Musical Chinese Whispers

[ukdane]

Mrs Dane used to think that the Bee Gees were singing an advert for "Stena Line" instead of "Staying Alive".

I've just found out that the Kaiser Cheifs were singing "I predict a riot". And I thought the lyric was much better, when I thought they were singing "I've got Tourettes".

Anyone else been confused by a songs lyrics?

[Woolly]

The last track on the new Prodigy album, the one with Liam Gallagher on it. Sounds like he's saying 'salty cum'.


Sorry, thread dragged thru gutter on first reply...

[Tex Hex]

Tori Amos. "Im going to bring you toast tonight"

-hex

[Tanky]

Prodigy - 'take your brain to another dimension - they closed the kitchen'

And, from Max Romeo's original - 'I'm gonna put on an ironed shirt'

[Queen Firey-Bou]

well there was always the police singing about sue lawley, and bollocks i can't remember the others, the juveys come out with crackers we were all debating the korn/Nin " numchuckanum" versus "bumbadyroo" etc yesterday

[Mike Carroll]

When I was a kid I always wondered why the local sweetie shop sold KP Rancheros, but not the more exotic-sounding "Macheeros" as mentioned in The Stranglers' song "Golden Brown".

It was a very long time before I discovered that the actual lyrics are:

"Golden brown, texture like sun
Lays me down, with my mind she runs"

-- Mike, who's still looking for shoes that are made of plywood (as mentioned in the song "You're the One that I Want" from Grease)

[House of Usher]

Yeah, I thought The Stranglers were singing about some hitherto unencountered variety of spicy corn snack too. I imagined they might taste like chutney flavour Outer Spacers, I don't know why.

They don't make Outer Spacers any more, do they? I think nowadays you can get something called Space Raiders, but it's just not the same.

[Trough]

>>I've just found out that the Kaiser Cheifs were singing "I predict a riot". And I thought the lyric was much better, when I thought they were singing "I've got Tourettes".

You thought that too!   Thank God.   I thought I was the only one.

I mishear things regularly, but my all-time favourite has to be:

"All the boys/
Think she's a spaz/
She's got/
Bette Davis eyes"

[Funt Solo]

Ah - so "Macheeros" is wrong.

Thanks.

[House of Usher]

And so, apparently, is "Moncheerons".

Mmmm, Moncheerons. So munchy....

[Eric Plumrose]

Trent Reznor seems to have a fixation with "Dale Winton's old sweat" in 'Sin'.

Just about every Goth track I've listened to is indecipherable irrespective of whether or not you know what the lyrics truly are.

Of course, special mention should go to Carl McCoy's lyrics for 'Moonchild':

Well, it's a righteous dream of hiding my chair
Tickling arses
Let 'em drown
Put 'em in the cages
Open your thighs
This bike must dream
Lung gelatine
Well, that's righteous farting

Well, it's a righteous day for ironing my hair

I am waiting, I am waiting
I am wiping my arse on a mountain pass
Waiting to do defile the worm

Moonchild

Lung gelatine, lung gelatine
I've no time for a burning bra

[DavidXBrunt]

Sidewinder sleeps tonight. I always knew it wasn't but I heard it first at a Who con at 2 A.M. in the morning and there was a brief second when I thought Micheal Stipes was talking to me through the radio asking 'Can't we wake Tom Baker up?'

Oh god I wish I could resist posting this.

[scutfink]

Some are Thyme,
and they live in Assisi
Fissure jumping
and they're caught on a sigh...

or,

Easy (Like Sunday Morning)

(The Faith No More version)

I know it sounds funny but I just can't stand the paint,
So I'm leaving you to my brother...
Seems to me your just a Watering Can,
You went and stole my Wheelbarrow (Oh)...

[Thursday]

A little mishearing is all it takes to change the rousing, defiantly rebellious chorus of Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name Of from 'fuck you I won't do what you tell me'
to 'fuck me, I could do with a toastie'.

The song then becomes Grilling In The Name Of, obviously.

[Trough]

Talking of Doctor Who, for years I thought that in This Charming Man, Morrissey's singing, "He knows so much about E-Space".