“I see”, said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and sawr.
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Yeah, who knew? I’m pretty sure Liverpudlians wouldn’t pronounce it that way, either.
The “Till There Was Use” example is usually explained as Paul McCartney over-doing an American accent and throwing in an “r” where it doesn’t belong.
As mentioned here:
When I said “no British speaker, AFAIK” the point was to account for the myriad of accents in the UK, not to single out one “universal” British accent.
I’ve always been intrigued by Van Morrison’s Slim Slo Slider where you can hear him turn a page (of lyrics, presumably). It’s at 1:27, but it could be a more random noise. Once you hear it though, it’s jarring, especailly on such a quiet, ethereal album (Astral Weeks).
I say this all the time, in the same tone, and NO ONE has ever noticed. Or ever will. I can live with that… but it’s perfect when, as a class winds down, all the students start a billion random conversations and bump into things and spill stuff and chaos ensues.
And it’s hard to believe they liked that-- it’s such a huge, awkward mistake… and it was all over the radio (in those pre-iPod days you didn’t have much choice-- unless you had an 8-Track in your car…), so you heard that song 1000 times that summer.
One that particularly rankles me is “the Wind Beneath My Wings” by Bette Midler. The part near the end when she sings “Flyyyy, FLYYYYYYY, FLY AWAY…” That second “fly” is jarringly flat or offkey. It is like nails on a chalkboard to me, and this was a major, major hit song that got volumes of airplay when it was first released, and still pops up on easy listening stations. Ugh. Drives me crazy every time I hear it.
In Jefferson Airplane’s medley “Won’t You Try / Saturday Afternoon” just before an extended instrumental section, Paul Kantner clearly says (not sings) “keep it going” as if giving studio instructions for everyone to keep jamming. Never heard him say it in any of the live versions of the song that I’ve heard, so I imagine it was a mistake.
From the same band’s “Crown of Creation” - towards the end of the song, just prior to the dramatic tempo shift, someone in the studio coughs.
Two from the Smashing Pumpkins. In “Daydream” there’s a “thunk” from a cello bow hitting the cello. And “Starla” has the sound of a vehicle with a siren driving past the studio. Not sure why the thunk from Daydream got left in unless no one noticed but Starla was being recorded on a deadline and presumably they didn’t have time to record it again.
I don’t hear anything I would describe as a “honk.” I think you’re just referring to Tony Iommi playing a gliss (sliding down the strings) on the last note of the lick.
Sound like an intentional harmonic note to me, at the end of the guitar solo. Not a mistake. Unless there’s other evidence to suggest it is.
Closer to Home by Grand Funk Railroad. Pretty obvious including a snicker. . .
I like it.
The Beatles’ song “In My Life” with the double-speed piano that sounds like a harpsichord - if you hear it at regular speed it’s pretty sloppy playing (George Martin, I think).
Never heard it before, but, alas, Youtube has everything.
Unsourced claim in Wikipedia’s article on “Sweet Home Alabama”:
In “Hey Jude”, Ringo can be heard saying “I need to go to the bathroom” at ~5:36
The first to come to my mind is Jim Croce’s “Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown”. Near the end, the bass player gets completely lost. It’s very obvious and bad, I’m I’m still amazed they left it in. As a bassist myself, this always makes me cringe when I hear it.
If we’re going into that kind of depth…in “A Hard Day’s Night”, the instrumental solo in the middle is double-speed piano and guitar played by Georges Martin and Harrison. Even at the original slower tempo, Harrison has trouble with it. Best heard by hard panning the original stereo version.
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So do I. That may be because I’ve always heard it that way, but it just sounds…right.
The Presidents of the United States of America, start their song, “We’re Not Gonna Make It,”, miss a note on the bass-line, and the singer stops the production: “Do it again, do it again, do it again,” … at which point they do it again.
Then again, considering the song is about how much they suck, they might have done it on purpose.
On the US version of “I’m Looking Through You” by the Beatles there is a double false start. I don’t know if this was a mistake in the performance, or a mistake in the recording.
I remember a song from the 70s with a chorus starting “Oh what a time we had down by the Danube, eating our goulash and drinking our wine…”. As the song fades out, the guy singing bass sings “drinking our goulash and eating our wine” and you can just barely hear him saying “Aw, I fucked it up”. I feel certain that this was a Steeleye Span song but I can’t find it on the intrawebz!
It was Fairport Convention: “Hungarian Rhapsody.” That bass vocal is Trevor Lucas.
ETA: That video cuts off just before Lucas says “I fucked it up!” but it’s there on the record.