---> Elliott Kim (milk...@wam.umd.edu) wrote... <---- : Have you ever listened to a song and heard the lyrics in a song as : different words? Take for example, Led Zeppelin's 'Immigrant Song.'
: On we sweep : Thrashing oar : Our only goal is the Western shore
: the first few times I heard that I thought it sounded more like:
: On we sweep : Thrashing oar : I wanna go to a restaurant show
: If you're imaginative (or drunk) enough, you may hear it for yourself too.
: Then there's the famous Jimi Hendrix's "Foxey Lady" one:
: To some people "'scuse me while I kiss the sky" is sometimes heard as : " 'scuse me while I kiss this guy"
: The one that made me think of the whole affair was Megadeth's "Rust In : Peace - Polaris"
: Dave Mustaine sings the lyric: High Priest of the Holocaust : It sometimes sounds like : Higher than a Hydrox [cookie] :
: I know this happens to other people too and I'm not just loaded up on : mind altering substances. People have pointed some of these out to me.
: --
: Elliott Kim milk...@wam.umd.edu : University of Maryland @eng.umd.edu : College Park
A poll was done in Goldmine a few years back and the the song that the most people could not understand was a line in the chorus of Elton John's "Rocket Man" (Rocket man, burning out his dreams up there alone..) It was quite amusing to read all the different versions. Some were hilarious. --
This is a minor one, but for quite a while I thought the line in Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" was "My whole existence is fraud," rather than "My whole existence is flawed."
'Nother words, I thought Trent had gotten it right for once.
In <36npcq$...@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> milk...@wam.umd.edu (Elliott Kim) writes: Hi,
>Have you ever listened to a song and heard the lyrics in a song as >different words? Take for example, Led Zeppelin's 'Immigrant Song.' > On we sweep > Thrashing oar > Our only goal is the Western shore
There's a spoken line in ,,Woolly Bully'' (rather at the beginning) which sounds (for me and some people I know, that is ;-)) like the german sentence (in hessian dialect) ,,Walter, mach die Dier (Tuer) zu" (Phonetic: ualdr maX dee deer tsoo)
(Walter, close the door...) I could never identify the right wording. Does someone know?
>Elliott Kim milk...@wam.umd.edu >University of Maryland @eng.umd.edu >College Park
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IP>: Then there's the famous Jimi Hendrix's "Foxey Lady" one:
IP>: To some people "'scuse me while I kiss the sky" is sometimes heard as IP>: " 'scuse me while I kiss this guy"
IP>Actually, that phrase is from "Purple Haze"
The best is the oldie song that goes "Hang on Snoopy (?), Snoopy hang on". I used to sing: "Hang on Stupid, Stupid hang on!". I was only 5 or 6 yrs old, so I had no clue as to what they really were saying. :) --John ð Internet: gly...@bitbytes.clark.net --- þ TLX v3.30 þ Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
In article <36tvm3$...@nanette.pdb.sni.de> Hein_t_z Mueller <hmueller....@sni.de> writes: >>Have you ever listened to a song and heard the lyrics in a song as >>different words?
Yes, but I've already posted the dirty words to "Louie Louie" on the three other newsfroups where this topic has arisen in the past couple weeks...
>There's a spoken line in ,,Woolly Bully'' (rather at the beginning) which >sounds (for me and some people I know, that is ;-)) >like the german sentence (in hessian dialect) >,,Walter, mach die Dier (Tuer) zu" (Phonetic: > ualdr maX dee deer tsoo)
The lyrics are
(spoken intro:) Uno, dos... one, two, tres, quatro
Wooly bully... watch it watch it... Here he comes, here he comes ["hand job, hand job" as we misheard it back in high school] He'll get 'cha
Mattie told Hattie / about the thing she saw Had two big horns / and a wooly jaw Wooly bully, wooly bully [that's right] Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully
Hattie told Mattie / let's not take no chance Let's not be L7 [square] / come and learn to dance
Mattie told Hattie / it's the thing to do Get you someone really / to pull the wool with you
AWR old fart at play, who once got kicked out of an early music store for playing the sax solo from "Wooly Bully" on a contrabass recorder
For a long time, I thought that the Ramones' "I want to be sedated" was "I want apiece of it"
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merrill d tritt (mtrit...@solix.fiu.edu) wrote: : A poll was done in Goldmine a few years back and the the song that the : most people could not understand was a line in the chorus of Elton : John's "Rocket Man" (Rocket man, burning out his dreams up there alone..) : It was quite amusing to read all the different versions. Some were : hilarious.
Hmm. I thought the lyric sheets I had put it at "burning out his fuse up here alone." Just goes to show that sometimes the guy singing the song can hear different lyrics, too, sometimes. And then there's Michael Stipe, who, rumour has, doesn't know what he's singing to begin with...
Matt Brockman <mbroc...@bank.ecn.purdue.edu> wrote: >For a long time, I thought that the Ramones' >"I want to be sedated" was "I want apiece of it"
Yeah... I thought it was "I want a piece of Eden" for awhile.
On a related note, my roommate thought that on STP's "Vaseline" they said "summer in the gasoline", instead of "somewhere in the Vaseline". I thought that was pretty funny...
-- Michael Friedman - gtd5...@prism.gatech.edu OR hriv...@havoc.gtf.gatech.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- "Does emotional music have quite an effect on you?" - FNM, "Land of Sunshine" "AAAAAAAAH! 'What's the Frequency, Kenneth' is on 99X *again*!" - me "He's a goddamn one man slaughterhouse..." - some guy in "Bladerunner" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- GO CAPS GO BLUES GO BRAVES GO EXPOS GO SKINS GO FALCONS GO BULLETS GO HORNETS
I had a rough time understanding "Smells Like Teen Spirit". The last line of the chorus goes: "A mullato, an albino, a mosquito, a libido" but I thought it was: "There's a ladder in the backyard that can take us up to Venus"
At the end of the song, he repeatedly yells "A denial", I thought he was saying "Put an eye out". Ah, well.
Brian T.Gray <b...@aurora.jhuapl.edu> wrote: >I had a rough time understanding "Smells Like Teen Spirit". The last line of >the chorus goes: >"A mullato, an albino, a mosquito, a libido"
Actually, I think it is "my libido", which I lost 5 bucks on it a bet becuase I swore he said "jalepeno"... :)
-- Michael Friedman - gtd5...@prism.gatech.edu OR hriv...@havoc.gtf.gatech.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- "Does emotional music have quite an effect on you?" - FNM, "Land of Sunshine" "AAAAAAAAH! 'What's the Frequency, Kenneth' is on 99X *again*!" - me "He's a goddamn one man slaughterhouse..." - some guy in "Bladerunner" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- GO CAPS GO BLUES GO BRAVES GO EXPOS GO SKINS GO FALCONS GO BULLETS GO HORNETS
Hmm... I've seen it in song books as "burning out his fuel up here alone."
-- Chris
In article <Cx8x7G....@ssi.edc.org>, gunt...@ssi.edc.org (Gunther Anderson) writes:
|> merrill d tritt (mtrit...@solix.fiu.edu) wrote: |> : A poll was done in Goldmine a few years back and the the song that the |> : most people could not understand was a line in the chorus of Elton |> : John's "Rocket Man" (Rocket man, burning out his dreams up there alone..) |> : It was quite amusing to read all the different versions. Some were |> : hilarious. |> |> Hmm. I thought the lyric sheets I had put it at "burning out his fuse up |> here alone." Just goes to show that sometimes the guy singing the song |> can hear different lyrics, too, sometimes. And then there's Michael |> Stipe, who, rumour has, doesn't know what he's singing to begin with... |> |> Gunther Anderson --
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My sister used to think the song "Our lips are sealed" by the Go-Go's was called"Alex The Seal", she also thought "Better the devil you know" by Kylie Minogue was "Better than Danni Minogue".She also used to sing "you spin me round like a ragged baby" instead of "like a record baby" by Dead Or Alive :) Just a few of the blunders my sisters made thru her life...but hey!! gotta love her for em :) Tricky.
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How about this one? When I first heard Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", I was positive that the phrase Kurt Cobain kept bellowing at the end was "dirty nylons", not "a denial". Likely story... :-) --Eliz
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In article <1994Oct4.180140....@ab.wvnet.edu>, rebel without a clue <delco...@ab.wvnet.edu> wrote:
>This is a minor one, but for quite a while I thought the line in Nine Inch >Nails' "Closer" was "My whole existence is fraud," rather than "My whole >existence is flawed."
Another minor NIN one - for years I was convinced "Terrible Lie" was "Tell a Lie"...
>'Nother words, I thought Trent had gotten it right for once.
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EAI>How about this one? When I first heard Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen EAI>Spirit", I was positive that the phrase Kurt Cobain kept bellowing at the EAI>end was "dirty nylons", not "a denial". Likely story... :-)
I recorded the video when Mtv ran it with the words! That was the first time I had any clue what they were saying. Well actually, you could vaguely recognize some of the lyrics from the *wavy* notes in the liner. So I knew a line or two before the video came out with the words. :) --John ð Internet: gly...@bitbytes.clark.net --- þ TLX v3.30 þ I like it. I'm not gonna crack!--Nirvana
---> Gunther Anderson (gunt...@ssi.edc.org) wrote... <---- : merrill d tritt (mtrit...@solix.fiu.edu) wrote: : : A poll was done in Goldmine a few years back and the the song that the : : most people could not understand was a line in the chorus of Elton : : John's "Rocket Man" (Rocket man, burning out his dreams up there alone..) : : It was quite amusing to read all the different versions. Some were : : hilarious.
: Hmm. I thought the lyric sheets I had put it at "burning out his fuse up : here alone." Just goes to show that sometimes the guy singing the song : can hear different lyrics, too, sometimes. And then there's Michael : Stipe, who, rumour has, doesn't know what he's singing to begin with...
: Gunther Anderson
It possibly could be "fuse" and not "dreams." I dont care for Elton John myself so I dont really listen to his stuff. I was quoting from memory and my memory is wrong from time to time :)
