25 Songs or Albums With Mistakes You’ll Never Unhear

If you’re like most people, you don’t really listen to what you listen to. You might enjoy a face-melting guitar solo, but you can’t really explain the difference between a good song and a bad one, let alone the minute technical discrepancies. A lot of us don’t even listen to the lyrics. That’s how we ended up forming wacky road-trip memories related to songs that are very clearly about crystal meth.

Some people, however, only hear what most of us don’t. Maybe they’re highly skilled musicians, or maybe not so much “musicians” as recording pros, or maybe they’re just vinyl nerds. Whatever the case, when user genecalmer asked r/AskReddit, “Audiophiles of Reddit, what are some popular songs or albums with obvious technical issues most of us would never notice?” they all emerged from their booths to call out the songs we love that sound like fingernails on a chalkboard to them.