# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/41 "2005-05-09T02:05:39Z")
Todd Snider’s “Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/42 "2005-05-09T03:29:24Z")
The band My Drug Hell’s LP This Is My Drug Hell: at the end of the last listed track, there’s several minutes’ worth of needle-in-the-last-groove sounds. At the 7:30 mark, there’s a musical parody piece which could be called “Audition” or “In the Offices of a Major British Record Label,” in which a band plays some of their tape for an A&R guy, who says some encouraging things, but keeps saying, “but it isn’t _quite_ what we’re looking for”. At the end of this, there’s several seconds’ worth of “silence” at the end of a record (faint pops, hiss), followed by a short bit that could be described as a parody of their label-executive parody, with the musician aping the mannerisms of the guy who just shot them down. ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/43 "2005-05-09T08:25:54Z")
> [@Dr. Kenneth Noisewater](#): > > Everclear - I Will be Hating you for Christmas Seconded. I also like _Bottles and Jars_ on **Fur Patrol** ’s _Pet_ album (though that probably won’t mean much to non-Kiwis). **Owsley** has a fairly nice instrumental version of _Good Old Days_ at the end of his eponymous album. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/44 "2005-05-09T09:46:28Z")
There are two cleverly hidden tracks on _Initiation_ by Course of Empire. The first, “Running Man”, is placed before Track #1 – like **NoClueBoy** ’s example, you have to start at Track 1 then rewind for about seven minutes to hear it. The second song is buried within the title track itself (which spreads across tracks 10 thru 22), but it’s recorded out of phase, so all you normally hear is loud distorted feedback. The only way to hear it is by one of several complicated methods, such as playing the song on a CD player with a mono button (more rare than you’d expect) or rewiring your speakers in a non-standard and potentially damaging way. I’ve never actually heard that one. The most famously controversial hidden track – though, like “Train in Vain”, it’s more like an “unlisted” track – would be Guns’N’Roses’ cover of the Charles Manson song “Look at Your Game, Girl” on their album _The Spaghetti Incident_. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/45 "2005-05-09T14:25:57Z")
Kip’s Wedding Song at the waaaaaaay end of the last track on the **Napoleon Dynamite Soundtrack** ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/46 "2005-05-09T15:17:17Z")
**Bowling For Soup** redid their song _Belgium_ as an acoustic version on Drunk Enough To Dance in a hidden track and then did an a cappella version on A Hang Over You Don’t Deserve that was very boy-bandish. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/47 "2005-05-09T15:25:19Z")
> [@An Arky](#): > > _Train In Vain_ off of _London Calling_ by **The Clash** isn’t listed on the album. Seconded. Also, a piano version of Dynamite Hack’s “Anyway”, off of _Superfast_. The singer is the sister of one of the guys in the band. I like it (track 42) better than the ‘real’ version (Track 2.) ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696/48 "2005-05-09T17:07:36Z")
The song “19/200” from **The Gorrilaz** album Gorrilaz was pretty good. Here is a [link](http://www.gorillaz.com/flash.html) to their official site front page. Click “Enter Kong studios” and you can hear the song on the “Groove Bones Selecta”. You can also watch some of their videos by choosing the “Cinema” option on the Directory. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hidden-tracks-in-cds/302696.md?page=2)