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Waterloo Sunset.
Chilly, not Gilly/Jilly.....
Idiot.
How is that possible? I must have listened to this thousands of times.....
Excuse me while I kiss this guy
Surely this is the greatest misheard lyrics classic?
Even knowing the actual lyrics, I cannot hear the first line of Living On A Prayer as anything other than "Chinatown, not so long ago." (It's apparently "once upon a time" - bollocks it is.)
Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" starts with him in an East Lancashire cinema. "At home at Darwen Pictures."
Abba's Super Trooper. "I was sick and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Tesco."
Bob Dylan said I should take what I could gather from Carwinsidin… but I think it was bought out by Walmart in the 80s.
reeksy
Full Member
Bob Dylan said I should take what I could gather from Carwinsidin...
Similarly, I remember walking into Piccadilly Records as a teenager and asking which Dylan album had 'Tiger Lovin Blues' on it.
Oh the shame........
But ffs, Waterloo Sunset. 'Er indoors has just roundly mocked me.
Makes sense now, it's a song about social isolation, why would he have a chick called Gilly with him?
Next level stuff
Route94 feat Jesse glynne.Something along the lines of-up above raised by a porcupine!They could be the actual lyrics as I've not checked,I doubt it though 🤔
That crap 80’s thing ‘garden or a spade’ or ‘gotta no respect’.
Madonna Like a prayer. I could have sworn she was singing about a specific point for lepers to cross the road, apparently its "let the choir sing"!
the common miss-hearing of lyrics are called mondygreens, which itself is a mondygreen and has a rather delightful etymology - phrase was coined in the mid 20th century from someone miss hearing a poem or verse with the original lines being 'laid him on the green" which they miss heard as "Lady Mondygreen". entered into the OED early 2000's i think
Billy Connolly recounting singing a hymn in his young days - "Gladly the Crosseyed Bear".
Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders
"Gonna use my style, gonna use my sausage"
sofaboy73
Free Member
the common miss-hearing of lyrics are called mondygreens, which itself is a mondygreen and has a rather delightful etymology – phrase was coined in the mid 20th century from someone miss hearing a poem or verse with the original lines being ‘laid him on the green” which they miss heard as “Lady Mondygreen”. entered into the OED early 2000’s i think
Alas poor Lady Mondegreen
Ye Hielan's an' ye Lowlan's
O, where have ye been?
They hae slain the Earl of Moray
And...
TLC - "Go Go Jason Waterfalls"
Another turnip on a fork stuck in the road… Greenday.
That song has a bunch of them for me.
So take the photographs and still frames in your mind - Yup, all good
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time - nope - Hanging on a shelf in good old fingered time
Tattoos of memories, and dead skin on trial - Nope - Tattoos on memories and dead skin is vile
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while - Yup all good.
A classic for Frank Turner fans is from 'Reasons Not to be an Idiot'
Wrapped up in her invisible llama
Being nearly deaf, I can never ever really hear the lyrics
During the early 90s there was a tune " Break of Dawn, Rhythm on the loose"
For years I always thought it sang
"I'm surprised to see that soup stain on the floor"
I even use to sing it to my then girlfriend (now wife)....she used to crack up laughing...a few months later when she realised I actually thought that's what it said...she told me
It's " I'm surprised to see that SUITCASE AT THE DOOR"....
Anyhoo I still sing my version...lol
Motorhead – Bomber
The correct lyrics are 'You bet my aim is true'
I thought for a long time that it was 'You baked my anus through' (my reasoning for thinking that those were the correct lyrics was that I assumed a bullet had gone through the fuselage of the bomber and straight through his butt).
Bit niche maybe but a song in Welsh (Llwytha'r Gwn by Candelas) has a chorus that I misheard as "Do you still see chips in the night?" mixing up cysgodion (shadows) with sglodion (chips)...
Too much spice?
‘Duvet rising’:
Shaina Twain, I don't believe that guy will kiss his car at night. And actually, if he does kiss what she says, then I am impressed.
Save the Whales, Save the Whales, Save the Whales - Enya
The Police 9nce sang about Sue Lawley but because Americans didn't know who she was, they thought the song was about salami.
At ~1:00 apparently it’s a “giant cupcake” 🤷🏻♂️
Kaiser Chiefs' "I Predict a Riot" has always in my head been "Angry Tourette's" (ang-u-ree tourette's). Listen to it, its true!
Listen to it, its true!
Nah. It's deffo just you 😜
Men at Work - Down Under
"gave me a bit of my sandwich" - I belted this out for years, until I checked the lyrics and realised it was "gave me a vegemite sandwich". I didn't know what vegemite was so that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!
Yeah definitely andry tourettes.
I am fairly sure Michael Jackson didn't actually mean to sing
"get down
to the Post Office
don't stop 'til you get it up"
But I cant imagine what he was actually intending.
Anne-Marie: “shower the horse I’m done!”
Tricky, Pumpkin, 'I smell of sheep'
Can't be right surely
And the last known survivor was expressed in the night....
Say what now?
Ill forever live under the mistaken impression that among the worlds most exclusives ski resorts - Aspen, Courchevel, St Moritz and so on that theres one called Sevi Brontiers.
And that Wham filmed the video for Last Christmas there
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year, in Sevi Brontiers
I'll give it to someone special
One of my former colleague used to say Depeche Mode was singing “Reach out and touch me.” not “Reach out and touch faith”. Probably a far from unique take on Personal Jesus.
I used to think that Breaking into Heaven by The Stone Roses tales about “Hiding in the trees with a pigmy.” rather than the correct “Hiding in the trees with a picnic”.
I was visiting some mates in Botswana at the time Sting was singing 'So Lonely', they were chuffed to bits thinking it was 'Sorowe'.
Huey Lewis and the News - Stuck with you
He sings 'its no great mystery', i always thought he said 'its O Grade History' for years.
(TBF when it was out when i was doing my O grades....)
One for the 90’s kids
guess the band…
”you are the sweetness in my eyes
you are a Womble in disguise….”
Excuse me while I kiss this guy
I sing this on purpose, purely because it annoys my sons. If I am not borderline embarrassing or slightly annoying - if I fail at this I don’t think I am doing the father role right!
I’ve had loads of these over the years.
Always wondered why it was called Oliver’s Army when the chorus went, “I was always here to stay…”
And always thought the chorus of Boys Of Summer was slightly risqué when Henley sang, “I can see you, your breasts keep shining in the sun…” 😀
Madonna, La Isla Bonita, the first verse has the line
A young girl with eyes like the desert. Except in my version it is
A young girl with eyes like POTATOES. Far superior in a Vic and Bob kind of way.
At the moment Django Django featuring Self Esteem is on heavy rotation on 6 music.
'Heavy metal ice cream' is apparently actually 'baby that's unlikely'
Beastie Boys Intergalactic.
“Another dimension” somehow sounded like “I’m having a big shit” and has never reverted for me.
Macy Gray / I Say
I try to say goodbye and I choke
Try to walk away and I stumble
Though I try to hide it, it's clear
I BLOW BUBBLES when you are not near