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Post by friarboy on Apr 12, 2020 19:53:42 GMT -5
So last year after singing it loud and drunkenly I found out that in “The Boys of Summer,” the lyric is NOT “I can see you, your breast is shining in the sun”
True story.
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Post by chrislc on Apr 28, 2020 17:39:50 GMT -5
Now he's at home doing 9 to 5
not
Now he goes home to his Magnavox
Okay, I got it now.
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Post by chrislc on Oct 13, 2020 18:10:17 GMT -5
We lost power for a couple of hours here today, so I resorted to commercial radio for awhile - Classic Rock
And I finally now got around to looking up this one from 1978 -
It's - All your sickness, I can suck it up
not
Something something something I can suck a duck.
Okay then.
And this one from '85 -
It's - Soldier on. Only you can do what must be done.
not
So, Gerard, only you can do what must be done.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 23, 2020 16:12:13 GMT -5
I thought Elt was singing... I Like Girls
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Post by chrislc on Nov 17, 2020 22:27:10 GMT -5
I just realized about a week ago that Mitch Ryder didn't sing "she's a real humdinger and a knife in my back".
I thought he was obviously saying the woman was attractive but hey, also a devil, so - knife in my back - Makes sense, right? And yes I know it's a remake but it was a huge hit for Mitch.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Nov 18, 2020 9:45:49 GMT -5
Y'know sometimes it might be helpful to mention the song title on some of these misheard lyrics--unless somebody had just one hit. It reminds me of a funny commercial from a few years back when people sang the wrong lines from Elton John's Rocket Man.
By the way, I used to sing wrong lyrics to this one myself--I think many of Elton's biggest hits in the 1970's were difficult to decipher ALL the words. Perhaps Elton went to Mick Jagger's school of how to mumble through the lyrics.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 17, 2021 23:40:05 GMT -5
I'm a few weeks late with this one, but in Last Christmas I thought George was singing
A crowded room, friends with tie-dyes.
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Post by LC on Jan 18, 2021 11:30:12 GMT -5
I'm a few weeks late with this one, but in Last Christmas I thought George was singing A crowded room, friends with tie-dyes. That's what I thought at first, too. Another one that hasn't been mentioned: In Elton's Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting, the line "I've had it with your discipline" has always sounded like "I've had it with your Death Star plan." |
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jan 18, 2021 11:53:39 GMT -5
I always thought Carefree Highway by Gordon Lightfoot was Every Highway, which caused him to reflect and think (but I guess it has to be those country roads without much traffic that allow your mind to wander--better not do that in tough city traffic).
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Post by chrislc on Jan 18, 2021 14:05:26 GMT -5
I'm a few weeks late with this one, but in Last Christmas I thought George was singing A crowded room, friends with tie-dyes. That's what I thought at first, too. Another one that hasn't been mentioned: In Elton's Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting, the line "I've had it with your discipline" has always sounded like "I've had it with your Death Star plan." Wow I wonder if George Lucas heard it that way too. |
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Post by Michael1973 on Jan 23, 2021 14:49:37 GMT -5
I always thought Carefree Highway by Gordon Lightfoot was Every Highway Me too, a long time ago. |
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Post by chrislc on Feb 20, 2021 20:45:07 GMT -5
Do It Again
"Now you swear and kick and beg us that you're not a gamblin' man"
Ha ha I thought it was "Now you swear to Dick and Mavis".
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Post by Michael1973 on Feb 23, 2021 11:37:51 GMT -5
In Big Time, Peter Gabriel says, "And my heaven will be a big heaven." But he doesn't enunciate the last word very well, so for a long time I thought he was saying, "And my heaven will be a big hell."
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Post by doofus67 on Feb 23, 2021 12:13:55 GMT -5
In Big Time, Peter Gabriel says, "And my heaven will be a big heaven." But he doesn't enunciate the last word very well, so for a long time I thought he was saying, "And my heaven will be a big hell." Also, at the very beginning, he seems to say "hi yere" rather than "hi there." |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Feb 23, 2021 13:17:30 GMT -5
In Big Time, Peter Gabriel says, "And my heaven will be a big heaven." But he doesn't enunciate the last word very well, so for a long time I thought he was saying, "And my heaven will be a big hell." Same here. I used to have that song on 45. |
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