# Mistakes (Sour Notes, Flubbed Lines, Expletives, etc.) on Studio Albums **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636 "2013-04-13T21:49:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/41 "2013-04-14T05:58:14Z")
I’m sure this intentional? but not sure why it’s in there. The Dead Kennedys’ “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” has an intro spoken by Jello. The first part of his sentence is cut off so that all you hear is “…s Fuck Off, overproduced by Martin Hannett” (he wasn’t involved). Hard to believe that it was a goof because it’s so obvious, but also serves no specific purpose. Of course, the cynical will say that most popular songs have sour notes, but it is fixed later by autotune. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2013, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/42 "2013-04-14T06:53:41Z")
On the Ben Folds Five song “Steven’s Last Night in Town” [a phone rings at 2:56](http://youtu.be/LOdkcM-yR3M?t=2m51s) and someone laughs. They kept it in. On a Squirrel Nut Zippers song - I am pretty sure it’s “Hell”, their one big hit - at the end you hear some clinking and “I broke the chandelier” that’s the singer hitting a chandelier. The Sublime song “[April 29, 1992 (Miami)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_29,_1992_%28Miami%29)” is about the events of April 29, 1992 (riots) but the singer sings “April 26, 1992/there was a riot on the streets, tell me where were you?” and they kept it. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/43 "2013-04-14T07:04:03Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > “…but here’s …(pause) …but here’s that rainy day”. What?? There’s nothing on that recording that corresponds to this. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/44 "2013-04-14T07:20:35Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > At 2:14 of Irene Cara’s [What a Feeling](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILWSp0m9G2U#t=2m10s), there is some sort of flub (vocal, I think) right after she sings “What a feeling…” First time I heard it back in 1983 I thought somebody downstairs had called my name. Here’s another one I don’t hear at all. The part of this song that always jumps out at me is the vocal edit at 2:59, one track into another, though not what you would call a mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/45 "2013-04-14T10:53:52Z")
> [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > What?? There’s nothing on that recording that corresponds to this. 0:23 - but here… 0:25 - but here’s that rainy day… ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/46 "2013-04-14T11:09:39Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > 0:23 - but here… > 0:25 - but here’s that rainy day… She sings “funny, but here’s that rainy day”. It’s listed in the lyrics below the video. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/47 "2013-04-14T11:17:17Z")
> [@tellyworth](#): > > She sings “funny, but here’s that rainy day”. It’s listed in the lyrics below the video. I stand corrected. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/48 "2013-04-14T12:03:00Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > “…but here’s …(pause) …but here’s that rainy day”. And I thought it was the “day” going funky sharp at the end there. (Actually, the whole thing sounds a bit wobbly pitch-wise to me, but that note seems particularly off, at least to my ears.) ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/49 "2013-04-14T12:30:11Z")
When Richard Harris recorded “MacArthur Park” for his album _A Tramp Shining_, he kept saying “MacArthur’s Park” even after being told repeatedly by the songwriter that he was saying it wrong. When Donna Summer recorded the song, she made the same mistake. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/50 "2013-04-14T12:47:26Z")
How about the cough at the end of Led Zeppelin’s In My Time Of Dying. Right at the end, Plant even changes the lyrics to :…make it my dying,dying, (pause) cough" ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/51 "2013-04-14T13:06:31Z")
> [@tellyworth](#): > > She sings “funny, but here’s that rainy day”. It’s listed in the lyrics below the video. By God, it \*is \*“funny”. :smack::smack: And all this time I thought she was coming in early :o ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/52 "2013-04-14T13:24:17Z")
Cornershop’s “Brimful of Asha” features a fairly prominent cough from Tjinder Singh after (I think) the second chorus. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/53 "2013-04-14T15:23:29Z")
> [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > Here’s another one I don’t hear at all. The part of this song that always jumps out at me is the vocal edit at 2:59, one track into another, though not what you would call a mistake. Right after she sings “What a feeling” it sounds as if she calls out something sounding like “on” or “non” or (like I said) “John” (my wife hears “now”, but it took her a few times to hear it in the first place.) This sound doesn’t occur in the other times the chorus appears so I’ve always assumed it’s a mistake of some sort. Another theory I had is that it was a line from the movie (which I’ve never seen.) Interesting how there are a lot of these that stand out to some people but can’t be heard by others. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/54 "2013-04-14T15:49:38Z")
The Who :[Eminence Front](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnHLgxKUsEA) First chorus, around the 2:24 mark, Pete comes in late on the vocal. Not sure if this was intentional or not, but it sure sounds like a goof to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/55 "2013-04-14T15:53:20Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Right after she sings “What a feeling” it sounds as if she calls out something sounding like “on” or “non” or (like I said) “John” (my wife hears “now”, but it took her a few times to hear it in the first place.) This sound doesn’t occur in the other times the chorus appears so I’ve always assumed it’s a mistake of some sort. OK, I’ve listened to this about six times and I finally hear what I think you mean. It sounds like a quirk of how different vocal tracks are blending together. Possibly one of the vocals adds a little moan that might be heard as a word in the mix. I would never have noticed that on my own, but then my name is not John. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/56 "2013-04-14T15:54:05Z")
“Good Riddance” by Green Day. The musician at the beginning screws up twice and says “Fuck.” they left it in. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_bTdLi0YUVM/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgZShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDbrrNwlKE1qMF8c3t8n2XC0kX-wg "Green Day Time of Your Life(Good Riddance) Lyrics") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bTdLi0YUVM) ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/57 "2013-04-14T16:55:25Z")
What’s the “honk” at the end of each guitar riff in Black Sabbath’s Paranoid? It’s bugged me for years. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/58 "2013-04-14T17:42:40Z")
Re: Nowhere Man. > [@randwill](#): > > I always assumed that was a little ‘ping’ note that George hit to finish the solo, but you may be right. Yes, I thought it was a 7th or 12th fret harmonic to end that bit. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/59 "2013-04-14T17:48:03Z")
> [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > OK, I’ve listened to this about six times and I finally hear what I think you mean. It sounds like a quirk of how different vocal tracks are blending together. Possibly one of the vocals adds a little moan that might be heard as a word in the mix. > > I would never have noticed that on my own, but then my name is not John. Yeah, not many people know what I’m talking about when I mention this. But then, I’ve never heard the flubbed line and laughter in “Barbara Ann”, and if I did notice it sometime in my murky past, I probably assumed it was part of the song. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/60 "2013-04-14T17:48:32Z")
ABBA’s first album Ring Ring has “Me and Bobby and Bobby’s Brother” climB-ing the apple tree. Yes, the Swedish singers pronounce the “B.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636.md?page=4)