When you were a kid and listened to a song, what did you get totally wrong about it?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Steve Hoffman, Dec 31, 2013.

  1. revolution_vanderbilt

    revolution_vanderbilt Forum Resident

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    sounds like a fun night to me
     
  2. PaulKTF

    PaulKTF Senior Member

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    That sounds like a better idea to me. :)
     
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  3. PaulKTF

    PaulKTF Senior Member

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    Note to self- don't go drinking with bekayne. :)
     
  4. Mr. Explorer

    Mr. Explorer Trumpet Man/Dapper Dan

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    Well this is a doozy. Just to preface this, I've listened to the Beatles since before I could read and write, and I've "always known" the lyrics and never really actively think about them, even as I sing along.

    So today (TODAY) I'm sitting eating a Philly cheesesteak on my lunch break and I put on the mono White Album in my earbuds and realize that I've been hearing the lyrics to Back In The USSR wrong!

    I thought it was "Moscow girls make me sing and shout, that Jojo's always on my miiiiiind"

    You know, like Jojo from Get Back? Yeah I thought she happened to be a Moscow Girl and Paul just sung about her in two songs :sweating::help:

    Somehow today I heard the real lyric for the first time and I'm simultaneously embarrassed and mad I didn't notice earlier, because it's a pretty damn great lyric/play on words!
     
  5. I used to believe that people would play quieter and quieter until they stopped. I also believed that everything was played live (I didn't know about overdubs). I also believed that the musicians playing (i.e. like The Beatles) played ALL the instruments back then.
     
  6. Steve Hoffman

    Steve Hoffman Your host Your Host Thread Starter

    Did I write this already? When I was three I believed there were tiny musicians inside the record and putting the tone arm down meant the needle landed on one of their heads and that was their cue to start playing. That's what I thought at three. I wasn't that bright..
     
  7. It's songs like this that make my love of geography pay off.
     
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  8. bferr1

    bferr1 Forum Resident

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    When I was a kid, I had NO IDEA what "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood was really all about. I thought it was about procrastination in general. I heard it again recently and paid attention to the lyrics. I was like, "Holy Sh--t!"
     
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  9. Likewise - probably around three also - I thought for a little while that tiny "radio people" inhabited the old lamp black box AM-only job we had... From what I could see on the back, those bright yellow lamps made the environment look warm and cozy enough to sustain human life I guess...

    It's funny that I didn't entertain fantasies like that about television... Just radio!
     
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  10. Steve Hoffman

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    Ha, great minds!
     
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  11. doublenaught

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    When I was three I wasn't smart enough to even consider why there might be music coming out of a radio or record player, it was just there.
     
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  12. Johnny Rocker

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    I thought War's "why can we be friends" was I can p##,p## there. Sorry but that's what I heard.....LOL![​IMG]
     
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  13. izgoblin

    izgoblin Forum Resident

    On the topic of overdubs, when I was in my pre-teens, I used to think that Neil Young brilliantly chose to hire members of Crazy Horse because they sounded exactly like him when doing backing vocals.

    Of course, I failed to recognize that in these cases, Neil was just double-tracking the vocals himself.
     
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  14. ibanez_ax

    ibanez_ax Forum Resident

    Someone in 1967 told me the Beatles played the string quartet parts in She's Leaving Home. I wasn't buying it. :unhunh:
     
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  15. wwaldmanfan

    wwaldmanfan Born In The 50's

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    The first one that comes to mind is "Puff The Magic Dragon", which has been mentioned in this thread.
    Some people still don't believe it was about marijuana. The proof of that, they claim, are the published denials by the songwriter, Lenny Lipton.
    However, when I smoked dope with him in Berkeley, in 1976, I was led to believe otherwise.
     
  16. Instant Dharma

    Instant Dharma Dude/man

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    Jeremiah was a bullfrog
    Was a good friend of mine..

    I thought it was real fooking cool the guy was pals with a wine drinking bullfrog.

    Mind blown.
     
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  17. sloaches

    sloaches Forum Resident

    When I was a kid, I thought Elvis was singing from actual experience when he sang "Jailhouse Rock".
     
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  18. bRETT

    bRETT Senior Member

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    I used to think that a "stingray" was an obstacle in a drag race, that inflicted pain as you drove by.

    I also wondered why the surfers in Jan & Dean songs were "shooting the girls."
     
  19. Yeah that seemed a little much to buy when I was 7 but because I saw a picture of John and Paul playing with horns i did think they at least played the horn parts on Pepper and Revolver.
     
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  20. the pope ondine

    the pope ondine Forum Resident

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    not a song but....
    yeah I thought this was real till .....um recently
     
  21. ibanez_ax

    ibanez_ax Forum Resident

    Well to be fair, I was 12...
     
  22. BrutandCharisma

    BrutandCharisma Forum Resident

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    For a couple of years as a little kid, I thought "Olive, the Other Reindeer" was the one screwing with Rudolph and not inviting him to the reindeer games.
     
  23. skisdlimit

    skisdlimit Forum Resident

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    Depeche Mode - People Are People
    I thought the lyric was "What makes a man? Takes another man!" :angel::laugh:
     
  24. PaulKTF

    PaulKTF Senior Member

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    Well, that is technically true I guess even if that isn't the lyric! :laugh:
     
  25. misterdecibel

    misterdecibel Bulbous Also Tapered

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