| Author | Message | ||
     Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 71 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bought Hatful of Hollow yesterday - up to now, had a "home taping is killing music" version. How in hell did I go 24 years singing the wrong lyrics to This Charming Man? I always thought it was "Parked your bicycle on a hillside, desolate", instead of Punctured bicycle! My universe, while not exactly turned on its head, has had a slight nudge. Has this had some major effect on my psyche? Now I'm wondering what other song lyrics I've mis-heard.. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 67 Registered: 05-2005 |
'Looking for Lewis and Clarke' always was and always will be 'Looking for Lewisham Park' in my mind | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 781 Registered: 09-2006 |
Was listening to Soft Bomb last night, and remembered this one, from "So Long" : "I've got 40 pounds of questions, questions." | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 775 Registered: 10-2004 |
On the song "Before Hollywood," I always misheard the line "make me last" as "make me lust." It always (and still does) sounded like "lust" to me, which of course puts a different spin on the meaning. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 272 Registered: 05-2005 |
I thought Kilbey was getting back at a sacked drummer in "Aura" when I thought he sung "Richard equals poorer"! On "Numbers", I thought he had become a rascist and sung "all the abos in the sticks"! And then there was always "Fuck the Kasbah" and "Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa, Fuck Fashion". | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 127 Registered: 05-2005 |
On the song Danger in the Past, I thought Robert sang "she knows some good people there in Perth ... Perth". What a complete fool I felt when I learned from another regular contributor that Robert apparently sang "she knows some good people from birth ... birth". Tickle me pink. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1814 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm pretty sure it is Perth. That's what I've always thought anyway. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 776 Registered: 10-2004 |
I thought it was "Perth" too. In fact, I recall countless show reviews where people would mentioned Robert *really* enunciating "Perth" very carefully when he would perform the song with Go-Betweens mach II. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1578 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm pretty sure it's Perth too. Maybe he changed the lyrics in live and demo versions? My classic, rather dumb Forster mishearing was "Draining the Pool for You." I thought the first line was "Remember Genet?" not "Remembered your name." The former makes no sense in context, but I clung to it until I got a version of SHF with a lyric sheet. Of course, he DID mention Genet in "Karen." | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 128 Registered: 05-2005 |
Birth ... Perth, it was only a joke. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 849 Registered: 10-2004 |
I just remembered that I used to think Grant sang "Won't you wither?" on the Ghost and the Black Hat, until I actually looked at the lyrics and saw "Won't you wear the?" | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 857 Registered: 09-2006 |
That one got me too, Jeff. "Inspirations have I none, just to touch the flaming duck." Bowie - "Soul Love" | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1958 Registered: 05-2005 |
Running in the family by Level 42: "we only see so far, and we all have our daddy's arse!" | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 366 Registered: 05-2005 |
I used to think Robert was singing "Me with pants on" instead of "me with hindsight" in Spring Rain... The video didn't help either - those were some very fine pants (the american usage, not the UK/Irl version)... BTW, Spence, I narrowly avoided one of those embarrassing 'coffee shooting out my nose' bursts of laughter - instead, I opted for the 'almost choke, tears streaming down my face' ones... | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 101 Registered: 05-2005 |
How I hate Level 42 ! TOTP party balloon waving grinning bass muso shitefest of the worst kind.... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2016 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilson, lighten up man for fucks sake! Befoe I tell you to fuck of big time! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 327 Registered: 04-2005 |
And I've just told Spence to lighten up over on the PF thread. Calm calm calm....'tis the season to be jolly... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1993 Registered: 05-2005 |
Looks like Wilson hit a nerve with Spence here, maybe he knows Spence failed his audition with Level 42  | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2021 Registered: 05-2005 |
No I passed the audtion Kev, I broke my thumb though! | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 61 Registered: 06-2005 |
My sister in law thought for years that Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers were singing about "Ireland's Industry, that is what we.. etc" They probably grossed the equivelent of our GDP at the time the song was released! |