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[-] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

I don’t think that it’s a mistake or unintentional per se, but I love when songs leave talking in, or laughter. It’s just nice.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I fucking hate this. How can you like that?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

For me, it gives an air of authenticity

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I guess I think it’s cute! It reminds me that the people recording it are in a room having fun. I also really like surprising, weird little moments in my music, even (especially ?) if they break the expected flow of the song. I get why it would be jarring to some, I loooove that shit though.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

You can hear a telephone ring in the background of The Ocean by Led Zeppelin.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I always wondered what was up with that

[-] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

The lead in to Good Riddance by Green Day is messing up the opening twice in a row. He even swears after the second fuck up.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I always thought it was a deliberate part of the track, but the internet insists it was a genuine double mistake and f-bomb from Billie Joe. Nice!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Every time I play this song live, I do it with the "...fuck"

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

It isn’t really special, but there’s the bit in Bohemian Rhapsody where Roger Taylor’s high backing vocal is a bit longer than everyone else’s. I’m pretty sure that was a mistake that was left in, possibly because they couldn’t take it out with the tech they had back then.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

couldn’t take it out with the tech they had back then.

I’ve heard that they nearly lost the recording because their tape machine had a minor flaw which scraped away some of the tape and which nearly ate the whole tape because of how much multi track overdubbing they were doing.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I think you’re right, that does sound familiar. Could you imagine accidentally destroying the tapes for BR?!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yea they apparently realised rather late when the tape was close to destroyed.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It's so harmonious though.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It is, I think it adds character.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Just a tad before 3 minutes into 'Hey Jude', you can hear someone deep in the mix say, "Oh, bloody hell".

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

@darthlink @favrion
That was Paul. He hit a clunker on the piano and said "Fucking Hell!". John insisted they leave it in. Google F word in Hey Jude.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I never heard that one before! Is it two people? Sounds to me like Paul saying 'Oh!' then John mumbling 'bloody hell.'

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I love the mis-fretted note in Stairway to Heaven at 3:30. Can't unhear it and love that it's never been dubbed out in all the various remasters etc.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Never noticed it. Good ear.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I’ve listened a few times but I don’t hear it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's on the 2-and of the bar (the ascending arpeggio). Think the note is an E

Edit - on the 1-and. The lead in is beat 4 of the previous bar. So it's the 4th note of the arpeggio

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Mines a funny one because it probably doesn’t exist.

When young I was in a band that did a cover of Fire by Hendrix. And while practicing it along with the recording I would sware that there were moments where Mitch Mitchell went out of time for a beat or so. I never nailed down where it would happen because I was just trying to learn the song, but it felt pretty real though transient. It was probably me, but it would make total sense given the time and the nature of the song. Tempo changes are pretty common for instance for that time.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

In the beginning of Roxanne from the Police, Sting accidentally sat on a piano, and you hear the butt chord and laughter.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

On 'Cotton Crown' by Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon sing 'You got your cotton crown' multiple times at the end. Gordon accidentally sings it one too many times and trails off, like, 'You got your cott — uh'.

In 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer', on the second verse Paul McCartney laughs while singing the word 'writing', reportedly because John Lennon mooned him from the control booth. Another Beatles one is on 'What Goes On' when Ringo Starr sings 'Tell me why' and you can hear Lennon shout 'We already told you why!', presumably in reference to their earlier song 'Tell Me Why', which Starr also sang.

There's a really famous one on Nirvana's cover of 'The Man Who Sold the World'. At the beginning of the guitar solo, Kurt Cobain misses the note then overcorrects and misses it again, but it's a surprisingly musical-sounding error. I doubt he'd have dubbed it regardless!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

In radiohead's Creep when the first verse shifts to the first chorus, the guitar is supposed to start playing during the chorus. But the guitarist apparently didn't like how quiet the first verse was so he played the first 3 notes a little bit early to surprise everybody. Some also say he was probably just checking the volume on the amp. It's not completely clear what his intentions were. But they left it in the final recording and even played it like that live.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

On Dream on (Aerosmith), I've always wondered if the couple "missing" notes from the arpeggio in 2:33 are intentional or a mistake.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I think that may be intentional for crunchy harmony.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

At the end of Streetlight Manifesto's "Keasbey nights" when one of them says "it fucking stinks in here!"

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