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Post by mga707 on Mar 20, 2021 13:36:14 GMT -5
Surfin' USA I thought it was "raunchy sandals too" but I only thought that for 58 years. It's Huarache sandals, whatever those are or were. A type of Mexican sandal, popular with surfers in the '60s (and probably still), pre-Columbian in origin. You'll almost certainly recognize them when you see what they look like: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huarache_(shoe) |
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Post by Hervard on Mar 20, 2021 20:49:45 GMT -5
There are at least two Phil Collins songs where he says "Oh Lord" ("In The Air Tonight" and "Another Day In Paradise"). I always thought he was saying "Hold on" in both songs!
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Post by chrislc on Mar 21, 2021 19:43:54 GMT -5
There are at least two Phil Collins songs where he says "Oh Lord" ("In The Air Tonight" and "Another Day In Paradise"). I always thought he was saying "Hold on" in both songs! I thought it was Hold on in In The Air Tonight until about a minute ago. Wow. |
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Post by Michael1973 on Mar 27, 2021 13:07:28 GMT -5
From a more recent era, in All of Me, John Legend says, "My head's underwater but I'm breathing fine."
Until recently, I thought he was "breathing fire." Though in retrospect, that doesn't rhyme as well. It also contradicts the laws of science...
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Post by rgmike on Aug 7, 2021 17:26:33 GMT -5
Dunno if this one has been posted before, but I got it from a friend and I can never un-hear it:
"I get higher in Milwaukee/And I'm glowin' in the dark in New Orleans"
(BeeGees, towards the end of "Night Fever")
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Post by Glass Joe on Aug 7, 2021 18:06:37 GMT -5
In Savage Garden's "Truly Madly Deeply," I for some reason thought he was saying "I want to bathe with you in the sink."
And a song that was brought up here already, "Sister Christian," it sounds like they are saying "Motorhead" in the chorus, as a call out to the heavy metal band also popular at that time.
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Post by LC on Aug 7, 2021 20:01:04 GMT -5
Speaking of Sister Christian, I thought that line was "put your motor in," and it's actually "but your motoring."
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Post by Hervard on Aug 8, 2021 10:22:23 GMT -5
In Savage Garden's "Truly Madly Deeply," I for some reason thought he was saying "I want to bathe with you in the sink.". |
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Post by chrislc on Aug 8, 2021 11:45:23 GMT -5
Speaking of Sister Christian, I thought that line was "put your motor in," and it's actually "but your motoring." No you had it right. Put your motor in and watch The Price Is Right. |
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Post by doofus67 on Aug 8, 2021 12:21:04 GMT -5
Speaking of Sister Christian, I thought that line was "put your motor in," and it's actually "but your motoring." No you had it right. Put your motor in and watch The Price Is Right. LOL!!! |
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Post by at40nut on Mar 25, 2022 22:35:01 GMT -5
Edward Bear's "Last Song"-Did you know my goats asleep and leave the lights on." Due to the hack job on the 3-24-73 show, the goat was not asleep for very long.
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Post by johnnywest on Mar 27, 2022 9:33:25 GMT -5
“When Smokey sings, I hear violence.”
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Post by friarboy on Mar 27, 2022 12:19:00 GMT -5
Here's an example of lyric sites not really knowing... Rapture by Blondie:
In the rap part after "Flash is fast, flash is cool...."
"François c'est pas, Flash ain't no dude" - Lyricfind
"Francois sais pas, Flashe no deux" - Azlyrics
I don't know what it is but neither of these make sense, no? There was no lyric sheet with Autoamerican, so I guess it's anybody's guess.
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Post by Hervard on Mar 27, 2022 13:23:29 GMT -5
“When Smokey sings, I hear violence.” Or "I hear firemen". |
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Post by chrislc on Mar 30, 2022 10:31:15 GMT -5
Did you know that there's a term for a misheard or misinterpreted lyric? It's known as a mondegreen. Where did this funky word come from? It originates from an English folk song of the 50s, "The Bonny Earl of Murray." It contains the phrase "laid him on the green," which was commonly misheard as "Lady Mondegreen." On his SiriusXM show, The Diner, Lou Simon uses this word a lot. Lyrics have always been a hot topic there. A while back I sent him a few mondegreens of my own. Of course, these aren't as laugh-out-loud funny as the ones that have been coming up so far in this thread. mga707 brought up that infamous one, "'scuse me while I kiss this guy." I have one that's very similar. It's in one of the coolest songs of the summer of 1976, "Moonlight Feels Right" by Starbuck. The correct line is "ain't nothin' like the sky to dose a potion." I know that now after looking it up. For four decades, I thought it was "ain't nothin' like this guy who knows a potion." Makes sense, right? Meh. How about "Sometimes When We Touch" by Dan Hill? I misheard a few lines in this song when it first came out. The most memorable was "I'd rather hurt you honestly / Than mislead you with a lie." The second part struck me as "than to sleaze you with a lie"! How a 10 year old kid from the suburbs had ever heard the word "sleaze" in the first place, I'm not quite sure. Obviously I didn't have a firm grasp on it yet. I used it as a verb after all. Fortunately, all it took was repeated listening over the years to get this one figured out. Then there's "A Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles. The right words are "so why I love to come home / 'cuz when I get you alone..." Until my senior year in high school, I thought the line was "so why on earth should I moan? / 'cuz when I get you alone"! What set me straight on that one was going to see a friend who was just getting hooked on the Fab Four and had his dad's Red Album (1962-1966) out, complete with lyric sheet. But come on now. I think in this case I made it make MORE sense -- and I came up with an exact rhyme. This is Lennon and McCartney for heaven's sakes! So it’s not “why on Earth should I moan”? That’s so Lennon. I think maybe the lyrics websites have misled us again. But wait you said the Red Album. That would be inexcusable if Apple messed that up. |
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