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Of course, the old Jimi Hendrix Classic "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy.." which the site you referenced was named after...

REM lyrics are famous for this, partially because of Michael Stipe's constant mumbling...


Edit: I'm a weenieboy



Actually, if you check out the live concert from Paris 68 or 69, that is EXACTLY what Hendrix says!:o:o

If you are a Experience fan, check out Noel Reddings CD from the Hendrix site. Noel recorded a few of his own tunes before Fatt Mattress and Hendrix plays bass on 2 songs. It is kinda like the Beattles on acid!

"Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance,
others mean and rueful of the western dream"

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Misheard lyrics are some of the funniest things since the "Airplane" movies

but I think that some claims of "misheard" lyrics are more appropriate termed "re-written" lyrics. I saw a book at the store once that had long lists of misheard lyrics, but many of them were just so different, phonically, from the real lyrics that it was nearly inconceivable that someone could have really thought they heard what was claimed.

For example, funny as the imagery might be, I don't think someone really thought they heard, "Lucy's getting high with Linus," or "I've got owls puking in my bed"!

The best "misheard" lyrics are the ones that someone actually thought they heard; not just what someone creatively mutated the real words to be, for fun.

Now, my friend Chris listened to Rush's "Red Barchetta," and the line that goes, "A brilliant Red Barchetta from a better, vanished time," he thought was "Ten billion Red Barchettas are no better than this kind."

I myself thought that in Rush's "Turn the Page," they were saying "shake our heads at the Chinese," instead of "shake our heads at the tragedy."

Rush has a LOT of mishearable lyrics. :D

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"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

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Haha.. So, what happens when you hear the RIGHT lyrics and you do a double take??

In Jethro Tulls song aqualung he says "As I bend to pick a Dog-end" ---- Um, hasn't anybody ever wondered about that one?!?!?

for those that don't know, In britian a dogend is slang for a cigarette butt.



Oh. I was thinking maybe they were talking about picking a dog's ass... :D

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"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

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There's always the classic "Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce and a loner in the night." Who the heck says deuce like that?? It's just weird.
"If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girl's sports such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing." - Homer Simpson

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Ok, I heard another one yesterday...:


To the "Boys of Summer" song...:

"Your bras get shattered in the sun..."


I thought that one was particularly funny!!:D:ph34r::D:ph34r::D:ph34r:

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Of course, the old Jimi Hendrix Classic "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy.." which the site you referenced was named after...



actually Jimi sang it that way at many live performances...i have at least 3 bootlegs (and the Experience boxset) where you can clearly hear 'Kiss this guy'
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A friend of mine was in a band and they were playing this really tiny club in my home town. Some guy kept yelling at them to play the "fire engine song" and my bud got curious enough to stop the set and ask him what the F%^& he meant....

So the guy goes "Ya know! HENDRIX!" and he starts singing

"Smoooooke eating Walter,
The fire engine guy..."
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Now I can't hear "smoke on the water" without cracking up laughing

Marz

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Did I just kill another thread?

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Of course, there is the Lords Prayer.

"Our Father, whoart in Heaven, Harold be thy name..."

Of course, that explains why people say "Jesus H. Christ". He was named after his dad, Harold. :D



ever read the Boomer Bible version? i dont have it handy but its something like..

"Our friend who art in Reno, Harry is his name..." ;)
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Alanis, You Outta Know:
Should be: "...and the cross I bear that you gave to me."
My cousin thought: "...and the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me."
"I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

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Can't forget Bachman Turner Overdrive's song...
"You get up every morning from your small craft warning...
Bakin' Carrot Biscuits! Everyday!"

How 'bout "Tainted Love" ...
This tainted love, you Gibbon.

or Foreigner, "Urgent"
"Virgin, Virgin, Emergency."

or the Clash, "Rock the Kasbah"
"Rock the cat spa, rock the cat spa"

I crack myself up.

You're always the starter in your own life!

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Of course, there is the Lords Prayer.

"Our Father, whoart in Heaven, Harold be thy name..."

Of course, that explains why people say "Jesus H. Christ". He was named after his dad, Harold. :D



As good little Catholic girls, my sister and I would sing "Rise up, Jeruselem" in church on Sundays...however, my kid sister didn't get it right, and was singing "WISE up Jeruselem" for the longest time...:D:D:D

It became a family joke...:P
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