From “Moon Over Parma” (the original Drew Carey Show theme):
Actual lyrics: “Moon over Parma, bring my love to me tonight”
I heard: “Moon rover [beat] I’ll bring my love to me tonight”
(I had a vague idea that it was meant to be a pun on “Moon River.”)
I think Cake changed it in their cover.
(Warning: This cover is a dramatic departure from the original. Once you get past that you may find it’s pretty awesome. Especially the trumpet interlude.)
I think you’re right they changed some lyrics in that version, but they also seem to be bleeping out stuff.
The first Cake music I bought was Fashion Nugget. I think it was a cassette. “I Will Survive” was on it. Is the above version the the one I have?
I believe so.
They bleeped out the word “fucking.”
Because they changed the lyric to “I should have changed my fuckin’ lock…”
I always sang it, “I should have changed that fucking lock” and I’ve never heard Cake’s version. I like Cake. I’m go give it a listen.
I have four of their albums, not the first or last ones. I have them all somewhere. I think more than one are on cassettes, the rest CDs.
Do you still have a cassette player?
Cassettes were it when I was a little kid. One year my uncle handed me a wrapped Christmas present and told me he was gifting me “a box full of air.”
It turned out to be a cassette holder.
I don’t have any cassettes any more, though.
Do you remember pocket rockers? Those teeny tiny cassettes with the portable handheld radios? One track on each side. I had Tiffany.
But I digress.
I do have a cassette player with a stereo system, but it’s all bubble wrapped and climate-controlled. Not set up. I do have one of those faux table top jukeboxes with a cassette player, but I never played my cassettes on it. It was hard on them. Used it in the kitchen for the radio.
The first music I bought was on a 45. Pocket Rockers were after my time. I still have all my cassettes, except one, Rush’s 2112. That one was eaten by one of my car cassette players.
I feel like I’m on the FuckI’mOld subreddit!
We are moving 400 miles away and, in the process, I donated 5 plastic cassette holders full up with cassettes to Savers (like Salvation Army but without taking advantage of the poor). I also had a round ball-like personal radio but really wanted on of those wrist type dealies but never got one.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled thread–
What I heard:
Cuz it gets me no where to tell you ‘no’
And it gets me no where to make you grow
Would a little more love make you self-dependent?
Would a little more love make a happy ending?
Would a little more love make it right?
I thought Olivia Newton-John (always known to my friends as Olivia Neutron-Bomb) was calling out her boyfriend’s mother on not raising him right.
What’s the song?
A Little More Love by Olivia Newton-John.
Also, I mistyped my misheard lyric. It’s: Will a little more love make you independent.
Listened to Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day just for the hell of it, then looked up the lyrics. Boy, that clarified a lot.
Anyway.
I thought it was
Cuz I’m in the eye
Of this hurricane of fucking lies
But it’s
And I leave behind
This hurricane of fucking lies
Which makes more sense, but I liked mine, too. I’ve always loved this song for perfectly capturing the zeitgeist of my generation (elder Millenial, Gen X.) Now that I can see it’s about leaving your shitty hometown and shitty home life, I love it even more.
Thanks. I’m not familiar with that one.
I just found out, thanks to the digital readout on the car dash, that the lyric is “Let my love open the door” and not “Delilah open the door.” So Townshend went from a creepy ex to a lovelorn man.
I hate it when a fan’s version is better than the artist’s, who missed a wide-open metaphor or other cleverer turn of phrase or such.
Hot Rod Lincoln. Lyrics:
"With a four-barrel carb and a dual exhaust
With 4.11 gears, you can really get lost"
I always (mis)heard it as:
With a four-barrel carb and a dual exhaust
With lovin’ gears, you can really get lost