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  • @benmurphy4777
    @benmurphy4777 Год назад +202

    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 9 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @JasonZimmerman1980
    @JasonZimmerman1980 Год назад +74

    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 Год назад +5

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

    • @mygaffer
      @mygaffer 4 месяца назад +1

      Me too

    • @deucefoAM206
      @deucefoAM206 4 месяца назад +2

      Even after watching Ace Ventura 2 like 1000 times

    • @xtho7999
      @xtho7999 4 месяца назад +1

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

    • @TheDarkSatirist
      @TheDarkSatirist 4 месяца назад +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 Год назад +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 Год назад +9

      I read this while drinking tea and nearly choked XDDD

    • @iGaveLiaHIV
      @iGaveLiaHIV Год назад +2

      what in the british is going on in here

    • @jennhoff03
      @jennhoff03 Год назад +2

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

    • @caitancorreia8379
      @caitancorreia8379 Год назад +1

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

    • @jennhoff03
      @jennhoff03 Год назад +2

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

  • @WillyGrippo
    @WillyGrippo Год назад +181

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

    • @georgeorwell126
      @georgeorwell126 Год назад +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 Год назад

      100!!

    • @mh2120
      @mh2120 Год назад +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 8 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @erikchristopherkc
    @erikchristopherkc Год назад +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 Год назад +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 Год назад +3

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

    • @beloved6003
      @beloved6003 Год назад

      Same !

    • @jennhoff03
      @jennhoff03 Год назад +1

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

    • @Masked_Rider420
      @Masked_Rider420 Год назад

      Same!

  • @jopo7996
    @jopo7996 Год назад +88

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

    • @jeremyc9593
      @jeremyc9593 Год назад +7

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

    • @nichan008
      @nichan008 4 месяца назад

      Kind of has 'bone apple tea" energy

    • @DerMoerpler
      @DerMoerpler 4 месяца назад +2

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

    • @jackymcharold
      @jackymcharold 4 месяца назад +3

      Sounds like a Weird Al parody

  • @sparkax
    @sparkax Год назад +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.

  • @VincentDeCowans
    @VincentDeCowans Год назад +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 месяцев назад +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 3 месяца назад +1

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

  • @willpaulson
    @willpaulson Год назад +220

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

    • @jdkim1019
      @jdkim1019 Год назад +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 Год назад +14

      DIRTY DEAN AND THE THUNDER CHIEF

    • @manossteele1335
      @manossteele1335 Год назад +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 Год назад +1

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

    • @analcommando1124
      @analcommando1124 Год назад

      @@manossteele1335 dundercheep for me.

  • @wc707welder
    @wc707welder Год назад +126

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

    • @masterofallgoons
      @masterofallgoons Год назад +18

      I think we all did!

    • @alishacollins4208
      @alishacollins4208 Год назад +6

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

    • @brycemcneil4404
      @brycemcneil4404 Год назад +6

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

    • @alexpolewski1247
      @alexpolewski1247 Год назад +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 Год назад +1

      Here's the sketch by The Vacant Lot: ruclips.net/video/U9_3nQFNy-w/видео.html

  • @domoshea4104
    @domoshea4104 Год назад +184

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

    • @petecartwright5211
      @petecartwright5211 Год назад +19

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

    • @dparks3784
      @dparks3784 Год назад +3

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

    • @domoshea4104
      @domoshea4104 Год назад +1

      @@petecartwright5211 thanks man

    • @domoshea4104
      @domoshea4104 Год назад +1

      @@dparks3784 thanks mate. Glad you enjoyed it

    • @H-Vox
      @H-Vox Год назад +10

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

  • @flybymight
    @flybymight Год назад +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 Год назад +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 Год назад

      They both work 🤣🤣🤣

    • @kalliana13
      @kalliana13 Год назад +1

      ​@@ninjacrumbs omg saaaame 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @lisagirl1434
      @lisagirl1434 Год назад

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

    • @OpheliaDarkling
      @OpheliaDarkling Год назад +1

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

  • @vvbrodeevv
    @vvbrodeevv Год назад +46

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

    • @georgeorwell126
      @georgeorwell126 Год назад +1

      That is just dumb.

    • @here151
      @here151 4 месяца назад +5

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

    • @EnoVarma
      @EnoVarma 4 месяца назад

      Greg?

    • @alexolds9840
      @alexolds9840 2 месяца назад

      I hear “and prolly everyday”.

  • @keithm8027
    @keithm8027 Год назад +5

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

  • @yanniesays
    @yanniesays Год назад +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 10 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @kirinooto2666
      @kirinooto2666 8 месяцев назад

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

    • @Ghoopty
      @Ghoopty 8 месяцев назад

      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?

  • @apseudonym
    @apseudonym Год назад +201

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

    • @catcat2607
      @catcat2607 Год назад +10

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

    • @gilbertodepiento8521
      @gilbertodepiento8521 Год назад +3

      Me too on morning walk 😂

    • @madtitan0825
      @madtitan0825 Год назад +2

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

    • @francescaa8331
      @francescaa8331 Год назад +1

      The old man part I laughed so hard.

    • @AnyoneCanSee
      @AnyoneCanSee Год назад +2

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

  • @theoriginaledi
    @theoriginaledi Год назад +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

  • @nobuzzlitebeer7258
    @nobuzzlitebeer7258 Год назад +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 месяца назад +2

      I have also heard someone say this! 😅

  • @davidfranklin5426
    @davidfranklin5426 Год назад +36

    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 Год назад +3

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

    • @thegirlwholovesmusic
      @thegirlwholovesmusic Год назад

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

    • @specialfotog
      @specialfotog Год назад

      I always sing we'll pretend he is Jackson Browne

    • @DaSauceful
      @DaSauceful Год назад

      ​@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 Год назад

      @@DaSauceful Ah, so not Carson Brown either

  • @davidworobec1673
    @davidworobec1673 Год назад +231

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

  • @YeeSoest
    @YeeSoest Год назад +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'

  • @brettmorley6522
    @brettmorley6522 Год назад +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.

  • @mikesanborn4541
    @mikesanborn4541 Год назад +6

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

  • @jaimhaas5170
    @jaimhaas5170 Год назад +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 Год назад +7

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

    • @That_Idiot_Bass_Player
      @That_Idiot_Bass_Player Год назад +1

      "Glorified version of a pelican"

    • @ayatollahlalalola
      @ayatollahlalalola Год назад +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 Год назад +1

      sounds like "butter milk" to me.

    • @jzmmm
      @jzmmm Год назад +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

  • @saxmidiman
    @saxmidiman Год назад +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!!!🤣😎

  • @elizabethspitzer5343
    @elizabethspitzer5343 Год назад +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 Год назад +2

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

  • @glendonbuck
    @glendonbuck Год назад +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 Год назад +1

      I thought it was " Do the lucky lady ! "

    • @AnthonyRoe-n2y
      @AnthonyRoe-n2y 7 месяцев назад

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

  • @vazap8662
    @vazap8662 Год назад +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 :) :) :)

  • @edscmidt5193
    @edscmidt5193 Год назад +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”

  • @jjunture
    @jjunture Год назад +103

    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 Год назад +8

      Lol damn I still thought that until I read this

    • @amygalvin1799
      @amygalvin1799 Год назад +3

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

    • @glendonbuck
      @glendonbuck Год назад +2

      @@faytlyte25 Me too!

    • @cbmk788
      @cbmk788 Год назад +8

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

    • @weirdhuman627
      @weirdhuman627 Год назад +10

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

  • @mtank30
    @mtank30 Год назад +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 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @richb313
    @richb313 Год назад +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.

  • @calessel3139
    @calessel3139 Год назад +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 Год назад

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

  • @dondon243
    @dondon243 Год назад +43

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

  • @RadioactiveLobster
    @RadioactiveLobster Год назад +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 Год назад +1

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

  • @alejandraw.476
    @alejandraw.476 Год назад +24

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

    • @lisagirl1434
      @lisagirl1434 Год назад +1

      Freaking love this man

    • @vitreo1363
      @vitreo1363 Год назад +1

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

  • @doncotton3367
    @doncotton3367 Год назад +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".

  • @francescaa8331
    @francescaa8331 Год назад +5

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

  • @ebbderelict
    @ebbderelict Год назад +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."

  • @MJubecki1984
    @MJubecki1984 Год назад +49

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

    • @analcommando1124
      @analcommando1124 Год назад

      AC/DC are Australian, not New Zealanders.

    • @benji3900
      @benji3900 Год назад

      That fits Australians too. 😂😂😂

  • @seaoftranquility7228
    @seaoftranquility7228 Год назад +6

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

  • @geraldframinghammer2626
    @geraldframinghammer2626 Год назад +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 Год назад +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.

  • @therosses2009
    @therosses2009 Год назад +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 Год назад

      OMG - that’s amazing. 😂

    • @romibodoni
      @romibodoni Месяц назад

      🤣🤣🤣

  • @cuddlymole
    @cuddlymole Год назад +3

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

  • @sergioventura2595
    @sergioventura2595 Год назад +5

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

  • @michaelparks6120
    @michaelparks6120 Год назад +7

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

  • @QuantumBraced
    @QuantumBraced Год назад +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 Год назад +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 Год назад

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

    • @H-Vox
      @H-Vox Год назад +2

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

    • @billyeveryteen7328
      @billyeveryteen7328 Год назад +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 Год назад +1

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

  • @charmlessman1
    @charmlessman1 Год назад +9

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

  • @mtrps_
    @mtrps_ Год назад +4

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

  • @kstepko
    @kstepko Год назад +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.

  • @chanatube1
    @chanatube1 11 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @gilpinsteven
    @gilpinsteven Год назад +9

    3:29 Matt Gourley's laugh is so contagious

  • @danbach7748
    @danbach7748 Год назад +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

  • @WontonTV
    @WontonTV Год назад +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"

  • @captainmercy87
    @captainmercy87 Год назад +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!

  • @jmjm6607
    @jmjm6607 Год назад +5

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

  • @M_1_L_3_R
    @M_1_L_3_R Год назад +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

  • @kevinvanemmerik9352
    @kevinvanemmerik9352 Год назад +1

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

  • @cbmk788
    @cbmk788 Год назад +5

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

    • @toriletteriello
      @toriletteriello Год назад

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

  • @Patxidog
    @Patxidog Год назад +1

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

  • @Pyrexis
    @Pyrexis Год назад +47

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

    • @userusernomi
      @userusernomi Год назад

      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

  • @kaissos5
    @kaissos5 Год назад +2

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

  • @zalcal8256
    @zalcal8256 Год назад +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 Год назад

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

  • @jimreadey4837
    @jimreadey4837 Год назад +2

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

  • @keithp115
    @keithp115 Год назад +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 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @leighlimerick9326
    @leighlimerick9326 Год назад +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.

  • @Geolaw1
    @Geolaw1 Год назад +4

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

    • @kstepko
      @kstepko Год назад +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.

  • @Sun_Cat_Pop
    @Sun_Cat_Pop Год назад +3

    OMG, of course!
    Dirty implication? 🤔🤔Brown-eyed girl ?? Of course, of course, of course!

  • @elftails
    @elftails Год назад +2

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

  • @gregalan1240
    @gregalan1240 Год назад +6

    I always thought it was dirty deeds and the thunder chief

  • @Bitshitter
    @Bitshitter Год назад

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

  • @FGBFGB-vt7tc
    @FGBFGB-vt7tc Год назад +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.

  • @OpheliaDarkling
    @OpheliaDarkling Год назад +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

  • @hairballmuse
    @hairballmuse Год назад +3

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

  • @dr.trebuchet3836
    @dr.trebuchet3836 Год назад +1

    "there goes my hero, Sergeant Air Raid!"

  • @angelpipessd
    @angelpipessd Год назад +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

  • @nightmarerabbit5954
    @nightmarerabbit5954 Год назад +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 🤣

  • @nancymesek
    @nancymesek Год назад +3

    ‘Scuse me, while I kiss this guy’ lol

  • @Sylvie1710
    @Sylvie1710 Год назад +2

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

  • @MaineManDezzo
    @MaineManDezzo Год назад +4

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

  • @Slonge92
    @Slonge92 9 месяцев назад +1

    I completely understand, understanding Van is challenging.

  • @QuantumBraced
    @QuantumBraced Год назад +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 Год назад

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

    • @jeremyc9593
      @jeremyc9593 Год назад

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

  • @valhallaxx
    @valhallaxx Год назад +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

  • @BrianMiller1973
    @BrianMiller1973 Год назад +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”.

  • @SynthiaVan
    @SynthiaVan 6 месяцев назад

    O'Briens just love giving clock radios as gifts.

  • @GothamCitizen99
    @GothamCitizen99 Год назад +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 Год назад +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 Год назад

      Yes!

  • @thegirlwholovesmusic
    @thegirlwholovesmusic Год назад +2

    I also thought it was going down on an old man too, just with a transistor radio instead of for one. So I didn’t even get the radio in my version. He just had one to set the mood I guess.

  • @tobiasblackmoar
    @tobiasblackmoar Год назад +10

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

  • @JWickyJr13
    @JWickyJr13 Год назад

    When I was a kid I always thought the line "Four post bed" from Sugar Ray's Every Morning was "Foreclosed bed." And even now when I sing along to it, "foreclosed bed" sneaks in every once in awhile.

  • @Logic-101
    @Logic-101 Год назад +4

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

    • @masterofallgoons
      @masterofallgoons Год назад +1

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

  • @benzaiten933
    @benzaiten933 Год назад +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!".

  • @sqoobs
    @sqoobs Год назад +2

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

  • @bangormc3rd562
    @bangormc3rd562 Год назад +1

    For years and years, I thought Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" was called "Where Was the Thunder?"

  • @kstepko
    @kstepko Год назад +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.

  • @morriganravenwolf
    @morriganravenwolf Год назад +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"....

  • @Gilliganfrog
    @Gilliganfrog 4 месяца назад

    Red Rider's "Lunatic Fringe" has a very funny misheard chorus: "Lemme Take FRENCH!" 😂

  • @Pentaclown84
    @Pentaclown84 Год назад +6

    i don't want to imagine a world without conan

  • @madnessbydesign1415
    @madnessbydesign1415 Год назад +1

    OMG! I also thought it was "Reverend Blue Jeans"! That's hilarious - at least I was in good company.
    I think part of it is that as a child, there are so many expressions that make no sense, and have words you don't really know, so any combination of words seems plausible. As an adult, I enjoy letting my mind find the most ridiculous interpretations of lyrics I can come up with... :)