For me, it's "Start Me Up" by Rolling Stones.

Begins with solo guitar, then suddenly drums come in and the snare is echoing, but then the next count is a down beat and all the reverb from the drums have disappeared, and the rhythm is all weird.

Anyone editing that today would have dragged that straight from their digital workstation to Recycle Bin.

It happens all the time on many german radio stations.

The most jarring being butchering classic pop songs for the sake of more spot time.

I also remember reading that if a song runs under a certain time, there are no royalties to pay.

Please flame me for that!

Two come to mind:

1) The Ides of March "Vehicle:" 17 seconds of the original song was erased by accident, and they sorta had to piece it together leading into the guitar solo. Jim Peterik has always noted he hates how the guitar solo just sorta clumps into being. It's a really quick fade-in, and I mean quick, on an existing note.

2) The engineer who was working on "Paradise City" for Guns n' Roses set up a joke where they cut and pasted a section of the song so it repeated itself. They played it for Axel Rose, who was just there to listen to the production, etc., and then heard it. He actually liked it and told them to leave it in the song. It sounds ridiculous. It happens at the 4:34 mark.

Also, there is a weird edit in "Purple Rain" on a snare hit that bugs me to no end.

1)Isaac Hayes "Walk On By" (45 Version)

2)Funkadelic "Hit It And Quit It" (The Engineer was HIGH!!!- LOL)

3)Sly & The Family Stone- Stand (The Coda is SPLICED on)

Cinny said:

For me, it's "Start Me Up" by Rolling Stones.

Begins with solo guitar, then suddenly drums come in and the snare is echoing, but then the next count is a down beat and all the reverb from the drums have disappeared, and the rhythm is all weird.

Anyone editing that today would have dragged that straight from their digital workstation to Recycle Bin.

Agreed, Start me up is a weird song in this regard...but somehow, that sloppiness is part of its charm. Cleaned up it just wouldnt work as well, imo.

At the end of "It's A Kind Of Magic", Mercury sings "...fried chicken..."

nayroo2002 said:

At the end of "It's A Kind Of Magic", Mercury sings "...fried chicken..."

Isn't that at the end of the song "One Vision"?

Henaz said:

nayroo2002 said:

At the end of "It's A Kind Of Magic", Mercury sings "...fried chicken..."

Isn't that at the end of the song "One Vision"?

Yep.

My bad!

I couldnt BELIEVE Mariah Carey's "Infinity" was allowed to pass through the editing with a very unstable transition from 2nd verse to refrain at 2:20.

Everything you own boy you still owe

[NO BREAK]

Close the door lose the key...

All the while, the drums are still going off beat and did not match how it was supposed to go originally. I cant belive no one even bothered to fix this minor error. If I had the stems I would do this happily for them. Matter fo fact I would like to ask these people what happened:

• Assistant recording – Tristan Bott, Brandon Wood, Matts E. Larson
• Mixing – Phil Tan
• Additional/assistant engineering – Daniela Rivera

They let the ball drop.

Mariah Carey - Infinity - YouTube

Guy - "Teddy's Jam"

At the end of the song (probably no one will notice this anyway) the music abruptly cuts off and somebody says "damn!" when they thought the fade out was done. It was like somebody just pulled the plug on all the music suddenly.

paisleypark4 said:

Guy - "Teddy's Jam"

At the end of the song (probably no one will notice this anyway) the music abruptly cuts off and somebody says "damn!" when they thought the fade out was done. It was like somebody just pulled the plug on all the music suddenly.

But, didn't that happen on a couple of Prince songs, too?

The end of Phil Collins' "Something Happened On The Way To Heaven" drives me nuts... during the adlibs at the end, Phil starts to say "You're...", but he says it too early. The line is "You're all I need, please believe me". So he stops abruptly and restarts on time. It's just an obvious flaw an a top notch pop song.

I'm not saying its the worst, but its the one I immediately thought of.

Happens at 4:11....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vswLoSCNLlQ

[Edited 1/31/21 14:05pm]

Superstition said:

The end of Phil Collins' "Something Happened On The Way To Heaven" drives me nuts... during the adlibs at the end, Phil starts to say "You're...", but he says it too early. The line is "You're all I need, please believe me". So he stops abruptly and restarts on time. It's just an obvious flaw an a top notch pop song.

I'm not saying its the worst, but its the one I immediately thought of.

Happens at 4:11....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vswLoSCNLlQ

But... isn't that what an ad-lib is?


We had our problems, but I'm on your si-ya-ide

You're all I need, please believe me

is what I hear.

TrivialPursuit said:

Crown Heights Affair Sure Shot

The album version is super funky but the 45 version they cut the intro too short and

the funky guitar break in the middle of the song they hit one note then jump back to

the song. WTF?

When I listen to the album on Spotify they don't play the album version they play

the edited version

TrivialPursuit said:

The version of The Time's Jerk Out in the music video. Particularly the part at the ATM machine, where a guitar solo just pops up out of nowhere.

paisleypark4 said: