# Best "Hidden Tracks" in CDs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696 "2005-05-06T14:51:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/21 "2005-05-07T04:43:19Z")
Green Day’s stoned jam session at the end of Dookie. System of a Down’s, uh, CHANT at the end of Toxicity. And at the end of Econoline Crush’s The Devil You Know, there’s a bit with a woman speaking in Japanese. It’s not particularly good seeing as how it’s not music, but I’m damn curious as to what it is she’s saying. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/22 "2005-05-07T05:15:37Z")
> [@Khan](#): > > Green Day’s stoned jam session at the end of Dookie. “I was all by myself” 😃 That was great fun! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Kenneth\_Noisewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@Dr.Kenneth\_Noisewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Kenneth_Noisewater)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/23 "2005-05-07T05:24:09Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > “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. It’s called **Candyfloss**. It barely made the record because it (supposedly)contrasted lyrically and thematically with the rest of the songs. Jay Bennett was pretty upset that it was only a hidden track. My favorite hidden tracks are all from back in the day: Collective Soul - She Said Deftones - Damone Everclear - I Will be Hating you for Christmas ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/24 "2005-05-07T05:29:53Z")
Not a song, but I love Tom Petty’s thing on Full Moon Fever where he says, “Hello cd listeners. We’ve come to the time when those listening on LP or cassette have to stand up, or sit down, to turn over the record, or cassette. In deference to those listeners, we will wait a few moments. [pause] Thank you. Here’s Side 2.” And all the while in the back ground there’s barnyard noises. Cracks me up every time. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/25 "2005-05-07T15:49:34Z")
What? No reference to Monty Pythons Hat and Matching Neckerchief? No Reference to that MAD LP with 8 tracks? Anyway, I got a “Killer Cuts” CD of Killer Instinct Music with my SNES when I bought it. 10 or so tracks (the 20s) run each for 4 seconds (Silent). On the 30th Track, the “Humilation” Theme plays. ((A Signature move a character could perform, that would cause the rival character to self injure to death… comprable to Mortal Kombat’s Fatalities.)) ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/26 "2005-05-07T15:53:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Worst: the English Blues at the end of Second Coming by Stone Roses. Not even good humorously. Is that what it’s called? I always heard it referred to as “Plinky Plonky Music” and it’s supposedly taking the piss out of Primal Scream. It is shit and annoying, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/27 "2005-05-07T15:58:27Z")
Meh. Sorry for Putting It In Caps. I’m not sure what its title is. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/28 "2005-05-07T16:21:48Z")
on AFI’s Sing the Sorrow, there’s a ‘hidden’ song about 7:45 into the last track called “This Time Imperfect” that I’ve always really liked. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/29 "2005-05-07T17:10:16Z")
Now that I’ve thought about it, I’d say that my all-time favorite hidden track is probably from the beautifully titled debut album “You Suck Crap” by **Babyland**. The hidden track at the end is the two guys from the band doing an acapella and oftentimes off-key rendition of the “Diff’rent Strokes” theme song. Genius. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/30 "2005-05-07T21:19:25Z")
On Danzig 4 (this album is also known as “4p”) there is a hidden track. It is track #66 and is actually a creepy little church organ accompanied chant. I believe it is called “Invocation” or “Demons Call”. Allegedly the entire “song” was recorded normally whilst they sung it backwards phonetically. The actual recording on the CD is that recording played in reverse/backwards and hence translated/made intelligible. What would that be? Reverse, Reverse, back masking, or something like that???!! I am so confused, Damn Demons! Diabolical! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/31 "2005-05-08T01:31:54Z")
On the first X-Files CD, there are two hidden tracks on the front (you have to start track 1 and rewind about 8 1/2 minutes). One is by Nike Cave, the other is… I forget. But they’re both the most awesome songs on that compilation CD. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/32 "2005-05-08T03:08:39Z")
Not sure if it counts as a “hidden” track or not, but at the end of _The Swimming Hour_ by Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire, the song “How Indiscreet” trails off, and then there’s about 20 seconds of a nice little jam, and then the bizarre song “Dear Old Greenland” comes in, including an eerie spoken-word bit: > [@](#): > > Friends, Greenland is a place where souls go to dry out > It is a vast and terrifying place of ice fields and tundra > Bereft of fire, and in the horror of its imposing irrelevance > There is a peace > The peace of pain > The peace of nothing > Well friends, I’m going there …And then it ends with a cheerful musical roundup that wouldn’t sound terribly out of place in a Bobby Darin ballad. Weird little song, for sure. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/33 "2005-05-08T03:23:17Z")
I think I am going to marry the SDMB. Where else can I find mentions of **The Dead Milkmen** and **Andrew Bird** in one thread? On **Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire**'s “Oh, The Grandeur!” there’s also a a hidden track. One of those surprising ones that comes a few seconds after a soft, slow song and a soothing reprise. It’s called “A Drinking Song In The Grand Style” and it is in the “drinking song” style but sort of disses drunks and wishes them a bad morning. Also on **Ben Folds Five** ’s “Whatever and Ever Amen” is a hidden track - also at the end of a soft, slow song. “Look man, I got your hidden track right here - Ben Folds is a fucking asshole!” ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/34 "2005-05-08T07:03:18Z")
I’m partial to **Blur’s** hidden tracks on the US release of Modern Life is Rubbish, something like 58 or 59 tracks after the album ends - When The Cows Come Home, and Peach. Not my very favourite songs, but certainly a pleasant surprise when I picked up a copy of it here. They weren’t on the CD I had originally. And one at the end of the **Gandharvas** album Kicking in the Water, there’s this repetitive track that ends with Paul Jago screaming and trailing off into what sounds like a stifled laugh… or something. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/35 "2005-05-08T07:18:08Z")
> [@+MDI](#): > > Is that what it’s called? I always heard it referred to as “Plinky Plonky Music” and it’s supposedly taking the piss out of Primal Scream. It is shit and annoying, though. Goddammit! I kinda like it! But then again, I drink alot. I like the way it juxtaposes “Love Spreads”. (do I sound smart or drunk?) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/36 "2005-05-08T07:21:53Z")
> [@Ms Macphisto](#): > > 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. I’ll also add that pompous bands that put 99 track on thier CDs (86 of which are blank) get shelved promptly due to the fact that I use a 6 disc changer and hit the random button. ---
**Author:** ![Qwertyasdfg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ecc23a/32.png) [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/37 "2005-05-08T08:32:37Z")
“Candyfloss” by Wilco (as already mentioned) “For Women” by Talib Kweli (from Reflection Eternal) “We As Americans” (techinically a bonus track) from Eminem’s “Encore”) is the best song on the whole album. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/38 "2005-05-08T10:00:10Z")
_Train In Vain_ off of _London Calling_ by **The Clash** isn’t listed on the album. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/39 "2005-05-09T01:21:07Z")
I don’t own many CDs, but I just got Raymond Scott’s _Microphone Music_ and it features an interesting hidden track on Disc One that is a vintage recording of Scott and an unknown cellist figuring out the beat of _Powerhouse_ on piano and cello. It’s just interesting to hear. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/40 "2005-05-09T01:56:18Z")
Correction: the man Scott is speaking to is playing the clarinet. Not many cellos in jazz, are there? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696.md?page=3)