Ten Unbelievable Mistakes Left in Songs – Mistakes You just Can’t Unhear (with audio clips)
A collection of ten mistakes left in songs, you won’t be able to unhear. Many of these actually add something to the released number or improve it in some way.
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@classicalbum
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Do you think these mistakes actually improve the songs? What is your favourite in-studio gaff left on an album?
@stefannelson
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
This is not a “mistake” but it falls under the “you can never unhear it” category. The very obvious edit in the middle section of Hotel California. I heard that song a million times and never thought about it but after someone pointed it out to me, I could not believe it. Such a huge hit with something that sounds so off.
@aka.Mr.French
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
One of my favorites: as was the case with many of the earlier Beatles songs, the lead vocals on "Eight Days A Week" were double-tracked; in one of the verses (the last one, maybe?), there's a point where Lennon's vocals hit two different notes (a whole step apart). SOUNDS okay, isn't dissonant, but for me it's been one of those "you can't unhear this" moments for the past six decades. 🙂
@DanielRuggero-zn8tu
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Zeppelin's ''Rock and Roll'' – Page hitting the open D string by mistake on the finish
@MrKmr13
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Unless I missed it, I don’t see a mention of Immigrant Song by Zeppelin, which is surprising considering how well known the song is… I guess I’ll give it a shoutout: Plant starts a beat early and the line comes out as, “So, so now you better stop and rebuild all your ruins…”
@SwenglishSteve650
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Soon as I read the title I thought of Zep haha
@Badfinger-m5v
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Edge flubs a note in One Tree Hill, Keith hits a bum chord in Brown Sugar
@stevejohnson1321
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
There are so many song errors I hear daily on the local "classic hits" station. Some have been "playing wrong" for more than 60 years. They won't get taken out on remaster as the tunes remain popular.
@jerrylarson3510
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Love Rollercoaster is a 1975 song by Ohio Players. There's a woman's terrified scream in the background, and the rumor at the time was that a murder had occurred.
@stephenroberts8964
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
In another Police song Does Everyone Stare, there's an accidental inclusion of an opera singer.
@Kirk1914
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
No chapter headings no watch
@joegordon2915
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Bob Dylan’s 115th dream?? Where the band forgets to come in and they laugh and start again.
@philsigman9088
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
On Grand Funk Railroad's song "I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home), Mark does a false start by playing in the wrong key, then snickers and the control room says "this is a take". Then shortly after during the intro, someone says 'alright". You Tube videos and radio stations leave that first part out, but it's on one of their greatest hits albums.
@davidbirdsong4750
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
In I Am The Walrus John Lennon seems to come in early on the line "Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye" but I'm not sure since they overdubbed that song quite a bit.
@davidmyers2367
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Ian Anderson's blown take at the beginning of Baker St. Muse always cracks me up.
@invisibleray6987
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Bennie and the jets, classic intro
@SloshedOctopus
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Helter Skelter- "I got blisters on me fingers!"
@JeffStone1980
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
The hideous guitar squeak just after the lyric "So far removed" early on in Joy Division's 'A Means To An End'.
@waynotcool
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Love what you do Barry. Keep doing it!
@broncodeviltexas
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
The sour key in the intro of " Why Can't We Be Friends" by War. Maybe the drummer in Folk Implosion does it on purpose( I don't think so) he hits the rim in the drum intro in "Natural One". In Donnie Elberts remake of "Where Did Our Love Go" there's a voice whistle left in. My least favorite is in "Eve of Destruction" , they did a terrible edit that you can't unhear. I asked Howard Kaylan if they made a mistake in " Bang a Gong (Get it On) and he didn't deny there was an extra " Get it On" .
@jeniferallan6693
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Love Roxanne piano… I always thought it was his bum that sat on that wonderful chord!
@ReaperFerril
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
One of the most famous mistakes of the era (though, technically, not a rock song) is the double take for "I saw her" in the Mama's and the Papa's "I Saw Her Again" where the engineer, Bones Howe, stuck the first phrase in by accident and producer Lou Adler upon hearing it said to leave that "mistake" in the final version.
@stevencrayn
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
“Get back on it” David Bowie telling Trevor Bolder to get back on the riff in Jean Genie
@timorean320
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Zeppelin had another with song "Friends" wearing headphones you can hear it better, but right after the 1st 2 strums, you can hear someone say "Fu#*" clearly.
@watcheroftheskies358
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
What about the bum note at the start of “Among Angels” off Kate Bush’s Fifty Words For Snow but it’s still one of greatest, but underrated, songs.
@36karpatoruski
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Steely Dan is neither perfect nor are they Rock. Easy listening jazz fusion.
@Mike1614YT
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
again, making a case against perfect AI music
@Earhairy
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
One mistake I always listen out for is on '24 Hours from Tulsa' by Gene Pitney. Towards the end of the song, one of the guitar players loses their place, so tries to signal to the rest of the orchestra to stop, by plucking an arbitrary note. No one noticed, so the guitar player had to struggle manfully on to the end. When it was played back, it was felt that somehow it fitted the song, so they kept it. I think that when recording a song involved a cast of thousands, the temptation was always to keep any mistake, even the most obvious ones, as time is money.
@MPLSprintmaking
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Always sterling indeed
@virag1132
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
scott adams?
jfc what is wrong with you?
lol
@travishiltz4750
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
The two that caught my attention were Elton and the police, as those little bits are iconic parts of the song.
Feels so strange to find out they were mistakes.
@nighthawk5295
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
I'd love to see another 10 videos showing these gaffes. In this particular video, Start me Up was my favorite. The off-beat drum gave the song a lot more Punch.
@ricknorris1466
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
The bigger Beatle mistake is in the Song Let It Be where McCartney hits the wrong Piano Chord on the word Mother during the lyric “I wake up to the sound of Music MOTHER Mary comes to me”. Ouch!
@angharaddenby3389
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
I have a few tracks by more than a few bands where you can actually hears vehicles passing in the road outside the studio! Can't thinkk which ones off-hand as it would mean having to trawl through over 140,000 songs for the right ones!
@TigerRogers0660
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Best one i think is the rattling wine bottle on The Beatles "Long Long Long". Harrison, McCartney & Starr played this one up for all it was worth !!
@deand7348
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
Good job – Not sure Charlies snare crack on the 1 is a mistake – just like you mentioned a jazzy drummer move 🙂
@Son_Of_Elvis
June 21, 2026 at 4:48 am
I have always preferred raw versus polished. The raw Southern Rock sound of Black Oak Arkansas just feels more natural and authentic than the polished sterile Southern Rock sound of 38 Special.