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Summary: Lyrics, Please!
Review: I have read and sung so many lyrics in my career - and heard so many funny mis-interpretations of lyrics. My own kids "murdered" some lyrics when they were small. This book is a kick! Just sit back and relax and enjoy some chuckles at the end of the day!!
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Summary: Lyrics, Please!
Review: I have read and sung so many lyrics in my career - and heard so many funny mis-interpretations of lyrics. My own kids "murdered" some lyrics when they were small. This book is a kick! Just sit back and relax and enjoy some chuckles at the end of the day!!
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Summary: Truly hilarious
Review: My friends and I used to try to figure out random song lyrics and always laughed at the weird things we thought were the correct lyrics. This very funny book (along with Edwards' subsequent editions) collects "mondegreens" from all types of popular music. Definitely a fun book to read with a group of people, and I guarantee you and your friends will be singing these wrong lyrics for the rest of the night.
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Summary: A must for your reading pleasure!
Review: Once you read it you won't forget it and no matter how many times you read it you'll always end up laughing. While waiting in a doctor's ofc I picked up a magazine that had a review and excerpts from this book. In the quiet of the doctor's office I couldn't help but burst out laughing out loud again and again. Anyone who
enjoys singing along with the radio can relate to this book and appreciate it.
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Summary: The medium is the miss-age.
Review: Rock music's pathological enchantment with itself is proof of media anthropologist Marshall McLuhan's adage, "The medium is the message." As such, this book is a real cultural document. While a select few of the mistaken phrases are funny as such, the "humor" of this book depends on how important one considers rock lyrics. Just as jokes about the Pope tend to function as a mockery of the Pope's authority and sacrosanctity, these mishearings of Hendrix and Fab Four lyrics are meant to suggest that rock lyrics are something sacred themselves. If, like me, you don't worship rock's words or artists, the humor here is limited. But it is well-presented and sure to delight rockheads, so two stars.
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Summary: The medium is the miss-age.
Review: Rock music's pathological enchantment with itself is proof of media anthropologist Marshall McLuhan's adage, "The medium is the message." As such, this book is a real cultural document. While a select few of the mistaken phrases are funny as such, the "humor" of this book depends on how important one considers rock lyrics. Just as jokes about the Pope tend to function as a mockery of the Pope's authority and sacrosanctity, these mishearings of Hendrix and Fab Four lyrics are meant to suggest that rock lyrics are something sacred themselves. If, like me, you don't worship rock's words or artists, the humor here is limited. But it is well-presented and sure to delight rockheads, so two stars.
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Summary: chinese or english yahoo
Review: sorry for that i have nothing to say
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Summary: Oh, so THAT'S what he said...
Review: The title of this book was the big thing that caught me, since that's exactly what I thought Jimi was actually saying when I first heard 'Purple Haze'! Small world, huh? And being someone who comes from a long line of song lyric-manglers, this book proved that I wasn't alone in this world when it came to makin' some of the words up as I went along. Heck, even to this day ma & I still argue over whether that guy's little bottle in 'Love Potion Number 9' was broken by a cop or a clock! I'm going with the cop on this one, by the way. Needless to say, this little paperback was the perfect gag gift for ma on her birthday!The only real problem I had with this book was its brevity. At most, each page has only two sets of lyrics (the incorrect version(s) above, the song & artist in the middle, & the proper words below). Because of this, I found it to be a bit pricey for the amount of content it contains. However, it does have an index at the end, which is a real plus if you're looking for a particular verse that you've been tryin' to figure out. And if it's not in this tome, you can always check the indexes of the other '...Kiss This Guy' books that have been published! Although I agree with the thought that some of the incorrect lyrics in this book seem too far off the mark to be legitimate equivocations, I've personally experienced and have been a witness to far worse verse-mangling. So it's no real surprise to me when I read some of the more seemingly far-fetched examples! 'Late
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Summary: Oh, so THAT'S what he said...
Review: The title of this book was the big thing that caught me, since that's exactly what I thought Jimi was actually saying when I first heard `Purple Haze'! Small world, huh? And being someone who comes from a long line of song lyric-manglers, this book proved that I wasn't alone in this world when it came to makin' some of the words up as I went along. Heck, even to this day ma & I still argue over whether that guy's little bottle in `Love Potion Number 9' was broken by a cop or a clock! I'm going with the cop on this one, by the way. Needless to say, this little paperback was the perfect gag gift for ma on her birthday! The only real problem I had with this book was its brevity. At most, each page has only two sets of lyrics (the incorrect version(s) above, the song & artist in the middle, & the proper words below). Because of this, I found it to be a bit pricey for the amount of content it contains. However, it does have an index at the end, which is a real plus if you're looking for a particular verse that you've been tryin' to figure out. And if it's not in this tome, you can always check the indexes of the other `...Kiss This Guy' books that have been published! Although I agree with the thought that some of the incorrect lyrics in this book seem too far off the mark to be legitimate equivocations, I've personally experienced and have been a witness to far worse verse-mangling. So it's no real surprise to me when I read some of the more seemingly far-fetched examples! `Late
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Summary: Gotta get this book!
Review: This book is for all the people who've misheard lyrics. Honestly, who hasn't?? I read this book and absolutely howled with laughter. I always thought Juice Newton was singing, "Just floss my teeth before you leave me, baby" and Mick Jagger was singing, "I was born...to four cross-eyed lesbians."
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