Name: Top 10 Famous Music Moments That Happened by Mistake
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Roxanne, you don't have to put on the Red Knight.

today we're counting down our picks for the most interesting moments and popular songs that came about from a recording mistake.

The Dog Barks Been Caught Stealing what Rolling Stone called the best use of dog barks since Pet Sounds was actually a complete mistake bark before the funky bass line of Jane's Addiction's Been Caught Stealing kicks in, you hear the unexpected sound of a dog barking.

It sounds playful and deliberate, but those barks were never part of the original plan.

They came from frontman Perry Farrell's dog Annie.

As he recalls, he just got a new dog from a shelter and it was quite attached to him, so he brought her to the studio.

When she saw him singing in the booth, she got excited and started barking.

The band loved the chaotic energy and decided to keep it even, adding the barks to the final mix.

Few songs are as gloriously messy as the King Kingsman's Louie Louie.

Recorded in just two takes inside a cheap, cramped studio, the song is a technical disaster.

The lyrics are slurred and borderline incomprehensible, the tempo is all over the place.

After the guitar solo, the singer comes in too early, And

at one point you even hear the drummer swear after dropping his stick.

If it sounds like a rough demo, that's because it actually was.

The band's manager and producer, Ken Chase, loved the messy and raw sound of the recording so much that he urged the band to release it as is.

It became one of the most recognizable recordings in rock history and helped popularize garage rock.

I know, I know, I know, Ain't no Sunshine When She's Gone Sometimes not finishing your lyrics is the best creative decision you'll ever make.

When Bill Withers wrote Ain't no Sunshine, he left a section of the song blank, planning to simply fill it in later.

So when it came time to put the song onto vinyl, Withers repeated the words I know a total of 26 times, using it as a placeholder while he wrote the lyrics for the bridge.

But everyone in the studio realized that it was perfect, as that repetition captured longing better than any new words could.

They convinced Withers to keep it as is, and

as he puts it, I was this factory worker puttering around, so when they said to leave it like that, I left it.

You've probably heard James Blunt's you're Beautiful a hundred times, but

did you know, the song technically starts with a mistake.

Blunt sings the line, my life is brilliant way too early.

But that false start wasn't supposed to be there.

Rather than redo it, they decided to just leave it in.

Although the false start is removed when the song is played on the radio, the result adds a strangely intimate, almost confessional quality to the song.

Like we're catching Blunt mid thought before the story begins.

It makes you wonder how many nice thematic moments like this are actually intended in art, and

Speaking of false starts, this is the daddy of them all.

This classic Green Day tune begins with not one but two false starts.

As Billie Joe Armstrong messes up the opening guitar lick.

Then he starts it again, messes up again and stops again.

Fed up with his mistakes, he mutters a quiet F bomb under his breath before starting again for a third time.

And with that, the song proper finally begins.

Well, if you've only heard this song on the radio, then no, because the single version omitted this opening mistake.

But if you're listening to the album version, it's there in all its messy glory.

Even the Beatles weren't immune to happy accidents.

A cheer creaks in A Day in the Life and an F bomb is dropped in hey Jude.

But perhaps the funniest mistake comes at the end of Obla D Obladah, when a lyrical mix up completely changes the course of the story.

In the final verse, Paul McCartney accidentally sings, Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face.

And in the evening she's a singer with the band.

The lyrics are insanely progressive for their day, but they were a mistake.

Paul was supposed to say Molly, not Desmond.

The result is a charming gender flipped twist born from pure studio spontaneity.

The Slipped Piano notes Roxanne, Roxanne, you don't have to wear that dress tonight.

The Police breakout hit Roxanne began with an unmistakable blip, a weird piano chord and the unmistakable sound of Sting laughing.

That moment wasn't supposed to be there at all.

Shortly after the take started, Sting accidentally sat on the studio keyboard, creating a weird and atonal noise.

instead of cutting it, the band decided that it had a charming quality and left it in.

The result is a spontaneous human opening that perfectly suits a song about embracing imperfection.

What began as a clumsy mistake became one of rock's most recognizable and endearingly authentic song intros.

Before the acoustic guitar of Wish youh Were Here even begins, you can hear David Gilmour make what we can describe as nicely as we can a series of dad noises.

As the opening distant guitar plays, Gilmore can be heard making a coughing or grunting noise, which sounds almost pig like.

A few seconds later, he audibly sniffles.

As the intro is supposed to sound like someone listening to the radio, it does add a nice degree of authenticity.

You can almost see your dad sitting in his recliner listening to a peaceful song after the ball game.

Just start again Bob Dylan's 115th dream.

Only Bob Dylan could turn a botched take into a career highlight.

Dylan and producer Tom Wilson can be heard breaking out into guffaws Shortly after Bob Dylan's 115th dream begins, supposedly because the band failed to join him.

The chaos that follows is pure 60s Dylan, with the studio breaking into laughter before the song starts again.

Okay, take two it's not often that we get such a blatant error in a song, and

why they decided to keep it like this, we can only guess.

Either way, the botched opening perfectly captures the artist's spirit loose, unpredictable and alive.

It's the sound of an artist so confident in his craft that he even keeps the mistakes.

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