NationStates Jolt Archive


Funniest Lyrical Screw Up

Afghregastan
10-02-2005, 10:03
We've all done it, and hopefully weren't corrected in public.
The funniest one that I've ever encountered was this goth chicky who somehow got the words "Turn out the lights" from the NIN song Terrible Lie.
Terrible Lie is not only the name of the song, but the chorus, repeated ad infinitum. She even knew the title of the song, but insisted on singing "Turn out the lights". No one at the party corrected her.
Kanabia
10-02-2005, 10:11
There is a cruddy slipknot song (can't remember what it's called) but I was laughed at when I thought he was singing "Fuck me, i'm low on amphetamines" when it's actually "all out of enemies". *shrugs*
Neo-Anarchists
10-02-2005, 10:16
There were some great ones I've heard with "Smells Like Teen Spirit"...

Stuff like:
"With the lights out
It's less dangerous
Harry Potter
Entertains us
I feel stupid
And can't rage us
Harry Potter
Entertains us
An armada
An album, oh!
The most wheat, oh...
I can beat 0!
Yeah!"

That's probably a fusion of 2 or 3 different screwed-up versions I've heard various people sing. I've heard it messed up so much I can't keep 'em straight anymore.
Kanabia
10-02-2005, 10:25
There were some great ones I've heard with "Smells Like Teen Spirit"...

Stuff like:
"With the lights out
It's less dangerous
Harry Potter
Entertains us
I feel stupid
And can't rage us
Harry Potter
Entertains us
An armada
An album, oh!
The most wheat, oh...
I can beat 0!
Yeah!"

That's probably a fusion of 2 or 3 different screwed-up versions I've heard various people sing. I've heard it messed up so much I can't keep 'em straight anymore.

Hahaha!!!
Armed Bookworms
10-02-2005, 10:32
My biggest was always dirty deeds done dirt cheap. For some reason I thought it was dirty deeds dunder cheif. I'm not quite sure why.
Neo-Anarchists
10-02-2005, 10:39
My biggest was always dirty deeds done dirt cheap. For some reason I thought it was dirty deeds dunder cheif. I'm not quite sure why.
That reminds me of somebody that I heard singing along to "Stiff Upper Lip", except they were saying "Stick up her lip".
Harlesburg
10-02-2005, 11:56
My biggest was always dirty deeds done dirt cheap. For some reason I thought it was dirty deeds dunder cheif. I'm not quite sure why.
Get out of my head thats exactly what i thought :(

Someone i knew thought the beutiful people-Marilyn Manson was
the beat of the meatball??????????????????????????????? :confused:
Armed Bookworms
10-02-2005, 12:32
Get out of my head thats exactly what i thought :(

Someone i knew thought the beutiful people-Marilyn Manson was
the beat of the meatball??????????????????????????????? :confused:
Can't say that I did. The only other song I've screwed up is One Week by BNL. There were about three points I had completely screwed up.
Adrian Barbeau-Bot
10-02-2005, 12:49
i always thought the different interpretations of that blue song a few years ago was pretty good. "im blue (nobody knows anything after this)

and im sure that both nirvana, bush and pearl jam have a ton of honorable mentions... actually, i nominate pearl jams yellow ledbetter... took professionals to figure out what the hell vedder was saying.
The State of It
10-02-2005, 13:04
I have heard people sing 'Rock The Casbah' by The Clash as follows, believing these were the lyrics:

Charlene don't like it!

Fuck The Gasboard!
Fuck The Gasboard!

Charlene don't like it!

Fuck The Gasboard!
Fuck The Gasboard!
Disciplined Peoples
10-02-2005, 13:07
Jimmi Hendrix - 'scuse me while I kiss this guy...
Keruvalia
10-02-2005, 13:16
The Supremes - Stop in the neighborhood ...

Pink Floyd - Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a negro in a cage.
Sblargh
10-02-2005, 13:16
Jimmi Hendrix - 'scuse me while I kiss this guy...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Tiagra
10-02-2005, 13:38
That blue song is so horrid that it actually is not speaking words: "I'm blue/La Ba Dee/La Ba Di" are the official lyrics. But I prefer the unofficial "I'm blue/If I was green/I would die"
Pepe Dominguez
10-02-2005, 14:23
That blue song is so horrid that it actually is not speaking words: "I'm blue/La Ba Dee/La Ba Di" are the official lyrics. But I prefer the unofficial "I'm blue/If I was green/I would die"

Damn. And all this time, I thought they were singing "I'm Broo."
Crighton
10-02-2005, 14:42
In "The Sound of Silence" I used to think they sang "Silence like a casserole"
whereas they actually sing "Silence like a cancer grows".*shrug*
PurpleMouse
10-02-2005, 14:43
I bought that once :(
Redball
10-02-2005, 15:15
Can't remember the exact words, it was one of those songs you forget immediately after singing. Anyway, the song was Starman by David Bowie; and somehow I heard the word pizza, and sung something to this effect;
"There's a strange man, waving from the sky
He'd like to bring us pizza, and I'm not quite sure why..."
Toujours-Rouge
10-02-2005, 15:27
Pink Floyd - Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a negro in a cage.

I thought exactly the same! Altho it was the Wyclef version that i heard first.
Demented Hamsters
10-02-2005, 15:36
Jimmi Hendrix - 'scuse me while I kiss this guy...
check out:
http://www.kissthisguy.com/

for all sorts of mis-heard/mis-understood lyrics
Some classic ones from 'Hairway to Steven":
Real lyrics:
And as we wind on down the road,
Our shadows taller than our souls

Misheard lyrics:
And as we wind on down the road,
We should have stolen Oreos


Real lyrics:
And as we wind on down the road

Misheard lyrics:
There's a wino down the road
Kinda Sensible people
10-02-2005, 15:43
amiright.com

This is a wonderful misheard lyrics site. I found it when I was out looking for "If I had a rocket launcher"

Lyrics
If I had a rocket launcher
Heard as:
If I had a rocking lawn-chair
Harlesburg
10-02-2005, 18:30
Jimmi Hendrix - 'scuse me while I kiss this guy...
Heard that TE HE HE
Quinntonian Dra-pol
10-02-2005, 21:19
Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap, was heard as, "Dirty Deeds, Done to Sheep."

Scottish national anthem?
WWJD
Amen.
Alien Born
10-02-2005, 21:26
Hawkwind's classic

I've got a sewing machine.
Harlesburg
11-02-2005, 05:37
Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap, was heard as, "Dirty Deeds, Done to Sheep."

Scottish national anthem?
WWJD
Amen.
Ive heard that.

Im not a big fan of Nirvana(Prepers to be flammed or put on a Holy pedestial)

Smells like Teen Spirit

"An Albino
A Mellato
playing Bingo
Jalepeno Yeah"?
Neo-Anarchists
11-02-2005, 05:46
I thought that I had misheard most of Guided By Voices' song "Everywhere With Helicopter", but it turned out there odd stuff I heard were the real lyrics.

Eyeline the driveway
Eye black the door
Sky all around me
Levels life from roof to floor

Trees and knees are lovely
Seek it, find the core
I have grown to life
Like all in silence
Wait for more

Everywhere with helicopter
Hard to follow/swallow
When I'm slow
Everywhere with helicopter
Sending off where lightning goes
(censor of the lightning ghosts)

I will try to fight them
I will let them nowhere to go
Try escape the pace
I'll say "God bless you"
Let me know

We know the answers
We fill us in
I do not diminish
Start to finish
Front to end

Everywhere with helicopter...
Gaeltach
11-02-2005, 05:51
I have no idea how or why this happened, but I used to think it was "Sweet Home California" instead of Alabama. :rolleyes:
Zincite
11-02-2005, 05:57
I know I've misheard stuff a bunch but I can't remember anything specific right now...

...but, I STILL don't know what Britney is saying in Bombastic Love, one of the few songs of hers I will tolerate. It's something like this:

And I don't know why I feel so insecure
I never understood what it's good for
I gotta make sure that ____ness won't stop me again
I can't sit and wait anymore

What the hell is that blank? Various websites have told me darkness, quickness, and a bunch of others that I can't remember but none agree with each other, and quite frankly I'm hearing "boldness" but that wouldn't make sense.
Harlesburg
11-02-2005, 06:01
I know I've misheard stuff a bunch but I can't remember anything specific right now...

...but, I STILL don't know what Britney is saying in Bombastic Love, one of the few songs of hers I will tolerate. It's something like this:

And I don't know why I feel so insecure
I never understood what it's good for
I gotta make sure that ____ness won't stop me again
I can't sit and wait anymore

What the hell is that blank? Various websites have told me darkness, quickness, and a bunch of others that I can't remember but none agree with each other, and quite frankly I'm hearing "boldness" but that wouldn't make sense.
Britney is Der Evil
Sumamba Buwhan
11-02-2005, 06:25
something about dirty deeds dunder cheif

^ i quoted teh wrong person like a dumbass so had to paraphrase that quote
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

funny - i was actually close to yours on this "dirty deeds... dun dun cheif"

theres the obvious "excuse me, while I kiss this guy"

I heard a comedian sing "Big 'ol jet had a lite on" (Big 'ol Jet Airliner, dont carry me too far away)

And for my usual online handle I misinterpreted the song "Sex" by Berlin to say "I'm a blue moon beast", where really it's a blue movie apparently.