I’ve probably heard it a thousand times and never noticed. Can you pinpoint where in the song it happens?
Eric Burdon of the Animals was always garbling lyrics, but one that has always jumped out at me is in the song “Sky Pilot.” The line is supposed to be “But he’ll stay behind and he’ll meditate.” Eric, however, sings what sounds like “But he stale behind.” They couldn’t have gone back and fixed that?
Guess not. Great song, though, and Burdon was one hell of a shouter.
The high feedback note at the end of the guitar solo in “Nowhere Man”. I’ve heard this song a thousand times since I was 10 years old, and my favorite part has always been that moment. It took me years to get me to even consider that it was accidental. I’m still not sure, but if it was deliberate, it was genius.
I hear it as “fasticulous” which would be a combo of fastidious and meticulous, I guess.
Does any of else hear a flub in Bill Withers’ version of “Ain’t No Sunshine”? It sounds like he sings, “and shis house” as if he confused the “she’s always gone too long” with the “this house just ain’t no home” lines. It’s at 1:29. Ain't No Sunshine - YouTube
In the soundtrack to the stage production of “My Fair Lady” two of the lines are reversed.
Henry: Thank Heavens for Zoltan Karparthy.
If it weren’t for him I would have died of boredom.
He was there, all right. And up to his old tricks.
Mrs. Pearce: Karparthy? That dreadful Hungarian? Was he there?
Clearly, Mrs. Pearce’s line should be between “boredom” and “He was there” - not after it.
The Who - Eminence Front. Pete sings lead, Roger backup on the chorus. At around 2:29, the chorus kicks in and they are out of sync, resulting in a garbled “be-it-en-en-nece front”. A remastered version from the late 90s tried to fix it.
Hey Jude - the phrase is “fucking hell” and yes, it was John.
Sounds like a harmonic to me. He played an open string and immediately touched the string at the 5th fret to make sound 2 octaves higher.
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Sorry, took a while. Guess I only have it on vinyl, and my turntable’s broken.
Once you hear the noise, you’ll never not hear it. At 1:26, after “some sandy beach”… but I just listened to the remastered version and it seems sharper than paper… a mic stand, something wooden? Well, it’s been a piece of paper since I first heard it…
From Allan Sherman’s “Hungarian Goulash No. 5”:
Frenchmen eat a lot of bouillabaisse there,
Dutchmen eave a sauce called Hollandaise there!
Which chord are you talking about? Because I think I started a thread in here once asking what a specific chord was that Paul played in the final verse (on the bolded “…I wake up to the sound of music Mother Mary…”)
IIRC, the consensus was that it was misplayed by McCartney and they just decided to keep it. I do NOT agree with that. I still can’t even figure out what the actual notes recorded are but it is beautiful and 100% on purpose.
ETA: this chord is not on all the recordings of “Let It Be”. I know it’s at least on the album One.
Also, on the second to last measure of the keyboard solo in Zepp’s “All Of My Love” Jones mashes a couple keys together quite clearly. He does it at other points in the solo too, but not as obviously and some could be passed off as “blue notes” or whatever.
In the Westside Story soundtrack Quintet song, one of the singers sings “way” instead of “day” in the first line. [West Side Story - Tonight Quintet and Chorus (1961) HD - YouTube]
That bit of guitar feedback at 2:36 of the Eagles’ “Already Gone” seems like a mistake that got left in for some reason.
Rolling Stones - No Shelter
They famously hired a classically trained opera singer or something the story goes and got her out of bed at like 1am or something when she was 8 months pregnant to sing the backing vocals. Her voice cracks on the recording but she said her voice was still in the right musical key, they liked the way it sounded and kept it.
You can read the Wikipedia article, as I’m just paraphrasing based off a possibly not so accurate memory of a memory.
Beatles Yellow Submarine where Ringo sings “slubmarine” instead.
In the Song “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights” by Freddy Fender, when he sings the very first line it sounds like he has a speech impediment caused by a mouthful of tobacco or slobber or something.
In the Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” Paul sings: “Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face…” This was a mistake that the band decided to leave in (cite).
Regarding the “day/way” flub in “West Side Story”: We had the soundtrack album in our home, and I noticed that long before I ever saw the movie, and it’s in the movie too, exactly as you describe. It’s so obvious I’m baffled as to why it wasn’t re-recorded at the time.