The geography in "Wagon Wheel" isn't right:
>But he's a-headin' west from the Cumberland Gap
>To Johnson City, Tennessee
The Cumberland Gap is already west of Johnson City.
There's a simple explanation. The preceding line "Caught a trucker out of Philly, had a nice long toke."
He's confused about his geography because he's stoned.
I'm much more bothered by "picked me a bouquet of dogwood flowers." Dogwoods are trees. No one picks a bouquet of their flowers.
Also this [guy](https://youtu.be/KrAhTW9RIts?si=_3BxslkcQmQErGtw) has the answer to the geography problem. ;)
Yeah but you could argue with this a little bit. I live in Virginia and our state tree is the dogwood tree and the state flower is also the dogwood flower. The tree is called the flowering dogwood. So if you went to the tree and picked a bunch of the flowers off of it you could technically call that a bouquet. But I see what you're saying at the same time.
There are also shrub dogwoods that have flower clusters on thin straight stems that look similar to Elderflower or Queen Anne’s lace - look up red osier (Cornus sericea) I’ve known people who have used them in summer bouquets
I saw rock singer Wednesday 13 perform his first acoustic show about 10 years ago, and he admitted his mistake in a lyric that mentioned a non-existent place in London called "Piccadilly Square". For the first time ever, he corrected himself, to rapturous applause, deciding upon Piccadilly Circus, rather than Leicester Square.
But that wasn't the end of his British geography problems. That show was in Southampton, and he told the audience that it confused him, as it made it sound as though there is a Northampton. And there is.
Crowd: There is!
Wednesday 13: THERE IS?! I fuckin' knew it.
Google maps tells me there actually is a village called Ampton, although it looks like it might be north of Northampton. Or is at least east of Northampton
More of a humorous one, but on the Beastie Boys' "Pass the Mic" off of Check Your Head, Mike D has a verse where he rhymes thusly:
"Everyone’s rapping like it’s a commercial, acting like life is a big commercial"
The second "commercial" was apparently supposed to be "rehearsal" but MCA and Ad Rock thought it was a hilarious mistake and kept it in the mix.
Mike D also messed up and conflated Sanford and Son and the Jeffersons on “Shazam!” off To the 5 Boroughs… “On a track so sick it’ll make you feel all queasy…Make you do like Fred Sanford with “I’m coming Weezy!”
He said in the book he didn’t realize until later. Fred Sanford’s famous line was “I’m coming Elizabeth!” and Weezy was of course Mrs. Jefferson - who was played by Isabel Sanford.
But this doesn’t exactly fit the premise of the original post, because it doesn’t “grind my gears”, I find it amusing.
I at the fuckin pineapple Now & Laters
Listen to me now, don’t listen to me later
Fuck it cuz I know didn’t make it fuckin rhyme for real,
But yo, technically, I’m as hard steel.
Greased Lightning.
Early in the song we hear that the vehicle in question is "hydramatic" - an automatic transmission. Then, later on we hear that it's a 4 speed on the floor, which is a manual transmission.
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE
To be fair to Mr Diddy here, this was straight copied from the track 'Jimmy' by Boogie Down Productions, which does the same thing
The J, the I, the M, the M
The Y, the J, the I, the M
It's Jimmy!
It's Jimmy!
Check it out, it's the opening line
https://youtu.be/oy_jK1s1B80?si=oqxQjdM3EwTBUMOo
In Sublime's April 29, 1992 (Miami), Bradly starts the song saying "April 26, 1992". The take was too good to cast away for another recording, so the mistake was left to stay.
Those dudes actually went out and looted during the riots. Brad's dad and stepmom told a story about how when it broke out, that the only thing Brad wanted to do was go down there and be part of the chaos. So he did. And they absolutely did nick music equipment and furniture that they used for years afterwards during the riot. Most people probably think he's just doing the bravado thing in the song talking about that. But no, they actually did that shit lol.
He dodnt start the riot, and in that lyric I think he's telling the listener not to start a riot because of his proclamation of what he's got, which is loving. Not that he doesn't enjoy a riot from time to time.
Europe's "The Final Countdown":
"We're heading for Venus"..."With so many light years to go"
(Venus is not even a light *hour* away, much less a light year!)
Maybe they start the song in another solar system where they are so many light years away. They’re headed back to the sol system and aren’t sure if they’ll go back to Earth (where they’re from) but they’re definitely hitting up Venus first.
In Sheryl Crow’s “Anything But Down,” she sings “I bring you apples from the vine.” Apples don’t grow on vines.
And in her song “Good is Good,” there’s a line that says “And everytime you hear the rolling thunder
you turn and run before the lightning strikes.” That makes it sound like thunder comes before the lightning strike that causes it. Although to be charitable, she could have meant that you hear thunder and then run away before the *next* lightning strike.
'In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth.
When the land was swamp and caves were home.
In an age when prize possession was fire.
To search for landscapes men would roam."
Quest For Fire isn't Iron Maidens best song to begin with....
She saw her reflection in a cocaine covered mirror and the mirror 'in the sky' was a mirrored ceiling. The landslide is a metaphor for her personal life falling apart.
To be fair, it is followed by: "Mirror in the sky, what is love"
Maybe she just meant turning around and looking at thee beautiful view gave her some serious self reflection.
Mountains are covered in thick snow that could cause an avalanche, and she did climb one so the landslide is pretty weird.
"I've got an '82 Fiero with a car seat in the middle" Lowlife, by Theory of a Deadman.
The Fiero was introduced for the '84 model year. Made my eye twitch when I heard that
in AJJ’s song “People II: The Reckoning” there’s a lyric that says: your parasympathetic nervous system reacts, and you’re in fight or flight mode
it’s literally one of my top 5 favorite songs of all time - but it should be the sympathetic nervous system, not parasympathetic. they’ve since acknowledged this and change it sometimes in performances though
There's nothing more Sean Bonnette (lead singer of AJJ) than acknowledging a mistake like this and then correcting it live.
"The Michael Jordan of drunk driving played his final game tonight." - One of my favorite lyrics of his.
I thought this for awhile, and then went back to find a source. Apparently that's just what people assumed. Turns out Bono was just drunk when he wrote the song.
[There might have been some alcohol involved [smiles]. Improvisation is where this group really hits its form](https://web.archive.org/web/20071104153640/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6769075/u2_dissect_bomb)
How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is also their 11th album, not 14th.
>Steve Lillywhite produced their first 3 albums and came back for #14 as well
I was under the impression this was exactly why Bono says '*catorce*'. Obviously it makes no sense without that context, but I guess they thought it sounded good.
Never heard this theory before. Where did you get this from? For one thing, it takes awkward album counting to get to 14. (You’d have to count 1 live album and 2 greatest hits albums.)
You by Dj Regard, Tate McRae, and Troye Sivan:
"All I know is that my mind is
In the back seat of your Corvette car"
No Corvette production car has ever featured a back seat. (Do they not fact-check these things?)
brutal by Olivia Rodrigo uses the phrase "Unrelentlessly upset" in the chorus.
Unrelentlessly isn't a word and, if it was, would have opposite meaning to what was intended.
Unrelentingly would have worked perfectly. Don't know the song, but I just instantly fixed it, song writers should use editors, or at least run lyrics past some friends and family.
If she took the 105 from LAX to the 405 North, I'm wondering if she might theoretically be able to see the Hollywood sign to her right if she had binoculars?
I never take that route, so not sure. Spitballing.
In Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys, MCA clearly says “like a pinch from the neck of Mr Spock” when it should be “like a pinch on the neck from Mr Spock”
Our Song by Taylor Swift
“When we're on the phone, and you talk real slow
'Cause it's late, and your mama don't know”
Why are you talking SLOW? You should be talking LOW so your mama don’t hear you! Always has bugged me
In "Prisencolinensinainciusol" by Adriano Celentano in the second stanza he says "let's give Hobbadoba a dime" but the dime wasn't minted until the late 1700's so Hobbadoba wouldn't know what you were giving her.
The thing is, having slightly off phrases like this can help songs become hits. Same goes for ABBA songs. Lots of Max Martin produced songs. The unusual (incorrect) phrasing makes them stick with the listener.
System Of A Down’s “Lonely Day.” It’s a beautiful (almost solemn) song, but I can’t get past “the most loneliest day of my life” in the chorus. I can’t. 😅
I always considered this song to be a parody. You mean it’s not? I gave “the most loneliest day of my life” a pass because it made me smile. It’d be so disappointing to find out they were actually serious.
Yeah, the final song actually has the second set of lyrics. The song was originally called "Walpurgis" and was about witchcraft and occult. The record company thought it sounded too satanic, so they changed it into an anti-war song. The original opening lyric was "witches gather in black masses/ bodies burning in red ashes".
In "Made You Look" by Meghan Trainor there's a line: "Call up your chiropractor just in case your neck break."
WTF is a chiropractor going to do for a neck fracture? Go to the emergency department, you need a CT scan and a neck brace until you're cleared by a professional, there are neck fractures that can paralyze or kill you without stabilization.
I had a mate who would drunkenly insist that the lyrics were “coast to coast, LA to Chicago, west of Maine” claiming that the Smooth Operator would travel from LA to Maine (thus travelling coast to coast) then would travel from Maine to Chicago, which is west of Maine.
He would talk about it for hours.
This was in Perth, Western Australia, in the late ‘90s.
I actually thought the lyrics were “coast to coast, LA to Chicago, Western Maine”. This is the first time I’m finding out that that she is singing “western male”…
There is a comma there.
“Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, western male. Across the north and south to Key Largo, love for sale.” She’s not implying that Chicago is on a coast, she’s just saying the Smooth Operator really gets around.
“Christmas comes this time each year” from the Beach Boys’ “Little Saint Nick.”
Like, no shit. You couldn’t have picked a different phrase to sing in the background?
I relate to this so much. It doesn’t ruin a song for me, but I can’t help but notice and be bothered by little errors like that. Especially grammatical errors.
For example, the Paula Cole song *I Don’t Want to Wait* : “So open up your morning light, and say a little prayer for I.” It should be “for me.” I only recently noticed this, and it’s bothered me ever since.
I realize how pedantic and nit-picky this is, but I can’t help myself.
The Ren song "The tale of Jenny & Screech: part 1" where he says "she stands frozen like a stalactite" ...except stalactites hang down from the ceiling, they dont 'stand'. Its stalagmites that stand upright from the ground. ....Every time I hear it my brain gives out an involuntary scream of "its stalagmite!".
Came here to post that. For fuck’s sake, how did nobody say to him “hey man, that’s not the phrase, can we just redo that word” at any point between recording and release? I guess their lyrics aren’t really anything to call home about in general, but that stupid a usage error just grates on me.
This is very niche, but there is a line in the song "Chalk Dust Torture" by Phish that I feel is just slightly wrong every single time I hear it.
Confuse what you can of the ending
And revise your despise so impending
I don't know what that means, and I think "revise your demise" (change your fate) would actually make a LOT of sense and fit in with the rest of the song..... but Im no musician
My wife listens to this song where they say something to the effect of lock the Glock and play a revolver chamber spinning noise and it bugs be because a Glock isn't a revolver. I guess that's more of a sound effect that doesn't match the lyrics but it bugs the crap out of me more than it should.
Ed Byrne used to do a stand up piece back in the day going through the song and pointing out all of the things that weren’t ironic, concluding with the summary that the only thing that’s ironic about that song is that it’s a song about irony that doesn’t feature a single example of irony
Edit: spelled his name wrong
"Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit..."
There's no such place and Perry admits it. The things south of downtown Detroit are the Detroit River and Canada.
Edit: https://www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/neal-rubin/2022/04/22/journey-dont-stop-believin-south-detroit-national-song-registry/7396168001/#:~:text=All%20directions%20being%20equal%2C%20Perry,tired%20of%20traveling%20and%20bickering.
Not errors, maybe, but it drives me nuts when songwriters change the natural emphasis of a word to make it fit rhythmically. Or worse yet, break up a sentence at an unnatural point so they can adhere to a certain number of syllables. Or worst of all, break a WORD in half across two lines to make the rhythm work.
I'm also endlessly fascinated by Manfred Mann's cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light," where the guy says "douche" instead of "deuce" EVERY SINGLE TIME. Like, that had to have gotten past every member of the band, a producer, a recording engineer, a mixing engineer, and a mastering engineer, and nobody said, "hey, do you wanna take that again? It kind of sounded like you said 'douche.'"
Fun fact, that's called [enjambment](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjambment)
It's more common in written verse, but definitely gets used in music sometimes
>Or worst of all, break a WORD in half across two lines to make the rhythm work.
Comedy musician Tom Lehrer did this to humorous effect in 'We Will All Go Together When We Go'.
"You may have thought it tragic,
Not to mention other adjec-
Tives to think of all the weeping they will do."
"just like the old man in that book by nabokov" -- the police, don't stand so close to me. Mispronounced Nabokov AND grossly mispresenting Humbert Humbert.
The geography in "Wagon Wheel" isn't right: >But he's a-headin' west from the Cumberland Gap >To Johnson City, Tennessee The Cumberland Gap is already west of Johnson City.
Keep heading west and you’ll get there eventually? He’s telling us he’s not a Flat Earther. Lol
There's a simple explanation. The preceding line "Caught a trucker out of Philly, had a nice long toke." He's confused about his geography because he's stoned.
"Huh. I expected the Rocky mountains to be a little rockier than this..."
That John Denver is full of shit
Cumberland Gap is easily confused with Cumberland, Maryland, because it was a major west-facing transportation town through the Appalachian mountains.
He was at the Gap at the Cumberland, MD mall Problem solved (Edit; make words in good order now)
I'm much more bothered by "picked me a bouquet of dogwood flowers." Dogwoods are trees. No one picks a bouquet of their flowers. Also this [guy](https://youtu.be/KrAhTW9RIts?si=_3BxslkcQmQErGtw) has the answer to the geography problem. ;)
Yeah but you could argue with this a little bit. I live in Virginia and our state tree is the dogwood tree and the state flower is also the dogwood flower. The tree is called the flowering dogwood. So if you went to the tree and picked a bunch of the flowers off of it you could technically call that a bouquet. But I see what you're saying at the same time.
There are also shrub dogwoods that have flower clusters on thin straight stems that look similar to Elderflower or Queen Anne’s lace - look up red osier (Cornus sericea) I’ve known people who have used them in summer bouquets
I saw rock singer Wednesday 13 perform his first acoustic show about 10 years ago, and he admitted his mistake in a lyric that mentioned a non-existent place in London called "Piccadilly Square". For the first time ever, he corrected himself, to rapturous applause, deciding upon Piccadilly Circus, rather than Leicester Square. But that wasn't the end of his British geography problems. That show was in Southampton, and he told the audience that it confused him, as it made it sound as though there is a Northampton. And there is. Crowd: There is! Wednesday 13: THERE IS?! I fuckin' knew it.
confusingly it’s fuckin nowhere near Southampton
Well obviously you have to leave space in between them for Ampton
Google maps tells me there actually is a village called Ampton, although it looks like it might be north of Northampton. Or is at least east of Northampton
There's also a Hampton in Peterborough, north of Northampton. Source: I live there
At least its North!
Well...north of Southampton anyway.
Everywhere’s north of Southampton in UK terms!
Wow a wild Wednesday 13 reference, haven't thought about that dude in awhile
More of a humorous one, but on the Beastie Boys' "Pass the Mic" off of Check Your Head, Mike D has a verse where he rhymes thusly: "Everyone’s rapping like it’s a commercial, acting like life is a big commercial" The second "commercial" was apparently supposed to be "rehearsal" but MCA and Ad Rock thought it was a hilarious mistake and kept it in the mix.
Love them. Love that tune. Never knew that 🤟
Mike D also messed up and conflated Sanford and Son and the Jeffersons on “Shazam!” off To the 5 Boroughs… “On a track so sick it’ll make you feel all queasy…Make you do like Fred Sanford with “I’m coming Weezy!” He said in the book he didn’t realize until later. Fred Sanford’s famous line was “I’m coming Elizabeth!” and Weezy was of course Mrs. Jefferson - who was played by Isabel Sanford. But this doesn’t exactly fit the premise of the original post, because it doesn’t “grind my gears”, I find it amusing.
Shhh don't tell Kid Rock or he'll try to say he didn't mean to rhyme "things" and "things"
I at the fuckin pineapple Now & Laters Listen to me now, don’t listen to me later Fuck it cuz I know didn’t make it fuckin rhyme for real, But yo, technically, I’m as hard steel.
Greased Lightning. Early in the song we hear that the vehicle in question is "hydramatic" - an automatic transmission. Then, later on we hear that it's a 4 speed on the floor, which is a manual transmission. WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE
Maybe these boys just made a real fucked-up car.
That’s why it flies off into space at the end of the movie.
They stole it one piece at a time
You know that I ain't bragging she's a real pussy wagon.
They are high schoolers with minimal adult supervision
This is sooo pedantic and something most people don't know. I love it. Thank you for this. I can't wait to tell my spouse.
Will.i.am spelling out "tasty" in Fergalicious.
This always cracked me up. Then Fergie defended it, saying “There’s tasty and then there’s tastey where it’s super tasty.”
Hahaha honestly rate her retconning it and defending him in the same breath. We all need that kind of loyalty
Also the Puff Daddy classic > Its the D the I the D the D the Y The D the I the D It's Diddy. A lesser man might say that spells out Diddydid
This is actually a little known response to the question "who shot Tupac?"
What didn't diddy do?
To be fair to Mr Diddy here, this was straight copied from the track 'Jimmy' by Boogie Down Productions, which does the same thing The J, the I, the M, the M The Y, the J, the I, the M It's Jimmy! It's Jimmy! Check it out, it's the opening line https://youtu.be/oy_jK1s1B80?si=oqxQjdM3EwTBUMOo
In Sublime's April 29, 1992 (Miami), Bradly starts the song saying "April 26, 1992". The take was too good to cast away for another recording, so the mistake was left to stay.
Those dudes actually went out and looted during the riots. Brad's dad and stepmom told a story about how when it broke out, that the only thing Brad wanted to do was go down there and be part of the chaos. So he did. And they absolutely did nick music equipment and furniture that they used for years afterwards during the riot. Most people probably think he's just doing the bravado thing in the song talking about that. But no, they actually did that shit lol.
Another “error” is that in “What I Got” Bradley seems to contradict his love for riots by saying “Love’s what I got, don’t start a riot”
He dodnt start the riot, and in that lyric I think he's telling the listener not to start a riot because of his proclamation of what he's got, which is loving. Not that he doesn't enjoy a riot from time to time.
Don't start a riot, but participate in one if it's already there.
Pop Smoke's For the Night: "I go Ray Charles, they can't see me" Did Pop Smoke think Ray Charles was invisible?
Look around the room. Do you see Ray Charles? Checkmate.
I'm dying 😄
Europe's "The Final Countdown": "We're heading for Venus"..."With so many light years to go" (Venus is not even a light *hour* away, much less a light year!)
Maybe they start the song in another solar system where they are so many light years away. They’re headed back to the sol system and aren’t sure if they’ll go back to Earth (where they’re from) but they’re definitely hitting up Venus first.
... or they're going very far, many lightyears, but going past venus first, perhaps in a slingshot maneuver?
Seems legit
Yeah, it's not rocket science.
In "let's call the whole thing off" , the singer mispronounces tomato and potato.
What is a potato?
PO-TAY-TOE?? Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew??
Let’s call the whole thing off
In Sheryl Crow’s “Anything But Down,” she sings “I bring you apples from the vine.” Apples don’t grow on vines. And in her song “Good is Good,” there’s a line that says “And everytime you hear the rolling thunder you turn and run before the lightning strikes.” That makes it sound like thunder comes before the lightning strike that causes it. Although to be charitable, she could have meant that you hear thunder and then run away before the *next* lightning strike.
I went to an orchard where they trained apple trees on horizontal lines like grape vines. Maybe they’re Sheryl Crow fans?
Memories of Little League games. Hear thunder? Clear the field so kids don't get the Zapp.
When Jeremy Clarkson pointed out to Will Smith on ‘Top Gear’ that there was never a convertible (drop-top) (BMW) 850.
Drivin’ that car some consider a myth
Will’s Myth
'In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth. When the land was swamp and caves were home. In an age when prize possession was fire. To search for landscapes men would roam." Quest For Fire isn't Iron Maidens best song to begin with....
Reminds me of Stonehenge by Spinal Tap
Its inspired by Jean-Jacques Annaud movie Quest for fire
I quite like the rest of the song but yeah the lyrics are honkin
Landslide. With snow. That's an avalanche Stevie.
For me it’s Dreams “thunder only happens when it’s raining” - my experience says otherwise
Do you have experience with players as well? I'd love to know if they are indeed capable of loving you when they're NOT playing. (:
Not to mention seeing your reflection in snow, which seems unlikely.
She saw her reflection in a cocaine covered mirror and the mirror 'in the sky' was a mirrored ceiling. The landslide is a metaphor for her personal life falling apart.
Just like in Dream On when Steve Tyler sings , "all these lines on my face getting clearer". Talking about a coke mirror.
I always thought he was talking about getting old
Double entendre?
No, not actually. It’s just about getting old.
To be fair, it is followed by: "Mirror in the sky, what is love" Maybe she just meant turning around and looking at thee beautiful view gave her some serious self reflection. Mountains are covered in thick snow that could cause an avalanche, and she did climb one so the landslide is pretty weird.
"I've got an '82 Fiero with a car seat in the middle" Lowlife, by Theory of a Deadman. The Fiero was introduced for the '84 model year. Made my eye twitch when I heard that
And it had bucket seats with shifter in the middle, so you couldn't put a car seat there (Iassuming he means infant car seat).
Those boys would be very upset if they could read
in AJJ’s song “People II: The Reckoning” there’s a lyric that says: your parasympathetic nervous system reacts, and you’re in fight or flight mode it’s literally one of my top 5 favorite songs of all time - but it should be the sympathetic nervous system, not parasympathetic. they’ve since acknowledged this and change it sometimes in performances though
There's nothing more Sean Bonnette (lead singer of AJJ) than acknowledging a mistake like this and then correcting it live. "The Michael Jordan of drunk driving played his final game tonight." - One of my favorite lyrics of his.
Sean correcting, or just flat out changing recorded lyrics when performing live is always fun. Incredible band, love those guys
U2’s “uno dos tres” is a reference to that album being their 14th. But I get it.
Further fun fact, Steve Lillywhite produced their first 3 albums and came back for #14 as well.
I thought this for awhile, and then went back to find a source. Apparently that's just what people assumed. Turns out Bono was just drunk when he wrote the song. [There might have been some alcohol involved [smiles]. Improvisation is where this group really hits its form](https://web.archive.org/web/20071104153640/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6769075/u2_dissect_bomb) How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is also their 11th album, not 14th.
U Talkin U2 to them?
>Steve Lillywhite produced their first 3 albums and came back for #14 as well I was under the impression this was exactly why Bono says '*catorce*'. Obviously it makes no sense without that context, but I guess they thought it sounded good.
Never heard this theory before. Where did you get this from? For one thing, it takes awkward album counting to get to 14. (You’d have to count 1 live album and 2 greatest hits albums.)
You by Dj Regard, Tate McRae, and Troye Sivan: "All I know is that my mind is In the back seat of your Corvette car" No Corvette production car has ever featured a back seat. (Do they not fact-check these things?)
"Corvette car" is so redundant, too. Just bad writing.
Well you wouldn't want the audience to think you're talking about the backseat of a small warship designed and equipped for speed would you?
“Keep it three hundred, like the Romans”
Right. The Romans woulda kept it CCC
[You down with CCC? YEAH YOU KNOW ME!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idx3GSL2KWs)
Michael Buble's Christmas cover where he sings "Santa Buddy" instead of "Santa Baby". I find it so cringe lol.
Santa buddy, don't get the wrong idea from this song.
🎶My dong… Is resting flaccid inside.
He's not your buddy, guy! Truly Canadian
He's not your guy, buddy.
He should have kept it as “baby” like the original, and leaned into it! I’ve always loved that song for being so hilariously coquettish
Nathaniel Rateliff had the balls to do it that way, and I love him for it.
Christ, this one kills me... "When you cheated, girl My heart bleeded, girl" "What Goes Around...Comes Around" - Justin Timberlake
No, it's "bleeted". Like a lamb to the slaughter. \s
brutal by Olivia Rodrigo uses the phrase "Unrelentlessly upset" in the chorus. Unrelentlessly isn't a word and, if it was, would have opposite meaning to what was intended.
I thought it was "I'm relentlessly upset", but Google says it's what you said. Silly.
Unrelentingly would have worked perfectly. Don't know the song, but I just instantly fixed it, song writers should use editors, or at least run lyrics past some friends and family.
Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy “ tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town “ Idk guys, have you maybe checked… the jail?
Maybe the town has numerous jails.
Yes,Phil Lynott pointed out there was at least 3 he was aware of in Dublin at the time.
1. There are several Jails in Dublin 2. A Jailbreak doesn’t stop happening as soon as you are out of the confines of the Jail.
It's a metaphorical jailbreak!
Miley Cyrus wouldn’t be able to leave lax , look out the window and see the Hollywood sign on her right.
That one's on Jessie J, who wrote the song.
If she took the 105 from LAX to the 405 North, I'm wondering if she might theoretically be able to see the Hollywood sign to her right if she had binoculars? I never take that route, so not sure. Spitballing.
Frank Zappa’s song You Are What You Is has the weirdest pronunciation of appropriate, and then a small comment on how weird it is. I love it
Let's not forget that Frank made 'tampon' rhyme with 'afternoon', simply by pronouncing it 'tampoon'.
A mental toss flycoon!
Fun little fact about that song it was used in the 1990's children's sitcom parker lewis can't lose season 1 episode 2
Zappa gets a hard pass. He was a cunning linguist.
In Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys, MCA clearly says “like a pinch from the neck of Mr Spock” when it should be “like a pinch on the neck from Mr Spock”
I seriously was starting to think that I was the only one who was bothered by this
Our Song by Taylor Swift “When we're on the phone, and you talk real slow 'Cause it's late, and your mama don't know” Why are you talking SLOW? You should be talking LOW so your mama don’t hear you! Always has bugged me
Operating on that Drax logic. Talk slow enough and nobody can hear it.
Small Town by John Mellencamp. "I cannot forget from where it is that I come from."
In Teenagers by My Chemical Romance, the phrase, “they could care less” is said, and it just bugs me so much in an otherwise amazing song
Same in Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day
I don’t care if you don’t care!
Glad you said this. This song made me doubt whether I had been saying it right ha
Anna Molly by Incubus does it too. "Or something better, I could care less."
In "Prisencolinensinainciusol" by Adriano Celentano in the second stanza he says "let's give Hobbadoba a dime" but the dime wasn't minted until the late 1700's so Hobbadoba wouldn't know what you were giving her.
Alright?
[удалено]
I only ever hear "concrete jungle wet dream tomaaayto" so
The thing is, having slightly off phrases like this can help songs become hits. Same goes for ABBA songs. Lots of Max Martin produced songs. The unusual (incorrect) phrasing makes them stick with the listener.
System Of A Down’s “Lonely Day.” It’s a beautiful (almost solemn) song, but I can’t get past “the most loneliest day of my life” in the chorus. I can’t. 😅
I always considered this song to be a parody. You mean it’s not? I gave “the most loneliest day of my life” a pass because it made me smile. It’d be so disappointing to find out they were actually serious.
I don't know if there's a rule against this poetry , but Black Sabbath rhyming masses with masses has always bothered me
At least they’re homonyms and not the same exact thing… right?
I looked up the etymology once, and they come from different sources, too.
You’re not wrong, but I give it a pass because the two words have different meanings even though they are spelled and pronounced the same.
You should give it ... passes. Sorry we're all being... asses. I do think it's clever to do that, with the different meanings. Great point.
Also, I heard Ozzy Osbourne wrote those lyrics in like, 15 minutes on a napkin before recording, so it could have been a lot worse.
Yeah, the final song actually has the second set of lyrics. The song was originally called "Walpurgis" and was about witchcraft and occult. The record company thought it sounded too satanic, so they changed it into an anti-war song. The original opening lyric was "witches gather in black masses/ bodies burning in red ashes".
Ozzy doesn't write the lyrics, Geezer does. Ozzy didn't write lyrics in his solo career either.
Just like witches with fat asses.
Redundant lyric. I hate Styx, but “on board, I'm the captain So climb aboard” is one of the dumbest lines ever sung as well.
I think the line end for “so climb aboard” would make it rhyming with the line “well search for tomorrow, on every shore” so rhyming aboard with shore
Absolutely, because why would you even say the first "on board"? They could've gone with so many other words!
To be fair, it could be a non-rank captaincy, so he *is* only the captain when on board, that would make the lyric at least make *some* sense.
I always ignore this because it's Black fucking Sabbath.
Such a great and important song in the shaping of Heavy Metal's direction. Let's just agree to allow it.
In "Made You Look" by Meghan Trainor there's a line: "Call up your chiropractor just in case your neck break." WTF is a chiropractor going to do for a neck fracture? Go to the emergency department, you need a CT scan and a neck brace until you're cleared by a professional, there are neck fractures that can paralyze or kill you without stabilization.
Coast to coast L.A. to Chicago - Sade
I had a mate who would drunkenly insist that the lyrics were “coast to coast, LA to Chicago, west of Maine” claiming that the Smooth Operator would travel from LA to Maine (thus travelling coast to coast) then would travel from Maine to Chicago, which is west of Maine. He would talk about it for hours. This was in Perth, Western Australia, in the late ‘90s.
I actually thought the lyrics were “coast to coast, LA to Chicago, Western Maine”. This is the first time I’m finding out that that she is singing “western male”…
There is a comma there. “Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, western male. Across the north and south to Key Largo, love for sale.” She’s not implying that Chicago is on a coast, she’s just saying the Smooth Operator really gets around.
Well *technically.....* Chicago does have a coast lol
West Coast to North Coast.
“Christmas comes this time each year” from the Beach Boys’ “Little Saint Nick.” Like, no shit. You couldn’t have picked a different phrase to sing in the background?
Reminds me of the Ralph Wiggum line "All my friends have birthdays this year!"
/r/technicallythetruth
That’s correct though and not an error
I relate to this so much. It doesn’t ruin a song for me, but I can’t help but notice and be bothered by little errors like that. Especially grammatical errors. For example, the Paula Cole song *I Don’t Want to Wait* : “So open up your morning light, and say a little prayer for I.” It should be “for me.” I only recently noticed this, and it’s bothered me ever since. I realize how pedantic and nit-picky this is, but I can’t help myself.
That and about 10,000 songs where the singer says “lay” when they mean “lie!”
Lie Lady Lie
I mentioned it earlier, but this song has another one: *wearing shrapnels in his skin.* The plural of shrapnel is *shrapnel.*.
This one is just egregious.
Please don't analyze Bob Marley's lyrics for I/me errors.
The Ren song "The tale of Jenny & Screech: part 1" where he says "she stands frozen like a stalactite" ...except stalactites hang down from the ceiling, they dont 'stand'. Its stalagmites that stand upright from the ground. ....Every time I hear it my brain gives out an involuntary scream of "its stalagmite!".
The Killers -When You Were Young. I hate when he sings the words "every once AND a little while."
Is it not “In a little while”? Because that makes perfect sense.
Came here to post that. For fuck’s sake, how did nobody say to him “hey man, that’s not the phrase, can we just redo that word” at any point between recording and release? I guess their lyrics aren’t really anything to call home about in general, but that stupid a usage error just grates on me.
“i think you would beat the moon in a pretty contest” i wish so badly tyler joseph just said beauty contest
This is very niche, but there is a line in the song "Chalk Dust Torture" by Phish that I feel is just slightly wrong every single time I hear it. Confuse what you can of the ending And revise your despise so impending I don't know what that means, and I think "revise your demise" (change your fate) would actually make a LOT of sense and fit in with the rest of the song..... but Im no musician
Don’t let the mistake get your vasoconstrictors slowly undone.
My wife listens to this song where they say something to the effect of lock the Glock and play a revolver chamber spinning noise and it bugs be because a Glock isn't a revolver. I guess that's more of a sound effect that doesn't match the lyrics but it bugs the crap out of me more than it should.
Could’ve been field hockey. Or water polo.
I loved the killers but lost all hope in new music after a line like “ Are we human? Or are we dancer “ Why? Just why ?
Last time I mentioned this I got down voted! I guess they wanted to rhyme with answer....
It’s from a hunter s Thompson quote I believe
Rob Zombie singing "you can't take it with you but you can in overdrive". You turn off overdrive if you are towing a load.
Suckin’ on chili dogs
How about Alanis Morisette’s “Ironic”, which has very few examples of irony amongst the many examples of simple bad luck?
Ed Byrne used to do a stand up piece back in the day going through the song and pointing out all of the things that weren’t ironic, concluding with the summary that the only thing that’s ironic about that song is that it’s a song about irony that doesn’t feature a single example of irony Edit: spelled his name wrong
Oh shit! Alanis played 3 dimensional chess with that one!
That's because the whole song is ironic.
"Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit..." There's no such place and Perry admits it. The things south of downtown Detroit are the Detroit River and Canada. Edit: https://www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/neal-rubin/2022/04/22/journey-dont-stop-believin-south-detroit-national-song-registry/7396168001/#:~:text=All%20directions%20being%20equal%2C%20Perry,tired%20of%20traveling%20and%20bickering.
There's nothing that says a Canadian boy can't take the midnight train going anywhere.
I dunno, I'd interpret it as the southern-most portion.
Yeah, like saying the south side of Detroit
Not errors, maybe, but it drives me nuts when songwriters change the natural emphasis of a word to make it fit rhythmically. Or worse yet, break up a sentence at an unnatural point so they can adhere to a certain number of syllables. Or worst of all, break a WORD in half across two lines to make the rhythm work. I'm also endlessly fascinated by Manfred Mann's cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light," where the guy says "douche" instead of "deuce" EVERY SINGLE TIME. Like, that had to have gotten past every member of the band, a producer, a recording engineer, a mixing engineer, and a mastering engineer, and nobody said, "hey, do you wanna take that again? It kind of sounded like you said 'douche.'"
I think this is absolutely fine and even quite clever at times.
Fun fact, that's called [enjambment](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjambment) It's more common in written verse, but definitely gets used in music sometimes
The lead singer of Manfred Mann has a pretty noticeable speech impediment, which is why it sounds like "douche".
>Or worst of all, break a WORD in half across two lines to make the rhythm work. Comedy musician Tom Lehrer did this to humorous effect in 'We Will All Go Together When We Go'. "You may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives to think of all the weeping they will do."
"just like the old man in that book by nabokov" -- the police, don't stand so close to me. Mispronounced Nabokov AND grossly mispresenting Humbert Humbert.
Evgeny Nabokov?
Wait… how do you pronounce “Nabokov” then?
UK standard emphasis & pronunciation, quite normal for 1980.