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1960s | |
Commercial's, "Alka-Seltzer"
Misheard Lyrics: Flop-flop, kiss-kiss
Original Lyrics: Plop-plop, fizz-fizz
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1970s | |
Argent's, "Hold Your Head Up"
Misheard Lyrics: Hold your head up WHOA!
Original Lyrics: Hold your head up WOMAN!
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Carole King's, "Haywood"
Misheard Lyrics: Batman's not your friend
Original Lyrics: That man's not your friend
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Cast of 'Annie''s, "It's The Hard-Knock Life"
Misheard Lyrics: It's a hard (not) life.
Original Lyrics: It's the hard knock life.
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Chic's, "Good Times"
Misheard Lyrics: Leave your cans inside
Original Lyrics: Leave your cares behind
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Jay Ferguson's, "Shakedown Cruise"
Misheard Lyrics: Hey boys, you want some s**x?
You can squeeze the sails, you can lick the dicks Original Lyrics: Hey boys, you want some *s**x?
You can squeeze the sails, You can lick the decks |
Joni Mitchell's, "Big Yellow Taxi"
Misheard Lyrics: Save paradise, put up a parking lot
Original Lyrics: They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
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Kiss', "Hard Luck Woman"
Misheard Lyrics: Cher, Sharon's only daughter, child of the water, proud to be a queen
Original Lyrics: Rags, the sailor's only daughter
A child of the water Too proud to be a queen. |
Steve Miller Band's, "Jet Airliner"
Misheard Lyrics: We'll go jammin' in Lytle
Original Lyrics: Big ol' jet airliner
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The Rembrandts', "I'll Be There for You"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm in debt for you
Original Lyrics: I'll Be There for You
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1980s | |
Albert One's, "Turbo Diesel"
Misheard Lyrics: Mercedes
So classic and so chic Original Lyrics: Mercedes
So classy and so chic |
Iron Maiden's, "I've Got the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: So you think you can beam me
But I'm OK Original Lyrics: So you think you can beat me
At my own game |
Iron Maiden's, "Killers"
Misheard Lyrics: The law says he watches you bleed
Original Lyrics: He laughs as he watches you bleed
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Michael Jackson's, "Beat It"
Misheard Lyrics: No one wants to be like Phoebe
Original Lyrics: No one wants to be defeated
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Ozzy Osbourne's, "Crazy Train"
Misheard Lyrics: Metal wounds, still squealing,
Driving me insane, I'm blowing up the rails of a crazy train! Original Lyrics: Metal wounds, still screaming.
Driving me insane. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train! |
Ryan Paris', "Dolce Vita"
Misheard Lyrics: Another lie before we trod in dog mess
Original Lyrics: Another light before we drown in darkness
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Soft Cell's, "Tainted Love"
Misheard Lyrics: I give you all a girl can give her
Original Lyrics: I give you all a boy could give him
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The Clash's, "Rock The Casbah"
Misheard Lyrics: Sheree don't like it
Drop the gas bomb Original Lyrics: Sharif don't like it
Rock the Casbah |
The Clash's, "Rock the Casbah"
Misheard Lyrics: Shari don't like it
Rock the Lamb Chop Rock the Lamb Chop Original Lyrics: Sharif don't like it
Rock the Casbah Rock the Casbah |
The Clash's, "Should I Stay or Should I Go?"
Misheard Lyrics: It will be Dumbo
Original Lyrics: It will be double
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The Go-Gos', "Our Lips Are Sealed"
Misheard Lyrics: Aunt Cecile
Original Lyrics: Our lips are sealed.
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1990s | |
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes', "Time of My Life"
Misheard Lyrics: You're the one thing, I can't get in your butt.
Original Lyrics: You're the one thing I can't get enough of
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Jimmy Eat World's, "Table for Glasses"
Misheard Lyrics: Feed my sceptic side.
Original Lyrics: Lead my skeptic sight.
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Jimmy Eat World's, "Table for Glasses"
Misheard Lyrics: Feed my skeptic side.
Original Lyrics: Lead my skeptic sight.
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Oasis', "Don't Look Back In Anger"
Misheard Lyrics: Take me to the place where you go,
Where nobody knows, this is not a date. Original Lyrics: Take me to the place where you go
Where nobody knows, if it's night or day. |
Oasis', "Rock 'N Roll Star"
Misheard Lyrics: I live my life and it's shitty
Original Lyrics: I live my life in the city
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Primus', "South Park"
Misheard Lyrics: I just ate a big potato,
I just ate a big potato Original Lyrics: I like girls with big fat t*tt*es
I like girls with big v*****s. |
Rusted Root's, "Send Me on My Way"
Misheard Lyrics: Homer Sell, Homer tell you to run
Original Lyrics: I may see you, I may tell you to run
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The Offspring's, "The Kids Aren't Alright"
Misheard Lyrics: Chances are nothing's free
Lollipop used to be Original Lyrics: Chances thrown, nothing's free, longing for what used to be
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The Offspring's, "The Kids Aren't Alright"
Misheard Lyrics: Fragile light
Cheddar cheese Original Lyrics: Fragile lives
Shattered dreams |
The Rembrandts', "Just the Way it is, Baby"
Misheard Lyrics: David
That's just the way it is, David or Bambi That's just the way it is, Bambi Original Lyrics: Baby
That's just the way it is, baby |
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2000s | |
Evanescence's, "Bring Me To Life"
Misheard Lyrics: All of this time
I can't believe my cup of tea Original Lyrics: All of this time
I can't believe I couldn't see |
Fall Out Boy's, "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
Misheard Lyrics: A looney bird, cupcakes, chocolate pudding
Original Lyrics: A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it.
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Fall Out Boy's, "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
Misheard Lyrics: Lying the bass next to the Muslim
Original Lyrics: Lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum
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Fall Out Boy's, "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race"
Misheard Lyrics: This ain't a city, this is Gotham, assface!
Original Lyrics: This ain't a scene, it's a g**-d*** arms race.
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Mariah Carey's, "Touch My Body"
Misheard Lyrics: Let me wrap my thighs all around your face, just a little taste
Original Lyrics: Let me wrap my thighs all around your waist, just a little taste
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Scissor Sisters', "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'"
Misheard Lyrics: You think that I could muster up a liposuction gentle sway
Original Lyrics: You think that I could muster up a little soft shoe gentle sway
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Super Furry Animals', "Hello Sunshine"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm a million
You're a million too So come a million I want a million with you Original Lyrics: I'm a minger
You're a minger too So come on minger I want to ming with you |
2010s | |
Avicii's, "Wake Me Up"
Misheard Lyrics: When our words are in a motor
Original Lyrics: When I’m wiser and I’m older
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Bruno Mars', "Finesse"
Misheard Lyrics: And we're trippin' in fitness
Original Lyrics: Out here drippin' in finesse
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Bruno Mars', "Finesse"
Misheard Lyrics: Blame it on your menstrual pain
Original Lyrics: Blame it on your measurements
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Dirty Heads', "Celebrate"
Misheard Lyrics: Sold my soul for a record deal
Original Lyrics: Sold my soul for a wrecking ball
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Fall Out Boy's, "Hold Me Tight or Don't"
Misheard Lyrics: No longer cumber toes
Original Lyrics: No longer comatose
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Maroon 5's, "Misery"
Misheard Lyrics: Girl, you really love me back
You really love me back Original Lyrics: Girl, you really got me bad
You really got me bad |
Selena Gomez and Marshmello's, "Wolves"
Misheard Lyrics: Sold the drugs all on the moon
Original Lyrics: Saw the dark side of the moon
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