♩♪♫♬ Misheard Lyrics ♩♪♫♬

Jimmy Fallon's recent clip on misheard lyrics inspired this post. The tweets he chose are hilarious!

For the record, misheard lyrics is one of my favorite topics, even more so if the wrong lyrics fit into the theme of the song and make it funny. Such is the case with mine! About 9 years ago, I came across one of those page-a-day calendars and each day had a new set of wrong words to a song. Some were ho-hum, some made me think WTF, and some were outright hilarious! Out of all 365 entries, one has stuck with me. Someone somewhere didn't realize that the opening line to Bryan Adam's "Summer of 69" goes, "I got my first real six-string" and I'm guilty of singing what I learned from that calendar whenever I hear the song, especially in public since this particular song is in heavy rotation at most major retailers...

So, what are your best/funniest/WTF were they thinking misheard lyrics?

Musical Anhedonia

This post has been brewing for a little over a week- I heard a newscast that some people simply don't get pleasure from or enjoy music of any kind, nor does it elicit any kind of response from them. The people being studied were able to hear tonal differences, so it isn't not being able to not hear the music, it just doesn't elicit a response of any kind from them.  I have a really hard time wrapping my mind around this since music is my first love and so I did some web searches, and sure enough it is very real. Personally, there would be a tremendous void in my life without music.  One of the better articles I read is here. You can find out where you land on your responsiveness to music here,

Rock on!

For my family and friends at this weekend's pub crawls...

There's so many versions of this song. I really love The Killdares version of "Whiskey In The Jar". It has a permanent spot on my iPod.

Be safe and don't drink and drive!

Cool pic from the web

I love it!

Vacation Playlist!

Since it's about to be Rainpocolypse 2014 in my neck of the woods and most of the locals have gone batshit crazy at the prospect of water falling from the heavens, I've spent today reliving just about every moment of this past weekend. Almost 400 miles up the coast from where I live and a whole world away. Plus time spent with a friend who means the world to me...Music is always a great discussion with my friend. This time was no different. I've spent the day re-listening to the stuff we heard or played and it restored an iota of sanity to my day. With no further ado, some highlights from this past weekend!

The Beatles- Twist & Shout
Some Otis Redding
Some more Otis, via way of The Black Crowes
No good weekend is complete without Kid Rock
See comment above...
Just because my friend said a line from this song and I followed with the next...
We've both seen this artist live!

April can't get here quick enough!

Happy birthday, George!

I bet the heavens sound amazing!

An "AHA!" moment

So I'm listening to my local radio station and I hear a song that I knew immediately when I heard it on the first or second season of my favorite show, Sons of Anarchy. Since the music carries me through the 9 month withdrawls between seasons LOL, I always download the music from every season. It's bugged me since I first heard it on the show. Of course with my love of classic rock, I know the song. I just realized about half an hour ago that the reason I know it is because it was originally done by The Who.

#MassiveBrainFart!!!!!!

So much history in one song...

Don McLean "American Pie"

"I get hysterical...."

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When I was a teenager, Def Leppard was definitely one of my favorite bands. And what I love about them today is that the classic stuff from Hysteria is the connection with my siblings- there's a significant difference in our ages but Def Leppard kind of bridges that.... My sister and I would have "music wars" through a shared heating vent- she would blast NKOTB and I'd respond with something from Hysteria or Pyromania. Def Leppard was one of 3 bands that my brother, at all of 3 years old, could identify by sight on MTV.

Besides Def Leppard, to my knowledge (and please let me know if I'm wrong) only Styx has done a show where they play the songs from an album (in Styx's case, 2- The Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight- tremendous show-but that's another post!) in the order they are on the record. Before the show starts, there is a video montage from when Hysteria was released and they included Steve. They also explain how they introduced Vivian Campbell, who has filled some big shoes remarkably.


Sadly for me (as I'm hearing some of their material from albums after Adrenalize, while watching the VIVA Hysteria DVD with Def Leppard being their own opening act of Ded Flatbird) I regret that I stopped buying their albums after Steve Clark's death. I mean no disrespect to Vivian Campbell,  it just didn't feel right for me. I did buy Adrenalize since I knew that Steve wrote and played on some of the tracks. I've got some catching up to do! :-)  Now onto the show!

Even watching it (and of course singing along!) on DVD you can feel the energy from the stage and the audience. The energy builds as they move from "Women" to "Rocket" (the long version! yes!) to "Animal" where I'm sure prior to editing the audience very well may have been louder than the band. Everyone sings along to "Love Bites" and I even had my lighter in the air for that one. After this song you can feel the excitement build and Joe Elliott takes a moment to speak with the audience before launching into their best known song, "Pour Some Sugar On Me". And I will admit, I got caught up in the moment wondering if they were going to do the UK or the US version.  (The difference is how they open the song, either with Joe singing, "Love me like a bum", and it fading out or, "Step inside! Walk this way! You and me babe! Hey! Hey!"). To my delight, they did the UK version! While they played "Armageddon It" the huge visual monitors behind them had random numbers and phrases such as, "Smile". I've always loved this song and it's impossible for me to maintain a foul mood upon hearing it! A video of Steve Clark on the giant monitors right after the song ends is the icing on the cake. The rest of the world around me fell away as I got caught up in songs I haven't heard in a while with "Gods of War", "Don't Shoot Shotgun", and "Run Riot". Just singing along with those, especially "Run Riot" was amazing! The song "Hysteria" has always had a particularly hypnotic effect on me and I loved it. "Excitable" is another song I hadn't heard in quite some time and was a treat! My lighter was raised again for "Love and Affection".  Partly because it seemed appropriate for the song and more so because I knew that the show was almost over- even though it seemed as if it only started a mere few minutes previously. Def Leppard gave an amazing encore with "Rock of Ages" and "Photograph". 

Def Leppard is still amazing is what it boils down to...An album that's been around for almost 27 years and their performance and energy are contagious!

The bonus features on the DVD completely spoil the viewer and if you want to know what they are, you're just gonna have to watch it!