h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yes, you did mishear, but not by much. It's

"You don't know what you've got til it's gone. They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot"

Oh, and it's by Amy Grant, and called Big Yellow Taxi.

Amy Grant? Don't know why you think that.

Joni Mitchell wrote and performed the thing in 1970. It's on her 'Ladies of the Canyon' album.

http://www.jonimitchell.com/jonidiscography.html


Geggs

Oh, all the google searches, apart from those about building sites, for "paved paradise, and put up a parking lot" come up with Amy Grant

Deffo Joni Mitchell... my mum used to sing it to us when we were kids.

Oops, then

Atomic Kitten were mentioned earlier with "You can lick my hole again".
One of my friends reckoned they'd censored it down from "You can make me howl again"

Just to clear up the confusion: Joni Mitchell did the original "Big Yellow Taxi", and Amy Grant covered it some time in the '90s.

beatles song>>>>thought it was Judy in Disguise, ___?____in the sky

Judy in Disguise (with glasses) was a take-off of Lucy in the Sky (with diamonds)

Sung by *rummage rummage google rummage* John Fred and his Playboy band

Thanks. Life long nystery SOLVED! I love when that happens! Ab Normal

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was, of course, sung by the Beatles. One of John Lennon's type of song. Sorry. One tends to forget that there are people who don't KNOW that.

It's on Sergeant Pepper's.

In the Hybrid Theory remix of the Linkin Park song High 'Voltage' (yes, the Hybrid Theory version is a remix. I've never heard the original, just the versions on Hybrid Theory and Reanimation)
I heard the part when someone goes "I like to rock and rap" as "I like to roger a rat".

In the Hybrid Theory remix of the Linkin Park song 'High Voltage' (yes, the Hybrid Theory version is a remix. I've never heard the original, just the versions on Hybrid Theory and Reanimation)
I heard the part when someone goes "I like to rock and rap" as "I like to roger a rat".

By the way, the Reanimation version is called 'H! vltg3'.

Hey, Landrover Guy, that's the rudest! (No, it's not - Atomic Kitten licking holes is equally dodgy..) Mind, Ali G *did* call them slappers...

I used to think Sinatra's song 'Strangers in the Night' really went like;
"Strangers in denial - exchanging glasses"

One of my friends was quite insistent that the Steely Dan song "Josie" contained the line:

"She prays like a rodent with her arms on fire",

instead of "She prays like a Roman with her eyes on fire"

For a long time, I thought that Michael Jackson's 'Smooth Criminal' was about 'Eddie', not 'Annie'.

B

What about the line from the Manic Street Preachers' "Motorcycle Emptiness":

"All we want from you are the cakes you've given us."

Oh no, not when I am hungry..