…is being able to understand every word in “Bennie and the Jets”.
“We’ll fight our parents out in the streets to find out who’s right and who’s wrong.”
Who knew?
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I always thought it was “the girl with colitis goes by” instead of “the girl with kaleidoscope eyes”…
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A fun example.
For me, I have found a few pieces where I thought the timing of the musicians is wrong. It turns out while listening with the DSD the timing on the CD is actually correct. This continues to amaze me.
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“Beelzebub, has a devil for a sideboard me, 'board me, 'board meeeeeeeeee…”
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This could be the beginning of a topic thread of “alternative lyrics”. Someone surely could instigate and manage this. I am less inventive and lazy. My entry would be “like a true nature’s child” or “like a
tenacious child” - Steppenwolf.
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“Scuse me while I kiss the sky”??? -Jimi Hendrix
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“Hey (buffalo) BUNGALOW Bill . . .”
…”there’s a bad moon (bathroom) on the right” -
CCR
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The Dazz Band lyric in Let it Whip
We both are here to have good fun
Can be easily misconstrued on a poor system as to them saying where there from.
We are both here from ______.
My two best benefits:
- Lack of a crazy amount of settings that are mostly useless.
- Ted Smith
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The coined term for mishearing lyrics is “mondegreen.” Mondegreen - Wikipedia [Mondegreen - Wikipedia]. Jon Carrol of the San Francisco Chronicle used to have an annual column listing many.
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excuse me–did you say “mondegrain”?
now, that was funny
Surely the key benefit of owning one is so you can say at the bar, “hey baby. wanna come over to hear my directstream dac”?
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I did not know that. Thank you. It’s great that the word used to describe the misinterpretation is a misinterpretation in its origin. Love it.
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As an Elkin I believed the lyrics to God Bless America included the line
“Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with the light from a bulb.”
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“Wrapped up like a douche”…I mean, “Revved up like a deuce” – I think.
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Best benefit from having the DirectStream dac and PST… I could care less what’s happening in this crazy messed up world, when I’m sitting in my listening room lost in the music.
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Thought it was “kiss this pie”- my teenage years have now been shattered. 
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