Unfortunately I thought for a long time "mannequins with kill appeal" was "Americans with kill appeal"

I'm glad it's the former, mannequins with kill appeal does sound a lot better.

Although the world is very full of suffering
It is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

When I first heard Diamond Dogs, I thought it was:
"Dressed like a freak, he was,dog sounding sleep, he was"
which makes no sense, but I was only 9!


Itte kimasu

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Unfortunately I thought for a long time "mannequins with kill appeal" was "Americans with kill appeal"

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I thought so before reading your post...


Let me take you Outside

I allways heard Zane, Zane, Zane/Ouvre le Chien as shame, shame, shame/move baby shame (Occasionally I heard it same, same, same/move baby same as well).


Let me take you Outside

Over the past few weeks I have seen quoted here and there lines from Joe the Lion;

"You can buy God. It's Monday"

I had always misinterpreted these lines because of the inflection in Bowies voice. It sounds like he is starting a new sentence after the "You can". So I always thought it was meant to be the beginning of a sentence in a fading passage, interuppted by "By God! ect ect". "By God" meaning something like "My Goodness" (note: I know there is "My God!" but there is also "By God", usually as the beginning of a sentence describing an event being witnessed.

So my image of the lines were;

You can...By God! It's Monday, ect ect

Please listen, it does sound like he's saying it like that doesn't it? Or is it just me? I'm not arguing over what the actual lyrics are, just how they sound.

ok, I'm done

Although the world is very full of suffering
It is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

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Please listen, it does sound like he's saying it like that doesn't it? Or is it just me? I'm not arguing over what the actual lyrics are, just how they sound.

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I've never heard it like that, but I understand how it could be heard like that. I've allways heard the sentence structure as it is, but sometimes misheard the can (see above).


Heil Bowie!

I still say the lyrics given w/ the CDs are often wrong. When I find lyrics that don't match what I hear, I listen to the song several more times to see if I can make out the "correct" lyrics, but sometimes the "correct" version seems so wrong I just assume the sleeve must be mistaken. I know in Ziggy Stardust, there's at least one lyric that the sleeve has wrong (it's not an important deviation, but I'm 99% sure Bowie isn't singing what it says he is.)

"There are two things I cannot stand: one is intolerance, the other is hypocrisy."

There are a lot of inaccuracies on the lyrics printed on the inner sleeve of "Hunky Dory", but I assume David just changed them at the last minute (like singing "daddy" instead of "father" on "Life on Mars"). If I remember correctly, the lyrics to "Starman" were printed as follows on the book "The Songs of David Bowie":

"that weren't no DJ that was hazy, cosmic, too high".

Other non-Bowie misheard lyrics:

"Those bastards" instead of "ghostbusters".
"What a drag" instead of "wanna try" (on Queen's "Killer Queen").

The funniest one of all in my opinion: fans of the Italian singer Rita Pavone still firmly believe that the lyrics to Pink Floyd's "Saint Tropez" go: "making a date for Rita Pavone". It's actually "making a date for later by phone", but the (mis)quote can be found on a major Rita Pavone site.

If you like this subject you can check the following site, if it's still up:

www.kissthisguy.com

I always heard "I've got a chicken to ride" instead of Ticket to ride in the Beatles song. I have that going through my head quite a lot for some unknown reason.

bye tr

trendy's trainpage is at http://www.geocities.com/trendy_rechauffe

"No peachy prayers, no trendy rechauffé
I'm with you so I can't go on"

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Hey Savior, save your shores

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I missed this the first go-round, but I heartily agree with you on this, p2c. Well, actually, I hear 'Please Savior, save your shores'

Other ones:
From the Fine Young Cannibals, 'She Drives Me Crazy'
She drives me crazy, like no one else => She drives me crazy, that long white ass.

Tom Waits, 'Cold Water'
Well I slept in the graveyard it was cool and still => Well I slept in the graveyard it was Cool Ranch dip.

Fine words butter no parsnips.