# Hidden Tracks - What's Your Fave? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 15, 2001, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299 "2001-08-15T00:52:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skijumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@Skijumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skijumper)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/1 "2001-08-15T00:52:08Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/2 "2001-08-15T00:59:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@Rossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rossarian)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/3 "2001-08-15T01:24:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/4 "2001-08-15T01:30:49Z")
There’s a classical piano piece at the end of No Doubt’s _Return of Saturn_ that I kinda like. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/5 "2001-08-15T01:55:39Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/6 "2001-08-15T01:59:31Z")
The pioneer: The Beatles “Her Majesty.” And, yes, originally it was not listed anywhere on the cover; later pressings added it. Second choice: the third side of “Monty Python’s Matching Tie and Handkerchief.” ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/7 "2001-08-15T03:18:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/8 "2001-08-15T03:59:09Z")
On some copies of Nirvana’s Nevermind, the song Endless, Nameless is hidden 11 minutes after the last song. On the No Alternative cd, another Nirvana song, Pay To Play. ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/9 "2001-08-15T04:29:32Z")
i like the second hidden track, track 15, from blink 182’s third album, “take off your pants and jacket”. so i’m mentally disturbed. what? what? is that so wrong? ---
**Author:** ![seriousart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@seriousart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seriousart)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/10 "2001-08-15T04:41:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hardygrrl \* > \*\*On some copies of Nirvana’s Nevermind, the song Endless, Nameless is hidden 11 minutes after the last song. > \*\* And boy, is that ever a toe tapper :rolleyes: 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. > [@](#): > > “I’ve been standing here five minutes and you haven’t said a word. > Maybe you did. Maybe I haven’t heard. > Well you better hurry up and say something or else I’m gonna go.” > > (On the CD it inexplicably stops here. On the album/ tape it continues after yet another 30 second pause) > > "OK. Thats fine by me. > Cheerio… Cheerio…Cheerio! 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… > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Skijumper_[ > **By the way, does anybody know if there are other albums out there with hidden tracks at the beginning?** 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. ---
**Author:** ![seriousart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@seriousart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seriousart)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/11 "2001-08-15T04:48:39Z")
Actually, the Boomtown Rats album was Mondo Bongo. _Said the lonesome Boomtown Rats fan to himself…_ ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/12 "2001-08-15T06:26:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/13 "2001-08-15T06:37:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/14 "2001-08-15T06:39:30Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Spoonbender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spoonbender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoonbender)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/15 "2001-08-15T07:04:25Z")
I like the hidden track at the end of Green Day’s _Dookie_, often referred to as “All By Myself.” _I was alone I was all by myself No one was looking… I was thinking of you Oh yeah, did I mention… I was all by myself?_ ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/16 "2001-08-15T07:27:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hardygrrl \* > \*\*On some copies of Nirvana’s Nevermind, the song Endless, Nameless is hidden 11 minutes after the last song. > > \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/17 "2001-08-15T09:14:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/18 "2001-08-15T09:42:43Z")
On the Ramones “Loco Live”, the song “Carbona Not Glue” is hidden after track 17 “Pet Sematary” ---
**Author:** ![Darqangelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@Darqangelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darqangelle)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/19 "2001-08-15T10:35:01Z")
Best of Gary Numan 1978-1983 2-cd set The second CD, after the last track has a piano instrumental of “Down In The Park”. Excellent version. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299/20 "2001-08-15T12:26:51Z")
I’ll second “Eurotrash Girl.” I think there are other hidden tracks (with actual music, not just blank tracks) on that CD as well. Also, on Sarah McLachlan’s _Stumbling Towards Ecstacy_, there is a solo piano and vocal version of “Possession” after the last song. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-tracks-whats-your-fave/76299.md?page=2)