One line into your post and I thought of CCR.

Except when I was a kid I thought it was a baboon on the right.

the Dockalow Bay.

...

I am notoriously lyrically deaf amongst my friends

I thought Chimnawumba were saying:
I get up down
But I get up again
Cause it happens in the lead guitar


Grateful Dead "Sugar Magnolia" line is "pays my tickets when I speed" for at least 10 years I thought Jerry was saying "feeds my chickens when I sleep". Living near Hampton Va I probably heard that song hundreds of times before I got it.

One of the reasons I am such an REM fan is because I could pretty much make up my own lyrics. What did he say? Who cares, it'll change next time.

"i'm the sun and you can read
i'm the sun and you'll not tell
we combinin' in the scythe
we could gather throw a fit
Up to buy Arkady bars that kitchen times but not me in
sit and try for the big heat no wastin' time sittin' still"

I seriously was convinced Stipe was purposefully creating word salad on like 1/2 of the songs on their 1st three albums, and that at least some % of the lyrics were just made up words, so it didn't matter I didn't know the actual words because there was no chance they made sense anyway.

That said, Rockville was one of my favorite early REM tracks ... which was a really trippy song to me at the time ... I've been into them since shortly after Murmur came out, still have the vinyl, and that song was like ... wait ... WHAT SORCERY IS THIS? I understand EVERY WORD!?! And they are a GREAT set of lyrics, IMHO.

That was the 2nd song I taught myself to sing and play on the guitar, sitting in my college dorm room circa 1987 ... 2nd after 'Here Comes a Regular' ... which is a LOT easier, basically 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door', knocked down a 1/2 step.

Wanted to shoot the people with no shoes on their feet. I thought it was a bit harsh.

I listened to little other than them for several years. You are right about the word salad but that was what I liked about it.

Several conversations like this with people as REM got more and more popular

What's this song about?
Me: Don't know. Whatever you want it to be.
What did he say there?
Me: What did you hear? Then it's that.
I don't understand this song
Me: it's poetry


I was in the Army from 90-93 in Germany. One of the strange elements was meeting guys who had no idea about alternative music. "Nevermind" has just come out and by mid90 it had saved music. When a new recruit would show up they'd be asked what was going on back in the States. "What's on MTv?" "That shit he listens to" was one classic response. Mind you I had to explain to some of these guys that "Spinal Tap" wasn't real. Several of these guys now regularly post pro-Trump anti-Hillary stuff on Facebook.

When "Out of Time" came out it felt like a victory lap for me as a longtime fan. Hearing "Losing My Religion" played in a GI frequented German night club was like my own personal inside joke. I read an interview in which Buck recalled a conversation with Mills while making the album. They knew the ways things worked and that their next release would go #1. Buck,"If we are going to have a #1 song why not put a mandolin on it?" Mills laughed and said, "Yeah, why the hell not?"

That sums up REM to me. Whatever you want it to be and why the hell not?

Bennie and the Jets has electric boobs, her mom has two

Michael Jackson...dibby dooby dat way...Human Nature

"All the boys think she's a spy, she's got better legs and thighs"

I really thought Jimi Hendrix said, "excuse me while I kiss this guy."

Nobody kissed the sky, even in the 60's.

On the same format, just before Hendrix enunciates the first "Purple haze..." lyric, you can hear him clear his throat.

These things matter.

I was shocked, stunned, and disgusted when I thought Gwen Stefani was singing, "I ain't no Harlem Black girl."

My children howled. Still do.

(For those oldies like me, she was actually singing, "I ain't no hollaback girl.&quot

we used to sing a hymn in church and I'm not sure which one it was but I thought it had the word penguin in it.

he thought they were singing about the Donderly Lie!

my kids were exposed to a lot of their music at a young age.

I still laugh when I remember hearing my oldest daughter singing along with The Chain.

dandy love, dandelions.

The audio fidelity with AM isn't up there. I misheard lots of songs when younger. After all I did grow up in the Smashey and Nicey era of radio DJs.

- Jimi Hendrix

the people at a Trump rally say; the idiocy is mind boggling.

There is no lie that will not be believed. There is no fake news that is not true. There is no conspiracy theory that did not really happen. It doesn't matter, there is nothing too outrageous that will not be accepted without question.

There's a bar room on the rye.

"There's a bad moon on the rise."

Yes I used the voice to text to make this post.

While I kiss this guy

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That's pretty funny though.

should also have said and the dumb and naive.

Because with "too much education," one tends to vote liberal!

I'm furious that some will believe she said she's going to raise taxes on the middle class and the whole crowd went crazy at that notion. Eye Roll

...revved up like a douche?

And in Marvin Gaye's Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler), I thought he was saying, "Make me wanna holler, throw up on my hands."

I never could figure out why they were singing about a douche.

DAMMIT Nance, look what you started!

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It was from the horse with no mane!

... not bad at all!

Big O Jed had a lighthouse

Nance - Best OP I've seen in weeks. I'm laughing so hard I'm crying.

I'm laughing so hard I can't even THINK of something to add to this! The responses are GREAT!

I ate a one-ton tomato.

It's "Guantanamera, Guajira Guantanamera"

STOP IT!!!

To one degree or another, we all believe what we want to believe. We all see things through the prism of our experiences and biases.

These folks want to believe it, so they do.

and "let it all hang out" while I "shake my tambourine."

...my Tony Danza.

Sorry, couldn't resist. I love mondegreens!

I hear you. The willful ignorance is mindboggling.

I'm crying!

might as well face it, you're a dick with a glove

(might as well face it, you're addicted to love)

Excuse me while I kiss this guy.

This has to be the all-time BEST THREAD EVER!!!!

Maybe better if in the future she says" We are not going to raise taxes on the middle class", rather than using "aren't". Or even "We will not raise taxes on the middle class".

he kept us safe!

If that isn't the most Orwellian thing in the history of ever!

A few wingnuts might be stupid enough to actually believe these things were said and intended to be said that way, but most like to pretend it's some kind of Freudian slip, that they caught the "real" desires and intentions of the evil liberals sneaking through. They love having their imaginary "Ah, hah! Gotcha!" moment.

Either that, or they think the Democratic candidates somehow deserves to be interpreted badly no matter what they really said or intended to say or even actually believe, so they'll gleefully push a deliberate misinterpretation on that basis.

for their guns (I know, he still has some time to do it )

went right over my head, though.

.... "I've been searching for a hard up goat "

(Hey, I'm getting old!)

I am on the floor.

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It's not what she said. The problem is that the people who believe this lie don't EVER come here, watch anything other than Fox 'news,' or listen to anything rather than hate-talk radio. So they are gonna be true believers. What did Obama say? 'Haters gonna hate.'

... to swallow a story like this. But I actually first saw it on that "progressier-then-thou" site, where alleged progressives are insisting she said it and she meant it.

Look, that tertiary syphilis support group has got some freakin issues.

1) DAMN stupid 2) deliberately obtuse, which is stupid on purpose.

for Reverend Blue Jeans (the "cool" youth pastor).

This election is getting ridiculous.

Lock the cash bar. Lock the cash bar.

Stupid enough to support Donald Trump for PROTUS. Yes. I agree. It is pretty damn scary.

What they were doing in my coffee I have no idea.

What kind of person insists that Hillary’s words are the exact opposite of what she said in an attempt to discredit her, and bring attention to themselves?
OK, I'll answer. A moron or tRump supporter, but I repeat myself.

so anything goes..................

You take a piece of meat with you

... who made this thread so much fun!!!

Because it fits the mythology, it was probably effective on any wayward sheep who were thinking of straying.

Too much money is at stake for the ratfuckers not to try shit like this 24/7, as they have for decades. Enough of it sticks for long enough that they'll keep doing it.