Misheard Vocals

[Heteronym]

"Where can I go when I fail when the friends got 'round"

But, to be fair, I'm not a native english speaker so I'd never come up with "fair weather friends cop out"

[Please delete my account]

My friend thought it was
"A big buttered popcorn and an extra large coke
A few chili dogs and man, I'm gonna throw!"

[runnersdialzero]

TO GET TO BABY WENT THROUGH THE RING-AH

[runnersdialzero]

Initially heard the "deep and wide" line of "Time To Get Alone" as "EATIN', WOW!!!!"

I temporarily had no internet at the time and could not figure out the surrounding lines especially well, thus for a couple months I was doubting the guys were shouting "EATIN', WOW!!!" but had zero idea what else it could be. I still basically hear it as that even though I know it's very, very wrong.

[RangeRoverA1]

Initially heard the "deep and wide" line of "Time To Get Alone" as "EATIN', WOW!!!!"

I could swear that you've already posted it before. At page 3, f. ex.

[Sam_BFC]

Not sure if this is a mis-sung or mis-transcribed vocal, but in the second line of the first verse of Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl, there is no way - to my ears - that Mr Wilson sings 'Goddess'...what do others think?

[Dudd]

I definitely hear "goddess". What does it sound like to you?

[Lowbacca]

Not sure if this is a mis-sung or mis-transcribed vocal, but in the second line of the first verse of Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl, there is no way - to my ears - that Mr Wilson sings 'Goddess'...what do others think?

Why is there "no way" it's "goddess"? It sure is.

http://www.clipfish.de/musikvideos/video/3560897/brian-wilson-forever-shell-be-my-surfer-girl-aol-sessions/

[Sam_BFC]

Ha I know there is nothing else it could really be!...it is just that on say the album version I don't hear much of an "s" at the end of the word!

[runnersdialzero]

Initially heard the "deep and wide" line of "Time To Get Alone" as "EATIN', WOW!!!!"

I could swear that you've already posted it before. At page 3, f. ex.

no it is not true

[Jim V.]

This one is from "Goin' To The Beach"....


I initially thought it was "after Holden Caulfield lying in the sand."

Yep.

[Dudd]

I always hear "the last gasp" from Cabinessence as "I pass gas." Sorry...

[Mr. Cohen]

Ha I know there is nothing else it could really be!...it is just that on say the album version I don't hear much of an "s" at the end of the word!

Brian has developed a pathological obsession with avoiding enunciating the 's' at end of the words and the 'g' at the end of 'ing'. I guess he doesn't like how those pronunciations create create slightly sharper sounds, but I think he's overthinking it, sort of like how he hates cymbals.

[runnersdialzero]

Ha I know there is nothing else it could really be!...it is just that on say the album version I don't hear much of an "s" at the end of the word!

Brian has developed a pathological obsession with avoiding enunciating the 's' at end of the words and the 'g' at the end of 'ing'. I guess he doesn't like how those pronunciations create create slightly sharper sounds, but I think he's overthinking it, sort of like how he hates cymbals.

Darn it, I wish I knew what post/lyric this was referencing.

[Sam_BFC]

Runners - 'Goddess' in Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl.

Now wipe those tears in the morning away 

[Alan Smith]

Took me years to figure out that "Sleek trails of the Caribou" was really "She takes good care of us" re Endless Harmony.

[RangeRoverA1]

Initially heard the "deep and wide" line of "Time To Get Alone" as "EATIN', WOW!!!!"

I could swear that you've already posted it before. At page 3, f. ex.

no it is not true

Did an advanced search (user=runnersdialzero) & here it is:

The first time I heard "Time To Get Alone", I thought they were singing "EATIN', WOW!!!!" I was absolutely sure that wasn't the actual line, but that was the closest thing to English words that I could come up with. I was basically without internet access for a couple months, thus I couldn't look it up at the time.

I knew that you posted this comment. Turns out, have just forgotten where it was.

[Quzi]

Heads You Win - Tails I Lose: "I'll load my dice and suck a dick and fix the odds again"

[Please delete my account]

"Now I'm not sayin' you won't have a pill of a pearl"- Here Today

Yet more sixties "hip" slang I don't understand, I thought. 

[Tablevega]

Love him sober, now it's getting late

A lyric expressing the pain of living with a habitual over-drinker whose behaviour disintegrates over the evening

All summer long you've been with me, I can't see another year

A counterpoint to Girl Don't Tell Me, where the boy gets to play the uncommitted part - he's loved this summer, but he can't see it lasting

[Ron]

I may have already posted this in this thread since i'ts been around a couple years, but when I was a kid, I always misheard lyrics.  So I thought "Help me Rhonda" was "Help me Ronnie" (I'm named Ronnie).  So as a young boy, I went around singing this stupid fucking song with my own name in it, completely oblivious to the lyrics that I was singing about.  I knew the words, but thought it was "Ronnie" and never even realized what I was singing about.

Similarly, I had the Four Seasons confused with it.  Their hit "Ronnie" I thought he was saying "Rhonda".  Somehow I got the two songs perfectly confused, because they don't even sound like they're saying Ronda.  I think somehow I switched them in my mind because I liked the Beach Boys better. 

[Ron]

Surfin USA

Seriously...Since I was a kid I heard...

"If everybody had a notion -  Across the U.S.A"

I admit I thought the same thing.  I always sang it as "Notion"

[RangeRoverA1]

In "Goodnight Irene", I thought I hear the line "Sometimes I lives in the country" wrong, but then I went to check what's the deal with the "s" & turns out it's one of the core examples of old English. Cool to know stuff like that (though mind, Brian afterwards sings "Sometimes I live_ in town").

[chrs_mrgn]

in Nighttime it really sounded like he says

"colors are beating fast
light covers the sun and lick no more"

[Dudd]

I know it's a cover, but I always hear it as "I've given up on skis 'cause everyone fell through."