My mate Tart has recently changed blogs, with I Correct Myself, I Mean All The Time becoming the streamlined, new and improved Love Shack, Baby. And ever since I checked out her new digs I’ve had ‘Love Shack’ rattling around my head, refusing to give me a moment’s peace.
It wasn’t until today though that I realised I’d been singing the wrong words for years. Instead of ‘glitter on the mattress’ I’d been singing ‘glitter on the nightdress’, which, if you think about it, could make sense, depending on your definition of the perfect love shack.
There are a ton more of these floating around out there – head here to check out a database of funny, weird and downright stupid interpretations of popular lyrics.
A few of the best:
Might as well face it, you’re a dick with a glove
Addicted To Love – Robert Palmer
Let’s pee in the corner, let’s pee in the spotlight
Losing My Religion – REM
Here we are now, in containers
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
I got no thumb, but it grew back again
You’re never gonna keep me down
Tubthumping – Chumba Wumba
If you change your mind (Jackie Chan)
I’m the first in line (Jackie Chan)
Take A Chance On Me – ABBA
And my favourite:
Eeee-wheee!
It’s me; I’m a tree, I’m a wombat.
Oh, so cold at the end of your winter
Wuthering Heights – Kate Bush
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
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March 20, 2009 at 5:25 am
Tart
hahahhahahaha! By far my favorite of your list has to be the last! Who in the hell would imagine a wombat in that lyric???? Only you aussies! Thanks for linking me up, sweetie! And for puttin a smile on my face today xoxoxo
March 20, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Southern (in)Sanity
Glitter on a nightdress, huh?
That is a great list of misinterpreted lyrics.
March 20, 2009 at 8:50 pm
cdv1971
I kind of like the Robert Palmer misinterpratation. Better than the original.
March 21, 2009 at 2:05 am
Rick
Oh, I SO love misinterpretations of songs. One of my favorites is from a friend of mine singing Macy Gray’s “I Try”:
Though I try to hide it it’s clear
I wear goggles when you are near
Another, not from anyone I know, is of Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer”:
Hold me closer, Tony Danza.
Dated, I know, but still pretty amusing. Thanks for the post!
March 21, 2009 at 10:28 am
itallstarted
Tart – you’re welcome! And you’re right, us Aussies have some issues.
SiS – There’s plenty more where they came from!
CDV – The Robert Palmer one makes me laugh every time I see it. I hate that song, but it’s almost worth listening to it just so I can sing those words!
Rick – The Macy Gray line is a great one! The Tony Danza one makes sense too I reckon.
March 24, 2009 at 1:10 am
arizaphale
Wait! There was glitter in the Love Shack? I can’t get past the tin roof I’m afraid.
My fave is Jimmy Hendrix’s ‘Purple Haze’
“Scuse me while I kiss this guy.”
I believe it spawned a web site full of these things.
March 24, 2009 at 8:00 am
jc
Brilliant.
The B-52s was a new one to me….now I’ll sing it that way forever.
Mrs V was sure that the the title of one of the biggest hits was The Clash was only to get it past the sensors as the boys sang,:-
‘Sharif dont like it, Fuck The Gas Board, Fuck The Gas Board’
March 24, 2009 at 8:30 am
itallstarted
Ariza – yeah it did! That was the database I linked to, http://www.kisthisguy.com
JC – I think I need some help deciphering that one…
March 30, 2009 at 7:21 am
arizaphale
Another friend assured me that The Clash DO sing Fuck the Casbah but for the life of me I can’t imagine why…..
April 2, 2009 at 2:16 am
eatyoursherbertkate
Just in case you were wondering, there is a word for misheard song lyrics – they’re called ‘Mondegreens’, after the first mistaken song lyric on record in 1954, when a man called S. Wright mistook the line “They hae slain the Earl Amurray, And laid him on the greeen” for “They hae slain the Earl Amurray, And Lady Mondegreen”.
It’s in the OED and everything!
p.s. thanks for the Kate Bush.