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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2015 at 09:30
VDGG - Killer

Original: Fishes gone by, fishes gone by, fishes gone by

Misheard: B****s gone by, b****s gone by, b****s gone by
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2015 at 09:51
Not prog, but I always heard Richard Thompson's "Let me take my chances on the wall of death" as "Let me take you dancing on the waterbed."
 
Which would be a lot more fun, but not really RT's style.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2015 at 21:51
I'd like to add in Radiohead's "No Surprises".
Actual: Siiiiiiilllllllleeeeennnnnntttttt
Misheard: Saaaaaallllllllaaaaddddd
There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2015 at 23:12

Free – All Right Now:

 

Lyric: Let's move before they raise the parking rate.

 

Misheard: Let's move before they raise the f***ing rent.

Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously.

Silly human race! Yes is for everybody!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2015 at 23:50
Originally posted by garfunkel garfunkel wrote:

Something just as annoying/funny as misheard lyrics is incorrect or misspelled lyrics in a cd booklet.
One that I always think of is misspelling fox as focks in the 2008 Genesis Foxtrot release.  The misspelling may be made as a little joke but whenever I listen to the cd I remind myself of it and for whatever reason, I cringe.  Does anyone else feel this way?
It was spelled focks in the original LP lyrics, so it must have been a private joke of sorts.

Originally posted by terakonin terakonin wrote:

Not prog, but in Midnight Oil's song Blue Sky Mine, I SWEAR Peter Garret sings "who's gonna shave me" instead of "who's gonna save me." You can't hear it any other way. To make it worse, he's bald.
That’s how I’ve always heard it.  It does sound like he makes a point of saying shave.

 

 

 



Edited by AreYouHuman - July 01 2015 at 23:52
Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 02 2015 at 00:11
This is the best and the nastiest one:

"Son, cumshot my way!" - Dream Theater, Bridges in the Sky

originally it was
Sun come shine my way
Let's healing waters bury all my pain




Edited by awaken77 - July 02 2015 at 00:17
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2015 at 10:56
Thought "There's no whitewash victim, As the neons dim, to the coat of white," from Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway was "The snow whitewash slicked him, As the neons dim to the code of white."
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2015 at 19:10
cha cha cha, cha cha cha.  Oh wait I head that correctly. Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2015 at 09:31
Roxy Music: Bitters End

Original: At last the crimson chord cascade

Misheard: At last the Crimson Court Cascade

Thought they were big fans of King Crimson!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2015 at 10:28
Yes: Close to the Edge

Original: Passing paths that climb halfway into the void

Misheard: Passing planets and wave to the boy
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2015 at 11:06
From ELP's "Bitches Crystal"

Lyric: 'Heretic Priestess dwells on the weakness she sees'
Heard: 'Head of a priestess dwells on the witness she sees'
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2015 at 11:33
The actual line from Genesis' Counting Out Time:

"I'm a red blooded male and the book said I could not fail."

Misheard:

"I'm a Robert E. Lee and the book said I could not fail."

No sh#t, that's what I thought was being sung.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2015 at 12:07
Having only heard it on radio for years after it came out, and never hearing the song title, my brain somehow translated to make sense to my ears the words "Eminence Front" as "Livin' in a rut". Which, after finding out the real words and learning the meaning of the song, wasn't terribly off base. LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2015 at 12:23
I always heard "Eminence strut", oddly enough.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 08 2015 at 19:30
Originally posted by awaken77 awaken77 wrote:

This is the best and the nastiest one:

"Son, cumshot my way!" - Dream Theater, Bridges in the Sky

originally it was
Sun come shine my way
Let's healing waters bury all my pain




That is the best one, alrighty! Good job.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2015 at 19:02
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric 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"

.......we piss on baboons in the jungle...........

There is a pre-chorus where he does sing, "piss on the goons in the jungle," instead of, "kissing baboons."

Originally posted by AreYouHuman AreYouHuman wrote:

Cream – Badge.
Actual: And I told you ’bout our kid, now he’s married to Mabel.
Misheard: And I told you ’bout our kid with the rotten tomato.

My mother heard it as, "No, he's not a tomato!"

One Prog one that came to mind is in Yes' "I've Seen All Good People," in the "Your Move" section: "Send an instant comet to me..." Never made much sense...

Edited by JediJoker7169 - July 09 2015 at 19:03
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2015 at 21:57
Well Yes lyrics tend to not make much sense a lot of the time, so that to me fits nicely.

Maybe not misheard but a buddy of mine would always make parody of lyrics, and for the Rush song The Weapon, he would sing the chorus as, "He's a little bit afraid of dyin', but he's a lot more afraid of your pet lion." We also had a running joke debate if The Enemy Within lyrics were, "experience two extremes," or "experience to extremes."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2015 at 22:07
White Mountain by Genesis

"Send home to web like a trap in a cage
The fox lay asleep in his lair
??? frantic ??? told the tale of his sin
Hot on his trail seeks revenge?"

I really couldn't understand Peter and it took me awhile to figure out what this song was about as Fang was always misheard :)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2015 at 13:33
Rush - Distant Early Warning

Original: Absalom Absalom Absalom

Misheard: Not to learn, Not to learn, Not to learn
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 17 2015 at 14:08
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Polo Polo wrote:



LOL


My little boy is now singing over and over "Soon eh Gandalf? very soon... does the rubbish knock him down?" ShockedLOLLOLLOLShocked

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