music

I used to believe…

when I was a kid I heard the Moody blues song ' Nights in White Satin' ..about the same time I must have heard or seen something about the Ku Klux clan and decided that that was what the song was about..' Knights in white satin sheets riding horses!!... For a long time I saw these posh white knights never reaching the end..!!

I used to believe…

When I was about 6 or 7, I had an aunt who would sing Paul McCartny's song Band on the Run, but she would sing Man on the Gun, so I would copy her when I was with my friends and got teased so bad for being so dumb

I used to believe…

Ok so, the Travis Tritt song "I smell T-R-O-U-B-L-E" was a source of much confusion for me as a child. In the song he sings the title... and since I hadn't quite learned how to spell and had no concept of letters themselves, I heard "I smell pee all over you and me." ... I always wondered why I got in so much trouble for wetting my pants when grown men did it all the time ... hahaha

I have always liked the Four Seasons, and when I was a little girl, I thought that Frankie Valli was singing, "Big girls small fry." I used to picture girls going to McDonald's.

I used to believe…

When I was 10 or so, in the mid-70s, a record company called K-Tel used to put out compilation albums of top-40 hits a couple of times a year. They used to advertise them heavily on TV - they would play little clips of some of the songs and name the singer: "Elton John! Hall & Oates! 10 cc! Helen Reddy!"... They always ended the list by saying "and Many more!"... For the longest time, I thought there was a VERY successful pop singer named "Manny Moore" who somehow ended up with a hit song on EACH K-Tel album released... I finally had to stand corrected when I asked my cousin Lucie if she had any good "Manny Moore" records I could borrow.... Took a while for me to live this down.

I used to believe…

In the Labryrith(dunno spelling) David Bowie song 'Dance Magic',I thought the lines "Slap that baby,make it breathe!" were "Slap that baby,make it pee!".Oh what a laugh me and my friends have now.

I used to believe…

wen my brother was little he used to always watch the movie grease. his favourite part was wen they sang the song grease lightening. the lyrics originaully go "go grease lightening im burning up a quart of mile. he thot it went go grese lightening a bunny in the court, oh my!!

I used to believe…

In Dave Matthew's "Sattelite," the original line is "Winter's cold spring erases" but somehow, even though I was in college at the time, I convinced myself it was "Winter's Come, survey says..." No more Family Feud for me...

I used to believe…

You know that oldies song that goes
"Come on peope now smile at your brother everybody get together try to love one another"
well when i was little i always thought it went
"Come people now smile your booger everybody get together try to love one another".
It was so funny hearing me sing it when I was little lol.

I used to believe…

There is this bit in Up Where we belong by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warner which goes "standing here together". My friend Heather was singing it in front of a group of people and sang "Stanley's gone forever". When they all stopped and looked at her she said " I know, who the hell is Stanley!"

I used to believe…

The first time I heard Jammin, by Marley, I was in a very fast car with the windows down. And I since I didn't know the name of the song, I thought that he was saying Vagina, when in fact he was saying Jammin'.

I hope you like vagina too.

I used to believe…

When I first heard Justin Timberlake's song Rock Your Body, I thought that he said a bad word on the lyrics: I wanna f*ck your body.

I used to believe…

Heres our versions of some Bee Gees songs
1) More than a woman -Bald headed woman
2)Night Fever-nice beaver
and the line in Staying Alive, where they sing 'its alright, its okay.....
we sang 'Its alright, its okay, you make love the other way'

But my friend had us laughing when she misheard the lyrics to the spice girls '2 become 1' the bit that goes 'I had a little love, now I'm back for more' she sings ' I had a little dove, now he's splattered on the floor' mad or what?

I used to believe…

We used to sing our own version of 'Karma Chameleon' like this ' come on, come on, come on, come on be a comedian' and the line that goes 'I'm a man, without coviction' we would sing 'I'm a man, without conditioner'

Then two others we misheard were 'Bad moon rising' by creedence clearwater revival as 'theres a baboon on the right' instead of 'theres a bad moon on the rise' and 'Brimful of Asha' was sang by us as 'grim poodle basher on the 45'

I used to believe…

When I first heard the Bon Jovi song You Give Love A Bad Name' i really believed they were singing 'Spatula Heart and your to blame, you give love to Batman'

Also our dad's version of the Joe Cocker/Jennifer Warnes song 'up where we belong' he sings 'No lift goes up where we belong' and he calls them 'Joe Cock up & Jennifer Wont'

I used to believe…

When Kate Bush first had a hit with the song 'Wuthering Heights' I and my sister then aged 8 & 10 actually thought the chorus went like this,

'Wee wee, its me, I'm a tree, I'm a wombat, so cold at the end of your winter'

And then we heard 'gypsies, tramps & thieves' by Cher, but thought she was singing 'Gipsy Chimpanzees'