What is your favorite recording with a quirck

Michael Jackson Black or White "Eat This"

Toto Roseanna - 3:31 - The guys all sing "not quite a year since she went away" but someone throws in a "well is it?" as a bit of a joke (is it Jeff Porcaro?) just after away - "not quite a year" obviously being an awkward lyric but necessary to fit the rhythm and deserving a bit of contempt since it is repeaqted so often at the beginning of each chorus!

Mike Porcaro used to date Roseanna Arquette and she would bring the band food at the studio.

The above was a deliberate quirk - here are a few unintended ones....

How about when Tambourine is dropped on the Beatles "I'm Looking through you".

How about on the Dixie Chicks Taking the Long Way Album - great sound but you can hear where they fixed some of the vocals with autotune (a studio software to correct pitch)

Steve Ferrone "More Head", which is a great album for sound btw, but they had a problem with the Hammond about 3 minutes in on Steve's Strut and you can hear the distortion glitches.

Or Nickelback "Rockstar" which is a great tune but has clicks probably from clipping noise throughout.

Or Peter Gabriel's Games without Frontiers where Kate Bush sings so badly in french (or is badly recorded) that everyone thinks she sings "She's so popular" instead of "Jeux sans Frontiers".

On Roxanne - Sting leans on the piano at the start (by mistake) just as he starts the bass playing (it just happens to sounds ok but its actually a mistake)

I could list many more of course as you hear errors all the time and some errors are openly admitted by artists as kind of joke - like John Bonham's squeaky foot pedal.

Sometimes it is hard to tell exactly what it is and to decide if was intentional or not...but you can usually hear a bad splice, bad reverb or a musician error. At the end of the day - with music there is really no such thing as a "perfect take". I think the Beatles has been the on band where this has been studied to excruciating details.

I don't know if there are any U2 fans out there but the UK Walk On Single is played on a entirely different drum set. It is also not as badly compressed as the American verison. In the American version you can actually hear the volume adjustments being made during the song by the mastering engineer - I guess it was so hot that the guy realized he needed to turn it down in the middle to give peoples ears a rest - it is a curious effect becuase it is just as if you yourself turned the volume down a bit in the middle - i.e. it is not musical as it effects everything equally)

Try listening for the first chorus on The Cars Best Friends Girl. The drummer is playing a typical backbeat with snare on 2 and 4....guess what...... he misses the "2" at the start of the 1st chorus completely! HA. HA.

Well I have not heard that Beatles trivia although I am familiar with the swearing in Hey Jude which is quite audible once you know what to look for.

When I was younger I got so used to Vinyl pre-echo that for me it all became part of the song (like it was intentional).

I still expect to hear it on the CD in the overture on Rush 2112 and find it unsettling that it is now removed...amazing how memory is engraved with these things....even the quirky mistakes.

Waifs - A brieff History LIve - "Here if you want" - a beautiful balad is interupted towards the end by a mobile telephone - "turn teh bloody phone off" she yells after the song.