What are those moments that were captured on tape where the band just plain fucks up, but they left it on the record and... it's perfect?

Could be a false start, like on The Replacements' "I.O.U." (I think that was the one)

Or like in Richard Hell's "Another World", when he just breaks into a horrible coughing fit. Damn that is cool.

Maybe a missed snare hit that is just right?
What little things like that just make for perfect rock and roll moments?

It took me over 1000 listens of All My Loving to realize that McCartney totally flubs the bassline in the last verse.

Also, in GbV's "As We Go Up We Go Down" the bass player (Jim Greer?) fucks up and goes to Bb 4 measures too soon the first time but they edited it in a way that you can barely tell and it sounds cool.

radiohead's "creep", guitar soundcheck kept

Bob Dylan's 115th Dream on Bringing It All Back Home. Song starts and Dylan sings a line ,but starts cracking up. Talks to the booth and starts all over.

Gawd, there's so many of them. And I can barely remember one off hand. Let's see...

The intro to Mott the Hoople's "Born Late '58", when the guitar riff starts and Ian Hunter yells "No!" and they start over - that false start is more of a hook than most of the song.

And coughing fits? The climax of Slow's "Bad Man", when the music cuts out and Tom Anselmi hacks up a lung just before screaming.

The Replacements "Treatment Bound" when, at the end of the song Tommy asks "what were the chords to that one part - or did you just fuck 'em up?" And Westerberg answers "fucked 'em up."

"Gotta get that airplane out"
"naaaaaaaaaahhhh....leave it in"

Adam Ant's voice cracking during "Beat Your Guest".

I'm a firm believer that much brilliance is created in or from error.

Nothing comes to mind immediately, other than everything good I've ever made.

I always like the last trac on Hole's 'Live Through This'... forgot the name of the song...

false start.... sounds pre-planned though.

In Pavement's "Range Life":
"Nature Kids, I/They don't have a function"

all of matthew sweet's guitar solos

It sounds like the Bauhaus bassist screws up the bass line at the beginning of "Kick in the Eye" on the live CD, Gotham.

The bit on the Ben Folds song where the phone rings in the background, right at a stop in the midst of the song...

Rza

You're thinking of the parts played by the late, great Robert Quine, is what I'm guessing. Basically, take Joey Santiago, make him a virtuoso and you'll have Bob Quine.

Man will start with a wrong note, bend it into key, and then right PAST the right note... just makes your skin crawl. In a good way. The man was a god.

in the movie clerks where jay fucks his line up, says "wait i fucked that up" and the tape keeps rolling.

Wow, I had never noticed that before...but damn.

"If only I had ProTools!"

Well, yeah...it's more illuminating the conditions they had to work under, what with single takes being the course of the day, etc. There are lots of flubs and mishits audible on Rubber Soul and Revolver, but it's pretty hilarious to hear Paul playing off an entire verse...

this is SUCH a p-tiddy thread

there is some rap song where the lyrics go

like a B-R-I-D in the S-K-Y

it always cracks me up.

another radiohead: thom recording "...millionaire" with wife doing laundry in the background

What else wouldjya expect from the T-O-Double-dizzle?

As Ashlee Simpson was so wise to point out:
I Am Me.

Jethro Tull, that long track on Minstrel in the Gallery:

...shit shit shit, take two...

Sting, I don't know who shouts out at the beginning of the instrumental (title?) track of the first album:

...wait wait, what key is it in? What key is it in?...

Morrissey sneezing having just finished the vocal to 'Interesting Drug'.

the coughing at the end of that wilco song on "being there"