Date:     Fri, 6 Jun 1997 02:00:04 -0400
Subject:  SOMMS Digest - <first ever> to 6 Jun 1997

There are 23 messages totalling 545 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. more mixed up lyrics (3)
  2. mixed up lyrics
  3. More Mixed up lyrics (2)
  4. hehe (2)
  5. mixed-up lines
  6. Silly lyrics!!
  7. National Geographic, other stuff
  8. Lyric Boo-Boo's...
  9. Questions and Frustrations...
 10. Mixed-up lyrics
 11. More mixed up lyrics :?)>
 12. Yet more misheard lyrics
 13. loser lyric guesses
 14. For everyone
 15. Sad News
 16. Mixed Up Lyrics are Great!
 17. More fun with lyrics
 18. More mixed up lyrics (2)

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 02:30:28 -0400
From:    Jenny Grover <sleeveless@CITYNET.NET>
Subject: Re: more mixed up lyrics

It doesn't help matters any that when doing Spoonman live, Chris really
did sometimes sing "Come on will I get off".  He did when I saw them,
and he was really emphasizing those ff's.  On the Oslo, Norway boot he
sings "Come on and suck me off," plain as day.
And in the realm of Lissa answering the phone-- there's this really low,
distorted bass note in Rusty Cage that, on my speakers at least, sounds
exactly like the UPS truck.  I cannot tell you how many times I have
looked out the window for the fucking UPS truck!!

Jen Grover

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 07:44:52 +0100
From:    Deborah Baker <deborah@RUSTYCAGE.U-NET.COM>
Subject: Re: mixed up lyrics

I think I may have posted this a long time ago (if so, sorry :-) but my
partner, Trev, always sings along to BIMH.."I shot my load today". He
really thought that's what Chris was singing and I used to get really
snotty with him, 'Soundgarden aren't *that* sort of band' etc etc. But now
I kind of like it :-)

And for a long time after I first got BMF, I would play it on my walkman to
allieviate the boredom as I mowed our  (very large) lawn. It was only after
listening to 'Room A Thousand Years Wide' on a proper stereo that I
realised the droning sound in the b/g was Kim and not the lawnmower!

UKDeb

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:03:51 -0400
From:    "Lane, Karen" <KLane@GAILS.COM>
Subject: Re: More Mixed up lyrics

I thought exactly the same thing!

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Subject:  More Mixed up lyrics

In spoonman chris is saying "come on we like it all"???

wow, i ALWAYS thought it was "come on, will i get off?" ehehe



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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:10:08 -0500
From:    Tamara Easter <excandescent@THENEXUS.COM>
Subject: hehe

       i love this thread: mixed-up lyrics.  when i first heard "rusty
cage" all i could think of was "i'm gonna break my rusty caaaaage erin"
:)  hmm what else is there..there's the legendary line from spoonman
which the perverts that i hang out with like to sing "come on whack it
off" :D  i can't remember anything else at the moment, but there are
tons more :)

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:02:34 -0400
From:    Shawn David Kennedy <kenned79@PILOT.MSU.EDU>
Subject: mixed-up lines

    On the topic of mis-heard lyrics...

     When I first heard 'Outshined', I thought Chris was saying "The grass is
always greener / Where the dogs are shitting" instead of "where the dogs are
shedding".

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:48:21 -0400
From:    "Carol C." <DustyGrrl@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: More Mixed up lyrics

It sounds like that to me too.   "Come on, while I get off."

Could it be that were all perverts who secretly wanna watch Chris 'get off"?
;) Or maybe he really is singing that in the background somewhere down low.
Actually, I wouldnt mind watching Chris take a nap for that matter, or eat a
peanut butter sandwich or something else he might eat, except maybe for other
peoples bile.

Carol =]

 >>same here, but I thought he said, "come on, while I get off"!
>> I was thinking, shit, he's perverted.

 >>Peace Love Empathy
>> Rachel

 >In spoonman chris is saying "come on we like it all"???
 >
 >wow, i ALWAYS thought it was "come on, will i get off?" ehehe
 >
 >
  >>

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 12:14:58 -0400
From:    Rachel Potter <UnknownGrl@AOL.COM>
Subject: Silly lyrics!!

I used to think that in spoonman chris sang "come on wack me off". So then my
friend and I made a perverted spoonman called sprem-man!!!

Alissa Corsi <LoudLoveCC@AOL.COM>  Wrote:

<I used to think when chris sings "and all the little pigs have god" was
"have
<gone".
<and that's the most mild one I have..... the rest are simply ridiculous!!

Alissa... I thought the same thing!!!!!

-Rachel

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 12:32:22 -0400
From:    Sarah Jordet <SlavesnBen@AOL.COM>
Subject: National Geographic, other stuff

Hello SOMMSters.

The other day I recieved my latest issue of National Geographic in the mail.
Yes, I DO subscribe to it! I know a lot of people probably have a hard time
believing that... Anyway, there's an article on Okinawa, Japan in it. For
those of you going, "Huh?," Okinanwa is where Ben was born. Even though it
doesn't really have anything else to do with him, I would suggest checking it
out. Like all National Geographic articles, even if you hate the text the
pictures are great. =)

A lyric that always confused me is in Outshined - "...the grass is always
greener/ where the dogs are shedding..."  For the longest time I had thought
Chris was singing "...the grass is always greener/ where the dogs are
shitting."  It made perfect sense to me since, well, the grass IS always
greener there. =)

Benlover

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:10:55 -0400
From:    Kelly Hendricks <Aferdity@AOL.COM>
Subject: Lyric Boo-Boo's...

I thought on Pretty Noose he was saying "tie the rope and seal the chain..."
 And on Kyle Petty I thought he was saying "a hundred miles of chicken wire
and steel wool..."  I guess I got that because wool rhymes with "fool".
 Sometimes after you figure out what it's supposed to be you feel like such a
dumb-ass.  I know I do!!!

Stay Cool,
Kelly  (C:

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 14:17:09 -0400
From:    "Carol C." <DustyGrrl@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Questions and Frustrations...

>>I think this is kinda of a cool subject lets hear what every one
>> thought Chris was saying in most of his songs.

>>DAVE


   Well, I always thought he was singing "Carol. I want to have crazy, wild
sex with you" but really he was singing "hard headed fuck you all".

Hee hee sorry. I couldnt help it.

I did really think he was singing "head high youve got to smile" but he was
singing "head high like a song you like"

Carol =]
Carol

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 15:17:10 -0400
From:    Alissa Corsi <LoudLoveCC@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: more mixed up lyrics

In a message dated 6/5/97 12:31:21 PM, you wrote:

<<On the Oslo, Norway boot he
sings "Come on and suck me off," plain as day.>>

hmmmm..... no comment.... heheheh.... ;-)~~~~ (sorry y'all.... =)~

<<And in the realm of Lissa answering the phone-- there's this really low,
distorted bass note in Rusty Cage that, on my speakers at least, sounds
exactly like the UPS truck.  I cannot tell you how many times I have
looked out the window for the fucking UPS truck!!

Jen Grover>>

God bless you.... at least I'm not the only one!!  We're such silly
sommsters.... =)~

"Remember I love you, love you"

love, lissa =)

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 15:16:08 -0500
From:    NIKI FREER <endless_nameless@PRODIGY.COM>
Subject: Re: Mixed-up lyrics

carol wrote:

>
I did really think he was singing "head high
youve got to smile" but he was
singing "head high like a song you like"
<

 i do think that the second line mentioned is actually part of the
lyrics...

and i always thought, back when i listened to SG on the radio
primarily, that in FOBD, where CC sings "how would i know..." that he
was saying "I wanna know!" and i was totally lost on the rest of the
lyrics. = )
and in "seasons," the very first line is "sullen nights and long warm
days" and i swear that he's saying "summer nights and long warm days.
" = ) oh well!

 mind riot (wishing shroomy the best)

____
tears of the feeble
hands of the slaves...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SOUNDGARDEN
1984-1997
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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 15:23:39 -0400
From:    Alissa Corsi <LoudLoveCC@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: hehe

In a message dated 6/5/97 4:06:38 PM, you wrote:

<<when i first heard "rusty
cage" all i could think of was "i'm gonna break my rusty caaaaage erin">>


I thought he was singing "I'm gonna break my rusy caaaaaage..... air run!!"
=P

Sorry for the multiple postings. =)

"Remember I love you, love you"

love, lissa =)

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:12:16 -0700
From:    Dave <instant@DELTANET.COM>
Subject: More mixed up lyrics :?)>

Look what I started! Anyways here are some more:
FOBD
"Dont you lock up something that you wanted to see fly"
my ver:
"Dont you lock up songs that you wanted to see fly"
FLOWER
"In her uniform..."
my ver:
"In her human form"

thats all I can think of for now.

Dave

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 15:22:12 -0500
From:    Ben Timberlake <btimlake@NWU.EDU>
Subject: Yet more misheard lyrics

In Spoonman, when chris sings "All my friends are skeleton" I always
thought he was singing "All my friends are scared of death" which still
kinda fits with "They beat the rythym with their bones. And then I
thought he sand "All my friends are in the end" which has nothing to do
with "All my friends are brown and red."
Also, in BIMH, though I have always known he sings, "Down below the truth
is lying beneath the riverbed," I can sometimes fool myself into thinking
he sings "the truth is lying beneath the river, Ben"
I dig misheard lyric discussions because always post a couple that I
still hadn't realized I had misheard.
                                                   -- Ben

Ben Timberlake                  This is the way the world ends
Northwestern University
Medill School of Journalism
pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~bft718     btimlake@nwu.edu     -30-

HAMM: [Soft.] What'll I do? [Pause. In a scream.] WHAT'LL I DO?
                                -- Beckett, "Endgame"

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 16:46:51 -0400
From:    Adam Nowinski <JesusCPose@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: more mixed up lyrics

In a message dated 97-06-05 08:31:21 EDT, you write:

<< And in the realm of Lissa answering the phone-- there's this really low,
 distorted bass note in Rusty Cage that, on my speakers at least, sounds
 exactly like the UPS truck.  I cannot tell you how many times I have
 looked out the window for the fucking UPS truck!!

 Jen Grover >>

Hello fellow Sommsters

           I can definitely agree with Jen on hearing guitars and bass lines
sounding like vehicles and such.  In "Limo Wreck", Kim's lead sounds just
like an ambulance rushing to the scene of a wreck.  Actually the siren sounds
to me like a British ambulance.  Since Ben wrote "Head Down", then I guess it
isn't surprising that I can hear the back-up beeper of a construction truck,
Ben used to work in construction before touring with Nirvana, right?  And
lastly, "Room A Thousand Years Wide" has the obvious drone in the background
of a weed wacker.

Filling my head with crazy sounds---
adamcpose

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:18:24 -0700
From:    eliza <epolly@ONE.NET>
Subject: loser lyric guesses

when i first heard Somewhere, i thought that it was "Somewhere in my
dreams, signs said show until the willow weeps"

yah, i know, duh!

oh also, a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE  HAPPY 18th BIRTHDAY goes out
to my little somms sis Nikki Freer - woo hoo!!!  Have a great time
(after all, you are an adult now ;-)

eliza

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RIP J.B.
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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:38:42 -0400
From:    Paul Talley <Overfloatr@AOL.COM>
Subject: For everyone

I strongly suggest that all Soundgarden fans(the real ones) pick up the
expensive import "Stolen Prayers".  This features two pretty good Soundgarden
songs that didn't make superunknown(Nowhere but you & Missing) and one
exellent one that should have.(Flutter girl)  it also features 3 cool Ozzy
songs which chris does solo covers of.  To top that it comes with 3 temple of
the dog demos, namely Black Cat, Angel on fire, and a cool version of reach
down.  The last to tracks are versions of head down and BHS live!  Before
this I had never heard bHS live with the entire band.(Just Chris).  The Head
Down live version ranks the best live songs ever done.
Its expensive but worth it.

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 14:40:57 -0700
From:    Dave <instant@DELTANET.COM>
Subject: Sad News

I know some of you are Buckly fans, so this may come as some sad news,
sorry it isnt Soundgarden related, but someone on here expressed concern
over this:


            Jeff Buckley Found Drowned In Memphis

                     June 5 [11:40 EDT] -- Singer/songwriter
                     Jeff Buckley's body was discovered early
                     Wednesday evening in the Mississippi River,
                     confirming the grim expectations of friends
                     and family members.

     Ironically, Buckley's body was discovered at the foot of
     Memphis' famed musical mecca, Beale Street.

     Tourists on the American Queen riverboat spotted the
     30-year-old Buckley's body in the water at about 4:40 p.m. and
     notified the crew, which retrieved it.

     Buckley was initialy identified by his clothes and jewelry, but was
     later positively identified by his road manager. Police said there
     were no signs of foul play.

     Buckley, who had been in Memphis since February working on
     his second album, had just finished having dinner with Keith Foti
     last Thursday and the two were on their way to a rehearsal
     studio at about 9 p.m. when they stopped at the marina.

     A fully clothed Buckley suddenly decided to "go swimming,"
     something he'd done there previously.

     As passing boats created waves, Foti turned his back for a
     moment, and when he looked back, Buckley was gone.

     Funeral arrangements for Buckley were incomplete as we went
     to press.

     For more on Buckley, go to the MTV News Gallery.

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 18:54:00 -0500
From:    "Phelan, Kate" <kphelan@PASSAVANT.NMH.NMH.ORG>
Subject: Mixed Up Lyrics are Great!

When I was playing Burden In My Hand (over and over again) one day, my
boyfriend looked at me and asked, "Is he singing "I shot my LOAD today" ???



Peace to all the JB fans out there, let's hope he got a lot of material out
before the accident.
(My initial reaction to the news is too graphic to print)

Kate

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 18:12:52 +0000
From:    Candy Haun <haun@IONET.NET>
Subject: More fun with lyrics

I love to hear Chris sing =93I=92ll take the river down to still water=94
cause I live in Stillwater and even though I know better, it sounds to
me like he=92s gonna jump on a boat and float down the Cimarron river to
my home town!  I know that=92s really goofy of me BUTT I can=92t just hel=
p
it!!

Candy

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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 18:31:42 -0600
From:    Scott Brooks <eightfoot@WEST-TEQ.NET>
Subject: Re: More mixed up lyrics

carol wrote:

>
>I did really think he was singing "head high
>youve got to smile" but he was
>singing "head high like a song you like"

You mean to tell me he wasn't singing "head high you've got to smile?" I
find that interesting. I looked up the lyrics in my liner and found out I
was wrong. Oh, well. That's the first time I've been wrong today...again. Peace.


Scott

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SOUNDGARDEN
1984-97
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Date:    Thu, 5 Jun 1997 21:00:32 -0500
From:    Betty Anne Redson <redson@IL-ICOM.NET>
Subject: Re: More mixed up lyrics

Chris Mackenzie wrote:
>
> For the Canadians... At first I thought it was "Degrassi's always
> greener where the dogs are shitting".
>
> A friend of mine thought CC was singing "Thanx for the show" instead of
> "Face Pollution".
>
I thought he was saying "thanks for the show" also.  After reading what
everyone thought he was saying in songs, I realized that I also misheard
almost all the same lines at one time.

Marie

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