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Mishearings

She's Not a Little Girl Anymore – Green

American Pie – Don McLean

LyricsComments Wrong: “When I read about his little bride”

LyricsComments Right: “When I read about his widowed bride”

Chuck E.'s in Love – Rickie Lee Jones

LyricsComments Wrong: “Shaq-ille's in love”

LyricsComments Right: “Chuck E.'s in love”

Can't Stop – After 7

LyricsComments Wrong: “I'm diggin on you, you diggin on me, we diggin ennui”

LyricsComments 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,” “flirt ,” 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”

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