Matilda Mother


0:14, 0:21 - Stray note or feedback of some kind in the left ear
0:24, 0:25 - Two very bad clicks in the right ear, drums fade in mid-beat
0:45, 0:46, 0:47 - More stray noises in the left ear, different from before
0:59 - Audiable edit in the right ear
1:03 - One of the background voices in the left ear says something like "...lo?" before the singing starts
1:24-1:50 - Apparently, whoever made this mix thought it would be a good idea to play around with the volume of Syd's microphone to accent his "chhh-pow's". It wasn't.
1:51, 1:55 - The background voices all come in suddenly, then Syd abruptly stops the aforementioned "chhh-pow's" to join them. This makes me think that all the voices in the left ear were recorded directly onto one track without bothering to mix them.
1:57 - Click in the left ear as the voices are faded up. Another bad mistake on the mixer's part, since they're about to get edited in mid-note...
1:58 - The Big Edit. Everything changes abruptly. Norman Smith wanted this song to be three minutes long so he just cut out the big instrumental passage here (which later surfaced on bootlegs as "Sunshine", since that is what the background singers are saying immediately after the edit).
2:14 - The lead vocal in the right ear stops singing before the left ear's, making for an awkward transition in the background vocals.
2:30 - Another short "oh" in the left ear from one of the background vocalists.


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