====== Mishearings ====== == == //She's Not a Little Girl Anymore// -- Green == == //American Pie// -- Don McLean Wrong: "When I read about his little bride" Right: "When I read about his widowed bride" == == //Chuck E.'s in Love// -- Rickie Lee Jones Wrong: "Shaq-ille's in love" Right: "Chuck E.'s in love" == == //Can't Stop// -- After 7 Wrong: "I'm diggin on you, you diggin on me, we diggin ennui" Right: "I'm diggin on you, you diggin on me, we diggin on we" ====== Can't-hearings ====== == == //L. A. Woman// -- Doors == == What //are// the lyrics at the very beginning? "Well, [I] de-gad-in-da town about an hour ago" ("did get into"; "just got into"?) ====== Singers who sound like the other sex (on at least one song) ====== == == //Funny// -- Jimmy Elledge == == A why-is-the-title-trimmed? version of "Funny How Time Slips Away" (could this be a category?) -- The version of Angel of the Morning by Shaggy (?) is actually called just "Angel" == == //Rock and Roll// -- Heart == == Wonderful cover of Led Zeppelin. I thought Ann Wilson sounded exactly like Robert Plant the last time I heard it, in 1981, or whenever == == Chet Baker == == Jimmy Scott ====== Songs whose sound is somehow unique; no other song sounds like them ====== == == //Rock On// -- David Essex == == //Bennie and the Jets// -- Elton John == == //Do It Again// -- Steely Dan ====== Songs with simulated (we hope) sex sounds ====== === Female === == == //Sex (I'm a . . .)// -- Berlin == == //Pillow Talk// -- Sylvia == == //Me So Horny// -- 2 Live Crew == == //Lovin' You// -- Minnie Riperton == == //Love Hangover// -- Diana Ross == == //Jungle Fever// -- Chakachas == == //Wild Thing// -- Fancy == == Cover of the Troggs == == //Erotica// -- Man == == From the Revelation album == == //I Wanna Do Something Freaky to You// -- Leon Haywood == == //More Human Than Human// -- White Zombie === Male === == == //Whole Lotta Love// -- Led Zeppelin == == //Sexy Mama// -- Moments == == //Orgasm Addict// -- Buzzcocks == == I guess it would be better if this song //didn't// have sex sounds === Both === == == //Love Chant// -- Eli's Second Coming == == Also has an orgasmic-sounding electric guitar === Various (take your pick) songs by === == == Donna Summer == == Prince == == Parliament/Funkadelic == == Marvin Gaye == == Teddy Pendergrass (?) == == Bow Wow Wow === Not full-scale sex sounds, but with a "yearning," "flirty," or a little, yelping catch-in-the-throat singing style, respectively === == == //The Way I Want to Touch You// -- Captain and Tennille == == //Midnight at the Oasis// -- Maria Muldaur == == //Poor, Poor Pitiful Me// -- Linda Ronstadt ====== Speech impediments, real or feigned ====== == == //Nite Klub// -- The Specials (Jerry Dammers) == == //Under the Bridge// -- Red Hot Chili Peppers (Anthony Kiedis) == == //Baby It's You// -- Shirelles == == //Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee// -- Stick McGee == == various -- Sarah Vaughan == == She often sounds like she has a really bad cold when she sings ====== Growling female singing ====== == == //The Hardest Part// -- Blondie == == //Poor, Poor Pitiful Me// -- Linda Ronstadt ====== (Potentially) annoying mispronunciations of the long "i" sound by art punkers ====== The word "migraine," pronounced "mee-graine" in //Natural's Not in It//, Gang of Four "Venus de Milo," pronounced "de Mee-lo" in //Venus de Milo//, Television ====== (It's not just me who noticed) the weird pronunciation in a big Elton ballad ====== Christgau: "Yes, I hate the way he says 'don't dizgard me' too" [in //Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me//] ====== Good ad-libs, Mick ====== Overlaps also with Covers and Songs with talking parts in them: In Mick Jagger and Peter Tosh's cover of Temptations' "Don't Look Back," Peter Tosh asks Mick how long he's been walking. Mick says "bout a hundred miles" and "I'm walkin barefoot"