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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2016 at 16:40
This discussion reminds me of Gertrude Stein's reaction to James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake". She sent him the message "A rose is a rose is a rose", to which Joyce wittingly replied with "A thorn is a thorn is a thorn".


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2016 at 16:54
Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

This discussion reminds me of Gertrude Stein's reaction to James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake". She sent him the message "A rose is a rose is a rose", to which Joyce wittingly replied with "A thorn is a thorn is a thorn".


And I'm reminded of the saying sometimes attributed to Freud "Sometimes a cigar really is just a cigar" which segues into my misheard Pink Freud, erm Floyd lyrics off Have a Cigar:

I hear it as "Come in here, jitter boy, have a cigar" instead of "dear boy". As well as, I hear "And did we tell you the name of the McCain boy, we're going riding the gravy train".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2016 at 17:00
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

This discussion reminds me of Gertrude Stein's reaction to James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake". She sent him the message "A rose is a rose is a rose", to which Joyce wittingly replied with "A thorn is a thorn is a thorn".
And I'm reminded of the saying sometimes attributed to Freud "Sometimes a cigar really is just a cigar" .

I had that in mind as well.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2016 at 18:53
On Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus by The Mars Votla instead of "Will they feed us to womb?" I heard "Will they feed us to Will?"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2016 at 10:28
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

"Pulling my leg" -- another sexual euphemism.... lol

The only statement I've read of supposedly came from the one of the musicians who claimed that those that Tom posted are not the actual lyrics to the song and were just made up nonsense because the writer hated the actual lyrics but was expected to publish the lyrics for the booklet.

My explanation of the meaning in the pseudo lyrics is just me being fanciful (the carrots are a nice touch by the way).

EDIT: Here, I found a reference to it http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/136069/

Originally posted by unanything unanything wrote:

That's right...according to Peter Nordin (former Mesh bassist), Fredrik wrote the original lyrics when he was very young, and when it came time to publish the lyrics in the CC booklet, he realized how embarassing they sounded, so he threw them away and made up these crazy fake lyrics in its place. Since then, no one, not even the band members in Meshuggah, know what the real lyrics are. I can make out some words, like "We trample over (or under) marching maggots", "Insanity", "take care of your life", "everybody die", "inside", "fu**ing", "swim", and "we'll all be looking after something, destroying ourselves"...well, that's what it sounds like to me. I can't decipher the rest...but I wish I knew the whole song. You'd think Fredrik would remember them since he wrote them and sang them, but I guess the real lyrics will forever remain a mystery.
Didn't think those were the words that are being yelped in the song - can't even tell if it's Jens or Fredrik singing. I love this debut album of theirs so much. Something I can't explain.........I don't usually like thrash (bar Metallica - goes back to my rebellious teen-years) but these Swedes kick severe ass. So glad to have gotten 'acquainted' with them. Fredrik is something of a prodigy - barely out of his teens, and playing his guitar almost Holdsworthian !!
Why Jens shaved his head I do not know...........
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2016 at 10:41
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Fredrik is something of a prodigy - barely out of his teens, and playing his guitar almost Holdsworthian !!
Why Jens shaved his head I do not know...........

Well, I can answer that: "Jens and Fredrik" sounds almost like "Jean and Friede" (Friederike, my full name, is actually the German and female version of "Fredrik"). He wanted to look like Jean. Wink


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2016 at 10:52
^ That's just wonderful !! You make me smile, Friede.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2016 at 11:54
A while ago, when I was very young and didn't know many english words, we went to the beach and my dad put on The Police - Roxanne. I didn't see the title before I heard the chorus and I couldn't help but hear rocksand instead of Roxanne.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2016 at 16:56
Not really a bad mishearing, but before I realized they were singing in German I used to think Kraftwerk was singing "Fun, Fun, Fun in the Autobahn". LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2016 at 18:57
Originally posted by DDPascalDD DDPascalDD wrote:

A while ago, when I was very young and didn't know many english words, we went to the beach and my dad put on The Police - Roxanne. I didn't see the title before I heard the chorus and I couldn't help but hear rocksand instead of Roxanne.
 
A friend of mine named her daughter Roxanne because she liked the song and the way the name sounded when it was sung. I asked if she had ever listened to the lyrics.  She confessed she had not and was somewhat taken aback when I told her it was a song about a prostitute.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2016 at 21:15
Originally posted by emigre80 emigre80 wrote:

Originally posted by DDPascalDD DDPascalDD wrote:

A while ago, when I was very young and didn't know many english words, we went to the beach and my dad put on The Police - Roxanne. I didn't see the title before I heard the chorus and I couldn't help but hear rocksand instead of Roxanne.
 
A friend of mine named her daughter Roxanne because she liked the song and the way the name sounded when it was sung. I asked if she had ever listened to the lyrics.  She confessed she had not and was somewhat taken aback when I told her it was a song about a prostitute.


That's about on the same level as all the people who thought "Every Breath You Take" was a sweet love song and wanted it played at their weddings.  It's about a STALKER, for chrissakes!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2016 at 05:42
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention: Let's Make the Water Turn Black

Original:
Oh! How they yearn to see a bomber burn!

I heard:
Oh! How they yearn to see Obama burn! Shocked
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2016 at 00:48
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by zachfive zachfive wrote:

KC - One More Red Nightmare:
Actual lyrics - "Sweat began to pour down, my neck as I turn round"
Misheard - "Sweat began to pour down, my knickers as I turn round"
that is the funniest so farLOL


I always heard it this way as well and despite knowing better, I still do. Embarrassed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2016 at 00:53
Purple Haze, " 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" - a bit standard among mishearing fans and serious humourless homophobic type rock fans have hated me for mentioning that. However Jimi used those very words on a recording somewhere. Wish I could remember which one but I've so many.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2016 at 02:26
I heard I buried Paul instead of cranberry sauce. Now, am I too obsessed with Paul is dead?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2016 at 06:03
Originally posted by Pastmaster Pastmaster wrote:

Not really a bad mishearing, but before I realized they were singing in German I used to think Kraftwerk was singing "Fun, Fun, Fun in the Autobahn". LOL


I thought the same when I first heard it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2016 at 06:06
Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:


That's about on the same level as all the people who thought "Every Breath You Take" was a sweet love song and wanted it played at their weddings.  It's about a STALKER, for chrissakes!


The same applies to REM's "The One I Love" (not the stalker bit).

A lot of people posted Kate Bush's "Mother Stands for Comfort" on the Kate Bush forum on FB for Mothers Day. They also apparently don't know that it's about a serial killer!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2016 at 08:06
In The Sleepwalkers by VDGG, instead of "I only know the meaning of sight and that's all," I heard, "I only know the meaning of Satan that's all!"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2016 at 08:30
Originally posted by Pastmaster Pastmaster wrote:

Not really a bad mishearing, but before I realized they were singing in German I used to think Kraftwerk was singing "Fun, Fun, Fun in the Autobahn". LOL
It isn't? Shocked
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2016 at 03:58
Triumvirat, Broken Mirror

Original lyrics:
Came back from a party
which is to be as foretold

Misheard:
Came back from a party
You choose to be a butthole

It really sounds like that!


Edited by Skalla-Grim - March 22 2016 at 03:59
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