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JediGoat
05-10-07, 12:25 PM
I'm sat here at work, eating my lentil and bacon soup (yummy :) ) listening to David Bowie's Ashes To Ashes on the radio.
Now I quite like this song....but one thing always drives me mad - I have to sing along, and always sing the wrong lyric - even though I know it's wrong, I can't help myself from singing "We know Major Tom's a donkey" :confused:
Anyone else afflicted with Incorrect Lyric Syndrome?
Jo
RingDing
05-10-07, 12:39 PM
In 'The Sidewinder sleeps tonight' by REM I alsways sing 'Calling Cheryl Baker' instead of "Calling tyring to wake her up". It's the way Michael Stipe runs the words together, honest.
fizzwheel
05-10-07, 12:41 PM
In 'The Sidewinder sleeps tonight' by REM I alsways sing 'Calling Cheryl Baker' instead of "Calling tyring to wake her up". It's the way Michael Stipe runs the words together, honest.
:smt044
In 'The Sidewinder sleeps tonight' by REM I alsways sing 'Calling Cheryl Baker' instead of "Calling tyring to wake her up". It's the way Michael Stipe runs the words together, honest.
+1 but different words. I reckon it sounds like "calling Jamaica".
Mike2165
05-10-07, 12:44 PM
Sister Sledge - We Are Family, 'Just let me state for the record' becomes 'Just let me staple the Vicar'
In 'The Sidewinder sleeps tonight' by REM I alsways sing 'Calling Cheryl Baker' instead of "Calling tyring to wake her up". It's the way Michael Stipe runs the words together, honest.
its not us mate its old styppy cos i sing nice wimen to night swimming + i though he was saying call me john major
RingDing
05-10-07, 12:45 PM
I guess I should have added, for the benefit of younger readers, that Cheryl Baker used to be one quarter of that classic 80's group 'Buckfizz' before becoming a TV personality(!).
Apologies for all the typos in my earlier post by the way!
the_lone_wolf
05-10-07, 12:47 PM
http://www.rathergood.com/george/
In 'The Sidewinder sleeps tonight' by REM I alsways sing 'Calling Cheryl Baker' instead of "Calling tyring to wake her up". It's the way Michael Stipe runs the words together, honest.
Likewise 'Sue Lawley' by The Police.
JediGoat
05-10-07, 12:48 PM
Sister Sledge - We Are Family, 'Just let me state for the record' becomes 'Just let me staple the Vicar'
That's not just incorrect, it's mildly alarming :smt104
Biker Biggles
05-10-07, 12:59 PM
When singing Honky Tonk Women I always go "I met a gin soaked baroom queen in Memphis"When really it was me who was drunk and she wasn't that bad at all.:smt033
I used to know someone who thought the theme tune to Rocky 3 was called Ivan the Tiger...
Actually nobody knows the words (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOkrCFZ4ESQ) but some of them can't sing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmImLN3Z6-Y) either...
was he russian
the tiger i mean
RingDing
05-10-07, 01:28 PM
its not us mate its old styppy cos i sing nice wimen to night swimming + i though he was saying call me john major
Good! I can rest easy then! :D
injury_ian
05-10-07, 03:26 PM
:D you'll love this....
Tori Amos - Professional widow - (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoSH2ETS3-4)
I was covinced, convinced she was singing 'Scabby pig, scabby pig' and whispering 'hussy' between occationally.
Anyone else?
for the record its ' Its gotta be big, its gotta be big' and 'i said'
:smt044
injury_ian
05-10-07, 03:28 PM
In 'The Sidewinder sleeps tonight' by REM I alsways sing 'Calling Cheryl Baker' instead of "Calling tyring to wake her up". It's the way Michael Stipe runs the words together, honest.
I always heard this as 'Calling to baker-land' (a theme park for bakers?)
for an entire tour Lemmy was so pi$$ed off that half the fans only knew Ace of Spades that he deliberately sang the "Eight of Spades". No-one twigged.
Speaking of Motorhead, the song, "Iron Horse" has lyrics, "Iron horse, she flys"..expect Lemmy mumbles a bit so today I've been singing along to, "Iron horsey flys"
wyrdness
05-10-07, 03:50 PM
The most famous mistaken lyric is Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze - 'scuse me while I kiss this guy.
When the rain comes, sang the Beatles. I sing When Lorraine comes
To wind up Mrs Wyrdness, I change Whitesnake's 'In the Still of the Night' from I just wanna make love to you, feel your body heat to steal your botty heat.
Ceri JC
05-10-07, 03:57 PM
I don't get it wrong, but I like the way the lead singer of Credence Clearwater Revival often intentionally mis-sings the line "The bad moons on the rise" as, "The bathrooms on the right" when performing "Bad moon rising", apparently because so many people think (wrongly) that's what the lyrics are. Quite how people manage to mishear it as that, given the song's title is mad.
Alpinestarhero
05-10-07, 03:59 PM
+1 but different words. I reckon it sounds like "calling Jamaica".
It is that, isnt it?
"calling ja-may-hay-kah"
Matt
Biker Biggles
05-10-07, 04:07 PM
Yes Theeerrres a bathroom on the right.
I can hear Carl Fogarty singing that now.:rolleyes:
Sideshow#36
05-10-07, 04:10 PM
I;'m sure its not just me who does this one, but Billy Oceans, "When the going get tough."
I always sing when you go and get stuffed! Tickles me every time :-)
The most famous mistaken lyric is Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze - 'scuse me while I kiss this guy
Apparently not entirely true. It is said that he sometimes sang that like at gigs and looked over at Noell Reading.
Dan
Not one of mine, but one I've heard people sing, think it was on radio or tv with the same topic of this thread.
Maddonnas "Erotic" song:
Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put you hands all over my body....
Makes me chuckle.
Bob Dylan
"the ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind"
Sideshow#36
05-10-07, 06:31 PM
Dexy's Midnight Runners have just sprung to mind.
I just make up my own lyrics while trying to do my best Drunk-Hobo impression.
phil24_7
05-10-07, 07:33 PM
Akon - Snitch.
Always seem to sing "stepping with the mind-state of a lobster" instead of "mobster" thanks to Kate who thought it sounded like lobster so sang that untill it stuck!!
Brings a smile to my face everytime I hear the song now.
phil24_7
05-10-07, 07:45 PM
"I can see clearly now the rain (lorraine) has gone"!
JediGoat
05-10-07, 09:42 PM
When I first heard Fall Out Boy "This aint a scene, it's an arms race" I heard the line "This aint a scene, it's a God damn arms race", as "This aint a scene, it's a God damn *rse face".
I then discovered that this was a common mis-hearing......but I still loved the day when an XFM DJ said, "...and that was Fall Out Boy with 'This aint a scene, it's an *rse face'". The only sound to be heard from the studio for then next 30secs was silence and stifled laughter :smt044
Jo
Well Oiled
05-10-07, 09:56 PM
Likewise 'Sue Lawley' by The Police.
I prefer "massage in a brothel" myself (then again who wouldn't?)
Pedrosa
06-10-07, 11:21 AM
My fave...
You don't have to say you love,
Just get hold of this.
You dont have to stay forever
blah blah
wheelnut
06-10-07, 01:18 PM
Desmond Decker
My Ears are Alight
Adam & The Ants - 'Stand on my liver...':cheers:
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