That sounds a bit 'off'

[interpol52]

Hello everyone!

My 6 year old boy is mad for You Really Got Me by The Kinks at the moment, honestly I have listened to that song so many times over the last 2 weeks. One thing that gets on my nerves is the tambourine, to me it sounds 'out', really [i]really [/i]behind the beat. There are a couple of songs where my ears don't tune in to what's going on.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTsY-oz6Go[/media]

The sections of Black Dog that go down to E and have that odd almost out of time feel leading back up to the main riff have the same effect on me. At around 0.44

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiPl3rQZ6f0[/media]

There is a solo (at 1.02) in the Guns N Roses version of Live and Let Die that sounds out to me too.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JjVPiDLdH4[/media]

Now obviously I am no record producer, so sorry if I sound a little bit out of order in posting this.

Anyone else have a song that makes them feel like this? And no answers like 'the entire Rush back catalogue' please!

Or Carol Kaye.

Edited December 3, 2016 by interpol52

[James Nada]

The vocals in the chorus of Beyonce's Crazy In Love. Some would call it "feel", I call it off the beat.

[lefrash]

Theres a status quo tune that when i listened to closely it sounded like the guitarists were playing dotted but the band were playing straight. Once I heard it I couldn't unhear it. It may just be me though cos I'm sure it was one of their big tunes. I'll try work out what one.

[darkandrew]

There's an arpeggiated keyboard bit in Blondie's "Atomic" where I am sure the chord changes half a bar too early.

[interpol52]

[quote name='darkandrew' timestamp='1480712701' post='3186713']
There's an arpeggiated keyboard bit in Blondie's "Atomic" where I am sure the chord changes half a bar too early.
[/quote]

Now this is what I'm talking about! I thought it was just me.

Also, I used to be a metal fan, the entire Helloween Walls of Jericho vocals are out of tune as I recall.

[Hobbayne]

Old Macca drops a clanger about 3:01 in Let it be. He plays a wrong chord on the piano and quickly corrects it before anyone notices. Unfortunately, I did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfX0q1aNCos

[interpol52]

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1480715730' post='3186756']
Old Macca drops a clanger about 3:01 in Let it be. He plays a wrong chord on the piano and quickly corrects it before anyone notices. Unfortunately, I did.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfX0q1aNCos[/media]
[/quote]

Jazz chord maybe?!

[RhysP]

Robert Plant's vocals in the chorus of "Communication Breakdown" have always sounded painfully out of tune to me.

[BassBus]

[quote name='interpol52' timestamp='1480716100' post='3186758']
Jazz chord maybe?!
[/quote]

No, that's a Stevie Wonder song.

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Edited December 2, 2016 by BassBus

[seashell]

That is what I have always loved about Black Dog. So far behind the beat it's phenomenal

Disclaimer: this opinion is from someone who may have had a few ales.

[Japhet]

The end part of Layla is, to my ears, an unbearable racket of out of tune wailing guitar.

[chris_b]

What bothers me on You Really Got Me is the undampened drums boinging and the awful guitar solo.

Still a great number though.

[Guest bassman7755]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_eSq56zXEU[/media]

Jon Lord stuffs up the first two arpeggios of the run down in the solo @2.28

Edited December 2, 2016 by bassman7755

[Guest bassman7755]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHOrpFeXUao[/media]

Kbd and bass not quite in sync at the end of the very first intro riff

Edited December 2, 2016 by bassman7755

[acidbass]

Stevie Wonder 'Sir Duke' - listen to the differences in how the brass break is played. All the musos recorded their parts seperately, some swung it and some played it straight. A lot going on there!

[acidbass]

Also Bowie 'Jean Genie' - first chorus, Trevor Bolder drops a clanger holding on to the verse chord for too long, before Bowie tells him to 'get back on it'. Love the way they left the vocal in!

[Cato]

The vocal on this one sounds ever so slightly off pitch to me.

http://youtu.be/tXtATeQ7GKg

I can't decide whether it actually is or whether I just don't like her voice.

I have the same thing with just about every Christina Aguilera track I've heard, when she goes for the big, powerful note she just sounds out to me.

Edited December 3, 2016 by Cato

[Cato]

Of course, sometimes there is no room for doubt..

http://youtu.be/XAJ62IG3gBo

[SICbass]

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1480733005' post='3186829']
Of course, sometimes there is no room for doubt..

http://youtu.be/XAJ62IG3gBo
[/quote]

Oh my giddy aunt!

[leschirons]

[quote name='James Nada' timestamp='1480710000' post='3186689']
The vocals in the chorus of Beyonce's Crazy In Love. Some would call it "feel", I call it off the beat.
[/quote]

Great, thought it was only me. Rest of the band said I was imagining it.

[chris_b]

I read an interview where the drummer Questlove was complaining that D'Angelo was asking him to play so far behind the beat that it sounded totally wrong to him.

Seems to be an effect that some people want on their records. The only thing that would bother me is bad playing and being out of tune. Which thankfully happens less these days.

[arthurhenry]

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1480719135' post='3186781']
What bothers me on You Really Got Me is the undampened drums boinging and the awful guitar solo.

Still a great number though.
[/quote]

Yes, floor tom ringing at a different pitch to the instruments stands out to me.

[tonyquipment]

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1480715730' post='3186756']
Old Macca drops a clanger about 3:01 in Let it be. He plays a wrong chord on the piano and quickly corrects it before anyone notices. Unfortunately, I did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfX0q1aNCos
[/quote]

He also fluffs up in the recording of all my loving the bass er walks off in the second or third verse haha

[Painy]

Slash's guitar bends at the end of November Rain have allways set my teeth on edge.

[stingrayPete1977]

Anything by Florence and The Machine, awful.