| therhyeman 28.02.2009 10:31 |
Does anyone else have a favourite misheard Queen lyric? For years I thought that the last line of the chorus of Killer Queen was "they say she pulled an appetite, what a drag!" I still sing it that way to myself, and I still think it sounds like it :) Not to mention Bohemian Rhapsody's "Spare him his life for these Walls Sausages" (probably only relevant to UK members) ... |
| 4 x Vision 28.02.2009 10:42 |
I had a bad copy of GHII on cassette when i was 13... I loved "The Miracle", but the tape had no song list... I heard it as "it's America"...it's what i sang for ages until got the Miracle CD lol Would never have made sense these days... "The one thing were all waiting for is peace on earth - an end To war Its America we need - America" |
| john bodega 28.02.2009 10:54 |
I don't have any favourites or humourous ones, but I'd have to say the most popular one would be : "Hit me with a window", or "Hit me where the wind blows". From Bohemian Rhapsody. It's understandable, it does sound a little like that. Doesn't make a lot of sense though. |
| thomasquinn 32989 28.02.2009 11:02 |
Zebonka's Tiny Ding-a-ling wrote: I had a bad copy of GHII on cassette when i was 13... I loved "The Miracle", but the tape had no song list... I heard it as "it's America"...it's what i sang for ages until got the Miracle CD lol Would never have made sense these days... "The one thing were all waiting for is peace on earth - an end To war Its America we need - America" Be careful! The last person who wrote like that became a rich Washington speech-writer. |
| Yogurt 28.02.2009 11:38 |
Zebonka's Tiny Ding-a-ling wrote: I had a bad copy of GHII on cassette when i was 13... I loved "The Miracle", but the tape had no song list... I heard it as "it's America"...it's what i sang for ages until got the Miracle CD lol Would never have made sense these days... "The one thing were all waiting for is peace on earth - an end To war Its America we need - America" Haha!!! That cracked me up. |
| EdFredrick 28.02.2009 17:22 |
When I was growing up and playing albums at home a family member thought "Keep yourself alive" sounded like "Jesus of the Night". It does sort sound like that sometimes and even years later, once in a while i still here it that way. |
| Yara 28.02.2009 18:00 |
I think I misheard every single one of them. Not being an English speaker, things got worse. So many... I remember I tought it was "I want to break free from this life, it's all satisfied, I don't need you...". For me the beginning of "Let Me Entertain You" always sounded like: "It's the sound. Every one of you ladies and...", instead of "it's a sell out, let me welcome you...". "Rich or "pouring famous" (I don't know how I came about with this instead of the more simple verse) for the truth is all a shame", in Hammer To Fall. This one I misheard almost in its entirety: "Make the bet", "Lady Marcy"... In Radio GaGa: "A background force for girls and boys, who just don't know and just don't care, and just don't blame where you're not there...", and then: "We watch the shows, we watch the stars, our meals (!), for hours and hours". In We are the Champions: "I've taking my vows, my judge and cause..." (!!!!!!!)... And on and on and on...there's not a single Queen song that I haven't entirely or partially misheard. |
| JoxerTheDeityPirate 01.03.2009 05:53 |
me old mate Keith always thought "a machine of a dream" was "i shit up a tree" One Vision: "look what they've done to Mike Read" |
| vonkeil 01.03.2009 06:06 |
'Breakthru' -->> Grapefruit... |
| Soul Brother 01.03.2009 08:30 |
From 'Who Wants To Live Forever'....... "Then touch my tears, with your lips; Touch my WARTS with your fingertips"!!!! |
| john bodega 01.03.2009 08:52 |
I always thought it was 'touch my toes'. |
| OoCleopatraoO 01.03.2009 09:06 |
My mam thought that in Bohemian Rhapsody the lyric 'Spare him his life form this monstrocity' was 'Spare him his life for his pork sausages'!! And whenever we listen to the song she sings it that way!! At length, loudly, even in public!! |
| papermoon 01.03.2009 09:59 |
I have a friend who told me she for a veeery long time thought "When love must die" in Who Wants To Live Forever was "I love my style!" Suitably, right? XD |
| A Word In Your Ear 01.03.2009 12:24 |
JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote: One Vision: "look what they've done to Mike Read" That's what Peter Kaye said at the Q+PR Hyde Park 2005 gig, when he played his Tape machine, along with lots of other artists misheard lyrics. |
| Rick 01.03.2009 12:26 |
Sail Away Sweet Sister: "You're all messed up like a lady..." |
| JoxerTheDeityPirate 01.03.2009 13:07 |
A Word In Your Ear wrote:thing is I first got it mentioned on Bruno Brookes radio1 show 20 years earlier lolJoxerTheDeityPirate wrote: One Vision: "look what they've done to Mike Read"That's what Peter Kaye said at the Q+PR Hyde Park 2005 gig, when he played his Tape machine, along with lots of other artists misheard lyrics. |
| Marcos Napier 01.03.2009 15:54 |
"I've paid my juice" in the Robbie Williams WATC. Wait a second, I think everybody heard that too. |
| A Word In Your Ear 01.03.2009 15:58 |
JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote:A Word In Your Ear wrote:thing is I first got it mentioned on Bruno Brookes radio1 show 20 years earlier lolJoxerTheDeityPirate wrote: One Vision: "look what they've done to Mike Read"That's what Peter Kaye said at the Q+PR Hyde Park 2005 gig, when he played his Tape machine, along with lots of other artists misheard lyrics. Thing is, when you think it says Mike Reid, in fact that's what you hear. Lol. Strange!!!!!! |
| jadedlady 01.03.2009 17:27 |
Laughing out loud at some of these post, really good ones. |
| danwhite89 02.03.2009 12:21 |
I used to think One Vision said Fried Chicken. How daft I was. It's the last lyric. |
| L-R-TIGER1994 02.03.2009 12:32 |
"Pillow biters coming home,bloody righteous and mentally slow" from Strange Frontier. |
| Cwazy little thing 02.03.2009 17:34 |
One old chesnut is "Is this the real life, is this just Battersea?" I think I once thought the lyric from Crazy Little Thing was "it shakes all over like a jelly bean" which was probably just my stomach talking. Dont Stop Me Now - "Im a station-ship ready to reload...." thats probably just down to being too young and innocent to get up to speed with the correct line, haha! There were countless other lyrics I misheard in my youth but sadly having learnt the correct ones I've forgotten the amusing gibberish! Still, none of us appear to be as bad as the charming German fellow during Now Im Here on the bootleg from Berlin 1978- just before the song kicks off again towards the end after "Down in the city just you and me" (check it out at about 3.41) some nutcase yells his personal interpretation of that line, which is, lets be honest, just hilarious gibberish - cracks me up something rotten everytime! I dont mean to take the mick out of someone for whom English is not a first language, but it really tickles me, haha! Funny guy! |
| JoxerTheDeityPirate 02.03.2009 18:24 |
just been listening to Action This Day and an old misheard lyric from when God was a boy came flooding back to me.you got to remember that when i first heard this it was 1982 on a crackly 33rpm LP [thats my excuse and im sticking to it] "bow man jani living in a rats face" |
| 4 x Vision 02.03.2009 19:40 |
GOFLB Heard it in on the radio going from Glasgow to Edinburgh very shortly after I just got into Queen. "ooooh lava boy" |
| mrbadguy86 03.03.2009 04:01 |
I always think DON'T STOP ME NOW have this line in it; Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time.. I'M HAVING A BOY! Don't stop me now... it makes a kind of sense so.. why not? lol :D |
| YourValentine 03.03.2009 04:35 |
One of my favourite topics. There used to be a website collecting misheard lyrics but it's long gone. I like two categories the most: - when it really sounds like it for example the famous "anti-Russian headnogg" and "he used to be a man with his dick in his hand" (Headlong) or the widespread "I'm here in secret harmonies" (AKOM) More examples: Now didn't you feel surprised to find the captions didn't fit (..the cap just didn't fit) "Ogre Battle") Now Mary's in an institution (marriage is an institution "Good Company") No model man can win this day (..mortal man "AKOM") Your face feels like mine (...fills my mind "Breakthru") Horny (headlong backwards at the end of the song) - or when people cannot make any sense of the unusual words they hear and think up something similar - closing the gap from their own vocabulary. examples: Well I loved a million women and a Belly Dancer Caze ( .. in a belladonic haze "Keep Yourself Alive") She keeps her mower and shovel in a pretty cabinet (Moet et Chandon "Killer Queen") Middle Man from China, conjugation minor ( met a man from China, went down to Geisha Minah "Killer Queen") I challenge the mighty Titan and his stupid horse (... and his troubadours "Seven Seas Of Rhye") Caught a moose, caught a moose (Scaramouche, Scaramouche "BoRhap") Let the Addams Family cover it all (Let the anaesthetic cover it all "Hammer To Fall") |
| inu-liger 03.03.2009 04:49 |
YourValentine wrote: I challenge the mighty Titan and his stupid horse (... and his troubadours "Seven Seas Of Rhye") I LOL'd at that one xD |
| JoxerTheDeityPirate 03.03.2009 04:59 |
inu-liger wrote:many years ago when Karaoke first hit the scene here in the UK,that line actually came up on the screen when i was singing [term used loosely] the song in the pub.it cost me £20 in winnings as i lost the plot and laughed hysterically and couldnt finish the song..YourValentine wrote: I challenge the mighty Titan and his stupid horse (... and his troubadours "Seven Seas Of Rhye")I LOL'd at that one xD |
| Saif 03.03.2009 08:59 |
JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote:Holy shit, that's really funny.inu-liger wrote:many years ago when Karaoke first hit the scene here in the UK,that line actually came up on the screen when i was singing [term used loosely] the song in the pub.it cost me £20 in winnings as i lost the plot and laughed hysterically and couldnt finish the song..YourValentine wrote: I challenge the mighty Titan and his stupid horse (... and his troubadours "Seven Seas Of Rhye")I LOL'd at that one xD |
| queenside 03.03.2009 09:44 |
....radio someone still OWS you... ...you're so SATISFIED OUT ON ME YOU... friend of mine taught a line in WWTLF goes like this: who wants to live forever, I LOVE MY STYLE... i'm sure there is more that i cannot remember now |
| new one 03.03.2009 12:12 |
papermoon wrote: I have a friend who told me she for a veeery long time thought "When love must die" in Who Wants To Live Forever was "I love my style!" Suitably, right? XD Thats exactly what I thought was said there as well |
| beautifulsoup 03.03.2009 18:21 |
YourValentine wrote: - or when people cannot make any sense of the unusual words they hear and think up something similar - closing the gap from their own vocabulary. examples: Well I loved a million women and a Belly Dancer Caze ( .. in a belladonic haze "Keep Yourself Alive") ********************************************************************************************************************* Or, if you're me, "Well, I loved a million women in a bed of Danny Kaye's." Which, of course, is utterly ridiculous. [img=/images/smiley/msn/confused_smile.gif][/img] |
| new one 03.03.2009 19:23 |
"Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking" Saturday night under pressure at burger king And it wasn't until I heard Paul Rodgers sing AKOM that I realise it was "I'm hearing secret harmonies" I always heard I'm hear in secret harmony. Oh well!! |
| Fireplace 04.03.2009 09:09 |
For the Dutchies: The last line of Mustapha clearly says: "Allah coupe soleil, hey!" Or maybe not.... |
| A_WintersTale 04.03.2009 15:28 |
This was the most wonderful and hilarious topic on this board for ages! OMG, I laughed my guts out! I add my contribution: "Rrrrrrrrrroger Taylor" in "The Invisible Man" = "Donatello" I still have problems with the back vocals on "Ride the Wild Wind", at some point they sing "hey, hey, hey" but then they sing something else, which I still don't know what it is. It sounds like "BCP", which is a local communist party, which is utterly ridiculous. and "mamma, life has just begun" sounded just as "seichas" begun, which is the same but in Russian. |
| JoxerTheDeityPirate 04.03.2009 17:12 |
im going down to eat the Lords cheeses |
| Yara 04.03.2009 20:40 |
A_WintersTale wrote: This was the most wonderful and hilarious topic on this board for ages! OMG, I laughed my guts out! I add my contribution: "Rrrrrrrrrroger Taylor" in "The Invisible Man" = "Donatello" I still have problems with the back vocals on "Ride the Wild Wind", at some point they sing "hey, hey, hey" but then they sing something else, which I still don't know what it is. It sounds like "BCP", which is a local communist party, which is utterly ridiculous. and "mamma, life has just begun" sounded just as "seichas" begun, which is the same but in Russian. This topic rocks. Haha. Problem is exactly what you said: once we get the wrong lyrics in our heads, it's just damn hard to get rid of them, it still lingers on the mind. I think in many cases because, having misheard the lyrics, we try to make sense of what we listen to and we begin to relate to this meaning we have ourselves created through the song, so it's hard to get rid of the thing. Some of the misheard ones posted here are actually better than the original...hehehe. There's a hardly a single Queen song I haven't misheard. Funny things: get bugged down in the same verses as many other people: of "Keep Yourself Alive", for instance. It begs to be misheard, it seems. I'd never have guessed: "I loved a million women in a belladonic haze". So I made "I loved too many women and I'm better fornicated" out of it, given the information I had: Freddie was gay and so on. It never ends. For instance: "Man on the proud" instead of "Man on the prowl". I thought: "The man on a proud mood, thinking he's the best..."...hahaha. The extent to which I went to give the lyrics some meaning simply because I had no idea of the existence of the word "prowl". But I didn't fill all the gaps. There were things I couldn't get at all, and I didn't make anything out of it - I just sang a "da-da-da" along and that was it. Hehe. |
| queenside 04.03.2009 21:08 |
Freddie Mercury line in invisible man-for years i thought they say FREDDIE KRUGER |
| rmtfictionqueen 11.03.2009 03:20 |
For the longest time I thought the line in "Hammer to Fall" of "let the anesthetic cover it all..." was "let the ass bandit cover it all..." That actually stayed with me until I got the karaoke dvd that had the words on it to correct myself. These are hilarious btw. |
| queenizzy 13.03.2009 23:52 |
I thought the same about Who Wants To Live Forever, I thought he said "Ohh I love my style." Haha. Ogre battle: Now once upon a time, an old man sold me a bagel. =P |
| emma246000 14.03.2009 10:09 |
LOL! LOL! LOL! This is hilarious! Thanks for posting guys! [img=/images/smiley/msn/regular_smile.gif][/img] |
| emma246000 14.03.2009 13:11 |
I thought the line "Screw My Brain Till It Hurts" from the song "Death On Two Legs" was "Cool My Brain Till It Hurts"! Whoops!! LOL! [img=/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif][/img] |
| emma246000 16.03.2009 04:47 |
Just bumping this up as this is really hilarious! LOL! [img=/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif][/img] |
| therhyeman 16.03.2009 18:53 |
Glad you all like the thread, and glad it's not just me that mishears lyrics then! I forgot to mention in the original post about Killer Queen the "middle man from China" which I always thought made the song seem mysterious :) And I'm STILL convinced it's "they say she pulled an appetite". Well, it is, isn't it ...? [img=/images/smiley/msn/whatchutalkingabout_smile.gif][/img] Tim |
| princetom 16.03.2009 19:53 |
when i first had a listen to headlong, i mis-understood the "hoop-diddy diddy"-part for: "who did ? he did it ! who did him do ?" very odd indeed :-D but i was 16 years of age and not an native english-speaker. |
| queenizzy 16.03.2009 22:57 |
I have another one: Killer Queen Original lyric: Playful as a pussy cat I thought it was: Pray for us and pussy cats. XD I even thought, wow it explains Freddie's obsession with cats lol. |
| Nummer2 17.03.2009 08:51 |
One Year Of Love: "Once in a mental moment in your arms" Bicycle Race: "I don't want to be a Kennedy, be another Watergate" Love of my Life: "Because you don't know, what is teen's tea" (I'm convinced that he really sings that!) Who Wants To Live Forever: "I love my style" We Will Rock You: "Buddy you're an old man, poor man, bleeding with your eyes, gonna make you some bitch some day" Don't Stop Me Now: "Like in any bar, I'm gonna oh-oh-explode" |
| A_WintersTale 18.03.2009 05:19 |
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| i-Fred 20.03.2009 06:17 |
Great Post By the way!!! Hammer to Fall... theres ones part when it sound like rogers yelling... Hot Dog... Hot Doooogg The Mirical.... Its America..... Its America..... Innuendo.... Whilst the sun hangs in the sky and the desert has sex |
| Valentine '90 28.03.2009 05:55 |
From These Are The Days - when I look and I find - no chance. it always made me cry not mine greatest post, but you already mentioned another words :) |
| DAZH 28.03.2009 09:38 |
A line from Spread Your Wings "keeping is thoughts to himself"" sounds like" keeping his farts to himself". |
| jsc14 28.03.2009 14:06 |
Here Is My One - Under Pressure: "Saturday Nights Are Under Pressure With Crack" Original Lyrics: "Insanity Laughs Under Pressure We're Cracking |
| i-Fred 28.03.2009 18:24 |
dont you mean son and daughter for the cap just didnt fit??? good work otherwise.. |
| Yogurt 01.04.2009 22:14 |
For We Are The Champions. I've always known it was champions But one day (many years ago) while I was singing it to a friend "just goofying around" I accidently sang (and at the top of my lungs) WE ARE THE TAMPONS! Boy was he cracking up. And that's how we got our first date. |
| littlekillerham 11.04.2009 17:07 |
i always thought that in another one bites the dust it was you can beat him you can cheat him you can treat him fair and leave him when hes done, instead of you can beat him you can cheat him you can treat him bad and leave him when hes down. |
| Bigbrotherbp 12.04.2009 02:49 |
Scaramouche = Scar ambush. |
| Ms. Rebel 13.04.2009 11:47 |
queenizzy wrote:
I thought the same about Who Wants To Live Forever, I thought he said "Ohh I love my style." Haha.
Me too! xD |