Bum notes in songs

[Eddie Strohacker]

Listening to In Flight last night which is absolutely an all time top ten album for me, forty years & still love it to death. However, I'm certain there's a bad note on the keyboards at 4:45 on the linked video, as the vocal says 'and for me'. You can look at it either way, I see it in the context of the repetition of the section as a definite error

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ncHXNPEXU

I'm thinking of any other studio albums that had bum notes left in & can't come up with any, as opposed to live recordings where the players obviously only get one chance to nail it?

[Eddie Strohacker]

Horribly sharp bass... but playing the right notes at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC2ZY2loo74

[Eddie Strohacker]

SebastienClement said:

Listen on my mobile so I might be missing something - just I think it's just a different setting of the same chord?

Yeah, you can argue it's intentional & I couldn't disagree with any real knowledge, just to me he hits the note once, there's a definite pause & then back to the main melodic thrust & when the bar repeats, it's played straight up, so that's my thoughts on it. If it was a bum note, it was in key, so he would have got away with one!

[Eddie Strohacker]

SebastienClement said:

Listened with headphones.

Are we talking about the bass octaves played on the piano?

No, the straight piano played in groups of eight notes. On the word me, so: Don't you know/that it's true/and for ME.

There.

[Eddie Strohacker]

Could be. The pause is the clincher for me. Good song though.

[Eddie Strohacker]

Mexman said:

Tubeway Army's Are 'Friends' Electric? from 1979 has a famous bum synthesiser note in it, but Numan left it in there deliberately as he thought it sounded better with it.

One thing on that song, there's a missed or very lightly hit snare that stands out a mile to me. It's at 1:49 on the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0WNbm1jz6A