"fried chicken"

Posted by: Mac on May 12, 2003 10:53 AM

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I guess that they may slave over writing the lyrics just so they can miscommunicate them?

I am also surprised at the size of the print on lyric sheets enclosed on "older" CDs - - their primary market can't see print that small.

As for misheard lyrics, I had a roommate in college who always thought Todd Rundgren's "Couldn't I Just Tell You" was "Goodnight, Estelle, you..." even though that song title was clearly on the label.

Posted by: Frank on May 12, 2003 01:35 PM

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Mac - From Queen's "One Vision," right? The big difference between that and the songs mentioned in the article is that in the Queen song they actually do sing "fried chicken" at the end.

Posted by: Matt on May 12, 2003 04:33 PM

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On a serious note, I can't believe that the music industry is actually driving sites which publish song lyrics out of business. This is another illustration that the big record labels and music publishing houses simply do not understand their market. This kind of thing creates and maintains interest in their product, and can only lead to higher sales. Idiots and killjoys, the lot of them.

Posted by: Alan on May 13, 2003 04:28 AM

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Matt, you are correct. I won a bet with my wife because I insisted that Queen sang 'Fried Chicken' at the end of One Vision.

Apparently they made up 'filler lyrics' for the song as they already had the tune written. They then replaced them with proper lyrics, but decided to leave the last bit of Fried Chicken in the song.

And I agree with Alan that the music industry is shooting itself in the other foot by not realising that allow people to publish lyrics on web-sites will result in increased sales of their bloody CD's.

Posted by: Mac on May 13, 2003 06:47 AM

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