:26 "When you go and get stuffed, the stuffed keep going....."
FlowerdUp89 12-09-2007, 11:55 The classic - The lass who sang the Titanic song (Know her name, just haven't got a clue how to spell it!!)
"My fart will go on and on" - Nice :)
FlowerdUp89 12-09-2007, 11:56 follow the garden snail......metallica
Haha!! I love that one!!
Quality band too
shakermaker 12-09-2007, 13:45 independent woman by destiny's child...
http://www.rathergood.com/alf/
The classic - The lass who sang the Titanic song (Know her name, just haven't got a clue how to spell it!!)
"My fart will go on and on" - Nice :)
That was Sea Lion, er I mean Celine Dion! :lol:
And it was "My Heart will go on", "My fart will go on" was teh South Park version of that song.
slimsid2000 12-09-2007, 14:50 Love really hurts with a jew
instead of love really hurts without you.
A bit anti-semitic i always thought.
shakermaker 13-09-2007, 13:56 sailors, fighting on the dancefloor
oh man!
look at those gay men, girls
HAVE you heard the Macy Gray song Goodbye and I choke at the end part of it you can hear her say Cilla Black
lol I thought 'dude look like a lady' was "Do The Makalaylie" when it came on at the casbah once...it was only after rewatching mrs doubtfire recently that I heard the lyrics for what they are. It would have been less embarassing if I hadn't been singing along to it so loudly ...wondered why people kept asking me what a makalaylie was...:hihi:
Me & OH are listening to 'Eve of Destruction' by Barry Mcguire. OH turns to me and says "What does waggalating mean?"
"Waggalating . . . . ??"
"Yeah, the song goes 'my blood is waggalating".
Actual lyric - My blood's so mad, feels like coagulating
Sigh . . . . .
Can't resist an OT piece of mega-trivia here. Barry McGuire, who sang Eve of Destruction also sang on the seminal "3 Wheels on My Wagon" (sigh, they don't make'em like that any more).
TheBlueDragon 14-09-2007, 15:06 How about Abba - Super Trouper?
"When I called you last night from glasgow" I always think it says "When I called you last night from Tesco"
"I fell in love with some dago".....
"Young girl with eyes like potatas"
Which makes sense 'cause potatoes do have eyes.
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