peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley) (11/16/83)
I'm sure we all remember that popular BeeGees song from Saturday Night Fever... "Bald-Headed Woman"... "bald-headed woman, bald-headed woman to meeee". (The real lyrics: "More than a woman...")
ki@linus.UUCP (Kevin Ilsen) (11/16/83)
One of my favorites:
"... there's a bathroom on the right ..."
(alias "bad moon on the rise")
BTW, Mick Jagger has said that one of his guidelines for singing rock
music is to purposely slur the words. And, as long as I'm thinking
in stream-of-consciousness mode, back in the 60's when musical guests
on TV shows lip-synched to recordings as a rule rather than an exception,
Jagger reportedly would deliberately mouth an entirely different song.
Wonder how many people noticed...
--
--Kevin Ilsen
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linus!ki@mitre-bedford (MIL)rossen@uiuccsb.UUCP (11/20/83)
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uiuccsb!rossen Nov 18 14:40:00 1983
Now that we all (or many of us, anyway) get to see people lip-synch
their records on MTV, there arises a new question of who is the worst
lip-syncher around -- Jagger certainly qualifies. That's probably
due less to incompetence than to not giving a shit. Any other nominations?
Ken at UIUC
(..!uiucdcs!rossen)bsk@houxn.UUCP (B.KATZ) (11/25/83)
I'll never forget the time my brother confided that he couldn't figure out these disco nuts. "Why", he asked, "do they want to dance to 'TUNA HOTDOG'" ? At least, that's all he could make of 'DO THE HUSTLE'.
bsk@houxn.UUCP (B.KATZ) (11/25/83)
I'll never forget the time my brother confided that he couldn't figure out those disco nuts. "Why", he asked, "do they want to dance to 'TUNA HOTDOG'" ? At least, that's all he could make of 'DO THE HUSTLE'. bk hogpd!bk
knight@rlgvax.UUCP (Steve Knight) (11/28/83)
I have quite a reputation amoung my longer-standing friends for
misunderstanding lyrics, mostly because I feel that most of the stuff
on the radio isn't worth paying attention to. My favorite
misunderstanding, from a few years back in the chorus of "I'd Really
Love to See You Tonight" (if that's even the correct title):
"I'm not talkin' 'bout Bolivians"
(I believe the real line is "I'm not talkin' 'bout movin' in." I
never bothered to really check, though.) More recently, I couldn't
understand why Sting was singing about how his "pool hall aches"...
Someday I'll clean the wax out of my ears,
Steve Knight
{seismo,allegra,some other sites}!rlgvax!knightasc@dciem.UUCP (Array Systems Computing) (11/28/83)
Well, one of my favourite examples was reported in a column, in
the fanzine Trouser Press, devoted that issue to just this subject.
To the music of "Born To Be Wild", someone apparently heard:
Head out on the highway,
Lookin' for my dentures,
They don't make bikers like they used to, I guess
Dave Ings,
Array Systems Computing,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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