25 Songs or Albums With Mistakes You’ll Never Unhear

Jim Morrison burped on a track
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.

NoesHowe2Spel 7y ago You can hear an audible belch from Jim Morrison during Five To One.
Salmonerd_ 7y ago Lonely Boy by The Black Keys. Dan's amplifier has a blown speaker. It's easy to hear in the intro
facial_issues 7y ago On The Zephyr Song by RHCP, when anthony says all the world could pass me by, there's an autotune glitch on the all word.
7y ago New Bermuda by Deafheaven. The snare drum is almost inaudible during the verses of the songs.
monkeyclawattack 7y ago Hey Jude If you listen closely, you can hear Paul McCartney say Fucking Hell just before the 3 minute mark
7y ago Edited 7y ago On I want you (she's so heavy) by the beatles john (paul?) screams at one stage loudly and causes it to distort for a second. In the background someone can be heard saying something like turn it down there
7y ago Jimmy Page flubs a note on Stairway to Heaven. The first 5 notes of the song repeat later in the song. (The whole progression does actually). Не accidentally plucks the first note while muting the string. Sounds more like a click than a note. Once you hear it you cannot not hear it every time.
sideofbutterplease 7y ago The bass drum pedal used on the Houses of the Holy album and some other Led Zepplin songs is squeaky as hell.
7y ago In Shake It Off' by Florence and the Machine she does something like a smokers cough at the three minute mark or just before it.
TinnitusWaves 7y ago There's audible coughing on Who Loves The Sun by The Velvet Underground. It's in the second verse after the Who loves the rain line.
7y ago Peter Hook has already owned up to not understanding tuning in his youth and its most recognizable in Disorder the opening song on the Joy Division LP Unknown Pleasures
jellypeanutbutter 7y ago The breakdown chorus of I Write Sins Not Tragedies When Brendan says I chimed in: 'Haven't you people ever... (you know the part) the haven't is really distorted and weird.
Hob_Boskins 7y ago Miles Davis - Kind of Blue. There's a low level hiss over the entire record due to the sax microphone being faulty. They never bothered to fix or re-record.
SheikDjibouti 7y ago The end of Kirk's solo in Master of Puppets by Metallica has a screwup where he frets the string off the fretboard and onto the body of the guitar. Made a super high squealy note that they left in.
BradC 7y ago The bass track for Metallica's ...And Justice For All is missing. It was basically dropped out of the recording. Give another listen to One (or some of the tracks on that album); there is no bassline.
7y ago This one is pretty obscure. But, there's a song on Van Morrison's album Veedon Fleece that would definitely have benefited from pulling down the volume or tweaking the eq of the vocals. I love the song, but the vocals are a little grating and border on ear bleeding territory.
VendingMachetes 7y ago Taking Back Sunday's Tell All Your Friends has a glaring EQ issue at various points throughout the album. There is a piercing high frequency that shows up over multiple songs. I don't know if my hearing is just really sensitive, but I've always wondered how the engineer missed that.
itsnotlike_that 7y ago M.I.A. - Paper Planes Before every single chorus there's a distinct noise like a popping sound that you can hear. It sounds like they didn't fully cut off the verse and did a sloppy job of adding the hook in too...idk but it's almost bizarre to me that it wasn't fixed.
Haitchpeasauce 7y ago Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody has some fuzzy breakup of the kick drum in the left channel at 2:10 (Goodbye everybody, I've got to go), and some more subtle breakups in other places. It really bugged me and I initially thought my encoding or my CD were flawed, but it shows up in the 2011 remastered version as well. The reason was either a simple issue with the track as it was recorded, or because of the sheer number of multi-tracks being sub-mixed and spliced.
7y ago Hurt by Johnny Cash. Beautiful song, but the second half of the last chorus distorts really badly. The levels have obviously been cranked up to make Johnny's voice sound really loud and booming, but then, when the sound begins to swell at the end of the song, the vocals start to crackle and fizz really noticeably. What makes it worse is that in the final seconds of the song, all the instruments drop out leaving just Johnny's voice which suddenly sounds normal again. The contrast makes the distortion even more evident. Not that I'm surprised... from what
SoreWristed 7y ago Jeff Buckley's album Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk is not mastered. The song Everybody here wants you was a two track recording of a draft they were planning to take into the studio to record. Jeff Buckley died before they could actually record the parts properly. It is widely used by audio techs as a baseline to define the equalising on the audio system, simply because it isn't mastered properly. If you can fix the 'mistakes' on this song, you'll already have solved most problems you'll face without a real soundcheck.
limegreenbunny 7y ago In Mark Morrison's Return of the Mack (don't judge me) there's a part where the woman Mark is singing to responds... She says, Mark, stop lyin' about your big break. In the longer version, she goes on to say, For God's sake, stop putting me down. Stop puting me down! In the shorter radio edit, it's not edited well at all, so if you listen closely you can hear her say, Mark, stop lyin' about your big break. For G-- before she's cut off.
7daysdeath 7y ago In the very beginning of Black Sabbath's Iron Man you can hear what sounds like spit sticking or schlicking between someone's tongue and the roof of their mouth as they open it to breathe or sing. That may not technically be what that noise is but I cant unhear it and it's literally the only reason I don't like listening to that song.
FlutestrapPhil 7y ago In Louie Louie by the Kingsmen you can hear the drummer yell fuck after he drops a stick. Which is funny because the FBI spent several months trying to figure out if there was any obscenity in the song because they couldn't understand the lyrics and some people had reported that they were obscene, and they didn't notice this part.
StarJelly08 7у ago On all nickelback albums they accidentally recorded nickelback. I can't believe they didn't catch that.

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