Inspired by all the recent “Best” music threads, I have another:
What’s your favorite “hidden track” on a CD?
Among the ones that jump out for me, personally, are:
Nirvana’s “Nameless/Faceless” (I think that’s the name…that’s the problem with hidden tracks) from Nevermind.
Counting Crows’ “Chelsea” from Across a Wire. Adam Duritz just sings with such pain…“there’s something about an angel that just kills me…I keep hoping something will.”
Speaking of Counting Crows, I also liked their cover of “Big Yellow Taxi,” from Hard Candy. At least until they mixed in Vanessa Carlton singing backup.
“I’m the Boy” (that’s what I call it, anyway) by Wilco. Track 16 on Summerteeth. It also has an alternative version of “A Shot In the Arm,” by “I’m the Boy” is so…upbeat.
There was one from Nine Inch Nails…I think it was like track 99 or something. But I don’t remember which album it was.
My favorites are Jack Off Jill’s cover of the Cure’s “Love Song” on Clear Hearts Gray Flowers and Anorexia Nervosa’s cover of Candlemass’ “Solitude” on New Obscurantis Order.
You’re thinking of “Broken”. There are two tracks at the end - a cover of Adam Ant’s “Physical” and an alternate version of a track Trent did with Pigface called “Suck”.
As an aside, the early editions of “Broken” only had six songs on the cd and came with a 3" mini-cd containing those two tracks. I have that version
The track is “Candyfloss” and yes, it is the best track on the album! (I think I listed this one a while back in a thread about songs that make you hit the repeat button.)
The hidden track on Glassjaw’s Everything You Ever Wanter To Know About Silence. It’s a short, sad little song with only a piano as accompianment, which stands out against the rest of the album, which is all screamy and angry.
Maybe the weirdest is “Evil Dildo” on Without You I’m Nothing by Placebo. It’s a random techno track with threatening voice mail that the band recieved mixed in.
Seconded. But you’re also missing the other hidden song on that disc, the also excellent “I’ll Ride My Bike,” which totally rocks (and even more so when they play live).
The track by The Dead Milkmen that appears at the end of Metaphysical Graffiti. You know, the one that asks you if you ever went to make a pork sausage and found it’s got hairs growing all over it? Brilliant. (Similar to Stuart, though Stuart isn’t a hidden track. If it were, then it’d be my favorite hidden track.)
Since minty mentioned the live brilliance of “I’ll Ride My Bike” let me tell you a story. The first time I saw Cracker live (ca. 1992) they were about to play Euro-Trash Girl when David stopped the band and told the crowd “The song is called ‘Euro-Trash Girl’ NOT ‘You’re a Trash Girl.’ It doesn’t make it any less sexist but you should at least sing the words correctly.” It was hilarious.
Seconded. Dear Og, that’s painfully annoying. Plus I used to have a really crappy CD player that had a fit every time I put that disc in - 99 tracks was apparently a bit more than it could handle easily.
My favourite is probably Travis’s “Blue Flashing Light” at the end of The Man Who.
