I don’t think that it’s a mistake or unintentional per se, but I love when songs leave talking in, or laughter. It’s just nice.
I guess I think it’s cute! It reminds me that the people recording it are in a room having fun. I also really like surprising, weird little moments in my music, even (especially ?) if they break the expected flow of the song. I get why it would be jarring to some, I loooove that shit though.
You can hear a telephone ring in the background of The Ocean by Led Zeppelin.
The lead in to Good Riddance by Green Day is messing up the opening twice in a row. He even swears after the second fuck up.
It isn’t really special, but there’s the bit in Bohemian Rhapsody where Roger Taylor’s high backing vocal is a bit longer than everyone else’s. I’m pretty sure that was a mistake that was left in, possibly because they couldn’t take it out with the tech they had back then.
couldn’t take it out with the tech they had back then.
I’ve heard that they nearly lost the recording because their tape machine had a minor flaw which scraped away some of the tape and which nearly ate the whole tape because of how much multi track overdubbing they were doing.
I think you’re right, that does sound familiar. Could you imagine accidentally destroying the tapes for BR?!
Just a tad before 3 minutes into ‘Hey Jude’, you can hear someone deep in the mix say, “Oh, bloody hell”.
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That was Paul. He hit a clunker on the piano and said “Fucking Hell!”. John insisted they leave it in. Google F word in Hey Jude.
