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I used to think the words to Chumbawumbas "tubthumping' were "i hate no doubt/ but i get over it/ but im never gonna like no doubt/" seeing as I loved no doubt (still do) I hated that song!!!

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Many of my friends in high school used to believe that the 'eifel 65' song "Blue" chorus was "I'm blue I'm in need of a guy". Which makes much more sence than the real lyrics of "ba da dee da do die". THats not even english.

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When I was 9 or 10 I heard Nena's "99 Red Balloons (or Luft Balloons)" for the first time. I thought on one part it said "99 decision trees" instead of "99 decision street." I also had a lot of other beliefs about the lyrics in this song. When she said, "You and I in a little toy shop" I thought she said "You and I and a little toshou" thinking that toshou was some foreign word for child or dog. My last one is when it says "panic bells, it's red alert" I thought she said, "panic birds, it's red alert." Until I looked the lyrics up, I had always wondered what a decision tree was, what language "toshou" was, and what birds had to do with the 3rd world war. :)

I recently got a CD with 12 80's new wave songs on them. (I'm 11 and an 80's freak!) Well I had heard the chorus of Devo's "Whip It" before but didn't know any of the rest of the song. So when they did the, "Now whip it. Into shape. Shape it up.." I didn't know it. When they said "Try to detect it" I thought they said, "tatooed detective." I was like, "What does a tatooed detective have to do with this song?"

I thought that in Donna Summer's "On The Radio", she said "On the radiator"!! My grandma and sister were always laughing at me and they told me I was wrong. I found out the right lyrics when I was like 8. Whenever that song comes on the radio, they still make fun of me...

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my uncle and dad have argued this for years...in the song Henery the Eighth my uncle swears the line goes "She's been married several times before" when obviously it is "seven times before" if this Henery bloke is number 8 on her list...jeez

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Def Leppard (I think it was Def Leppard, forgive me should I be wrong) sang "Panama".
Are you positive it wasn't "Enema"?

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Every (former)child in my family has a copy of the record "The Muppets Christmas With John Denver". Just a few Christmases ago we were all sitting around talking about it, and my sister and cousins were saying something about how much fun it must have been to record it. I casually observed how funny it was that it was an album supposedly made by singing puppets, and they all looked at me like I had just shoved Santa off the roof. Even though they were in their late 20's/early 30's, they still believed that the album had been recorded in some giant studio, with John Denver really surrounded by all the Muppets, who were really all being worked by the puppeteers so they were "singing along".

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A very long time ago when Saturday Night Live was in its infancy, and I was just out of mine, Billy Joel did a guest spot. I can still remember him sitting at the piano, playing and singing -- and how proud I was that my Uncle Billy was on tv! At least until my mother pointed out that not every male with a beard named Billy was my Uncle Billy (to be fair, they did actually look somewhat alike). For years afterwards I still thought there was a chance that my Uncle Billy had a piano hidden somewhere in his house, and that everybody was lying to me because they were afraid I'd tell all my friends, and then they'd all want autographs.

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At university, we over heard a friend of mine singing along to Boy George's "Karma Chameleon" - except she was singing "Come-a, come-a, come-a, come-a, come-a to me, Leon". Which, when you consider that that phrase is the title of the song, is pretty bad. Earlier that term she had cut herself with a spoon. Enough said.

I used to have this obsession with the play Cats and used to sing the Jellicle Song all the time. My friend could'nt understand why I was singing a song about 'Jellycones' She thought I was singing about dancing cups of jelly.
And also she though "saying skimble where is skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble" was "saying skimble where is skimble he's up a tree". weird!

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When I was really little I watched sesame street and my favourite song was a parody of Madonna's Material Girl called Cereal Girl, because I also walways ate cereal. My Aunt had a disco for her birthday once and they played the real version, and when I heard someone say something about 'the real material girl' i naturally assumed that they were talking about me.

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When I was really little I'd only heard of Michael Jackson, never seen him. My parents were watching tv and there was one of his videos on, in which a mob break into an old spooky mansion and Michael Jackson was dancing there. I thought that M.J. was a girl and therefore this old man with glasses who was the head of the mob was Michael Jackson. I like my MJ better.

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A few years ago I used to think No Doubt (Gwen Stefani) was a hip-hop band because the song "No Diggity, No Doubt" by blackstreet boys was hip-hop and I got confused with the words No Doubt thinking only "gangstas" and "thugs" used that phrase.

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When I was about 5 I was watching Barney and how people started singing and automatically music came. I thought it was possible so I went into my room and starting singing but no music played.

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My best friend of 20 years believed when we were kids that the song by Bon Jovi "Living on a Prayer" was actually called "Living on a Prairie". My dad still thinks that is funny to this day.