Smiths mondegreens

(heard or accumulated online)

Young married couples in their tethered felt hats
[Young married couple in debt: ever felt had?]

Nature is an anguished tangerine.
[Nature is a language, can't you read?]

In Eng-land, the sun shines out of their behinds
[Hand in glove, the sun shines out of their behinds]

They never pull weeds in Birmingham but I don't care
[Liverpool, Leeds or Birmingham, I don't care]

Punch a bicycle.
On a hill say, "Yes, Ole!"
You've met your maker, "man of the year".
[A punctured bicycle on a hillside, desolate.
Will nature make a man of me yet?]

Send me your pills - the nurse said you might
[Send me your pillow - and I'll send you mine]

Now I know that you're a black belt
[And now I know how Joan of Arc felt]

London gurus, the late night stardom.
[Bending the rules at a latenight card game]

He couldn't get over your Grandma's odour
[He couldn't get over Grandma's Omen]

Some girls are bigger than ovens

Zsa Zsa Gabor, what's my life for?
And Yanni you'll never be
[The Piazza Cavour
What's my life for; Magnani you'll never be]

Sheena Tinklebow.
Boot the crime, and the swirled, and the crotch deal
[Sheila, take a bow, boot the grime of this world in the crotch, dear]

Haunted bicycle.
On a hillside, Desil lays.

I went to London and I booked myself in.
And why didn't you see? Eh?
[I went to London and I booked myself in at the YWCA]

There's panic on the streets.
I'll call Lyle.
Humpty Dumpty homicide.
[There's panic on the streets of Carlisle, Dublin, Dundee, Humberside]

Convinced that your town is a joke now, Hank the DJ.
[Provincial towns that you jog round.
Hang the DJ]

And in my darkened underpants...a strange fear gripped me

Still running round, ready with Reddi-wip
[Still running round Reading with ready wit]


NP::Oasis - Brotherly Love

This made my morning. Thank you.

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Nature is an anguished tangerine.

Only inaccurate lyrically?

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And in my darkened underpants...a strange fear gripped me

Isn't this also a David Yow lyric?

In high school, our group used a pejorative- "mancid."

As in "that movie was totally mancid," or "X & Y caused a scene at the party. It was mancid."

This originated with a friend who believed mancid was a synonym for unpleasant:

It's mancid, it's gruesome, that someone so handsome should care....

Of course, this was the same friend who believed a line from "Suffragette City to be

"the smell of fat chicks just puts a smile on my face."

Unconfirmed Cocteau Twins mondegreens. Talk about a Rorsharch Test!

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"Spazzing with Tina Marie. Let it go." - Sigh's Smell of Farewell

"My boyfriend said he was going to buy me a soda" - Sultitan Itan

"Quad on, M'kwan. Into your beans, bemoan the beans, the bone-mean collie." - Orange Appled

"Say 'love a peace-bending quail.' Amp in a while instead." - Aikea-Guinea

"How you been, seashell-sashay-school-boon-shoe-snow?" - Crushed

"Our monster cars are coming home." - Hitherto

"The scary wolves leave Hanson stains." - Hitherto

"Ping-pong-peach-sloe-pan-dough-pompadour." - Ivo

"Greedo's rear on the dole, the tidy bowl." - Ivo

"The pesky Moo Goo Gai Pan put me on the floor at Applebees." - Pandora

"Peanut butter! Peanut butter! Peanut butter! Peanut Butter!" - Pandora

"Twinkle toes. Pinched up nose. Enrique throes. Huffy-stuffy-wiles-if-you-can't-keep-the-cabbage-in-the-walls" - Lorelei

"Sparkles … The Pitbull … feels awful." - Eggs And Their Shells

"Committee buff the warm Irish setters. Go nostril wolfing like the walnuts say." - Iceblink Luck

"Where was the kickboxer going when that exquisite stuff hit?" - Iceblink Luck

"Tangle men's filth. See? It isn't so bad." - Cico Buff

"Sugar hiccup feels gauche. Makes the Ex-Lax Gal stumble." - Sugar Hiccup

"Send chinchillas to Laval, past the chilly lane. Or gorillas to Zion. Shimmy shimmy the salad tongs. Send puffins to Perpignan. - Aloysius

"Neener! Neener! A Binaca locker! Nina hoards cactus in her car!" - Donimo

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What fun. For obvious reasons, I've offered not a single "actual" translated lyric. If they exist, I don't wanna know. In this case, ignorance is indeed bliss.

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Sigur Ros anyone?

On a serious note, how's that new live album/DVD extravaganza?

This is the new stuff I don't mind singin'.

(This is the new stuff I go dancing in.)

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This is the new stuff I don't mind singin'

"Will you chauffeur me? I will chauffeur you!""

Crax me up every time!

If you're still not aware...

amiright.com

that's a site totally devoted to this stuff.

I'm sure that a list of R.E.M. mondegreens would be entertaining, but for now, I'm out of time. (I'm sorry.)

Mr. T Experience covered Can't Get There from Here, using a phonetic "best guess" approach to the lyrics, such as "When your hands are feeling icky" and "Donna Reed is not my mom!"

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I'm sure that a list of R.E.M. mondegreens would be entertaining, but for now, I'm out of time. (I'm sorry.)

Everybody

sometimes

"I am the sun and the air ..."

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YAWN!

I'm still going to take "Wrapped up like a douche" (blinded by the light) for the win. . .



Post Edited (02-16-13 13:31)

"Blinded by the light ... that never goes out?"

This Charming Manfred Mann?

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It's like grafting in the orchard. Fun! Fun! Fun!

A grafting process that just wouldn't work. . . the Six Million Dollar Morrissey is rejecting the bionics!