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The first one to pop into my head is U2 and Vertigo where he say "Uno, Dos, Tres, Quatorce"... which means "1,2,3,14"... Hopefully he meant to do that... but why?
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Because we are all human, something the recording studio (especially with modern digital recording) can completely destroy. Leaving the odd mistake in reminds us the players are people too which makes it more appealing to me. I like to hear music PLAYED! Zeppelin have a fair few of these. I think the track Friends the bass enters before it should have done which if you listen carefully you can hear Jimmy swear. Also the stairway solo has an open string in there which feels like a mistake but it sounds right so why not. Sounds a bit better to be fair than stopping the note. There are loads of others.
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There's quite a few reason a "mistake" may be left in a song. Here's some: #1 It's too much trouble to fix it. This is not as true today with digital editing, you can go in and "fix" almost anything. #2 Leaving the mistake in gives the recording a more natural / real feeling. Sometimes when you edit out all of the mistakes from a song it sounds sort of plastic and dull. #3 Sometimes what you hear as a "mistake" may actually be on purpose - It can add a little ripple of interest to a song to have little bits that don't seem like they quite fit.
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At the beginning of Time of Your Life/Good Riddance, Green Day starts to perform the song, make a quick mistake, swear, and start over. I assume it was left on because it sounds interesting.
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At the beginning of, 'I Feel Fine', by the Beatles, I think there's unintentional feed-back, from one of the guitars, which they decided to leave in, because they thought it sounded good. :-)
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