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brotato
May 14, 2013
Whitesnake's Here I Go
Real lyrics: like a drifter I was born to walk alone
Heard as: like a twister I was born to walk alone

I'm in my late 20s and I just found out my version was wrong like, 2 months ago.

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Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

brotato posted:

Whitesnake's Here I Go
Real lyrics: like a drifter I was born to walk alone
Heard as: like a twister I was born to walk alone

I'm in my late 20s and I just found out my version was wrong like, 2 months ago.

I'm just amazed anyone in their late 20s has heard a Whitesnake song more than once.

Kangaroo Jerk
Jul 23, 2000
Carry a laser down the road that I must travel!
Carry a laser through the darkness of the night!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NDjt4FzFWY

Mr. Creakle
Apr 27, 2007

Protecting your virginity



Stone Sour's "Through Glass"

"An epidemic of the mannequins, contaminating everything"

I got offended and looked up the lyrics because I loving swear I heard "An epidemic of Dominicans" :ese:

alpha_destroy
Mar 23, 2010

Billy Butler: Fat Guy by Day, Doubles Machine by Night
Every time I listen to Brown Eyed Handsome Man I can hear my wife singing Brown Eyed Hamster Man.

To get her back I always sang "Sugar! Roast beef!" whenever I heard that loving Adam Levine song.

This thread reminds me of the legend about some guy writing Eddie Vedder a letter asking about the lyrics to Yellow Ledbetter and Vedder writing back "There are words to that song?"

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

brotato posted:

Whitesnake's Here I Go
Real lyrics: like a drifter I was born to walk alone
Heard as: like a twister I was born to walk alone

I'm in my late 20s and I just found out my version was wrong like, 2 months ago.

Listen to the original's line and you'll find an even funnier mishearing :v:

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Speaking of Eddie Vedder, I have a friend who to this day still swears the lyrics to Jeremy are "Jeremy's smokin' grass today"

theironjef
Aug 11, 2009

The archmage of unexpected stinks.

Someone Awful! posted:

Winter Wonderland always became

Later on, we'll perspire
as we dream by the fire


but apparently they were conspiring, which is way less funny. :colbert:

My girlfriend grew up thinking there's some famous guy from history named "Carson Brown" and that the couple in the song wants him to marry them.

Drunk Nerds
Jan 25, 2011

Just close your eyes
Fun Shoe
the digital part in the middlle of Get Lucky totally sounds like "We'll rub a mexican... we'll rub a mexican monkey."
You can't unhear it

Drunk Nerds
Jan 25, 2011

Just close your eyes
Fun Shoe
wrapped up like a douche another runner in the night

Rollersnake
May 9, 2005

Please, please don't let me end up in a threesome with the lunch lady and a gay pirate. That would hit a little too close to home.
Unlockable Ben

theironjef posted:

My girlfriend grew up thinking there's some famous guy from history named "Carson Brown" and that the couple in the song wants him to marry them.

It was "Possum Brown" for me, and I assumed he was some old people comedian like Red Skelton. The whole "he'll say 'are you married'" bit was a reference I didn't get.

Oh, and one I only just finally figured out recently. Big Bad Leroy Brown, baddest man in the whole drat town. Not downtown.

Queen-Of-Hearts
Mar 17, 2009

"I want to break your heart💔 and give you mine🫀"




In the opening credits to American Horror Story, i swear that synth sound thing is saying "Orange Cat".

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

Drunk Nerds posted:

the digital part in the middlle of Get Lucky totally sounds like "We'll rub a mexican... we'll rub a mexican monkey."
You can't unhear it

I always heard it as "Hold up a Mexican puppy" myself.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

A repeated line in the song "Candy Shop" by Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire makes it sound for all the world like lead singer Andrew Bird intends to set fire to the listener's grandma

I had to look it up to find out that he's actually saying "I'm going to set fire to your glamour" instead :downs:

World War Mammories
Aug 25, 2006


Mans posted:

Guns n Roses's You could be mine has this:

"Don't forget to call my lawyers
with ridiculous demands.
An you can take the pity so far
But it's more than I can stand."


But i swear to god i hear Axl telling the dude to take his bigger sofa cause it's more than he can stand.

holy poo poo you mean he's not yelling about the sofa? timandericmindblown.gif

Nirvana's song On a Plain has the line -
Black sheep got blackmailed again/
Forgot to put down the zip code

But I always heard it as -
Black sheep got blackmailed again/
Forgot to put that I was a goat

it makes sense dammit

PowerBuilder3
Apr 21, 2010

Drunk Nerds posted:

wrapped up like a douche another runner in the night

I don't care what the lyrics are supposed to be, he does not sing 'duce' (like Springsteen does).

Also Elvis Presley Hound Dog, he does NOT sing "Cryin' (there is another K and R in what he sings) (except on some later live versions.)

AFewBricksShy
Jun 19, 2003

of a full load.



PowerBuilder3 posted:



Also Elvis Presley Hound Dog, he does NOT sing "Cryin' (there is another K and R in what he sings) (except on some later live versions.)

What is he saying then?

Coolspaz
Feb 26, 2004
And so it came to pass, and so it was told, quoth the raven "never more"
Mega Death
Symphony of Destruction

you try to take his balls, before the head explodes

Kwanzaa Quickie
Nov 4, 2009
Hit me with your pet shark.
---Pat Benatar
Fuel had a song called Hemmorhage and my daughter who was about 6 or 7 when it came out kept repeating the line "Leave love bleeding in my hands" as "Blee Blah Blee Blah in my hands."

Dr_Amazing
Apr 15, 2006

It's a long story
At some point when I was a little kid we got this Christmas ornament. It was shaped like Elvis and sang a bit of "Santa bring my baby to me." The part where he says "I don't need a lot of presents" came out kind of garbled and everyone in my family argued if he was saying he didn't need a lot of presents, friends or something else.

olaf2022
Feb 19, 2003
Fun Shoe
Garbage - Push It

Actual: "Push it, make the beats go harder"
Misheard: "Push it, make the penis go harder"

Kwanzaa Quickie
Nov 4, 2009

olaf2022 posted:

Garbage - Push It

Actual: "Push it, make the beats go harder"
Misheard: "Push it, make the penis go harder"

hahah, so it wasn't just me.

Now I've got to go through my old CDs, that was an amazing album.

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


For years I thought the Belle & Sebastian song went "On second thoughts I'd rather be around / And go down on my best friend if she wants me," which gave it a somewhat different meaning.

One Swell Foop
Aug 5, 2010

I'm afraid we have no time for codes and manners.
Beach Boys:

But she's still dancin'
In the night unafraid
Of what a doodle doo*
In a town full of heroes and villains.

* Dude'll do.

Barry Shitpeas
Dec 17, 2003

there is no need
to be upset

Winner POTM July 2013

AFewBricksShy posted:

What is he saying then?

Cryinkr, clearly

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPs7dJvW2X4

Thin Privilege
Jul 8, 2009
IM A STUPID MORON WITH AN UGLY FACE AND A BIG BUTT AND MY BUTT SMELLS AND I LIKE TO KISS MY OWN BUTT
Gravy Boat 2k

Drunk Nerds posted:

wrapped up like a douche another runner in the night

There's no way that he's saying something else. I refuse to believe it.

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

What they said: "Secret Agent Man"
What I heard: "Secret Asian Man"

I like my version better :colbert:

Also I misheard the Beck Loser thing as well. To be fair, there's a bunch of gibberish in that song, so "Soy Un Peredor" never crossed my mind.

In a different example, I ordered from a Mexican restaurant a few weeks back and tried to get the Tacos Carbon, I said "Tacos Cabron" and the waiter did a double take, and I don't know if I pissed him off. I had to have someone explain to me what it meant. I think he knew it was unintentional.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
Donna Summer - Hot Stuff

I wanna share the night with a one night* lover.
I wanna bring a wild man back home.

* It's actually "warm blooded" but "one night lover" makes sense too.

Black Box - Everybody Everybody

Misheard: Set me freeeeeeeee
Actual: Sad and freeeeeeeeee

Sonique - It Feels So Good

Misheard: It ain't a chubby guy
that keeps me satisfied

Actual: It ain't the job you got
that keeps me satisfied

Dr_Amazing
Apr 15, 2006

It's a long story

Drunk Nerds posted:

wrapped up like a douche another runner in the night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCdpPMR6nEc

Rahonavis
Jan 11, 2012

"Clevuh gurrrl..."

Gin Blossoms: "Tell me if you think it'd be alright / if I could just crash here tonight?
"You can see I'm no sheep or dragon. / Anyway I got no place to go."

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Oh, that's from that song Hair Jealousy, right?

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g

I have an erection
I have an erection
I have an erection
I have an erection

Gnome de plume
Sep 5, 2006

Hell.
Fucking.
Yes.
When I was really young and heard "Money for nothing and your chicks for free" I thought it was "Money for nothing and you kiss the queen."

Something you get to do when you're a big rock star?

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

loquacius posted:

Oh, that's from that song Hair Jealousy, right?

You mean Hey Chelsea.

GopherFlats
Mar 16, 2011
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Weapon of Choice

Misheard: "I wont waste it, I wont waste it, I wont waste my love on an Asian."

Actual: "I wont waste it, I wont waste it, I wont waste my love on a nation."

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Mans posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g

I have an erection
I have an erection
I have an erection
I have an erection

related:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6FBfAQ-NDE

We slip and slide as we fall in love
And I just can't seem to get it up, aw :(

Intoluene
Jul 6, 2011

Activating self-destruct sequence!
Fun Shoe
My sister when she was much, much younger used to sing "I'm your penis" instead of "I'm your venus".

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

Gnome de plume posted:

When I was really young and heard "Money for nothing and your chicks for free" I thought it was "Money for nothing and you kiss the queen."

Something you get to do when you're a big rock star?

I was about to correct you and say it's "checks for free", but nope, turns out it actually is "chicks". Huh.

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Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Intoluene posted:

My sister when she was much, much younger used to sing "I'm your penis" instead of "I'm your venus".

I heard it as "I'm your fetus".

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