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Friday 5...Misheard Lyrics

6/4/2012

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Not convinced...
Last month we had a Friday 5 that contained a little incident, a revelation if you will for both Squeamish Kate and Squeamish Louise. Squeamish Louise learned that Kylie Minogue was singing LA LA LA and not NA NA NA as her ohrwurm had been singing in her head and Squeamish Kate learned that she has little patience when it comes to LA LA LAs and NA NA NAs.  

However it got us to thinking about other misheard lyrics. It’s yet another subject the internet has changed. Time was any disagreement over lyrics would have to wait for the next issue of Smash Hits and the song lyrics pages to vindicate one sharper eared person. Now as a driver sings along in the car to one of their favourite songs the passenger can inform them not only are they wrong but convince them to pull over and Google the lyrics. Here are our 5 misheard song lyrics...

1. Gareth has trouble with The Who’s Eminence Front: “which for years I thought had a chorus that went  ‘M&Ms for lunch, M&Ms for lunch’, but is apparently the title of the song repeated and not a request for what they want waiting for them backstage (presumably with all the brown ones removed). Also one of Oasis’s songs – apparently the line is ‘you’re the one that saves me’ but I’m sure they are actually telling someone they’re the one who will go to Sainsbury’s.  To pick up M&Ms.”

2. F1 Kate is quite the fan of misheard lyrics, “I used to have a book full of misheard lyrics. My favourites:

Clown control to Mao Tse Tung = Ground control to Major Tom

I've got shoes, they're made of plywood = I got chills, they're multiplying”

3. Squeamish Nicola can’t hear the subtle difference between ‘disco ball’ and ‘just got home’. Put on Madonna’s single Ray of Light on and listen to her sing “And I feel like a disco ball, and I feel like a disco ball and I feeeeeeeeeeeel…”

4. For all her lyric correction Squeamish Kate is not too hot on lyrics either. “I only recently realised at a friend’s album launch that he was not singing ‘F**k you ENCHILADA!’ but ‘F**k you, and your Mama’. Which makes much more sense, but I shall miss thinking ‘wow, enchiladas get Tigercats really worked up.’ For ages I recommended people listen to Paul Simon’s Optimum Child, took an embarrassing iTunes search to realise I meant The Obvious Child.”

5. We already know about Squeamish Louise’s difficulties with LA LA LA and NA NA NA so instead let’s have an anecdote:

I got into Suede when I was 12, and bought the album Coming Up* on tape and listened to it a lot (like, wore the tape out lot). One of my favourite songs was Chemistry Between Us, which still gets stuck in my head fairly often.

But it was only when I was out dancing in my mid 20s, and the song came on, that somethin dawned on me... I had always assumed, in my young naivete, that the lyrics 'class a, class b, is that the only chemistry between us' were about a young couple who were in different classes at school (a and b), and the only lesson they had together was Chemistry. I'm pretty sure I stood on the dancefloor and yelled "oh my god, this song is about DRUGS!" What can I say? I was a very innocent child!

*and while writing this it has literally JUST dawned on me that that is a drug reference too. These crazy bands
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Glen
5/4/2012 06:55:30 pm

When I was a kid I listened to a lot of older music, 60's and early 70's mostly. One of my favourite bands was 'The Stranglers' and particularly their lovely summer chill out song 'Golden Brown'.

So at the tender age of 10 I was in the process of choosing which secondary school I was going to attend and all that sort of business which is, fundamentally both incredibly stressful and incredibly boring. In the middle of being shown around one school, in the desperate hope that 'This is a class room, This is another class room' might become slightly less dull, I was singing to myself.

It might be good to mention that social niceties and etiquette are not things that come naturally to me and when I was younger I spent even less time than I do now paying attention to my surroundings and doing little things like learning the rules of how not to seem like a total weirdo. As an aside, we really really need better monitoring and management of Aspie spectrum kids.

Anyway, long story short, it turns out that 'Golden Brown' isn't about relaxing in the summer sunshine with your lover, but is ACTUALLY about heroin. And I was being shown around the school with the worst reputation for drug abuse and violence in the entire area. And my poor mother had to very quietly explain to me that people were looking at me strangely because, a) I wasn't paying a blind bit of attention to where I was or what the head teacher of the school was saying and that b) I was singing about drugs.

For the record,

"Golden brown, texture like sun,
Lays me down, through my mind she runs,
throughout the night, no need to fight,
never a frown with golden brown"

Totally about chilling out in the warmth of a summer evening with your lover. Who happens to be in a syringe...

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Squeamish Kate link
7/4/2012 05:27:40 pm

I remember someone informing me Golden Brown was about an English Breakfast.

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Becca
6/4/2012 12:22:48 am

Ahahahaha!! Have just laughed til I cried at f&@k you enchilada! Shame I was on my own in the middle of a restaurant at the time! Now fellow diners are looking at me strangely!

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Squeamish Kate link
7/4/2012 05:29:44 pm

And what did you order? You should refer all your fellow diners to Squeamishbikini.com!

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Not sqeamish Neil
20/4/2012 05:43:28 am

You the one that I want from grease always has me thinking of vol-au-vents. You are the Vol-au-vent, oh oh oh honey

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Squeamish Kate link
22/4/2012 07:43:52 pm

For a long time I don't think I was aware anyone was even singing lyrics on Grease, everything sounded a lot like WAHLAWALAWALALA so I understand this misinterpretation

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