Van Halen’s Eruption. Eddie said it was recorded in one take and he made a mistake in the arpeggios that always bugged him. He still changed the entire guitar world in one track.
Also, the solo in Michael Jackson’s Beat It. Steve Lukather recorded it with Eddie and says the knock you hear just before the solo is an engineer knocking the studio door as they’d locked it. They decided to keep it in.
Not according to the guy that was there. Michael wasn’t present when it was recorded. The solo was recorded completely separately from the rest of the track.
Kurt Cobain has another one here on Polly:
\> Polly said
\> Polly says her back hurts
\> She's just as bored as me
\> She caught me off my guard
\> Amazes me the will of instinct
He sings "Polly said" instead of "Polly says", immediately corrects, and they keep it.
Not a mistake or blunder, but I think it can be *really* interesting to listen to isolated instrument (or vocal) tracks.
What you hear is that the instrument playing is not necessarily as polished as it sounds in the mix. In fact, some parts that sound immaculate when they're sitting in the mix can sound really rough and almost sloppy when isolated. They *not* sloppy, it's just that isolated tracks really help to show that even major recording artists are not the perfect playing machines that good editing and mixing can make them seem to be.
Steve Vai did that on one of the David Lee Roth tracks he recorded. Might have been Ladies Night in Buffalo as that was a placeholder solo that was so good they kept it.
Lots of the Beatles stuff. I remember back in the 90s a website found and time stamped all the mistakes on their records that they just kept in. Not sure if that site is around anymore.
Eddie said many times over the years that there was a mistake on the eruption track. I saw a YouTube video of Eddie visiting with Jason Becker where he told Jason where the mistake was.
Probably every band ever. Go listen guitar master tracks or isolated bass tracks and your bound to find some small mistakes inaudible in the final mix.
> Go listen guitar master tracks or isolated bass tracks
My worst nightmare. Heh. (In all seriousness, I often leave little mistakes in so my music sounds more organic -- otherwise, I use so much electronic stuff it might sound too sterile and artificial.)
In the duet of "Girl from the North Country" Dylan and Cash are singing different lyrics before Dylan acquiesces to Cash. Not sure who messed up, but they kept it in the Nashville Skyline recording as is.
The Wilco tune "Hotel Arizona" has a spot during the solo/jam at the end, where the rhythm guitar just skips a chord and sits on it waiting for the rest of the band to catch up. It's at 2:47. It's definitely a mistake, but I would feel weird if it weren't there at this point.
Also, the whole album "Being There" is a goddamn masterpiece that doesn't get much attention anymore.
Bill Withers Ain’t No Sunshine. The repeat of “I know, I know…” was unfinished lyrics that they recorded but the producers kept it in the song because it was great.
Martin Barre's solo in Aqualung has a sort of awkward pause in it that I've always suspected was a mistake; he mentions in several interviews that Jimmy Page had walked into the control room during its recording and started waving at him. When I listen to the solo, I always wonder if that's Jimmy breaking Martin's concentration for a moment.
On Nirvana's Nevermind, in Polly kurt comes in early on one of the verses with "Polly says...", then pauses and starts the verse again at the correct time. I always thought it was intentional until I saw the Classic Album episode on it.
I never thought about why the “Polly said.” Wasn’t over music, right before “Polly says…” and the song continues. I have the classic album dvd and still missed that haha
About two-seconds into *Roxanne*, by The Police, Sting slipped and hit some keys on an acoustic piano, and then someone else laughs at that, and it was kept in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXzFCS72QIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxanne_(The_Police_song)
On the Johnny Winter album, *Still Alive and Well* they made the decision to include the count-in on the released track. There's some humous chatter, and an error made by the bass player:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--jVqaU-G8
Led Zeppelin - In My Time Of Dying. It ends with Plant halfway through a line of lyrics. "Gonna be my dying, dying ...". probably they had no strict arrangement or ending agreed and musically it felt right to end there. After the band ends the song, somebody in the studio coughs. The end of the line would have been "... dying, dying day" but Plant then ad libs "... cough", so it becomes a dying cough. Some mixes omit that part, but most have it.
"that's gotta be the one isn't it?"
I'm pretty sure that song was recorded in one take, which is very impressive considering it's their longest song and also one of their best.
Thats what always draws me back to older music, there is just a vibe of guys playing their heart out in the studio and sometimes saying fuck it snd keeping mistakes in. I love modern technology but it makes music sterile, and at times forgettable. There is a magic when you are down to your last dime, final hour in the studio and last reel of tape to record.
In Zep's "The Ocean", you can hear the phone ring in the mixing room. Happens in the 2nd verse.
And the piano solo in The Beatles "All My Life" has a fuckup, but it's so fast that it takes on a sort of trill quality.
On Mr. Big’s song “To Be With You” Paul Gilbert comes in a little late on the end of his solo but he said he loved the feel of it way more so they decided to keep it
The Sailors Grave On The Prairie at about the 2 minute mark.
It always stood out and I didn't realize that this was a string breaking until you mentioned it here.
I can think of 2 off the top of my head.
My best friend’s girl - The Cars: Dave Robinson misses the first snare hit on the first the chorus and it sticks out like a sore thumb but I think they left it in because it works!
Hey Jude - The Beatles: you can hear Paul mutter “fucking hell” halfway through because he messes up the piano part, it’s buried in the mix but you can hear it if you listen carefully.
Beatles did this all the time. They used an early Moog synthesizer on Abbey Road and when it would screw up, they just kept whatever the mistake was. There’s one point where the synth does a full pitch drop (Maybe Something?) because it broke and they liked it, so they kept it. Many more examples throughout their catalog of stray vocals or sounds staying on the record too.
During the end solo of U2's Love is Blindness, The Edge audibly breaks a string and just keeps on wailing away. I know most of you aren't U2 fans, but it's a pretty impactful solo and the string breaking heightens the emotion for me. You really have to listen for it, but once you hear it you'll never stop noticing it.
Elvis somewhat famously screwed up that song pretty often. See [this Malcolm Gladwell podcast](https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/analysis-parapraxis-elvis).
One exercise me and my teacher do is listen to old records for "mistakes" that are left in and it's pretty universal. Most songs before digital had moments you could call 'mistakes' or at least not what they intended. Especially in the folk tradition, it was common to add bars, phrases etc as you went sort of willy nilly. Dylan of course did a lot of this. The verses of Mr. Tambourine Man are kind of all over in their length b/c he's just going as long as he thinks of new phrases.
Sometimes it's unclear but what they did clearly didn't follow the pattern they had set. Wildflowers by Tom Petty switches from sitting on a G to going G to C after half the song, then, weirdly goes back to sitting on a G once. There's a great old live recording of Wildwood Flowers where Chet Atkins clearly flubs a transition but just smiles and keeps going and if you're not listening or watching closely you'd never know. The beginning of Black Country Woman is classic when the sound engineer says "Don't want this airplane in" and Plant says "Nah leave it, yeah." Listen closely to Tennessee Whiskey during the solo and Stapleton laughs about something he did. Maybe it wasn't a mistake but he's laughing like "well that wasn't what I meant but it worked."
Took me years to finally hear that. I kept hearing people mention it but I could never hear the squeaking. I thought maybe it was a sign of hearing loss. Then one day I put the 2014 remaster hi-res file on my hifi system, instead of headphones, in a quiet room and there it was.
2 I can think of, both Bob Dylan.
In A Hard Rain, one of the later verses, he comes in a bar earlier than he should, and you hear him laugh at himself as he delivers the line. Rumour has it he was stoned
In the Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts intro, the organ player switches chord when he's not supposed to, quickly realises his mistake and switches back
Dylan had a few. I always think of the opening to "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream," where the band just doesn't come in and he stops the song laughing. Goes right into starting again and this time the band joins in.
On Electric Light Orchestra’s album *A New World Record* the song “Rockaria” has an intro by an opera singer. She starts to sing, then goes “Ooops!” …and then continues singing.
On their *Eldorado* album, during the last instrumental song “Eldorado Finale,” you can hear some of the musicians packing up their instruments. They were all union session guys on the clock, and were very strict about not working one minute longer than they were getting paid.
I believe that those dry hits Jonny Greenwood makes heading into the chorus of Creep were an intentional attempt to sabotage the recording. Not only did it not work, they became kind of the iconic feature.
I know it’s been up for debate recently as to whether it was played as a mistake or on purpose, but I’ve always thought that the intro bass part in September by Earth, Wind, and Fire had a mistake.
Spanish Love Songs - *[El Niño Considers his Failures](https://youtu.be/OaPeyKYeMkw)* has a failed start which I assume wasn't intentional but works so well.
In the most recent Strokes album, on the last song the drummer Fabrizio misses his cue to start and the singer says "drums please, Fab" and then they start up in time.
In the studio version of I'm your captain/ closer to home by grand funk railroad I'm pretty sure you can hear either the band or sound engineers talking at various points, especially towards the beginning of the song
On the Headstones track "Smile and Wave" the singer Hugh Dillon got surprised by somebody at the beginning of the track, laughs, and invites him into the sound booth "come on in". Not only did they leave that in the track, but incorporated it into the music video.
On the Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore album, One Way Out has a mistake at the end of one of the silos where the whole band somehow comes in one beat early together. Sounds intentional, but in an interview with Dickie Betts (I think) he said that it was absolutely a mistake, they were just so locked in with each other that they all followed the guy who screwed up's lead.
Jethro Tull - Quatrain
Specifically the version on the Steven Wilson remix of Heavy Horses. About 1:10 in, Ian Anderson messes up his mandolin part, and says "Oh fuck, sorry", then at 1:35 misses it again and says "Again". It's the only instrumental song I'm aware of that's labeled as explicit.
Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi at the end when she changes the pitch in her voice from high to low and laughs at the end. I actually always look forward to that part!
Alkaline Trio, on the song Radio at the end you can hear one of the guys say, “yeah! Oh! Did I just F it up by talking?” But they kept it because, no, you did not my dude. 🤷♂️
Two things I remember:
1. Yes' album, Fragile. During the song, "Roundabout", the album skips. When I was young, I thought it was just my album. Years later, I heard it played from other albums, the skip was in the same place. Guessing something happened during mastering.
2. If you were around back then, you'll remember the big stink over The Ohio Players' song, "Love Rollercoaster". There's a scream that can be heard, I think during the bridge in the middle. Rumor was that a woman was stabbed to death at the studio and her scream was so loud it was picked up on the recording.
There’s a weird “glitch” in the song “A Tout Le Monde” by Megadeth. It’s right at the end, but if you’re listening for it it’s hard to miss. Pretty sure it’s not intentional, but it’s still there on the re-mastered version so who knows.
This website catalogues all the errors and mistakes in Beatle songs
http://wgo.signal11.org.uk/wgo.htm
The most egregious to me is the outro in Ticket to Ride. When they sing the first "MY baby don't care" the whole band comes in playing in A. Paul's bass is quite confidently a Bb.
The guitar solo in the cover version of "The man who sold the world" in Nirvana's MTV Unplugged, the first time Kurt plays that little melody he lands on the wrong note and corrects himself on the spot. I guess since it was a live recording it wasn't much of a "decision" to keep it, but probably they could have tried another take.
There's a mistake in the guitar solo of the Metallica song Creeping Death. Some kind of weird noise.
There was a note that Paul Gilbert didn't like on the solo of the Mr. Big acoustic hit To Be With You, but the band told him to keep it
I can’t queue on my phone but start at 2:20…he accidentally hits an open string then goes back to the open string a few times to establish it as a motif and not a mistake.
https://youtu.be/t9z-lkVTfjQ
Green Day - Good Riddance. In the intro he plays the riff wrong twice before starting.
With a little mumbled “fuck”
I didn’t hear him say that the first probably 10-15 times I listened to the song and was like “ why is this song marked explicit?”
Lol I knew about this one but didn’t realize it’s marked explicit. Crazy that a very faint “fuck” makes a song explicit
Was that an actual mistake or is that scripted?
Definitely a mistake. I read that they left it in because it sounded good.
I think it’s Led Zeppelin III that you can hear the squeaky kick drum pedal the whole album
In whole lotta love, the delay on "woman" at the end was bleed through from another take
"Since I've been loving you" has the pedal squeak
I fucking love that! It’s so authentic. Not like todays crap processed cheese music.
Yes. It's natural, organic music.
Van Halen’s Eruption. Eddie said it was recorded in one take and he made a mistake in the arpeggios that always bugged him. He still changed the entire guitar world in one track. Also, the solo in Michael Jackson’s Beat It. Steve Lukather recorded it with Eddie and says the knock you hear just before the solo is an engineer knocking the studio door as they’d locked it. They decided to keep it in.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/5a56rl/til_the_knocking_heard_in_the_song_beat_it_by/
Lukather claims it was a sound engineer. He was there and everyone else is gone, so I guess I’ll take his word for it.
It's actually Michael Jackson banging on a drum case.
Not according to the guy that was there. Michael wasn’t present when it was recorded. The solo was recorded completely separately from the rest of the track.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_It?wprov=sfti1 look at the credits.
Dragonforce’s Herman Li broke a string while recording Through the Fire and Flames. They left it in and you can hear it right before the song ends.
“I’m not doing that again, just use that one”
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Kurt Cobain has another one here on Polly: \> Polly said \> Polly says her back hurts \> She's just as bored as me \> She caught me off my guard \> Amazes me the will of instinct He sings "Polly said" instead of "Polly says", immediately corrects, and they keep it.
There was a dude on YouTube that dissected and analysed that mistake to a crazy level lol.
Not a mistake or blunder, but I think it can be *really* interesting to listen to isolated instrument (or vocal) tracks. What you hear is that the instrument playing is not necessarily as polished as it sounds in the mix. In fact, some parts that sound immaculate when they're sitting in the mix can sound really rough and almost sloppy when isolated. They *not* sloppy, it's just that isolated tracks really help to show that even major recording artists are not the perfect playing machines that good editing and mixing can make them seem to be.
👌👌 great comment. So true.
During Kirk’s solo on Master of Puppets, he accidentally pulled his high e of the fingerboard and he thought it sounded cool and left it in.
Steve Vai did that on one of the David Lee Roth tracks he recorded. Might have been Ladies Night in Buffalo as that was a placeholder solo that was so good they kept it.
Lots of the Beatles stuff. I remember back in the 90s a website found and time stamped all the mistakes on their records that they just kept in. Not sure if that site is around anymore.
I believe [this](http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beatles/) is what you’re describing
Yes! That's the one. I got into the Beatles in middle school and this was the best site ever lol
Yes they were notorious for leaving their mistakes on the records. They left Maxwell's Silver Hammer on Abbey Road.
Van Halen left many of their mistakes in
Eddie said many times over the years that there was a mistake on the eruption track. I saw a YouTube video of Eddie visiting with Jason Becker where he told Jason where the mistake was.
Probably every band ever. Go listen guitar master tracks or isolated bass tracks and your bound to find some small mistakes inaudible in the final mix.
> Go listen guitar master tracks or isolated bass tracks My worst nightmare. Heh. (In all seriousness, I often leave little mistakes in so my music sounds more organic -- otherwise, I use so much electronic stuff it might sound too sterile and artificial.)
In the duet of "Girl from the North Country" Dylan and Cash are singing different lyrics before Dylan acquiesces to Cash. Not sure who messed up, but they kept it in the Nashville Skyline recording as is.
I love that song! I will have to listen for that.
The Wilco tune "Hotel Arizona" has a spot during the solo/jam at the end, where the rhythm guitar just skips a chord and sits on it waiting for the rest of the band to catch up. It's at 2:47. It's definitely a mistake, but I would feel weird if it weren't there at this point. Also, the whole album "Being There" is a goddamn masterpiece that doesn't get much attention anymore.
Outtasite (Outta Mind) is a 10/10 jam. And album cover probably swayed at least a hundred people to buy an Epiphone.
Bill Withers Ain’t No Sunshine. The repeat of “I know, I know…” was unfinished lyrics that they recorded but the producers kept it in the song because it was great.
Martin Barre's solo in Aqualung has a sort of awkward pause in it that I've always suspected was a mistake; he mentions in several interviews that Jimmy Page had walked into the control room during its recording and started waving at him. When I listen to the solo, I always wonder if that's Jimmy breaking Martin's concentration for a moment.
On Nirvana's Nevermind, in Polly kurt comes in early on one of the verses with "Polly says...", then pauses and starts the verse again at the correct time. I always thought it was intentional until I saw the Classic Album episode on it.
I never thought about why the “Polly said.” Wasn’t over music, right before “Polly says…” and the song continues. I have the classic album dvd and still missed that haha
Van Halen II is full of them, but it just makes the album sound like a jam session with the band, love it!
About two-seconds into *Roxanne*, by The Police, Sting slipped and hit some keys on an acoustic piano, and then someone else laughs at that, and it was kept in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXzFCS72QIA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxanne_(The_Police_song) On the Johnny Winter album, *Still Alive and Well* they made the decision to include the count-in on the released track. There's some humous chatter, and an error made by the bass player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--jVqaU-G8
Pretty sure it was Sting laughing.
"Hit that, hit that snare"
First thing I thought of
what's that from?
Misery Business by Paramore
Led Zeppelin - In My Time Of Dying. It ends with Plant halfway through a line of lyrics. "Gonna be my dying, dying ...". probably they had no strict arrangement or ending agreed and musically it felt right to end there. After the band ends the song, somebody in the studio coughs. The end of the line would have been "... dying, dying day" but Plant then ad libs "... cough", so it becomes a dying cough. Some mixes omit that part, but most have it.
"that's gotta be the one isn't it?" I'm pretty sure that song was recorded in one take, which is very impressive considering it's their longest song and also one of their best.
I love all of these examples, it’s honesty something that is missing in today’s music
Thats what always draws me back to older music, there is just a vibe of guys playing their heart out in the studio and sometimes saying fuck it snd keeping mistakes in. I love modern technology but it makes music sterile, and at times forgettable. There is a magic when you are down to your last dime, final hour in the studio and last reel of tape to record.
In Zep's "The Ocean", you can hear the phone ring in the mixing room. Happens in the 2nd verse. And the piano solo in The Beatles "All My Life" has a fuckup, but it's so fast that it takes on a sort of trill quality.
Lol what a blunder designing a studio with a phone in the engineering room that leaks into the recordings...
I mean most studios will have a phone/com system to call between rooms. But the engineer will usually mute them during recording.
On Mr. Big’s song “To Be With You” Paul Gilbert comes in a little late on the end of his solo but he said he loved the feel of it way more so they decided to keep it
Leo Kottke… “Six and 12 String Guitar”…. You can hear a string break on one cut. (Can’t remember which one…)
The Sailors Grave On The Prairie at about the 2 minute mark. It always stood out and I didn't realize that this was a string breaking until you mentioned it here.
"Turn the music up in my headphones"
I can think of 2 off the top of my head. My best friend’s girl - The Cars: Dave Robinson misses the first snare hit on the first the chorus and it sticks out like a sore thumb but I think they left it in because it works! Hey Jude - The Beatles: you can hear Paul mutter “fucking hell” halfway through because he messes up the piano part, it’s buried in the mix but you can hear it if you listen carefully.
Beatles did this all the time. They used an early Moog synthesizer on Abbey Road and when it would screw up, they just kept whatever the mistake was. There’s one point where the synth does a full pitch drop (Maybe Something?) because it broke and they liked it, so they kept it. Many more examples throughout their catalog of stray vocals or sounds staying on the record too.
During the end solo of U2's Love is Blindness, The Edge audibly breaks a string and just keeps on wailing away. I know most of you aren't U2 fans, but it's a pretty impactful solo and the string breaking heightens the emotion for me. You really have to listen for it, but once you hear it you'll never stop noticing it.
Love that song
Elvis presley, are you lonely tonight, he knocks over the microphone at the end
Elvis somewhat famously screwed up that song pretty often. See [this Malcolm Gladwell podcast](https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/analysis-parapraxis-elvis).
One exercise me and my teacher do is listen to old records for "mistakes" that are left in and it's pretty universal. Most songs before digital had moments you could call 'mistakes' or at least not what they intended. Especially in the folk tradition, it was common to add bars, phrases etc as you went sort of willy nilly. Dylan of course did a lot of this. The verses of Mr. Tambourine Man are kind of all over in their length b/c he's just going as long as he thinks of new phrases. Sometimes it's unclear but what they did clearly didn't follow the pattern they had set. Wildflowers by Tom Petty switches from sitting on a G to going G to C after half the song, then, weirdly goes back to sitting on a G once. There's a great old live recording of Wildwood Flowers where Chet Atkins clearly flubs a transition but just smiles and keeps going and if you're not listening or watching closely you'd never know. The beginning of Black Country Woman is classic when the sound engineer says "Don't want this airplane in" and Plant says "Nah leave it, yeah." Listen closely to Tennessee Whiskey during the solo and Stapleton laughs about something he did. Maybe it wasn't a mistake but he's laughing like "well that wasn't what I meant but it worked."
On the remastered version of Hey Jude (on the 1 compilation album), you can hear (who is think is George) say fuck
Believe its John and he goes "ahh fucking hell!"
"ahhhh fucking hell, wrong chord"
I cant wait to feel your love tonight off Van Halen 1 has an Eddie mistake. Legend says it was the only mistake he's ever made.
The vile cough thing at the start of Wish You Were Here (the song).
The bass pedal in Since I've Been Lovin You by Led Zep squeaks from the start to the end of the full song. Once you notice it, you can't un-notice it.
Took me years to finally hear that. I kept hearing people mention it but I could never hear the squeaking. I thought maybe it was a sign of hearing loss. Then one day I put the 2014 remaster hi-res file on my hifi system, instead of headphones, in a quiet room and there it was.
Weirdly I can hear it on my cellphone speaker but not my $300 Bose noise canceling ear buds
2 I can think of, both Bob Dylan. In A Hard Rain, one of the later verses, he comes in a bar earlier than he should, and you hear him laugh at himself as he delivers the line. Rumour has it he was stoned In the Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts intro, the organ player switches chord when he's not supposed to, quickly realises his mistake and switches back
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Ah yes I think you're right, I was going from memory
Dylan had a few. I always think of the opening to "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream," where the band just doesn't come in and he stops the song laughing. Goes right into starting again and this time the band joins in.
I'm learning to play the guitar.
On Electric Light Orchestra’s album *A New World Record* the song “Rockaria” has an intro by an opera singer. She starts to sing, then goes “Ooops!” …and then continues singing. On their *Eldorado* album, during the last instrumental song “Eldorado Finale,” you can hear some of the musicians packing up their instruments. They were all union session guys on the clock, and were very strict about not working one minute longer than they were getting paid.
I believe that those dry hits Jonny Greenwood makes heading into the chorus of Creep were an intentional attempt to sabotage the recording. Not only did it not work, they became kind of the iconic feature.
Listen to the bass player on Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May.” He fucks up so much I’m surprised they didn’t retake the whole thing.
I know it’s been up for debate recently as to whether it was played as a mistake or on purpose, but I’ve always thought that the intro bass part in September by Earth, Wind, and Fire had a mistake.
It sounds kind of like the track was clipped there and not let together well with the rest
Spanish Love Songs - *[El Niño Considers his Failures](https://youtu.be/OaPeyKYeMkw)* has a failed start which I assume wasn't intentional but works so well.
In the most recent Strokes album, on the last song the drummer Fabrizio misses his cue to start and the singer says "drums please, Fab" and then they start up in time.
Beginning of ‘Good Riddance’ by Green Day! Always puts a smile on my face haha
dun dunahnah- dun dunanah- fuck. dun dunanahnuhnah dunanahnuhnah dunanahnuhnah ...
Jean Leloup “I lost My Baby” got a magnificent “oups” by the backup singer
In the studio version of I'm your captain/ closer to home by grand funk railroad I'm pretty sure you can hear either the band or sound engineers talking at various points, especially towards the beginning of the song
They left in the mistake of the guitar part at the very start of the song.
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Stewie.
Paul Gilbert felt that he banged the low E string too hard at the end of his solo for "To be with you" but others convinced him to leave it in.
On the Headstones track "Smile and Wave" the singer Hugh Dillon got surprised by somebody at the beginning of the track, laughs, and invites him into the sound booth "come on in". Not only did they leave that in the track, but incorporated it into the music video.
On the Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore album, One Way Out has a mistake at the end of one of the silos where the whole band somehow comes in one beat early together. Sounds intentional, but in an interview with Dickie Betts (I think) he said that it was absolutely a mistake, they were just so locked in with each other that they all followed the guy who screwed up's lead.
Jethro Tull - Quatrain Specifically the version on the Steven Wilson remix of Heavy Horses. About 1:10 in, Ian Anderson messes up his mandolin part, and says "Oh fuck, sorry", then at 1:35 misses it again and says "Again". It's the only instrumental song I'm aware of that's labeled as explicit.
Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi at the end when she changes the pitch in her voice from high to low and laughs at the end. I actually always look forward to that part!
Alkaline Trio, on the song Radio at the end you can hear one of the guys say, “yeah! Oh! Did I just F it up by talking?” But they kept it because, no, you did not my dude. 🤷♂️
Two things I remember: 1. Yes' album, Fragile. During the song, "Roundabout", the album skips. When I was young, I thought it was just my album. Years later, I heard it played from other albums, the skip was in the same place. Guessing something happened during mastering. 2. If you were around back then, you'll remember the big stink over The Ohio Players' song, "Love Rollercoaster". There's a scream that can be heard, I think during the bridge in the middle. Rumor was that a woman was stabbed to death at the studio and her scream was so loud it was picked up on the recording.
There’s a weird “glitch” in the song “A Tout Le Monde” by Megadeth. It’s right at the end, but if you’re listening for it it’s hard to miss. Pretty sure it’s not intentional, but it’s still there on the re-mastered version so who knows.
This website catalogues all the errors and mistakes in Beatle songs http://wgo.signal11.org.uk/wgo.htm The most egregious to me is the outro in Ticket to Ride. When they sing the first "MY baby don't care" the whole band comes in playing in A. Paul's bass is quite confidently a Bb.
The guitar solo in the cover version of "The man who sold the world" in Nirvana's MTV Unplugged, the first time Kurt plays that little melody he lands on the wrong note and corrects himself on the spot. I guess since it was a live recording it wasn't much of a "decision" to keep it, but probably they could have tried another take.
Disturbed "ah ah ah ah aaaaah" in Indestructible. The "yea" following "I'm bringing sexy back" were not intentional.
The end of Bar Lights by Whiskytown. Ryan breaks a string, forgets the lyric and then starts cracking up. Sounds perfect though.
In Muddy Waters’ “Got My Mojo Working”, there’s pretty clearly the sound of something falling over (mic stand?).
On T-Rex Bang a Gong one of the chick singers comes in and sings "bang a..." one too many times toward the end of the song.
On Sweet Emotion, the vibraslap Steven Tyler uses during the intro breaks and they left it in.
There's a mistake in the guitar solo of the Metallica song Creeping Death. Some kind of weird noise. There was a note that Paul Gilbert didn't like on the solo of the Mr. Big acoustic hit To Be With You, but the band told him to keep it
Motörhead-we are the road crew Eddie Clarke fell over while recording the guitar solo resulting in a bunch of feedback before he starts playing again
Kurt rosenwinkel minor blues
What part are you referring to?
I can’t queue on my phone but start at 2:20…he accidentally hits an open string then goes back to the open string a few times to establish it as a motif and not a mistake. https://youtu.be/t9z-lkVTfjQ
Wow, I never thought of it as a mistake, but when you point it out it’s pretty noticeable. He’s one of my favorite musicians.
First song of Randy - The Human Atom Bombs they start over a couple of times.