When we were kids, my sister and I thought the Duran Duran song “Girls On Film” was saying “Go Kung Fu”!
When we were kids, my sister and I thought the Duran Duran song “Girls On Film” was saying “Go Kung Fu”!
Ha! Awesome. Simon LeBon just texted me back and said that “Go Kung Fu” was indeed the working title and theme of the song, but the record company bullied him a la ‘With Sympathy’ into making something less edgy and more marketable.
“See them fighting hand to hand across the bridge at midnight…”
in Revolting Cocks “Cattle Grind” I used to think it went “Suck it and see.” until Connelly corrected me and explained that it is “Socket in C” due to the song originally being called Socket or something like that.
Funny. I thought it was that too. Figured it was a reference to A Clockwork Orange, as “Suck It and See” is graffiti on the wall during a [url http://youtu.be/M_QbxRwnYHI]very big scene in the movie.
I still think Chris was kidding about that. There’s an Arctic Monkeys LP released in 2011 called Suck It And See as well.
Ha! I was going to say. . .
When we were kids, my sister and I thought the Duran Duran song “Girls On Film” was saying “Go Kung Fu”!
I have a few from way back when. As kids we thought George Harrison’s “I’ve Got My Mind Set On You” was “I’ve Got My Might Sit On You” and we would pin each other down and sit on each other whenever we heard the song.
Also the part in The Safety Dance that says “Everyone look at your hands” was “Everyone look at your pants”… LOL
We were indeed a weird bunch of kids.
I still think Chris was kidding about that. There’s an Arctic Monkeys LP released in 2011 called Suck It And See as well.
“Suck it and see” was also the advertising slogan of a UK throat lozenge called Fisherman’s Friend.
OK, after days of fooling myself into thinking otherwise, I must admit I have NO IDEA what is being chanted in the chorus to Cocksure’s “Nurses of Cocksure Island.”
Anyone want to lend me a hand here? Perhaps someone who has a writing credit for that song?
Oh, that’s right, he doesn’t post here anymore - thank you again deadguy for insulting him into exile.
“Lift and separate, lift and separate.”
That’s what it sounds like to me. I’m imagining some kind of twisted workout video.
Thanks to the hard rock radio station playing at my local liquor store, I have been reminded of one of my all-time great “mis-heard lyrics” failures.
The first time I heard AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” on the turntable at my 'cool uncle’s home, I was in this weird phase of my childhood where I would only listen to the chorus of a song and just tune out the verses.
So, I heard it as “Thirty Thieves and the Thunder Chief” and imagined it was some kind of epic tale about a heroic Native American chieftain meeting a gang of thieves (and presumably whupping their asses).
I even thought the way that the chorus was chanted was an imitation of an ‘Indian’ war chant or something.
Of course, I went to my uncle and asked “who is this Thunder Chief guy,” and he thought it was so hilarious that he just played along and pretended that my imagined back story really was the inspiration for the song. Eventually I learned the truth, and was let down a little bit that AC/DC wasn’t venturing into such exotic subject matter after all.
Thanks to the hard rock radio station playing at my local liquor store, I have been reminded of one of my all-time great “mis-heard lyrics” failures.
The first time I heard AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” on the turntable at my 'cool uncle’s home, I was in this weird phase of my childhood where I would only listen to the chorus of a song and just tune out the verses.
So, I heard it as “Thirty Thieves and the Thunder Chief” and imagined it was some kind of epic tale about a heroic Native American chieftain meeting a gang of thieves (and presumably whupping their asses).
I even thought the way that the chorus was chanted was an imitation of an ‘Indian’ war chant or something.
Of course, I went to my uncle and asked “who is this Thunder Chief guy,” and he thought it was so hilarious that he just played along and pretended that my imagined back story really was the inspiration for the song. Eventually I learned the truth, and was let down a little bit that AC/DC wasn’t venturing into such exotic subject matter after all.
That is the greatest misheard lyric ever
HAHAHAHAHA!!! I won’t be able to sing it any other way now. It sounds like a most epic Hannah Barbara cartoon that I would race home for . . .
1:30 Josie and the Pussycats
2:00 Herculoids
2:30 Thundar The Barbarian
3:00 Thirty Thieves and the Thunder Chief
HAHAHAHAHA!!! I won’t be able to sing it any other way now. It sounds like a most epic Hannah Barbara cartoon that I would race home for . . .
I was restraining myself from cracking up while “Dirty Deeds…” was rockin’ at the checkout counter, and the clerk was asking me what was so funny. There was a line forming behind me so, sadly, I didn’t have a chance to explain the whole history and just had to do a lame “oh, sorry, I just remembered something funny from earlier in the day, blah blah…”
1:30 Josie and the Pussycats
2:00 Herculoids
2:30 Thundar The Barbarian
3:00 Thirty Thieves and the Thunder Chief
Yes, I can only imagine what the ‘Adult Swim’ version of the show would be like (since most A.S. cartoons were at one point just mockeries of stuff coming from the Hanna Barbara schlock factory.)
And you almost forgot, at the 3:30 slot: The New Adventures of ANTI-CHRIST / DEVIL’S CHILDREN
For the longest time I heard ELOs “Evil Woman”, and my ears translated it as " he is a woman"!
Thirty Thieves and the Thunder Chief is fucking incredible.
My turn:
“Grinding binding taking away
Needles above the prey
REESE’S PUFFS”
Thirty Thieves and the Thunder Chief is fucking incredible.
My turn:
“Grinding binding taking away
Needles above the prey
REESE’S PUFFS”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvsAx6pCBng
Hahaha amazing what some overly effected vox, along with English-as-a-second-language pronunciation, can do to your perception. Isn’t or wasn’t there actually a breakfast cereal like this?
I’ve also decided that the spirit of the Thunder Chief himself misinterpreted AC/DC’s tune. Somewhere in the celestial realm reserved for fallen warriors, the sounds of “Dirty Deeds…” came to his ears, and he interpreted this as some earthly band of shamans invoking his name. So, being pleased with this hymn, he later rewarded them by giving them the inspiration for their comeback hit “Thunderstruck.”
The “thirty thieves” misheard lyric is quite a popular one. Run it through google.
I was just informed that all the time I’ve been singing “LET’S FIGHT! LET’S FIGHT!” during the Ministry song “Hero” it was actually supposed to be “LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT!”
I remember so many people used to think that in Highway to Hell the lyrics were “See’s a nigger on a one way ride”…when in fact it’s “Season ticket on a one way ride”…
Fuckin racist’s[shocked][:/]