I thought I knew that lyric!
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Topic: I thought I knew that lyric!
Posted By: American Khatru
Subject: I thought I knew that lyric!
Date Posted: March 25 2010 at 06:57
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Did you ever have a similar thing happen?... With ages as a prog fan, I've known Peter Gabriel's 3rd album (the melting-face one) since it came out. However I had a cassette of this particular record, followed by mp3 downloads in the 'modern era'. Just last week I found a nice vinyl copy and picked it up. The sleeve has the words; I never had the lyrics before. And I saw something that cracked me up. In Games Without Frontiers, I always assumed that the refrain went "She's so funky yeah". I know, nonsensical of course, but not out of the realm of possibility. Plus it sounds good. As it turns out it's "Jeux sans frontières"! That's just French for "games without frontiers". -------------  Why must my spell-checker continually underline the word "prog"? |
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Posted By: Bonnek
Date Posted: March 25 2010 at 07:01
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Lol! My wife had that with the Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up". In all her girlie innocence she thought the line was "Smack My Picture"  |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 25 2010 at 07:04
There are a few threads about Misheard Lyrics in the Just for Fun section - some of them are absolutely hilarious. One that has become legendary here in our home is a line at the beginning of Opeth's "The Baying of the Hounds", which goes, "Festering jackals of the earth" - but, according to one of our members, sounded like "Pass me the tacos of the earth". Needless to say, every time we eat tacos, we think of that line .
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 25 2010 at 07:06
Hence the line 'it's a knockout' - in the 1970s/1980s there was a TV show in the UK called 'It's A Knockout' where teams from various towns would compete in ludicrous games - it became so popular the format extended to include other European countries too - the name of the show? Jeux Sans Frontieres 
And this is how ridiculous it all was
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American Khatru wrote:Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: March 25 2010 at 08:31
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For years I thought one of the lines in the Stones song Sympathy For the Devil was : I lay traps for troubadours who get killed before they reach my own bait According to the sheet music it's I lay traps for troubadours who get killed before they reach Bombay Thing is, I think my version's better  ------------- 
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 25 2010 at 11:20
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Hi,
It's much more common in rock music to catch things like that and most of them are actually done live, not always on the recording.
I imagine that some folks get tired of some lyrics and would normally make fun of them or transpose a word or two to come off as something else. I really think that it is much more useful and fun in performance than otherwise. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: American Khatru
Date Posted: March 25 2010 at 13:17
Great information, THANK YOU. I enjoyed that video (only had time for a minute, but will watch all later). Holy smokes is that ridiculous. "The Belgian dummy tried to put the GB dummy through the hole..." ------------- Why must my spell-checker continually underline the word "prog"? |
Posted By: American Khatru
Date Posted: March 25 2010 at 13:19
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Come on. Confess. I can't be the only one who thought it was "she's so funky yeah" (see original post). Can I?
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: March 25 2010 at 19:31
I thought it was "She's so frustrated".
------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: happythe
Date Posted: March 26 2010 at 06:17
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Not mine, but I'll always remember "She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah" -> "She has a hand of invisible ducksh*t." ------------- Stop me from dreaming? Okay :-( |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: March 26 2010 at 06:36
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From Porcupine Tree's Stranger By The Minute
I thought it was: Ghost in the park Appear just after dark Careless children, No-one has a heart But its actually: Ghosts in the park Appear just after dark Killers, children But no-one has a harp  ------------- 
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Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: March 26 2010 at 14:22
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Roberta Flack.
Tonight I Celebrate My Love For You.
I always thought it was:
Tonight I Sellotape My Glove To You. ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 08:03
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I got flamed for posting incorrect Residents lyrics but i couldnt work it out
I thought 'Moisture' was
Someone saw a stranger there with moisture on her lips
and it was also seen upon her a*se and on her legs
LOL
Turns out it is:
Someone saw a strange amount of moisture on her lips
and it was also seen upon her arms and on her legs
 listen to it here
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 08:05
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At the Magma concert this Saturday I thought I heard Vander shouting "moneymaking" while singing on E-Re I wouldn't be able to find that particular lyric in the Kobaian booklet though |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 11:22
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Had that many times, often with the effect that it spoiled my "consept" to actualy check the right lyrics.
But cant come up with any just now.
But i can remember 1 that was a lot better when i got the record.
Peter Gabriel Say:
Where Ego i go too.
Thought it was "where Ya' go I go too"
------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 11:56
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Reminds me of this:
------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 12:07
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I have a nice story to tell you: In Italy, in the late 70s somebody published a book of Pink Floyd songs. Unfortunately they didn't have Internet and the author tried to guess the lyrics just listening to the albums. It generated some nice stories. In Summer '68 "Ringing by phone" became "Rita Pavone" a pop singer's name of the 60s (retired few years ago at the age of 70). She was proud to have been mentioned by Roger Waters in a song. It became a legend, mainly because nobody was able to find a reason why Waters may be aware of the existence of a 150cm tall, red haired italian girl specialiased in "Shakes" and children's songs. On the same book there were other nice interpretations on Astronomy domine, Grantchester Meadows and Echoes, but I don't remember exactly which ones. Another |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 12:10
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Sorry, I clicked by mistake. Another nice thing is when Steve Hackett sings "Cleopatra's needles". In italian it sounds "Io faccio schifo" that literally means "I do suck". |
Posted By: Pilkenton
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 12:56
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My wife thought the lyrics for Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was Do the Funky Lady. A few years later, we went to a party and they were playing that song, and a gal there was singing "Do the funky lady".
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 16:09
Thanks for that! Remembeer this ? Stuart Hall is hysterical!!
 ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 18:10
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Hi,
It's a modern world and a lot of things are released in more than one language ... heck, you can get David Bowie's Heroes song on at least 4 different languages!
Weird that we are thinking that is strange ... unless we're not aware that there are other countries that speak different languages out there? ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: RoyFairbank
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 22:06
| Funny, I thought for a brief time that it was "she's so pop-u-lar!" |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: March 31 2010 at 05:35
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Posted By: classic not old
Date Posted: April 05 2010 at 17:36
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OK, maybe not so prog but.... "I want to see the Bright Lights Tonight" by Richard & Linda Thompson
I always thought the chorus went:
"Meet me at the station don't be late
I need to spend some money and it just won't wait.
Take me to the docks and hold me tight
I want to see the bright lights tonight."
Couldn't quite work out what the big deal was about the docks...
Then I thought it was maybe
"take me to the dogs"
Finally I found out it was "take me to the dance and hold me tight."
Made a lot more sense, then.
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