Unpolished broadcasting

Following on from the engineering-kerfuffle-promoted Oscar Peterson jazz in place of the first ten minutes of an edition of Woman's Hour on Radio 4, we got to one of my bugbears last Friday. Roger "3D" del Nido of Massive Attack was being interviewed for a South Bank exhibition just before the morning nine o'clock news on Radio 4, but the whole project was obscured by the mistake that consumed my thought. They opened with a piece from arguably Massive attack's most famous song and I pricked my ears to see if they would make one of the most common and frustrating of musical mistakes. "That was part of Massive Attack's," moment of truth, "Unfinished Symphony." Gah! Don't you have no conception of wordplay. It was probably on the script sheet, but your traditional mores were unable to resonate with that, instead falling back on what you recognise. It's "Unfinished Sympathy."
Mind you, some people have even less excuse. They go "Massive Attack's Unfinished Symphony is my favourite song."
"But," I go, "it's called Unfinished Sympathy."
"No, it's not."
Sigh. And no matter how much you try to convince them of the ingenious working of cultural recognition into something new and powerful of itself, it's nigh impossible to break through their raised mental barriers because... well, it's their favourite song.