# Mistakes (Sour Notes, Flubbed Lines, Expletives, etc.) on Studio Albums

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**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:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/161 "2013-10-31T15:57:10Z")

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In one song by Dutch-Swedish singer/songwriter [Cornelis Vreeswijk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Vreeswijk) he suddenly realises that he has started to sing a verse a second time, so he ad-libs “I sang the wrong verse but I hope you don’t mind. I can sing the next verse twice, if you want me to”.

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**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/162 "2013-11-01T02:00:18Z")

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At 3:33 in [Guitars In The Sky](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRdFictnQAs) by The Records, there’s a (?) squeak. It doesn’t detract from the solo or the song.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/163 "2013-11-01T03:02:00Z")

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At about 3:35 of this version of [Steve Miller’s Space Cowboy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMw0FPA9lyI)there’s something a little odd followed by a bit of a giggle. This is not The Joker, it came about a year before that.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/164 "2013-11-01T03:13:17Z")

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Don’t know if studio mix flubs count, but on Matilda Mother by Pink Floyd, there’s an obvious edit before the final verse where the producers obviously just abruptly cut from one mix to another. Syd probably didn’t care but the rest of the band should have.

as far as the OP’s “Famous is better” criteria, a similar phenomenon occurs in Beck’s “Loser” in the verse beginning “forces of evil and a bozo nightmare” but there’s 50 50 odds that Beck did it on purpose rather than not caring like Syd or just plain missing it.

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**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-sour-notes-flubbed-lines-expletives-etc-on-studio-albums/655636/165 "2013-11-01T20:41:26Z")

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_"Trains to Brazil_ by **The Guillemots** has verse where the singer starts but then trails off…it’s unsettling and awkward to me.

I swear there’s a Radiohead song with a false start, but I’m drawing a blank now.

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