They went so far as to print the lyrics that way in the liner notes to Alien Lanes, and Pollard sings the line as "the king and Carol" whenever they perform it live. A similar left-in mistake occurs in "King & Caroline", but with the vocal track: Robert Pollard's vocals briefly get cut off near the beginning of the song, leaving the Title Drop as just "the king and Carol".For instance, "Hardcore UFOs" has a couple of moments where the lead guitar abruptly cuts off mid-note and disappears from the mix, only to come back just as suddenly - apparently parts of that track were accidentally erased and they just left it like that. Guided By Voices are known for their lo-fi sound, and sometimes add to this by leaving in obvious recording mistakes.Franz Ferdinand's "Eleanor Put Your Boots On" starts with one band member, apparently Alex asking "You ready, Nick?" (or "mate", according to some sources), to which Nick replies "Yeah.".
At the beginning of the Bettie Serveert song "Hell Is Other People", lead singer Carol van Dyk says something unintelligible, followed by a guy replying "Yeah, cool." Carol can't remember what they were talking about, but she was talking to an American friend of theirs and was unaware that they were being recorded.He managed to make it work by making it look as though Snacks was emerging from the ocean, and also used the mistake to create a visual Easter Egg - the edge of the cropped cat photo vaguely resembled the shape of the coast of California (the band's home state), so he subtly added California's border line to it. The problem was that Snacks wasn't fully in frame in the photo, so his hindquarters would be missing from the resulting collage. When David Rager was commissioned to design cover art for Crazy For You by Best Coast, the only specific input the band gave him was a photograph of vocalist Bethany Cosentino's cat Snacks and the instruction to include it on the front cover in some form.The band members chatter and fidget with their instruments for a few seconds until someone says, "It's cool, it's cool!" and the song starts over. In Beirut's song "My Family's Role in the World Revolution," the pianist screws up eight seconds into the intro, then stops.