What are albums that contain songs that do have names, but the packaging does not contain a track listing? Or the songs are not printed in their right order?
Example: GZA - Liquid Swords has the song names incorporated into a message on the back of the case, but the songs are not listed in the order they are recorded on the CD.
Tool’s Undertow doesn’t seem to have any meaningful track information.
The Pixie’s Trompe Le Monde has song titles on the back, but all kinda mixed up.
“Hooked on Classics” is essentially one long track. The pieces segue into each other with the (hideous!) backbeat unceasing.
Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Aphex Twin.
All (except one) of the tracks are officially untitled, though fans have come up with unofficial titles based on the pictures that are used as “titles” on the album cover.
It’s a good album, but it’s “ambient” techno/electronica, meaning that the tracks are much more like quiet electronic music than actual ambient music.
R.E.M.'s great 1986 album Lifes Rich Pageant listed the songs on the cover: 1. In the wrong order; 2. With weird little poetic “alternative titles” that were hard to tell from the real titles; 3. Without one song (“Superman,” a cover) listed at all.
All part and parcel of the band’s creative aesthetic.
The Butthole Surfer’s Hairway to Steven has a track listing, but they’re pictures instead of words. I’ve never tried to figure out if they’re in the right order.
New Order’s Power, Corruption, & Lies does not contain the song list anywhere on the packaging. In fact, it doesn’t even list the band’s name or the title of the record. The spine only says “Factus Twelve” or some such, and that is the only writing on the outside packaging. The only writing on the inside packaging is a credit for the cover photo.
on Sgt. Pepper’s is unlisted.
It took me a while to figure out what you were talking about. Then I realized this is one way to transcribe “Sgt. Pepper Inner Groove.”
If we’re getting into just a track or two being unlisted – usually at the end, usually (but not always) in the CD age – akin to a “gold nugget” among DVD extras – then there are lots of these. The band The Negro Problem included hidden (unlisted) tracks on at least two albums. And REM had one on Green.
Sigur Ros’ album ( ) has no track information at all on the packaging. Most people still refer to the songs as their track numbers, but the band did release song titles on their website soon after release so they’re out there if you look.
The 1973 live double album The Beach Boys in Concert had only some of the tracks listed on the back cover, but out of order.