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Mistakes heard

#41
I always thought that bass riff in "Fire" was intentional. Go figure.

I always wondered about the timing mentioned on "One Way Out". Wasn't sure if i just was counting wrong.

On Traffic's "Low Spark .." there's a double tracked delayed lead vocal that has different lyrics. Probably a producer's or engineer's mistake.

On the Stone's "Wild Horses", it sounds like Wyman hits a wrong note on the chorus, and then slides into the right note (ie,"I meant to do that!")

I'm pretty sure there some on Cream albums too. I can't think of any particular ones right off hand.

I'm liking all the examples of mistakes in relatively recent recordings. You would think nothing would get by the digital editing police. But it does.
 
#43
It's not too uncommon, especially back in the day when bands used to record live and could crank out an album's worth of good music in a month or two tops. Seems I've heard a few bloopers from Sir Paul from "early" Beatles tracks that got left in, probably because everone else nailed it and it turned out to be the best take of the day. It's actually got a charm of its own IMHO.
 
#44
On the song "Head Down" by Soundgarden, there's a part where the bass takes on a short melody high up the neck, and a second bass track holds down the low(er) notes. However, when the high notes are over, it doesn't just cut right down to one bass track instantaneously. You can hear a dissonant note ringing over the lower bass track, creating an intensely boomy bass chord of sorts.. Always sounded like a mistake to me.

Invalid Link Removed Also, you might want to stay tuned for the hidden bass solo. (The bass on this song/album is so bassy that it's tough to make out the parts that aren't following the guitar [which there are many of!])
 
#47
Here's a couple that I have noticed.

Metallica - Blackened: Lars' timing is "flexible" from about 5:32 to 5:50.

Metallica - Ride the Lightning - There's a glitch in the recording at about :33-:34 in, and another at about :42 - it skips slightly at both spots. Not really a playing mistake so much as a recording goof. I never remember hearing these on the old cassette tapes I had of this album, but they are there on every CD version I have ever heard.

Nightwish - On the live version of "Sleeping Sun" from the Oceanborn album, there's a goof on the guitar solo at about 3:32 - he starts in too early and doubles up on the opening notes of the solo.
 
#51
Not sure if it's deliberate but in NiN's "Discipline" off their latest album, Trent Reznor seems to come in on the first verse too early (at around 20 seconds), stops, and then comes in when he's meant to.
 
#52
cossie said:
Not sure if it's deliberate but in NiN's "Discipline" off their latest album, Trent Reznor seems to come in on the first verse too early (at around 20 seconds), stops, and then comes in when he's meant to.
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sounds like its deliberate to me. keep listening to the verse, he kinda uses the same vocal stutter seconds later.
 
#53
The only one I can think of particularly is in the 2nd verse I think of the Beatles "Let It Be" - the piano chord on the original single was real dodgy on "Mother Mary comes to me"...think thats a pretty well-known one - they fixed it on Let It Be albums (both old and new versions), but its still there on the blue compilation...

Theres also the mis-sung lyrics on the stereo version of "Please Please Me"...
 
#55
Led Zeppelin's "Good Times, Bad Times" has two "mistakes" that work. There's no bass solo on the 3rd break going into the guitar solo (maybe intentional?). And JPJ misses the first change coming out of the guitar solo into the chorus.

Like others have said, "mistakes" add a human element and certain charm. I'll take that over over-produced and over-processed any day.
 
#56
There's a nice little one by Duck Dunn in the Blues Brothers' version of Gimme Some Lovin'. Just before the second Verse, where he and Steve Cropper play an alteration to the main riff, he goes into it a couple bars early. Again, this is a live version so mistakes are a bit more acceptable.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned any Jamerson Mistakes, from analysing a number of his bass lines, it is fair to say that some of his idiosyncrasies include some mistakes. It's interesting that they can then be turned into something that is considered genius.
 
#59
Bob C said:
I always thought that bass riff in "Fire" was intentional. Go figure.

I always wondered about the timing mentioned on "One Way Out". Wasn't sure if i just was counting wrong.

On Traffic's "Low Spark .." there's a double tracked delayed lead vocal that has different lyrics. Probably a producer's or engineer's mistake.

On the Stone's "Wild Horses", it sounds like Wyman hits a wrong note on the chorus, and then slides into the right note (ie,"I meant to do that!")

I'm pretty sure there some on Cream albums too. I can't think of any particular ones right off hand.

I'm liking all the examples of mistakes in relatively recent recordings. You would think nothing would get by the digital editing police. But it does.
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I recall one major one on Wheels of Fire. IIRC it was
on White Room. One side of the recording drops totally
out in the middle of Capton's solo. Just his left track, I think.
I never understood why that wasn't fixed.
 
#60
Someone already mentioned Paul's voice cracking on the high note in "If I Fell"; I'm pretty sure there were two versions of that issued (soundtrack vs. single?) because I've heard him hit that note, occasionally. ;)

Berry Oakley turning the beat around in "One Way Out" has also been mentioned. Good one. (He comes in a beat early, and Duane Allman still manages to play a fine solo.)

Here's one. There's a Rolling Stones song -- I think it's "Street Fighting Man" -- where Mick tosses in a "yeah" at the end of a chorus. The only problem is, the lead vocal is doubletracked, and on the other pass, on exactly the same beat, he sings, "No!" (They're superimposed.) I've always loved that.

Oh yeah, how about the tambourine falling off a chair during the Beatles' "I'm Looking Through You"?
 

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