Songs where you can "hear the join"

cherchez la femme

manfred mann's version of "blinded by the light"

A Working Class Hero is something to be.

REM "Man On The Moon":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tOzUZDL5ngs#t=254s

The climax of this song has always sounded a little odd to me, and I suspect it's because they just looped the chorus at the end to make the song longer.

pretty sure "fracture" by king crimson has 3 different parts spliced together

http://youtu.be/yobcwSYmdew

the mid section starting at 2:50 with the fripp solo and the rocking coda from 7:42 onwards

the police - king of pain

http://youtu.be/gOykEKP8u0o

you can clearly hear the edit at 3:53

The Who, "Rael." The previous day's multitrack session tape had been damaged by the studio custodian who mistakenly threw it in a dumpster. The engineer was able to salvage everything but the intro/first lines, for which the mono safety mixdown was used, and edited into the final mix.

"fracture" was recorded live in concert! you can hear the original concert on "the night watch"

Soft Machine - Facelift. I prefer the first section. Mike Ratledge does the best thing ever done on a keyboard in it.

Janis Ian's 'Mistaken Identity' has lots of weird tape splices, most obvious at 2:14 (where the track flipflops between two different instrumental sections in different keys/tempos) and again at 5:42 (where Janis's interjected 'aww—' is cut off to make way for the chorus). it's like they didn't know what to do with the source material so they stitched it together on a whim and hoped the result would come across more as trippy beatlesism than as incompetent engineering. it works, mostly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEeAJ44Eow8

also I'm not sure if the rhythmic hiccup at 1:26 in Stevie Wonder's 'Boogie On Reggae Woman' is artistic license or sloppy editing, as it doesn't appear at any other point in the track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chinqb5FKr4

Yes - Starship Trooper
Right before the guitar solo coda

gentle giant "the moon is down" - you can actually hear the tape squeal at 2:38. the whole "acquiring the taste" record gives off a strong "edited together in the studio" vibe (they never really did any of it live except "plain truth"), but that edit is particularly noticeable.

Faust Tapes

'Porcelina of the Vast Oceans' by the Smashing Pumpkins

boy, that edit right after the second verse of "i'm ready for love" by martha and the vandellas is ROUGH.

The start of the last verse of Floyd's "Mathilda Mother"

That really awkward way the sample of Sylvia in Moby's 'Sunday' just cuts off with no fading or anything

Sinatra's "My Way" @2:23, chorus going into verse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2hYDIFDIU

The start of the last verse of Floyd's "Mathilda Mother"

― Mr. Snrub

yeah, surprised that hasn't come up before, it's pretty blatant. knowing floyd they probably didn't bother to keep an uncut version, but the alt lyrics version shows that the cut section was likely another go-round on the "why'd you have to leave me there hanging in my infant air" melody. who the hell knows why or who decided that it was utterly imperative to cut those fifteen seconds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7nNF0FJ3-I

gentle giant "the moon is down" - you can actually hear the tape squeal at 2:38. the whole "acquiring the taste" record gives off a strong "edited together in the studio" vibe (they never really did any of it live except "plain truth"), but that edit is particularly noticeable.

yeah definitely, it's so blatant that it almost seems like it was done on purpose. more likely they just liked the way it wound up sounding.

The Police "Be My Girl - Sally" is probably the sloppiest example of this I can think of, it's literally done mid-guitar riff

"Paper Planes" has really obvious edits after almost every stanza, clipping off halfway through M.I.A. taking a breath.

"elvis costello, man out of time (not like he tried to hide it tho)"

this is basically a splice between two different songs though

The edit after the first chorus.... crumbs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DA6OwN0NVM
Some has not been included anywhere in the reissue of the album.

*song

Sloan's "The Good in Everyone" has a couple of whiplash tempo shifts at the intro and the outro that make me air-drum like a loon. The single version plays it straight and is awesome. On the album version, they fuck it up by splicing in audience noise over just the intro and outro, making the shift sound like terrible edits.

Single version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdRA-OdsJH4

Album version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX3uL2k4gxE

Wow, that crowd noise is terrible!

one or two breakdowns in 'halleluwah' but that's part of the point

Stereolab - Italian Shoes Continuum

The one that’s always stayed with me is the chorus of “Ready For The Weekend” by Calvin Harris:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO4msvIA7cw&t=1m10s
The diva vocals are all from one take except for the punctuating “weekend”, and there’s a pause just long enough to make it noticeable.
Of course it’s a song I enjoy so I’ve sort of gotten over it. And it may even be deliberate for all I know.

as much as it pains me to say it, Kesha's "Praying" (especially the first "I hope you're somewhere / praying," the "praying" comes in a split-second too early)

Do single versions count or is that a little obvious?

Listening to the extras disc on the last Bowie box set and holy crap the single edit of Scary Monsters sounds like it was done by a 3-year-old.