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