years ago

"Maybe I'll kill that radio star"

"Nobody doesn't like Sarah Lee/Nobody does it like Sarah Lee"

Unless that was intentional. =

Does it have to be songs?

Nup.

Don't call me Shirley.

FTW, yo.

EDIT: And just remembered one I used to make as a mistake. A line in a song, can't remember which song, but the line goes something along the lines of "kissing in the wind."

But how the woman sings it - to me it sounds like "pissing in the wind." So, usually, I'm like "WTF?"

There's a used car salesman in the LA area (maybe it's a franchise in other cities) named Cal Worthington and he always used to (and still does) play commercials encouraging people to come down to see Cal Worthington and his dog Spot, and I think the dog Spot was actually some kind of wild animal such as a tiger or camel in most of the commercials, which I guess made me think of animals. The commercials ended in the jungle "Go See Cal! Go See Cal! Go See Cal!" sung fast.

For years I often wondered that the heck a "P ussy Cow" was, and why he never showed it instead of these other animals. Was p ussy cow slang for tiger because it was a big cat? Only in like the late 90's did I make out what the jingle was actually saying when they displayed the sign at his lot which gad "Go See Cal" written on it.

On related amusing stories, at Disneyland during my earliest visits I ran up to meet "Mickney Mup," you know, those people in suits, but my brother was more of a fan of his co-star, and called out to meet "Donna F%^&" with much repetition and loudness.

The only one that springs to mind at the moment is when I initially listened to the song "stranger in town" by Toto. The line in question:

The old couple swear that the rippers back

I misinterpreted as:

The old couple swim at the riverside

Very odd.

On one of my sister's old 90s Jock Jams cd, the first song is like:

Welcome to the big show...HE -COULD -GO -ALL -THE -WAY!! da na nana da na nana da nana da na da na...

I always heard the "HE -COULD -GO -ALL -THE -WAY!!" as
STEVE -KIRK -GO -ALL -THE -WAY!!

I always wanted to know who that person was (maybe it could of been one of the championchip Chicago Bulls)

I only remembered this/figured it out when she put the cd inavertly in the car cd player yesterday.

Anything the Dew Army comes up with.

Obscure one for you. There's a song called "Under Your Thumb" by Godley & Creme. As far as I can tell, it's a ghost story. Anyhow, there's this one line where they sing:

"But it didn't stop the whispers, or the smell of her cologne..."

Given that it was a ghost story, I heard "the smell of earth & loam"...

There's also the Carpenters' "the best love songs are written with a broken arm", or the Bee Gees' "She comes to me on a submarine"...

DW

I've done it at least once to every song on Metalocalypse.

The first several times I heard any part of the Metallica song "King Nothing", it was in a radio station commercial and it only played the line "Where's your crown, king nothing?". For like a year I heard it as "And the crowd paid nothing" as an attack on Napster.

that soung men at work "rock the casbar" i here it as "walk the catbox" i know your thinking WHF but it's true it does soung like it

First thing to come to mind for me is the Creedence Clearwater Revival song, "Bad Moon Rising". The line actually says "there's a bad moon on the rise", but it always sounded like "there's a bathroom on the right" to me when I was a kid.

Sometimes their song "Sweet Hitch Hiker" sounded like "sweet itchy hiker" to me as well.

I'm weird.

I do this to like every Japanese song sung in English, because the Engrish confuses me. The difference is, my misheard lyrics often make more sense then the originals.

I've a good ear for lyrics. My brother-in-law, not so much.
Anyway, I'd a CD playing the English version of 99 Red Balloons when he tells me that he completely agrees with the song. Turns out that he "just hates bugs on the lawn chair". Lucky for me, he has a good sense of humor and didn't mind when I laughed, then suggested we play the German track and see if he does any better.

Had another one just the other day - I was playing a game on the 360, Enchanted Arms, and one of the characters, Raigar, gained an attack bonus during the battle.

It was at this point, Raiger shouted "WHAT POWER!" as he got the power-up bonus.

Silly me, however, thought for a split second poor Raigar shouted "WHITE POWER!"

Oh, I forgot Captain Falcon's taunt in SSB.
"Show your boobs!"

Dr. Robotnik, Metallic Madness Bad Future, Sonic CD Japan: "You can't do anything, so go on, demon child! Get some help!" ("...so don't even try it. Get some help!")

Followed a few seconds by: "Sonic, care for an iron? C-care for an iron!" ("Sonic, dead or alive, he's mine!")

Crazy stuff. I love that track to bits.

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that soung men at work "rock the casbar" i here it as "walk the catbox" i know your thinking WHF but it's true it does soung like it

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Yeah, I've seen that commercial too, you @#%$ liar.

I can't think of any Mondegreens in particular except Zero's Bad Moon Rising thing. I think everyone heard it like that. And while we're doing video games, Knuckles' "SH*T!" from Sonic Heroes.

From the Citizen King song "Under the Influence"
Actual Lyrics from Verse 1:

now out past the cast of boredom/ cards get
dealt i sift and sort them/ table rooftops
coming down wooden nickels lost and
found/ apple pie i'm eating cake now/
coming to the table late now/ juke joint fights
and diamond lights/ immune to poision ivy
snake bites/ batteries from start to chuck/ got
the outer limits voodoo luck/ stand by on a
highball holiday/ served fresh from a plastic
tray
Chorus:
i've been around and up and down
overboard when ship came down out of
mind and sight in the strobophonic light i?m
under the influence tonight

What I heard:

now out past the cash box boredom/ cards get
dealt i simply sort them/ table rooftops
coming down/ wooden nickels lost and
found/ apple pie i'm eating cake now
coming to the table late now/ juke joint fights
and dime delights/ immune to poision ivy
snake bites/ batteries from start to chuck got
the outer limits voodoo luck/ stand by on a
highball holiday/ served fresh from a plastic
tray

i've been around and up and down
overboard when ship came down/ I don't mind the sight in this tropophonic light/ i'm
under the influence/ take my life

From Powerman 5000's "Theme to a Fake Revolution"

Actual lyrics:
I'm not a spaceman, but on the other hand,

What I heard:
I'm not a spaceman, but I'm the other half

The other day I was listening to Rebel Meets Rebel, which is a collaboration between members of the metal band Pantera and the country singer David Allan Coe. Anyway, there's a song on that album called Cherokee Cry, but I was only half listening to it whilst I was doing something else (as I often do with music) and misheard the titular line as "turkey pie".

True story.

Oh dear.

Aerosmith - "Dream On"

"Sing it with me, just for today"
I thought it was, "Single women just want to dance"

t.A.T.u. - "How Soon Is Now"
"I am the son, I am the heir"
I thought it was "I am the sun in the air". Though, the original Smiths song is sung more clearly.

Eminem - "Kill You"
"Blood, guts, guns, cuts / Knives, lives, wives, nuns, sluts"
I thought the "wives, nuns" was "wives--none!"

Eminem - "Criminal"
"Please Lord, this boy needs Jesus / Heal this child, help us destroy these demons"
I laughed so much when I read the lyrics to that, because I thought it was "Please Lord, destroy these genes / Kill this child, help us destroy these things"

50 Cent f/ Young Buck - "I'll Whip Ya Head Boy"
"I'LL WHIP YA HEAD BOY"
I always hear it as "OFF WITH YA HEAD BOY"