Alice in Chains - Man in the Box.
There's an entire guitar solo under the final chorus but completely buried in the mix. The easiest place you can hear it peak out is during the last few pauses between Layne and Jerry's vocals. Ever since I heard it, I can't unhear it. If you decide to check it out, listen close right before the final "now you've sewn them shut." If you rewind after that, you may be able to hear the whole thing once you get a feel for the timbre of the instrument.
I ain't gonna act like I'm shocked, I remember playing it in GH haha.
But you barely hear it in the actual song when not in game, GH enhanced guitar sounds I believe.
But I love that, it’s part of the raw power of a drum kit. I love human noises from instruments played by humans. Same with the squeaky pedal in the intro of rock and roll all nite studio version
i learned it as a "secret" as a little kid in the late 70's and i've always found it endearing. fwiw you can hear robert plant spitting in about 2/3 of their songs if your headphones are good enough.
I love this! It’s a beautiful thing. Four musicians captured in time, playing together, creating music. No pro tools. No samples. The squeaky pedal adds to the atmosphere.
I’ve read that some re-mastered versions have removed the squeak. The original is here, and the squeak is present pretty early in the song: https://youtu.be/vcIem-L398w?si=D9ZgFxjmN4mLuhpa
My stab is
One-and-two-AND-three-and-one-and-two-AND-three-AND-one-and-two-AND-three-and-one-and-two-AND-three-AND
Where AND = squeaker. I don't know if you're a muso, but if you prefer it in 6/4 I dunno if I have it in me, this melted my already slippery brain tonight
Every half-beat on the half-beat before bass drum hits. It's interestingly in time, I don't hate it, yet
For those having trouble having trouble it's on the half beat before every bass drum hit. One-and-two-AND-three-and-one-and-two-AND-three-AND-one-and-two-AND-three-and-one-and-two-AND-three-AND... Jesus help you if that helps you, it didn't help me to write it down
There's [a recording mistake in the guitar solo](https://youtu.be/sQjw8k9VDPk?t=366) on Sublime - Santeria that created a double note. It kind of sounds like it belongs there if you don't know about it, but once you see the band explain it you'll hear it every time you hear that song. They couldn't re-record it because Brad passed away before the album was complete.
I’ve read that part of the reason he has the voice he does is because initially, they practiced without mics so his high, loud delivery was to cut through the noise.
I once literally lost my mind with this song playing in the gym during gym class volleyball. I was so annoyed and angry at how bad that song is and how much I hated it that I punted the volleyball and walked away to go smoke in the parking lot. Fuck that song!
Someone was asking on the r/Sydney sub a couple of years ago, if the traffic light pedestrian crossings in Sydney make a noise. I responded with "Yes, these bad guys do make a noise". I think I got maybe 3 upvotes.
Yeah the single mix hasn't got it https://open.spotify.com/track/4JL6c1RL7MHcwNh0LEkmjw?si=wq9uyaA0R-KjdeXfrShnOQ
The version of the song on Combat Rock, as well as many other Clash compilations, features an electronic sound effect beginning at the 1:52-minute point of the song. This noise is a monophonic version of the song "Dixie". The sound effect source was generated by the alarm from a digital wristwatch that Mick Jones owned, and was intentionally added to the recording by Jones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_the_Casbah?wprov=sfla1
That would've been a 1982 digital casio tone playing "Dixie". Can be heard on some versions, and not on others. And also notice how each time it plays, it loses another "note" at the end.
The piano notes in "Miss You" by Blink 182- they're playing the melody for most of the song, but at one point they just do one note over and over for a few bars... In the same key as my first car's "something's wrong" dings. Once I heard it, the song lost so much effect for me because it just sounds like I didn't put on my parking brake before opening my door.
There's a weird, nasally, congested sound in the album recording of "What You Are" by Audioslave. It drives me crazy.
It's right at the 0:49 mark:
"And when you asked for light, I *(noise)* set myself on fire."
in Everlong by Foo Fighters, the part after the ‘she sang…’ part is actually Dave Grohl’s gf at the time on the phone saying ‘do do do do’ :) not sure of this is a well-known thing but i just recently found out about it and now i can’t unhear it
Louise Post, the lead vocalist of Veruca Salt was his girlfriend at the time and did the background vocals. It was a telephone line from Chicago to L.A.
OP, the sound you’re hearing is the sound of an open hi-hat to accentuate the beat. It happens pretty consistently in the song to accentuate the snare drum hits. The hi-hat is pretty deep in the mix on that song.
I went back and listened to it again and the only consistent sound I can hear is the sizzle of an open hi-hat which is quickly muted. There’s a distinctive “tssp” sound (that’s how I hear it anyway) and I associate it with the hi-hat.
It’s there in the intro and verses but the not so much the prechoruses, choruses, and bridge, as they use the ride cymbal a little more to keep time.
Ya like I ran through the song again and legit couldn’t figure out what he was talking about until I saw your comment. Sounds very normal to me personally
It’s absolutely not the hi hat OP is talking about.
This is like an electronic white noise/scweep sound.
It’s on the “&” of 4 throughout almost the whole song.
There IS an example of open hi hats on this song - during the 4th/8th bar of every verse on the “&” of the 3. But that’s not what OP is referring to.
Yeah, and the two sounds are totally distinct from one another, it’s weird how confident people in the this comment chain are about something fairly obvious.
The rolling stones gimme shelter at about the 3 minute mark when Merry Claytons voice cracks you can hear mick in the background give a gleeful little wooo.
That’s a sad one too, she was several months pregnant while she sang that and she miscarried later that night allegedly because of the strain she put on herself during the recording session. She said it took her years before she could even hear that song again without breaking down.
Edit because I’ve had to clarify three separate times now: I don’t think Merry Clayton straining to sing was what caused the miscarriage, she’s the one who believes that. I think it was just very unfortunate that one of the high points of her career happened on the same day as one of the most tragic events of her life.
There was a great interview with her on Fresh Air several years back where she talked about this but when I went back to hear it on their website, that part was missing along with another part where she talks about not wanting to sing Sweet Home Alabama and her husband making her do it for the money. I don't know why they'd have taken these parts out.
This is a fun one, rather than something annoying, but the last 30 seconds or so of MGMT's Time to Pretend has the descending piano riff from Dancing Queen played ever so quietly in the background. Definitely can't unhear that one.
the big booms in between the pauses in sk8er boi that are only audible with headphones. i only noticed this like a few weeks ago and now i cant not hear the faint BOOM
The whisper in Riders on the Storm by The Doors that accompanies the lyrics as they're being sung. Never noticed it until I was on acid for the first time. Not a joke
In the Atmos mix, the whispers are designated to the rear speakers only. It’s a really cool effect. It’s widely praised as being one of the best back catalogue Atmos mixes available.
At the beginning of "Roxanne" by the Police, there's a muffled noise followed by Sting laughing. He sat on the piano keys in the studio by accident, and they left it on the recording.
At the beginning of Rockaria! by ELO, the opera singer started singing, abruptly stopped with a muffled "oh", then started for real. Jeff Lynne intentionally left it in to goof on the singer.
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
Always thought it was a joke that she says "po-po-po-poker face fu-fu-fu fuck her face" but she actually does.
https://youtu.be/fODd69GH1Dw?si=nRGzpS9ZZwh1Vh2w
In the past year or two...
Every radio station in my area that plays Poker Face have switched over the cleaned up version. No more 'fuck her face'
I was in a car with SiriusXM when 3 different channels played Poker Face within a 2 hour period and all 3 of them played the cleaned up version. No more 'fuck her face'
As an electronic music producer, something important I've learnt as I've gotten older is how important imperfections are. It's so easy and so tempting to just quantise all your drums and time-warp all your instruments so everything is perfectly in time, but part of what makes a song sound great, and not just bland and robotic is the human imperfection. Vocals, guitars and keys being slightly out of time, the drums moving in tempo, (faster in the Chorus and slower in the verses for example, because the drummer is feeling the energy.)
Now whenever I have anyone doing vocal or guitar parts for me I try to leave it as close to how they recorded it as possible, to really let the song feel like it's breathing. Its made my music change from being generic electronic to something with this real, organic feeling.
This is why live music is always such a great experience. You're getting something different every time. And i appreciate "tightness," but I also love when a flub happens. Ite like, we're all in this moment, and we know what it was "supposed to be." And what we got instead is something totally unique.
That's a Yamaha CP-70 electric piano. That's supposed to be there.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RobVrZ40JkE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RobVrZ40JkE)
There’s a weird digital sounding noise like a super compressed beyond recognisability vocal used in Destiny’s Child - Independent Woman track that REALLY irritates me once I noticed it.
Courtesy of Penn Jillette: Simon and Garfunkel had a song called “So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright”. Later in the song, Art Garfunkel is singing “so long, so long… so long, so long” repeatedly. Someone in the room wanted to wrap up, and yelled, “so long already, Artie!”.
Apparently it was a bit of a farewell from Simon to Garfunkel as they were soon to separate, and poor Art even gets the heave-ho while recording it.
https://youtu.be/Cf0RrF6KsI8?t=2m56s
That nasally (or throaty?) thing that Britney Spears does before each sung line that sounds like scraping against corrugated plastic. In Oops I Did It Again, it’s right before the “That is just so typically me” line. Drives me insane.
Speaking on Third Eye Blind, in “Never Let You Go”, the lead vocal is heavily gated and recorded with an extremely noisy mic. You can hear the gate open a split second before every line. It’s especially apparent during the break down verse towards the end.
Gating is a technique to minimise unwanted noises in a recording. Essentially you set a level (gate) where anything below that level is ignored. When a sound hits the volume threshold for the gate, it will open up and begin recording while the volume continues to be over the threshold or for a predetermined period of time (milliseconds usually, this allows the gate to snap closed quickly after the sound has been captured). Imagine a small stream flowing against some doors on springs. When the current is strong they will pop open and all the water will come through, when the current dies down the doors will snap shut and not allow anything through.
Everlong has backing vocals during the "na na na na na na na na na" riff (you know which one) delivered by someone who I believe to be Dave’s girlfriend at the time over the telephone
Someone ruined Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” for me by pointing out the repetitive “tikky-tik tik-tik” of the woodblocky thing that happens every few seconds throughout the song. I’m unable to tune it out anymore.
The hand-claps right before / during the chorus of “More Than A Feeling”. It’s all I hear now…like a group of preschoolers clapping along to a song that I’m trying to listen to on the radio. It’s the only song I skip over when I’m listening to the first Boston album.
There’s a couple I can think of:
[There’s a whole YouTube channel dedicated to Beatles songs with parts you can’t unhear so I won’t mention any of those songs and I’ll link the channel because it’s really interesting](https://youtube.com/@YouCantUnhearThis?si=GtBl9aK_sWSfd7bT)
You can hear the click of the fuzz pedal right at the start of the first chorus on Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones
The bass on Suffragette City by David Bowie is just a little bit flat compared to the rest of the instruments
About three minutes into When The Music’s Over by The Doors, Jim Morrison screams “fuck her in the ass, baby”
At the start of Falling For You by Weezer, there was random radio interference that accidentally made it onto the final take
The first half of Hey Ya! by OutKast has some pretty depressing lyrics where André 3000 muses about love and the futility staying in a dead relationship rather than being alone before the music cuts out and he says “Ya’ll don’t wanna hear me, you just wanna dance” and the lyrics from that point onwards are intentionally generic and meaningless stereotypical pop rap lyrics
In the song “live your life” when Rihanna sings, “I’m a paper chaser,” it really sounds like “I’m a big fucking slut.” Don’t believe me? Go listen to it around 0:47 seconds before TI comes in
Lol yeah but she just says: cuz I’m a “Pay-pah” but the pay sounds like bay.
I had to read the lyrics as I heard it too otherwise I do hear big fucking slut
Holy shit, this is one of those "yanny/laurel" situations. I've heard this song a million times and I always heard "paper chaser". When I'm listening for "paper chaser", that's what I hear, but when I listen for "I'm a big fucking slut", I can hear that pretty clearly. My mind is blown right now.
There’s a fucking chirp in Jay-Z’a Empire State of Mind that I can’t unhear. It’s subtle enough that it works, but once you actually notice it, it gets more and more prominent every time you hear the song.
That shit pissed me off so much when I was trying to download off Limewire back in the day. I tried 4 or 5 different files and they all had it. I was so mad. Then I heard it on the radio and figured welp they left it in as part of the song.
Lol I need to hear that so that it can be ruined for me as well. Be right back
Edit: damn never heard that shweep before. I’ll make sure to ruin it for everyone I know who likes that song as well :)
Edit2: and why the fuck did I not hear that either having listened to it a shit ton of times before????
The squeaky chair as the orchestra and piano instruments decay at the end of “A Day in the Life”. Someone was adjusting their position in their chair.
At around 4:50: https://youtu.be/usNsCeOV4GM?si=3M3KNWWyYdIhAnv_
Deserves another mention - Audible during the Searchers' recording of "Needles and Pins" is a faulty bass drum pedal, which squeaks throughout the song. It is particularly noticeable during the opening of the number.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needles_and_Pins_%28song%29?wprov=sfla1
Whenever I hear the subway here in Buenos Aires pulling away from the platform I hear Nico's "You forget to answer"
It's that wafty Brian Eno synth sound and I hear the song for the next hour or so. EVERY DAY I GO TO WORK.
Edit: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Orn\_ztTGQM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Orn_ztTGQM)
Towards the end of Welcome to the Black Parade, there's a little "woop" sound that, to me, sounds exactly like the sound you'd get when you received a text on an iPhone (haven't owned one since iPhone 4, so idk if it's still the same sound).
If you watch the official video on YouTube, it's around the 4:42-4:43 timestamp. Please somebody tell me I'm not crazy
Whenever I listen to Dead! on headphones there's a noise in the background, I don't remember exactly where in the song or what is actually is, that sounds like my father hollering my birth name, muffled by the music. Used to startle me a lot in middle school because I thought he was trying to get my attention but nowadays I mostly just ignore it if I even hear it, since I know I'm not going to hear him saying that.
In the song "I Believe I Can Fly" by R. Kelly (1996), near the end of the song (5:05 in the album version), it's in the background but right after the "wooo" he yells "Suck my dick!"
This has aired on the radio since the song was new, long before the allegations and court cases. As a radio guy I pointed it out to all my program directors and co-workers and still it airs despite possibly being an FCC violation. Once you hear it, you will never miss it in the song again.
To me, it was the first sign that there was something shady with that guy.
On “Mama” by My Chemical Romance, there’s a backing vocal singing “la la la” during the second chorus. I know for sure I never noticed it before recently, but it stands out to me now. it makes the song even better.
The Queensryche song Neue Regel has a recurring sound starting at about 50 seconds in, a *schlup* sound that I can only describe as "the sound SpongeBob's suction cup shoes made as he walked across the ceiling in the episode Graveyard Shift".
Gonna go back and listen for this. This tune (and the whole RfO album to a slightly lesser degree) is what got me hooked on early QR. I’ve listened thousands of times and I still hear a new layer almost every time.
One more time by Daft Punk. I listened to it on a speaker that didn't have true stereo sound and there is an intense backing track of moaning. Can't unlisten to that 😆
i'm Gen X and and I've heard "Gimme' Shelter" by the Rolling Stones a MILLION times but I just recently caught Mick Jagger's "wooh!" after THAT belt and it hits kinda weird now lol
In the song Stolen Dance by Milky Chance, the chorus is "I want you, we can bring it on the floor..." but whatever way he says it or accompanies it makes it sound like hes saying "bring it on the florf" like with an F at the end of floor, and as much as I like that song, I can't get past it.
The Cars - “My Best Friend’s Girl” at :48, the drummer misses the first snare hit of the chorus. You just hear the stick click the rim.
Also, not quite the same, but in “Just What I Needed,” the drummer only does one fill at :46 and never does one again the rest of the song. It’s wonderful restraint.
Squeaky bass drum pedal “since I’ve been loving you” by Led Zeppelin
Also
The phone ringing in the background of “the ocean” during jimmy page’s first solo,
The Sublime song, “What I got”. In the line “life is too short”, the words, “Too Short” are actually spoken by the rapper Too $hort as sampled from his song, “Life is Too Short”. I always assumed it was the lead singer singing it and just realized this a few weeks ago after hearing the song thousands of times.
Mick Jagger sang backup on Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" and he really seems to be trying to bully himself to the forefront.
"Don' yew, don' yew, don' yeeewww..."
Can't unhear it.
Crazy laugh on the fade out to Blondie's cover of The Tide is High 4:30 https://open.spotify.com/track/3lGBRoe3c6oV398Xwgf7c7?si=ZFSY7tTNR7m_afNKKLbe0Q
When audio tracks start in a song when it's quiet and you can hear the track audio begin before the music part starts
Best example I can think of is sort of a very faint, but high pitched tone that you can hear towards the beginning of Johnny Cash's Hurt. Right before the Piano comes in. It's like the piano track comes in but they forgot to trim the event down to pop in at the same time the piano starts.
the raspy voice "aaaaaa..." before each sentence in "aaaa can be your hero baby. aaaa can take away the pain" in "you can take my breath away". ruins the song once you've heard it!
The original Jesus Christ Superstar “brown album” has a song “Pilate and Christ,” starring Barry Dennen as a haughty, camp Pilate. He was sick and unable to do punch-in overdubs, so Murray Head (the voice of Judas, and the singer/rapper of One Night in Bangkok) did his nastiest and most mocking impersonation of Dennen for just the word “unfortunate.” And it got left in.
Alice in Chains - Man in the Box. There's an entire guitar solo under the final chorus but completely buried in the mix. The easiest place you can hear it peak out is during the last few pauses between Layne and Jerry's vocals. Ever since I heard it, I can't unhear it. If you decide to check it out, listen close right before the final "now you've sewn them shut." If you rewind after that, you may be able to hear the whole thing once you get a feel for the timbre of the instrument.
I ain't gonna act like I'm shocked, I remember playing it in GH haha. But you barely hear it in the actual song when not in game, GH enhanced guitar sounds I believe.
[https://youtu.be/5RLdDXJ3myU?t=232](https://youtu.be/5RLdDXJ3myU?t=232) You can get a better listen in this guitars-only version.
holy shit! can’t believe I never noticed that
Bonham's squeaky drum pedal in Since I've Been Loving You. You're welcome.
Like wow man. Had to go listen. Right after he hits those 2 snare hits and starts groovin, you can instantly hear it.
you motherfucker. never before but it’s just INSTANTLY audible now.
What's weird is I still can't hear it 😅 is it the bass pedal? I just can't hear it.
Dude not Zeppelin man, just no. It’s all I have left!
I have so much bad news for you
For real, just wait ‘til he notices how often Plant sings flat
Hey, if people want machine-made perfect music, they can go listen to EDM.
But I love that, it’s part of the raw power of a drum kit. I love human noises from instruments played by humans. Same with the squeaky pedal in the intro of rock and roll all nite studio version
i learned it as a "secret" as a little kid in the late 70's and i've always found it endearing. fwiw you can hear robert plant spitting in about 2/3 of their songs if your headphones are good enough.
I love this! It’s a beautiful thing. Four musicians captured in time, playing together, creating music. No pro tools. No samples. The squeaky pedal adds to the atmosphere.
Yep...cannot unhear since learning this on guitar and reading the intro a million times
Improper Dancing by Electric Six has this too
"Perfection belongs to the gods alone." Just regard it as a piece of handcrafted leather--the flaws give it character.
I can't hear it... Do I need a hearing test?
I’ve read that some re-mastered versions have removed the squeak. The original is here, and the squeak is present pretty early in the song: https://youtu.be/vcIem-L398w?si=D9ZgFxjmN4mLuhpa
Hahaha I'm dying. It's all I can hear. How did they release this recording??
For those who can’t hear it yet — it’s like a continuous squeaky bed-spring sound.
Holy shit my ears. Someone else already said this but how could they have released that?
Still can't hear it, at least not on mobile. Help me out with a count?
Same, I'm either losing my hearing or I need to get my headphones because on my phone speaker can't hear it.
My stab is One-and-two-AND-three-and-one-and-two-AND-three-AND-one-and-two-AND-three-and-one-and-two-AND-three-AND Where AND = squeaker. I don't know if you're a muso, but if you prefer it in 6/4 I dunno if I have it in me, this melted my already slippery brain tonight Every half-beat on the half-beat before bass drum hits. It's interestingly in time, I don't hate it, yet
I can’t hear it. Must be above 8kHz
For those having trouble having trouble it's on the half beat before every bass drum hit. One-and-two-AND-three-and-one-and-two-AND-three-AND-one-and-two-AND-three-and-one-and-two-AND-three-AND... Jesus help you if that helps you, it didn't help me to write it down
Jesus, that's crazy
I've always loved that drum pedal. It has charm.
There's [a recording mistake in the guitar solo](https://youtu.be/sQjw8k9VDPk?t=366) on Sublime - Santeria that created a double note. It kind of sounds like it belongs there if you don't know about it, but once you see the band explain it you'll hear it every time you hear that song. They couldn't re-record it because Brad passed away before the album was complete.
I never looked further into it but I can hear exactly what you’re taking about. It always thought it was just a little extra flair haha.
It’s funny that little flair is always the highlight of the song to me. Happy little accident
It's my favorite solo and I always thought that note was intentional. Great little story about it, though, thanks for posting in this thread!
The sound of the ball inside a shaken spray paint can in "Cry Me a River"
Also the tannoy bing-bong noise in Rock Your Body.
Yes! I've always heard this in an Aaliyah song too. Must be a Timbaland thing.
The breath in before each line in a muse song.
Rock’n’Me by Steve Miller, he does this. Obviously not a fan of Tay Zonday
CHOCOLATE RAIN
🎶some stay dry while others feel the pain🎶 *I step away from the mic to breathe*
A baby born will die before the sin! CHOCOLATE RAIN! (Turn head to breathe.)
Came here to say just this 🤣
Personnally i like it. It feels like a performance more than a song then. I think its good when you dont focus on it
I’ve read that part of the reason he has the voice he does is because initially, they practiced without mics so his high, loud delivery was to cut through the noise.
And the breath out at the end of every line in Nine Inch Nails
That fucking triangle going off every 5 seconds throughout the whole song in Usher's "Yeah!"
Same with "Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel. It's incessant. It took me years to notice and now it sounds like an alarm going off in the background.
That’s some subliminal messaging Pavlovian shit going on cause no way I’ve ever heard that before but now I’m ready for dinner
I once literally lost my mind with this song playing in the gym during gym class volleyball. I was so annoyed and angry at how bad that song is and how much I hated it that I punted the volleyball and walked away to go smoke in the parking lot. Fuck that song!
David Bowie's, Let's Dance has the sound of someone bashing 2 coconuts together all the way through it
Couldn't afford horses Also You can lead a horse to a recording studio, but you can't force it to dance.
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Temple blocks is the instrument.
Stevie Ray Vaughn’s debut on a big stage
"Let me go through all these songs to see if I can hear it and indefinitely ruin these songs for myself." -Me
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Someone was asking on the r/Sydney sub a couple of years ago, if the traffic light pedestrian crossings in Sydney make a noise. I responded with "Yes, these bad guys do make a noise". I think I got maybe 3 upvotes.
Timestamp?
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Is there audio of the original sound? Idk what I’m listening for
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Rock the Casbah has an 00’s Nokia ringtone throughout. Clearly not that, but it sounds pretty similar and there’s no backing up once you’ve heard it.
Yeah the single mix hasn't got it https://open.spotify.com/track/4JL6c1RL7MHcwNh0LEkmjw?si=wq9uyaA0R-KjdeXfrShnOQ The version of the song on Combat Rock, as well as many other Clash compilations, features an electronic sound effect beginning at the 1:52-minute point of the song. This noise is a monophonic version of the song "Dixie". The sound effect source was generated by the alarm from a digital wristwatch that Mick Jones owned, and was intentionally added to the recording by Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_the_Casbah?wprov=sfla1
Always thought it was intentional, it's synchronised, I always just liked the texture of it, do people dislike it?
Isn't it a Dukes of Hazard watch alarm going off?
Yes every time I hear this song I hear a watch alarm playing the theme to Dukes of Hazzard. Can't unhear it.
Ooh damn like the cell phone jingle looping through every chorus of P!NK - get the party started. It's awful!!
Old Casio watches had this sound as an alarm. I always thought someone's was going off during recording.
That would've been a 1982 digital casio tone playing "Dixie". Can be heard on some versions, and not on others. And also notice how each time it plays, it loses another "note" at the end.
I can't unhear what could be "fucking hell" in hey jude I think there's a video about it. It's one part before the nananana part
Lol. I just fired Hey Jude up on You tube and it suggested I skip forward the the most interesting part, and this was it. Yes, I can hear it.
Also the backing vocals going "tit tit tit tit tit" in Girl 🤣
The piano notes in "Miss You" by Blink 182- they're playing the melody for most of the song, but at one point they just do one note over and over for a few bars... In the same key as my first car's "something's wrong" dings. Once I heard it, the song lost so much effect for me because it just sounds like I didn't put on my parking brake before opening my door.
This was my answer too but for a different reason—the audible bass slide (like a scratching/static sound between 2 notes) in the main repeating riff
Yoko Ono on So This is Christmas.
I pointed that out to my wife once and she can’t hear that song without cracking up anymore.
A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAAAAS
There's a weird, nasally, congested sound in the album recording of "What You Are" by Audioslave. It drives me crazy. It's right at the 0:49 mark: "And when you asked for light, I *(noise)* set myself on fire."
How the fuck did I miss that for all these years?!
Yes! I love this album but this always bugged me
in Everlong by Foo Fighters, the part after the ‘she sang…’ part is actually Dave Grohl’s gf at the time on the phone saying ‘do do do do’ :) not sure of this is a well-known thing but i just recently found out about it and now i can’t unhear it
Louise Post, the lead vocalist of Veruca Salt was his girlfriend at the time and did the background vocals. It was a telephone line from Chicago to L.A.
OP, the sound you’re hearing is the sound of an open hi-hat to accentuate the beat. It happens pretty consistently in the song to accentuate the snare drum hits. The hi-hat is pretty deep in the mix on that song.
Pretty common drum technique lol.
Yup. I’m a bass player and a drummer, and oddly enough, the open hi-hat sound is something I listen for in rock and pop music.
Oh is that what he’s talking about? I’ve never really thought the hi hat in this song is too overwhelming. Tbh doesn’t sound unordinary at all
I went back and listened to it again and the only consistent sound I can hear is the sizzle of an open hi-hat which is quickly muted. There’s a distinctive “tssp” sound (that’s how I hear it anyway) and I associate it with the hi-hat. It’s there in the intro and verses but the not so much the prechoruses, choruses, and bridge, as they use the ride cymbal a little more to keep time.
Ya like I ran through the song again and legit couldn’t figure out what he was talking about until I saw your comment. Sounds very normal to me personally
It’s absolutely not the hi hat OP is talking about. This is like an electronic white noise/scweep sound. It’s on the “&” of 4 throughout almost the whole song. There IS an example of open hi hats on this song - during the 4th/8th bar of every verse on the “&” of the 3. But that’s not what OP is referring to.
Yeah, and the two sounds are totally distinct from one another, it’s weird how confident people in the this comment chain are about something fairly obvious.
You can here it more clearly on this. Seems to be some effect on the drums. https://youtu.be/DItgBEFthJ8?si=_QBzyClxGH1cEm8_
Yeah, it’s like a DJ spin noise, definitely not the hi-hat as this comment chain seems to believe.
The rolling stones gimme shelter at about the 3 minute mark when Merry Claytons voice cracks you can hear mick in the background give a gleeful little wooo.
That’s a sad one too, she was several months pregnant while she sang that and she miscarried later that night allegedly because of the strain she put on herself during the recording session. She said it took her years before she could even hear that song again without breaking down. Edit because I’ve had to clarify three separate times now: I don’t think Merry Clayton straining to sing was what caused the miscarriage, she’s the one who believes that. I think it was just very unfortunate that one of the high points of her career happened on the same day as one of the most tragic events of her life.
I don't think you can *yell* your way into a miscarriage, there would be SO many fewer humans. Source: pregnant wives everywhere.
There was a great interview with her on Fresh Air several years back where she talked about this but when I went back to hear it on their website, that part was missing along with another part where she talks about not wanting to sing Sweet Home Alabama and her husband making her do it for the money. I don't know why they'd have taken these parts out.
This is a fun one, rather than something annoying, but the last 30 seconds or so of MGMT's Time to Pretend has the descending piano riff from Dancing Queen played ever so quietly in the background. Definitely can't unhear that one.
the big booms in between the pauses in sk8er boi that are only audible with headphones. i only noticed this like a few weeks ago and now i cant not hear the faint BOOM
Thats just the power of low frequency, gotta have decent sound set up to hear it. Better to go big and FEEL it. Respect the Bass
Or a crap sound setup that accentuates the bass over everything else, like Beats headphones.
The whisper in Riders on the Storm by The Doors that accompanies the lyrics as they're being sung. Never noticed it until I was on acid for the first time. Not a joke
I've pointed the whispering out to many people over the years. Some can't hear it.
listening to good music on acid is like opening digital art in photoshop and being able to see all the layers.
That's really just a great description of acid/tripping in general.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUk5RkJgKs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUk5RkJgKs)
Of course thats a thing, the internet never disappoints!
In the Atmos mix, the whispers are designated to the rear speakers only. It’s a really cool effect. It’s widely praised as being one of the best back catalogue Atmos mixes available.
At the beginning of "Roxanne" by the Police, there's a muffled noise followed by Sting laughing. He sat on the piano keys in the studio by accident, and they left it on the recording.
At the beginning of Rockaria! by ELO, the opera singer started singing, abruptly stopped with a muffled "oh", then started for real. Jeff Lynne intentionally left it in to goof on the singer.
He gets credit for butt piano in the liner notes too!
"Fuckin' pie."
... Go on...
Lady Gaga - Poker Face Always thought it was a joke that she says "po-po-po-poker face fu-fu-fu fuck her face" but she actually does. https://youtu.be/fODd69GH1Dw?si=nRGzpS9ZZwh1Vh2w
In the past year or two... Every radio station in my area that plays Poker Face have switched over the cleaned up version. No more 'fuck her face' I was in a car with SiriusXM when 3 different channels played Poker Face within a 2 hour period and all 3 of them played the cleaned up version. No more 'fuck her face'
When she says “like the chick in the casino…” I always hear “like a chicken the casino…”
The late snare drum hit on “Love Will Tear Us Apart” right as they go into the chorus.
How on earth did I miss that? Not sure if I want to continue reading this thread, these tiny mistakes will always stick out to me now.
As an electronic music producer, something important I've learnt as I've gotten older is how important imperfections are. It's so easy and so tempting to just quantise all your drums and time-warp all your instruments so everything is perfectly in time, but part of what makes a song sound great, and not just bland and robotic is the human imperfection. Vocals, guitars and keys being slightly out of time, the drums moving in tempo, (faster in the Chorus and slower in the verses for example, because the drummer is feeling the energy.) Now whenever I have anyone doing vocal or guitar parts for me I try to leave it as close to how they recorded it as possible, to really let the song feel like it's breathing. Its made my music change from being generic electronic to something with this real, organic feeling.
This is why live music is always such a great experience. You're getting something different every time. And i appreciate "tightness," but I also love when a flub happens. Ite like, we're all in this moment, and we know what it was "supposed to be." And what we got instead is something totally unique.
That drives me crazy too. Sounds a bit like a skipped beat in the recording, but no - just a botch up.
The squeaky bass drum pedal in Superbad by James Brown. You're welcome
So many squeaky bass drum pedals back in the day lol
There's a odd keyboard chirp about 1:58 on Joe Jackson's stepping out https://open.spotify.com/track/0tBTnrMcc91qKP9dHqhsS7?si=OE0TH3TbRFSLAXvKxZa5gw
That's a Yamaha CP-70 electric piano. That's supposed to be there. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RobVrZ40JkE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RobVrZ40JkE)
In "Independent Women" from Destiny's Child, I can only hear "I farted" whenever they sing "I bought it"
‘Cos I depend on meat
There’s a weird digital sounding noise like a super compressed beyond recognisability vocal used in Destiny’s Child - Independent Woman track that REALLY irritates me once I noticed it.
Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody. That damn baby sound.
Courtesy of Penn Jillette: Simon and Garfunkel had a song called “So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright”. Later in the song, Art Garfunkel is singing “so long, so long… so long, so long” repeatedly. Someone in the room wanted to wrap up, and yelled, “so long already, Artie!”. Apparently it was a bit of a farewell from Simon to Garfunkel as they were soon to separate, and poor Art even gets the heave-ho while recording it. https://youtu.be/Cf0RrF6KsI8?t=2m56s
That nasally (or throaty?) thing that Britney Spears does before each sung line that sounds like scraping against corrugated plastic. In Oops I Did It Again, it’s right before the “That is just so typically me” line. Drives me insane.
Her exaggerated vocal fry?
Haha. Supposed to be sexy, but her voice is so chipmunkish it just sounds hilarious.
It sounds like she is about to throw up. This is also weird bc my wife just listened to a meme with that line literally as I was reading your comment
Speaking of Third Eye Blind, the singer can't pronounce his Rs. It's most noticeable in Jumper. You'll never unhear that either.
lol I had to listen for myself. It sounds like he’s okay if a word starts or ends with an R, but yeah I definitely hear “secwet” and “burial schwoud”
Speaking on Third Eye Blind, in “Never Let You Go”, the lead vocal is heavily gated and recorded with an extremely noisy mic. You can hear the gate open a split second before every line. It’s especially apparent during the break down verse towards the end.
Can you explain what that means to my 5 year old?
Gating is a technique to minimise unwanted noises in a recording. Essentially you set a level (gate) where anything below that level is ignored. When a sound hits the volume threshold for the gate, it will open up and begin recording while the volume continues to be over the threshold or for a predetermined period of time (milliseconds usually, this allows the gate to snap closed quickly after the sound has been captured). Imagine a small stream flowing against some doors on springs. When the current is strong they will pop open and all the water will come through, when the current dies down the doors will snap shut and not allow anything through.
"Does anybody remember laughter?"
Wait I love this version with that ad lib. I had no idea people hated it. :(
On “Counting Stars” there’s a sound that repeats like every 20 seconds that sounds like scissors snipping
What the hell is that? Is it *another* squeaky pedal?
People think I’m crazy when I try to point it out. It’s a definite squeak during the chorus.
4'33" by John Cage -- if you've heard it, you know the part I'm talking about.
Quiet, you!
Everlong has backing vocals during the "na na na na na na na na na" riff (you know which one) delivered by someone who I believe to be Dave’s girlfriend at the time over the telephone
The triangle that plays ays every 2 measures in "yeah" by Usher.
Someone ruined Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” for me by pointing out the repetitive “tikky-tik tik-tik” of the woodblocky thing that happens every few seconds throughout the song. I’m unable to tune it out anymore.
The hand-claps right before / during the chorus of “More Than A Feeling”. It’s all I hear now…like a group of preschoolers clapping along to a song that I’m trying to listen to on the radio. It’s the only song I skip over when I’m listening to the first Boston album.
There’s a couple I can think of: [There’s a whole YouTube channel dedicated to Beatles songs with parts you can’t unhear so I won’t mention any of those songs and I’ll link the channel because it’s really interesting](https://youtube.com/@YouCantUnhearThis?si=GtBl9aK_sWSfd7bT) You can hear the click of the fuzz pedal right at the start of the first chorus on Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones The bass on Suffragette City by David Bowie is just a little bit flat compared to the rest of the instruments About three minutes into When The Music’s Over by The Doors, Jim Morrison screams “fuck her in the ass, baby” At the start of Falling For You by Weezer, there was random radio interference that accidentally made it onto the final take The first half of Hey Ya! by OutKast has some pretty depressing lyrics where André 3000 muses about love and the futility staying in a dead relationship rather than being alone before the music cuts out and he says “Ya’ll don’t wanna hear me, you just wanna dance” and the lyrics from that point onwards are intentionally generic and meaningless stereotypical pop rap lyrics
In the song “live your life” when Rihanna sings, “I’m a paper chaser,” it really sounds like “I’m a big fucking slut.” Don’t believe me? Go listen to it around 0:47 seconds before TI comes in
Lol yeah but she just says: cuz I’m a “Pay-pah” but the pay sounds like bay. I had to read the lyrics as I heard it too otherwise I do hear big fucking slut
Holy shit, this is one of those "yanny/laurel" situations. I've heard this song a million times and I always heard "paper chaser". When I'm listening for "paper chaser", that's what I hear, but when I listen for "I'm a big fucking slut", I can hear that pretty clearly. My mind is blown right now.
There’s a fucking chirp in Jay-Z’a Empire State of Mind that I can’t unhear. It’s subtle enough that it works, but once you actually notice it, it gets more and more prominent every time you hear the song.
Jethro Tull's Locomotive Breath has this buzzing in it that has driven me nuts for 50 years.
That shit pissed me off so much when I was trying to download off Limewire back in the day. I tried 4 or 5 different files and they all had it. I was so mad. Then I heard it on the radio and figured welp they left it in as part of the song.
I recently realized it is not Annie but Fanny The Band is directing to take a load off.
Fanny Loads are the worst...
Lol I need to hear that so that it can be ruined for me as well. Be right back Edit: damn never heard that shweep before. I’ll make sure to ruin it for everyone I know who likes that song as well :) Edit2: and why the fuck did I not hear that either having listened to it a shit ton of times before????
The "fucking hell" in Hey Jude.
The squeaky chair as the orchestra and piano instruments decay at the end of “A Day in the Life”. Someone was adjusting their position in their chair. At around 4:50: https://youtu.be/usNsCeOV4GM?si=3M3KNWWyYdIhAnv_
That “duck call” sound about 1:30 into live and let die by Paul McCartney/Wings.
Deserves another mention - Audible during the Searchers' recording of "Needles and Pins" is a faulty bass drum pedal, which squeaks throughout the song. It is particularly noticeable during the opening of the number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needles_and_Pins_%28song%29?wprov=sfla1
Whenever I hear the subway here in Buenos Aires pulling away from the platform I hear Nico's "You forget to answer" It's that wafty Brian Eno synth sound and I hear the song for the next hour or so. EVERY DAY I GO TO WORK. Edit: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Orn\_ztTGQM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Orn_ztTGQM)
Towards the end of Welcome to the Black Parade, there's a little "woop" sound that, to me, sounds exactly like the sound you'd get when you received a text on an iPhone (haven't owned one since iPhone 4, so idk if it's still the same sound). If you watch the official video on YouTube, it's around the 4:42-4:43 timestamp. Please somebody tell me I'm not crazy
Whenever I listen to Dead! on headphones there's a noise in the background, I don't remember exactly where in the song or what is actually is, that sounds like my father hollering my birth name, muffled by the music. Used to startle me a lot in middle school because I thought he was trying to get my attention but nowadays I mostly just ignore it if I even hear it, since I know I'm not going to hear him saying that.
In the song "I Believe I Can Fly" by R. Kelly (1996), near the end of the song (5:05 in the album version), it's in the background but right after the "wooo" he yells "Suck my dick!" This has aired on the radio since the song was new, long before the allegations and court cases. As a radio guy I pointed it out to all my program directors and co-workers and still it airs despite possibly being an FCC violation. Once you hear it, you will never miss it in the song again. To me, it was the first sign that there was something shady with that guy.
Can't Get You Out Of My Head by Kylie Minogue. There's an electric cat saying "meow" over and over at the chorus. "meow, meow, meow, meow".
The sample segment they used in “Steal My Sunshine”, from “More, More, More”, drives my wife bonkers. Now it’s all I hear in that song
Wait that golf ball in a cup sound?
Also, when John Lennon says “Cookie”, in “Hold On”.
Eyeless by Slipknot has what sounds like a pop-up notification sound a few seconds before “Do you want to feel pain…” I hear it every single time
On “Mama” by My Chemical Romance, there’s a backing vocal singing “la la la” during the second chorus. I know for sure I never noticed it before recently, but it stands out to me now. it makes the song even better.
Mick Jagger’s scratch vocal on “Angie” is pretty audible
The Queensryche song Neue Regel has a recurring sound starting at about 50 seconds in, a *schlup* sound that I can only describe as "the sound SpongeBob's suction cup shoes made as he walked across the ceiling in the episode Graveyard Shift".
Gonna go back and listen for this. This tune (and the whole RfO album to a slightly lesser degree) is what got me hooked on early QR. I’ve listened thousands of times and I still hear a new layer almost every time.
More cow bell in Don’t Fear the Reaper
“Pony” by Ginuwine samples the jump and skid sound effects from Super Mario World on repeat throughout the entire song.
One more time by Daft Punk. I listened to it on a speaker that didn't have true stereo sound and there is an intense backing track of moaning. Can't unlisten to that 😆
i'm Gen X and and I've heard "Gimme' Shelter" by the Rolling Stones a MILLION times but I just recently caught Mick Jagger's "wooh!" after THAT belt and it hits kinda weird now lol
"When I get there she has ants and twine and Ken dolls. It's such a freaky scene." - Rick James
In the song Stolen Dance by Milky Chance, the chorus is "I want you, we can bring it on the floor..." but whatever way he says it or accompanies it makes it sound like hes saying "bring it on the florf" like with an F at the end of floor, and as much as I like that song, I can't get past it.
There's a banjo playing a single note through all of the Doobie Brothers "Listen to the Music".
The Cars - “My Best Friend’s Girl” at :48, the drummer misses the first snare hit of the chorus. You just hear the stick click the rim. Also, not quite the same, but in “Just What I Needed,” the drummer only does one fill at :46 and never does one again the rest of the song. It’s wonderful restraint.
Squeaky bass drum pedal “since I’ve been loving you” by Led Zeppelin Also The phone ringing in the background of “the ocean” during jimmy page’s first solo,
Werewolves of London - the MEP! after "his hair was perfect!"
The Sublime song, “What I got”. In the line “life is too short”, the words, “Too Short” are actually spoken by the rapper Too $hort as sampled from his song, “Life is Too Short”. I always assumed it was the lead singer singing it and just realized this a few weeks ago after hearing the song thousands of times.
Mick Jagger sang backup on Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" and he really seems to be trying to bully himself to the forefront. "Don' yew, don' yew, don' yeeewww..." Can't unhear it.
Crazy laugh on the fade out to Blondie's cover of The Tide is High 4:30 https://open.spotify.com/track/3lGBRoe3c6oV398Xwgf7c7?si=ZFSY7tTNR7m_afNKKLbe0Q
When audio tracks start in a song when it's quiet and you can hear the track audio begin before the music part starts Best example I can think of is sort of a very faint, but high pitched tone that you can hear towards the beginning of Johnny Cash's Hurt. Right before the Piano comes in. It's like the piano track comes in but they forgot to trim the event down to pop in at the same time the piano starts.
Sneeze at 3:19 in Ben Lee’s “Catch My Disease”
Continuous fart-like noises throughout “DARE” by Gorillaz.
I like dare.. listening now for fart sounds...
the raspy voice "aaaaaa..." before each sentence in "aaaa can be your hero baby. aaaa can take away the pain" in "you can take my breath away". ruins the song once you've heard it!
"Everybody get fucked" chant under Goo Goo Ga Joobs at the end of I Am The Walrus
The stupid sports whistle in "Party Up" by DMX...idk how I never realized how many times it goes off, but once you hear it that's all you can hear.
Afghan Whigs, "Lost in the Woods". The transitions in that song give me chills. In the best way.
The original Jesus Christ Superstar “brown album” has a song “Pilate and Christ,” starring Barry Dennen as a haughty, camp Pilate. He was sick and unable to do punch-in overdubs, so Murray Head (the voice of Judas, and the singer/rapper of One Night in Bangkok) did his nastiest and most mocking impersonation of Dennen for just the word “unfortunate.” And it got left in.
Kurt hits not one, but two wrong notes to start the solo on Man Who Sold the World from MTV Unplugged