Mistakes left in Records…

My favorite (if they have it in the vid) is the piano cacophony and “hahaha…” at the beginning of “Roxanne”.

Sting went to lean against the piano while tape was rolling, the lid wasn’t covering the keys, and they left it in. Once you realize what you’re hearing, you can’t unhear it. :baimun:

 
The only one I knew was Areosmith and that was from the video where Tyler talks about what was going on in the studio that day.
 
Some versions of Eminence Front have a huge vocal clam in it. The guitar intro has a bum note left in too. But its guitar so its "artistry"...
 
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Not sure it counts, but Iron Butterfly's Inna Gotta Davita was originally In the Garden of Eden but the writer was so drunk that when giving the words to the singer, all he could get out was "Inna gotta devita". The band liked that better, so that's how it went on the album.

The drummer flubbed the intro to Lowrider, but the band liked it so they used that take.

Billy Gibbons claims that there was a mouse trapped in the reverb tank during the recording of their first album and that you can hear it squeaking in one song. I personally believe this is just a bit of Gibbons' notorious bullshitting - probably riffing on Buddy Holly's cricket in the wall during his garage recordings.
 
On Megadeth’s cover of “Paranoid” Nick Menza just kept playing at the end of the take. Mustaine had to yell at him to get him to stop. They went ahead and put it on the recording.
 
All You Need is Love has that moment where George mistakingly starts the solo a second time around forgetting that the string moment was coming in, so we get half of a choked bend.

Love is Blindness by U2, the first part of the solo is a take where the Edge broke a string, but it works so well to convey his frustration of his ongoing divorce that they ended up using it. It's disjointed and atonal and just failing, therefore perfect. One of my favorites.
 
I love that the FBI spent a fruitless 31 months trying and failing to find obscenity in the lyrics of the Kingsmen's 'Louie Louie', but overlooked the drummer exclaiming 'fuck!' at 0:54 when he dropped a stick. :bigg:
 
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The phone ringing on "Life On Mars". For many years I thought it was intentional. Either way it's pretty cool, and open-ended.
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Years ago during the recordingfest days at HC I did a collaboration with a guy on vocals doing We Died Young from AIC. He recorded the vocals and left in his phone ringing during the one passage, which sorta ticked me off because we didn't have time before the reveal to mess around, but it actually sounded awesome in the final mix.
 
Monson said:
The phone ringing on "Life On Mars". For many years I thought it was intentional. Either way it's pretty cool, and open-ended.
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There's a few Bowie ones that I wonder how much was intentional and what was accidental. Like Andy Warhol, both the beginning and the end :shrug:
 
The whole Chester and Lester (Chet Atkins and Les Paul) is full of misstarts and clams. The session was supposed to be a practice session, but Les Paul decided it was good enough to release on its own.
 
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