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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: buffcoat on September 24, 2009, 09:56:28 PM
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I totally misheard a lyric for a great song that I heard for the first time tonight.
I got "This is Fort Apache" a long time ago but never listened to it all the way through. So it comes up on the iPod in the car - I swear I heard:
"There's no electric company working for you, there's no electric company working for me"
Instead of, "there's no one left to come looking for you." It's much clearer listening to it on the computer. I guess it makes more sense that way.
I was jazzed about the idea that the electric company wasn't really working for anyone. Oh, well. Great song.
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I totally misheard a lyric for a great song that I heard for the first time tonight.
I got "This is Fort Apache" a long time ago but never listened to it all the way through. So it comes up on the iPod in the car - I swear I heard:
"There's no electric company working for you, there's no electric company working for me"
Yes there is!
Instead of, "there's no one left to come looking for you." It's much clearer listening to it on the computer. I guess it makes more sense that way.
I was jazzed about the idea that the electric company wasn't really working for anyone. Oh, well. Great song.
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John Cale, "Paris 1919".
The lyric is: "She'd open up the doors and vaguely carry us away"
I hear: "She'd open up the doors - Ed Begley, carry us away"
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Mondegreen's? On the last Best Show I mistook Ian Svenonious' "Your My Miss Washington D.C." for "Your Mom is Washington D.C.".
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John Cale, "Paris 1919".
The lyric is: "She'd open up the doors and vaguely carry us away"
I hear: "She'd open up the doors - Ed Begley, carry us away"
John Cale always was prescient. He saw the rise and fall of Richard Dean Anderson as well.
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Death Cab for Cutie--"Soul Meets Body"
"I do believe it's true, there are nuns left in both of our shoes."
The actual lyrics are not much different.
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Blinded by the Light-Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Misheard lyric: "Wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the night."
Real lyric: "Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night."
Every time I hear that song, I get a chuckle.
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There is absolutely no way he is not singing "douche" in that song.
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There is absolutely no way he is not singing "douche" in that song.
Honestly, I can't tell. I always thought he sang the word, "douche." But apparently the correct word is "deuce."
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One from my childhood: Jefferson Airplane, "Somebody to Love." "Your eyes, I say your eyes, may look like ears" (s/b "look light years").
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Blinded by the Light-Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Misheard lyric: "Wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the night."
Real lyric: "Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night."
Every time I hear that song, I get a chuckle.
It's not cut loose like a deuce?
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Heard Billy Ocean's "Carribean Queen" as "Caribou Twist" for many years. Still prefer my version.
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Pretty much every Pavement lyric. SM has a habit of slurring a lot of his speech.
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Coo Coo A Choo
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Pretty much every Pavement lyric. SM has a habit of slurring a lot of his speech.
Anything by Dan Beijar (sp) too. Doesn't make me dislike his songs in the slightest. It makes them more fun IMHO.
Living in Japan means I end up going to Karaoke on occasion. One of the hard things about singing karaoke is those moments when you you're singing a song and really odd line comes up. It's not what you thought was in the song originally. So you say to yourself, "That's what he says? What the fuck does it mean? Oh, crap now I feel weird about singing it..." but the line is upon you now so you mumble the line and try not to care because your the only non-Japanese there and they don't know English as well as you do.
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Psychedelic Furs "All Of This And Nothing"
He says: "Now I'm left with all of this/A room full of your trash"
I always heard: "Now I'm left with all of this/A room full of your crash"
I sooo like mine better.
Then about 12 or so years ago, someone gave me a Psychedelic Furs comp as a gift and whoever wrote the liner notes apparently thought the exact same thing.
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I grew up with a ton of Barry Manilow music being played by my parents, and my dad always thought it was "Long, rotten beaches" instead of "Long, rocky beaches" in Weekend in New England (which really is a pretty song). He said one day, "What's so romantic about rotten beaches?!"
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Art Brut, "DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake"
Eddie Argos sings, "DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake"
I hear, "DC Comics and Jim Belushi"
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"Tom Scharplings givin Birthday Smiles. I'll Pour him some water." = ?
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In "By The Time I Get To Arizona" by Public Enemy, I thought Chuck was saying at one point...
"Me, myself, and I, and D"
...and I thought it was the coolest fucking lyric of all time because Chuck D was so amazing that HE HAD HIS OWN PERSONAL PRONOUN!
Then I found out that he was saying "Me, myself, and I, indeed" and I was thoroughly disappointed.
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"Tom Scharplings givin Birthday Smiles. I'll Pour him some water." = ?
I hear, "Tom Sharpling's giving birth to smiles; let's boil some water."
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When I was a kid, I thought that "who wrote the book of love" was "who let the moo cow out?" It honestly still sounds like it to me. Every time I hear the song I have to actively tell myself the right lyrics, or I'll just hear it wrong. It feels like a very very specific learning disability.
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When I was a kid, I thought that "who wrote the book of love" was "who let the moo cow out?" It honestly still sounds like it to me. Every time I hear the song I have to actively tell myself the right lyrics, or I'll just hear it wrong. It feels like a very very specific learning disability.
Humble Pie- 30 Days In The Hole
I always heard red nepalese as Red -neck police gotcha weak in the knees.
I always imagined a baton getting me on the back of my legs.
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While we're on this topic, what was the ruling on "pompatus" anyway? Did anyone ever get a straight answer from Steve Miller on this?
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While we're on this topic, what was the ruling on "pompatus" anyway? Did anyone ever get a straight answer from Steve Miller on this?
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/972/in-steve-millers-the-joker-what-is-the-pompatus-of-love
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Blinded by the Light-Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Misheard lyric: "Wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the night."
Real lyric: "Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night."
Every time I hear that song, I get a chuckle.
Sidebar: use of the phrase 'curly wurly' is inexcusable, full stop.
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While we're on this topic, what was the ruling on "pompatus" anyway? Did anyone ever get a straight answer from Steve Miller on this?
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/972/in-steve-millers-the-joker-what-is-the-pompatus-of-love
Thanks McPhee. Now that I know it comes from the deeply disturbing "puppetutes," I wish I still didn't know what the word meant. But I will be using "pizmotality" on a regular basis now.
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I am reviving this thread to ask a somewhat related question of the FOT community: Can anyone explain what the hell is going on in the skit at the beginning of Ghostface Killah's "More Fish" album? What it seems like to me (as weird as it may seem):
-Ghost is at a 2007 New Year's Eve party.
-He is talking to a "friend" although it sounds like some animosity lurks just beneath the surface.
-Friend mentions how he hurt his foot in 2007.
-Ghost remembers the hurt foot and how the friend put peanut butter on his toes(?) Ghost finds the memory of this hilarious.
-Friend becomes enraged at this. He is embarrassed.
-Starts yelling at Ghost.
-As the countdown to 2007 starts, more dirty laundry comes out...Ghost owes the person money.
Could that possibly be right? If I am right, then it is insane.
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I am reviving this thread to ask a somewhat related question of the FOT community: Can anyone explain what the hell is going on in the skit at the beginning of Ghostface Killah's "More Fish" album? What it seems like to me (as weird as it may seem):
-Ghost is at a 2007 New Year's Eve party.
-He is talking to a "friend" although it sounds like some animosity lurks just beneath the surface.
-Friend mentions how he hurt his foot in 2007.
-Ghost remembers the hurt foot and how the friend put peanut butter on his toes(?) Ghost finds the memory of this hilarious.
-Friend becomes enraged at this. He is embarrassed.
-Starts yelling at Ghost.
-As the countdown to 2007 starts, more dirty laundry comes out...Ghost owes the person money.
Could that possibly be right? If I am right, then it is insane.
Friend = Tracy Morgan
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When the lights go down in the city...I wanna be there in my sedan
Yup I thought he said sedan. :D
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For years, I thought that the theme song to WKRP in Cincinnati said "Baby, if you ever wondered/wondered whatever the KRP".
(In fact, it says "wondered whatever became of me.")
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For years, I thought that the theme song to WKRP in Cincinnati said "Baby, if you ever wondered/wondered whatever the KRP".
(In fact, it says "wondered whatever became of me.")
Speaking of WKRP, has anyone ever been able to decipher the lyrics to the closing theme? I've always heard that it's nothing but gibberish.
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For years, I thought that the theme song to WKRP in Cincinnati said "Baby, if you ever wondered/wondered whatever the KRP".
(In fact, it says "wondered whatever became of me.")
Speaking of WKRP, has anyone ever been able to decipher the lyrics to the closing theme? I've always heard that it's nothing but gibberish.
There are clearly words in it, but reportedly the guy singing it was just making up gibberish.
Nevertheless!
Bear tooth botch and a foxy night a-heya
Said a little morning and a microphone was in her heart
I said booth botch and a aa-aa-at a-heya
I said a bood bood and a boodinight and in her heart
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8uH76COzk8[/youtube]
Here's another interpretation.
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I'm pretty sure about the microphone in her heart.
Here's another go:
[youtube]1TCWHcvOduI[/youtube]
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Blinded by the Light-Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Misheard lyric: "Wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the night."
Real lyric: "Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night."
Every time I hear that song, I get a chuckle.
It's not cut loose like a deuce?
In the Springsteen version it's cut loose, which makes more sense.
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I am reviving this thread to ask a somewhat related question of the FOT community: Can anyone explain what the hell is going on in the skit at the beginning of Ghostface Killah's "More Fish" album? What it seems like to me (as weird as it may seem):
-Ghost is at a 2007 New Year's Eve party.
-He is talking to a "friend" although it sounds like some animosity lurks just beneath the surface.
-Friend mentions how he hurt his foot in 2007.
-Ghost remembers the hurt foot and how the friend put peanut butter on his toes(?) Ghost finds the memory of this hilarious.
-Friend becomes enraged at this. He is embarrassed.
-Starts yelling at Ghost.
-As the countdown to 2007 starts, more dirty laundry comes out...Ghost owes the person money.
Could that possibly be right? If I am right, then it is insane.
Even more disorienting? That was uncut documentary sound footage.
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In "Bennie and the Jets," what I heard (when I was about 8, listening to AM Top 40 radio):
"She's got electric boobs, a [blah blah blah], you know I read it in a Pakistani, oh oh, B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets"
The real lyrics: "She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine..." etc.
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In "Bennie and the Jets," what I heard (when I was about 8, listening to AM Top 40 radio):
"She's got electric boobs. I read it in a Pakistani
Outside of a Pakistani, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a Pakistani, it's too dark to read.
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Today while listening to the fantastic new New Pornographers album (maybe their best work ever), I was sure I heard Neko sing, 'You're a Todd Glass, a blast from the past'.
In fact it was 'tall glass'. What a disappointment.
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Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those gay men go
It's the freakiest show
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Today while listening to the fantastic new New Pornographers album (maybe their best work ever), I was sure I heard Neko sing, 'You're a Todd Glass, a blast from the past'.
In fact it was 'tall glass'. What a disappointment.
indeed.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU
Make me fries...