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Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: July 05 2009, 10:20 During the Queen song Bohemian Rhapsody I used to be think Freddie sang.."Spare him his life from these warm sausagees"! Yeah you`ve gotta` cut me some slack with that one though,I was 9 years old at the time..Unfortunatly I`ve got no excuse for the Mel & Kim song Respectable where I was convinced they were singing "Inspector Bong"!..I`m still waiting for the accompanying tv series today featuring the most chilled-out private dick in the world..Where The Hell Is It?? The only Mike Oldfield one I can think of off the top of my head was during Moonlight Shadow where I originaly thought Maggie was saying.."Singing Yule in heaven,one day"!..I remember thinking to myself.."Surely this song would be a better release for somewhere around Christmas time"? Anyway feel free to post your own.But all of this is really just an elaborate excuse to post  this great video by Harry Partridge son of XTC` Andy...Featuring (mis-heard) words & music by legendary Finnish rockers Lordi..Yeah that`s right the guys who won Eurovision a few years back... Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: July 06 2009, 09:13 Ok a couple cos i love stupid stuff like this.  When my sister and i were young she was a massive ABBA fan ( i really don't like their records although i have nothing personally against them.Big sis played them ALL the time).We could not figure out for the life of us why the second line of the first verse of Super Trouper was "When i called you last night from Tesco".Wasn't till ages later i figured it out.I was young and stupid.  The other one is a similar situation regarding misheard lyrics but with far more embarrasing consequences.  My uncle used to go into WH Smiths in the 60's to buy the latest singles.Anyone who knows Smiths will remember the brown uniforms and the almost clone like staff.Never smile,never be helpfull,never ever show any inkling of a sense of humour.  So uncle Paul goes into WH Smiths on a saturday morning and goes up to the counter and says to the stern looking assistant "i'd like the new number one song please" "what's it called?" says assistant with zero product knowledge,"you know the one that's at number one.By Blue Mink." "yes but what is it called?"By this time my uncle's getting a bit worried that he will have to name the song that he'd heard on his cracky transistor radio and that he now wanted.So he came out with it......"it's called.......penis"....dead silence followed......and then the assistant said "ACTUALLY IT'S CALLED VENUS!!!"Just about loud enough for the whole Exter branch of WH Smiths,most of the Guildhall centre and a fair amount of Queen Ann street to hear. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: July 06 2009, 12:10 Yeah there are quite a few ABBA one`s I think.Chiquitita sounds a little bit like "Take Your Teeth Out" for instance.I remember comedian Peter Kay doing a "skit" on Dancing Queen as well as part of his stand up,where he had "characters" kind of making their own words up to it.Personaly with ABBA songs I often find myself making up words to them that don`t even exist.I can certainly remember inventing my own nonsense language up for Supertrouper so I`m right there with you on that one.Maybe The Cocteau Twins should re-unite and do an ABBA tribute album??..Stranger things have happened I guess..Although right at this moment in time I`m struggling to actualy think of any. Speaking of "nonsense" words I can remember a former friend of mine telling me a story of when his dad first heard The Stranglers song Who Wants The World.Right at the part where it got to the chorus and they sing the title out loud a number of times his dad goes.."Who Wa The Whoa"???.."Who Wa The Whoa"??...What the hell is that all about? Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 06 2009, 18:36 There are way too many for me, so I'll limit myself to Mike Oldfield... "Moonlight Shadow": "And she couldn't pay, haven't pushed through". "Foreign Affair": "To a topical beach..." "A new territory for an Internet story..." [this is apparently very common! ] "Magic Touch": "How deep in the night, love swings you far away..." "When the Night's on Fire": "I'm very, very wet in the candlelight..." "Sentinel": "Money, yeah, money, yeah-oh, my money, yeah" and "It's too much to know!" (operatic voice). "The Bell", during the list of instruments: "Two stacked and sampled guitars." "Vocal corns." "Definition effect." "Altered State": "Kim Casey! Kim Casey!" "Far Above the Clouds": "And the man in the rain tiptoed in his bag of secrets and Jenny'd up the mountain soiled, far off but the clouds. And nothing gushed ever from him again..." Also, before seeing the written lyrics to "To France", I always thought that a popular soft drink was being named there, and I often wondered what it had to do with the rest: "Taking on water, sailing a restless sea, from a memory, a Fanta. See, the wind carries..." There are some others, I'll post them here when they pop into my mind... -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: July 07 2009, 05:14 Great stuff Ugo,I`m creased up here..Those Vocal Corns sound particularly painful I have to say. Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: July 07 2009, 17:03 I was only 10 and I didn't know a lot of english, but in family man I always thought that she "...presented docents"! I also thought it was "Star Wars lying in the silvery night" in Moonlight Shadow. But on the other hand I read about this guy who thought that Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus opened with the phrase "Reach Out Suck Face"!   -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: July 08 2009, 04:57 Quote (Ugo @ July 06 2009, 23:36) Quote "Far Above the Clouds": "And the man in the rain tiptoed in his bag of secrets and Jenny'd up the mountain soiled, far off but the clouds. And nothing gushed ever from him again..." Ugo,you had me wracking my brain yesterday trying to remember what my friend`s wife thought the "child" said right at the end of that sentance from TB3..Anyway I eventualy remembered it ,without having to ring him up and ask him.."Except for the the sound of Two Po-Lar Bears   It`s funny when I listen to it now,I can actualy hear it. Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: July 08 2009, 11:40 I always had a certain irritation but fascination to watching people screw up lyrics. When Queen did "We Will Rock You" I was quite the snickering guy when folx sang along with their own interpretation of the lyrics singing "We will we will rock 'n roll". How could anybody screw that up? The song title tells you the lyric! And then there is Jimi Hendrix "Purple Haze". The words are "'scuse me while I kiss the sky". Some apparently thought it was "scuse me while I kiss this guy." Oh man......get real. There are hundreds of examples but the Hendrix screw up is classic as the man was blatantly heterosexual. My fav. Alice Cooper song "Hello Hooray"......ends with "God I feel so strong." Some people in that magic year 1973 screwed it up to be "God damn feel so strong." Which at the time lost it some airplay. So sad. Earwax(cerumen) is easily removable. -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: July 08 2009, 12:43 Aah but Jim me old mate Jimi himself sometimes sang "scuse me while i kiss this guy" while pointing to Noel Redding!Fact. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: July 08 2009, 13:40 I'm sure Jimi was joking. Showing admiration for his band-mate. It's funny to look back at Jimi's career short as it was. Guys like Little Richard pissed off cuz Jimi was playing guitar with his teeth and the spotlight goes to Hendrix. How the Animals' Chas Chandler took him to England to win the fame and adoration of England which overflowed back into the US. A more entertaining scenario actually than crazy Jim Morrison(who was on stage with him drunk on at least one occasion).....I had the opportunity in the 80's to buy an LP called "Woke up this morning and found myself dead." Featuring that Morrison antic. Wish I had! I would have never sold it on Ebay tho. I cherish "rare things" more than the money they are worth. Case in point, now that we mention "cherish". How come no one is curious about what transpired last night(the Silver Negus "bored" thread) on my job with me and "Sheherazade"? Her name is Ann but I refer to her as that since she is so so captivating. I'm no sultan and I don't be-head anyone. But I was captivated. Mesmerized. All night. Her tales, conversation was just like 1001 nights. She may be gone soon, but I will be forever blessed simply by being near her if only for a short while. Jimbo -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 08 2009, 16:15 A few more Oldfieldian "mondegreens" from me... "Five Miles Out": "You got Zen on the greens and you're bawling out..." "Just fold your head in two". "Platinum", during the North Star finale: "E-I-O" = "We are home". "Innocent": "Squeak to me, like the very first squeak..." "Heaven's Open" : "Chris' bracelet moment". "Till the sun comes again" = "Let us now kiss again". "Pacha Mama" (TMB): "Oh what a patch on my mom, oh what a sexy woman." -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: July 09 2009, 04:43 @Jim.Is that the one recorded at the Scene club with Hendrix?I think it came out as a bootleg called "High Live And Dirty".I have heard bits of it where you can here Jim Morrison moaning and uttering obscenities and Hendrix comes to the mike and say "in case your wondering what's happening that's Jim Morrison on the er....".I am a big Hendrix fan so i have tapes of fairly rare odds and sods i've picked up along the way. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: July 09 2009, 16:19 That was the one. It's probably seen many names. Wish I could have been there that night. -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 09 2009, 17:08 Not being aware of the American (and maybe English as well?) pronunciation of "Amen", I've often mistaken all instances of that word in songs for "Hey Man". For instance, in Green Day's "Holiday": "Can I get another Amen" = "In the ghetto we're yelling: hey man!" -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: July 09 2009, 20:59 Amen and hey man sort of do have the same meaning: The word Amen (pronounced /ˌɑːˈmɛn/ or /ˌeɪˈmɛn/; Hebrew: אָמֵן, Modern Amen Tiberian ’Amen ; Arabic: آمين‎, ’Āmīn ; "So be it; truly") is a declaration of affirmation[1][2] found in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. Its use in Judaism dates back to its earliest texts.[3] It has been generally adopted in Christian worship as a concluding word for prayers and hymns.[2] In Islam, it is the standard ending to Dua (supplication). Common English translations of the word amen include: "Verily", "Truly", "So be it", and "Let it be." It can also be used colloquially to express strong agreement,[2] as in, for instance, amen to that.[4]     In days of old like 1973(that year again?) hey man could be at the end of a sentence. "That was a fine movie hey man." Truly, verily.......a good movie. See what I'm sayin'? -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: July 10 2009, 23:57 You might also enjoy this older mis-heard lyrics thread.   From FMO..."blimey, blimey" instead of "climbing,climbing." Another cloth-eared moment (know I've mentioned this someplace here months ago, but can't find it): One of my favorite atm groups, Carptree, has a song entitled "Evening Sadness," and I thought the lyrics were "Spring will bring back everything, with a dew, with a dew, with a dew."  I thought those were such sweet and fresh lyrics. But nooo...."without you, without you, without you." Yikes. -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 11 2009, 04:34 @ Mary-Carol: thanks for the link to the earlier thread. Regarding FMO, Mike's Vocoder may have been a cool gadget at the time but it's absolutely horrible pronunciation-wise. If I never had the written lyrics I'd have remained with what I quoted above, and with such stuff as "it's twenty-odd ties to the season, there's a crap in the sight and the war is out." -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: July 17 2009, 15:34 When I was 17 - I assumed the word, 'ardessy' was a word. "Sometimes when we touch, the ardessy's too much And I have to close my eyes and hide..." - Dan Hill. -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 17 2009, 16:44 @ wiga: that's not too bad, mine are much worse. Iron Maiden's "Fear of the Dark" (again, before reading the written lyrics): "I have a funny ear that someone's holding near". The famous "Goodnight prayer" in the middle of Metallica's "Enter Sandman": "Now I lay my head to weep / and the law my soul will keep". M.O.'s "Islands": "We have eye on lands, but never too fast, we have eye on lands." -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: July 20 2009, 20:06 In "The Deep Deep Sound", I used to hear: "Hush now baby, made a start There's a blue bird in your heart" Back to top

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