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1960s | |
Engelbert Humperdinck's, "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize"
Misheard Lyrics: Labia scare. They're bell-sized!!
Original Lyrics: Les Bicyclettes de Belsize
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Steppenwolf's, "Born to Be Wild"
Misheard Lyrics: Hilux and the nightmen
Heavy metal thunder Original Lyrics: I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder |
1970s | |
Bauhaus', "Bela Lugosi's Dead"
Misheard Lyrics: Bella the goose is dead
Original Lyrics: Bela Lugosi's dead
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Blue Swede's, "Hooked on a Feeling"
Misheard Lyrics: Kacha kahoo, kahoo, kahoo
Original Lyrics: Ooga, Chaka, ooga, ooga
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Dr. John's, "Right Place, Wrong Time"
Misheard Lyrics: I been running track
Original Lyrics: I been running trying
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Steely Dan's, "Deacon Blues"
Misheard Lyrics: They call our traveler the Prince of Time
Call me Deacon Booze. Original Lyrics: They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues. |
The Who's, "The Seeker"
Misheard Lyrics: I learned how to raise my boys in Harlem
Original Lyrics: I learned how to raise my voice in anger
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1980s | |
Bananarama's, "Cruel Summer"
Misheard Lyrics: Cops on the streets
Original Lyrics: Hot summer streets
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Boney M.'s, "My Friend Jack"
Misheard Lyrics: He's seen his hopes fly by
Original Lyrics: He's seen hawks fly high
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Eddy Grant's, "Electric Avenue"
Misheard Lyrics: We gotta walk down to Election Avenue
Original Lyrics: We gotta rock down to Electric Avenue
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Howard Jones', "No One Is To Blame"
Misheard Lyrics: We weren't ever one
Original Lyrics: We want everyone
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Howard Jones', "No One Is to Blame"
Misheard Lyrics: You go look for the pool, but you can't even swim
Original Lyrics: You can dip your foot in the pool, but you can't have a swim
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Metallica's, "Blackened"
Misheard Lyrics: Choking on a bean
Original Lyrics: Kills what might have been
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Michael Jackson's, "Dirty Diana"
Misheard Lyrics: Da gidda gatner, oh!
Original Lyrics: Dirty Diana, no!
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R.E.M's, "Sitting Still"
Misheard Lyrics: We can gather, throw up beer
Original Lyrics: We can gather, throw a fit
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Slayer's, "Angel of Death"
Misheard Lyrics: Ouch Switch! The meaning of pain
Original Lyrics: Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
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Tears For Fears', "Shout"
Misheard Lyrics: Shout, shout, Larry's all out
Original Lyrics: Shout, shout, let it all out.
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1990s | |
Barenaked Ladies', "One Week"
Misheard Lyrics: Chicken from China is Chinese chicken.
Half a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'. Original Lyrics: Chickity China the Chinese chicken.
Have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'. |
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Eiffel 65's, "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
Misheard Lyrics: If I were green, I would die
Original Lyrics: Da bee, da ba dee ba da die.
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Enya's, "Anywhere Is"
Misheard Lyrics: Commotion of the ocean
Original Lyrics: In motion on the ocean
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Eric Clapton's, "Tears in Heaven"
Misheard Lyrics: Beyond the door
There's peace and show Original Lyrics: Beyond the door
There's peace I'm sure |
Great Big Sea's, "Run Runaway"
Misheard Lyrics: Tom Hanks and everyone run run away let's go!
Original Lyrics: All thanks to everyone run run away let's go!
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Ini Kamoze's, "Here Comes The Hotstepper"
Misheard Lyrics: Anyone pressed will hear the fat lady sane
Original Lyrics: Anyone tests will hear the Fat Lady Sing
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Major Dundee's, "Long Fin Cadillac"
Misheard Lyrics: Long thin Cadillac
Original Lyrics: Long fin Cadillac
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Rusted Root's, "Send Me On My Way"
Misheard Lyrics: Oh Mama Say,
O Mama Gum So pick me upwards going high On my Sail, on my tail you to run Oh mama say, o mama Gum Original Lyrics: Nobody Safe,
Nobody Run So pick me up with golden hands On May see you, on may tell you to run Nobody safe, nobody run |
Sheryl Crow's, "All I Wanna Do"
Misheard Lyrics: As I recall nothing
Original Lyrics: It's apropos of nothin'
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Sheryl Crow's, "All I Wanna Do"
Misheard Lyrics: As he's playing up to me
Original Lyrics: And he's plain ugly to me
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TLC's, "Waterfalls"
Misheard Lyrics: BOGO chasing Butterball
Original Lyrics: Don't go chasing waterfalls
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The Verve's, "Bittersweet Symphony"
Misheard Lyrics: 'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony that's live.
Original Lyrics: 'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life.
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Tony Rich Project's, "Nobody Knows"
Misheard Lyrics: Nobody knows it was me
Original Lyrics: Nobody knows it but me
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2000s | |
50 Cent's, "In Da Club"
Misheard Lyrics: Everybody in the club getting tits
Original Lyrics: Everybody in da club gettin' tipsy
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Counting Crows', "Big Yellow Taxi"
Misheard Lyrics: A big paradise to put up a parking lot
Original Lyrics: They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
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Cupid's, "Cupid Shuffle"
Misheard Lyrics: now, now, do ya thing, do ya thing
Original Lyrics: down, down, do your dance, do your dance
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Enya's, "Amarantine"
Misheard Lyrics: So let the tears fall, cause they won't go away
Original Lyrics: So let the tears go, they will flow away
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Fall Out Boy's, "Sophomore Slump Or Comeback Of The Year"
Misheard Lyrics: Take your titties, put em on ice
Original Lyrics: Take your tears, put em on ice
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Hoobastank's, "The Reason"
Misheard Lyrics: I’ve found a reason you go
Original Lyrics: I’ve found a reason to show
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Hoobastank's, "The Reason"
Misheard Lyrics: To face you why used to see
(On top to pee you couldn't be, a side of me you couldn't no) Original Lyrics: To change who I used to be
(On top of me you couldn't cheat, a part of me you shouldn't know) |
Las Ketchup's, "The Ketchup Song"
Misheard Lyrics: A said hey ha ebebebebbebebebebebebebeb
Original Lyrics: Aserejé ja de jé de jebe
Tu de jebere sebiunouva Majabi an de bugui An de buididipí. |
Len's, "Steal My Sunshine"
Misheard Lyrics: You're still my essential
Original Lyrics: Don't steal my sunshine.
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The Wiggles', "Vegetable Soup"
Misheard Lyrics: One’s bikini, one thin bottom.
Original Lyrics: One zucchini, one tomato, too.
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Vanessa Carlton's, "A Thousand Miles"
Misheard Lyrics: The pace is fast and I'm homebound
Original Lyrics: Faces pass and I'm homebound.
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2010s | |
Dua Lipa's, "New Rules"
Misheard Lyrics: I got new rules I count 'em
I gotta tell them to my son Original Lyrics: I got new rules I count 'em
I gotta tell to my my self |
Gorillaz's, "Saturnz Barz"
Misheard Lyrics: With a hologram inside me
I'll down the sun tonight In a mirror weld, where you're beside me All my life (dysfunction) Original Lyrics: With the holograms beside me
I'll dance alone tonight In a mirror world, are you beside me All my life? (distortion) |
Gorillaz's, "Saturnz Barz"
Misheard Lyrics: yam, cars and bikes
Original Lyrics: land, cars, and bikes
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Neon Trees', "Everybody Talks"
Misheard Lyrics: It started with the whisper,
And that was with my keister. Imagining my lips hurt, I could be the chit-chat. Original Lyrics: It started with a whisper
And that was when I kissed her. And then she made my lips hurt I can hear the chit-chat |
xmas | |
Elton John's, "Step Into Christmas"
Misheard Lyrics: Step into Christmas,
Efficiently Original Lyrics: Step into Christmas,
The admission's free |
Traditional's, "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"
Misheard Lyrics: Good tidings we bring to you and the King
Original Lyrics: Good tidings we bring to you and your kin
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