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> > http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/bloopers-1012/
> >
> > 4. The Police â€“ â€œRoxanneâ€
> >
> > I always wondered about that odd piano chord at 0:04.
>
> Some of those are cool, and some are just like WTF? David Lee Roth turns the lyrics
> into baby talk, and they didn't think it was worth doing another take?

A lot of unexpected stuff happens when you record and some of it just plain works, but keeping some of these was just bad decisions mixed with lazy editing. I wouldn't call them all "bloopers" at any rate, but it was a fun read and listen.

> One not on the list: On the Guns'n'Roses track "Since I Don't Have You" from The
> Spaghetti Incident? Axl says "Yep, we're fucked" over the beginning of the guitar
> solo. The whole album was done here and there while they were on the road, and "Since
> I Don't Have You" was thrown together in a day while they were in Boston. The band
> came in earlier in the day and laid all the tracks down, and then hit the clubs or
> whatever. Axl came in later to do the vocals. While tracking the vocals, Axl blurted
> out the line when they discovered the band had cut the progression short by one
> measure, which screwed up the melody and vocals. They couldn't get the band back to
> re-do the track, so the engineer had to do some digital cutting-and-pasting to make
> it work. When they were done, they decided to just leave the line in.

The entire "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon is one big blooper basically. It doesn't make any logical sense at all. If she is addressing the guy then obviously the song is about him. Maybe if she would have said "you probably know this song is about you" but she chose to annoy her way up to pop charts instead. There's an alt take available of Morrissey's "I know very well how I got my name" that they titled "I know very well how I got my note wrong" where at the end of the song a guitar note is flubbed so ridiculously that they just stop and burst into laughter. It's pretty damn funny.