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I think my cousin has the one that cracks me up the most, and again it's for Deep Purple's classic. Instead of

Smoke on the water / And fire in the sky

he thought it was:

Slow-motion Walter / That fire-engine guy

And then the character Phoebe on "Friends" mistook Elton John's (well, Bernie Taupin's) chorus in Tiny Dancer as:

"Hold me closer Tony Danza"

― shorty (shorty), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

As a teen one of my friends had "Dreadlock Holiday" (you know, the one that goes "I don't like reggae / I love it") on tape, and after we'd listened to it about a kazillion times, another friend said, "You know, this is a great tune, but why does the singer say he doesn't like cricket?". Holy god did we laugh!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

Wha'?
that's right isn't it? what should it be?

― P-Dog (p-dog), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

If it's not love, then it's the bum, the bum, the bum, the bum, the bum, the bum, the bum that will bring us together

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

I knew someone who loved Sufragette City by David Bowie because of the misheard lyric "The smell of my dick has put my spine out of place".

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

HAHAHAHA I just searched this thread to say "THE SMELL OF FAT CHICKS JUST PUT MY SPINE OUT OF PLACE"

small world

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

Huey Lewis pwns this thread for me.

1.) You'll say anything to a butterfly (If this is It)

2.) I wanna new drug, wetherwall made me sick

3.) They say the heart of rock and roll is forbidden

I guess I can make another Louie Louie reference today...

― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

"I've been waiting for a guy to come and take me by the hand.
Cure these sensations, make me feel the pleasures of another man."

I wondered why you didn't hear more about Ian Curtis being gay.

― Bumblepuppy (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

i can't remember any specific lines, but 'la woman' by the doors is an easy one to mishear.

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 09:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

Bumblepuppy OTM. Only I thought it was "Could these sensations."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Hey! [hey] You! [you] Get offa my clown!"

the stones, of course

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvHiqqOqu8U&NR

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

I just heard a New Jack Swing/neo-R&B song last night that clearly had a chant of "super flatulence" in the chorus. Part of me hopes this wasn't misheard.

― Bumblepuppy (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

Anyone remember Prince's Batman? Get the fuck out!!!

― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Thursday, 28 September 2006 01:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

I don't know if this is misheard or not - on the Flatlanders' "Bhagavan Decreed," I always heard the opening line as "Trains cannot defeat me when I'm stoned, little darlin'," which I adore. However, I was looking this up, and I'm apparently the only person on the Internet to mention this line, and one other person has it written as "Brains cannot defeat me . . ." which is clearly inferior. I really hope that I'm right about this, because that line made me love that song the first time I heard it.

― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Sunday, 8 October 2006 04:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

"Ooooh, watching the people get Larry..."

Poor guy.

― musically (musically), Friday, 3 November 2006 07:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

"I always flirt with death, I could kill but I don't care about it"

As cited in Mojo as one of the best lyrics of all time!

(I hear "I look ill but...")

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

The Only Ones: yet another Crowley-influenced band who loves to sing about it.

― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

"No Peace For The Wicked"

Misheard Lyrics:
I'm in love with excremental torture.
Original Lyrics:
I'm in love with extreme mental torture.

Story about this misheard lyric by: Steveritt

A rock journalist in the UK went to press with these misheard lyrics.

― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

Soooooooooooooo
we're identicalllllllllll
I'm a loser, baby
so why don't you killlll meeeeeee

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

I used to wonder if it was "So, I open de door..." like some guy is just opening the front door of his house and expecting people to kill him on sight because he's a loser.

― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

My mind is still reeling over the fact that "The smell of fat chicks just put my spine out of place" is not the real lyric in "Suffragette City." If you had asked me yesterday what David Bowie's best lyric was, I would have said that line without having to think about it.

Not a misheard lyric per se, but for the longest time I refused to believe that Morrissey was actually singing, "No, I'm gonna kill my dog" on "Unhappy Birthday." And for the life of me I still cannot figure out how that has anything to do with the rest of the song.

And there is a line in "Summer's Last Sound" by Disco Inferno that I always hear as "..Which would tell you if you'll spend the next few years/Free from Laffy Taffy petrol bongs."

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

I still cannot figure out how that has anything to do with the rest of the song.

It's black humor, obviously:

Loved and lost
And some may say
When usually it's Nothing
Surely you're happy
It should be this way ?
I say "No, I'm gonna kill my dog"

Like when you're in a bad mood and someone says, "How many dogs did you kick on your way to school today?"

― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

I swear Mike D just said something about YouTube in 1989's "Shadrach."

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

From Three Lions (I just found this out!):

"Three lions on a shirt, jewels remain still gleaming"

!!!!

― musically (musically), Friday, 12 January 2007 08:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

I just found this out while reading the latest Shihad interview.

What I heard: "I trust the boys in the government".

Real lyrics: "I trust the police and the government".

― GLC (ZakAce), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

The Beta Band, 'The Cow's Wrong' (ace song btw) has a few seconds where echoed chants of 'Running up and down' (fading) and 'I fucked it up' (rising) combine to make it sound just like Mr. Mason is singing 'I fucked another man'. It's astonishing.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

Poppadom Bridge-Madonna.

― Luke Slater (Alan Bean), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

"The cloak and dagger dangle,
promises like a candle."

i like my version much more!

― AaronK (AaronK), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

My bf just reminded me of his misheard version of the Faint's "Violent", which he heard as "There's a cocklifting sound/every argument's loud". He rewound and replayed it several times, wondering wtf they were on about.

We then realised they're singing "there's a conflicting sound". I liked the other version better.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 13 January 2007 07:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

I always thought it was "there's a conflicting sound / hear the arguments loud".

Great tune either way, though. The Faint are face-rockingly awesome.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

oh, man. i am the best ever at mishearing lyrics. i really suck at listening to anything but instrumentation. ADD in the house!

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

the line in .38 special's "hold on loosely," "if you cling too tightly, you're gonna lose control," i always misheard as, "if you cling to tom petty, you're gonna lose control."

i always wondered what tom did to piss them off.

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

I always thought the line in The Pet Shop Boys "Being Boring"--"We dressed up and fought and thought 'make amends'"--was "We dressed up in thoughts and thoughts make amends". I was wrong, but I still think mine is better.

― The Illiterate (moriarty), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

i thought of another one

ben harper's 'diamonds on the inside'

"she was a horrible liar"

for ages i was hearing "she was a whore and a liar"

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 09:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

NIN, Hurt - not misheard but I prefer to sing it this way:

"What have I become, my Swedish friend?"

― ledge, Thursday, 12 July 2007 10:25 (5 years ago) Permalink

I'm surprised no one's mentioned it upthread, but Radiohead's "No surprises" had my brother fooled for a while, doubting the merits of the song:

"such a pretty ass / on such a pretty girl"

when my bro criticized this, my brother-in-law responded "well maybe he's just calling it like he sees it"

― Mark Clemente, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

-- Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:22 (1 year ago) Link

He does actually sing "I don't like cricket". One of the most popular sports in the West Indies is cricket, so it makes sense.

― Chriddof, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

I'm surprised no one's mentioned it upthread, but Radiohead's "No surprises" had my brother fooled for a while, doubting the merits of the song:

"such a pretty ass / on such a pretty girl"

when my bro criticized this, my brother-in-law responded "well maybe he's just calling it like he sees it"

-- Mark Clemente, Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:27 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I could never figure out if tired_nhappy in the liner notes meant tired AND happy or tired/unhappy. hmm?

― Finefinemusic, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

"What have I become, my Swedish friend?"

"I miss my little Danish friend" :' (

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:26 (5 years ago) Permalink

(I looked around pretty hard for a picture of Mustaine. The emoticon above will have to suffice.)

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

"What have I become, my Swedish friend?"

lol I thought I was the only who sang it that way. It's even better on the Cash cover. Also, I always picture him singing it to the sSwedish chef from the muppets.

― l, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

that scene with mustaine is one of the most surreal things i've seen on screen
the guy recalls 1982 like it was a week ago

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 18:00 (5 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

Just realised that James Carr is not singing 'Sugarplums all dancing in my mind/ everyday you whip me it feels like valentines' in You Got my Mind Messed Up.... (it's 'everyday you're with me')

― sonofstan, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 16:30 (5 years ago) Permalink

My brother thought Billy Jo was saying "sell doughnuts at my door" on 'When I Come Around'.

This girl insisted that the lyrics to Positive K's "I Got a Man" were "I'm not tryin to head out sea", and claimed it was a 'metaphor'.

one of my friends in middle school thought James Hetfield was saying "to constipate his grace" in Metallica's 'Unforgiven'

Someone on Internet Relay chat thought the chorus to "The Real Slim Shady" went "I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the Real Shady, all you other Slim Shadys are justin my teddy".

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

oh and this foreign guy who spoke broken english on IRC was convinced that the chorus to Metallica's 'One' went "Hold my breathless, I wish go dead"

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

british nobodies freerunner have a song called 'friday don't need it' and it sounds exactly like "fried egg, don't eat it" which amuses me somewhat

― electricsound, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

vegan anthem

― electricsound, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:30 (5 years ago) Permalink

my brother used to think one of the lyrics on Shaquille O'neals debut was "Rhymin is like poopin, I'm already a legend"...

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:30 (5 years ago) Permalink

oh and this foreign guy who spoke broken english on IRC was convinced that the chorus to Metallica's 'One' went "Hold my breathless, I wish go dead"

I knew someone who thought it was "Oh, my breath is Irish for death".

― chap, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:31 (5 years ago) Permalink

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