Author Topic: Factual errors in songs.  (Read 48118 times)

rogerzilla

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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #125 on: 26 July, 2013, 09:10:51 pm »
Bryan Adams: "I know her love for me will never die/But that'd change if she ever found out about you and I".

You and me, Bryan.  So you'd better recast the whole verse.

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LEE

Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #126 on: 02 August, 2013, 09:01:59 am »
Too much unprotected sex in the 80's, with strangers you just met in a nightclub, can kill you, Freddie, not too much love (apart from loving a little kitten so very very much that you hug it until it suffocates to death).


What?  Too soon?

clarion

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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #127 on: 02 August, 2013, 09:05:12 am »
Bryan Adams: "I know her love for me will never die/But that'd change if she ever found out about you and I".

You and me, Bryan.  So you'd better recast the whole verse.



I had no idea about you & Bryan.  Well, best wishes to both of you.
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caerau

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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #128 on: 02 August, 2013, 11:00:04 am »
Too much unprotected sex in the 80's, with strangers you just met in a nightclub, can kill you, Freddie, not too much love (apart from loving a little kitten so very very much that you hug it until it suffocates to death).


What?  Too soon?

Sadly though - that's a Brian May song (even sung by him originally), reprised for the last Queen album*.  Possibly too many badgers will kill you though - 'specially if they've got TB  :demon:


*Yes I know too much about Queen.
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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #129 on: 06 August, 2013, 09:07:27 pm »
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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #130 on: 07 August, 2013, 01:38:37 am »
I hate to break it to you Charlene, but while Greece has a lot of islands, the whole country is not an island.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmKDp6Uo0vE

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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #131 on: 08 August, 2013, 03:08:54 pm »
I hate to break it to you Charlene, but while Greece has a lot of islands, the whole country is not an island.

Technically she could be correct.  The lyrics are "Oh, I've been to Nice and the isle of Greece..."  An isle can be either an island or a peninsula.  So as long as there is a peninsula in Greece (and there are lots) then she could have been the "the isle of Greece".

 ;D

As an aside and a useless piece of information, Greece comprises approximately 1400 islands (of which 227 are inhabited) - but the British Isles comprises some 5,000 islands (of which 289 are inhabited). 
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caerau

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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #132 on: 08 August, 2013, 03:25:45 pm »
I would venture that all 5000 are inhabited - by gulls ;)
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citoyen

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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #133 on: 08 August, 2013, 04:15:16 pm »
Actually, Bono, I think you'll find it was "round about teatime" on April 4 when the shot rang out in the Memphis sky, though I'll admit it doesn't scan as well.
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spindrift

Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #134 on: 09 August, 2013, 04:44:38 pm »
"There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time".

Kilimanjaro.

citoyen

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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #135 on: 09 August, 2013, 05:24:52 pm »
"There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time".

Kilimanjaro.

Although it might become true with a few more years of global warming.
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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #136 on: 09 August, 2013, 06:09:34 pm »
"There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time".

Kilimanjaro.

Although it might become true with a few more years of global warming.

There's always be the High Atlas, they're in Africa you know. But's nice to see that we're back to the OP.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/snowandski/3446834/Oukaimeden-In-Morocco-the-skis-the-limit.html

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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #137 on: 09 August, 2013, 06:59:27 pm »
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I was 18 when my dad first took me to a pub
and I've never ever seen him quite so mad
"A pint of your usual, sir?" the barman said,
But he was asking me, not dad.
"By surfeiting the appetite will sicken and so die
I'll not long have a boozer for a son
They say there's 27 pubs from here to Odsal Top
and tonight you'll have a pint in every one.

The 'phone book only lists four...  :(

 ;)

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rogerzilla

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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #138 on: 03 January, 2014, 06:52:51 pm »
Grammar again.

No Doubt: "You and me/ We used to be together".

I'll give Bryan Adams a pass because he needs the rhyme, but Gwen has no excuse.
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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #139 on: 03 January, 2014, 07:54:36 pm »
But this is a thread about factual errors, not grammar errors.
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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #140 on: 04 January, 2014, 02:36:14 pm »
Are there any recorded instances of cakes being left out in the rain?
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clarion

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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #141 on: 04 January, 2014, 02:48:39 pm »
According to Jimmy Webb, who wrote the song, it does refer to an actual incident.  Whether he would never have the recipe again or not might have been subject to dramatic licence.
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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #142 on: 04 January, 2014, 06:44:33 pm »
It took so long to make it.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #143 on: 05 January, 2014, 08:02:25 pm »
I've had cakes in cycling cafes, usually coconut sponges, that could have benefited from being left out in the rain awhile.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #144 on: 05 February, 2017, 10:03:20 pm »
"Well pistons keep on turnin', wheels go round and round"

Proves the Doobie Brothers have never worked as mechanics.
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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #145 on: 09 November, 2019, 06:41:35 pm »
I think you’ll find, Banananarama, that even if love - of any degree - were  classed as an offence, only the jury could find you guilty. The Judge’s jurisdiction in that situation would be limited to sentencing.
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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #146 on: 09 November, 2019, 06:52:27 pm »
I think you’ll find, Banananarama, that even if love - of any degree - were  classed as an offence, only the jury could find you guilty. The Judge’s jurisdiction in that situation would be limited to sentencing.

This thread has a 100% "whoosh" factor so far as I am concerned. But is it not possible for a judge to instruct a jury towards a particular verdict? I know as little about law as I do popular beat combos, so I'm perfectly happy to be subject to correction. As long as it doesn't hurt.
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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #147 on: 09 November, 2019, 06:57:22 pm »
You’re right, but only the jury can decide guilt. There are instances of the jury not following the judge’s directions.
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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #148 on: 09 November, 2019, 07:05:04 pm »
Grammar again.

No Doubt: "You and me/ We used to be together".

I'll give Bryan Adams a pass because he needs the rhyme, but Gwen has no excuse.

"You and me" is actually correct.

Feanor

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Re: Factual errors in songs.
« Reply #149 on: 09 November, 2019, 07:08:02 pm »
Not all offences are tried by a jury, thobut...