my alltime favorite: Joy Division "Disorder"

i've been waiting for a guy to come and take me by the hand could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of another man

oh yeah, and i also thought he said "lights are flashing cows are crashing" but that doesn't compare to the brilliant mishearing of the first line...

Dylan wrote:My wife used to listen to "Dirty Deeds And A Thunder Eek" with some kids in high school.

Funny how this song keeps coming up. A friend of mine in middle school thought it was "Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Jeeps", ever since this discussion, I sing it this way.

Also, another friend thought the Huey Lewis song was "I want a new truck".

I myself thought "Eminence Front" was "Women in Sports"

"I'm gonna lick your ass...yes, and I'll go last"

Bob Dylan, "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine"

A dude I used to know had yet another "Dirty Deeds" variation:

Dirty Deer and the Thunder Chief

He was thinking it was some kind of Paul Revere and the Raiders-style Native American message jam.

He also thought Foreigner's "Dirty White Boy" was "Thirty Watt Bulb."

I'm a thirty-watt bulb.

Ah, the mondegreen. How I love thee. True story:

When I was, I dunno, however young I was when "Appetite for Destruction" came out my friends and I stumbled on some make-your-own-video booth at the state fair and decided to make our own video. My friends, amidst my protesting, chose some Guns N Roses song I wasn't at all familiar with, and then both took instruments and declared me the 'singer' for said video. With that setup...

I spent the entire time the song was playing thinking I was mouthing the words "do you wanna di-ie..." to "Sweet child o' mine." The sound really wasn't very good in there.

Then of course there is the classic, "the girl with colitis walks by" which a friend ALMOST had me convinced was really how the song went.

I would always turn up the part on The Rascals' "Groovin'" where he says, "Life could be ecstasy, you and me endlessly" because I was sure he couldn't be saying "you and me and Leslie", but I could not for the life of me figure out what he actually was saying. I could have listened to it ten thousand times and never figured out the right lyric; the only reason I know now is because I asked somebody.

as a kid my brother and friends always had me sing what I thought was the transformer song "more than meets the eye"- I said

"Transformers! More-a-meesie-i "

and how bout fugazi- merchandise. "there never was a truth to be found" our take is... "the devil wanted soup... to be brown"

Wow, this thread certainly brought out some new people.

My sister thought the first line of a Spandau Ballet song was "Welcome home, sorry about the cheese on the walls" (actually "sorry that the chairs are all worn).

And her boyfriend thought "Tie me kangaroo down sport" was "Tiny kangaroo dance boy".


Also, for anyone who hasn't seen it: http://www.kissthisguy.com/


My friend thought the lyrics to Come As You Are were "sept in bleach" rather than "soaked in bleach". Infact he was so convinced that for years he used the word "sept" to mean really wet. I always thought it was just a word I didn't know until I heard him singing the song one day.

Flaneur wrote:As a little kid hearing Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," I thought he was saying "You don't have to be cordouroy."

i thought the same thing 'til i was about 18.

my friend's sister thought the opening line to van morisson's brown eyed girl was, "hey rodrigo".

Rotten Tanx wrote:My friend thought the lyrics to Come As You Are were "sept in bleach" rather than "soaked in bleach". Infact he was so convinced that for years he used the word "sept" to mean really wet. I always thought it was just a word I didn't know until I heard him singing the song one day.

In fairness to your friend, what Kurt sang is probably a lot closer to 'sept' than 'soaked.'

Thank you for reminding me of the "Tie me kangaroo down, sport" song. I now have a new candidate for "worst thing to have ever entered your ears in your entire lifetime" that I had completely forgotten about.