The Boys need a better proofreader!
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Oh, fu*kin' hell! Look at the lyrics of Say It To Me on the OS. It says:
Tell me want you from me
Instead it should be, obviously:
Tell me what you want from me.
http://petshopboys.co.uk/lyrics/1681/S
Tell me want you from me
Instead it should be, obviously:
Tell me what you want from me.
http://petshopboys.co.uk/lyrics/1681/S
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There's a mistake on Sad Robot World also. I sent an email to the info@beckerbrown.com address from the contact-us page on the site, so hopefully they'll pass it to the appropriate person to fix.
Sad robot world
Machinery is sighing
I thought I heard one crying
Should be:
In a robot world
Machinery is sighing
I thought I heard one crying
Sad robot world
Machinery is sighing
I thought I heard one crying
Should be:
In a robot world
Machinery is sighing
I thought I heard one crying
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There's a mistake in the CD booklet too, but I'm out at the theatre tonight, if no one beats me to it, I will post later.
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The lyrics printed in the CD booklet for Sad robot world have the error pointed out by Suburban_Boy
Brilliant song by the way!
Brilliant song by the way!
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It's interesting how the same error is repeated, the lyrics really weren't given a good read through in this case!NikacP0kac wrote:Oh, fu*kin' hell! Look at the lyrics of Say It To Me on the OS. It says:
Tell me want you from me
Instead it should be, obviously:
Tell me what you want from me.
http://petshopboys.co.uk/lyrics/1681/S
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NME Awards are on Wednesday15th February, not Tuesday 14th...
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Greetings,
Sometimes lyrics are baselined (for want of a better term) at the point they are submitted to the publishers, and discrepancies from that baseline can occur during recording. Therefore, sometimes it's not that the lyrics have been transcribed incorrectly, but that the discrepancy between the publisher's baseline and the final recording has not been reconciled.
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Sometimes lyrics are baselined (for want of a better term) at the point they are submitted to the publishers, and discrepancies from that baseline can occur during recording. Therefore, sometimes it's not that the lyrics have been transcribed incorrectly, but that the discrepancy between the publisher's baseline and the final recording has not been reconciled.
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Interesting. Yep, I don't think that accounts for Say it to Me though, as the incorrect lyric makes no sense!retrofuturist wrote: ↑Tue 07 Feb 2017, 1:48 am Greetings,
Sometimes lyrics are baselined (for want of a better term) at the point they are submitted to the publishers, and discrepancies from that baseline can occur during recording. Therefore, sometimes it's not that the lyrics have been transcribed incorrectly, but that the discrepancy between the publisher's baseline and the final recording has not been reconciled.
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There's a website link error. The NME and Daily Mirror links concerning the awards both seem to point to the NME.
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I wish someone would sort Chris Heath out. Annually is full of mistakes. "Baseline" (bassline) indeed!
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"Chris the Speller" or one of his Wikipedia colleagues thinks either word is OK. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BaselineTallThinMan wrote: ↑Tue 04 Apr 2017, 8:28 pm I wish someone would sort Chris Heath out. Annually is full of mistakes. "Baseline" (bassline) indeed!
I know that doesn't make it correct though, necessarily!
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Five hundred and five copies of
ONE HUNDRED LYRICS AND A POEM
have been hand bound
and signed by the the author
ONE HUNDRED LYRICS AND A POEM
have been hand bound
and signed by the the author
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signs books and leaves
you could say conventional ... and I could claim intentional
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