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Lou Rawls at 3:36 is FLAT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCW1i5HQ0o0

Elton John. I guess it's a harp? At 3:46. It's bizzaro FLAT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13GD78Bmo8s

It's pretty subtle but at :41 Bruce Springsteen's guitar sounds sharp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vQpW9XRiyM

There is a Beatles song that is eluding me now. It has a similar thing that the Elton John song has going. I'll try to pull it up. Help on that anyone?

What songs do you recall with flat or sharp parts?

neanderpaul wrote:Lou Rawls at 3:36 is FLAT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCW1i5HQ0o0

Elton John. I guess it's a harp? At 3:46. It's bizzaro FLAT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13GD78Bmo8s

It's pretty subtle but at :41 Bruce Springsteen's guitar sounds sharp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vQpW9XRiyM

There is a Beatles song that is eluding me now. It has a similar thing that the Elton John song has going. I'll try to pull it up. Help on that anyone?

What songs do you recall with flat or sharp parts?

Anything ever written or performed by Nirvana...
Anything ever performed by Bob Dylan..

Maybe it's just my ears, but I'd swear Sheryl Crow couldn't hit a note in key if she had an autotune unit surgically planted into her vocal cords...

Tronix wrote:
Anything ever written or performed by Nirvana...
Anything ever performed by Bob Dylan..

Dylan sure, but you'll have to give me a minutes seconds mark and a youtube link for Kurt. He was simple sure but he was on key.

joseph6 wrote:Maybe it's just my ears, but I'd swear Sheryl Crow couldn't hit a note in key if she had an autotune unit surgically planted into her vocal cords...

Man, I don't get that one either? I don't lover her but "strong enough to be my man" is bliss.

Tronix wrote:

neanderpaul wrote:Lou Rawls at 3:36 is FLAT!


Elton John. I guess it's a harp? At 3:46. It's bizzaro FLAT!


It's pretty subtle but at :41 Bruce Springsteen's guitar sounds sharp.


There is a Beatles song that is eluding me now. It has a similar thing that the Elton John song has going. I'll try to pull it up. Help on that anyone?

What songs do you recall with flat or sharp parts?

Anything ever written or performed by Nirvana...

Says the guy that never spent any time actually listening to Cobain.

Tronix never did? I know I wore out a maxell xl II cassette with bleach and incesticide on the a and b sides!

Just assuming he didn't.
Generally, comments like that come from people that were just aware of Nirvana in the periphery. They didn't like the popularity and they didn't like 'alternative'.

But I veered off topic...
Sorry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6tV11acSRk

Throughout "Here comes the sun" it sounds like somebody is dragging their finger on the tape machine of one "organ-like" instrument. It's most obvious at 2:30. Anybody know what that is?

neanderpaul wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6tV11acSRk

Throughout "Here comes the sun" it sounds like somebody is dragging their finger on the tape machine of one "organ-like" instrument. It's most obvious at 2:30. Anybody know what that is?

It is hard to judge recordings but it sounds like a tin whistle or slide whistle to me. THey are basically a toy but can be used musically. I was in a flute choir performance that featured a tin whistle duet. Being that it is a toy, they are very difficult to play in tune.

And at 1:16 Robert Plants harmony vocal, the word years is FLAT, BAD FLAT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8II-gt0cfM

At 1:13 Mary Wells goes a little sharp on the word MY. As in " My opinion is..."
It's subtle but it's always stood out to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgwpHYzcwUA

Anything I've ever sung! [Sorry its not famous ,but I couldn't resist]

It's very doubtfull that any musician hasn't hit a bum note at some point in their career!!