Yesterday’s MBMBaM got Coolio stuck in my head. That made me realize I’d never heard the original song he sampled for the intro and chorus of 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New) so I looked it up and what I saw was not at all what I expected.
I can’t stop watching this.
Letters To Cleo - Here And Now
I really like their cover of “Cruel to Be Kind.” And I have a lot of nostalgia for their Sonic Heroes Team Rose theme too.
I didn’t realize they covered Nick Lowe. I saw him on his fall tour and definitely recommend it.
For over a decade I thought that Neil Hannon namedropped some unknown song called “Bloomin’ Day” in the final verse of this song.
I was idly reading the lyrics today and found out I was embarrassingly wrong.
He is, of course, referring to the New Order song “Blue Monday”.
Love a good mondegreen. The first time I listened to Run to Her I heard “I know your daughter, Orson Welles” as if he was speaking to Orson Welles. Of course it’s actually “I know your daughter, oh so well” (about 0:36)
Wait, it’s Mondegreen? I thought it was Montigreen. Granted, that might be a misremembering rather than a mishearing.
I hope the irony is not lost on everyone here. 
Made up words will always get you mixed up. In this case, almost everybody hears “Don’t bring me down, Bruce!” when it’s actually a fictitious word “groos” shouted at the end.
Electric Light Orchestra - Don’t Bring Me Down
At least, Phil Collins put his made up word in the title of the song.
Phil Collins - Sussudio
Fun Fact: We also have Phil Collins to thank for that snappy drum sound of the 80s. It’s called gated reverb, for those who care.
My favourite misheard lyric (even though I think it started as a joke) is Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water.
Slow motion Walter… and fire engine guy!
Ah… never gets old. 
Granted, that might be a misremembering rather than a mishearing.
That would be the Mandela effect. Or, since you recognize that your memory is wrong … a Mandela defect.
Wait, it’s Mondegreen? I thought it was Montigreen
More seriously, “mondegreen” is a mishearing of “on the green” so any corruption of that works, really. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone write it as “montigreen” but it’s possible you saw it somewhere once.
Not sure I’ve ever seen it in print, having gone blind back in 2012 and it not being an expression I grew up with or was taught in school and given the similarity between how my screen reader pronounces mondegreen and montigreen, I might have legitimately misheard it at some point… And while I’m not sure I’ve typed the word before to day, turns out Firefox thinks both spellings are wrong, suggesting moneylender and manticore respectively.
That said, I freely admit to suffering from a form of CRS(Can’t remember shit) and semi-obscure neologisms aren’t one of the classes of knowledge I’m really good at remembering.
And is it irony? I know enough to know most people get irony wrong, but not enough to get it right myself.
Trying to think of song lyrics I’ve misheard, but my memory is failing me on this front as well. Closest thing to a proper example I can think of is the song Cosmic Rendezvous by Rumi Shishido, which has a few words of English among its lyrics that escaped my notice for like 15 years before finally tracking down a romaji transcription and translation of the lyrics… not sure it should really count as even with the transcript they are hard to pick out listening to the song and the limitations of adapting foreign words to Japanese’s phonetic limitations are in full force(Heck, took me a while back when I was first collecting Rumi Shishido’s music on CD to figure out the song’s title(romanized as Kozumikku Randebuu) was Japanized English.
Anyways, here’s a youtube link:
Paper Bag by Fiona Apple
Oh man, this takes me back - I listened to this song obsessively when I was experiencing some romantic travails way back in undergrad. This whole album is so good, I still have like half the lyrics memorized.
Well, it definitely isn’t whatever Alanis Morissette was smoking the day she wrote this song.
Alanis Morissette - Ironic
The Alanis Morisette wiki has ~500 words on whether the lyrics are ironic, and, if so, whether they are deliberately ironic or ironically unironic.
I actually really like the song though. I’m in the group that thinks that most of the lyrics are decent examples of situational irony (ie. twist of fate) regardless of intent.
In the next slide at the time stamp of this video, see if you can identify the Alanis Morissette reference. 
→ https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc?t=159
I like her music too. 
I just like talkin’ like an opinionated redneck about stuff.
Speaking of Canadian artists…
I wonder if what’s well known in Canada ever makes it out of the country.
Dallas Green had quite the following in Canada. City and Colour had quite a few hits on the airwaves.
City and Colour - Save Your Scissors
→ City and Colour - Comin’ Home
He even sang the girl part in Alexisonfire. I don’t know what the nice singing alternating with vocal fry is called. Sue me.
Alexisonfire - This Could Be Anywhere In The World
→ Alexisonfire - Boiled Frogs
Gord Downie (RIP) even praised Dallas’ mad skillz apparently.
Anyway, just curious if either of these bands ever got noticed outside of Canada.
I just like talkin’ like an opinionated redneck about stuff
Same here. It’s far from a perfect song … I have to admit that the “ten thousand spoons when you need a knife” is a ridiculous line whether it’s ironic or not.
I guess I’d describe the song as more than the sum of its parts.
Embarrassingly, I don’t think I know another Canadian group off the top of my head except Tegan and Sara. There’s probably that USA overlap problem; I probably do know Canadian bands, without knowing they are Canadian.
I can however name two fictional bands from Canada – The Zit Remedy, who rebranded as The Zits in their senior years, from Degrassi Junior High. And The Gourmet Scum, also from Degrassi Junior High.
The presentation of the Zit Remedy was hilarious. Entire seasons of the show would pass and they’d always be talking about ‘We gotta practise!’ And then they would practise, and they only had one song, and it only had three chords, and one verse and one chorus. Yet they laboured at this thing for years.
When, in Degrassi High, they finally filmed a videoclip for the song as The Zits, they added more verse lyrics. It was pretty exciting to hear a few extra words for the first time.
Here is that video of… Everybody Wants Something.
The character with the curly hair and hoop earrings, Heather, was my crush when watching the show as a teen.
-Wade
That’s actually not bad for 80s/90s kids’ TV.
While only one song is explicitly named and shown in the series, it is implied in the very beginning of “A Helping Hand” that they have a second song when Snake mentions that “we only have two songs”. Likewise, in the novel Exit Stage Left, they are described as performing another song titled “I Don’t Want To Be A Porcupine With Anyone Else But You, Baby”, which Joey claims will "revolutionize the pop music industry
LOL.
Thanks, Wade! That was a blast from the past. I was team Caitlin.
There’s probably that USA overlap problem
Yeah, very good observation. Here are a few popular bands/artists you might be familiar with:
Anyway, now you know something.