Since examining the Lyrics Parade I've been shocked to discover that many cherished Fall lyrics aren't actually what I've been hearing all these years:

• “Monroe-used dressing room” from U.S.80s-90s turned out to be “No more amused dressing room”

• “Couldn’t tell Lou Reed from a mule” from Shoulder Pads was really “Couldn’t tell Lou Reed from Doug Yule”

• “All the cows were black on an inquisition rack” from Hey! Luciani was disappointingly “All the cowls were black...”

• And “Ecstatic midgets” from 4 1/2 Inch sadly turned out to be mere “Ecstatic midges”


Your mishearings please...

Contraflow and country folk

i also had this one :huh:

have plenty more too - will have a think.....

First time I heard Eds Babe played live I thought he was singing "where's dave"! :lol:

"There's that... state court... analyst!" Of course, I'm still not convinced by any of the alternatives.

Ha this song must be a piss take on David Bowie then is it? David Bowie anecdote> He spent an entire evening backstage with THe Velvet Underground in 1970 talking about all the songs with Doug Yule in the mistaken belief that Doug was actually Lou!

As one of my friends said about this story:

"Its not the side effects of the cocaine - Im thinking that it must be Lou"

As for misheard lyrics... LOADSA them. And not just in Fall songs. Its actually quite disapointed to find out that your interpretation is wrong isnt it?! Hmm Ill have to think of some examples - later...

Indeed: the mishearings often make more sense than the written versions. This is why I wondered if other people experienced this weird phenomena...

Ha. Hears one. From Sparta FC. Coulda sworn Mark sings "I dont have a jack knife hidden in my boot" but of course I do have an ACTUAL REAL hearing imparement so maybe that accounts for the trouble! (Deaf in my left ear)

"fried chicken" instead of "frighten" on "shake off"................im still convinced its "fried chicken" tho!.............mes on a "one vision" trip! :o :o

Not the Fall, but I continually argue this mis-hearing with all my 80s Metal lovin' friends, because my interp is such a better line:

Scorpions - "Still Lovin' You"

Actual line is:
Love, our love
Just shouldn't be thrown away

My version is:

Love, only love
Can shatter this ennui

I always heard "towels."

On A Past Gone Mad, I always heard "Why is Pete Gabriel always following us? [something something] cozy moralist." I liked the cozy moralist bit (despite liking Gabriel), but instead it's "before the grub, there comes a moralist."

On "Antidotes" from Marshall Suite, it sounds to me as if they are saying "Antidotes-- and dozidoats"-- as in the song Mairzy Doats, but lyrics parade has me wrong...

Current fave Fall verse also from Marshall Suite:

"...and you're dying for a pee
so you go behind a tree
and a star wars police vehicle pulls up--
I say GIMME A TAXI!!

TOUCH SENSITIVE!"

that is singular genius

Davey B your new Avatar is funky. I like it! No beard!

Mine's not from the Fall, either.

The first time I heard the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" on the radio...

everytime they sang the chorus and chanted "...Blitzkrieg Bop!", I kept hearing "...Let's Get F*cked!".

:sick: D'oh!

Quarter inch down to the gross chapel

Hm Non fall - Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Bang" printed lyrics are "As a fuck son, you suck" but I always hear "As the bugs on you suck"

In the liner notes to Pere Ubu's Raygun Suitcase David Thomas talks about the temptation to print lyric sheets. Something like: "When we put out Song of the Bailing Man we couldn't figure out what to do with the packaging, so we printed the lyrics. For a time we became confused. We drifted with the herd. No more: lyrics sheets are a BAD THING."

I love the fact that, while MES is typically verbose, the words come across often more as sound than as sense.

Andy

Oh, crap! You're right. And here I heard "dozidoats" (which is actually "Does eat oats and mares eat oats...") as well. "Those that vote"? I guess...

Then again, I take the Lyric Parade with a grain of salt. My ears are the final arbiter.

I heard "doziedoats" aswell!

I used to always have John the ex-Foxx "sleeping in an outsized box", whihc is a great image.

My favourite, tho, is from "He Pep". 1st time I heard "Conceptually I love Bowie, but he's been lost in the bowels of his record co". how very, very true...

Still think this "Monroe's used dressing room" is actually right.....

I am CERTAIN (subjectively) that it's "dozy votes"!

OK, time to dust off an old chestnut...

I say, I say, I say. I used to think the opening lines of Frightened were
"Sum won Saul, weighs on mite racks
Anne din, add ark rhuem, you seem ore, Dan, ute ink"

very rubbish & unpoetic one i'm afraid - i heard 'he is not appre-cia-ted' as 'he is nuts..n then something indecipherable ....' for years.... how crap am i.... used to sing it out loud & everything :ohdear:

Gosh thanks. I'm going through my psychedelic phase. :) :) :) :) :) :)


First time I heard Teenage Lobotomy by The Ramones I thought they were chanting "La Bonhomie La Bonhomie"!

I always wondered if there was some kind of inside bogs in England. Otherwise, the adjective "outside" seems repetitive.

Yes in four months instead of guest informant. Ridiculous but true.

I got this with New Big Prinz... but if you're talking about Hip Priest (and I suspect you are not): you crazy foo'!

Now I'm listening to The Marshall Suite.

I found another one of my mis-hearings; in Inevitable where Smithy is saying "The calling" I swore he was saying "Nicole Anne" - which happens to be my wife's first and middle names. So that was weird.

Also, I think the Parade is wrong on this one:

Parade:
And if chewing gum is chewed
The truant is pursued

Definitely sounds like:
And if chewing gum is chewed
The chewer is pursued

... to my ears. Same with every other occurance of "truant"; it's most assuredly "chewer".

Since these lines are from the "Just Wait Till I Get Through with It" song from the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup, I always figured it was "the chewer" as well. But then, maybe MES did change them.

most of the time when i hear the fall, i just make up what they are saying, cause i know i am wrong and i cant understand what he says half the time.

I opened the box
And to my surprise
I Found 25
Lorios

4 guineas and a bearded man

i found these misheard fall lyrics on www.amiright.com/artists/fall.shtml, here they are:

New Puritan"
Misheard Lyrics:
And no haricot beans shall die by me
Correct Lyrics:
And no hardcore fiends shall die by me

"Kicker Conspiricy"
Misheard Lyrics:
Here comes....here comes Morrissey!
Correct Lyrics:
Kicker....kicker conspiricy


"Guest Informant"
Misheard Lyrics:
Bastard stink of an Alice
Correct Lyrics:
Baghdad Stinkcog Analyst

I thought that

I want to be Sedated by the Ramones

was

I want a piece of David

Back when it was a new song!

but I can't think of any Fall misheard lyrics.

I have a reverse misheard lyrics. In "Cruiser's Creek" I was certain that "parallel crease pow" had to be something else be something else, really, because it didn't make sense. However, checking now the helpful lyrics parage, they have the line as "parallel crease pow."

In the same song I was also pretty sure that I was mondegreening on the ZTT reference, but there that line was too.

I guess there was one mishearing: I thought "Number 6 cigarette" was something else like "lit slip cigarette" or something.

I thought the same thing, ah the ramones lol, a bunch of young punks like them these days.

is it true in order to wear chanel you really have to shave first? I dont wear chanel so i have no idea.

In Kicker Conspiracy, I always heard:

"His downfall was a blonde girl" as "His downfall was avante-goal", which I took to be a pun on 'avante garde goals'!

Then's there's Middle Mass's:

"Vulturous in the aftermath" which until the other day I was convinced was "Fortress in the aftermath"

It's official: the Lyrics Parade messes with you mind!
Or am I just a weirdo?

but i like the way that u end up kinda hearing both versions afterwards.... or sometimes one & sometimes another - makes it richer & stranger.... :blink:

Two more:

• 10 Houses of Eve

Always heard “will you deny your own treat?” as “will you deny your own creed?”

• M5

Always heard M5’s last line as “there's nothing worse than a bald man?” (sort of another reference to the League Of B.H. Men) rather than the Lyric Parade’s “there's nothing worse than a bored man?”

Anyone else hear these? Do I need to clean out my ears?

"bald" for me too.