Recording goofs
ladyday
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You know, those moments in songs that you listen for that are not part of the song, like mistakes, miscues or other randomness caught on tape.I always listen for that part on "Fingertips, Pt. 2" right after the false ending when Stevie starts up again, you can hear one of the musicians shout "What key? What key?"
I also love when Ella Fitzgerald breaks into a laugh on "It Don't Mean a Thing". That always makes me smile.
And the end of the Who's "Happy Jack" when Townsend yells at Keith Moon "I saw ya!" I've heard different accounts as to what he was referring to there.
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I also love when Ella Fitzgerald breaks into a laugh on "It Don't Mean a Thing". That always makes me smile.
And the end of the Who's "Happy Jack" when Townsend yells at Keith Moon "I saw ya!" I've heard different accounts as to what he was referring to there.
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there's some weird noise in the middle of "Just My Imagination" that sounds like someone stepping on a light bulb, I've always wondered what was up with that.
also there's a bit of a false start in the middle of "There Goes My Baby" but Ben E. covers it well...unless it's supposed to be like that.
I also love it on the Beastie Boy's "Girls" how at one point you can hear the guys cracking up while they're doing the "Bah bah bhas" in the background.
i guess dude realized them fools were doin it and he faded out too early
(Poll: Did your girl Janet "dilute the brand," though, by crying at the end of "Again"? I think she did maybe a little.)
Lotsa Wu stuff: Method Man trying to get the timing right at the start of "C.R.E.A.M.", Deck's fed-up "Poisonous...poisonous..." at the start of whatever that is on Cuban Linus, dudes fucking up under the streetlamp on "Daytona 500," and on and on.
The squeaky bass pedal in "Dap Walk."
Not really really, but that one dude (he introduces himself as "The Original Rap Editor"--I have no idea what the fuck that means) on the answering machine at the start of Nice and Smooth's "Get Fucked Up": "Givin' a shout out to my seed, my only one--my one and only seed...Damn, I been smokin' mad weed." The icing on the pie is the fact that even with the fuck-up it still comes out rhyming.
Billy Ficca's accidental break at the end of "Marquee Moon"
The dubby little whoosh of the tape machine starting a second after the band in the Beginning Of The End's "In The Deep."
James Brown gets the Irving G. Thalberg for refusing to acknowledge the fourth wall: "Now, Mister Engineer, we're gonna do something funny right here, but keep the tape rolling..." (And yet I always thought Tribe was kinda corny with all that "Bob Power, you there?" shit--go figure. Conversely, Tip's "Fuck it, 'cause I know I didn't make it fuckin' rhyme for real" on the Beastie Boys thing is okay, where Cannibal Ox dude catching himself using the same rhyme twice and then going back to correct it is mad corn. Again, go figure.)
Maybe my favorite shit ever, though: Chuck D's verses running alternately long and short on "Welcome To The Terrordome." Unstoppable.
when they bring in the backing vocals it seems to jump a little, or loose a beat or something
On the Psych LP by Ill Wind there is a dropout on the cut "High Flying Bird" on most copies.....if you fins a copy that has a serated edge(like a U.S. dime) it will not have this dropout.
The Billy Joel LP "Cold Spring Harbor" was mastered at the wrong speed making BJ sound like a drunk, baritone chipmunk.
The psych/jazz LP by Dirty John's Hot Dog Stand has a skip on both promo and stock copies.
Ha ha, yeah. There's also a huge miscue after the guitar solo where the lead singer comes in a full measure too early and then stops.
Another Billy Joel one, on "Don't Ask Me Why" he sings don't "axe" me why in one of the verses.
This makes me think about the "zuh-zuh-zuh" verse in "Planet Rock", which wasn't a recording goof but a stage goof (forgotten verse) that went over so well that they recorded it that way... or so the story goes.
Here are some recordings "goofs" that I've noted:
1. On "First Impressions" by the Ohio Players, Marshall Jones's bass guitar is flat throughout the whole LP.
2. On "Better at Home" by Jill Scott, she coughs near the end of the song, which sounded like it was due to her straining a bit vocally.
3. On "Lie No. 2" by Shades of Brown, the lead singer is flat on the bridge part and the background vocals are badly off key.
4. The drummer rushes the tempo badly during the guitar solo on "Darkness" by The Soul Survivors.
5. On "Soulsville" by Titus Lee Turner, the tempo of the recording speeds up and slows down, as indicated by a sharp changes in pitch at various points in the song.
6. Greg Nice says, "I say Muhammad Ali, you say Classius Clay" on Dwyck.
7. Tips says, "On the Jungle Brothers alblum " on "The Promo".
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
HA! My copy of this LP is VG minus minus minus, so I always thought that
was just a really bad condition-based flaw ... now I can upgrade to
VG minus minus!
I also always get a kick when funk groups would edit in drum breaks in the middle of the song but the edited kit sounds nothing like the drum kit in the rest of the song. Alot of times it totally breaks the flow of the music.
example?
the last track on one side of donald byrd's "blackbyrd" lp comes to mind
Drum break definitely sounds "punched in"....
This makes me think of "Zimba Ku".