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    Posted: October 07 2017 at 14:57
Most likely posted before, but this one is just so good..
 
 
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I think my personal favourite relates to the Kate Bush song 'Running Up That Hill'. For many years I thought the refrain was "Running up that hill / With no clothing on". There may have been an element of wish-fulfilment involved, given that seeing Kate on one of her earlier Top of the Pops appearances when I would have been about eleven was what I'm going to call a memorable step in my personal development.
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 07 2017 at 14:14
Originally posted by ProfPanglos ProfPanglos wrote:

Steely Dan - The Boston Rag.

The lyric goes: "Lonnie swept the playroom, and he swallowed up all he found... it was 48 hours 'til Lonnie came around."

I swear I always thought this song was about a dog (a Golden Retriever, in my mind) named Lonnie.

I heard: "Lonnie swept the playroom, and he swallowed a ball he found..."

I actually thought this was the lyric for darn-near 40 years (I had this tape when I was a kid), I didn't get clued-in to the actual lyric until about a week ago.  I will forever see in my minds eye, a golden retriever unconscious for 48 hours because of that swallowed ball, and then miraculously "came around."

Nice story, and about one of my favourite songs

Lonnie was probably hallucinating so hard that he thought he was a golden retriever at some point.

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Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

From Kate Bush's "Sat in Your Lap":  "Just when I think I'm clean,/ I masturbate!/I've been doin' it for years."
It must be said that Bush always sounded like some poor animal that had gotten itself stuck in the tar pits (forget about the misheard lyrics)..
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Rush - The Body Electric

"Replays each of the days
A hundred years of poutines"

I mean, every Canadian loves poutine, right?
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Points: 10266 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 07 2017 at 07:11
Not really misheard, but something I used to joke about in my youth: In "The Fountain of Salmacis" by Genesis the line "and as his heated breath brushed through the cool mist" was always sung by me as "and as his heated breath brushed through the Kuhmist". "Kuhmist" is German for "cow dung" and pronounced like "cool mist" without the "l".


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I thought the female vocals in Games Without Frontiers were singing "She's so f**king old".
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Steely Dan - The Boston Rag.

The lyric goes: "Lonnie swept the playroom, and he swallowed up all he found... it was 48 hours 'til Lonnie came around."

I swear I always thought this song was about a dog (a Golden Retriever, in my mind) named Lonnie.

I heard: "Lonnie swept the playroom, and he swallowed a ball he found..."

I actually thought this was the lyric for darn-near 40 years (I had this tape when I was a kid), I didn't get clued-in to the actual lyric until about a week ago.  I will forever see in my minds eye, a golden retriever unconscious for 48 hours because of that swallowed ball, and then miraculously "came around."
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Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:


What the actual f**k did I just watch? And to think I like that album... *drops head into hands*

This is why I prefer my musicians to just be a sound emanating from my headphones. Anything more and they just embarass themselves and me.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by TheGazzardian TheGazzardian wrote:

In Games Without Frontiers, I thought the female voice was saying, "She's so Funk-u-ler" instead of "jeux sans Fron-ti-ers"


I just listened to this on youtube earlier today. I always thought it was "she's so popular." Smile


At last, at last! Someone who misheard it the way I misheard it.

Conducted a thorough search. During which it was revealed to be Kate Bush singing ( remedial French made me laugh ).
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My little brother used to love the Deep Purple song "Slow Cousin Walter" back in 1972.
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Points: 4812 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 01 2017 at 13:49
Maybe not the worst but in E.J.'s Benny and the Jets

Actual:
Oh Bennie she's really keen
She's got electric boots a mohair suit

Heard:
Oh Bennie she's a rally cane
She's got electric boobs a mortar suit

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Points: 5684 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 01 2017 at 09:34
My terribly misheard lyrics from Nine Feet Underground:
"Think of the mow that you're lawning"
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I thought it was some random word play, but really it wasn't.

Edited by Hrychu - September 01 2017 at 09:37
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From Kate Bush's "Sat in Your Lap":  "Just when I think I'm clean,/ I masturbate!/I've been doin' it for years."
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Points: 18928 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2017 at 22:38
I thought it was "cards are broken locked inside the mother earth" when it's really "cords are broken locked inside the mother earth." Speaking of "those guys" I also thought it went "tell the moon to tell the marcher" when it's really "tell the moondog tell the march hare."
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Points: 12810 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2017 at 20:32
Yeah, that's the song, though it sounds different in that movie... with more modern sensibilities... yet, this version sounds much better for me, and still if you are distracted, or want to listen to it wrong, the misheard lyric could stand.
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Points: 356 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2017 at 21:33
Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

A pop song from the animated movie "Sing". Well, there's a song called "Venus". Well, there's a part were whe sings "I'm your Venus", but well, first time I heard in in the soundtrack I sort of heard "I'm your penus"... of course I knew I heard wrong, though.

I wonder if it's Shocking Blue's hit Venus? The funny thing is that the song was a huge hit in the USSR, but as the majority of the listeners did not speak English, the song became known as Shizgada, a corruption of the line "She's got it" in the refrain.
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