Stairway to Heaven

[mollusk]

Can't believe nobody said "Wild Thing"...

Wild Thing ~ Louie Louie ~ Hang On Sloopy

[jeff]

And.... In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida! (1 rep point to anyone under 30 who knows what that was supposed to mean...)

[darius]

In the garden of eden?

"Remember when we used to make out to this hymn?" - Homer Simpson

darius

[jeff]

Yup! There were some serious drugs in the recording studios back then, and diction (and probably rational thought) went right out the window.

I should have figured that Simpson's would serve as the cultural news service to keep it current!

[Maeve_Mari]

I found this:

The Simpsons also did it up as a church hymn with the lyrics "In the Garden of Eden". Bart slips it into the church service as a hymnal, it sounds excellent with an organ by the way. It is available on the Simpsons Songs In The Key Of Springfield CD.

#34 Bart Sells His Soul-Medley

[FoilyGeezer]

And.... In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida! (1 rep point to anyone under 30 who knows what that was supposed to mean...)

Anagada Davida

Anagada is a small island in the BVI's.
Davida is a girls name.

Does the song make more sense now? Don't worry it took me years before I found out.

[darius]

Yup! There were some serious drugs in the recording studios back then, and diction (and probably rational thought) went right out the window.

If you think diction was bad in the 70s, you haven't been keeping up to date.

I blame Pearl Jam. And the subsequent rash of bands that have sounded just like Pearl Jam proves that cloning is immoral and should be banned.

darius

[D'Artag-NOT]

If you think diction was bad in the 70s, you haven't been keeping up to date.

If you're talking bad diction, then once again the 60's win the prize! Two words: "Louie Louie".

[Black Jeebus]

"Watermelon Man"

[jeff]

There's a whole game category of mis-heard (or badly pronounced) lyrics: Jimi Hendrix "'scuze me while I kiss the sky" turned into "'scuze me while I kiss this guy". Creedence's John Fogerty singing "there's a bad moon on the rise" turned into "there's a bathroom on the right". Glad the tradition still holds....

[VorpalCat]

There's a whole game category of mis-heard (or badly pronounced) lyrics: Jimi Hendrix "'scuze me while I kiss the sky" turned into "'scuze me while I kiss this guy". Creedence's John Fogerty singing "there's a bad moon on the rise" turned into "there's a bathroom on the right". Glad the tradition still holds....

Would you believe there's a word for that? They're called 'mondegreens' -- the person that coined the phrase had heard a ballad ('The Bonny Earl of Murray') with the line, 'Oh they have slain Lord Whoever and laid him on the green.' But she thought it was, 'Oh they have slain Lord Whoever and Lady Mondegreen' ... et voila!

I have a co-worker whose brother used to sing that, 'In the winter we can build a snowman/And pretend that he is parched and brown' -- topped by a friend who confessed that when she was a kid, she thought 'parson brown' was a color like 'indian red' (for those of us who remember Crayola names like that).

[Westley]

I can't believe you forgot Bo Didley's Blues beat, which has basically been in every single blues song in hstory since. Whether you know it or not, if you've ever played the blues, you've played this.

[davtsung]

I wonder what's the most difficult guitar solo to play?