Released records having musicians or singers mistake

[Zhivko]

I had hard time to formulate this one, but i find it really cool as topic. When we finish, we should have compounded a list of songs having the mistakes of singers or musicians recorded, but released anyway.

Here is something to start:

Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

(The album version begins with guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong playing a wrong note. He begins again, repeats the wrong note, and proclaims "f--k!". Then the actual song begins.)

[_Laurie_]

Interesting I was thinking about that same thing the other day...I was listening to the song Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield and sounds like in one part of the song he starts singing a verse before he was suppose to...I don't know if it was suppose to sound like that, but I always thought it was a mistake...

There's another song I heard that I thought there was a mistake in it....but damn now I can't think of what the other song was...I'll post if it comes to me...lol

[MindCrime]

Michael Jackson's Beat It. Supposedly there is a knock on a glass window by the engineer during Eddie Van Halen's solo that can be heard.

[bluesboy]

Louie Louie - The Kingsmen

After the guitar solo the singer comes back in 1 bar early right after the guitar solo... or the band is late, at the 1:55 mark.

:sing1:

[Crazy Don]

Diana Ross & the Supremes--Love Child

In the intro, the backup singers sing the words "tenement slum" off-cue.

[Skuff]

My favorite website to peruse every so often; I also bought the print version.

What Goes On-The Beatles Anomalies List

Every single Beatles song and every anomaly in them.

[edna]

all I can think of is Bob Dylan starting to sing "I was riding on the Mayflower when I thought I'd spied some land..." without the band.

[bluesboy]

Ah Edna... back in the days when they kept the tape rolling.

[RockyRaccoon]

My favorite is in "Hey Jude". At some point during the original recording, Paul messed up and shouted "Oh f***ing hell". They re-recorded but kept Paul's shouting in the song because John thought it'd be hilarious. They just turned it down really low. It's right before the na na na's. I think it's hilarious that that's there.

[Uncle Joe]

Don't Worry, Be Happy....that had to be a mistake, right? Right?

[Rayzor]

Interesting I was thinking about that same thing the other day...I was listening to the song Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield and sounds like in one part of the song he starts singing a verse before he was suppose to...I don't know if it was suppose to sound like that, but I always thought it was a mistake...

No mistake. It's the bridge and he's supposed to rush into the shortened chorus before the solo starts. If it was the '70's they'd sing the entire chorus and have a longer solo, but the video age of the '80's meant keeping your songs within 3 minutes.

[Carl]

Michael Jackson's Beat It. Supposedly there is a knock on a glass window by the engineer during Eddie Van Halen's solo that can be heard.

That was actually Michael Jackson banging on a drum case - he's even credited on the album as "Drum Case Beater."

One of the biggest musical mistakes was on the song When A Man Loves A Woman by Percy Sledge. Recorded in Alabama, they sent the song to Atlantic Records in New York, and Jerry Wexler sent it back because the horns were out of tune. They got a new horn section and redid it, but somehow the original version - complete with out of tune horns, is the one that got released.

[RockyRaccoon]

From what I understand, the early "I saw her" in "I Saw Her Again" by The Mamas & The Papas was a mistake that they ended up liking and leaving in.

[_Laurie_]

^^^^^ That's the song I heard the other day Rocky and couldn't think of!

Beginning of Sweet Home Alabama...I thought I read or heard somewhere where they say "turn it up" was not suppose to be in there, but left it in...

[Zabadak]

There's a big c0ck-up in I Saw Her Again - The Mama's And The Papa's... :frenchie: