Comments on: MP3′s of the week: Musical ‘mistakes’ / scoldings

By: Neil Moxham

Neil Moxham — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:12:10 +0000

Enjoyed your page of musical out-takes, and thought you might like
this. It’s from John Cale – Inside the Dream Syndicate, Vol. 3, and at
the end of a five-minute drone composition you can hear a member of
the New York Fire Department from downstairs who’s finally had
enough….

“Shut that off. Hey, I don’t wanna hear that bullshit. It’s goin’ on
and on and on. Knock it off. Right? This is goin’ on and on and on.
Hear one more peep, we’re gonna do somethin’ else, alright? Ya get the
word now? Ya gonna do that stuff, do it far far away, out in the
country. I don’t wanna hear another peep.”

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 19:07:07 +0000

at the end of the who’s classic “happy jack” you can hear pete townsend say “i saw ya”. apparently while recording the backing vocals, kieth moon was running around in a bummble bee costume playing his own game of hide and seek – or something, who knows. so that’s pete yelling out to moon.

By: Arjan again

Arjan again — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:54:22 +0000

Two late submissions: The Wedding Present’s Something And Nothing off their debut album George Best (1987) features their co-producer Chris Allison sounding very exasperated, telling the band “There’s no point asking *me* if it sounds all right!”.
And Be Honest, the last song on their second album, Bizarro! (1989) has a false start after singer/guitarist David Gedge flubs his intro. He’s then heard to say (in a nice Yorkshire brogue I won’t attempt to reproduce):
“Aw, what a rubbish! We were gonna start with drum sticks(?), weren’t we?”
Other band member: “What?”
Gedge: (laughter)
Other band member: “God! Get on with it!”

By: scott

scott — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 17:59:28 +0000

Korn ‘Korn’

The start of “CLown” someone fucks up several times and someone ends up have a tantrum.

By: ZA

ZA — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:45:28 +0000

At the very end of Traffic’s Paper Sun, just as the music fades, you can hear Stevie Winwood(?) calling out excitedly “That’s the one!”, probably meaning that this is the best take of the song. This one always makes me smile.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 09:18:31 +0000

There’s also plenty of studio banter on the commercially available Syd Barrett solo albums, although more on the somewhat tragic side than humorous in my opinion.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 09:02:19 +0000

The beginning of “Madman” by D.R.I. features a recording of the father of one of the band members arguing with the band for playing too loud. It goes something like:
*thump thump thump thump thump*
“Hold on… I didn’t know you could hear it”
“Well, I can. That stuff hasn’t done a bit of good. Okay. The party’s over.”
“Okay”
“Don’t you dummies ever understand anything? You gotta go to school with these ??? and dropouts. What do you care? You don’t learn a goddam bit, what’s the matter with you? And you.. I don’t who this guy is but..”
“You like him”
“Hey… I don’t need you at all. You come over and I don’t want you here at night, you understand?”
“Aww.. That’s our only time to practice.”
“Well, I don’t give a goddamn hell what the.. I come home to relax, I don’t wanna listen to you.”
“Okay, when you come home we’ll stop”
“I’m home! I’ve been home for four hours!”
“You didn’t tell us to stop then”
“Well I’m telling you to stop now…”
“Okay then, we’re stopping..”
*door slam*
Then the song “Madman” kicks in, which is lyrically about the guy’s dad being a ‘nazi’ in various ways.

By: tommydski

tommydski — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 04:02:23 +0000

steve albini – “josphine, do you think you’re going bald?”
jo wiggs – “no, you asked me that before and the answer was no….”

from ‘pod’ by the breeders.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 23:58:52 +0000

At the end of The Who’s “Happy Jack” Pete Townshend calls out “I saw ya!” at Keith Moon, who was clowning around during the take.

By: David

David — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 20:51:25 +0000

"Hot damn tamale." -- Elvis (From here.)

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 20:24:25 +0000

There was amazing studio banter between Jerry Lee Lewis and Sam Phillips during the “Great Balls of Fire” recording session.

“How can the Devil save souls? What are you talkin’ about? Man, I got the Devil in me; if I didn’t I’d be a Christian!”
“Jerry, the point I’m tryin’ to make is, if you believe in what you’re sayin’, you’ve got no alternative whatsoever.”
“Mr. Phillips! I don’t care! It ain’t what you believe, it’s what’s written in the Bible.”

This is all detailed in Nick Tosches’ biography on Lewis, and in http://www.offbeat.com/obnovember2003/masters.html

By: joe

joe — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 09:05:42 +0000

On The Smashing Pumpkins’ song “Silverfuck”, you can hear Billy Corgan saying “Alright, this take, don’t give a fuck” at 8:43… Also, I seem to remember someone (D’arcy?) saying “I just stepped on a cord” or something similar during one of the quiet passages in the version of “Siva” from the Peel Sessions CD.

There is also a *ton* of studio banter detailed from The Beatles’ various sessions here:

http://www.stevesbeatles.com/wgo/list.asp

By: Valentine

Valentine — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:18:32 +0000

The last Cub album (real album, not the Mauler B-sides comp) has a track sung by the drummer, and if you go into the bonus tracks there is another version with her screwing up the lyrics and stopping the songs and explaining how she knew she was singing the wrong lyrics but that she couldn’t make her brain change the words or something like that. I always enjoyed it…

By: chad

chad — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:31:54 +0000

Cracker’s first album has a snippet, I believe right before “Can I Take My Gun Up To Heaven” wherein the band is laughing; Lowery says something like “You got my watch?” and another guy says something about the “beginning of 60 Minutes”. I guess in reference to drums or click-track. Also, on Kerosene Hat, there’s a “bonus track” with Lowery playing a jokey version of the title track, which has some funny banter. Shit like that always makes me wish I recorded my own conversations with my friends, or had cooler friends.

By: james

james — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:00:32 +0000

the pixies’ surfer rosa will always epitomize band banter for me.

“You fuckin’ die” I said, to her.
I said “YOU FUCKIN’ DIE”, to her.
Huh? What?
No, no! I was talking to Kim.
I said “you fuckin’ die.”
No, I was just- we were just goofing around.
No, no. It didn’t have anything to do with anything.
She said: “Don’t tou- anybody touch this is my stuff”
And I said “You fuckin’ die” like that.
I was finishing her part for her.
You know what I mean?”

By: Zach Curd

Zach Curd — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:12:18 +0000

There’s the infamous Beach Boys/Murray Wilson debacle that occured during the Help Me Rhonda sessions. Murray is obviously a little drunk and one of the highlights is…

“I try to give you tips, and you think because you’ve had a few hits you’ve got it made.”

I just downloaded them all and boy are they craze. He also accuses them all of not “singing from their hearts.” Pretty great considering the song is “Help Me Rhonda.” Most of the pre-Smile Beach Boys sessions are chock full of crazy genius and pretty available on soulseek.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:52:14 +0000

On Frank Sinatra’s album September of My Years, there is a song (and I can’t remember which) where you can hear his stool creak as he adjusts his posture before a verse. Plain as day: “uuurk”.

Funny thing is, I had this album for years. I had listened to it on Denon components with B&W speakers and NEVER heard it. The creak only made itself evident on an entry-level Sony walkman with cheapo earbuds.

For a Sinatra fan, that’s an epiphany. Many of us have listened to the same albums over and over again, and finding anything new is exciting as discovering where jumping backwards takes you into the secret water world in Super Mario Bros.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:40:57 +0000

Check out 'The Troggs Tapes' http://website.lineone.net/~thetroggs/

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:39:22 +0000

Check out 'The Troggs Tapes' http://website.lineone.net/~thetroggs/

By: badpenny

badpenny — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:56:20 +0000

I can’t recall the specific songs offhand, but on the new modest mouse album, at the end of one of the songs you can hear brock saying “i fucked up the last line.”

One of my all time favorites is from a system of a down song on their self titled album. At one point you can hear the vocalist begin to chuckle, which is followed shortly by the most hearty snort to ever be recorded. It is sheer bliss, although I can’t be certain that it is spontaneous.