The opening lines of England Dan and John Ford Coley’s “Really Like to See You Tonight”…
Not sure if I need to blame Dan or John, so they both deserve to be strangulation candidates for proferring this conversational inanity:
Hello, yeah, it’s been a while
Not much, how 'bout you?
Oh, that’s so nice of you to ask - I’m doing fine, as well, thank-you, just contemplating your destruction, that’s all.
I asked on this board before whether the entire song is just the imagination of the singer and his uncle. That is, there is no car, no reckless disregard of authority. (The authority exists, just that everyone is cowed,)
I got about 50% either way.
I’ve got a fever, but I STILL can’t hear (more) cowbell in that song! I can’t figure it out. That damn “whoo whoo” in SFTD - now that, I can hear it now! It’s in my head!
…and a new girlfriend to find, probably.
In “All Right Now” by Free, they forgot to take the click track out of the mix. Now you can’t unhear it.
In “Ridin’ the Storm Out” By R.E.O. Speedwagon, Cronin sings " watchin’ the full moon crossing the range / ridin the storm out"
Aren’t storms usually cloudy?
RE: Don’t Fear the Reaper
I’m pretty sure that is a Wood Block, and not a Cow Bell. God, I hate to spoil that whole thing. 
In, “Get Together” by The Youngbloods, all throughout the song, in the left channel, someone is going, “do-do-do-do.” It’s more noticeable in the quiet parts, and in the beginning. . . and if you use headphones.
It makes a little more sense if you’ve read the short story that Peart based the song on.
It’s another lyric in the song that bothers me;
Should’ve known you was trouble
From the first kiss
You had your eyes wide open
Why were they open?
How do you know her eyes were open unless yours were too, you hypocrite?
Some folks say the clicks were made with claves, and were intentional. And the timing is not consistent throughout the song.
And speaking of things that can’t be unheard, check out St. Vitus Dance by Black Sabbath. You can hear Tony dragging on the strings between chord changes.
Not only that, I can see Leprechauns dancing in my head. That is the funkiest song Sabbath ever did.
Truly a favorite song
I’m young, I know, but even so
I know a thing or two I’ve learned from you
I’ve really learned a lot, really learned a lot
Love is like a stove -
Like a what?? A fecking stove?? What’s in your soul, fer chrissakes - pans? Kitchen utensils? What about Flame - would Flame work? Did you not think of that? Love is like a flame, burns you when its hot. Don’t tell me that flames are always hot - just do the fecking line!
Thing is, it’s “stove” in the Everly Brothers version, and so far as I’m aware that’s the original, so I assume that’s how Baudelaire Bryant wrote it.
Gah.
j
PS: I am aware that other versions do indeed use Flame.
Love is like a stove
You have to pre-heat it
Love is like a cake
First you beat it, then you eat it
I just looked up the lyrics, and I fail to see what in the world they have to do with St. Vitus Dance.
St. Vitus Dance in the middle ages meant uncontrollable movement in the extremities. By the time real diseases were being identified (the germ theory and microscopy), an infection of the brain or spinal fluid called Sydenham’s chorea pretty much became synonymous with St. Vitus Dance, but as recent as the 1950s, laypeople still used the term to refer to anything from cerebral palsy to Tourette’s syndrome.
Today I had a “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” earworm, Platters version.
“Now, laughing friends deride
Tears I cannot hide”
What assholes!
Okay, fine.
Anything you want, you got it.
Anything you need, you got it.
Anything at all, you got it, baby.
I want your bank account number and password. Actually, I think I need them. And don’t call me “baby.”
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen
Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all?
This makes no sense. If Rudolph is the most famous reindeer of all, you would surely recall him before the others.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows
If it’s shiny it means it’s reflective. But it also glows? How can it be reflective and glowing? And the only mechanism I can think of is bioluminescence. Why didn’t Santa get a surgeon to take care of it?
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games
So Rudolph is being bullied to the point where he can’t even play games. Children reindeer are assholes! And where are the parents in all of this? Are they also assholes? And why did Santa turn a blind eye to it?
Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
"Rudolph, with your nose so bright
Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?"
First of all, if his nose glows due to bioluminescence, it’s not very bright. Certainly not bright enough to cut through fog. (And if it were bright enough to cut through fog, it would be blinding Rudolph on a daily basis.) Secondly, Santa is going to put him on the sleigh with absolutely no training at all? Seems that would be a huge liability.
Then how the reindeer loved him
As they shouted out with glee
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You’ll go down in history"
Ahhhh, so the lesson here is, “It’s O.K. to bully someone unless they achieve celebrity status.” Fuck those reindeer.
Jack Johnson’s cover adds some lyrics to address that;
But Rudolph, he didn’t go for that
He said “I see through your silly games
How can you look me in the face
When only yesterday you called me names?”
All of the other reindeer, man
They sure did feel ashamed
“Rudolph, we’re really sorry
We’re truly gonna try to change”
I saw the Stones performing in Tel Aviv six years ago. After the show, as the crowd was shuffling out of the park, suddenly someone started singing “Woo-woo!” in a loud voice. Soon, hundreds of people started singing along: “Woo-woo! Woo-woo!”. This went on for about 30 seconds, and then the whole crowd broke into laughter.
So yeah, I guess people hear it.
You feel sympathetic towards the singer but I can’t help feeling he’s an unreliable narrator and the girlfriend is trying to get rid of this overly clingy guy.
Despite nobody agreeing with me I still feel that Let it Go from Frozen sounds like it’s being sung by a woman who’s one step away from becoming a super villain.