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”
his eye is on the sparrow
her foot is on the tortoise
