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What is Mellencamp's popularity/playlist like in the rest of the country: Heavy, frequent, sometimes, spotty, who?

Your local JACK-FM station will play him pretty regularly. Incidentally, the Highlander (as a part of his always ruining the lines and artists of songs I like) always calls him John Cougar Menstrualcramp.

On that note, is there anyone else who deliberately mispronounces lines in songs, titles of songs, artist's names, etc? The Highlander has turned Billy's Idol "Eyes Without a Face" into "My Voice Don't Match My Face", ("They say I can't sing, they say I sound like Bing...") has changed the lines from "She's a Bad Mama Jama" (She's foxy, classy...Oh, sexy, sassy" to "She's foxy, classy...Looks like Fred Vlassie") and other horrors I can't recount at school. I used to get all mad about it (especially with my favorite songs and artists), but now it's part of the thing we do to crack each other up. I've started calling Roland Orzibal from Tears for Fears Rolypoly Balls and last night went into a long rendition of "Tainted Love" after seeing the spindly legs on the newborn calves in the fields by our place ("Spindly legs (moo-ooo-ooo-ooo) spindly legs...don't ask me, please, I cannot give you milk or...CHEESE!)

Anyone else this twisted? :-)

The S & H

Do you know Colonel Bogey? It's a march, and my father (who grew up in Liverpool during the war amidst very anti-German rhetoric) used to sing:

Hitler has only got one ball
Goering has two but rather small
Himmler is somewhat similar
And Goebel has no balls at all

That perky, delightful little tune is destroyed for me forever! My mother says there are other songs that he ruined for her, too, but she won't share them.

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Do you know Colonel Bogey?

I like this one! In high school, it was my favorite song to play (I was in band).

Desi

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Anyone else this twisted

You know it! This is the only way I can get through many days of listening to soft rock at my job. My boss is also very fond of singing and humming the wrong words to songs.

One of my favorites is when my hubby was little he thought "Our Lips are Sealed" by the Go-Go's was "Alex the Seal". He will never live that one down.

There was a book that I saw once called "There's a Bathroom on the Right" (Bad Moon on the rise) or something like that, full of misunderstood lyrics. It was hilarious.

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My boss is also very fond of singing and humming the wrong words to songs.

My dad is the king of replacing various words of songs with raspberries. He also walks around the house singing Oreo cookie commercial jingles from the '60s.

I do replace the occaisional lyric, but of course I can't think of any off the top of my head. But I really enjoy re-naming artists. Like Xtina Skankulera (instead of Christina Aguilera) and Bun Bun the Cuddle Bear (instead of Marilyn Manson). I can't take credit for that last one, my friends thought of that, but I think it's so funny. Here is a guy who spends the majority of his time trying to offend/shock people and we call him the cuddle bear. :D Love it!

-gollygee

We always called Hootie and the Blowfish-Bootie and the Ho-fish and the Dixie Chicks we call the Chixie D*cks.

Also the Foreigner song "Urgent" my sis and I always sang "Gertrude" and "Send me forget-me-nots" was "make me some jiffy pop"


We always switch lyrics and group names around!

I think the more he sings about the heartland of America the more he becomes qualified to be the official voice of America. He used to be all over the radio down here in Tennessee, but he is sort of waning now. I think it must be time for something new from him. The oldies stations play him steady in there rotation, but the modern easy rock stations don't play him near as much as they used to. That is a pity!

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One of my favorites is when my hubby was little he thought "Our Lips are Sealed" by the Go-Go's was "Alex the Seal". He will never live that one down.

There was a book that I saw once called "There's a Bathroom on the Right" (Bad Moon on the rise) or something like that, full of misunderstood lyrics. It was hilarious.

Yeah, the book was called "Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy" and is all about misheard lyrics. But I meean doing it on PURPOSE! As in, you know the right words but choose NOT to use them! :-)

One of my favorites is when my hubby was little he thought "Our Lips are Sealed" by the Go-Go's was "Alex the Seal". He will never live that one down

I had a friend who said Oscar the Seal, i thought he was crazy.
Its called a MONDEGREN when you mishear a lyric. I was so disapointed when I saw that book cuz I had collected a few hundred of them and was looking to create a book of them.

There was a book that I saw once called "There's a Bathroom on the Right" (Bad Moon on the rise) or something like that, full of misunderstood lyrics. It was hilarious.

I think the 2nd book was called, "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" (kiss the sky).

Pink Houses

Or as I say it , "little bitty cows for you and me"

The Mild Mannered Piper thought that Led Zepplin was "Goin' to California with her naked in my car", which is arguably more interesting than with an achin in my heart.

There's a website with misheard lyrics

http://www.amiright.com/

And of course, "Dirty Deeds and they're done with sheep!"

Mariette
(who always shouts out "Yes!" when Boy George asks "Do you really want to hurt me?")

"Dirty Deeds and they're done with sheep!"

They must live in GA since there is no Bestiality law on the books (the only state without one)

Sprite, you mean that there are people that don't make up words? Hmm, we've got lots of them. Because Tulane's mascot is Green Wave and at the end of the sung 'Banner, everyone at the games yells out "...and the home...of the... WAVE!" We still do that wherever we are and that's being sung. Usually, right before "Gentlemen and ladies, start your engines!"

I always thought it would be great if you had some amazing, spiritual experience, like God descends from the heavens, and says something really trite and inane to you...

Thinking in this mode I have changed the lyrics to "The Wind Cries Mary" by Jimi Hendrix to:

"It whispers no, it will be the last, and the wind cries... 'beans'."

Mr. Yuk

http://www.amiright.com/

Oh, that's funny! I think my favorite one of Today's Misheard Lyrics is "She's got electric boobs." (She's got electric boots). Some people just have dirty, dirty minds! :)

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Because Tulane's mascot is Green Wave and at the end of the sung 'Banner, everyone at the games yells out "...and the home...of the... WAVE!" We still do that wherever we are and that's being sung. Usually, right before "Gentlemen and ladies, start your engines!"

That's like down in Dallas where at the hockey games, we always sang "Whose broad stripes and bright STARS!!!" at the top of our lungs.

God Bless America, land of the free and home of the BRAVES!

There's a syndicated radio show that originates in Charlotte -- John Boy and Billy. They do segments where John Boy sings songs with the words as he "hears" them. It can get quite hilarious. I haven't heard them do that recently, but it's been so busy at work I miss a lot of their show now.