Hang on there Buckeroo. I am a huge Rats fan. I went to see the Wall for the first time cause Sir Bob was in it. I even bought V-Deep! And don’t forget, The Fine Art of Surfacing had two quasi-hidden tracks. At the end of one side, there’s this weird Geldof chant that goes something like “It’s not funny. I’m not laughing. I’m not laughing. It’s not funny.” The other side has some exaggerated announcer voice going “That concludes episode 3, we will be back short-”, a loud click, then a bad-sounding radio snippet of “Feelings”. These may only be available on vinyl though, I’ll have to check the CD. Damn, I wish I still had my turntable, I’ve only got Tonic for the Troops, Surfacing, and Mondo Bongo on disc.
Oh, and there are actually two pre-tracks on the Songs in the Key of X CD. The first song is by Nick Cave and the Dirty Three called Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum, the second is the X-Files theme by the Dirty Three. The CD liner notes sort of give you a hint, on the back they say “Nick Cave and the Dirty Three would like to remind you that zero is also a number”.
I’m not a huge fan of all hidden tracks. I especially hate it when they put it on the same CD track at the last song, with silence in-between. The Meat Puppets did that, having “Coming Down” be the last track, then silence, then something else, and I didn’t discover this until AFTER I had used “Coming Down” on a mix tape. Grrr. Also the “Track 0” tracks bother me because there’s no easy way to actually listen to them, should you choose to do so, and often no indication that they’re there.
Okay, that being said, Mono Puff has a Track 0 on It’s Fun to Steal called, oddly enough, “Hidden Track”. It’s very odd and disturbing, and I urge you to look for it on mp3.
The most interesting/annoying one I’ve seen is “Steve is Here” by Dramarama on their Vinyl album. Not only is it hidden (there’s a slight reference to it on the cd cover) but the way it’s done is odd. The song’s about a minute long, but instead of being a single 60-second track, it’s made up of sixty 1-second tracks. As a result, I had that CD in my changer one day on shuffle mode and I kept hearing these weird, 1-second blips of sound and had no idea what they were.
On Depeche Mode’s Construction Time Again album there’s a reprise of “Everything Counts” that is unlisted. I remember the first time I listened to that album the last song was playing and I thought to myself, “I have a feeling there’s something else.” and lo, there was the reprise.
On their first EP, Opiate, the song “the gaping lotus experience” appears and fuels all the rumors about Tool’s supposed connection with Satanism. On Undertow, the song **“disgustipated”**is track 69, and serves as a very scary and funny display of the band’s humor. After 11 minutes or so of crickets chirping, a lonely detatched voice tells of you waking up in a ditch with blood all over yourself.
Yes there are. One called “I Ride My Bike” appears around track 88 or so, then at the vey end - maybe track 99 - there is a reprise of “Kerosene Hat” with some different lyrics (here comes old sorbet head). As I understand it, this last track is actually the audio portion from a camcorder that was left running while the band was making up lyrics.
Actually, mine doesn’t have it, unless you’re counting “Smoke,” which is listed on my CD. There are a few others that come to mind:
“Kid Things” by Counting Crows, about eight minutes after “St. Robinson In His Cadillac Dream” off of This Desert Life
The aforementioned Nirvana song.
IIRC, Nine inch Nails has one on one of his CDs, but I can’t recall which one. It’s like track 68 or something.
Diana Krall has a hidden track on her When I Look In Your Eyes CD. Track #13.
“Chelsea,” another by Counting Crows, appears on the Across A Wire CD. Disc one. After “Anna Begins,” there’s several minutes of what sounds like a needle on an old record, and then the piano and horn intro.
WOW WOW WOW WOW!!! A DRAMARAMA FAN!!! ARE YOU FROM JERSEY? I was going to list this song too. I agree it can be rather annoying if you play it on shuffle. I think the one second tracks go from like song 13 to 99 so that is a LOT of little blips. Man don’t get me started on Dramrama I could start a whole thread on them. Unfortuanetly the thread would consist of me and me alone raving about Dramarama. oh well.
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[sings]I gave you candy, gave your diamonds gave you pills…[/sings][/sub]
[sub]ahem[/sub]
Give you anything you want
Hundred dollar bills
I’ll even let you watch the shows you wanna see
Just marry me, marry me, marry me
You’re not alone, pal… and no, I ain’t from Jersey :).
I’m partial to the countrified cover of Raspberry Beret (click for a snippet) which appears as a hidden track at the end of the Derailers’ Reverb Deluxe CD.
I’m not from Jersey and I’m not a huge Dramarama fan, but I really like that CD.
Now I’m trying to come up with another hidden track to stay OT.
Oh yeah…I dunno if it’s hidden, because it’s sort of listed on the album cover, but the end of the Lemonheads’ ‘Lovey’ album has this bizarre answering machine message.
“My head alone could feed a family of four for two weeks!”
NIN has two hidden tracks on the Broken EP, tracks 98 and 99. Both are covers…i think. Physical is a cover of a Revco song, who covered Elivia Newton John, and Suck is a Pig cover.
On Tyranny for You by 242, there is one hidden track…i remix of one of the songs on the cd.
I know, except it’s only the Nick/Dirty 3 piece that I like. I’m not sure that second track is the Dirty 3 - if it is, it’s the worst thing they’ve ever recorded.
There’s a hidden track on Depeche Mode’s Ultra; a brief instrumental called ‘Junior Painkiller’. I also know of a brief bit at the end of the Barenaked Ladies’ Gordon album, which apparently is nameless, but consists mostly of inter-member banter and brief bits of music.
