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.
