misheard lyrics

before the internet and lyrics archives, did you ever had any misheard lyrics by new order? what did you think barney or ian was singing before lyric sheets and that?

for me, when barney sings the perfect kiss, i always thought he sang "i should have stayed at home thinking about my precious soul" not "playing with my pleasure zone" somehow, i like my version better... :D

There was one line in Sunrise that I wasn't sure about, and couldn't for the life of me work out that line in All The Way about Parasites and Literacites ! WTF is a literacite ?

The best one was the "school exam, the kids have run away" in Regret. No idea it said School Exam before !

You should see the number of hilarious misinterpretations some of us posted on that OTHER NewOrderWeb Forum re: the opening lines of "Bizarre Love Triangle" - they'd make you laugh!!!

Pretty nifty thread this one - the potential for so much dredging from one's memory of so many lyrical faux-pas is enormous.... I'll have to start thinking back and listening again now....

i'm trying to think of any particularly amusing instances i've had with mishearing lyrics and Order songs, and i can't particularly...often enough, the real lyrics are funny enough on their own.

(i will NEVER be able to get over "you keep me feeling fresh, we're driving down that highway" from "Sabotage"... )

i do have a funny story on this topic, though:

this guy i work with, he was part of a band called Ashtray Boy, right? someone contacted him and wanted to do a cover of one of their songs. as my coworker had written the lyrics and they'd not been published anywhere, this person wanted to double check and make sure they were okay. so he sent my coworker what he *thought* he'd heard...only of course it was completely different than the REAL lyrics had been.

but my coworker was like, "wow! these are SO MUCH BETTER than the real lyrics are! you should just use these instead!"

*coughs* i'll think of something...i know it. at about 3am tonight, to wake me up out of a sound sleep. ;)

I used to think that the line in Bizzare Love Triangle went

'Everytime I think of you I get shot right through every part of you' ...

Originally posted by Oh Look! There Goes The Laughing Martian Again!! You should see the number of hilarious misinterpretations some of us posted on that OTHER NewOrderWeb Forum re: the opening lines of "Bizarre Love Triangle" - they'd make you laugh!!! Pretty nifty thread this one - the potential for so much dredging from one's memory of so many lyrical faux-pas is enormous....I'll have to start thinking back and listening again now....

Is there another New Order website then ? Can't be any good !!

Hehe :D I struggled on the "school exam" line from Regret for a long long while i have to confess!!!

I thought he said "its as cool as if your cares have gone away"

Originally posted by -I:D- Hehe :D I struggled on the "school exam" line from Regret for a long long while i have to confess!!!I thought he said "its as cool as if your cares have gone away"

I thought it was "schoolies and the kids have run away"

I'd always thought it was school lads...

Tonnes on Blue Monday as well

I thought It was 'I see a ship in the harbour, I am a shallow bay' and 'I thought I told you to MEET me', and some more as well which I cant rememeber

Originally posted by Seb Briggs Tonnes on Blue Monday as wellI thought It was 'I see a ship in the harbour, I am a shallow bay' and 'I thought I told you to MEET me', and some more as well which I cant rememeber

I thought it was 'like in a Shallow bay'. I also thought it was meet as well, Until 10 seconds ago actually.

Still not 100% on the line from Special where he goes either

"stop saying that your caught in time" or "stop saying that your calling time"

I think its more likely the second one but they both kinda work on different levels.

Originally posted by -I:D- Still not 100% on the line from Special where he goes either"stop saying that your caught in time"or"stop saying that your calling time"I think its more likely the second one but they both kinda work on different levels.

I heard it as "calling time", which made sense to me in the context of the song.

Not a New Order song but as a very young boy I thought "Rock The Casbah" was "Rock The Gas Board". NB. This was before privatisation when we had one all encompassing gas board as opposed to loads of power companies.....just to put it in context you understand!...I'll get me coat!!!!

Now that one's funny!!

On a similar unrelated matter:

In the middle of "Mountains" by Prince & The Revolution, I SWEAR the young woman (Lisa?? Wendy??) is excitedly yelling "Bobby I'm A Scrubber!!" a split second before Prince himself screams in horror at the realisation of it all...!!

And "Message In A Bottle" by The Police - Sting MUST be singing: "A Year has passed since I broke my nose"...

There's TONS of these things!!!

For ages I thought the line in the World in Motion "rap" that goes 'We ain't no hooligans...' was 'We ain't no Ruud Gullit' Doh! :o

I thought at the time it was a bloody stupid line...

Classic mishearing from a mate of mine was 'Hey Joe, where you going with that THING ON YOUR HEAD'

And my best mate's ma makes them all the time...thought the chorus of PSB's Domino Dancing ('All day, all day') was 'Hard boiled egg', and Chris Rea's Road to Hell was 'This is aerobics in hell'

The classic one has gotta be The Police "So Lonely"

he's so blatently singing about Sue Lawley

Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy."

Blondie heart of glass 'I'm lost in the bluish light' as 'I'm lost to the Jewish line' (marrying a gentile, I guess)

Blast from the past: I always thought the line in True Faith was "When I was a very small boy/Very small boys TORTURED me", not "talked to me"

One more recent: I can swear it like Barney's saying "leaper head" or "leper head" in HTS. Sorry, that's just what I hear

Originally posted by Taboo # 7 Blast from the past: I always thought the line in True Faith was "When I was a very small boy/Very small boys TORTURED me", not "talked to me"

Me too Tabsy! me too!

I like Barney's bit of Dali-esque surrealism on "Ceremony" myself actually:

"Howard Hughes, all lined with trees,Pigeon me and then you're stopwatching...."

;)

or it could have been:

"Howard Hughes, hole lined with cheese,Pigeon meat and then you stop washing...."

:D

My mistakes:

True faith: "I get this feeling an emotion..."

Fine time: "You know we make a lot of courtesy..."

Blue Monday: "I am an shallow bays..."

I also struggled with:

Transmission: "Synchronise love to the beat of the show"

This time i'm not wrong: "Your a nuclear bomb"

Regret: "before they fall apart"

Ceremony: (all of it!)

Perfect kiss: "playing with my pleasure zone"

.... and loads more....

"We like crystal"

Originally posted by Oh Look! There Goes The Laughing Martian Again!! I like Barney's bit of Dali-esque surrealism on "Ceremony" myself actually:"Howard Hughes, all lined with trees,Pigeon me and then you're stopwatching....";)

*spits out drink yet again*

that's the second time today for you!

oi. some of us are trying to drink here, Marty!

;)

I'd always heard the line in Atmosphere as "Aching to see" rather than "Naked to see" and as for NO, from As It Is...., I heard "This state of grace is consuming me" as "costuming me".

i think that in "the him" barney and hooky say "pick juan, show cale my ice cream." i assumed they were talking about john cale of velvet underground fame, and that juan was a name assigned to a drug-induced hallucination of some sort. they also may very well have been hard up for lyrics at that point

Originally posted by Major Tarantino My mistakes:Perfect kiss:"playing with my pleasure zone".... and loads more....

"playing with my pleasure zone"?! isn't that the right lyric? oh god, now i'm confused. ah hell, i said i liked my version better anyways ;)

Originally posted by snucker > Originally posted by Major Tarantino> My mistakes:> > Perfect kiss:> "playing with my pleasure zone"> > .... and loads more....

"playing with my pleasure zone"?! isn't that the right lyric? oh god, now i'm confused. ah hell, i said i liked my version better anyways ;)

Yes, it is. That one is under "i also struggled with", i can't remember what i misheard it as. I just never knew what he said. maybe "playing with my pleasures own"

It was the Land of Meat that got me !!

It took me a while to believe he was actually saying "you realise you cant shaft without someone else!!" when i first heard it!!

they used to do this on radio one, I remember the sue lawley one, that was a classic, they also had one vision by queen & instead of "look what they did to my dreams" it came out as "look what they did to mike read"

& when you listen to it - it does

I like that one by Daryl Hall and John Oates (a song covered later by Paul Young) that goes:

"Every time you go away.... You take a piece of meat with you...."

:D

Originally posted by -I:D- It took me a while to believe he was actually saying "you realise you cant shaft without someone else!!" when i first heard it!!

what song is this?

that awful song? urgh. i never listen to the lyrics, just the cheesy keyboards.

agreed, Shug...i too prefer the LL version. though i don't mind the Substance version per se.

it's kinda sad, too...it's one of the first things i figured out by accident on my keyboard. not that it's hard...definitely not. but i was amused that i did so completely subconsciously...

Originally posted by ShugZV Talking of learning stuff on a keyboard....I can't play any musical instrument BTW - but I learned The Perfect Kiss (chorus part) and some of Confusion & Thieves purely through the try and try and try again method - took me fookin hours!!;)But once I got it right - it felt fookin great;)

congratulations, then! ;) i love that feeling of accomplishment!

("Twisted Tenderness" is also fairly easy. some friends threatened to throttle me if i didn't do a recording of it, which i thought was kinda silly...but Jae Young can back me up on this one. though she didn't witness one girl actually semi-throttling me at a pancake house during that animation convention...she just heard about it later.

'course, said girl was also kinda mad that i'd gotten her hooked on Electronic in the first place... )

back on the alleged topic, i can't really think of many Order lyrics that i've had problems with! perhaps this should worry me, that i can decipher most of them accurately...?

my sister and i used to make fun of her mom, though...she has (and had) an unreasoning obsession with Eddie Vedder. and his lyrics are great to make up your own to.

so we had such classics as "Stomp the Wombat" (no relation to BoppaWombat, of course... ;) ) for "Don't go on me" from the song "Go"...

oh, and "flap, flap, flapping like a pelican" instead of "glorified version of a pellet gun..." from "W.M.A."

mind, was never a fan. but when you're exposed to it every day, you must find ways to amuse yourself. ;)

:topic: Not New Order but one that got me for many a year was from Lloyd Cole (with or without his commotions I don't know)- Rattlesnakes

'.... and her American Circus Dance. her heart, heart's likes crazy pavin'

Turned out to be '....in her American circumstance, her heart's like crazy pavin' et al'

:o Doh!

Another NewOrder one is in RUN where he can seem to say " you dont get a town like this for nothing"

It does kinda helps if ya pissed or hear it live (when you invariably are under the influence in anycase :) )

hhmm..i don't remember my mistakes now, except for one from 1963..

thought: "it was johnny and me.." instead of "it was january"

my friend was convinced that ian curtis was gay because she thought that he said "i've been waiting for a GUY to come and take me by the hand."

Originally posted by false head my friend was convinced that ian curtis was gay because she thought that he said "i've been waiting for a GUY to come and take me by the hand."

:D

An Electronic on for ya...

Twisted Tenderness.

Right outside its a crueller world ?

Right outside its a cooler world ?

again both kinda work on the same level but in different ways.. i wonder if Barney ever switches between lyrics in these type of circumstances (though not that i think they have ever performed TT live )

There's one in ACR's Flight....

"Open your thighs, and draw in air"

(I think it's meant to be "Open both eyes...")

Originally posted by -I:D- An Electronic on for ya...Twisted Tenderness.Right outside its a crueller world ?Right outside its a cooler world ?again both kinda work on the same level but in different ways.. i wonder if Barney ever switches between lyrics in these type of circumstances (though not that i think they have ever performed TT live )

What I understand is right outside it's a cruel world.

Originally posted by Thief like me > Originally posted by -I:D-> An Electronic on for ya...> > Twisted Tenderness.> > Right outside its a crueller world ?> > Right outside its a cooler world ?> > again both kinda work on the same level but in different ways.. i wonder if Barney ever switches between lyrics in these type of circumstances (though not that i think they have ever performed TT live )> >

What I understand is right outside it's a cruel world.

Nah mate he most definatly says "cruel/cool**..er**" !!

Originally posted by -I:D- > Originally posted by Thief like me> > > > Originally posted by -I:D-> > An Electronic on for ya...> > > > Twisted Tenderness.> > > > Right outside its a crueller world ?> > > > Right outside its a cooler world ?> > > > again both kinda work on the same level but in different ways.. i wonder if Barney ever switches between lyrics in these type of circumstances (though not that i think they have ever performed TT live )> > > > >

What I understand is right outside it's a cruel world.

Nah mate he most definatly says "cruel/cool**..er**" !!

according to the lyrics booklet actually included with TT, it's indeed "right outside it's a cruel world."

i think the problem is that he elongates "cruel" and makes it into two syllables."

"right outside it's a cru-el world..."

hence, possibility of hearing it as "crueller."

or maybe he was eating tasty krullers at the time? :D

Originally posted by janaki > Originally posted by -I:D-> > > > Originally posted by Thief like me> > > > > > > Originally posted by -I:D-> > > An Electronic on for ya...> > > > > > Twisted Tenderness.> > > > > > Right outside its a crueller world ?> > > > > > Right outside its a cooler world ?> > > > > > again both kinda work on the same level but in different ways.. i wonder if Barney ever switches between lyrics in these type of circumstances (though not that i think they have ever performed TT live )> > > > > > > > >

What I understand is right outside it's a cruel world.

Nah mate he most definatly says "cruel/cool**..er**" !!

according to the lyrics booklet actually included with TT, it's indeed "right outside it's a cruel world."

i think the problem is that he elongates "cruel" and makes it into two syllables."

"right outside it's a cru-el world..."

hence, possibility of hearing it as "crueller."

or maybe he was eating tasty krullers at the time? :D

I had to just listen to it once again to check this double syllable thing :D

But if its in the booklet then i assume thats what he intends to say, perhaps he just added a bit of artistic license when he did the take (it wouldnt be the first time eh!! )

by the way what the hell are "tasty krullers" sounds most bizzare!!! :D

they're a baked thing, often served as a breakfast item...much like a donut, actually. allegedly German in origin, though i do suspect that as with so much else, any versions i've had have been Americanised beyond belief.

here's a recipe, to give you an idea. they are quite tasty...ones i've had, anyway! ;)

Originally posted by janaki they're a baked thing, often served as a breakfast item...much like a donut, actually. allegedly German in origin, though i do suspect that as with so much else, any versions i've had have been Americanised beyond belief. here's a recipe, to give you an idea. they are quite tasty...ones i've had, anyway! ;)

Ahh cool! they sound ok actually, i might challenge my flatmate to see if she can make some this weekend :D Full report on Monday (if i survive the results!! hehe )

Here's another one that had me for a long time...

I cut my head against the wall

I kept my head against the wall

i was a bit disappointed when i found out it was kept as i had always thought of it as cut...

ah well!

As much as I've read the lyrics to Ceremony, just hearing the song it sounds so different. I always thing the sixth or seventh line is "All she asks is for him to hold me", which don't sound right...

Originally posted by -I:D- Here's another one that had me for a long time...I cut my head against the wallI kept my head against the walli was a bit disappointed when i found out it was kept as i had always thought of it as cut...ah well!

Naaah Barney's actually singing:

"I kicked my head against the wall"

.....as he's possessed of such mindbogglingly gymnastic agility to be able to do that sort of thing (compared to now of course) :D

.....and going back to an earlier lyrical howler, I still think I hit the jackpot when I insisted that Barney was really singing on "Ceremony":

"Howard Hughes's hole lined with cheesePigeon Meat and then you stop washing....washing forever....."