Topic Playlist! (Part 2)

Beach / Summer / Surfing Songs by Groups That Are NOT the Beach Boys

  1. Beach Baby – First Class
  2. Summergirls - Dino
  3. Bombora - The Atlantics
    … and if there was a single definitive anthem for surfing songs, this is it.
    Neither the Beach Boys or North American

Beach / Summer / Surfing Songs by Groups That Are NOT the Beach Boys

  1. Beach Baby – First Class
  2. Summergirls - Dino
  3. Bombora - The Atlantics
  4. Miserlou - Dick Dale

Beach / Summer / Surfing Songs by Groups That Are NOT the Beach Boys

  1. Beach Baby – First Class
  2. Summergirls - Dino
  3. Bombora - The Atlantics
  4. Miserlou - Dick Dale
  5. Skeet Surfin’ - Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer)

Beach / Summer / Surfing Songs by Groups That Are NOT the Beach Boys

  1. Beach Baby – First Class
  2. Summergirls - Dino
  3. Bombora - The Atlantics
  4. Miserlou - Dick Dale
  5. Skeet Surfin’ - Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer)
  6. Wipe Out - The Surfaris

Only because you beat me to “Skeet Surfin’,” @SunUp !

Beach / Summer / Surfing Songs by Groups That Are NOT the Beach Boys

  1. Beach Baby – First Class
  2. Summergirls - Dino
  3. Bombora - The Atlantics
  4. Miserlou - Dick Dale
  5. Skeet Surfin’ - Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer)
  6. Wipe Out - The Surfaris
  7. California Girls - Katy Perry and Snoop Dog

Beach / Summer / Surfing Songs by Groups That Are NOT the Beach Boys

  1. Beach Baby – First Class
  2. Summergirls - Dino
  3. Bombora - The Atlantics
  4. Miserlou - Dick Dale
  5. Skeet Surfin’ - Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer)
  6. Wipe Out - The Surfaris
  7. California Girls - Katy Perry and Snoop Dog
  8. Rockaway Beach - The Ramones

Beach / Summer / Surfing Songs by Groups That Are NOT the Beach Boys

  1. Beach Baby – First Class
  2. Summergirls - Dino
  3. Bombora - The Atlantics
  4. Miserlou - Dick Dale
  5. Skeet Surfin’ - Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer)
  6. Wipe Out - The Surfaris
  7. California Girls - Katy Perry and Snoop Dog
  8. Rockaway Beach - The Ramones
  9. Surf City - Jan and Dean

Beach / Summer / Surfing Songs by Groups That Are NOT the Beach Boys

  1. Beach Baby – First Class
  2. Summergirls - Dino
  3. Bombora - The Atlantics
  4. Miserlou - Dick Dale
  5. Skeet Surfin’ - Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer)
  6. Wipe Out - The Surfaris
  7. California Girls - Katy Perry and Snoop Dog
  8. Rockaway Beach - The Ramones
  9. Surf City - Jan and Dean
  10. California Sun - The Rivieras

Songs where it’s difficult to make out (at least some of) the lyrics

  1. Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann’s Earth Band

Songs where it’s difficult to make out (at least some of) the lyrics

  1. Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
  2. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen

The granddaddy of them all!

Songs where it’s difficult to make out (at least some of) the lyrics

  1. Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
  2. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
  3. September - Earth, Wind and Fire

Songs where it’s difficult to make out (at least some of) the lyrics

  1. Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
  2. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
  3. September - Earth, Wind and Fire
  4. Rocket Man - Elton John

Songs where it’s difficult to make out (at least some of) the lyrics

  1. Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
  2. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
  3. September - Earth, Wind and Fire
  4. Rocket Man - Elton John
  5. Gangnam Style - Psy

Songs where it’s difficult to make out (at least some of) the lyrics

  1. Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
  2. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
  3. September - Earth, Wind and Fire
  4. Rocket Man - Elton John
  5. Gangnam Style - Psy
  6. Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band

Bingo jet had a light on?

Songs where it’s difficult to make out (at least some of) the lyrics

  1. Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
  2. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
  3. September - Earth, Wind and Fire
  4. Rocket Man - Elton John
  5. Gangnam Style - Psy
  6. Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
  7. Start Me Up - Rolling Stones

It was years before I figured out he was singing, “You make a grown man cry.”

Songs where it’s difficult to make out (at least some of) the lyrics

  1. Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
  2. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
  3. September - Earth, Wind and Fire
  4. Rocket Man - Elton John
  5. Gangnam Style - Psy
  6. Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
  7. Start Me Up - Rolling Stones
  8. It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.

Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
Da da da da something something la la la la
Leonard Bernstein!

Songs where it’s difficult to make out (at least some of) the lyrics

  1. Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
  2. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
  3. September - Earth, Wind and Fire
  4. Rocket Man - Elton John
  5. Gangnam Style - Psy
  6. Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
  7. Start Me Up - Rolling Stones
  8. It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
  9. The Middle - Jimmy Eats World

“Everything, everything” sounds like “Elvis is, Elvis is” to me.

Songs where it’s difficult to make out (at least some of) the lyrics

  1. Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
  2. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
  3. September - Earth, Wind and Fire
  4. Rocket Man - Elton John
  5. Gangnam Style - Psy
  6. Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
  7. Start Me Up - Rolling Stones
  8. It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
  9. The Middle - Jimmy Eats World
  10. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

I mean, that was the whole joke of “Smells Like Nirvana”, after all.

Your Own Personal Mondegreens: Songs that have lyrics you mishear every time you listen to them

  1. Blank Space - Taylor Swift

When she sings “Got a long list of ex-lovers” I always hear “All the lonely Starbucks lovers”

Your Own Personal Mondegreens: Songs that have lyrics you mishear every time you listen to them

  1. Blank Space - Taylor Swift
  2. Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones

“I’ll never see your pizza burnin’”

Your Own Personal Mondegreens: Songs that have lyrics you mishear every time you listen to them

  1. Blank Space - Taylor Swift
  2. Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones
  3. I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan and John Ford Coley

“I’m not talking bout the linen”

Your Own Personal Mondegreens: Songs that have lyrics you mishear every time you listen to them

  1. Blank Space - Taylor Swift
  2. Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones
  3. I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan and John Ford Coley
  4. Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot

For the longest time, I thought it was “Every highway”