Top 15 songs with mistakes you can’t unhear
00:00 Intro
00:06 The Beatles
00:46 Elvis Presley
01:52 Bill Withers
02:46 David Bowie
03:50 Elton John
04:26 Pink Floyd
05:25 Steely Dan
06:10 The Police
06:44 Peter Gabriel
07:39 The Who
08:16 Billy Joel
08:53 Prince
09:46 Guns N’ Roses
10:24 Christina Aguilera
11:13 James Blunt
@Bohr2um
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
2:54 Same with The Ocean by Led Zeppelin
@AndersEngerJensen
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
Elvis: Haha, was THAT the reason? I always thought it was the overly vocalized background singer when I was a kid! 🤪😄
@ALEXANDERODGERS2609
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
The F bomb in hey jude😂
@chrisduran
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
Cindy screaming ‘Tin roof rusty!’ when she didn’t know the music had stopped in Love Shack.
@mathewalane
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
Mama by Steven Page has a bit in the middle of the song where he comes in too early. I love that he leaves it in.
@mclartychannel
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
Irving Caesar's words to the famous song "Tea For Two," set to music by Vincent Youmans, were originally placeholder lyrics that they decided to keep.
@henry-lee-music
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
George Martin and other pros were part of the recording sessions. Didn't they know they would record something you can't erase? I doubt it.
@blueface
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
I record a lot of metal bands, and in one particular instance on one album I worked on, Blackbraid – Blackbraid II, the breath intake at the very end of the song The Spirit Returns before the last scream was supposed to be removed but he hit it at the perfect time and it sounded so good we decided to leave it in. Not so much a mistake so to say but a happy little accident that fit so we decided to keep it in. In one of the instrumental tracks on the same record, we recorded it on rainy day. I was still living at my parents house at the time recording in my bedroom on a busy main road and during the last hold out on the acoustic guitar track you could hear a tractor trailer driving by. It was a perfect take, so instead of redoing it we just added some wind sound effects at the end to cover it up.
@MrMaxKeane
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day.
The song starts with Armstrong missing the Bstring twice in a row, swearing and then getting it right the third time.
@pcress
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
"Gunter glieben glauten globen" is heard at the beginning of Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages. The group had been through the piece several times, and producer Mutt Lange was getting tired of starting them with "one, two, three, four" so as a goof he spouted some pseudo-German nonsense. They liked the sound of it and kept it on the final.
Also, Johnny Cash's "Walk the Line" has four key changes. After each key change, Cash quietly hummed the first note of each verse, to get in sync with the accompaniment, with the assumption that it would be deleted. In mixing, they kept the hum.
@raulandrus
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
A 14 piece list video and it took only 12 minutes. No blabla, no bullshit, straight to the point. Thank you!
@rogerhuggettjr.7675
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
I never understood the Eminence Front thing, but I feel bad they fixed it. It's like records that have tick or skip that becomes predictable and expected.
@andan04
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
Other mistakes (possibly?):
About three minutes into the Wings song "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five," it sounds like a drum beat comes in too early, followed by (McCartney's?) "oop."
About two minutes into the Nirvana song "Polly," it sounds like Cobain starts singing the lyric "Polly says her back hurts" too soon, stops after singing only "Polly says," and then reenters at the proper place with the full line.
@dumbassloser
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
Led Zeppelin – Black Country Woman.
At the very beginning of the track, you can hear the band's conversation as a propeller-driven plane flies overhead. Sound engineer Eddie Kramer is heard saying, "We gotta get this airplane off," to which Robert Plant famously replies, "Nah, leave it, yeah." They decided to keep the unexpected airplane noise in the final recording, which was later released on the 1975 album Physical Graffiti.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFfjdXYePHI
@VancouverJeff
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
The drum tempo increases during the chorus in “Heat of the Moment” by Asia. Once you hear it, you can’t unhear it.
@BrianBattles
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
In Louie Louie by the Kingsmen the singer comes in too early in the middle
@dwneder
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
The one I'm always shocked that nobody notices is the intro bass line on Earth, Wind & Fire's September that happens about 15 seconds into the song where the bass is playing a little repeated riff. I know this is a mistake because I've made it myself a few times on other songs!
@grantrobertdavies
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
NIN – Discipline – Trent comes in 2 bars early with his vocal… (I think it's a mistake? LOL)
@NickDean-v8l
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
The real hero is that was singing in the background on elvis song is the real hero
@utopianeconomics5814
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
"Steamrock Fever" by the Scorpions! According to the linear notes of "Taken by Force," there was construction scheduled outside of the studio at the same time of one of their sessions, but they decided that it might be better to make use of the sound of the jackhammers rather than to try to hide it and have it still bleed through anyway, so they intentionally incorporated the sound of the jackhammers throughout the entire song. It turns out that the song would have probably been pretty forgettable if it were not for the jackhammers because the album was filled with more memorable songs, like "We'll Burn the Sky," "The Riot of Your Time," "The Sails of Charon," "Your Light," and even "He's a Woman—She's a Man," which is often cited as an early influence by speed/thrash metal bands.
@PJSOFT
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
The intro of Big Girl by Mika had clashing noises. It sounds like he hit the note stand with his pen.
@discontinuedmodel232
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
I'm confused about the Beatles "alarm clock" sound. It doesn't sound like any alarm clock I'm used to hearing. What am I missing here?
@heather2795m
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
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@loganmcclain8420
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
It's a little bit ironic that Bill Withers repeated "I know" when he actually didn't know the lyrics.
@ConradSpoke
March 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
That Beatles alarm clock story is nonsense. No musician ever used an alarm clock to "keep track of time." Mal Evans set it off at the perfect time very much on purpose.
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