Todd Snider’s “Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues”
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.
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.
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.
Kip’s Wedding Song at the waaaaaaay end of the last track on the
Napoleon Dynamite Soundtrack
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.
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.)
The song “19/200” from The Gorrilaz album Gorrilaz was pretty good. Here is a link 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.