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Chris -- 2025-05-10
From Dangerous Minds article How your pretentious local record store a**hole got that way – a compilation of notebooks from a record store with odd customer calls and requests.
There’s several eggcorns, mondegreens, or reshapings in the article.
Customer: “Do you have constellation music?â€
Clerk: “Constellation music?â€
Customer: “You know… A variety.â€
Besides there being a variety, it seems like a constellation also groups together several individual items as a collection, much like a compilation album.
Since there is a Canadian record label called Constellation it’s a little hard to find examples among all the actual Constellation albums, but I turned up one:
Album Review “The influences on Letlive.’s new record, Blackest Beautiful, are so clear it could pass as a Rage Against The Machine, Skindred and Bring Me The Horizon greatest hits constellation on a nu-metal version of NOW hits: 2013”
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Good one!
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There are some great mondegreens in that Dangerous Minds article larrybob linked to above, and at least one dandy eggcorn: “renegade” for “reggae”.
Customer:“Can you tell me where your ‘Renegade’ music is?â€
Clerk:“Renegade?â€
Customer:“Yeah, like Shabba Ranksâ€
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