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  • @benmurphy4777
    @benmurphy4777 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    Matt, Sona, Conan, I just wanted to let you guys know that you’re making a real impact in the world - last night my band covered Brown Eyed Girl at a show and I convinced our frontman to sing the lyrics as “Goin down on an old man… for a transistor radio.” It was beautiful and it’s all thanks to you guys.

    • @asdfzxcv3617
      @asdfzxcv3617 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It's very funny!!! I never Heard this on the song, but is better than the original!!!!!!

  • @JasonZimmerman1980
    @JasonZimmerman1980 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Growing up I thought the lyrics to Secret Agent Man were "secret Asian man" and then I'd envision an Asian dude sneaking around while I sang along. 🤣😆

    • @Davett53
      @Davett53 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      My childhood Asian friend, also thought it was "Secret Asian Man".

    • @mygaffer
      @mygaffer 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Me too

    • @deucefoAM206
      @deucefoAM206 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Even after watching Ace Ventura 2 like 1000 times

    • @xtho7999
      @xtho7999 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thought the exact same of this song. Also 'never leave your Pizza burning' from the Rolling Stones

    • @TheDarkSatirist
      @TheDarkSatirist 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I never thought it was that but I thought I came up with Secret Asian Man as a joke when I was kid. I thought was so clever until I learned that other people made that leap as well

  • @mikemcnally1454
    @mikemcnally1454 ปีที่แล้ว +217

    Back in the mid 90's, my flatmate and I were chilling in the living room, listening to Simon & Garfunkel. Our other flatmate wandered in when Sounds of Silence was playing. In the part, "Silence like a cancer grows..." she sang, with real gusto, "Silence like a casserole!” We couldn't believe it, and still laugh about it to this day 🤣

    • @pacmanshooter247
      @pacmanshooter247 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I read this while drinking tea and nearly choked XDDD

    • @iGaveLiaHIV
      @iGaveLiaHIV ปีที่แล้ว +2

      what in the british is going on in here

    • @jennhoff03
      @jennhoff03 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ;'D ;'D I'm reading this to my family tomorrow! That is way too funny!

    • @caitancorreia8379
      @caitancorreia8379 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I though I was the only one who heard it as "Silence like a cancer grows..." :D

    • @jennhoff03
      @jennhoff03 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@caitancorreia8379 No, it IS "silence like a cancer grows." You have it right!

  • @WillyGrippo
    @WillyGrippo ปีที่แล้ว +181

    Matt's "Do you like subterranean environments?" didn't get the laugh it deserved

    • @georgeorwell126
      @georgeorwell126 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yeah, Conan was dominating the funny there when he should have been vibing with Matt. Matt is pretty damn funny.

    • @elizabethdalton-jandreau5588
      @elizabethdalton-jandreau5588 ปีที่แล้ว

      100!!

    • @mh2120
      @mh2120 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ehh but the existence of this old man requires mishearing the line about the old mine, so there's no need for him to bring that up in this scenario. Unless that's where he's storing the transistor radio he's looking to trade...

    • @matguy1000
      @matguy1000 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Gorely turned into the boss from smiling friends for a sec.

  • @erikchristopherkc
    @erikchristopherkc ปีที่แล้ว +146

    Growing up, I always heard Alanis Morissette's lyric from You Outta Know as "cross eyed bear" instead of "cross I bear." I thought it was like some teddy bear gift that he gave her and it was cross eyed.

    • @tibbs1179
      @tibbs1179 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      No joke: I actually thought it was "cross eyed bear" until just now when I read your comment and then looked it up to confirm. Even though "cross I bear" makes far more sense in the song, I seriously still can't believe I've had it wrong all this time! But thank you for enlightening me. 🙂

    • @StillBelieve22
      @StillBelieve22 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me too! I vividly remember thinking this as a child.

    • @beloved6003
      @beloved6003 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same !

    • @jennhoff03
      @jennhoff03 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ;'D ;'D ;'D What?! ;'D Oh my gosh, that's hilarious!

    • @Masked_Rider420
      @Masked_Rider420 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same!

  • @jopo7996
    @jopo7996 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    The best mistaken lyric I've heard is "Slow talking Walter, the fire engine guy." For Smoke on the Water.

    • @jeremyc9593
      @jeremyc9593 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Or the old "Bacon carrot biscuits" instead of Taking Care of Business

    • @nichan008
      @nichan008 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Kind of has 'bone apple tea" energy

    • @DerMoerpler
      @DerMoerpler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm a big fan of "Reeboks or the Nike's" instead of "Rhythm of the Night"

    • @jackymcharold
      @jackymcharold 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Sounds like a Weird Al parody

  • @vvbrodeevv
    @vvbrodeevv ปีที่แล้ว +46

    My favorite is “I wanna rock and roll all night, and part of everyday” instead of “party everyday”

    • @georgeorwell126
      @georgeorwell126 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That is just dumb.

    • @here151
      @here151 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@georgeorwell126hey, some people don’t wanna rock and roll all day everyday. Just part of everyday

    • @EnoVarma
      @EnoVarma 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Greg?

    • @alexolds9840
      @alexolds9840 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I hear “and prolly everyday”.

  • @willpaulson
    @willpaulson ปีที่แล้ว +219

    My best friend used to sing "Dirty Deeds, Thunderchief!"

    • @jdkim1019
      @jdkim1019 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I'm almost 35 now and I'm still training my brain that it's, "done dirt cheap." It's been 5 years since my friends killed the Thunderchief.

    • @eruption257
      @eruption257 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      DIRTY DEAN AND THE THUNDER CHIEF

    • @manossteele1335
      @manossteele1335 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I heard Dunderchief. Because I think there was a character on Talespin with that title, so I thought it was a title or something.

    • @apollomacgregor6534
      @apollomacgregor6534 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My dad heard Thunderchief...I heard "and the Dunder Jeep"....thought they had a kickass Jeep I guess.

    • @analcommando1124
      @analcommando1124 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@manossteele1335 dundercheep for me.

  • @sparkax
    @sparkax ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Dunder-chee was a line i always heard as well. And "wrapped up like a douche, you know, a loner in the night" was another.

    • @roems6396
      @roems6396 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That’s a very common one. So many people hear “douche”

    • @kojayeoja
      @kojayeoja ปีที่แล้ว

      YES!!!

    • @brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407
      @brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407 ปีที่แล้ว

      What's the intended word if not douche?

    • @ddburrows988
      @ddburrows988 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I always wondered what a douchin was.

    • @CCGem
      @CCGem ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup the douche instead of douce

  • @wc707welder
    @wc707welder ปีที่แล้ว +125

    I always sang “wrapped up like a douche” instead of “revved up like a deuce”

    • @masterofallgoons
      @masterofallgoons ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I think we all did!

    • @alishacollins4208
      @alishacollins4208 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I say revved up like a douche in the middle of the night haha still do.

    • @brycemcneil4404
      @brycemcneil4404 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There was a comedy troupe called the Vacant Lot that did a whole sketch borrowing from that premise.

    • @alexpolewski1247
      @alexpolewski1247 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah that was a comedy bit! I think it was on just for laughs on tv all the time. That's why I remember that

    • @randomnumber89
      @randomnumber89 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Here's the sketch by The Vacant Lot: th-cam.com/video/U9_3nQFNy-w/w-d-xo.html

  • @VincentDeCowans
    @VincentDeCowans ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I'm a 37 year old performing musician, and have sung harmony on "Brown Eyed Girl" countless times.. just recently realized it DOES NOT begin with "Hey there amigo.." 🤦‍♂️

    • @reychafamex9450
      @reychafamex9450 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hahaha, my buddy always thought he sang "hey, mi amigo". Why on Earth a Northern Irish artist would start a song like that is beyond comprehension.

    • @mediocreman2
      @mediocreman2 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Since nobody put what the actual lyric is, it's "Hey, where did we go?"

  • @keithm8027
    @keithm8027 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I thought for years it was "Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Cheif!" like two guys with cool nicknames.

  • @flybymight
    @flybymight ปีที่แล้ว +59

    They are called mondegreens. Oxford recognized the word in 2002 and it's worth the Wiki moment to see why. I have loved that word forever. My big one was thinking the words to Fame were 'Take your pants off and make it happen'. It's 'take your passion' but, well, they both work.

    • @ninjacrumbs
      @ninjacrumbs ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Blinded by the light. Wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night." Then as a youngling, learning what `douche` actually meant, made me even more confused!!

    • @kalliana13
      @kalliana13 ปีที่แล้ว

      They both work 🤣🤣🤣

    • @kalliana13
      @kalliana13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@ninjacrumbs omg saaaame 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @lisagirl1434
      @lisagirl1434 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@Ninja Crumb hahaaas wait you mean it isnt?!?! 😆😂🤣

    • @OpheliaDarkling
      @OpheliaDarkling ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I heard "take your pants down" lol Glad to hear someone else heard it similarly

  • @theoriginaledi
    @theoriginaledi ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I first watched this about 9 hours ago and every time I think of it I start laughing uncontrollably all over again. I don't think I've laughed this hard and this much in literal YEARS. Thank you for this glorious gift. :D

    • @Kinobambino
      @Kinobambino ปีที่แล้ว

      💓Hope youre doing well

  • @domoshea4104
    @domoshea4104 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    My misheard Brown Eyed Girl lyric came from the opening line. I thought it was “Hey wet amigo”

    • @petecartwright5211
      @petecartwright5211 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Dude, I almost cried with laughter...
      Some of these are just hysterical. Well done.

    • @dparks3784
      @dparks3784 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Your comment made me seriously Laugh Out Loud!!!!!!!!!!

    • @domoshea4104
      @domoshea4104 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@petecartwright5211 thanks man

    • @domoshea4104
      @domoshea4104 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dparks3784 thanks mate. Glad you enjoyed it

    • @H-Vox
      @H-Vox ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yes! I thought it said "hey there amigo" until my mid-20s, and I actually thought it was a cool lyric lol

  • @nobuzzlitebeer7258
    @nobuzzlitebeer7258 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    A mate at school back in the day convinced me it was "Dirty deeds and the thunder chief" and we're Aussie.

    • @rls7923
      @rls7923 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I have also heard someone say this! 😅

  • @yanniesays
    @yanniesays ปีที่แล้ว +84

    As a foreigner in Japan, sitting in a café, holding down my laughter has been the greatest challenge. And also I must look crazy hunkered down with my shoulders shaking and hand covering my mouth. 😂
    And also, MORE MISHEARD LYRICS PLEASE!!! 😂

    • @AbortYurfetuses
      @AbortYurfetuses 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Is it murder worthy for a person to laugh out loud, in public, in Japan?

    • @kirinooto2666
      @kirinooto2666 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@AbortYurfetuses Pretty much, it's considered extremely impolite

    • @Ghoopty
      @Ghoopty 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Here’s one (Golden Earring - “Twilight Zone”)
      Now I’m stepping into the twilight zone
      It’s a two madhouse, feels like being blown
      I need a shampoo cause they would have scarred
      Where am I to go now that I’ve gone too far?

  • @davidfranklin5426
    @davidfranklin5426 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    My friend used to hear the lyrics to Winter Wonderland as “In the meadow, we can build a snowman / and pretend that he is sparse and brown.” Which has a lot of pathos, come to think of it.

    • @roems6396
      @roems6396 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It really does. Even in his imagination, the snowman looks terrible. 😂

    • @thegirlwholovesmusic
      @thegirlwholovesmusic ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought that too. Still don’t know the real lyrics.

    • @specialfotog
      @specialfotog ปีที่แล้ว

      I always sing we'll pretend he is Jackson Browne

    • @DaSauceful
      @DaSauceful ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@colieconiglietta it's parson Brown. Which I believe is a kind of pastor. But fr.... I thought it was "and give it a name and pretend it's Oscar Brown"

    • @jeremyc9593
      @jeremyc9593 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DaSauceful Ah, so not Carson Brown either

  • @apseudonym
    @apseudonym ปีที่แล้ว +201

    I was laughing so hard over this part while walking in public 😂

    • @catcat2607
      @catcat2607 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I had to pause my workout from how hard I was laughing at the old man part.

    • @gilbertodepiento8521
      @gilbertodepiento8521 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me too on morning walk 😂

    • @madtitan0825
      @madtitan0825 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s such a curveball and my classmates were creeped out of me just giggles out of nowhere lolll

    • @francescaa8331
      @francescaa8331 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The old man part I laughed so hard.

    • @AnyoneCanSee
      @AnyoneCanSee ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me too. I was going for a walk after dinner and shrieked so loud I frightened the people around me.

  • @davidworobec1673
    @davidworobec1673 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    Conan should do a recurring segment about misheard lyrics. It would be amazing!

  • @brettmorley6522
    @brettmorley6522 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I laughed my ass of at this podcast. I'm Australian and as a kid in the 70's, I thought it was "Dunder G" too. I finally feel like I have made it in life. I have something obscure in common with Conan O'Brien. I cant say I extrapolated out the whole "Didgeridoo and Wallaby" explanation, but hey, in my mind it still counts.

  • @jjunture
    @jjunture ปีที่แล้ว +102

    Mine was Jessie’s Girl… I swore that the chorus was “I wish that I was Jessie’s Girl”. I assumed it was another Lou Reed, Walk on the Wild Side-esque, ode to gender-fluid love. I walked around in the 80s singing it, and no one ever corrected me.

    • @faytlyte25
      @faytlyte25 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Lol damn I still thought that until I read this

    • @amygalvin1799
      @amygalvin1799 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hmmmm. I still thought that’s what he was singing!

    • @glendonbuck
      @glendonbuck ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@faytlyte25 Me too!

    • @cbmk788
      @cbmk788 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Omg what are the real lyrics? This is what I still sing.

    • @weirdhuman627
      @weirdhuman627 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@cbmk788 It's "I wish that I HAD Jessie's Girl".

  • @mikesanborn4541
    @mikesanborn4541 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Gourley looks like a Miami golf instructor with that throwback Lacoste jacket.

  • @jaimhaas5170
    @jaimhaas5170 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    With Pearl Jam's song my friend who was also a lead singer for a local band would intentionally sing it as "the butter man" and the crowd loved it.

    • @markportuondo2483
      @markportuondo2483 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      "Jeremy smoked in class today", is what my cousin always misheard from them

    • @That_Idiot_Bass_Player
      @That_Idiot_Bass_Player ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Glorified version of a pelican"

    • @ayatollahlalalola
      @ayatollahlalalola ปีที่แล้ว +3

      as a little kid i sang that as "can't find the buttermilk", took me many years to find out that was wrong...shattered my entire imagery of that song.

    • @analcommando1124
      @analcommando1124 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      sounds like "butter milk" to me.

    • @jzmmm
      @jzmmm ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Listen to Glorified G by pearl jam and tell me he doesn't say "won't find pleasure on a pelican" in the chorus

  • @YeeSoest
    @YeeSoest ปีที่แล้ว +7

    We germans call them "Agathe Bauer" lyrics or "Anneliese Braun" sometimes because that's what or WHO people thought was mentioned at the start of I've got the Power and California Dreamin'

  • @elizabethspitzer5343
    @elizabethspitzer5343 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I thought Bob Dylan was singing, “Lady Elaine, lay across my big brass bed.” Lady Elaine, the terrifying puppet from Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.

    • @KellieFullerSings
      @KellieFullerSings ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Omg I thought that exact thing as a kid! Thought I was the I only one 😂 And that made me hate the song

  • @vazap8662
    @vazap8662 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    As a French native, I always thought I was "singing yogurt" (that's what we call it in French) because of the language barrier. Seeing someone as culturally savvy as Conan get fooled just the same is a huge relieve :) :) :)

  • @saxmidiman
    @saxmidiman ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My 13 year-old brain thought it was "goin' down on an old man WITH a transistor radio". I thought it was the new Rock&Roll way of saying hit him with a loud noise!!!🤣😎

  • @glendonbuck
    @glendonbuck ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Too funny. I remember my sister singing in the elevator at the top of her lungs "Do the funky lady!" instead of "Dude looks like a lady!"

    • @levhugh
      @levhugh ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I thought it was " Do the lucky lady ! "

    • @user-nq7zg1ss2i
      @user-nq7zg1ss2i 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I thought "do it like a lady" but I probably thought the song was made for Mrs doubtfire at the time

  • @mtank30
    @mtank30 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Also, as a kid, I misheard the lyric in Irene Cara's "Flashdance.... What A Feeling" that goes "take your passion and make it happen" as "take your PANTS OFF and make it happen". I was always so uncomfortable when my mom would turn that song up in the car and sing along.

    • @treetopjones737
      @treetopjones737 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Years ago kids would loudly sing Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop" song, having no idea what it meant.

  • @alejandraw.476
    @alejandraw.476 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I didn't think I could love Conan more 🤣🤣🤣

    • @lisagirl1434
      @lisagirl1434 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Freaking love this man

    • @vitreo1363
      @vitreo1363 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Love him some more and you could get a transistor radio...

  • @ebbderelict
    @ebbderelict ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Years ago I had a desk calendar of misheard lyrics, and January 1st of that year was "'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy!" vs, "kiss the sky". I"m more thrown off when I learn the proper lines to movie quotes, because I'm forever quoting movies. Nothing silly, just wrong. It was only a few years ago I learned that Luke says to Yoda "You want the impossible" after he tried lifting the X-wing out of the swamp. I thought he just said "you are impossible."

  • @QuantumBraced
    @QuantumBraced ปีที่แล้ว +28

    What's also funny is when English is not your first language and you didn't learn it until you were a teen, and you listened to music in English as a kid and just had no idea what they were saying, but just mimicked the sounds... And then as an adult you hear those songs again and you recognize them, but now you understand the lyrics and you realize how wrong the sounds you were making as a kid were, it's really funny (to you, not anyone else 😄)

    • @rogerpalacios3749
      @rogerpalacios3749 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Right. But in my case wasn't much the case of misheard lyrics but more sort of hey this sound like. Give you can example. From Tom Petty's Free Falling. The part where he sings : yean I'm free, free falling. well it sounds like what any Mexican at lunchtime would belt out : I want free, frijoles.

    • @KimBouchard
      @KimBouchard ปีที่แล้ว

      My husband always thought it was dirty deeds/gang de cheap.

    • @H-Vox
      @H-Vox ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I kind of wish I was a non-native English speaker so I could experience that lol 😂

    • @billyeveryteen7328
      @billyeveryteen7328 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There's a Spanish pop song that was popular like twenty years ago called "Asereje," and that's what the song is about. It's about a young Spanish guy singing along to Rapper's Delight, but not knowing the words and singing gibberish.

    • @Walperion_Music
      @Walperion_Music ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here! That's a special non-English speaker's delight

  • @edscmidt5193
    @edscmidt5193 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I love hearing peoples misheard lyrics. My favorite is my friend who thought the lyrics “lunatic fringe” in the red rider song lunatic fringe was “let me speak French”

  • @RadioactiveLobster
    @RadioactiveLobster ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My sister insisted that "Juke Box Hero" was "Juice Box Hero".
    To be fair she was 6 and juice boxes were a top 3 thing at the time.

    • @thesimulation9651
      @thesimulation9651 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My daughter sings van Morrison's Gloria as 'oreo', so I can relate

  • @calessel3139
    @calessel3139 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I had a lot of these. One for example from my childhood was ELO's Evil Woman, which I heard as Medieval Woman (if you listen to the song, the mistake isn't as strange as it sounds).

    • @boffo63
      @boffo63 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've always sang it that way and won't change

  • @seaoftranquility7228
    @seaoftranquility7228 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Let’s not forget the Go Go’s hit “Alex The Seal”

  • @richb313
    @richb313 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    John Fogerty's Bad Moon Rising has a commonly misheard lyric of Bathroom on the right and he actually incorporated the misheard lyric in one of his live performances.

  • @MJubecki1984
    @MJubecki1984 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    "Dirty deeds and they're done with sheep" That was my version.

    • @analcommando1124
      @analcommando1124 ปีที่แล้ว

      AC/DC are Australian, not New Zealanders.

    • @benji3900
      @benji3900 ปีที่แล้ว

      That fits Australians too. 😂😂😂

  • @charmlessman1
    @charmlessman1 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Conan, you're not the only one. The drummer in my old band thought it was "Dirty deeds and the dunderchee"

  • @geraldframinghammer2626
    @geraldframinghammer2626 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I worked landscaping gig years ago and was doing lawn clean-up with a teenage kid that would listen to the radio through headphones. He really enjoyed Steve Winwood's "Rake Me A Pile of Love."
    After telling him I thought is was a hilarious parody and relevant to the work we were doing, he told me he thought that was the actual lyric. 😅😅

  • @BlueBrainMountainStream
    @BlueBrainMountainStream ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I thought it was "Gunning down the old man with a transistor radio" as if they are blaring and blasting the music at him to annoy him.

  • @chanatube1
    @chanatube1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    “You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille. With four hundred children and a crop in the field.” 😊

  • @francescaa8331
    @francescaa8331 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Okay I wasn't expecting that! Laughed so hard I started crying.

  • @cuddlymole
    @cuddlymole ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I 100% thought Van was singing “going down on the old man with a transistor radio” and I never questioned it til now.

  • @kstepko
    @kstepko ปีที่แล้ว +6

    When the Steve Miller Band sang about a “big ol’ jet airliner” I instead heard, “Vigo, Chad, and Lionel, don’t carry me too far away!” and assumed that his friends were a bad influence on him.

  • @doncotton3367
    @doncotton3367 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The term for misheard/misunderstood lyrics is "mondegreen". From the song, "The Bonny Earl O'Moray" which has the lyrics "... laid him on the green" which are sometimes interpreted as "Lady Mondegreen".

  • @therosses2009
    @therosses2009 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A great song from the late Prince back in the 80s was “Pay the Rent Collette” about a hard-working prostitute with a heart of gold who “needs to find a job that’s gonna last”

    • @kstepko
      @kstepko ปีที่แล้ว

      OMG - that’s amazing. 😂

    • @romibodoni
      @romibodoni 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      🤣🤣🤣

  • @dondon243
    @dondon243 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I literally always thought it was “hold me closer Tony Danza” so I completely understand

    • @ooscardls
      @ooscardls ปีที่แล้ว +1

      wait that not the lyric? XD

    • @hwykng82
      @hwykng82 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Like phoebe in friends

    • @omgvague
      @omgvague ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ooscardls Tiny dancer, not Tony Danza, lol.

    • @michaelhake2291
      @michaelhake2291 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh bullshit

    • @BrianMiller1973
      @BrianMiller1973 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahaha

  • @cbmk788
    @cbmk788 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I also sang it as "going down the old man with a transistor radio". Thanks to Conan I know better.

    • @toriletteriello
      @toriletteriello ปีที่แล้ว

      Same, like I always imagined someone going after an old man with the radio

  • @gilpinsteven
    @gilpinsteven ปีที่แล้ว +9

    3:29 Matt Gourley's laugh is so contagious

  • @danbach7748
    @danbach7748 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have a friend who misheard "And he's talkin' with Davy, who's still in the navy; And probably will be for life" from 'Piano Man' as "And he's talkin' with Davy, **who's covered in gravy**; And probably will be for life". He told me this easily 15/20 years ago, possibly longer, and I have not been able to un-hear that ever since. Thanks, Joe. LOL

  • @sergioventura2595
    @sergioventura2595 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I misheard trouble in Suez in Billy Joel’s We didn’t start the fire as trouble in the sewers

  • @michaelparks6120
    @michaelparks6120 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Secret Agent/Asian Man...I swear it sounds like either one is correct.

  • @mtrps_
    @mtrps_ ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "for some reason, in our house it didnt" 😂😂😂

  • @zalcal8256
    @zalcal8256 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Worked with a guy who swore the song Fat Bottom Girls by Queen was called Black Bottom Girls. He was the musical guy of our job too which made it even more funny.

    • @sunshine3914
      @sunshine3914 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought it was “Flat Bottom Girls” for the longest.

  • @Pyrexis
    @Pyrexis ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Sometimes it's fun to mishear lyrics. It's a small step from that to parody.

    • @userusernomi
      @userusernomi ปีที่แล้ว

      it's also a great way to write your own rap lyrics, just throw on some fast paced rap and your brain will figure out new rhymes that aren't actually what is being said

  • @WontonTV
    @WontonTV ปีที่แล้ว +1

    another wild example of misheard lyrics (Jeff Davis story from Harmontown) is in Van Halen's Panama: "reach down between my legs... ease the seat back" as "reach down between my legs... ease the seed bag"

  • @Patxidog
    @Patxidog ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Matt's pause and the delivery of "Just some woman named Joyce?" was sweet comedic timing

  • @tobiasblackmoar
    @tobiasblackmoar ปีที่แล้ว +10

    i literally had this exact experience as a child and can still remember my mum endlessly laughing about it

  • @keithp115
    @keithp115 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It’s not easy to hear the lyrics clearly from an AM transistor radio in the late 60’s. I misheard The Buckingham’s “Kind Of A Drag”for Canada Dry, for many years. Lol

  • @CarlosBenjamin
    @CarlosBenjamin 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Misheard lyrics are called, Mondegreens. That’s from a song where a guy dies and, “They laid him on the green.” It was misheard as “Lady Mondegreen.” I had to listen to country music in a vanpool and I think it was a Shania Twain song where she sings, “Right now depends on whatever you say”. Since the guy was a profligate liar, I heard, “I write down in pencil whatever you say”. Made sense to me.

  • @M_1_L_3_R
    @M_1_L_3_R ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This reminds me of an interview Ozzy gave in the Don't Blame Me documentary about him. While discussing the misinterpreted lyrics from the Suicide Solution lawsuit against him he famously said that for years he believed Jimi Hendrix sang the lyric "Excuse Me While I Kiss THIS GUY" in Purple Haze

  • @leighlimerick9326
    @leighlimerick9326 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh, God - this maybe me cry and heave with laughter. I remember being little in the family station wagon and thinking the lyrics to Atlanta Rhythm Section's "So Into You" were "When you walked into the room, there was doodoo in my pants."
    I knew that didn't really line up with "voodoo in the vibes", but I had no idea what voodoo or vibes were, so that gave it some kind of context.

  • @jaimhaas5170
    @jaimhaas5170 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I think the number of songs are endless and often times the lyrics we hear are better than the original.

  • @jimreadey4837
    @jimreadey4837 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The O. Henry twist just had to be that his parents bought everyone in the house their own transistor radios.

  • @jmjm6607
    @jmjm6607 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    reverend blue jeans is what I always thought it was lol.

  • @captainmercy87
    @captainmercy87 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I was in traffic, driving in heavy snow, frustrated after a hard day at work, hungry and angry and just wanted to get home and crash on the bed. But as I was listening to the podcast, this part came up and I was howling laughing in the car like a madman and got to home in a much better mood. so, thanks team COCO for your public health service!

  • @MaineManDezzo
    @MaineManDezzo ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Who remember that King Of Queens episode with this same bit lol. When Doug sings “Reverend Blue Jeans Babe” 😂😂😂

  • @kevinvanemmerik9352
    @kevinvanemmerik9352 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My dad used to think "hold me closer tiny dancer" was "hold me closer Tony Danza" hahaha

  • @elftails
    @elftails ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ohh Conan! This is why I love listening to you. Your little stories❤️

  • @angelpipessd
    @angelpipessd ปีที่แล้ว +5

    See now I want Conan to have either Van Morrison and/or Neil Diamond on the podcast and talk about these misheard lyrics. Come on bookers! A Van Morrison episode would be….very ornery

  • @FGBFGB-vt7tc
    @FGBFGB-vt7tc ปีที่แล้ว +7

    As someone whose Mother Tongue is Spanish but didn´t learn English until older, to my childhood ears Jim Diamond's "And I Should Have known Better" sounded "Es un chino bombero" [Is a chinese fireman].
    Good times... and a good laugh when I learned the actual lyrics.

  • @kaissos5
    @kaissos5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mine was “Michael rowed his boat ashore, 'How'd He Do That?'"

    • @russellevans2446
      @russellevans2446 ปีที่แล้ว

      I laughed at this one. 🤣 That's great!!

  • @SynthiaVan
    @SynthiaVan 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    O'Briens just love giving clock radios as gifts.

  • @sqoobs
    @sqoobs ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I always would sing smash mouths all stars as “all that glitters is gold, only shooting stars break your nose”

  • @QuantumBraced
    @QuantumBraced ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The song "It's My Life" by Bon Jovi - until I was 18 I thought he was saying "I just wanna live without a life", and then I thought he was saying "I just wanna live without a wife", and then I finally looked it up and it's "I just wanna live while I'm alive".

    • @alishacollins4208
      @alishacollins4208 ปีที่แล้ว

      Huh, I thought he was saying I just wanna live my life haha

    • @jeremyc9593
      @jeremyc9593 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I thought it was "I just want to live while I'm a guy" for the longest time

  • @OpheliaDarkling
    @OpheliaDarkling ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That Flashdance song "What A Feeling" was always on the radio when I was a kid and I swore she said "Take your pants down, and make it happen" 😅
    As for Neil Diamond, I always heard it Rebel In Blue Jeans

  • @Bitshitter
    @Bitshitter ปีที่แล้ว

    "Hold me closer, Tony Danza"
    "Count the headlights on the Highway"

  • @GothamCitizen99
    @GothamCitizen99 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The part of the video where Conan talks about mixing up the lyrics of Forever In Blue Jeans reminds of the King of Queens episode where Doug tells Carrie he use to do the same thing when he was younger. 😂

    • @AkiroKiro
      @AkiroKiro ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ah yes, thanks! I knew that sounded really familiar, but couldn't quite figure what sitcom had the exact same story. Weird.

    • @fetchmeastorm3670
      @fetchmeastorm3670 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes!

  • @BrianMiller1973
    @BrianMiller1973 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I had a friend who heard “Do it Like a Lady” for “Dude Looks Like a Lady”. My wife thought “Heard it in a Love Song” was “Pretty Little Love Song”.

  • @Slonge92
    @Slonge92 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I completely understand, understanding Van is challenging.

  • @taylorlieb
    @taylorlieb 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've always heard "Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief." I'll happily continue singing it this way.

  • @hairballmuse
    @hairballmuse ปีที่แล้ว +3

    'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy. Jimi Hendrix

  • @kstepko
    @kstepko ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Embarrassed myself at a sleepover singing along to Bette Midler’s “From a Distance”. The lyric is “from a distance, you look like my friend even though we are at war”. I thought it was, “you look nice, my friend, even though we aren’t warm”. In my defense, I live in Canada and it was released in January.

  • @valhallaxx
    @valhallaxx ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Toto and "I guess it rains down in Africa 🤷" was one my friends and I always talked about, and then one karaoke night during the song that same wrong lyric came on the stage prompter and we were delighted

  • @dr.trebuchet3836
    @dr.trebuchet3836 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "there goes my hero, Sergeant Air Raid!"

  • @morriganravenwolf
    @morriganravenwolf ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Now I'm gonna give you up
    Then I'm gonna let you down
    Then I'm gonna run around and desert you
    Then I'm gonna make you cry
    Then I'm gonna say goodbye
    Then I'm gonna tell a lie and hurt you"....
    "Excuse me while I kiss this guy"....
    "I get knocked down by an elephant"....

  • @lindaward3156
    @lindaward3156 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    my problem, I don't think I'm alone (?), is even after learning the correct lyrics I'll still sing the ones I like better or are more familiar to me. not every time, but for the most part, what is wrong with me!

  • @benzaiten933
    @benzaiten933 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm glad I'm not the only one mishearing, or simply not understanding, lyrics at all!
    looking up lyrics online has given me many instances of "oh so that's what this song is all about!".

  • @Geolaw1
    @Geolaw1 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Get your money for nothing and your chips for free"

    • @kstepko
      @kstepko ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I thought that it was “cheques for free” and used to wonder why they were excited about not playing banking service charges if they got their money for nothing anyway.

  • @Pentaclown84
    @Pentaclown84 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    i don't want to imagine a world without conan

  • @TXnine7nine
    @TXnine7nine ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Googled it and many people thought the same thing, but in the song “Secret Agent Man” by Johnny Rivers it sounds like he’s saying “Secret Asian Man” and I cannot for the life of me unhear it. 😂

  • @Sylvie1710
    @Sylvie1710 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember singing Desperado by The Eagles as "Desperate Auto" 🎶

  • @thr33xgaming32
    @thr33xgaming32 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I used to mishear James Ingram and Michael McDonald's "Yah Mo B There" as "I'm a Beaver"

  • @Logic-101
    @Logic-101 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When I was a kid my mom made fun of me for singing “dirty deeds and the thunder chief!” Lol

    • @masterofallgoons
      @masterofallgoons ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I heard it as 'Thunder Cheese!' Obviously I knew that wasn't it, but I still can't help but hear it.

  • @nightmarerabbit5954
    @nightmarerabbit5954 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I misheard Dirty Deeds as a kid, too. I always heard "Dirty Deets in a dunder seat" I made up a whole story in my head about some hitman with the last name "Deets" just so it made sense 🤣

  • @rickylaidlaw8736
    @rickylaidlaw8736 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Make this an ongoing segment!

  • @nancymesek
    @nancymesek ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ‘Scuse me, while I kiss this guy’ lol

  • @gregalan1240
    @gregalan1240 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I always thought it was dirty deeds and the thunder chief