Errors-To: owner-ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu From: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu To: owner-ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #1191 ecto, Number 1191 Sunday, 31 July 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* German Ectophiles please note misheard lyrics... Silly question for today Re: All Those Naughty Words... Re: misheard lyrics... Re: misheard lyrics... Re: misheard lyrics... Re: misheard lyrics... Re: misheard lyrics... Re: misheard lyrics... Re:Closed Roads and Rhodes Albums Anthony and Tori Re: misheard lyrics... ======================================================================== From: klaus@inphobos.wupper.de Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 07:33:40 CET-1 Subject: German Ectophiles please note German Ectophiles please note: in a week or two I will send out an order of "Building the Colossus" to Aural Gratification. If you would like me to get a copy for you as well, let me know asap. Cheers, Klaus ======================================================================== From: "Neil K. Guy" Subject: misheard lyrics... Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 14:29:39 -0700 (PDT) On the subject of misheard lyrics, I was talking to a friend of mine the other day who said that a mutual friend was convinced that the Sarah McLachlan song "Vox" is actually titled "Hawaii". As she sings "hawaaaiiii" over and over in the chorus. ("oh why?" actually) A ripe ground for misheard lyrics for my sister and I was always Thomas Dolby's "Airwaves" which yielded "wait for Norman" ("wait for morning" - my sister) and "some car park far away" ("some car backfiring" - me) Still, the most embarrassing misheard lyric for me right now comes from Happy herself. Namely "Funny Farm" in which she sings "I'll be a fisherman making ashtrays." Why Happy thinks she's singing "I'll be efficient at making ashtrays" I'll never know. I can imagine unemployed fisherfolk branching out into ashtray manufacturing. - Neil K. -- 49N 16' 123W 7' / Vancouver, BC, Canada / neil_k_guy@sfu.ca ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 16:28:46 CDT From: Subject: Silly question for today Anthony's interview with Tori revealed that she has an even older skeleton in the closet than YKTR, namely "Baltimore." Anyone know if this is the same song that was originated by Randy Newman, and covered by Nils Lofgren? WRT someone's query on the alleged ISBN on Rebecca Pidgeon's album: might he have been thinking of the number that appears on the UPC? Mitch ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 15:07:29 -0700 (PDT) From: David Dixon Subject: Re: All Those Naughty Words... On Tue, 26 Jul 1994, Chad Edward Lundgren wrote: > In Milwaukee, the radio stations are extremely open minded where > language is concerned. It was not always this way, but I think they struck a > deal with the FCC. It all started last year when WLZR wanted to broadcast > the concerts that they sponsored at Summerfest. The only problem is, WLZR is > a hard rock/heavy metal station; as are the bands the concerts. Now, we all > know the filth that comes out of the concerts (mock distaste) and WLZR > wanted to broadcast them live and uncensored. I dunno for sure what This is interesting, because it was at Summerfest that George Carlin got into trouble for his "Seven Words You Can't Say on Television" bit. He didn't realize that they were the seven words you can't say at Summerfest either, and got arrested. They must've changed policy. I haven't been to Summerfest since '89, so it must have been pretty recently. Around here the attitude seems to be to bleep the words during the daytime. You can only hear the unbleeped version of "Longview" by Green Day after about 10 PM. D^2 ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 15:11:01 -0700 (PDT) From: David Dixon Subject: Re: misheard lyrics... On Tue, 26 Jul 1994, Neil K. Guy wrote: > > On the subject of misheard lyrics, I was talking to a friend of mine > the other day who said that a mutual friend was convinced that the > Sarah McLachlan song "Vox" is actually titled "Hawaii". As she sings > "hawaaaiiii" over and over in the chorus. ("oh why?" actually) These are called Mondegreens (I forget the origin for the term.. Emily?) My personal best mis-hearing of a lyric was that famous Kim Carnes song, "She's Got Better Days Besides." :) D^2 ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 15:24:50 PDT From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: misheard lyrics... In the garbled lyrics front.... It always sounds to me like Enya is being super environmentalist on Orinoco Flow, singing "save the whales" over and over again. Neal ======================================================================== From: Philip Sainty Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 10:29:33 +1200 Subject: Re: misheard lyrics... Billy Connolly talks briefly on this topic on one of his albums. one example was the well known Christian hymn: "A Wain in a Manger" and he tells how a friend was convinced as a child of the existance of 'Gladly' - a heavenly teddybear with bad eyesight, as her parents would always sing in church: "Gladly, the cross-eyed bear" :) Philip _ _ ___ _ _ _ (_ / | / \ |_) |_| | | (_ Philip Sainty (_ \_ | \_/ | | | | |_ (_ psainty@comp.vuw.ac.nz -------------------------------------------------------------- "This is where I want to be, this is what I need." --Kate Bush ======================================================================== From: nijoh@teleport.com Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 16:05:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: misheard lyrics... Hmmm...one of my personal fave's is a friend singing "There's a bathroom on the right" ...can anyone guess this song??? -Onica *smirk -n- giggle* (Salamander Lives!!!!) ======================================================================== From: brianb@netcom.com (Brian Bloom) Subject: Re: misheard lyrics... Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 16:11:12 -0700 (PDT) > D^2 wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 1994, Neil K. Guy wrote: > > On the subject of misheard lyrics, I was talking to a friend of mine > These are called Mondegreens (I forget the origin for the term.. Emily?) > My personal best mis-hearing of a lyric was that famous Kim Carnes song, > "She's Got Better Days Besides." :) > D^2 The one I *still* find myself singing (and this makes *no* logical sense whatsoever) is Dead Or Alive's "You spin me rice round baby, rice round, like a record baby..." *sigh* Dave, I'm no good at lyrics... ;) -- __ ____ __ ____ __ __ (__==__) /\ \ / \_\ / /\ / \ \ / |\ / /\ (oo) ( moo.) / \_\ / /\ |_| / / /| /\ \ \ / ||/ / / /-------\/ -' / /\ | |\ \/ /_/_ / / / \ \/ \ \ / |/ / / / | U.T.|| / \/ |_| \ __ \_\ /_/ / \ /\ \_\ / /| / / * ||----|| / /\ ./_/ \ \ \/_/_\_\/ \ \ \/_// / | / / ^^ ^^ \ \/ |_| \ \_\ /_/\ \ \_\ /_/ /|_/ / Br!an Bloom \__/_/ \/_/ \_\/ \/_/ \_\/ \_\/ brianb@netcom.com .. but music hides me so well, ..and reveals me.. oh well - HR ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 16:21:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Emily Breed Subject: Re: misheard lyrics... On Tue, 26 Jul 1994, David Dixon wrote: > > These are called Mondegreens (I forget the origin for the term.. Emily?) > My personal best mis-hearing of a lyric was that famous Kim Carnes song, > "She's Got Better Days Besides." :) As I heard it, the term "Mondegreen" was coined by a local columnist (Jon Carroll in the SF Chronicle) based on a mishearing of a traditional song which resulted in "and laid him on the green" -> "and Lady Mondegreen". (Of course, I don't remember the name of the song... Sigh.) -- Emily ======================================================================== From: Robert Lovejoy Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 20:26:05 -0400 Subject: Re:Closed Roads and Rhodes Albums Michael K Curry asks: > Just where is Joyous Lake anyway? It's in the town of Woodstock, NY. It's a very small town and not on all N.Y. State maps. It's a little south of Saugerties and a bit north of Bethel, if memory serves me right. Joyous Lake is the name of the venue; there is no body of water so named (or maybe there is, but it's not where Happy's playing).... I think someone posted the phone number last week. Neil, there is indeed the ghost of a chance you might be able to obtain BTC before the 30th, but it's up to fate, the distributor, and your local recorded music emporium as to whether or not this particular dream becomes reality! Old Bob with Old News ======================================================================== Date: 26 Jul 94 20:55:10 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: Anthony and Tori Anthony, I *loved* that interview. Lots of really good things in there. I've been listening to the B-sides so much lately that I think I am becoming more and more of a true tori fan. Scary. I thought it was great she said Upside Down should have gone on LE, because, like, it such a powerful song, like, y'know. No, really, it is one of, if not *the*, favorite Tori song of mine. But then I could say that about many of the B-sides. In 2 weeks I'm gonna pretty just live at Schubas, what with Moxy on Monday, Milla on Tue, and Gorka on Wed. I hope I can see all of them... Oh, and a Listen Up! alert (my a cappella group). We'll be cameo'ing at the Improv in Chicago on Aug. 11 (Thu.)... it's sort of a live audition. Just 2 or 3 songs. If they like us, we might become semi-regulars... -mjm ======================================================================== From: jholt@pchem1.rice.edu (Camber the Heretic) Subject: Re: misheard lyrics... Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 20:08:30 -0500 (CDT) Of course there's always Paul Simon singing "Elvis was a watermelon." :) CTH ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is an INDEX file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)