misheard lyrics

OHHHH, thank you! I'm not a complete dipshit. The lyrics sheet totally says 'shedding' and I was credulous enough to believe what it told me when I pored over that thing a million times. Plus it wasn't bleeped on MTV.

Soundgarden were definitely the kind of band to toe that line, they were/are very wry and self-aware MFers.

"We were saying Fool On, Kevin's Mom!"

Hard-headed funk, you all!

I always thought in "Won't Get Fooled Again" it was "And the party on the left/is now the party on the right," but it's actually "And the parting on the left/Is now the parting on the right." Which I think is meant to convey the same meaning, but ... I don't see why it's not "party." Is Pete actually talking about ... the way people part their hair?

to this day I heard "this mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place" in Suffragrette City as "the smell of fried chicken put my spine out of place", even though I'm aware that is wrong.

Always thought "Like to Get to Know You" by Spanky and our gang went

Well I'd like to eat yr butthole
Yrs i would
Well I'd like to eat yr Butthole
If i could

"We're having meatballs..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr-zG-IXDyo

Kid Charlemagne - "Did you realize / that you were Italian in their eyes?"

married women lack our vision
everybody wants to rule the world

hon hon hon honky im king of the pizza! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTgaY3Tc0ek

For years I thought the first line of Keep Your Dreams by Primal Scream was "I believe that syphilis can burn your soul away." Not all that far-fetched considering the word "syphilitic" shows up in at least two other songs on the album.

In Scott Walker's "Montague Terrace (In Blue)" this is what I always hear:

The girl across the hall makes love
Her thoughts lay cold like Sharon Stone

Listening to ABBA's "Super Trouper" and just heard:

I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Costco

I always thought the part Kate Bush sings in Games Without Frontiers was "she is so funky yeah" not "jeaux sans frontieres"

on Metallica's "Now That We're Dead" it sounds like James is singing "Now that we're dead, Madea..."

Radiohead’s Airbag:

“I’m back to say the n-word”

irl lol

Arpaidiohead

Holland-Dozier-Holland - why can't we be lovers

"...I can't picture you, baby
You and I being apart..."

what i'm hearing, every time...and it makes me even feel guilty:
"...I can't control you, baby
You and I being apart..."

Sooooooo... it turns out that in 'Watch the Corners', J. Mascis sings "All at once the time flew" and NOT "All I want's a Tamiflu".

Apparently the main character of Joni Mitchell's "Raised on Robbery" was "drinking for diversion", not "drinking forty virgins." To the extent I ever thought about it I guess I thought it was the name of a drink or something?

Ohhhhh, I just remembered a real good one from my childhood:

I'm only human
A flesh and blood hombre

Lol

Haha

I keep picturing a zombie cowboy.

When I was a youngster, I thought McCartney was telling Jude "Chew leather under your skin."

Oh boy, another blast from the past. From Miami Sound Machine's '1,2,3':

If you need some Coke
Sing 'I can do it'

so apparently there are some people who think the lyric in "Pepper" by Butthole Surfers is:

"some will die in hopper suits and fiery auto crashes
some will die in hopper suits while sifting through my ashes"

to this I ask.

wtf is a hopper suit, genius

https://mojim.com/usy169194x5x35.htm

https://muppetmindset.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/bcc3f-hopper3.jpg

Ooh, good reference

Someone on Reddit recently asked about that 80s song that they thought went, "caribou clique, now we're sharing the same dream, now our horse can be as one, no more love on the run"

Used to think growing up that 'The Price of Love' (Everly Brothers, covered by Bryan Ferry) started:

"Wine is sweet and Jenny's bitter
Drink all you can, but you won't forget her..."

I always thought that the lyrics at the start of Miss America by Blur were 'Miss America sits in the shower/She's plucking owls from the sky', but apparently it's 'hours'?

I just pulled out Peter Brown's Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me, which I most certainly owned and played to death as a kid, and realized that I used to think it was "The Yamaha is the Playground for the Devil"....

Earl Sweatshirt, "2010":
"Triumph over plight and immense loss"
I'd heard "Triumph over plight in a men's large".. as if he was writing his theme tune.

A souped-up homeboy from the old town

in Top Billin' it sounds an awful lot like Milk says

Gizmo's cuttin, up for thee
Suckers that's down with me

but of course what he's really saying is

Gizmo's cuttin, up for thee
Suckers that's down with nei-
ther one of us

somebody told me
that you had a boyfriend
who looked like a girlfriend
and I had better be wary of that yeah

my goofball friend growing up used to laugh at Metallica's "Unforgiven" because he thought James was singing "to constipate his grace".

he didn't seem to believe me that it was "through constant pained disgrace"

oh crap I posted about this 15 years ago upthread. lol

ledge writing better lyrics

How could I forget this one? I first heard it on oldies radio, actually.

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/driveinshow.shtml

In context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCLcMvgLF2Q

about 1:20 into the smashing pumpkins “rocket”

MILLER LITE!!!!!

Madonna - Crazy for You

all I can hear is "Trying hard to control my fart"

Talking Heads - 'Air'

'Air can hurt you too' = 'Air in her tutu'

"There's a bathroom on the Rhein"

source: my daughter

"i'll drive that stake
through the centre of my heart
lonely vampire inhaling its fart"

(no shade in the shadow of the cross by sufjan stevens)

Pearl Jam - Dissident

"When she couldn't hold, no, she farted
A dissident is here
Escape is never the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here"

(it's of cousre "folded", but Vedder's pronunciation and the context made a good case)