Tuesday 23 August 2011

Ten Misheard Lyrics

Yes, it's childish, but misheard lyrics have ALWAYS made me laugh. What can I say? They're silly. I'm partial to silly, so on with the list!

Back when I was a teenager, we had cassette tapes. Really. Ask anyone who was around back then and they'll tell you how essential these things were, you borrowed your mates LP's and taped them. You taped the Top 40 off Radio One every week. Musically speaking, existence wasn't possible without them.
My point is, one of the manufacturers of tapes was Maxell - who changed the shape of British advertising by being FUNNY. The two links that follow are for British tv ads that had me howling with laughter and still do. Yes they're misheard lyrics!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxELSzay2lc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AVr6EAbQPQ&NR=1&feature=fvwp


Green Day. Love 'em. But check out Static Age... lyric video  because I swear during the chorus he sings "I can't see Billie in the video..." Maybe it's just me??

My Chemical Romance... well I did promise they'd make an appearance in every blog! These are my three favourite misheard lyrics from those lovely Jersey boys...

Drowning Lessons. This is a two for one! When Gee sings "and dressed in red and blue I screamed..." I ALWAYS hear "red and blue ice creams". Strangely, when he sings "as rice grains and roses fall at your feet" I hear "as ice creams and roses fall at your feet". An addiction to ice cream is possibly responsible for this, you decide - lyric video without ice cream here

House of Wolves. This little piece of hilarity comes courtesy of  @Rayne_MCRmy (if you're not following her, you damn well should be) who gave me permission to share with you the fact that, according to her brother, Gee does not, in fact, sing "Tell me I'm an angel" but instead sings "Tell me I'm a ninja"  I cannot express how much I wish this was real!! link to lyric video, ninjas optional

The third and final misheard MCR song appears in Honey, this mirror isn't big enough for the two of us and is one I was convinced I had not misheard. After repeated listening (and wearing out my copy of Bullets, I'm STILL convinced.
The lyric in the booklet says "And you can't keep my brother, and you won't fuck my friends"... but the lyric in the song (still convinced haha) says "and you can't keep my brother, and you won't fuck my Frank".
 I will admit to being a freak when it comes to Gerard, Frank and the whole stage-gay thing, but seriously, go to 2:35 (I didn't need to look up that timing, oh dear me) and you'll see (or hear) what I mean!   lyric vid with bonus pretty pics :) 

This next one isn't actually a misheard lyric, but rather a deliberately mis-sung lyric. We tend to do this a lot in my house, and I'm tempted to blog on the subject...
Anyway. The song is Last Resort by Papa Roach, the actual lyric is "Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort". The version sung in our house is "Cut my life into pizzas, this is my plastic fork"   It doesn't sounds remotely like Jacoby Shaddix sings that, it's just our preferred version. Boring version here.

Zero Percent. This isn't a misheard lyric.... but it should be. Hannah and I were convinced it was, after all why would Gerard Way write, let alone SING "I'm dressing up like a cat!"  or indeed "And turning into some rats!" !?!?  Mad Gear & Missile Kid... Gotta love 'em. awesome song with silly lyrics

For my final (and possibly favourite) misheard lyric I take you here BWAH AHA HAHAHA!  It's not so much the lyric, as the story the guy posted about it. Check it out - if you don't laugh you should probably see a doctor right away as you may be dead or a victim of some random sense-of-humour bypass.

Okay I make that ten, so I'm out of here - if you have any favourite misheard lyrics PLEASE comment and share them!








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