Problems in understanding

CuanaD wrote:

Of course my worst was Ceremony's 'avenues all lined with trees'

For decades I sang ' Howard Hughes, oh lime with trees'

Yeah! Me too! I thought he sounded like he was singing Howard Hughes.... ha ha ha ha!!

rubberlover666 wrote: The end of 1963. I hear "I will always feel free" though consensus says it's "I will always feel for you.".

I'm 99.5% certain its "I will always feel free". In fact, the lyrics on this site say its that...

From transcribing a lot of lyrics for a lyrics site once, New Order are surprisingly hard to comprehend, especially compared to some who you might think are hard - Pet Shop Boys for one. And Linkin Park, for all their teenage angst, have impeccably precise diction of lyrics, even in the raps.

another JD one:

'i'm living in the eighties'

it still works with the rest of the lyrics, as well.

Temptation tonight I think I'll find my soul, as I don't know.

Actually that makes more sense to me.

Same as this one from Run

Well you don't get a time like this for nothing.

i did a senior thesis in high school (oh so so long ago) about music and did a part on diction in lyrics. "i've been looking for a guide to come and take me by the hands" could be construed as a homosexual yearning for someone to help him come out, "i've been looking for a guy to come and take me by the hand" due to the 'd' ending 'guide' and the 't' beginning 'to'.

make of that what you will including whatever i'm reading into it :D

Hm- a year ago, somebody mentioned mishearing "faith" in Avalanche as "paste".

I could never listen to that song the same way again.

MYOB wrote:

rubberlover666 wrote: The end of 1963. I hear "I will always feel free" though consensus says it's "I will always feel for you.".

I'm 99.5% certain its "I will always feel free". In fact, the lyrics on this site say its that...

The non-english fool (me) understands it as "I will always feel for you"...

By 'Eck! My Neck! wrote:

CuanaD wrote:

Of course my worst was Ceremony's 'avenues all lined with trees'

For decades I sang ' Howard Hughes, oh lime with trees'

Yeah! Me too! I thought he sounded like he was singing Howard Hughes.... ha ha ha ha!!

Yeah, that was another line with me. I thought it was, "attitudes, all I could see" My Ceremony lyrics were totally off the wall! When I sing Ceremony in my head, I still sing "composition" instead of "no mercy shown". It`s far better!

Ronald Kirsch wrote: Same as this one from Run

Well you don't get a time like this for nothing.

What is it then? I was SURE it is "well you don't get a time like this for nothing" --

and 1963 is CLEARLY "feel free"

what are you guys smoking? (or not smoking... headphones and weed make lyrical deciphering better....)

Tarbox23 wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote: Same as this one from Run

Well you don't get a time like this for nothing.

What is it then? I was SURE it is "well you don't get a time like this for nothing" --

Tan, isn't it? "well you don't get a tan like this for nothing"

the lurker formerly known as iain curtis wrote: i did a senior thesis in high school (oh so so long ago) about music and did a part on diction in lyrics. "i've been looking for a guide to come and take me by the hands" could be construed as a homosexual yearning for someone to help him come out, "i've been looking for a guy to come and take me by the hand" due to the 'd' ending 'guide' and the 't' beginning 'to'.

make of that what you will including whatever i'm reading into it :D

Heh heh... you said "diction." Heh heh heh.

Tarbox23 wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote: Same as this one from Run

Well you don't get a time like this for nothing.

Its town

And if you have a geordie accent, I don't care what you're saying; I love you!

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When I was a sweet innocent child, I made myself believe Bernard was saying tonight he "should have stayed at home/ playing with my precious son"

oooooooh, ooooooh, ooooh, ooh oooh.

t

Steve Campbell wrote: Well all vocalists twist words to account for the way mics and amps make the voice sound, and the quirks of the system. A common example is to sing the word "please" as "pliss" and with a swelling "P" phonetic to avoid a plosive.

Bernard on the other hand is from Salford, he sings like he talks mostly. I've also heard him make plosives that must have really hurt the audience's bollox :)

I note a lot of people have a hard time comprehending Bernard's babblings on stage, even the Yanks, who alledgedly speak our tounge. Trouble is, that no one speaks BBC english outside the BBC, and the further outside the M25 you get, not only does the accent get more garbled, but the rate of speech increases exponentially. Hence eastenders characters speak slowly and in a manner close enough to BBC english to be gotten by the rest of you. However, if Shug or I were to record a short segment of typical regional speach at the correct speed, you wouldn't get a word of it. Possibly THE most incomprehensible regional accent in the UK is "shitfaced geordie"....which in conjunction to being as understandable as Mandarain Chinese through a broken pitch shifter, has the added element that you never know if you've just been threatened or challenged to unarmed combat to the death. Even sober Geordie has it's quirks. Example: The Police song "so lonely"....you can sing "so lonely" as much as you like and it will never sound right. However, if you substitute the name of a popular BBC presenter of the 1980's it works a treat. I shall leave it to the other UK persons to post her name for a bit of fun.

And Salford's only like 60 or 100 miles from that lot, and they sound TOTALLY different.

Divvunt nah wat yer onna boot, bonny lad ?