First up, let us acknowledge that the misheard lyric meme is tired, dated and had burnt itself out way before memes even existed.
Having said that, we did have cause to stop and stare in wonder at our speakers the other week when we listened to the opening verse of The Weeknd’s “Less Than Zero”. The accompanying lyric video confirmed that we had misunderstood the words and that the couplet in question wasn’t actually hippo & Zippo but hero & symbol.
Far be it from us to advise Mr. Tesfaye on song writing, but we just can’t help but feel that our take is slightly better. After all, it does actually rhyme. Plus, no matter what anybody tells us, we still hear a song about semiaquatic mammals and lighters.
And on with the show…
Direct download: The Joint – 22 January 2022
Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…
- MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA – Planetary Citizen
- THE WEEKND – Gasoline
- TAPE HISS – La Tirimbina
- ERIS DREW – Time To Move Close
- HOLODRUM – Free Advice
- PRINCE JAZZBO – Replay Version
- LONE – ROYGBIV
- ROBERT GLASPER – Black Superhero
- ARAB STRAP – Aphelion
- TONY GALLARDO – Bruja
- GUERILLA TOSS – Cannibal Capital
- BLACK SHEEP – Flavor Of The Month
- ANITA LANE – Do That Thing
- RÖYKSOPP – The Ladder
- CATE LE BON – Remembering Me
- EARMAKE – Space Disco (Visualization)
- CASSETTEBOY – Rage Against The Party Machine
- EARL SWEATSHIRT – Titanic
- ROLO TOMASSI – Closer
- DOMINIQUE LAWALREE – Le Maison Des 5 Elements (First Meeting)
- HAZEY – Packs and Potions
- LEATHER RATS – Fuck Shit Up (live)
- NIK COLK VOID – Interruption Is Good (edit)
- THE KVB – Unbound
- THE WEEKND – Less Than Zero *
- SECTORSEPT – Be There
- ACID COCO – Cara Dura
- SHENSEEA – Dolly
- KING CHAMPION SOUNDS – Telemetry
- ROGER ROBINSON & RICHARD SKELTON – Where (“The Life We Knew” Version)
- KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – Black Hot Soup (DJ Shadow “My Own Reality” Re-Write)
* The misheard inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.
