Fellow 'Js,
Does waiting for DJ "Wordplay"'s mail-out have you wondering whether you're showing signs of Lexical Lethargy?
Is your vocabulary very barely there?
Need a musical bon mot to add to your spin cycle?
Check out this article on "the mondegreen", the word coined (in 1954!) to refer to those misheard, misconstrued and misinterpreted chunks o' song-lyric. We've all been there. These are those bits of chorus, verse and vocal riff that take on new phonic shapes, unintentional cadences and, ultimately, meanings of a unique sort -- often hilarious and surprisingly apt -- once warped due to multiple mis-listenings and convincing sing-a-longings....
Ok, survey says new vocab tends to stick more if you use it...
so... here goes...
Select phrases from Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded By The Light" have spawned a long list of mondegreens. Does "wrapped up like a douche" ring bells for anyone besides moi-self?
DJ Schwa welcomes real-life mondegreen examples from the HitParadeLinerNotes community -- post 'em here!
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I don’t want to steal any thunder from DJ Pants, but I will tip him off that that DJ Wears-the-Pants’ brother had a most amazing and rustic interpretation of the Canadian national anthem.
As for myself, well, I can’t remember the correct words to anything, and when I try, I tend to add a Christian slant. For example, one time karaoking my heart out to Pat Benetar’s We Belong, I felt the power of the music, closed my eyes (most significantly to the words on the screen) and belted the first couple lines of the chorus like this: …
We belong!
We belong to the light
We belong to the Father
And in my head, I was thinking the Holy One, I don’t even know why.
Nobody clapped for this performance. Hmm.
Steak and fries/ Steak and fries/ steak and fries/ steak and fries/ steak and fries/ steak and fries
(repeat to fade)
in Armand van Helden's remix of Runaway by NuYorican Soul.
Listen here http://www.soulclap.us/2007/06/14/the-nineties-6-armand-part-4-speed-garage/
Though it takes an unforgivable four minutes to actually get going...And apparently it's actually "Play them vibes". Boo-ooring.
"wrapped up like a douche" was a classic. i loved the manfred mann version when i was a kid.
my favourites, just because they seem so random, are:
in the moby song "why does my heart feel so bad", i swear the girl in the background is repeatedly singing "tears of the gnome". she may be saying "fear of the known", but i prefer tears of the gnome.
my other favourite is the live version of bob marley's exodus on the babylon by bus album. the song slowly builds up until the backup singers shout "set the dentists free". apparently they are saying "set the captives free", but it sounds a lot like they've got some captive dentists, if you ask me.
by the way, if you put "set the dentists free" into google in quotations, you get no hits. i can't believe nobody has ever used that phrase on the internet.
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