Misheard Song Lyrics

[Thunderfoot]

D'oh!!!

 

[Nyaricus]

I was one of 3 metalheads sitting at a round table in our college's cafeteria when the (then) new KISS song started playing over the PA system- it was tuned to a local rock station, so this wasn't a surprise or anything.

2 of us thought it was catchy if a bit light, and started singing along with the chorus..."We want money!" and making comments about how they were at least being honest.

The third headbanger- at the time, a freelancer for Kerrang! magazine- replied "You dummies! The line is "Read my body!"

Heh, that reminds me of a story of mine.

The new In Flames album just came out a month or two ago, and my buddy excitedly sent me the Youtube link for their new video - another tasteless, modern attempt at pseudo death metal that doesn't even approach the visionary artistry on their early works - to which I got a laugh at the chorus:

"We aren't even trying!"

Sadly, this was not a mondegreen. Ironically, they are at least being honest

cheers,
--N


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Now playing: Of Human Bondage - This Is Fire
via FoxyTunes

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

While technically not a mondegreen, I had another one for Danzig's "Dirty Black Summer."

It was a pretty bad video, as I recall, and the drummer was a tad...fluffy...at the time. The chorus was "It's just a dirty
black summer!" followed by Glen's trademark evil-Elvis howl, "WHOAAOOAHOOOO!"

From that point on, whenever that song (or its video) was on, I sang along with the chorus, but changed it to "We got a pretty fat drummer! WIIIIDE LOOAAAAAD!"

Pretty soon, most of my Fils du Metal were mocking it in similar fashion.

 

[Blackrat]

Well, this one gets a laugh out of me always: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZthcZTx-oA]YouTube - Nightwish-Fishmaster[/ame]

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Blackrat, I must now leave to go to Lungs-R-Us, because I just coughed one up from LOLing watching that!

Thanks!

EDIT: I went looking and found some more, like this one for Amaranth.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWd6j5rphtg&feature=related[/ame]

 

[Blackrat]

Blackrat, I must now leave to go to Lungs-R-Us, because I just coughed one up from LOLing watching that!

Thanks!

Lungs are overrated, you can easily manage without. Cheers Danny

 

[Relique du Madde]

Well, this one gets a laugh out of me always:

Oden be praised!

I now feel like pillaging a village...

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Well, this one gets a laugh out of me always: YouTube - Nightwish-Fishmaster

Oh man that was a laugh fest. I laughed so hard at one point that I actually snorted.

 

[Thunderfoot]

Ok, I now get why my musical mentor wanted me to be a producer...

I hid the video to both songs, played them and wrote down the lyrics I heard...then did a search for the REAL lyrics. 99.9% accurate.

Now, keep in mind I don't always get it right (Round and Round by RATT comes to mind - not that I sang the wrong lyrics, I just couldn't figure out what in the wee willy he was singing during the end of the first verse (It's tighten our belts abuse ourselves BTW)), but this wasn't that far under the radar. Frankly I just think people are less than attentive when it comes to music now a days.

Sorry, professional rant over, back to the hilarity.

 

[Angrydad]

Oh, Fishmaster. How I love that video. If you look up the real lyrics you'll discover it's straight out of Tokien (Elbereth and Lorien get turned into El Beret and L'oreal) and Dragonlance (Shalafi becomes shalabi). It's awesome.