music

I used to believe…

My son, who's just turned nine (bless him!), chanted this out the other day:

"Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Stabilise! Stabilise!"

Put this to the tune of to the tune of the Bee Gees' 'Staying Alive' and you'll see where the confusion comes in!

...I thought that in Jailhouse Rock, Elvis was singing "everybody in the wholesale block". And I'm not even Jewish!

I used to believe…

It's probably unfair to snitch on someone who's not here to defend himself, but someone I knew used to think Nirvana's "I'm a Negative Creep" was "I'm an egg in a tree". Oh for shame.

I used to believe…

me brothers and I were listening to the radio and mark said, "I don't get it, if he doesn't want her driving his car around, why doesn't he take the keys?" We were listening to Stevie Knicks and Tom Petty, the lyrics are "...stop dargging my 'heart' around...! bah!

I used to believe…

Embaressingly, i used to belt out th words.."when the blood is shed im alone with you" instead of.."with the birds ill share this lonely view" to the chilli's scar tissue!!!

I used to believe that when stars were called pre-madonna's (prima donnas) that it has something to do with the way Madonna used to act before she before famous or something...i still don't actually know what it means...

I used to think that the song "blinded by the light" had a verse in it that said "stunk up like a douch and a rubber in the night" now i can hear the lyrics more clearly i think it says"stuck out like an illusion in the middle of the night" who knew? my husband thought the same thing...

i used to think that van halen's panama was called cannonball. it was until i was about 16 that i realized my mistake.

I used to believe…

whe i was about 7 my mom,dad,sister and i were in the car on the way to dinner. the song "blinded by the light" came on and i thought the line was "wrapped up like a douche". it's actually "wrapped up like a deuce". hey...i was 7!

I used to believe…

may the muse of good music forgive me for this...

i used to think that Elvis Presley was Elton John, that the George from the Beatles was Boy George, and that George Michael was George Harrison. it took me years to sort them all out.

I used to believe…

When I was little, I always thought the song "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" by AC/DC was actually "Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief" and it was about a wrestler. "Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief...Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief"

I used to believe - well actually, somewhere inside I STILL believe - that in Michael Jackson's "Billy Jean", the refrain goes:

Billy Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who says that I am the one
BUT THE CHAIR IS NOT MY SON!

Alright, so it doesn't make much sense, but I like it that way. And MJ should sing clearer.

I used to believe…

One day on the way to school, my mom was singing along with the radio to the Beegee's song "More than a Woman", and I heard her say---"Bald-headed Woman, Bald Headed Woman to me", instead of More than a Woman!

I'll never forget the day my friend, Krissy, called me to tell me about this great new song, but she warned me that the lyrics were weird. I asked her to sing it. She sings "Hot potatoes, hot potatoes,...Hot potatoes. Hot potatoes, hot potatoes,...hot potatoes. Oh, oh, oh, hot potatoes." I cracked up! She was singing "Amadeus"!

I used to believe…

My sister always got the lyrics to songs wrong. For the longest time she thought the Eagles' song Witchy Woman was really saying "Oooh ooh Wind-chilly Woman!"

i used to think that the manfred mann/bruce springsteen song 'Blinded By the Light' went:

Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
In the middle of the night...

after awhile, i realized that this COULDNT be what was intended. but it wasnt until today that i found out the correct lyrics:

Blinded by the light
revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night...