Maybe it’s because I never loved side1 of Axis:Bold As Love as much as Hendrix’s his other stuff that it’s been played considerably less, see it lags in the middle with a couple of indifferent tracks (Wait Until Tomorrow/Ain’t No Telling), so it’s taken damn near 50 years for this word to leap out and register with me.
He uses romp* on Wait Until Tomorrow.
So unexpected, and from an American. I imagine he read it that very day in a tabloid, Mitch or Chad would have explained it, then straight into his new tune. Suppose he did have form with using current stuff in his act.
So, Massive, any other weird word choices in lyrics?
*Googling the lyrics gets you “run off with me” but I assure you it’s “romp with me”
Strike his.
From 30 years ago the NYC hip-hop duo Frick’n’Frack gave us the deathless line,
“Our style of rap is downright smashing”
Word em up, you fellows!
Hah! That’s a similar case of Americans waylaying a British English word to amusing effect.
But have you played the Hendrix track, Moose?
Not available on YouTube.
I’ve not noticed it before.
Quite like the fact that the word “dodgy” is used by Mitch or Noel elsewhere on the album. Probably a new one on the Jimster.
I think Prince uses the line “you turn on the telly”, in Sign o’ the Times. Telly is not a word I’m used to hearing from an American.
‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy…
It’s Kiss the sky…
and checking the original lyric sheet from my vintage copy of Axis: it is ‘run off’ not romp
I thought this was a thread on mondegreens. 😀
I can’t read that, Nick – can you post it to me? Promise to get it back to you.
Ok, I’m sending it by dragonfly
‘Going Down To LIverpool’, made famous by the Bangles, includes the line “where you going with that UB40 in your hand?” I’m sure most Americans assume he/she is off to Merseyside with his/her treasured copy of ‘Labour of Love.’
It’s a dumb question anyway. “I’m off to sign on, what else where else would I be going with a UB40 in my hand? “
Yebbut that was wrote by Kimberley Rew, out of the Soft Boys, later Katrina And Her Waves, who is a Brit. You knew this. Just sayin’.
When Joss Stone sings “your love is super” (2:46) in this song, it suddenly sounds British. Just me then.
But, she is British, even though she sells all her records in the US. Born in Kent, teenage years in Devon.
Ah well there you go then.
She’s Straight Outta Cullompton. Well, near Willand and Uffculme.
Love that scene in The Wire where Omar divests some dealers of their takings with a cheery “How do?”
CBWGTFWM Frank Zappa (unless we have).
He used the word “poofter”, knowing it was a UK slang term but not knowing what it meant.
I wonder if Jo-El Sonnier knew what he was singing about when he covered Thommo’s “Tear Stained Letter”.
“She danced on my head like Arthur Murray
The scars ain’t never going to mend in a hurry”
and then later,
“It makes me nervous, it gives me the hives
Waiting for a kiss from a bunch of fives”
(Arthur Murray – How To Shag)