Finding a hidden/unlisted track at the end or middle of an album isn’t uncommon nowadays. But I had a most pleasant surprise when I hit the reverse button accidentally just as my David Gray CD was playing and found a track before the first song.
Anyway - I’d like to hear about your favourite ‘hidden’ track. Was it one you heard about and looked out for or one you stumbled upon?
By the way, does anybody know if there are other albums out there with hidden tracks at the beginning?
(Mods: I’m not sure if this should go into MPSIMS. If so, please move it.)
At the very end of Weird Al’s Running With Scissors I was waiting for the hidden track, expecing something, anything. But I was quite surprised by the sudden screaming and banging of pots and pans. Scared the hell out of me.
As cool hidden tracks go, I like Better Than Ezra’s song, Pork Und Beans at then end of their first album, Deluxe.
Also Memory Dean has a hidden track about 10 minutes after the last song ends on one of their albums. It starts with a sudden scream, which scared the crap out of me the first time I heard it.
“Eurotrash Girl” is a hidden track on “Kerosene Hat” by Cracker. And it’s way the hell up there, too - like track 69 or 70. So you had to let the CD play dead air a while before you realized it was on the disc.
The Clash’s “Train in Vain”; on the LP version of London Calling, there was no reference to it on the cover or inner sleeves – it was just stuck at the end of the second disk. Had to pull out the CD and look – it doesn’t list it either.
My personal favorite was inexplicably left half-off the CD pressing of the album!
The song is called Cheerio, by the Boomtown Rats. I believe it’s on the end of their tonic For the Troops CD.
It’s starts about 2 munutes after the last song and it’s pretty funny as it actually kind of makes sense in the context of a hidden/delayed track.
Totally blew me away the first time I had heard it. I had owned (dubbed) the tape for months and always stopped it before the tape ended. One day I was listening to headphones and didn’t bother to stop it and finally heard the track.
Of course, I imagine I’m probably one of the only Boomtown Rats fans on the boards, so this probably seems rather inconsequential to most…
On the beginning (5 minutes prior to track one) of Sister Machine Gun’s “Burn” CD is a cool industrial cover of a Doors song.
To add to Rossarian’s Better Than Ezra “Deluxe,” there’s also a hidden track on BTE’s “Friction Baby,” which is a weird amalgamation of of English, French, and Spanish which makes NO sense but it is a very nice-sounding Latinesque song.
On the Barenaked Ladies’s Rock Spectacle album, there are two hidden tracks. One is a story, the other is a very short song.
On the Ben Folds Five CD “Whatever and Ever Amen” there is a short interjection as a hidden track.
On Orbit’s (only for now) CD, there is a hidden track consisting of footsteps for several minutes, then a short song, then crickets.
There’s a cool hidden track at the end of Deee Lites Dewdrops in the Garden CD. It has surprised me on several occasions while deep in “mind meld” territory.
I always liked the one at the end of Guns N’ Roses , The Spaghetti Inicident?
it’s a cover of a charles manson song, but its not bad… kinda surprising considering the writer!
I found that by accident. I was relaxing in my room with all the lights out, listening to that album. I had almost dozed off when the hidden track started blaring.
The song before track 1 on the Songs in the Key of X’, which is a Nick Cave narrative over a beautiful, slowed down version of the X-files theme (kinda) by the Dirty 3, is my favourite, except it’s so hard to cue up.
There’s a cool radio ad tacked on to the reissue of Radios Appear by Radio Birdman which Deniz Tek didn’t even know about before he got his own copy.