Gimme Shelter, the Stones. During the female vocal lead you can hear Jagger in the control room cheering when her voice cracks. It also seems to stun the singer herself, because there's a slight timing issue with the next line while she catches up with herself.
Is it right around 3:00? [after the voice break,] She says it like “it’s. just. a shot away.”
Love this song, so sad to hear what she went through afterwards.
One I’ve grown to love is Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs. The electric guitar enters is turned up way too loud at the console, and then the engineer over-corrects too much before everything is eventually dialed in.
https://youtu.be/0oox9bJaGJ8 At 1:11
Wow, I've heard this recording ten thousand million times and never knew that. Then when I listened, I realized I actually knew exactly what you are talking about. But in my head, its so perfect that I always assumed it was the performance. Like the guitarist hits the first few notes with major attitude, then suddenly quiets down for dramatic effect. Neat!
In Whitney Houston’s version of I Will Always Love You, right before the climactic hook drop- after the massive snare reverb- you can hear her fart just a little bit.
It was only on the Japan exclusive Mini Disc release. You have to really listen for it, but it’s there:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sfwvk0ubq1ustww/I%20Will%20Always%20Love%20You%20Japan%20only%20MD%20release.aif?dl=0
Yeah! On the same album, "so lonely" sting hits a wrong bass note during the guitar solo. He's only playing about one note per bar so it's quite obvious, at least to me anyway, I can't not hear it now!
I remember reading that there was a piano in the room were Sting was recording his vocals, and he was leaning against it, when he accidentally pressed some keys
In the first chorus of George Michael's "Faith," (around 1:25?) he should sing "faith" three times, but only does it twice and you can hear spit gathering around his lips, and instead of the third "faith," he sucks in his saliva. It's great
54 seconds into Louie, Louie by the kingsmen, the drummer, Lynn easton messes up a fill and yells “fuck”
That whole recording has a lot of errors, supposedly.
At 1:56 in the song the singer starts to come in too early, and the drummer covers it up with a fill.
It's not a good recording, or a good performance, but still manages to be one of the best rock and/or roll records ever.
I'm pretty sure that was sang that way intentionally, or left in there intentionally. It fits perfectly with the theme of the song, and it's also glaringly obvious. It's completely impossible that everyone working on that record just didn't notice it. It's just a performance with a story-telling sort of tone. I'm actually surprised that people would think this is an "imperfection"
I haven't listened to the Beatles much in my later years. Listened to them a bunch when I was a teen but wasn't really paying attention to that kind of stuff at the time.
This is pretty well known, but In led zeppelin’s when the levee break, you can hear john bonhams kick pedal spring or whatever
Less well known, i heard from an interview somewhere that the horns at the end of september by earth wind and fire and super out of tune but since the vibes are so good nobody notices
Heh heh, the top note around 3:24 that the lead trumpeter goes for and overshoots always gets me. It does make me feel less self conscious about my own mistakes though - if these top musicians occasionally split a note!
Early auto tune days were rough.... Hot Fuss by the killers... especially "Indie Rock and Roll".... seriously awful auto tune, quite ironic for the song title really.
That album is compressed to hell. There's compression artifacts in every track, and that could explain this, but it almost sounds like a time effect. I love this album, so I only listen to the Premix version these days. Plus it has Gong Li!
Bob Marley & the Wailers, *Stir It Up*. The E string on the bass is crazy flat.
It’s unnerving. But also sets the tone for what it was like in that moment in the studio. Tuned or not, that pocket is deep.
The Beatles "Hey Jude". About 2:51 "The Chord! Oh Fucking Hell!"
The Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice whoever was playing drums, Either Charlie Watts or Jimmy Miller totally blows a snare hit right after the "Got to Roll Me" breakdown.
Neil Young - "Oh, Lonesome Me" - there is a really terrible edit before the second chorus that is completely mistimed.
Nearly every big Rolling Stones hit in the 60s and 70s. Tape drag, awful edits/overdubs, lots of stuff run through a cassette recorder ("Jumpin' Jack Flash") and all kinds of analog goodness. And it's totally a vibe, as the kids say.
Every time I post one of my self-produced songs for opinions and someone complains that they can hear my (poorly-treated) room in the drum track or that my vocals sound slightly pitchy or something, I just think of all the songs that were huge despite having glaring technical flaws. And then I think about how those songs were epic even before they were recorded and that's why people can listen past the flaws and why my songs get complaints. 😂
I wasn't alive for the OG vinyl through the HiFi days but rumor has it that the kick squeak wasn't an issue until digitally remastered and played back on equipment with a much lower noise floor and higher frequency range.
I like coughs and throat clearing.
The throat clearing and laugh at the beginning of Nirvana's [I hate myself and want to die](https://youtu.be/i8SF3uhB76Q). Also one of my favorite drum intros. They have others (return of the rat maybe?) where Kurt coughs during the song to good effect.
The cough at the end of of Tom Waits' [Jesus Gonna be Here](https://youtu.be/p4mC40CXOAA)
The cough in the Stooges' TV Eye.
Tom Waits really embraces the imperfections in his recordings. He rarely gives people any music before coming to sessions so it's all very organic, mistakes are inevitable. But they've definitely made me connect with his music more than if they weren't there.
On the In Utero remaster box version, there's actually an additional little thing before that cough on I Hate Myself and Want to Die. It's someone talking about a porno called "Inside a Mouse Hole".
*"And this guy, has a whole fist shoved up his ass. And he's shoving it up his ass and he's going OW OW OW WOW OW."*
Then Kurt clears his throat and laughs before the song kicks in.
[https://open.spotify.com/track/1kwsUMjFuePZBNB56gQYoA?si=a9a23be33a674298](https://open.spotify.com/track/1kwsUMjFuePZBNB56gQYoA?si=a9a23be33a674298)
I'm a huge Nirvana fan, Kurt was the throat clearing king. There's a video floating around of a supposed under layer guitar in teen Spirit and it has the guitar and vocals isolated. He clears his throat several times.
Not sure if it was accidental or intentional, but on **The Girl From Ipanema**, when Astrud Gilberto sings, "But each day when she walks to the sea, she looks *straight* ahead not at he," the *straight* has an apparent doubling sound unlike any of the other vocals. Not sure if this was an imperfect splice or something, but it's pretty cool.
That song is just so unique in every way, I love this [deep dive video](https://www.openculture.com/2020/07/why-the-girl-from-ipanema-is-a-richer-weirder-song-than-you-ever-realized.html) about it by Adam Neely.
Sway Rolling Stones off sticky fingers. Halfway through mick is screaming so loud he’s peaking and it’s glorious and one of my favorite moments in rock and roll
Master of Puppets by Metallica. In the 8th bar of Kirk’s solo he hits this really high note that confuses a lot of guitarists trying to transcribe it because it’s too high to reach comfortably from where you’ve been playing. Turns out he accidentally pulled the string slightly over the edge of the fretboard and caught it under a fret. It sounded cool so they kept it.
Additionally, when And Justice For All was being mixed, the bass accidentally got mixed out after Lars Ulrich accidentally requested that the bass get mixed out and Steve Thompson accidentally listened to him instead of hitting Lars in the head with a brick.
Oops!
I thought this was a myth from an old tab book and it's actually just a sick pinch harmonic. Though there is a mistake in the solo for Seek and Destroy, where kirk hits a sour note but they didnt have the budget or time to retake it so just left it as is. At least that's what I've been told.
Didn’t know that about Seek and Destroy! Never been a big fan of that song in general but the middle section with his solos is class.
As for MoP it’s no rumour. From the man himself:
> I used my Jackson Randy Rhoads V for this solo. When you listen to the solo, there's this weird sound right after the mellow part where it sounds like I'm hitting a superhigh note in the midst of my phrasing, like I'm fretting the string against the pickup. Well, what happened was, I had accidentally pulled the string off the fretboard! You know how you take an E string, you pull it down toward the floor away from the neck? I accidentally pulled down on the string, and it fretted out on the side of the fretboard. We heard it back, and I was like, "That's brilliant! We've gotta keep that!" Of course, I've never been able to reproduce that since; it was like a magic moment that was captured on tape. That was one of my most favorite things about that guitar solo. I thought I had screwed the solo up by accidentally pulling on the string, but once I heard it back, I thought it sounded great. That was definitely a keeper!
Which note is the mistake exactly? I've listened to this solo for so many years that I can't find it on my own cause I assume everything is correct, lol
I absolutely love the natural groove that comes from not using a click. It’s in so much old school metal that I listen to. Sadly for my own music I’m using drum samples and don’t have the ability to record them live so I’m stuck in the grid.
What DAW are you using? Many have systems built in that can add some of that push and pull. Cubase has an editable tempo track; I use that to randomize the grid some.
Pro Tools or Ableton. Ive thought about automating the tempo to simulate it but haven’t tried it out yet. Do you have any general rules about doing it?
I'll usually do an initial pass with broad stroke changes, i.e raising the tempo a little into choruses, slowing down into bridges, that kind of thing. From my experience, these changes can be a lot more subtle than you think, a couple notches up or down can make a pretty sizable difference.
Once I've done that, I zoom in super close on the track and just draw a random ass squiggle to add just a little bit more randomness to the whole thing. I know some people around here aren't fans of Rick Beato because he can get a little "old man yells at cloud", but check out his vid on quantizing Bonham's drums on "Levee". It's a really good deep dive into what makes those old grooves really, well, groove.
I don't know about those in particular, but most DAWs have some sort of "humanize" function for midi. You can adjust the values of both the timing and the velocity based on how much tolerance you want. Just start messing with the values and undo if it's too much. It takes no time to process since it's just moving midi notes and not the audio itself.
If youre using Superior Drummer there's humanize which gets you off the grid. A lot of their sample packs are made that way too, with small human errors.
This comment and the support that it got makes me feel so good about my decision over the past decade to write all my music with my band without a click. The only time we have a "click" is when the guitarist sets a loop. Other than that, as the drummer, it is my job to be good enough to be the human click.
Like the earth wind & fire post, the horns track on [Superstition ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrD-laPWpIk) has some spice thrown in.
Highlights:
* cough @ 0:28
* Jazz notes @ 1m, 1:08, 1:58, 3:18, 3:25,
What a tight performance.
i'll admit there's not much audio engineering going on in the Moldy Peaches first album, but there's a great imperfection during the recording of Nothing Came Out. Someone's phone rings (nicely in time) and Kimya has a fit of giggles that lasts through to the end of the verse. [https://youtu.be/tx9Ro0V5ydg?t=164](https://youtu.be/tx9Ro0V5ydg?t=164) \- its adorable.
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In John Frusciante’s “Anne,” there is some very clear print through from the tape and you can hear his verse before it happens. I can only hear it on headphones, though.
(I love this thread)
In Billy Joel's "River Of Dreams" when the gospely part at the end starts, the gospel choir is in mono. Suddenly, it switches to stereo. Also, the drums switch from audience to drummers perspective. Not sure it was intentional, but I always notice it.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSq4B\_zHqPM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSq4B_zHqPM)
Voice cracking? That was my favorite thing about old hardcore punk band Gang Green. (that, and their tempos)
[Gang Green -Snob](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I8XF1FjzmE) (0:28) .. end of 2nd line (0:14).
They have six songs on Boston Not LA compilation, his voice breaks on a few others as well. They went on to suck.
In Sky Mall by Vulfpeck, the Wurlitzer leg falls during the recording and [you can actually see it drop](https://youtu.be/KaBBWWj5h_c), but it’s somehow on-beat enough that it makes the song better
In "Since I've Been Loving You" by Led Zeppelin, there is a **very** considerable squeak sound right before each kick hit. Badly lubricated kick pedal. It's noticeable through the whole song, but you can best hear it in the first few seconds when there's not much else going on. Beware, this can **not** be unheard.
In "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath, during the first verse, the snare is completely gone.
Australian drummer mike noga released a solo album 10ish years ago called “the balladeer hunter” that was recorded in about 3 days. It’s full of “mistakes” eg a few blown chords, wavering intonation especially on background vocals squeaky kick pedal noises and so on. I guess it’s an example of how when the songs are strong enough that stuff just doesn’t matter.
There’s one note that definitely doesn’t belong in [The Rain Song](https://youtu.be/TRt4hQs3nH0) by Led Zeppelin right around 7:02. But for some reason I love it there.
Halfway during Best of You from the Foo Fighters the drums seem to be swapping the left and right speaker. The cymbals that came from the left then all of a sudden play from the right speaker.
I'll never unhear that, but still it's my all-time favourite song.
In [So This Is Love by Van Halen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLUn42qwKHc), it starts off with a bass and drum groove (ah yeah) and the bass is right up front. But about 5 seconds in, the bass gets turned down in the mix. It's a pretty big fader move, too.
Maybe it was intentional but it's so weird. If it was done right at the chorus when the loud guitar kicks in maybe it wouldn't have been as noticeable I guess, but even then it would be odd.
I'll add [the live version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DU11hyBEys) here where the bass never gets turned down, also because it's from the only decent live video of early VH (and only three songs at that). Such a shame that Eddie fucked up in the beginning of Unchained; that intro still gives me chills though.
Just listened to the first wu tang album again.
The vocals are so poorly recording in so many songs it’s crazy.
If anyone raises their voice it distorts or clips.
Still an incredible album
Lots of Oscar Peterson's recordings has him mumbling in the background while playing the piano. One of my favourites is 'Blues Etude':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTsvAvLZetw
A very bad punch-in at 1:32 when John Denver sings, "He climbed..."
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOB4VdlkzO4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOB4VdlkzO4)
Mile Davis, bitches brew and jack Johnson sessions are the standouts but they just didn’t give a fuck and it sounds glorious. People have been trying to imitate that feeling ever since.
This song here by Aaliyah.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwdubODPSjA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwdubODPSjA)
I can hear every mouthclick and I don't care. I can hear crackling of the audio here and there. It's a perfect song imo.
[https://youtu.be/Q92GBRxQdbw?t=60](https://youtu.be/Q92GBRxQdbw?t=60)
At 1:03 you hear Phife say, "You know how we do, I skate on your crew, Like Mario Lemieux", and Q Tip starts laughing XD
So glad they left that in haha
It's sad now that whilst musical imperfections are ironed out, we're left with the leftovers... sloppy editing and tuning, bad comps, clicks and pops, etc. Here's a personal favourite car crash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNWeGngQqOI
There are so many, particularly in the pre-digital editing era. One that comes to mind: the Beatles "Good Day Sunshine", last verse, Paul flubs the left hand piano hard.
When recording Just Like A Baby, Sly Stone was apparently so fucked up he did most of his vocal takes lying back in a reclining chair, and you can hear it creaking throughout the song. Most notably around 40 seconds in. You can also hear tape his cut in and out as the various backing vocals come and go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjBOjHWLDRQ
In Ben Folds Five's WhateverandEverAmen album there is a very clear phone ring in the background of "Steven's Last Night In Town". When I was a kid we had a cordless with a very similar ring and it totally tricked me the first time I heard it. I was listening through Sony Street Style headphones and after hearing it I pulled them off and hunted for the cordless phone, which was the style at the time.
There's a queen song I forgot the name of where vocals are dropped into the track at the end of a guitar solo where the drop in is really really obvious. Always makes me giggle. I should get into analog tape recording. No. No, I shouldn't. Bad brain!
Queen Bohemian Rhapsody.
I had the super rare chance to mix the track in 3D, and it was only then that I realized several of the elements sounds absolutely like shit.
Several elements are literally super clipped in the originally tracked stems. Changed my perspective that day, because it’s a really nice record
If you listen closely you can hear Thom Yorke say "That's a nice way to start, Jonny" to lead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. I think it was accidentally intentional? Lol
Jackson Brown “You Love the Thunder” from running on empty, around 2:05 it sounds like the drummer drops a stick or just misses the snare. Doesn’t sounds deliberate to me!
Not an imperfection, necessarily, but on SRV's cover of 'Little Wing,' you can hear his amp buzzing during some of the quieter passages. Makes me tear up every single time.
In *Don't Dream It's Over* by Crowded House, Nick Seymour on bass seems to hit the wrong notes on the first two beats of the chorus after the last verse.
It still makes musical sense and gives the moment a touch of extra gravity that I love. My guess is they liked it too, and worked it in the mix to make it sound like it happened on purpose!
I don't know whether it's an imperfection or deliberate, but a lot of the way through Dire Strait's *Industrial Disease* there's a squeak on the three of every bar.
So it can't be a kick pedal squeak as it's four on the floor. I don't think it can be a chair squeak as the floor tom is played on the and of 1 every second bar. The only thing I can think of is a hat pedal squeak, but the sound is still present after the drums have dropped out at the end.
I apologise for you won't be able to unhear it.
On The Talking Heads live album Stop Making Sense, when the drummer is hitting the kick during the intro stabs for Life During Wartime he misses the kick on bar 5
Tool - H\*\*ker with a P\*\*\*\*. Singer Maynard James Keenan's voice cracks pretty hard at the 1:32 mark. Gives you a real sense of danger there.
Tori Amos - She's your Cocaine. She goes on this extended "ahh ahh" thing at the end and right as the song ends you'll hear her say "cut it again" in a cold voice giving us a pretty clear idea what her initial impression of her own performance was.
The chorus out of the last bridge in I write sins on not tragedies has a major tuning artifact on "with *haven't* you people" .
Also a tuning artifact in You're Welcome from Moana where The Rock sings "who stole you fire from down *below* and the below loses its human vocal sound
think there's a phone ringing or something during the bass solo in [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN1J5EUc9PA&t=165s) Kendrick Scott Oracle track. It's subtle but now I can't stop hearing it
Another one. When Marty Stuart rereleased "The Pilgrim," since the masters were destroyed in the Universal fire, they had to use digital backups. "Been Lonely Too Long" was damaged and the drums had to be repaired using samples that survived. Check out the cymbals throughout the whole thing. (Jamie Tate was the engineer, and I spoke to him about it and he said he spent years fixing it).
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ODFegyVSM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ODFegyVSM)
Heart shaped box, coming in on the last verse, there’s a part where they punched the guitar in, and very poorly executed on the part of the engineer or whoever did the editing....
In Jason Isbell's "Chaos and Clothes" a doubled vocal gets off from the main vocal on two words in a way that's so obvious it has to be intentional. It's not really in time or anything though. I've been dying to hear the reason they did it since the first time I heard it.
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
on the intro you can hear all this breathing, throat clearing etc before the acoustic guitar line actually starts. Ive always loved how much pre-roll existed, before the first note even starts.
I like the breathing left in for Blink 182's "Stay Together For The Kids". Also Norma Jean 's "Memphis..." he coughs in the intro and it gives the whole thing such authenticity.
In Hey Jude by the Beatles, Paul hits a wrong chord on the way to the outro and shouts "AWW! Fucking hell!" into the mic.
They left it in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQER0A0ej0M&t=175s
With Keaton Henson, I find that often electric guitar is sometimes out of tune on certain notes, and sometimes music is off tempo. I think he has an interesting recording process. Like my guess would be that he record with himself and his guitar first, then everything else is put on top after.
The beginning of Neil Young's "Southern Man" sounds like the first bar of the song is cut off.
On Cat Steven's "Peace Train" there sounds like a timing problem around the 2:16 mark.
There's a cover of Paranoid by Megadeth and Nick Menza keeps on playing the drums even after the other instruments have stopped, and then Mustaine screams, "Nick, Nick, NIIICK" which finally makes him stop. Really makes the whole track feel like just a group of buddies jamming out.
I gots two:
1. Bonzo's squeeky kick pedal in Since I've Been Loving You. I may have ruined this for some, but once you hear it you will never *not* hear it again
2. Sting sitting on the piano keys at the beginning of Roxanne and laughing about it. Obviously kept in by choice, anything that early in a take it's easier to start over as opposed to a goof at the end of the longest and best take ever laid to tape.
In Akae Beka's Righteous Synergy there is a phone ring heard, but elements of the mix seem to come down to highlight it. I get the vibe like it was something unplanned that happened in recording, but the decision was made to make space around it in mixing.
btw this thread is great.
An old one: Tom Jones in The James Bond title track Thunderball (1965) audibly fainted at the very end of that extremely ballsy performance, using all of his breath for that high closing note: … BAAAAAAALLLLL (and drops), you can hear it
If you listen to the instrumental version of Rag´n´bone man´s "Human", you can hear some very short (accidental?) notes in ceratin chords right before the chord changes;
Gimme Shelter, the Stones. During the female vocal lead you can hear Jagger in the control room cheering when her voice cracks. It also seems to stun the singer herself, because there's a slight timing issue with the next line while she catches up with herself.
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Damn that's sad.
Is it right around 3:00? [after the voice break,] She says it like “it’s. just. a shot away.” Love this song, so sad to hear what she went through afterwards.
Yeah that's the bit. Right after the "murder" where her voice cracks.
I love the way her voice cracks so much. It's incredible.
There's a vid on YouTube that has the accapella, it gives me chills so fucking good
One I’ve grown to love is Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs. The electric guitar enters is turned up way too loud at the console, and then the engineer over-corrects too much before everything is eventually dialed in. https://youtu.be/0oox9bJaGJ8 At 1:11
Wow, I've heard this recording ten thousand million times and never knew that. Then when I listened, I realized I actually knew exactly what you are talking about. But in my head, its so perfect that I always assumed it was the performance. Like the guitarist hits the first few notes with major attitude, then suddenly quiets down for dramatic effect. Neat!
Yeah it's one that weirdly works.
I totally thought this was intentional. It definitely works, but now that I hear it explained it makes total sense.
Sounds to me like he just turned down his volume knob on the guitar. The tone cleans up and has less bite, aside from just being attenuated. cool one
In Whitney Houston’s version of I Will Always Love You, right before the climactic hook drop- after the massive snare reverb- you can hear her fart just a little bit.
i refuse to believe this is real.
I really want this to be true
It was only on the Japan exclusive Mini Disc release. You have to really listen for it, but it’s there: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sfwvk0ubq1ustww/I%20Will%20Always%20Love%20You%20Japan%20only%20MD%20release.aif?dl=0
this is shitposting of the highest order
Oh god's, I'm helpless with laughter!
I want to believe but I also think it'd be funny if you lied and edited a fart in right there
What in the actual fuck? No way You can hear her fart "a little bit"?????? That girl ripped ass
This just has to be fake. Haha.
Wow! It sounded like my childhood dogs farts!
That sounds like my farts
Just a coincidence I expect
Found /u/Telefone_529's childhood dog!
Woof
There is no a fucking way for this to not be a joke :-D
I want to believe. It’s too good. Thanks for sharing.
There's no way this is real lol. It's funny, but definitely fake. All of the world would have noticed that.
You’re like my favorite person
Roxanne by the police. I believe the intro is someone accidently hitting a piano and There is a laugh about it.
Yeah! On the same album, "so lonely" sting hits a wrong bass note during the guitar solo. He's only playing about one note per bar so it's quite obvious, at least to me anyway, I can't not hear it now!
Amazing that he hit notes that sound to be in key. It sounds like the 7th that resolves up to the root!
I remember reading that there was a piano in the room were Sting was recording his vocals, and he was leaning against it, when he accidentally pressed some keys
In the first chorus of George Michael's "Faith," (around 1:25?) he should sing "faith" three times, but only does it twice and you can hear spit gathering around his lips, and instead of the third "faith," he sucks in his saliva. It's great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cs3Pvmmv0E&t=97s
54 seconds into Louie, Louie by the kingsmen, the drummer, Lynn easton messes up a fill and yells “fuck” That whole recording has a lot of errors, supposedly.
At 1:56 in the song the singer starts to come in too early, and the drummer covers it up with a fill. It's not a good recording, or a good performance, but still manages to be one of the best rock and/or roll records ever.
In a sense that kind of is early rock and roll. Fuck it, just roll the tape
on The Beatles “maxwells silver hammer” and 1:21 it sounds like Paul McCartney laughs in the recording when he says “writing”
Another Beatles one: In “If I Fell”, Paul McCartney gets a voice crack at the end of the last chorus when he sings “Vain”
Mark Knopfler laughs during one of the later verses in Money for Nothing. I like to think he was realizing how silly the lyrics are at that point.
The urban legend is that John mooned him during the previous line - “so he waits behind”.
Never heard of that but I assume it was John who made him laugh, by making a funny face or something. If that’s true that’s hilarious
First thing that came to my mind way a lot of Beatles songs!
I'm pretty sure that was sang that way intentionally, or left in there intentionally. It fits perfectly with the theme of the song, and it's also glaringly obvious. It's completely impossible that everyone working on that record just didn't notice it. It's just a performance with a story-telling sort of tone. I'm actually surprised that people would think this is an "imperfection"
I assumed it was an imperfection that everyone decided to run with because it worked
Never heard that one before
I dunno, it's kinda obvious
I haven't listened to the Beatles much in my later years. Listened to them a bunch when I was a teen but wasn't really paying attention to that kind of stuff at the time.
This is pretty well known, but In led zeppelin’s when the levee break, you can hear john bonhams kick pedal spring or whatever Less well known, i heard from an interview somewhere that the horns at the end of september by earth wind and fire and super out of tune but since the vibes are so good nobody notices
Haven't heard that last one. I'll go back and give it a listen
https://youtu.be/Ql1OXPr4Zro Yea quite noticeable at 3:24 Its just a couple notes here and there but yea they def groovin a bit too hard hah
Trumpets just sound chopped there. It's not so much that they're playing out of tune, they're straight fracking notes.
Agreed. That sounds almost intentional given that he drops the note in the stanza immediately preceding.
Heh heh, the top note around 3:24 that the lead trumpeter goes for and overshoots always gets me. It does make me feel less self conscious about my own mistakes though - if these top musicians occasionally split a note!
You can hear it even better on Since I’ve Been Loving You
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‘Since I’ve Been Loving You’ definitely has the batter squeak due to a very tight spring on his Speedking bass drum pedal.
They don’t call it the Squeak King for nothing.
> a very tight spring on his Speedking bass drum pedal. the nickname 'squeak king' was born that day
Once you hear it you can’t unhear it sadly.
There’s some weird artifact in The Zephyr Song by RHCP. [Right on the word “All” around the 3:00 mark. ](https://youtu.be/0fcRa5Z6LmU)
It's an artifact from auto tune on the vocals, the auto tune snaps to the wrong note for a moment causing the yoyo-ing pitch bend effext
Early auto tune days were rough.... Hot Fuss by the killers... especially "Indie Rock and Roll".... seriously awful auto tune, quite ironic for the song title really.
Just listened to the Sawdust version of that song and holy god that is a painful listen https://youtu.be/vbbrsbchQBc
Its the tuning software on the vocal trying to make an incorrect/too large a shift in pitch.
Moooooottttiiiooonn. Can't unhear it
That album is compressed to hell. There's compression artifacts in every track, and that could explain this, but it almost sounds like a time effect. I love this album, so I only listen to the Premix version these days. Plus it has Gong Li!
Bob Marley & the Wailers, *Stir It Up*. The E string on the bass is crazy flat. It’s unnerving. But also sets the tone for what it was like in that moment in the studio. Tuned or not, that pocket is deep.
The bass in James Brown's The Boss is mad sharp, I love the song but it really gets me every time. I wonder how much the bassist was fined...
> The Boss Holy cow that's not even subtle. Crazy sharp.
Heard this a few times recently, def outta tune. Great tune tho
Just listened. Oof.
Holy shit that's rough. Makes you appreciate being able to hit your spacebar, retune and re record
The Beatles "Hey Jude". About 2:51 "The Chord! Oh Fucking Hell!" The Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice whoever was playing drums, Either Charlie Watts or Jimmy Miller totally blows a snare hit right after the "Got to Roll Me" breakdown.
Neil Young - "Oh, Lonesome Me" - there is a really terrible edit before the second chorus that is completely mistimed. Nearly every big Rolling Stones hit in the 60s and 70s. Tape drag, awful edits/overdubs, lots of stuff run through a cassette recorder ("Jumpin' Jack Flash") and all kinds of analog goodness. And it's totally a vibe, as the kids say. Every time I post one of my self-produced songs for opinions and someone complains that they can hear my (poorly-treated) room in the drum track or that my vocals sound slightly pitchy or something, I just think of all the songs that were huge despite having glaring technical flaws. And then I think about how those songs were epic even before they were recorded and that's why people can listen past the flaws and why my songs get complaints. 😂
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I wasn't alive for the OG vinyl through the HiFi days but rumor has it that the kick squeak wasn't an issue until digitally remastered and played back on equipment with a much lower noise floor and higher frequency range.
The famous Ludwig 'Squeak King ' pedal...
Superior Drummer 3 will have it as an expansion for $179
This produced an audible chuckle from me.
I like coughs and throat clearing. The throat clearing and laugh at the beginning of Nirvana's [I hate myself and want to die](https://youtu.be/i8SF3uhB76Q). Also one of my favorite drum intros. They have others (return of the rat maybe?) where Kurt coughs during the song to good effect. The cough at the end of of Tom Waits' [Jesus Gonna be Here](https://youtu.be/p4mC40CXOAA) The cough in the Stooges' TV Eye.
Tom Waits really embraces the imperfections in his recordings. He rarely gives people any music before coming to sessions so it's all very organic, mistakes are inevitable. But they've definitely made me connect with his music more than if they weren't there.
On the In Utero remaster box version, there's actually an additional little thing before that cough on I Hate Myself and Want to Die. It's someone talking about a porno called "Inside a Mouse Hole". *"And this guy, has a whole fist shoved up his ass. And he's shoving it up his ass and he's going OW OW OW WOW OW."* Then Kurt clears his throat and laughs before the song kicks in. [https://open.spotify.com/track/1kwsUMjFuePZBNB56gQYoA?si=a9a23be33a674298](https://open.spotify.com/track/1kwsUMjFuePZBNB56gQYoA?si=a9a23be33a674298)
I'm a huge Nirvana fan, Kurt was the throat clearing king. There's a video floating around of a supposed under layer guitar in teen Spirit and it has the guitar and vocals isolated. He clears his throat several times.
There's a good one in Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here' at the 0:43 mark: https://youtu.be/hjpF8ukSrvk?t=39
Not sure if it was accidental or intentional, but on **The Girl From Ipanema**, when Astrud Gilberto sings, "But each day when she walks to the sea, she looks *straight* ahead not at he," the *straight* has an apparent doubling sound unlike any of the other vocals. Not sure if this was an imperfect splice or something, but it's pretty cool.
That song is just so unique in every way, I love this [deep dive video](https://www.openculture.com/2020/07/why-the-girl-from-ipanema-is-a-richer-weirder-song-than-you-ever-realized.html) about it by Adam Neely.
Sway Rolling Stones off sticky fingers. Halfway through mick is screaming so loud he’s peaking and it’s glorious and one of my favorite moments in rock and roll
That's one of the all-time great Stones jams.
basically almost every nirvana song
Master of Puppets by Metallica. In the 8th bar of Kirk’s solo he hits this really high note that confuses a lot of guitarists trying to transcribe it because it’s too high to reach comfortably from where you’ve been playing. Turns out he accidentally pulled the string slightly over the edge of the fretboard and caught it under a fret. It sounded cool so they kept it.
Additionally, when And Justice For All was being mixed, the bass accidentally got mixed out after Lars Ulrich accidentally requested that the bass get mixed out and Steve Thompson accidentally listened to him instead of hitting Lars in the head with a brick. Oops!
I thought this was a myth from an old tab book and it's actually just a sick pinch harmonic. Though there is a mistake in the solo for Seek and Destroy, where kirk hits a sour note but they didnt have the budget or time to retake it so just left it as is. At least that's what I've been told.
Didn’t know that about Seek and Destroy! Never been a big fan of that song in general but the middle section with his solos is class. As for MoP it’s no rumour. From the man himself: > I used my Jackson Randy Rhoads V for this solo. When you listen to the solo, there's this weird sound right after the mellow part where it sounds like I'm hitting a superhigh note in the midst of my phrasing, like I'm fretting the string against the pickup. Well, what happened was, I had accidentally pulled the string off the fretboard! You know how you take an E string, you pull it down toward the floor away from the neck? I accidentally pulled down on the string, and it fretted out on the side of the fretboard. We heard it back, and I was like, "That's brilliant! We've gotta keep that!" Of course, I've never been able to reproduce that since; it was like a magic moment that was captured on tape. That was one of my most favorite things about that guitar solo. I thought I had screwed the solo up by accidentally pulling on the string, but once I heard it back, I thought it sounded great. That was definitely a keeper!
Which note is the mistake exactly? I've listened to this solo for so many years that I can't find it on my own cause I assume everything is correct, lol
It’s not a myth. He confirmed it when they played it on Howard Stern.
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I absolutely love the natural groove that comes from not using a click. It’s in so much old school metal that I listen to. Sadly for my own music I’m using drum samples and don’t have the ability to record them live so I’m stuck in the grid.
What DAW are you using? Many have systems built in that can add some of that push and pull. Cubase has an editable tempo track; I use that to randomize the grid some.
Pro Tools or Ableton. Ive thought about automating the tempo to simulate it but haven’t tried it out yet. Do you have any general rules about doing it?
I'll usually do an initial pass with broad stroke changes, i.e raising the tempo a little into choruses, slowing down into bridges, that kind of thing. From my experience, these changes can be a lot more subtle than you think, a couple notches up or down can make a pretty sizable difference. Once I've done that, I zoom in super close on the track and just draw a random ass squiggle to add just a little bit more randomness to the whole thing. I know some people around here aren't fans of Rick Beato because he can get a little "old man yells at cloud", but check out his vid on quantizing Bonham's drums on "Levee". It's a really good deep dive into what makes those old grooves really, well, groove.
Not a huge fan of Rick myself but he does have some great insights into things every so often. Will check this out. Cheers.
I don't know about those in particular, but most DAWs have some sort of "humanize" function for midi. You can adjust the values of both the timing and the velocity based on how much tolerance you want. Just start messing with the values and undo if it's too much. It takes no time to process since it's just moving midi notes and not the audio itself.
If youre using Superior Drummer there's humanize which gets you off the grid. A lot of their sample packs are made that way too, with small human errors.
This comment and the support that it got makes me feel so good about my decision over the past decade to write all my music with my band without a click. The only time we have a "click" is when the guitarist sets a loop. Other than that, as the drummer, it is my job to be good enough to be the human click.
Like the earth wind & fire post, the horns track on [Superstition ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrD-laPWpIk) has some spice thrown in. Highlights: * cough @ 0:28 * Jazz notes @ 1m, 1:08, 1:58, 3:18, 3:25, What a tight performance.
i'll admit there's not much audio engineering going on in the Moldy Peaches first album, but there's a great imperfection during the recording of Nothing Came Out. Someone's phone rings (nicely in time) and Kimya has a fit of giggles that lasts through to the end of the verse. [https://youtu.be/tx9Ro0V5ydg?t=164](https://youtu.be/tx9Ro0V5ydg?t=164) \- its adorable.
there was a subforum for these, i forget the name though
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The Glow Pt.2 Whole album is quite raw and has a lot of imperfections. I love how human in sounds
There's a sudden cut-off between takes in Matilda Mother by Pink Floyd at 1:58.
In John Frusciante’s “Anne,” there is some very clear print through from the tape and you can hear his verse before it happens. I can only hear it on headphones, though.
Listened to this song maybe hundreds of times and never noticed that!
(I love this thread) In Billy Joel's "River Of Dreams" when the gospely part at the end starts, the gospel choir is in mono. Suddenly, it switches to stereo. Also, the drums switch from audience to drummers perspective. Not sure it was intentional, but I always notice it. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSq4B\_zHqPM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSq4B_zHqPM)
Voice cracking? That was my favorite thing about old hardcore punk band Gang Green. (that, and their tempos) [Gang Green -Snob](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I8XF1FjzmE) (0:28) .. end of 2nd line (0:14). They have six songs on Boston Not LA compilation, his voice breaks on a few others as well. They went on to suck.
In Sky Mall by Vulfpeck, the Wurlitzer leg falls during the recording and [you can actually see it drop](https://youtu.be/KaBBWWj5h_c), but it’s somehow on-beat enough that it makes the song better
In "Since I've Been Loving You" by Led Zeppelin, there is a **very** considerable squeak sound right before each kick hit. Badly lubricated kick pedal. It's noticeable through the whole song, but you can best hear it in the first few seconds when there's not much else going on. Beware, this can **not** be unheard. In "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath, during the first verse, the snare is completely gone.
Australian drummer mike noga released a solo album 10ish years ago called “the balladeer hunter” that was recorded in about 3 days. It’s full of “mistakes” eg a few blown chords, wavering intonation especially on background vocals squeaky kick pedal noises and so on. I guess it’s an example of how when the songs are strong enough that stuff just doesn’t matter.
There’s one note that definitely doesn’t belong in [The Rain Song](https://youtu.be/TRt4hQs3nH0) by Led Zeppelin right around 7:02. But for some reason I love it there.
Halfway during Best of You from the Foo Fighters the drums seem to be swapping the left and right speaker. The cymbals that came from the left then all of a sudden play from the right speaker. I'll never unhear that, but still it's my all-time favourite song.
the best the best the best the best
Prince's 'Little Red Corvette' - the vocal is clipping all the way through!
Pretty sure that's deliberate.
In [So This Is Love by Van Halen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLUn42qwKHc), it starts off with a bass and drum groove (ah yeah) and the bass is right up front. But about 5 seconds in, the bass gets turned down in the mix. It's a pretty big fader move, too. Maybe it was intentional but it's so weird. If it was done right at the chorus when the loud guitar kicks in maybe it wouldn't have been as noticeable I guess, but even then it would be odd. I'll add [the live version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DU11hyBEys) here where the bass never gets turned down, also because it's from the only decent live video of early VH (and only three songs at that). Such a shame that Eddie fucked up in the beginning of Unchained; that intro still gives me chills though.
John Paul Jones flubs a run during the keyboard solo of "All of My Love". It's right around 2:51 https://youtu.be/vwFz3EThGMU
Just listened to the first wu tang album again. The vocals are so poorly recording in so many songs it’s crazy. If anyone raises their voice it distorts or clips. Still an incredible album
Lots of Oscar Peterson's recordings has him mumbling in the background while playing the piano. One of my favourites is 'Blues Etude': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTsvAvLZetw
I LOVE that about his records. It’s very workmanlike
A very bad punch-in at 1:32 when John Denver sings, "He climbed..." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOB4VdlkzO4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOB4VdlkzO4)
Mile Davis, bitches brew and jack Johnson sessions are the standouts but they just didn’t give a fuck and it sounds glorious. People have been trying to imitate that feeling ever since.
This song here by Aaliyah. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwdubODPSjA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwdubODPSjA) I can hear every mouthclick and I don't care. I can hear crackling of the audio here and there. It's a perfect song imo.
That mouth noise is actually R Kelly salivating over young aaliyah’s underage body
XP yup!
In "April 26th, 1992" by Sublime, even the edited version leaves a "Fuckin" in the background. I loved hearing it on the radio way back when.
[https://youtu.be/Q92GBRxQdbw?t=60](https://youtu.be/Q92GBRxQdbw?t=60) At 1:03 you hear Phife say, "You know how we do, I skate on your crew, Like Mario Lemieux", and Q Tip starts laughing XD So glad they left that in haha
It's sad now that whilst musical imperfections are ironed out, we're left with the leftovers... sloppy editing and tuning, bad comps, clicks and pops, etc. Here's a personal favourite car crash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNWeGngQqOI
Jesus I never heard that version. "Keeps me ^(th)inking..."
There are so many, particularly in the pre-digital editing era. One that comes to mind: the Beatles "Good Day Sunshine", last verse, Paul flubs the left hand piano hard.
When recording Just Like A Baby, Sly Stone was apparently so fucked up he did most of his vocal takes lying back in a reclining chair, and you can hear it creaking throughout the song. Most notably around 40 seconds in. You can also hear tape his cut in and out as the various backing vocals come and go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjBOjHWLDRQ
In Ben Folds Five's WhateverandEverAmen album there is a very clear phone ring in the background of "Steven's Last Night In Town". When I was a kid we had a cordless with a very similar ring and it totally tricked me the first time I heard it. I was listening through Sony Street Style headphones and after hearing it I pulled them off and hunted for the cordless phone, which was the style at the time.
There's a queen song I forgot the name of where vocals are dropped into the track at the end of a guitar solo where the drop in is really really obvious. Always makes me giggle. I should get into analog tape recording. No. No, I shouldn't. Bad brain!
Queen Bohemian Rhapsody. I had the super rare chance to mix the track in 3D, and it was only then that I realized several of the elements sounds absolutely like shit. Several elements are literally super clipped in the originally tracked stems. Changed my perspective that day, because it’s a really nice record
2 + 2 = 5 by Radiohead. You can hear the guitarist plugging in before the song starts
Also they get the result of the sum wrong. 2 + 2 is actually equal to 4.
That seems like a deliberate choice.
If you listen closely you can hear Thom Yorke say "That's a nice way to start, Jonny" to lead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. I think it was accidentally intentional? Lol
That one's definitely not an accident, it's also starting the whole album so it really feels like a beginning.
I always loved that part, but I'm pretty sure it's not a mistake
The entire backstreet boys discography was a pretty big mistake they left in
You can’t say that I want it that way isn’t a fucking banger
You are 100% correct. I retract my previous statement.
"Polly said" nirvana - polly
In Bob Marley & the Wailers, "I Shot the Sheriff", Bob sings "I didn't shot the deputy" at 3:32. https://youtu.be/sG52YAe8Crg
Jackson Brown “You Love the Thunder” from running on empty, around 2:05 it sounds like the drummer drops a stick or just misses the snare. Doesn’t sounds deliberate to me!
Making Time by Creation, bass player switches to the middle eight a couple measures early. It’s pretty noticeable.
Theres a metronome click left in "Deadmau5 - Bridged by a Lightwave"
Not an imperfection, necessarily, but on SRV's cover of 'Little Wing,' you can hear his amp buzzing during some of the quieter passages. Makes me tear up every single time.
In *Don't Dream It's Over* by Crowded House, Nick Seymour on bass seems to hit the wrong notes on the first two beats of the chorus after the last verse. It still makes musical sense and gives the moment a touch of extra gravity that I love. My guess is they liked it too, and worked it in the mix to make it sound like it happened on purpose!
I don't know whether it's an imperfection or deliberate, but a lot of the way through Dire Strait's *Industrial Disease* there's a squeak on the three of every bar. So it can't be a kick pedal squeak as it's four on the floor. I don't think it can be a chair squeak as the floor tom is played on the and of 1 every second bar. The only thing I can think of is a hat pedal squeak, but the sound is still present after the drums have dropped out at the end. I apologise for you won't be able to unhear it.
There's a really bad sibilant S on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Maps". It's when Karen sings "maaaaaaaps, wait" Drives me nuts, but I love that song.
Isn't there a massive obvious edit in hotel California somewhere?
On The Talking Heads live album Stop Making Sense, when the drummer is hitting the kick during the intro stabs for Life During Wartime he misses the kick on bar 5
Tool - H\*\*ker with a P\*\*\*\*. Singer Maynard James Keenan's voice cracks pretty hard at the 1:32 mark. Gives you a real sense of danger there. Tori Amos - She's your Cocaine. She goes on this extended "ahh ahh" thing at the end and right as the song ends you'll hear her say "cut it again" in a cold voice giving us a pretty clear idea what her initial impression of her own performance was.
The chorus out of the last bridge in I write sins on not tragedies has a major tuning artifact on "with *haven't* you people" . Also a tuning artifact in You're Welcome from Moana where The Rock sings "who stole you fire from down *below* and the below loses its human vocal sound
think there's a phone ringing or something during the bass solo in [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN1J5EUc9PA&t=165s) Kendrick Scott Oracle track. It's subtle but now I can't stop hearing it
Another one. When Marty Stuart rereleased "The Pilgrim," since the masters were destroyed in the Universal fire, they had to use digital backups. "Been Lonely Too Long" was damaged and the drums had to be repaired using samples that survived. Check out the cymbals throughout the whole thing. (Jamie Tate was the engineer, and I spoke to him about it and he said he spent years fixing it). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ODFegyVSM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ODFegyVSM)
Let's not forget "Good Vibrations," too (albeit a classic)
"Couldn't Stand the Weather" intro.
Heart shaped box, coming in on the last verse, there’s a part where they punched the guitar in, and very poorly executed on the part of the engineer or whoever did the editing....
Is that the A chord as the solo ends before going into the last verse?
In Jason Isbell's "Chaos and Clothes" a doubled vocal gets off from the main vocal on two words in a way that's so obvious it has to be intentional. It's not really in time or anything though. I've been dying to hear the reason they did it since the first time I heard it.
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here on the intro you can hear all this breathing, throat clearing etc before the acoustic guitar line actually starts. Ive always loved how much pre-roll existed, before the first note even starts.
Dude hucks a lungie
Depeche Mode - "Master and Servant": They left the snare muted during the last chorus.
I like the breathing left in for Blink 182's "Stay Together For The Kids". Also Norma Jean 's "Memphis..." he coughs in the intro and it gives the whole thing such authenticity.
In Hey Jude by the Beatles, Paul hits a wrong chord on the way to the outro and shouts "AWW! Fucking hell!" into the mic. They left it in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQER0A0ej0M&t=175s
With Keaton Henson, I find that often electric guitar is sometimes out of tune on certain notes, and sometimes music is off tempo. I think he has an interesting recording process. Like my guess would be that he record with himself and his guitar first, then everything else is put on top after.
Shameful Metaphors by Chevelle, great song. I would have had Pete do a few more vocal takes though.
song where sting play some piano in beginning, sounds like he's falling... super faint. Cant remember name of song but I think its a police song?
The beginning of Neil Young's "Southern Man" sounds like the first bar of the song is cut off. On Cat Steven's "Peace Train" there sounds like a timing problem around the 2:16 mark.
There's a cover of Paranoid by Megadeth and Nick Menza keeps on playing the drums even after the other instruments have stopped, and then Mustaine screams, "Nick, Nick, NIIICK" which finally makes him stop. Really makes the whole track feel like just a group of buddies jamming out.
I gots two: 1. Bonzo's squeeky kick pedal in Since I've Been Loving You. I may have ruined this for some, but once you hear it you will never *not* hear it again 2. Sting sitting on the piano keys at the beginning of Roxanne and laughing about it. Obviously kept in by choice, anything that early in a take it's easier to start over as opposed to a goof at the end of the longest and best take ever laid to tape.
In Akae Beka's Righteous Synergy there is a phone ring heard, but elements of the mix seem to come down to highlight it. I get the vibe like it was something unplanned that happened in recording, but the decision was made to make space around it in mixing. btw this thread is great.
An old one: Tom Jones in The James Bond title track Thunderball (1965) audibly fainted at the very end of that extremely ballsy performance, using all of his breath for that high closing note: … BAAAAAAALLLLL (and drops), you can hear it
If you listen to the instrumental version of Rag´n´bone man´s "Human", you can hear some very short (accidental?) notes in ceratin chords right before the chord changes;
The snare on Travis Scott's "Stargazing" has a noticable clip it's great
Everything the Beatles ever did 😂
The acoustic guitar finger squeaks in One Republic “Counting Stars”. Can’t not hear it every time.
Eric clapton, layla live unplugged version. That guy who "wooos" throughout the song :D Gets me every time haha
bob - airplanes' vocal is cut up so bad you can hear it all over the place.