songs

I was about 10 when I heard the song "Squeezebox" by The Who. I asked my older brother what the lyrics meant, "Momma's got a squeeze box she wears on her chest and when Daddy come home he never get no rest, 'cause she's playing all night, and the music's all right - Mama's got a squeeze box, Daddy never sleeps at night," etc. He told me it was about an accordion. I believed him until I was in college.

Joy

My mom used to like to sing along to the song "Honky-Tonk Women," but she didn't want to sing songs with anything vaguely resembling sexual overtones around her small children, so she changed the lyrics to say "Those Honky-Tonk Babies, Give me the honky-tonk blues." I wondered what a honky-tonk was, why there were so many babies there, and why they gave the singer the blues for the longest time before I heard the song without my mother singing along with the radio.

Anon

In elementary school, for the variety show, soemone I know said that they're group was doing the song Soul man, but I thought she said This old man, like the nursery rhymes, so I was very surprised during the performance.

Aeris

When I was in fourth grade, I used to think that "One Headlight" by the Wallflowers was called "Watermelon Money".

jeska

When I was a kid, my parents would only listen to folk or classical music, but never jazz. The only place I could hear jazz was in the local supermarket, as a background music. So when we'd accidentaly hear any jazz music on the radio, my brother and me would go: "hey, listen, that's the music from the supermarket!".

Denis

I used to believe that singers and musicians performed their studio recordings completely "live": they'd step into the studio, play and sing (while the next band was already in the waiting room), and got out 40 minutes later. I used to think this had to be stressful. Further more, I was wondering how that was possible when you sometimes hear the singer starting a new melody while he's still finishing the previous line.

Denis

At the age of three I asked my grandmother who loved opera why the conductor guy on the tape thinger had bad hair. She said it was because he waved around his arm so much that it made wind that blew his hair around. I still believed this up until last week when I was told that otherwise!

Mandy Gordon

I used to believe Radiohead sang "Kiss from a Rose" before I knew what the song was called. I have no idea why I thought this.

Lucy

My family and I go to this pizza place. At the pizza place there are mini juke boxes at each table. When i was little I always wanted to play Achey Braky Heart by the Chipmunks. My parents told me if I played that song i would arrested! Let me tell you, I steared clear of that song for a while!

Anon

I used to think the Aaron Carter song "I want Candy" was about sex, lol.

AJ

I used to believe that songs didnt have lyrics, and singers were making just pointless meaningless melodic sounds.

Anon

My littler girl (when she was 7) was listening to her big sister (who was 16)'s Eminem CD, when she called me over and said "look mommy the guy is making beeping noises!"

must watch what my kids are listening to

I used to think that the song "Cocaine" was "Cocoa." I would go around the house singing "she don't like... cocoa."

Jenn

ok this is really sad but until i read here i thought conductors of orchesters did tell the musicians what notes to play? what do they really do?

Anon

When I was little, I had this superstition that if I said the word "die", I would die. So whenever I heard a song on the radio with 'The Word' in it, I would substitute a word that sounded the same (like cry or try)....my parents thought I was very odd...

Anon