# Aberrations/outtakes kept in a song's final mix **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513 "2018-05-20T17:24:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NotFromOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@NotFromOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotFromOne)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/21 "2018-05-20T23:37:01Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > No one has mentioned Ronnie Van Zant and ‘Turn it up.’ in _Sweet Home Alabama_? For some reason, I always hear that as “Turn it off!” Which, of course, I do. One does not need an excuse not to listen to southern rock, but it is impolite to disobey a strict order. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/22 "2018-05-21T00:05:14Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > ETA: On re-reading the OP, I see he was asking about entirely extraneous elements, not flubs. But since most of the other examples are flubs, here’s another. Yeah, I shoulda mentioned flubs in the OP. One of the (many) endearing things about Jon Wayne’s _Texas Funerals_ album would be his thoughts and sheningans at the beginning and ending of songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJZMAPXddg4 https://youtu.be/XsgFFXCMN7A?t=152 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxmwxEac7TU sorry, this one's a bit of a mess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pk20ry31Rs and its ending's a little rough, too: https://youtu.be/8pk20ry31Rs?t=104 and this one's tricky - I think it ends around 3:06, but, jeez... https://youtu.be/q8GUJonep18?t=177 Unfortunately youtube doesn’t have my favourite outtake, where Jimbo, the drummer, starts ribbing Jon Wayne about “Ain’t no country I know!”, in reference to Jon’s geographical ignorance, as revealed in “Mr Egyptian”. Jon responds, with the quite the _durrr_ laugh: “Sheddup. Sheddup, Jimbo.” At the end of the CD (and also not on youtube) there’s a ten minute gong show of outtakes from Jon trying to get interviewed? recorded? at some local radio staition. He gets in arguments with various technicians, and it becomes quickly apparent that JW is about seven sheets to the wind. JW’s best quip from that: “You, and your, big nose…” ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/23 "2018-05-21T00:07:36Z")
The ending of Led Zeppelin’s “In My Time of Dying”. After an amazing, transcendental, 11-minute blues jam, Robert Plant begins to wrap things up by singing: _“Oh, don’t you make it my dying, dying, dying…”_ Which is followed suddenly by someone’s (Jimmy Page?) coughing fit, and Plant sings: _“…cough.”_ Then Page noodles a silly tune on guitar, John Bonham says, _“That’s gotta be the one, in’nt?”_ and the producer says, _“Come an’ have a listen, then!”_ Always thought it was great to have a dark, intense song about death & dying end with the band just derping around. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/24 "2018-05-21T00:11:56Z")
> [@NotFromOne](#): > > For some reason, I always hear that as “Turn it off!” Which, of course, I do. One does not need an excuse not to listen to southern rock, but it is impolite to disobey a strict order. Oh I think you got your 38 Special albums on hand. Thank-you for being courtly. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/25 "2018-05-21T00:15:22Z")
“R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.” by John Mellencamp opens with the sound of the drummer dropping a drumstick. “Deep Purple”: When Nino Tempo and April Stevens began rehearsing the song, Stevens fed one spoken line at a time for her brother, which he then sang. The producer decided to record it that way. There are a couple of other songs where I remember the story but don’t remember which song. In one case, a 60s classic rock tune I believe, in the middle of the song the guitar changes from standard to a fuzz guitar. What happened was an amp blew out in the middle of the take. There is another classic rock song, I think from the 70s, where the backup singer brought his motorcycle in the studio and revved it up during the take. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/26 "2018-05-21T00:45:51Z")
Hot Tuna’s first album was recorded live in a club. About 50 seconds into “[Uncle Sam Blues](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t21_E77yTY&t=0m50s),” you can hear a glass fall to the floor. It landed pretty much on the beat, so it was left in. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/27 "2018-05-21T00:49:34Z")
> [@whitetho](#): > > “Deep Purple”: When Nino Tempo and April Stevens began rehearsing the song, Stevens fed one spoken line at a time for her brother, which he then sang. The producer decided to record it that way. Or Ritchie Blackmore (_I_ think) making a hash of the opening of SOTW in [_Live From Japan_](https://youtu.be/uRCz3k4wRmU?t=16) Probably intended, or maybe the first one or two notes of that particular part he got wrong and decided to “just go with it”. Either way, still aberration-y enough. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/28 "2018-05-21T01:00:15Z")
No one has said Barry McGuire being able to read the lyrics off the napkin for\* Eve of Destruction\* so the line comes out “I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation” ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/29 "2018-05-21T01:06:54Z")
One of the musicians laughs weakly in relief at the end of Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five,” because the piece was so difficult that it was hard to play from beginning to end without goofing up. It’s great. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/30 "2018-05-21T01:09:14Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Hot Tuna’s first album was recorded live in a club. About 50 seconds into “[Uncle Sam Blues](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t21_E77yTY&t=0m50s),” you can hear a glass fall to the floor. It landed pretty much on the beat, so it was left in. Ryan Adams did a show with Gillian Welch. _“Helpless”_ survives on YouTube, but not the moodier _“Dancing With The Women At The Bar”._ Anyhow, there are glasses breaking and Gillian says “I’m not going to talk, cause it’s not my gig.” “Me neither” mutters Ryan. Oh, I’d totally forgotten an old Clancy Brothers live album, where someone drops a tray of glasses and one of the Brothers yells “Hit him again!” then “Ah, Ireland… land of happy wars and sad love songs.” ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/31 "2018-05-21T01:12:08Z")
In “Happy Jack” by the Who Townsend says at one point “I saw ya”. Keith Moon was acting silly, hiding or something. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/32 "2018-05-21T02:13:41Z")
In the Ben Folds Five song “Steven’s Last Night in Town” a phone rings and the bass player laughs during a climactic pause in the song. I’ve [queued it up here in this video](https://youtu.be/LOdkcM-yR3M?t=2m50s), which starts at 2:50, and the ring is at 2:56. [At the end of the album version of Squirrel Nut Zippers’ “Hell”](https://youtu.be/BVT78LkPKS8?t=3m5s) you can hear the singer run into a chandelier (sounds like wind chimes) and say “I broke the chandelier.” ---
**Author:** ![MeepersC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meepersc/32/12088_2.png) [@MeepersC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeepersC)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/33 "2018-05-21T02:55:44Z")
In Green Day’s “Time of Your Life”, Billie Joe Armstrong messes up twice in the intro. You hear him whisper, “Fuck”, before going on and continuing the intro correctly. [Green day - Time of your life with lyrics - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwnoNVOj1Fs) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/34 "2018-05-21T06:22:10Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Another Beatles: > > At the end of “A Day in the Life,” they hit the final piano chord and hold it (forever) while you hear someone shushing someone else, chair squeaks and the AC ducts blowing. I think that is the result of them turning up the volume on the mic to make the fading piano chord last longer, to the point that there is a lot of background noise. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/35 "2018-05-21T06:27:58Z")
At the beginning of “Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream” there is a false start with Tom Wilson, the producer, cracking up and telling him to wait a minute. The official bootleg of those sessions reveals the false start was from an acoustic version of the song, which got spliced in front of the electric version that is on **Bringing it All Back Home**. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/36 "2018-05-21T06:32:19Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > After “Get Back”, there’s John’s dumb “I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.” followed by obsequious laughter, and then John’s impersonation of Gracie Fields: “That was ‘Can You Dig It’ by Georgie Wood, and now we’d like to do ‘Hark, the Angels Come’”, which leads into “Let It Be”. I haven’t seen the “Let It Be” movie since it came out, but isn’t that from the rooftop concert at the end of the movie, which finished with Get Back? I’ve always thought that “Hark, the Angels Come” was left in by John and Phil Spector to undercut the song, those not being happy times for the split up Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/37 "2018-05-21T06:40:52Z")
“Even the Losers” - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers ([“It’s just the normal noises in here.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMpYIlbEv5A)) ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/38 "2018-05-21T07:18:53Z")
Very surprised no-one has mentioned Merry Clayton’s voice breaking on “gimme shelter”. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/39 "2018-05-21T12:04:51Z")
Todd Rundgren’s “Something/Anything” album has a lot of studio chatter left in between the songs on side 4, as it was recorded live in the studio, but that’s probably not what the OP is asking about. However there are a couple of songs with some flubs that they left in. “Couldn’t I Just Tell You The Way I Feel” has a false start, followed by Todd blurting out “Mother of God!” before starting again. And in “You Left Me Sore”, Todd tries to hold a note a little too long and his voice cracks, prompting laughter from others in the studio. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513/40 "2018-05-21T13:30:19Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > “Even the Losers” - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers ([“It’s just the normal noises in here.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMpYIlbEv5A)) I scrolled through the thread hoping to be the one to post this :mad:😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aberrations-outtakes-kept-in-a-songs-final-mix/814513.md?page=3)