Things you hear in Songs / songs that were not meant to be

[hillbillyjazzer1954]

for example....on Ma Kellys Greasy Spoon by Status Quo there are two songs, Spinnin` Wheel Blues and Lazy Poker Blues, if listen very carefully you can hear a squeaky drum pedal wich imo adds to the nice warm live in the studio feeling of this album

there is also another song called Milkman Blues wich, i think was on a John Mayall Blues breakers Album (Bluesbreaker will correct me if i am wrong) where the band were waiting for a few seconds after a take and the milkman came in and put the crate down with a rattle and the band started jamming on a very nice barrellhouse boogie it wasnt meant to be but it made the album (with the sound of the Milkman) and again imo it was brilliant it just added to the nice warm atmosphere of that live in the studio feel

 

[Bomber]

Apparently during the extended ending of 'Hey Jude', John Lennon drops a tamborine and briefly exclaimed "Fooking 'ell!"

Could be an urban myth though.

 

[Dr Crane]

At the start of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for you can hear what sounds like a kick drum being kicked before the song starts.

 

[Raider_69]

immediately before justin timberlakes latest pile of sh*t, you can faintly hear the sounds of someone necking themself

 

[Once Dead]

Vengeance Rising, a cult Christian thrash band (Yes, CHRISTIAN THRASH) who's singer is now a Satanist, go figure, during the track 'Burn', intentionally leaves a vocal mistake on the track in which he (vocalist) comes in wanting to start the verse (which shouldn't be sung again anyway) and sings half the line before realising and stopping.

Same stuff goes for 'Can't get out' which includes the intro comment to the song "Somebody's waiting on the phone for ya, and I can't, I can't, I can't get out!". According to Doug Theime, "Larry (guitarist) was recording himself while he was learning a couple riffs from Creedence Clear Water Revival, and Larry's brother Elmer was trying to leave, and Larry had someone on the phone for him, and he was parked behind Elmers van. I wrote the entire song based upon that tape, so it was fitting to have it start the song." (quote taken from the Official Once Dead forum / nolifetilmetal.com)

 

[Tom Shines]

In Rock Lobster by the B52's I like the random electronic sound during an instrumental.

 

[Azkatro]

Something I've always heard in Killing Yourself To Live by Black Sabbath. In the third "section" of the song, the bit where it speeds up, have a listen at about 4m30.. you hear something in the background that sounds well.. it's hard to explain what on earth it sounds like, if you imagined taking a sound effect of a bird tweeting and repeating it quickly while gradually slowing down the playback, that's what it sounds like. If you've got the MP3 have a listen, I've found it's there in both the old CD, in compilations and the remastered version of the album.

 

[strewth_mate]

I've heard that at the end of the Beatles' 'A Day in the Life', when the four of them sit down at the piano and play that big chord, while it fades away you can faintly hear the fans in the studio blowing in the background. That'd give it a nice feeling of being in the studio too.

Also I found it nice at the beginning of 'Alberta' on the Eric Clapton MTV Unplugged album, he plays the first few notes, stops and says 'whoa hang on hang on hang on...' A bit of laughter from the band and audience and they start the song again. I always thought he'd buggered up somewhere, but in the tab book I got of the album it actually includes these first few notes, and him stopping, then notes *removes slide from finger*. Nice touch I thought.

 

[Knightmare]

At the very end of 'Hole in the river' by Crowded House a woman is singing in an opera voice, as the song fades out she goes for a high note and you can hear her voice break :lol: Also in 'Don't start me talking' by Paul Kelly I swear you can hear what sounds like a stepladder squeak in the background near the beginning of the song.

 

[HevyDevy]

It's not a song but I do enjoy the scene in Star Wars where R2D2 tells C3PO to "Get f**ked".

 

[madunit]

In a Jimmy Barnes song (Can't recall the title, but its on his first album after his greatest hits one) There is a telephone ringing. Its hard to pick up because the cycles that the phones ring at is almost the same as the rhythm of the song.

Once you hear it though, it sticks out like dogs balls.

At the end of Queen's One Vision, Instead of singing what everyone believed for some time was them singing "One vision" is actually "Fried Chicken"

 

[Nuke]

At the end of Queen's One Vision, Instead of singing what everyone believed for some time was them singing "One vision" is actually "Fried Chicken"

I have never doubted that the final line is 'Fried Chicken'. I didn't realise people actually mistook it for 'One Vision' (as per the rest of the song). It's a funny thing that they decided to do, but I wouldn't say it's un-noticable.

I've read a few times that when Freddie Mercury's personal assistant Peter Freestone (who prior to working for Freddie was working in opera) was teaching Freddie about opera, and giving him tapes of orchestras and operas, Freddie got a real kick out of hearing pages being turned and wooden seats scraping along the wooden floor-boards of the studio, ect. He would hear them, then rewind the tape to hear it again!

Personally, I have always enjoyed hearing singers take a breath between lines. I don't know why. I guess it just makes them more human.

 

[millersnose]

Something I've always heard in Killing Yourself To Live by Black Sabbath. In the third "section" of the song, the bit where it speeds up, have a listen at about 4m30.. you hear something in the background that sounds well.. it's hard to explain what on earth it sounds like, if you imagined taking a sound effect of a bird tweeting and repeating it quickly while gradually slowing down the playback, that's what it sounds like. If you've got the MP3 have a listen, I've found it's there in both the old CD, in compilations and the remastered version of the album.

apparently geezer butler or iommi, cant remember which, played a flute on some tracks which they would electronically filter