# One Little Bit of Vocal Phrasing In A Song That Overshadows The Entire Song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088 "2005-02-27T01:47:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/61 "2005-02-28T15:35:02Z")
> [@Tracy Lord](#): > > Dude, the kids on my floor have been trying to figure that out since the start of last term. It’s practically legendary. So, no help from me, but commiseration. 🙂 **Tracy** , please go to the fount of knowledge first. [The Master speaks](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_148.html). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/62 "2005-02-28T20:29:23Z")
The very last line of the last verse of “Somebody to Love” by Jefferson Airplane. Grace Slick (who apparently has tremendous lungs) sings: “You better find somebody to LOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-uh-uh-uh-uh-OOOOOVVvvveeeee!!!” She must have passed out after recording those vocal tracks. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/63 "2005-02-28T20:44:16Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > **Tracy** , please go to the fount of knowledge first. [The Master speaks](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_148.html). 😉 :eek: Cecil truly _does_ know everything! I shall never doubt his wisdom again. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/64 "2005-02-28T21:12:54Z")
> [@Bites When Provoked](#): > > So what the heck IS that word that’s not ‘Bruce’? 🙂 It’s all I’ve ever heard in there. > > All this time I thought it was a really stupid lyric, and I’ve just been mishearing it. :eek: It sounds like ‘Bruce’ to me, but lots of folks believe otherwise. There is an ELO [FAQ](http://elo.futurebright.com/FAQ.htm) that discusses the matter, but I doubt that there’ll be any resolution to this soon. I was once attacked by obscenity-spewing assclowns on another forum because I thought the word was ‘Bruce’. Sheesh. At least I didn’t think they were singing ‘Lady Mondegreen.’ ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/65 "2005-03-01T01:20:13Z")
> [@Scott\_plaid](#): > > “Loving You” No, strike that, it’s the whole damn song! I want you to know that my ears are bleeding just from reading a mention of that song! :shudder: Anyone got any kleenex? 😉 CJ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/66 "2005-03-01T01:23:57Z")
Going back to **Jurph** ’s comment, I tried to think of something for Tori Amos, but she says so many things so strangely that nothing really stood out. I thought about nominated “Give me peace, love and a hard cock” from Professional Widow, but I don’t think it’s the phrasing that makes so prominent! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Leroy\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Leroy\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leroy_Brown)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/67 "2005-03-01T03:15:25Z")
Why don’t you all f-fade away And don’t try to d-dig what we all s-s-say I’m not trying to cause a b-big s-s-sensation I’m just talkin’ ’bout my g-g-generation. One of my favorite Spinal Tap moments is when David St. Hubbins stutters in “Gimme Some Money.”: “You know what I want, you know what I n-n-need…” HELLO CLEVELAND!!! ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/68 "2005-03-01T04:27:21Z")
Patti Smith- Dancing Barefoot “Here I go and I don’t know whuuuuyyyy…” That amazed me the first time I listened to it. I listened to the song so many times since then that it’s kind of worn off on me though. And I only first heard it two months ago. Echo and the Bunnymen- Vegetables “C-c-c-cucumber! C-c-c-cabbage! C-c-c-califlour!” Sex Pistols- Anarchy in the UK On the recorded version, I like the way John Lydon’s voice squeaks a little when he sings “is this the IRA?” ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/69 "2005-03-01T04:29:26Z")
Crim-m-m-m-son and clo-o-o-ver O-o-o-ver and o-o-ver Crim-m-m-m-son and clo-o-o-ver O-o-o-ver and o-o-ver. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/70 "2005-03-01T08:12:33Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Going back to **Jurph** ’s comment, I tried to think of something for Tori Amos, but she says so many things so strangely that nothing really stood out. I thought about nominated “Give me peace, love and a hard cock” from Professional Widow, but I don’t think it’s the phrasing that makes so prominent! 😉 The one that really sticks out for me is the way she says “do you know CAROLINA” in “Me and A Gun” - mostly because it really stands out from the _a cappella_ background. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/71 "2005-03-01T09:07:59Z")
“You got to keep 'em SE-PA-RA-TED.” “Don’t give me that goody goody good buullll shi-it.” “Some people call me Maurrrrrrrrrice” (which is actually true in my case) “I want my…I want my…I want my MTV.” “Subdivisions” “De…Spurrradooooo” “WHYdidYOUleaveTHEkeysONtheTABLE” “youWANTEDto” ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/72 "2005-03-01T10:00:43Z")
I want to ride my bicycle! ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/73 "2005-03-01T10:20:35Z")
Does no one here read Cecil’s columns? In “Blinded by the Light,” what exactly is the lyric following the title phrase? [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5\_148.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_148.html) ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/74 "2005-03-02T07:25:10Z")
and I…will always love you… fug ya Whitney Houston ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/75 "2005-03-02T07:27:56Z")
> [@Yeticus Rex](#): > > “Don’t give me that goody goody good buullll shi-it.” Nitpick: It’s “Don’t give me that do goody good bullshit”. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-bit-of-vocal-phrasing-in-a-song-that-overshadows-the-entire-song/292088/76 "2005-03-02T13:33:59Z")
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