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How might one "bless rains"?

I swear to god.. all these years I've thought it's "I catch the waves down in Africa!".

I cringe to think what other songs are butchered in my head.

Great cover. Reminds me of being a kid.

>> ^Drax:

I swear to god.. all these years I've thought it's "I catch the waves down in Africa!".
I cringe to think what other songs are butchered in my head.


I always thought Pilot's "Oh Ho Ho Its Magic" they were saying "It's my dick, you know".

I know atleast one person here, small world.

>> ^Drax:

I swear to god.. all these years I've thought it's "I catch the waves down in Africa!".
I cringe to think what other songs are butchered in my head.


I honestly thought it was "I Catch the rays down in Africaaaa"

Is that Louie CK? lol

>> ^DuoJet:

How might one "bless rains"?


Shinyblurry will know

great likeness -- especially their vocal harmonies.

>> ^Deano:

>> ^DuoJet:
How might one "bless rains"?

Shinyblurry will know


Like this:

"I bless the rains down in africaaaaaaa"

That's a blessing.

Top YT comment : "...and not a single slice of pizza was eaten during that song." =D

Ever since someone mentioned it to me, I can't unhear them singing about a "master race down in Africa".

That really is incredible. Shame I kinda hate that song, but still.

>> ^Drax:

I swear to god.. all these years I've thought it's "I catch the waves down in Africa!".
I cringe to think what other songs are butchered in my head.


Funny, I thought it was "I miss the rains down in Africa".

Lets do an informal Google poll based on total search results:

"I catch the waves down in Africa" = 48 hits (sorry)
"I miss the rains down in Africa" = 8970 hits
"I bless the rains down in Africa" = 237000
...
Maybe I'll struggle to come up with some more alternatives:
"I piss in drains down in Africa" = 0 *swing and a miss*
"I kiss the rains down in Africa" = 68
"I took the train down to Africa" = 2
"I list the brains down in Africa" = 0 *strike 2*
"master race down in Africa" = 1 - Wow, Google's crawlers are fast, @dahauns
"I miss the plains down in Africa" = 22
"I guess the rains down in Africa" = a surprising 826
"I swing a mace down in Africa" = 0 *strike 3, too much Skyrim for me*

pfft, its the line before that gets me.

"Theres nothing a hundred men on mars could ever do!"

Really *beautiful cover.

I didn't know Louis CK could play the guitar.

@Drax: Check out http://KissThisGuy.com for lots more misheard lyrics.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by lucky760.

wow check out his yt channel, heaps of great covers

>> ^MilkmanDan:

>> ^Drax:
I swear to god.. all these years I've thought it's "I catch the waves down in Africa!".
I cringe to think what other songs are butchered in my head.

Funny, I thought it was "I miss the rains down in Africa".
Lets do an informal Google poll based on total search results:
"I catch the waves down in Africa" = 48 hits (sorry)
"I miss the rains down in Africa" = 8970 hits
"I bless the rains down in Africa" = 237000
...
Maybe I'll struggle to come up with some more alternatives:
"I piss in drains down in Africa" = 0 swing and a miss
"I kiss the rains down in Africa" = 68
"I took the train down to Africa" = 2
"I list the brains down in Africa" = 0 strike 2
"master race down in Africa" = 1 - Wow, Google's crawlers are fast, @dahauns
"I miss the plains down in Africa" = 22
"I guess the rains down in Africa" = a surprising 826
"I swing a mace down in Africa" = 0 strike 3, too much Skyrim for me


I may be unique in this (google confirms this), but I always heard Bob Marley's Get Up, Stand Up line "It's not all that glitters is gold" as "It's as hard as pizza that's cold".

Which is its own sort of interesting koan.


-r.

god I love this song, you made my day Deano, and it was already a good one. Fantastic cover.

Man, I clicked on this link thinking, I've got a few minutes to kill and that's a great song. Here's hoping they don't butcher the song too badly. Holy shit was I wrong. That was amazing!

Best comment in a while. I laughed thoroughly.

>> ^MilkmanDan:

>> ^Drax:
I swear to god.. all these years I've thought it's "I catch the waves down in Africa!".
I cringe to think what other songs are butchered in my head.

Funny, I thought it was "I miss the rains down in Africa".
Lets do an informal Google poll based on total search results:
"I catch the waves down in Africa" = 48 hits (sorry)
"I miss the rains down in Africa" = 8970 hits
"I bless the rains down in Africa" = 237000
...
Maybe I'll struggle to come up with some more alternatives:
"I piss in drains down in Africa" = 0 swing and a miss
"I kiss the rains down in Africa" = 68
"I took the train down to Africa" = 2
"I list the brains down in Africa" = 0 strike 2
"master race down in Africa" = 1 - Wow, Google's crawlers are fast, @dahauns
"I miss the plains down in Africa" = 22
"I guess the rains down in Africa" = a surprising 826
"I swing a mace down in Africa" = 0 strike 3, too much Skyrim for me

GAHHH!!!! SOOOO MUCH LIVE AUTOTUNE!!!! MY FUCKING EARS!!!!

"I miss the rains down in Africa and the Iraq everywhere like such as and" = 0>> ^MilkmanDan:

>> ^Drax:
I swear to god.. all these years I've thought it's "I catch the waves down in Africa!".
I cringe to think what other songs are butchered in my head.

Funny, I thought it was "I miss the rains down in Africa".
Lets do an informal Google poll based on total search results:
"I catch the waves down in Africa" = 48 hits (sorry)
"I miss the rains down in Africa" = 8970 hits
"I bless the rains down in Africa" = 237000
...
Maybe I'll struggle to come up with some more alternatives:
"I piss in drains down in Africa" = 0 swing and a miss
"I kiss the rains down in Africa" = 68
"I took the train down to Africa" = 2
"I list the brains down in Africa" = 0 strike 2
"master race down in Africa" = 1 - Wow, Google's crawlers are fast, @dahauns
"I miss the plains down in Africa" = 22
"I guess the rains down in Africa" = a surprising 826
"I swing a mace down in Africa" = 0 strike 3, too much Skyrim for me

Fun fact: The band itself thought this song was nothing special and practiced it until they were sick of it.

The lead singer, who was kicked out for a while, was the only guy who could really hit that note in the song... and basically, the song makes no real sense... and its really fun!

These guys are good, but pitch correction can make any harmony sound tight.

Epic Songs will always be epic and stand the "test of time".
This is one of them.

>> ^TheSluiceGate:

GAHHH!!!! SOOOO MUCH LIVE AUTOTUNE!!!! MY FUCKING EARS!!!!


I didn't pick up anything, what's the tell-tale sound of it that you can hear? Or is it just one of those things that you can't really describe but just 'know' when you hear?

I hate to think that I'm being swindled by it not really being 'them' singing.

>> ^spoco2:

>> ^TheSluiceGate:
GAHHH!!!! SOOOO MUCH LIVE AUTOTUNE!!!! MY FUCKING EARS!!!!

I didn't pick up anything, what's the tell-tale sound of it that you can hear? Or is it just one of those things that you can't really describe but just 'know' when you hear?
I hate to think that I'm being swindled by it not really being 'them' singing.


I was about to denounce TheSluiceGate for being a hater, but I think around 3:50 there's some vocal sliding around that sounds suspiciously autotuned. But, I will say that even with autotune it doesn't sound unlike the original, to me.

To their credit, those are notes not many men, who have gone through puberty, can hit.

That's so cool, the first time I watched this it made me nostalgic for the pie>> ^observer144:

>> ^MilkmanDan:
>> ^Drax:
I swear to god.. all these years I've thought it's "I catch the waves down in Africa!".
I cringe to think what other songs are butchered in my head.

Funny, I thought it was "I miss the rains down in Africa".
Lets do an informal Google poll based on total search results:
"I catch the waves down in Africa" = 48 hits (sorry)
"I miss the rains down in Africa" = 8970 hits
"I bless the rains down in Africa" = 237000
...
Maybe I'll struggle to come up with some more alternatives:
"I piss in drains down in Africa" = 0 swing and a miss
"I kiss the rains down in Africa" = 68
"I took the train down to Africa" = 2
"I list the brains down in Africa" = 0 strike 2
"master race down in Africa" = 1 - Wow, Google's crawlers are fast, @dahauns
"I miss the plains down in Africa" = 22
"I guess the rains down in Africa" = a surprising 826
"I swing a mace down in Africa" = 0 strike 3, too much Skyrim for me

I may be unique in this (google confirms this), but I always heard Bob Marley's Get Up, Stand Up line "It's not all that glitters is gold" as "It's as hard as pizza that's cold".
Which is its own sort of interesting koan.

-r.


As a kid I always thought he said:

"I guess it rains down in Africa" = 4,470 hits

Perfect that they picked one of the rare rainy days in Utah. That background made me so nostalgic. If any of you are ever in the Salt Lake valley, you can't choose a better pizza place than the Pie.

This doesn't strike me as plausible given there's a ton of other material on his channel and it all sounds natural to my ears.

>> ^LukinStone:

>> ^spoco2:
>> ^TheSluiceGate:
GAHHH!!!! SOOOO MUCH LIVE AUTOTUNE!!!! MY FUCKING EARS!!!!

I didn't pick up anything, what's the tell-tale sound of it that you can hear? Or is it just one of those things that you can't really describe but just 'know' when you hear?
I hate to think that I'm being swindled by it not really being 'them' singing.

I was about to denounce TheSluiceGate for being a hater, but I think around 3:50 there's some vocal sliding around that sounds suspiciously autotuned. But, I will say that even with autotune it doesn't sound unlike the original, to me.
To their credit, those are notes not many men, who have gone through puberty, can hit.

Meh, I agree that if it was autotuned, it wasn't very noticeable and it didn't ruin the song. I wouldn't say that it wasn't plausible that it was autotuned...just not likely. I only glanced, but there weren't any other covers I noticed on the YT channel that required that high of a vocal register. To me, that would be a plausible reason this song might use it while the others wouldn't.

In any event, I liked this version and upvoted.

Sift of the Week!

My $0.02 I noticed the vocal processing on the chorus straight away, but I can't say it ruined the song for me. The guys obviously have pretty decent voices to begin with.

Tellingly on the auto-tune front @TheSluiceGate, @LukinStone, I asked on the youtube video of this whether it was used, and they have moderation turned on... well, they haven't put up my question or an answer, yet have put up others that have come through since.

Also, there's a fan who set up a page at 'ragtube' (never heard of it before), which seems to have his old youtube channel description on it:

Mike's setup:

Martin DC-16RGTE Aura 6-string guitar, Guild F-512 12-string guitar, into Yamaha 01x into HP laptop (via firewire) running Cubase 3. Mike's vocal mic is a Neumann KMS105.

Jeff's setup:

Fender 5 string Jazz Bass (Mexico) into Universal Audio LA-610 Pre amp/compressor
Jeff's vocal mic is a Neumann KMS104.

The audio is recorded dry, then mixed in Cubase 6, using mostly UAD-2 plug-ins. No Auto-Tune is used (since people occasionally ask). The audio mix is then synced to the video in Sony Vegas. The video camera is a Canon Vixia HF100 (for the more recent HD videos)

And now his youtube page says nothing about autotune... so did they start to use it, when they didn't previously, or have they always and been caught out on it, so have stopped claiming they don't?

Seems fishy to have had the info up, and now not.

Umm, who cares?

The song is quite enjoyable and they're obviously both talented. I'd be more worried about a star who rakes in millions a year faking it than two guys (if they do indeed use tuning) who entertain at a local venue. Crowd seems to like it... = \

This guy, he gets it.>> ^Asmo:

Umm, who cares?
The song is quite enjoyable and they're obviously both talented. I'd be more worried about a star who rakes in millions a year faking it than two guys (if they do indeed use tuning) who entertain at a local venue. Crowd seems to like it... = \

THAT, was Badass!

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