Musical video Friday continues!
I love audio pareidolia: listening to something and hearing words and patterns in it that aren’t really there. I’ve posted about it before.
I also love "Carmina Burana" by Karl Orff. So this video left me literally laughing so hard I was crying.
Tip o’ the baton to Amanda.
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February 20th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
This is a good one, but I don’t think anything can top http://wookiessong.ytmnd.com/
February 20th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
I kept it together, right up to the octopus. I’m glad it’s after 5.
February 20th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
An aural pareidolia is also known as a Mondegreen as coined by Sylvia Wright.
Another article
February 20th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Saucy codpiece. Is there a funnier word combination?
February 20th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
[...] jag la upp en sån här video har jag för mig att det var Pearl Jam, nu tipsar Phil Plait om den här videon där Orffs Carmina Burana får ny [...]
February 20th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I’m sure PZ will expect royalties for his cameo…
February 20th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
I could have done without the mental picture I got from “suck juice from moose”, though. (shudder)
February 20th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
HEY! If I had my own theme music, this would be it! I can’t wait to check this out when I get back to the compound!
February 20th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Meh … somw of that was pretty good, but some bits were way too contrived.
I guess it doesn’t help if you know and enjoy the actual lyrics to some extent.
Egestatem / Potestatem / Dissolvit ut glaciem
Poverty, power, melts like ice (although, obviously, the exact words depend on the translator).
February 20th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Ah, you say Car-ME-na, I say CAR-meh-nah… let’s Karl the whole thing Orff…
February 20th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Luckily, there’s a bathroom on the right…
February 20th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
That is excellent! Watch out for the salsa cookies and the windmill cookies!
February 20th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
That was great, but I think the undisputed master in this genre is still “My Loony Bun is Fine Benny Lava” (I don’t know if embedding a link will work, so just go to YouTube and do a search on that title…)
February 20th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Off Topic: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=nasa-dawn-explores-new-worlds&sc=DD_20090220
Dawn aircraft write up. I know, I know, it’s a competitor’s mag, but this is really a fun thing. Orbiting 2 different bodies. ION Drive (does it have twin engines?). Longer Mission than the orginal Enterprise. This story has it all!
February 20th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
@Zorak
The link for ‘Benny Lava’ is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw
BUT be warned that some people would consider some of the misheard lyrics to be unsuitable for children.
Of course, knowing how much Phil loves Dr Who, you can’t really go past the misheard “Carameldansen” lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWqC4KKiVbU
February 20th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Reminds me of Indian Thriller. Girly Man!
Or that doll that allegedly said “Islam is the light” and “Satan is king”.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Whatever Latin I had have atrophied to much.
Still – it sounds clearer than the English hymn.
February 20th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Benny Lava:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw
February 20th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
So, I’m guessing you haven’t seen Benny Lava… click on my name to get the link to it.
February 20th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Thanks for the giggles. Some were a bit more than giggles.
February 20th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
[...] bad astronomer) Read [...]
February 20th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
I still love the YTMND in my name link. Star Wars Episode I’s Duel of the Fates has forever been ruined for me because this is all I hear now. And yet it’s hilarious.
February 20th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
I love the alternate lyrics YouTube videos. I think one of the best ones, if any metalheads in here listen to Pantera, the ******* Hostile alternate ******* Hoffstyle is pure genius. Sorry, couldn’t state the full title in respect to keeping this blog family friendly.
February 20th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I couldn’t keep quiet past “some men like cheese.”
February 20th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
You like audio pareidolia? I sent you one not too long ago about a woman who thinks her daughter’s Nintendo DS game says “Islam is the Light”, even though it’s gibberish. Click on my name for link.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
I giggled until I teared up.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
As a singer — and one who’s done Carmina — I have some issues with this group’s enunciation, or lack thereof. But as for misheard lyrics, I can only say: BWAHAHAHA!!! That’s great!
February 20th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
I guess you haven’t seen Obama’s Elf. Check linked name above.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Thanks Christopher, I almost wet myself.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
I also can’t believe the credulous reporting of the “Islam is the light” thing.
February 21st, 2009 at 12:07 am
Reminds me of the Carlton Draught Big Ad that was run here in Oz.
February 21st, 2009 at 12:19 am
I can’t seem to find a valid copy of it anymore, but I think the best one is still the re-edit of what Joe Cocker is actually singing when he sings “With A Little Help From My Friends” at Woodstock. It seems like it’s been taken down off of YouTube because it’s kinda sorta a copyright violation.
February 21st, 2009 at 12:59 am
I don’t know, according to my wife, who still knows the real lyrics from performing it in a choir, it’s actually funnier that way! She says it’s all the things that you remember thinking it sounded like while singing it.
February 21st, 2009 at 1:31 am
Though Benny Lava is a modern classic in its own right, We Drink Ritalin (found on newgrounds or albinoblacksheep) is both considerably older and a more impressive effort, going so far as re-recording the song in English with the reinterpreted lyrics and putting the whole thing to Flash animation.
February 21st, 2009 at 1:39 am
Actually, re-listening to We Drink Ritalin, I’m not even sure that that’s been re-dubbed. It still tracks if you read the original lyrics side-by-side with the audio.
For the entertainment value of anyone who cares, here’s a summary from animutationportal.com:
“The song, Hot Limit by John Desire, is, strictly speaking, in English. However, anyone need not listen to more than a stanza before noticing that it is utterly incomprehensible. John Desire is an Italian group, but the song sounds like the singer was trying too hard to sound American. The result could be called gibberish. ”
I think it’s been said elsewhere that the singer doesn’t speak English at all and was actually singing it phonetically.
February 21st, 2009 at 2:18 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM6xbDX5iHU
February 21st, 2009 at 2:38 am
Phil, I’ve just discovered something quite appalling.
If you listen to George Hrab’s “Far” played backwards, where he says “my words might drive you all insane“, it comes out as, “Yes, we’re all going to die. Farewell!“. Moreover, where he says “precision is your middle name“, it comes out as, “Myeah, well it always finishes soon.”
My question is this. Should we start panicking straight away, or wait until the song finishes?
(P.S. Feel free to answer the earliest astronomical memory question on my blog, if you want to.)
February 21st, 2009 at 6:34 am
Brilliant! How about this for a pareidoliac sonic palindrome, this phrase ‘your house is on fire’ sounds almost the same whether it’s played forwards or backwards:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TyALAQ7mRg
February 21st, 2009 at 6:42 am
Thanks. Now I’ll get weird looks in the theater every time I start cracking up during a horror movie trailer.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:03 am
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29301770/
Truth behind real flying saucers — revealed! On MSNBC’s Tech and science area, an article about the book “The Saucer Fleet” (Apogee Books, 2008).
On the cover image, “Foreword by ‘The Bad Astronomer’ Dr. Phil Plait”.
Yay!
February 21st, 2009 at 9:12 am
You stinker! This is one of my favorite pieces, I listen to it often while reading blogs—do you KNOW what you have DONE to me???????????
Fiend!
February 21st, 2009 at 10:12 am
audio pareidolia? I think i heard it called Mondegreens (Check this link) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen)
Very funny and its great that it has its own strange story about the name!!
Crazy
February 21st, 2009 at 11:15 am
There are a group of guys that used to go to Passenger Information desks at various British Airports and ask them to page passengers with made up foreign sounding names. The result was hilarious as it went out over the PA. I think they eventually got banned from some of these airports.
February 21st, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I LOOOVE CARMINA BURANA. And can sing it in Latin, so yes, this does make it ever more hilarious XD
“Salsa cookies! Windmill cookies! They’ll give you goooon-oorrr-heaaa!” made me laugh so hard I nearly inhaled my drink.
February 21st, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Also: Carl Orff, not Karl.
February 21st, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I’m not sure I can ever go to another concert with that piece in it without laughing. I will probably always hear “suck moose juice” and the cookies giving you gonorrhea. Thanks!
February 21st, 2009 at 8:17 pm
-surfacing_
I have been a long time lurker on many blogs. This is my first post on any of them.
I actually was listening to this song when I read this post on iTunes. I have not laughed so hard in a long time.
Thanks for that.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:38 pm
OK . That is why I don’t post.
I mean I was listening to Carmina Burana while I was reading this post. Not reading this post on iTunes. Hurk.
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:13 am
May I also submit this classic of the genre;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg5_mlQOsUQ
“Wishmaster” by overblown Finnish goth operatic rockers Nightwish
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:14 am
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February 22nd, 2009 at 7:41 am
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February 22nd, 2009 at 5:05 pm
[...] OK, I don’t want to repeat myself exactly from yesterday’s sf band thing, but I was inspired by Phil Plait’s post about this utterly fantastic video: [...]
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:37 am
Pretty funny stuff. It reminds me of Enigma’s song Sadness Part 1, where in the opening seconds it sounds very much like someone is singing “We nominate whiskey, Amen”.
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:38 am
Bring this window up while listening (but not watching) the original video:
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/c/carl_orff/carmina_burana.html
And switch between windows, and you’ll “hear” the lyrics you’re looking at, even if switching mid-stream.
And I have to agree on the mental picture that “suck juice from moose” can conjure. Hilarious and frightening at the same time.
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:40 am
Oh, and let’s not forget the classic “Mairzy Doats”:
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:17 am
This species of preidolia is also called a “mondegreen.” It’s now in dictionaries, but it was coined as a result of mishearing a 17thC ballad “The Bonnie Earl O’ Murray.”
“They hae slain the Earl Amurray,
And laid him on the green”
as
“They hae slain the Earl Amurray,
And Lady Mondegreen.”
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Re: “this species of preidolia is also called a mondegreen“, it is my understanding that a mondegreen is by definition accidental, referring to cases where lyrics are honestly misheard and confusion results. It does not include cases where lyrics are deliberately misrepresented for comic effect ( mondegreens may be collected for comic purposes, but must have originally been genuine mistakes). I may be wrong about this.
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:34 pm
what do you mean windmill cookies cause . . . eeeww. . .
and let’s not forget — “My Body lies over the Ocean ”
We used to sing that in 2nd grade music class. Does second grade even have music class anymore ?
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Hatten ar din ftw! :\
February 27th, 2009 at 12:41 am
HA! That’s fecking brilliant!!! I particularly enjoyed “Vimto can taste of kidneys”.
March 1st, 2009 at 11:28 am
“Some men like cheese” LMAO!!!
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:25 am
DLC – you mean “My Boonie lye soda devotion, Ma Birney lifesaver DC?” by Walt Kelly? Or my favorite Christmas carol, “Bless us all with Boston Charlie, Walla Walla, Wash. and Kalamazoo! Nora’s freezing on the trolley, swallow dollar cauliflower alligaroo!”
Pogo was way ahead of its time.
February 12th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
Video doesn’t work so here’s the original:
carmina.ytmnd.com
I’m also fond of duelofthecorn.ytmnd.com and harpofackyou.ytmnd.com
September 20th, 2011 at 6:31 pm
The Archive of Misheard Song Lyrics:
http://www.kissthisguy.com/