Strathclyder
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Soon as I saw the thread title, one thing came to mind... 
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OhNoAPacer
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There is of course the famous occasion on Top of The Pops when Dexy's Midnight Runners performed Jackie Wilson Said with a large screen showing a picture of the darts player Jocky Wilson.
Heard this on the pub juke box yesterday, it's a classic misheard lyric:
The Stranglers - Skin Deep
'You better watch out for the Skin Deep'
Sounds like
'You better watch for the Schoolies'
from the Guardian:
The Stranglers - Skin Deep
'You better watch out for the Skin Deep'
Sounds like
'You better watch for the Schoolies'
It wasn't misheard- Dexy's Kevin Rowland specified the image to the BBC as 'A joke'
from the Guardian:
VauxhallandI
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Even worse I thought it was "Last night, I fell in love with some Diego"
A commonly misheard Carpenters lyric - "the best love songs are written with a broken heart" becomes "the best love songs are written with a broken arm."
If the best love songs are indeed written with a broken arm then, I have to say, that's some feat.
If the best love songs are indeed written with a broken arm then, I have to say, that's some feat.
I wasn't the only one then...
Stathern Jc
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I remember always singing along to "The Israelites" and there being a line like "Wake up in the morning, same thing for breakfast".
I've no idea what it should have been.
Maybe I was right?????
johnnychips
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Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir
I thought it was breakfast, too.
I thought it was breakfast, too.
Stathern Jc
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Thanks!
After almost of 50 years I can get those words right, singing in tune will still need a bit of work though!
After almost of 50 years I can get those words right, singing in tune will still need a bit of work though!
Wilts Wanderer
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Jimmy Cliff - “I can see clearly now the rain is gone”
What I hear - “I can see Deidre now Lorraine has gone”
What I hear - “I can see Deidre now Lorraine has gone”
VauxhallandI
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Was it not "wanting some breakfast"?
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Abba:
"I was sick and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Tesco" (Glasgow)
"I was sick and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Tesco" (Glasgow)
Geezertronic
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Soon as I saw the thread title, one thing came to mind...
To be honest, that was the only thing I thought of as well. Absolute comedy gold
gg1
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Madonna - Erotic
"Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body"
"Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body"
When I first heard it as a child I heard "Glasgow" and thought that must be wrong, because they're Scandinavian! (I can see why 'Glasgow' would make sense given the lyrics, but at that age I didn't really try to follow the meaning of a song...)
In a similar vein, and from the same era, one I actually did mishear:
"I went to a disco, on the outskirts of Bristol"
rather than "Frisco". No, Sister Sledge were not talking about a nightclub in Catbrain or Frampton Cotterell...
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Abba again.
"Take your teeth out, tell me the truth" (etc). (Chiquitita)
"Take your teeth out, tell me the truth" (etc). (Chiquitita)
Strathclyder
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Aye, totally; utterly hysterical. Kinda goes without saying, but Mr. Kay is the Billy Connolly of the North of England.To be honest, that was the only thing I thought of as well. Absolute comedy gold
Chicken Tikka tell me what's wrong...
"me ears are alive"
61653 HTAFC
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I think the Desmond Dekker one helped that song get chosen for the Vitalite adverts back in the 1980s... and those adverts then fed back into the mishearings.
Almost any song that contains the word "Doctor" can sound like the singer is saying "dog turd". In particular "Call The Doctor" by Sleater-Kinney, and a solo song by Sting, the name of which escapes me but it might be Fields of Gold, are bad for this.
Almost any song that contains the word "Doctor" can sound like the singer is saying "dog turd". In particular "Call The Doctor" by Sleater-Kinney, and a solo song by Sting, the name of which escapes me but it might be Fields of Gold, are bad for this.
GusB
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The Thompson Twins will never sound the same again!
D821
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I started using Amazon Music last year and the app often contains lyrics to songs, which has been an eye opener. There's songs I've known for over 20 years that I've had the lyrics wrong.
Radiohead - Just
Actual lyrics:
"You've changed the locks three times
He still comes reeling through the door"
The version in my head:
"You've changed the locks three times
Stuck a meal in through through the door"
Radiohead - Just
Actual lyrics:
"You've changed the locks three times
He still comes reeling through the door"
The version in my head:
"You've changed the locks three times
Stuck a meal in through through the door"
I was listening to the 30th anniversary edition of A-ha's debut album, Hunting High and Low, at the weekend on Amazon Music - reliving my youth, as I had the original album on tape when it first came out.
For many years I was convinced that the opening line to the track Living A Boy's Adventure Tale was "I've fixed my telly for the night". It's actually "I fixed my dwelling for the night". There was me thinking, for the last 30-odd years, that the song was all about a night in front of the telly!
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sister Sledge..."Just let me staple the vicar"
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nr758123
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"You've picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille,
With four hundred children and a cr*p in the field."
With four hundred children and a cr*p in the field."
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Julie Andrews uses scotch on her feline
"Raindrops on roses and whiskies on kittens"
(did you notice how I dodged the obvious double-entendre in the introduction?)
"Raindrops on roses and whiskies on kittens"
(did you notice how I dodged the obvious double-entendre in the introduction?)
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Harold Melvin "The love I lost, was a seagull" (sweet love)
Also bird related, Bowie sang that Ziggy was "Making love with his Eagle" (Ego)
Sh***y AM radio had a lot to answer for.
I genuinely heard the Beat singing about the "N***** in the Bathroom"
Also bird related, Bowie sang that Ziggy was "Making love with his Eagle" (Ego)
Sh***y AM radio had a lot to answer for.
I genuinely heard the Beat singing about the "N***** in the Bathroom"
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This is isn't a mishearing in my view because I believe it's what Alison Moyet actually sings
I go wee, I go wee, I go wee, I go wee
Weak in the presence of beauty
In other words she only pronounces the 'k' in the last line.
Just watched the video promo again and I'd swear to it.
I go wee, I go wee, I go wee, I go wee
Weak in the presence of beauty
In other words she only pronounces the 'k' in the last line.
Just watched the video promo again and I'd swear to it.
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