Bob Duran, Love Dogs In Space and A Toothless Spinning Ham. All misheard lyrics sent in by listeners (including Ray, whose own Mondegreen podcast is here). There’s no bathroom on the right.
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I've been looking forward to this show ever since you mentioned it a few episodes back. Great job! It of course led me to do a little researching of mondegreens. I'd only thought of them as applying to song lyrics and didn't realize they come up in other forms of entertainment as well as everyday communications. One of my favorite examples is this dialogue from "Roxanne" with Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah:
C.D. Bales: [shouting through the front door] Ten more seconds and I'm leaving!
Roxanne Kowalski: [opening the door] What did you say?
C.D. Bales: I said, "Ten more seconds and I'm leaving!" Wait a second! What did you think I said?
Roxanne Kowalski: I thought you said, "Earn more sessions by sleeving."
C.D. Bales: Well, what the hell does that mean?
Roxanne Kowalski: I don't know. That's why I came out.
Favorite Mondegreens from my friends:
Robin thought "Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so" was "Jenny, Jack and Lisa think of Jenny, Jack and Lisa really think so"
Eric thought Toto sang "I guess the rain's down in Africa", and that Madness sang "Our mum, she's a house-frau."
And, my favorite, Brad was singing along with 'Hot For Teacher' in the car with us and instead of "Hey, I heard you missed us, we're back!" he shouted out in all seriousness: "Hey, I heard your ministers were black!". Needless to say, we had to pull over because we were laughing so hard.
I thought it was "shake it like a poor white preacher" instead of polaroid picture 🙂
OMG! I used to think the line in "Jet Airliner" was "Big Old Chad in the lineup", too! The lyrics are clearer in the version you played than the Steve Miller one. If I had heard this one first, I would never have gotten it mixed up :-).
HAHAHA! That's amazing.
I can't believe that two people heard the same thing.
That story is 20 years old but it still cracks me up when I remember it.
Thanks for playing BOTH "Big Ole' Chad in the Line Up" and "Secret Asian Man" Brian!
Julus Cesa…uh…Marx 🙂
One of the great Mondegreen performances: "I Heard if through the Grapevine" as covered by The Slits. Lyrics mangled include "I heard it through the front line," "heard it through the gray slime," and my favorite part, when "they say believe half of what you see, son, and none of what you hear" becomes "Keep a secret what you see, run and hide from what you hear."
Another great one I heard a while while back was some scandinavian band covering "Get Your Kicks on Route 66"; the part that lists all the cities somehow turned into "It goes through St. Louis, drops to Missouri, and Oklahoma City is mighty pretty. You'll see Amarillo, gallop to Mexico, Flagstaff Arizona, don't forget Winona, England, Boston, San Bernardino…."
Unfortunately, I never caught the name of the band. I heard it on an internet radio station called American Weasel Radio, way back in 2002 or so.
Great idea for a show. I remember one of my high school teachers point out that he thought that the line was "Big old jet had a light on" instead of "Big old jet airliner".
In The Clash song "Rock the Casbah" (which was covered by the band One Bad Pig, among others…) I always thought the line "Sharif don't like it" was "Cherry blue lightnin'."
I really like the Sunshiners version of 'She Drives Me Crazy." I also like The Muppets version where Kermit is singing about Miss Piggy.
The classic mondegreen that I heard and I know many others did too was Jimi Hendrix singing, "Excuse me while I kiss this guy."
And then there was the Hot Chocolate song, "I believe in Marigolds."
When I was a kid, my sister thought the song called, "Walk A Mile In My Shoes," was really, Guacamole My Shoes. I cannot poke too much fun of her for that because I always get the lyrics wrong.
I am still convinced that The Kinks song, "Lola" really says, "Well I'm not the world's most masculine man but I know what I am and IN BED I'm a man and so is Lola." I have been told over and over by many that this is not what is being sung. he is supposedly singing, "I am glad I'm a man and so is Lola."
I always thought it was “Big ol’ Jed had a light on”. When discussing it with my SO, I found out that’s what he heard as well…it was then I knew he was the one. 😉