After 20 years of wrong, I was disappointed to find that New Order were not talking about "an icy and shallow bay" on "Blue Monday". In my defence the "I see a ship in the harbour" line that precedes it did tee this up for me.

On Nick Cave's "The Witness Song", even though the lyric sheet says different, I'm sure he sings "A winter fuck will pick me up". Well it would, wouldn't it? It's supposed to be "A winter fog moved quickly on", but that's just not what he's singing.

I always thought that the first lyric of Rock The Casbah by The Clash was...

"Well you can't control the boogie man"

and I still am not sure what the real lyrics are.

When I first heard Steady As She Goes by Shellac I though it said:

"Steady as she goes, off with her head..." and then "I feel like I'm Greg Ginn"

Small one-'Got your mother in her world/Got your mother in a whirl'

Michael Jackson:

Keep on with the post-op
Don't stop til you get enough

Weirdly, everytime I listen to the first Ramones album I hear:

"Eeehh-ah-oh-baaayyy-i-don't-wanna-eho-oh-uh-bop-base"

On every track too.

"The Cradle Will Rock"
The Guido Will Rock

back to the top!

I just heard Smashing Pumpkins "Where Boys Fear To Tread" and remembered always mistaking the lyrics:

His tragic forces are heaven sent

as:

Satanic forces are heaven sent

Add Nirvana's "Beeswax" where I still hear:

I got my doodie spayed.

But I don't think anyone can get that right.

Gang of Four-It's not flavour grape man

noise&light wrote:I always thought that the first lyric of Rock The Casbah by The Clash was...

"Well you can't control the boogie man"

and I still am not sure what the real lyrics are.

I think it's "now the king told the boogie man, you gotta let that raga drop"