Everyone does it, like I first thought Radiohead were singing "from a greyhound" at the end of Paranoid Android but that's totally shit.
These ones are better.
The Streets - Stay Positive. Depressing and dark track, and for years literally, I thought the kiss off to the following verse was "blame this tape" which I thought was very clever. I was rather disappointed when I found out the truth. I still think mine is better.
"Carry on through the estate, stare at the geezers so they know you aint lightweight/And go see your mates
And when they don't look happy/Play them this tape"
Catch - Bingo. Odd one this. These lyrics are quite charming but I thought the last line there was "And the pretty ladies compliments your flaws" which is definitely better. The real one doesn't even make much sense.
"I go to public school/They never taught me anything I need to learn/But someone told me where to find out/Out where the lights are red/And the pretty ladies call from their shop floors"
..........
Another one
I remember Steve Lamacq saying that in Chemical World by Blur he thought it was "These townies they never speak to you/Just sleep together so they never get lonely".
No, apparently it's "stick". Rubbish.
"Dads in the shorts, please return to your cubicles"
instead of "Madames and monsieurs..." from "Latchmere" by The Maccabees. Also, I don't know what Battles are singing in "Atlas", but there's no way it can be any better than "people will be people when they hear this sandwich".
"The ants are my friends
They're blowing in the wind". I was about eight years old, but I thought it was the best thing ever.
Blood Brothers'
Wolf party: I heard "Just one more canned expression", actual lyric "those wolf mechanics crashing".
Jose Gonzalez
I heard "down the hillside to the Serengeti" - never stopping to wonder why there was a hillside on the edge of the desert, and why he'd be walking down it. It is of course "to the cemetary" but I much prefer my mental picture of him in his sandy shoes.
Whitney Houston - 'I'm shaving off my muff for you'
(C) Mark Lamarr
peach plum pear
"make me bold like a whore" although some people say those are the actual lyrics
^^^
I think 'bold like a whore' is better. It seems to fit into the rest of the lyrics more, anyway.
what the hell is it then?
Oh and another i like:
Dartz' Once Twice Again: Thought it was "We're finding better ways to think about the autumn", actual lyric "We'll forget it all and carry on without them" or something like that.
I don't know the actual lyric
but 'Grounded' by My Vitriol
"Listen to the mole, he wants to be your friend"
Franz Ferdinand
Gonna have Nutella tonight (Tell Her Tonight)
Flinging out the fish at Avril Lavgine (The Fallen)
"We've all got lovely eyes,
We let it all slip away!" (Left Behind - Slipknot)
My all time favourite was from a friend of my mum's who misheard "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" by Ian Dury as "Hit Me With Your Ribbon Stick" when she was a kid, even going so far as to attach a load of ribbons to a stick and go around the playground twatting people with it whilst singing the song.
Spider Lauraine...
I am still just a rat in a cage.
-Smashing pumpkins
Robbie W
"I don't want your cock, DJ"
Easy mistake
"i know
that she knows that i'm not from Alaska/Nebraska?Madagascar"
Fall Out Boy
"Goddamn Arse Face"
RHCP
"BOB MARLEY, ROWING IN A BUCKET!"
(actual lyric - 'can i have your outfit')
david watts
'he is so gay and fancies me' rather than fancy free - ooops
:D
funny US commercial where Rock the Casbah
is playing.
Dude 1 is singing 'rock the cat box'
Dude 2 says "no, no. it's 'rob the cash box'"
Dude 1 is all: awl-right!
1&2 drive off: "rob the cash box, rob the cash box..."
eh?
thought it was
Bob Marley, poet and a prophet?
(Lady Marmalade)From my mother
'itchy itchy eye eye doctor'
Should be 'Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya dada'
yeah
that's the first time i think. second time is asking for the outfit.
unless that's another missheard lyric!
ah!
glad Im not going mad on the poet prophet thing.
SOME GEMS
http://www.rathergood.com/bunny_too_tight/
http://www.rathergood.com/holding/
http://www.rathergood.com/george/
A bloke that..
looks like Mick Hucknell comes into my work pretty often. I'm going to find it even harder not to laugh at him now.
l
http://www.rathergood.com/bill/
more
http://www.rathergood.com/elephants/
haha!
is that a picture of colin in bunny's too tight? haha!!
Kate Bush
"Out on the windy, windy moors, sweet Roland fell in Brie"
Actually
In that Razorlight song he sings...
"All my life, there's trouble in America"
But I hear...
"I CAN LICK MY OWN ANUS, I CAN LICK MY OWN ANUS, I CAN LICK MY OWN ANUS. FUCK OFF JONNY BORRELL YOU'RE NOT THE SAME SPECIES AS US. YOU'RE A FUCK. DIE IN A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. DIE. DIE."
Weird.