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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2010 at 13:43
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My friends brother thought it was...

"She keeps a mowing a shundle...."
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Originally posted by Wiktor Hatif Wiktor Hatif wrote:

Originally posted by kole kole wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Toto -Africa ''There's nothing that a million men or more could ever do'' I always heard as 'there's nothing that a million men on Mars could ever do''
I like my version!


Hahahaha, I (mis)heard the same thing!


and when they sing "hurry boy it's waiting there for you" I always heard "three boys is waiting there for you" - I know it's gramatically incorrect and that was always bothering me when I was a kid LOL


Isn't it a hundred men rather than a million? LOL
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From an old (old) Horslips song called Motorway Madness, I always liked to hear the chilling line:
"...you'd never guess my name is Death."
as: "...you'd never guess my name is Jeff."
(puts a whole new spin on the meaning, wouldn't you say?)
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Points: 290 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2010 at 23:17

the first time I listened to Raconteur, Troubadour I was like WTF because of what I misheard in this part:

I will make you laugh, Revel, Merry-dance. Throw your pennies, then you'll hear more of the story-telling half.
 
I misheard:
 
I will make you love, for a merry time, through your penis, then you'll hear more of the story-telling art.

 
But now my branches suffer
And my leaves don't bear the glow
They did so long ago
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Points: 1327 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2010 at 20:28
good topic, good topic

I don't remember which songs I misheard, i'll come back when i do.Smile
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Travelling back from the cinema this evening I was playing Mark Wirtz "Teenage Opera" on the car stereo, on the third track my wife looked at the track title on the display and said; "Oh, I always thought they sang Grow Sir Jack..."
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Not particularly funny but on ELP's 'KE9 3rd impression' I always heard ''Guardians of a new clear dawn'' as ''Guardians of a nuclear zone''.
 
Isn't it "Guardians of a Nuclear dawn" ?
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Originally posted by ten years after ten years after wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Not particularly funny but on ELP's 'KE9 3rd impression' I always heard ''Guardians of a new clear dawn'' as ''Guardians of a nuclear zone''.
 
Isn't it "Guardians of a Nuclear dawn" ?

in the third impression i always misheard "No man yields who flies in my ship"
as

"NO MAN YIELDS HIS FLIES IN MY SHED" 
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Agents Of Mercy - The Fading Ghosts Of Twilight

i heard: "the world is bigger than an autobus" LOL
actually: "the world is bigger than both of us"
I Could have bought a Third World country with the riches that I've spent
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ELP Karn Evil 9 Third Impression
"No man yields who flys on my ship"
"No man yields his flies in my shed"
Prog Rock: Founded on a fundamental misunderstanding of the word virtuoso.
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Not a prog band but Pearl Jam are the kings of this due to Eddie Vedder's singing style. There are numerous Youtube videos illustrating Vedder's inability to enunciate.
 
 
"I don't know why they suntan nails" gets me everytime, as does the "I don't know the words" conclusion. Almost ruins the real song because now I always think of this.
 
 
 
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In Dream Theater's Prophets of War, i swear he says "debate this fa**ot's just cause" or something like that when he really says 
"Debate this fight it's just cause"
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Originally posted by andyman1125 andyman1125 wrote:

In Dream Theater's Prophets of War, i swear he says "debate this fa**ot's just cause" or something like that when he really says 
"Debate this fight it's just cause"

Ahh yes, same. LOL
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Dream Theater "In The Name Of God"

I was certain that I heard "murders in the name of God"

but it's actually "violence in the name of God"


Dream Theater "Raise The Knife"

I thought he was singing "Raising my knife"
while it's really "Raising the knife"

Anyway, it does add a layered and mystical feel to James LaBrie's vocals
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Points: 643 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2010 at 09:23
I'm stil trying to figure out the lyrics to Benny and the Jets (never stole a glance at the lyrics sheet).
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Originally posted by James McProgger James McProgger wrote:

this i heard it in a pearl jam show ( yeah, the grunge band)
Kiss "i wanna rock and roll all night and party every day"
heard as "i wanna rock and roll all night and part of every day"



Perhaps this is the anthem of an aging KISS.  

Not actually misheard, but I've always wanted Elvis Costello to be singing, "We're just washing the defectives."
The damage that we do is just so powerfully strong we call it love

The damage that we do just goes on and on and on but not long enough.

--Robyn Hitchcock
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I've always wondered what Donovan sung in the chorus line of "Catch the Wind" - I always thought it was the name of a bloke who was trying to catch the wind, something like "Albert Ameers". Now I find it's "Ah but I may as well try and catch the wind".
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Points: 19943 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2010 at 10:43
Originally posted by ten years after ten years after wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Not particularly funny but on ELP's 'KE9 3rd impression' I always heard ''Guardians of a new clear dawn'' as ''Guardians of a nuclear zone''.
 
Isn't it "Guardians of a Nuclear dawn" ?
 
I've seen it written as "new clear". It's an obvious pun and is pronounced pretty much the same way.
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Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Correct: You radiate cold shafts of broken glass.
Misheard: You really ate cold shaft and broken glass
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