Recording mistakes,bad editing or oddities in pro recordings

[KeithReynolds]

Im not sure if it was ever covered here before, but its kinda funny though.
I was Jamming to the Motorhead 'ace of spades' record very loud today, and during the song "Dance", theres a very audible bad guitar sound.
I went back over it, and hell yeah, that shoulda been taken out.
The mistake occurs at 1 min 27 sec. The solo is badass though! Fast Eddie Rules!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDlE5-DJyxo
Its even really audible in the crap youtube quality version.

Atleast redo the take. If I heard it, im sure others have. ESPECIALLY the band and production team that had to hear the songs over and over 400 times.
It got me thinking about how many other records have mistakes or something like that.

Anyone know some? I guess I could google them, but Its more fun having others involved!

On another forum im on, someone posted some Nickelback song that has an obvious auto-tune hiccup. Ill search that forum and find the song.
The mistake was VERY obvious. I dont see how it could have been intentional.

[KeithReynolds]

Ugh, I cant believe I had to listen to some of a Nickelback song again.
The very audible auto-tune mistake is at 1:48.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0DU4DoPP4

Its worth to listen to it just for more proof that the damn music industry cant get enough of auto-tune. I guess actually having to sing good is just a foreign idea.

[bassist_25]

On Bob's Party Time Lounge from Primus's The Brown Album, Les Claypool does a chordal intro. In part of the intro, you can hear a part in which he isn't fretting the note hard enough onto the fretboard, but it's still being fretted enough to not be a dead note. It's one of those things the casual listener would never pick up on, but a musician could spot.

[whitedevilone]

Watch Lemmy and you'll learn why it's there.Cause Lemmy is f#@in god and he don't care.It's Motorhead for crissakes.Enjoy.

[Jasaoke]

Sometimes they work out. The open string (very last note Jimmy plays) at the end of Zep's "Rock and Roll" was unintentional. And the 'reverse' delay on the vocals after the jam section in "Whole Lotta Love" was actually caused by storing the tape reel 'head out'. The vocal track bled through to outer layers of the reel. I've always liked the whistle in the instrumental break of CCR's "Down on the Corner".

[Banned]

When ZZ Top was recording Tres Hombres, there was too short a time space between Waitin' on the Bus and Jesus Just Left Chicago. They liked the way it sounded, and kept it that way. Everyone thinks that Waitin for the Bus just instantly goes into Jesus Just Left Chicago, but they were recorded a 2 separate songs.

ZZ Top liked it so much they play the songs together, like heard on the album even today.

[bassist_25]

Sometimes they work out. The open string (very last note Jimmy plays) at the end of Zep's "Rock and Roll" was unintentional. And the 'reverse' delay on the vocals after the jam section in "Whole Lotta Love" was actually caused by storing the tape reel 'head out'. The vocal track bled through to outer layers of the reel. I've always liked the whistle in the instrumental break of CCR's "Down on the Corner".

Additionally, during the fade out of Fire by Hendrix, Noel Redding went back to the intro riff, which he wasn't supposed to. They dug the mistake, though, and kept it.

[VENTGtr]

That's a good topic.

There are tons of them. "Street Fighting Man" by The Stones, there's feedback in a few places. They left it as is and it's classic...and perfect.

Forget what tune on The Police's first album has THE WORST punch in imaginable, but there wasn't time or cash to fix it.

Lot of Tom Waits stuff, there are little things you can hear. He just doesn't care and keeps the performance. "Hold On" has a couple of places where it sounds something falling off of something, or a door closing, or something in the background and there are at least 2 places, can hear what sounds like a "beep". Know it's not a click track.

Lot of others can't think of at the moment.

[VENTGtr]

Ugh, I cant believe I had to listen to some of a Nickelback song again.
The very audible auto-tune mistake is at 1:48.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0DU4DoPP4

Thanks for taking the hit to confirm. I'll take your word for it being there so don't have to listen.

[Jim Price]

VentGtr wrote:

Forget what tune on The Police's first album has THE WORST punch in imaginable, but there wasn't time or cash to fix it.

I know on "Don't Stand So Close to Me," you can hear a guitar being plugged in right at the beginning. They decided to leave it in; I remember them talking about it on an edition of the radio show In The Studio once.

The Police also said the titled their one hit "Da Do Do Do Da Da Da Da" to screw around with radio deejays when they tried to announce it on the air.

[moxham123]

According to Alice Cooper, on the song Be My Lover at the end when you hear a drumstick hitting metal, that was an accident that was left in on purpose.

The drummer, Neal Smith, actually dropped a drumstick and it just so happened to hit his metal cymbal stands in time to the music on the way to falling onto the floor. Well, the band and producer decided to leave it in the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhI_khA8w-I

[H]

This was a topic on Howard Stern a few weeks ago. They were talking about the Eddie Van Halen solo in MJ's "Beat It". According to legend, the knocking right before the solo was a technician trying to enter the room. And in the Police song "Roxanne" the odd piano chord at the beginning of the song was actually Sting accidentally leaning against a piano with the lid open which accounts for the laugh immediately following.

[Blue Reality]

On Led Zep's Since I've been loving you, Bonham's bass drum pedal is squeaking through the entire song. You can really hear it if you listen closely in the beginning. To this day Page says he has a hard time listening to the track because of it.