HE SAID WHAT?

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I don't know if this thread will take off, but i'll give it a shot. Saab commented that there are contemporary songs in English which are incomprehensible, even to native speakers. I can't argue with that. So i posted this song--and then i thought of this for a thread. A thread about incomprehensible songs.

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Oh, there's this one ....

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Al Yankovic wanted to do a parody of that song, and it so happened that he knew a cast member of Saturday Night Live, whose musical guests that week were Nirvana. So he called his friend, and she put Kurt Cobain on the phone. Kurt said "It's not about food is it?" (a lot of Weird Al's early songs were). Al told him no, that it was about incomprehensible song lyrics. To his credit, Kurt laughed and said to go ahead.

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I hadn't thought of that one, Jessalonika . . . good lookin' out.

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Richard Harris . . . really?

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R.E.M ~ The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite

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Good one, Region . . . REM will be a fertile field.

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@Setanta,

ok, this isn't about an entire song, but I just learned the real words to the refrain of a song I've always loved.

England Dan and John Ford Coley's "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"

I always thought they were singing "I'm not talkin' 'bout millenium" which makes perfect sense to me. He's not talking about staying together forever, just come over tonight, which is cool with me.

Just discovered the words are "I'm not talkin' 'bout moving in", which is really dumb and lame and stupid and ruins the whole song for me.

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I can only understand about half of this . . . and why are those two women just standing there?

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@jespah,

Jespah
you choose a good one - teaching young people to say NO.

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@chai2,

"I'm not talkin' 'bout millenium"

Until recently, I thought it was "I'm not talking 'bout the linen"

Another was Alright Now, by Free:

"I said, "Hey, what's your name...baby?
Maybe we can see things the same.
Now don't you wait, or hesitate.
Let's move before they raise the fuckin' rent."

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Birdhouse in your Soul........

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Oh, good one . . .

Maybe we should add Mondegreens to this . . .

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From Wickerpedia:

Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to clearly hear a lyric, substitutes words that sound similar, and make some kind of sense. American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in her essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen", published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954. The term was inspired by "...and Lady Mondegreen", a misinterpretation of the line "...and laid him on the green" from the Scottish ballad "The Bonnie Earl O' Moray".

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The author of this song says that he was inspired by the Sci Fi motion picture Silent Running, which is bizarre, as it has absolutely no relationship to the song.

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@Setanta,

Mondegreens -- at least you think you know what they're saying, as opposed to the other kind, where you have no effing clue...

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System of a Down, in the song "Aerials" sing: "Life is a waterfall, you walk in the river then your turn around a put up a wall." I used to sing: ". . . then you turn around and go to the mall." Just because it p*ssed people off.

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Speaking of SOAD, the world's greatest Armenian heavy metal band, here's one of my favorites. All of their lyrics are incomprehensible.

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