Weird Sounds in Song Recordings

Hey,

This is just a thread inspired by the thread about Bonhams noisy bass pedal and phones ringing in The Ocean (1:38).

Anyone have any other similar "weird sounds" that have turned up in different artist's recordings???

The band playing ping pong in the background of Lie In Our Graves by Dave Matthews Band.

On all the Nirvana albums, it sounds like someone is trying to sing on top of the music, but it's just this off-pitch, raspy mumbo jumbo. I'm surprised they didn't catch it during mix down. It's actually real noticeable and it bugs me every time I hear it now!

At the end of the The Who's Happy Jack, you can hear someone saying "hehhe... I saw ya".

I mentioned this at band practice and I don't remember if it was Elvis or someone else, but on one of their songs, the engineer opened up a door for an effect or maybe to cool off, but anyway, I guess you could hear the pop machine in the hallway on the recording.

On Buddy Holly's "I'm Gonna Love You Too" they were using a big man-made echo chamber and a cricket got inside... you can hear it at the end of the song.

on Bush's first album, I think it's the song "Little Things" there's a phone ringing, i think it's at 4:58 or something like that. It's near the end of the song

Probably the most obvious kick pedal squekaing is in Mott the Hooples Thunderbuck Ram I think it is. It's off the Mad Shadows album. I'm sure Guy Stevens thought it was "magic", and was meant to be

The weirdest one I've ever heard is on a cassette I used to have of Zeppelin's "Physical Graffitti" album.

At the end of Trapled underfoot there was bleed through from a vocal on the other side that sounded like plant singing the phrase Trampled underfoot. Very eerie sounding.

Another would be during the drum solo on Moby Dick,

I'm sure I hear someone enter the room via a squeaky door.

I know its not his pedal squeaking, its a different sound

One more organic sound I like alot is Mitch Mitchells snare "warbling" after the unison guitar drum intro fill.

That would be unheard of today.

On "Roxanne" by the Police, if you listen on headphones you can clearly hear Sting's vocal reverb cut out in the first verse after the line "Walk the streets for money, you don't care if it's wrong or if it's right". No ProTools... those were the days.

And apparently the dischordant piano at the beginning of the track was an accident when someone sat on the piano keys during tracking.

Don't know if this is true or not but on "YYZ" (Rush) you hear some glass/wood shatter, it's part of the song but supposadly, Peart got pissed off and threw something and just so happend to be recorded and used in the song.

Speaking of Peart check out his website

Apparently, when Kirk Hammet was recording the solo in Master Of Puppets (the song), his string got jammed beneath the edge of a fret, and he picked a few notes with it in that position. I think it then dislodged and he finished his solo. When they later played it back, it sounded cool, so they kept it. It is the version that is in the song