Sunday, February 15, 2009

Parsing Joe Cocker

We've all got our favorite stories about the misparsing of song lyrics (an excellent example is here). And some lyrics are built around playing on that (like the classic example here). But this video is a nice instantiation of the principles ...



We've gotta get back to serious stuff here ... I've been meaning for weeks to post on Darwin's birthday and other things.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The video is cut off on the right. Do you got a link so we can see the whole thing?

Mr. Verb said...

Arg, it looks funky on my screen but shows up when you start the video. The url is:

http://black20.com/finds/subtitled-joe-cocker

Anonymous said...

When my sister and I first saw him perform in 1969 we thought he had cerebral palsy.