Is the AnneYPetey choir fictional? and other misheard lyrics

[meowhouse]

These moved posts get me all confusobulated. Makes me think I only imagined posting, or I'm losing my mind, until I figure out it was moved.

Going transmetropolitan
In my eye!
From the dear old streets of King's Cross
to the doors of the icy hay

I always thought there was some kind of Van Gogh reference going on in there. Thank god for the Internet so we can now look these things up!

[Insert Witty Username Her]

then there's the lyrics which the lyricist wrote without realising how close to something else it does sound...like Black Uhuru's line "the whole world is Africa, its divided in continent states". now what were the odds that some immature person somewhere wouldnt just hear "incontinent states"?

[Scott]

I knew this couldn't be right, but in certain versions of SPANCIL HILL it sounded like 'The cock grew in the morning, it grew around and spilled'

[Vagabond]

To be fair, a lot of versions of Spancil Hill are sung by singers with curious brogues.
I've learned to adjust.

I'd like to add I spent around a minute figuring out how to use the word "brogue" in a sentence.

[Low D]

"where we once watched, the robots landing"

Well, i used to think he was singing "where we once watched / for robots landing", so you're not entirely alone (to be fair, i was loaded most of the time back then, and was pretty sure i had it wrong... so maybe you are alone!) That was back when i only owned IISFFG on a dubbed tape, getting a cd with lyrics book helped clear that, and a few others, up.

My favourite misheard lyric story is an Ozzy one, saw him tell it in a documentary years ago. Back around the same time he was being sued by some crazy "christian" lawyer for culpability in the suicide of some poor teenager who listened to his music, a reportor asked him "Isn't it true, in the song Paranoid, you sing 'I tell you to end your life'?"

(If you're not a Sabbath fan, what Ozzy actually sings is "I tell you to enjoy life").

[philipchevron]

(If you're not a Sabbath fan, what Ozzy actually sings is "I tell you to enjoy life").

Ah, the perils of imperfect scansion. By the way, I never sing the "Broad Majestic" backing vocal without resisting the urge to sing "robots landing".

Hey DZM, my friend, Puck been messing your posts about when you not looking?

[mats]

Ah, the perils of imperfect scansion. By the way, I never sing the "Broad Majestic" backing vocal without resisting the urge to sing "robots landing".

Reminds me of a Midnight Oil song that I can´t remember the name of right now. The sing "who´s gonna save me" in the chorus and I always wonder: they must sometimes be singing "who´s gonna shave me" when they do it live

[Guest]

Deep Purple: " Slow-Motion Walter and Fire-Engine Guy"

[Aine]

Much much more logical than most mishearings! Like all the hours i spent thinking, for some reason, that at the end of Rain Street the words "brain freeze" are sung repeatedly. Don't ask me why. I have no idea. Isnt brainfreeze what you get from eating icecream to quickly?

Yes, it is--and for some reason that cracks me up.

[Mike M]

This thread reminds me of a song that was on one of the old Sire Records annual "Just Say Yo" compilations in the early '90's. The song was called "Warning This is a Parental Advisory", and it was a duet between John Wesley Harding and someone who escapes my memory...

In any case, at one point during the song they put forth that it's always the wrong music that gets "labelled" first. They argue that Elton John should be immediately labelled with a warning for doing such songs as "Don't Let Your Son Go Down On Me" and "Someone Shaved My Wife Tonight".

To this day, I cannot hear either of the original songs without singing those lyrics.

[Sportin' Life]

(If you're not a Sabbath fan, what Ozzy actually sings is "I tell you to enjoy life").

Ah, the perils of imperfect scansion. By the way, I never sing the "Broad Majestic" backing vocal without resisting the urge to sing "robots landing".

Hey DZM, my friend, Puck been messing your posts about when you not looking?

I guess your in a little more stable position than I was. That kind of stuff got me kicked right out of choir several times in 7th grade.

[DzM]

Hey DZM, my friend, Puck been messing your posts about when you not looking?

I suspect Loki and Coyote have been Pucking my posts.

Or I thought better of the posts after reading them hours after posting. "Huh" I will find myself thinking. "That seemed a lot funnier when I was writing it."

[Broad Majestic Jimmy]

"Out here in the fields, we fight for our meals"

I recall having a long aguement with a school friend over this one. I could never convince him it was "farm for our meals".

Fighting in a field doesnt even make sense when you put your back into your living.

[Aine]

This thread reminds me of a song that was on one of the old Sire Records annual "Just Say Yo" compilations in the early '90's. The song was called "Warning This is a Parental Advisory", and it was a duet between John Wesley Harding and someone who escapes my memory...

In any case, at one point during the song they put forth that it's always the wrong music that gets "labelled" first. They argue that Elton John should be immediately labelled with a warning for doing such songs as "Don't Let Your Son Go Down On Me" and "Someone Shaved My Wife Tonight".

To this day, I cannot hear either of the original songs without singing those lyrics.

Nor will the rest of us. These misheard lyrics are adding much sunshine to days. I looked a few up online and found a good sampling:


Tape it to a biscuit.
Actual lyric: Taking care of business.
(Bachman-Turner Overdrive "Takin Care Of Business")

Big ole Jed had a light on.
Actual lyric:Big old jet airliner.
(Steve Miller Band)

Hold me closer, Tony Danza
Count the head lice on the highway.
Actual lyric: Hold me closer, tiny dancer.
(Elton John "Tiny Dancer")

All my luggage, I will send to you.
Actual lyric: All my loving, I will send to you.
(Beatles)




Are you going to starve an old friend?
Actual lyric: Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
(Simon & Garfunkel)



Baby come back, you can play Monopoly.
Actual lyric: Baby come back, you can blame it all on me.
(Player "Baby Come Back")

[Broad Majestic Jimmy]

Vince, you're a highway in the sunshine.

This one always confounded me. It was decades before I realized it was Ventura Highway. True story.