Best "Hidden Tracks" in CDs?

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.

What are your favorites?

Tool: Undertow. Some random ranting about the cries of the carrots.

I’ve always loved the “can you take me back…” ditty that McCartney sings between “Cry Baby Cry” and “Revolution #9” It’s a track hidden in a track.

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 :cool:

Cracker’s Euro-Trash Girl on Kerosene Hat (Track 69).

Got a tattoo in Berlin
and a case of the crabs
A rose and a dagger
On the palm of my hand.

Genius baby.

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.)

On his album Comedy Aussie icon Paul Kelly has an uncredited track that consists of nothing but

“One David Gower,
There’s only one David Gower”

repeated over and over again to the tune of Guantanamera (I think).

What makes it really cool is that David Gower is/was an English cricketer and ordinarily should be hated by Aussies but we liked him.

Wait a minute. Shoeless, the “Candyfloss” on my Summerteeth CD is 23 seconds of silence. WTF?

Lake of Fire by the Meat Puppets, off Too High to Die!

Worst: the English Blues at the end of Second Coming by Stone Roses. Not even good humorously.

Track 16? Track 15 is silence, for around that time period.

And, Shoeless, I caught the title after I hit “post.” I should have googled a little sooner.

I don’t think I’ve ever been more shocked to see someone already mention what I specifically opened the thread to mention. Bravo, good sir!

Alanis Morissette’s “Your House” on her Jagged Little Pill album

critter42

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.)

::tips hat::

Thanks!

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.

Plus they were all wearing dresses.

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.

Close … “Endless, Nameless.”

For a non-Nirvana fan, I think rthat was pretty friggin’ good of me to get THAT close.