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Charlie Brooker- Changing Lyrics

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by MethodMandrill

In this week's Guardian Guide, Charlie Brooker mentioned something I'm sure we all do, changing lyrics to songs.

His was changing 'Elanor Rigby' to 'Robert Mugabe', because it scans nicely...

Yours?

MethodMandrill | 12 May '08, 10:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

heres some

'fix up look sharp, don't make me park the bitch...' I imagain this to be about a married couple fighting about getting into a tight parking space on holiday.

'Shake it like you probibly want pizza' instead of, 'shake it like a polaroid picture'. Well that one was miss heard by my sis.

There are loads I do it far to much as it amuses me.


A mishearing from my stepdad

means that Thin Lizzy's The Boys are Back in Town contains the following lyrics:

"By the night they'll be dressed to kill/ Down at Dino's bar in Rhyl."

Welsh gang violence! Hell yes.


Nancy Boy - Placebo

I replace the chorus, in my head

It all comes down to Postman Pat,
With his little blue suit
and black and white cat
In his red van
Bringing the post to me


that's the shizzle

i much prefer that to the original


brilliant

:)


Eternal's "I Wanna Be The Only One"

"I wanna be the only one to hold you
(Take me from behind)"


A mate of mine...

heard I Predict A Riot as I Predict Tourettes. Genius.


Unfortunate...

And I'm never going to lance again/Guilty boils can't get no squeezin'...


There's also...

I Predict A Fry-Up


RADIOHEAD - LUCKY

''I want a roll, I want a roll, with cheese, I feel like may-o-naise,''


Wank me off! Wank me off inside!

by evanescence.

There's a song on the radio lately with the lyric "this ain't a scene, it's a god damn arse face". That must be wrong, right?


God damn

arse rape?


i swear that's the actual lyric

i've listened to that song far more intently than anyone ever should to try and pick out an "m" in "arms" but it just isn't there


ALL THE FISHES HEEEEADS ALL THE FISHES HEEEEADS

RUNNING THROUGH MY HEEEEAD RUNNING THROUGHM...


Panda jizz on my legs and my arms from you

Hot Hot Heat - Bandages


haha that

would have been a much improved song


Somone once did..

"I know that you know that I wont fondle Hoskins" for The Kooks
& if i hear that Subways song "oh yeah" I change the lyrics to "Harlow Square / Harlow Square"


My mate

Actually thought it was "bag of jizz" for an embarrassingly long time.


The ants are my friends

is blowing in the wind...


Kiss the Rain

by Billie Myers was it? Anyway I used to sing "Quiche Lorraine", I was such a cad back then.


i cant read anything in this thread, for fear of ruining any song for me

but i'll give you:

dunno what the songs called, but track 4 or 5 on the first air album, the one with the girl who sounds like celine dion on it, was ruined for me cos someone said, when she goes, "hoooowwoooo aaahhhhh" it sounds like she's going, "have a waaaaaaank".


My Iron Lung

"When the pie runs out, we'll just hum"


When my sister was little...

I was listening to "I Wanna Be Adored" and after the umteenth chorus my then 7-year old sister asked me, "Why does he want to be a dog?"

Ever since, that's all I hear in my head if I ever listen to it. Makes more sense than the original psuedo-mystical cobblers, mind.

joe - www.anewbandaday.com


I want to be a door

:(


Ever since my mate

sung "Purple vein" instead of "Purple rain", the Prince experience has been soured for me...


In that case,

have "Little Red Courgette". Once I started singing that, it just won't change back.

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com


REM - sidewider sleeps, sleeps sleeps in a coil.....

calling cheril baker
calling cheril baker up
calling cheril baker...you get the idea


Only

Tom Baker?


YEEEEES

I used to think it was Cheryl Baker as well. I'm not the only one!

Also:

Simply Red: Holding back the ears, I'll keep holding onnn, I'll keep holding onnnn

And completing the obvious Mick Hucknall shagging rabbits theme: Bunny's too tight to mention.

Also, strangely enough: What's that coming over the hill? Is it a bus stop? Is it a bus stoooop?


foals - hummer

pokemon! pokemon!


That dido song...

"my heart is a shit, and i wont let it down"

that other dido song "i will go down with this shit"


at the end of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit''..

It sounds like he's shouting 'Roddy Doyle'' (and if you don't know who he is...type it into google).


Happy memories of driving my little sister to school

listening to Silent Alarm with her belting out "ARE YOU HAVING FUN MILKO?" at full volume.


I always thought it was

ARE YOU HOPING FOR UMBILICAL??


"Elvis in beeeed, and he's really baaaad"

That lyric change made Scouting For Girls bearable.


My mate used to change the word love for the word 'glove'.

So you can imagine the hilarity you can have when playing around with that!


I prefer changing 'love' to 'muff'

Doesn't fit as well, but it's alot funnier.

"I don't care if monday's blue
Tuesday's grey and wednesday too
Thursday I don't care about you
'cos Friday, I'm in muff."

and so on.


"Oh, Chris De Burgh, Chris De Burgh"

Having said that, I've no idea what the ACTUAL lyrics are to that Keane song, but it can't seriously be that, no matter how much it sounds like it.


I like...

Destinys Child:
All my ladies who independent, throw your knickers at me.

Edywn Collins:
I've never met a poo like you before.

Lionel Richie
Stuck on glue.


Hello?

Is it tea you're looking for.

More Richtea lovelyness.


Gordon Brown

Texture like sun...

(it's golden brown by the stranglers, yeah?)


wannabees

"The world loves one armed pizzas, The world needs one armed pizzas, lets get some more one armed pizzas, hey hey do the brand new thing"

The Offspring - Pretty Fly For A White Guy.


Beyonce - Crazy in love

Got me hoping you page me right now your kiss

Got me humpin' Ian Paisley right now

Lookin so crazy your love's got me lookin
Got me lookin so crazy your love


Ting tings - That's not my name

I ordered chips
With extra gravy
They brough me pizza
And garlic bread
That's not my lunch
That's not my lunch
That's not my lunch
That's not my lunch

I wanted Pepsi
They gave me diet
Or was it tango?
Always the same
That's not my lunch
That's not my lunch
That's not my lunch
That's not my lunch

-----
Apologies. It's been in my head since lunchtime.


Craig David coming over your...

Face.
Not the most pleasant of images.


KT Tunstall:

"Sodding Leigh on Sea"


have a nice day stereophonics

stand around all day and have a drink of cheese


The Police

'So lonely' to
Sue Lawley
Sue Lawley
Sue Lawley
Sue Lawley
Sue Lawley
Sue Lawley


Foo Fighters - All My Life

"Hey, don't let it go to waste,
I smear my balls with salmon paste"


In 'A Time To Be So Small' by Interpol, I misheard

"rehearsing interaction"

as

"nursing an erection".

I know what I prefer.


In Big Big Love on the Foals album

I swear Yannis says 'small, sexy kids!'.

I'm scarred.


More Destiny's Child-

The shoes on my feet
I farted!
The clothes I'm wearing
I farted!
The rock I'm rockin'
I farted!
'Cause I depend on me

etc...