Broken was originally released with two discs, the first being a regular five inch disc with the six-or-so standard tracks, and a three inch disc that had the two additional songs. The second disc didn’t list what was on it, so in a way they were “hidden,” but they weren’t that hard to find.
And The Blue Flashing Light at the end of The Man Who by Travis is one of the better songs on that particular disc.
I ain’t from Jersey either, and I like Dramarama. I like “Work For Food” better, though.
And who could forget Everclear’s wonderful hidden track “I Will Be Hating You for Christmas” on their So Much For The Afterglow CD.
Great, great tune.
(on-going hijackarama…) And for the record, Last Cigarette’s my favorite Dramarama tune…
My favourite hidden content is on the LP version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Remember how on the Heart of Gold, there’s some confusion, during which “One of our heros bruised their upper arm”, and the narrator makes considerable to-do about not telling you who it was?
If you have a very old turntable, (that doesn’t automatically return the arm when the record is over,) you can listen to a message in the groove just around the label on side four:
“Arthur bruised his upper arm… Arthur bruised his upper arm… Arthur bruised his upper arm…”
Damn! Okay HenrySpencer and pcubed, now that you’ve got my hopes all up, how the hell does one play a zero track? I own the Songs in the Key of X CD, but I never looked at the liner notes. Now I’ve tried on both my CD player and my computer, and I can’t get this zeroth track to play. I look at the track listing on my computer, and it doesn’t even list a track 0 as being on the CD! What’s the trick?
C…D…? What is a CD? Is that some kind of ancestor of a Great Big Hard Drive Loaded With MP3’s?
Opus1,
In the case of the ‘Songs in the key of X’ CD:
The most frustrating thing about track 0 is outlined in #3 - most CD players mess up your hard work if you go a few seconds too far.
Another CD with a track 0 is the ‘Twisted Willie’ CD, which has a very nice Johnny Cash interview talking about Willie Nelson.
Hope that’s helped everyone.
One final thing. Inexplicably, my old and crappy CD player, for a while, played track 0 on my ‘Key of X’ CD automatically, if I started it by pressing ‘Play’ without pressing any of the tracking buttons.
Actually mine too with the close second of emerald city. They also do a fine cover of femme fatale on the album cinema verite. As for “work for food” John Easdale mentions Uncle Floyd. Does anyone remember Uncle Floyd or was he a New Jersey phenomenon?
I have to third the motion for Green Day: All by myself. Although I never could figure out what he was doing all by hisself. Probably composing poetry right? Am I right guys?
HenrySpencer pretty much summed it up. A couple of notes though.
Not all CD players can play these songs. Computer drives especially are poor at this. If you read the back cover, in fine print it says something like “this CD does not comply with the Phillips/Sony Redbook spec” or some other jibber-jabber.
I’ve also heard that not all discs have it. It may be a Domestic/Foreign version issue.
I like the hidden track at the end of Our Lady Peace’s album, Spiritual Machines. It’s a really interesting album all-around, and then at the end of the last track (after about 10 mins of silence) there is a discussion between Ray Kurzweil and a cahracter called “Molly”. I haven’t read the book that the album was inspired by, but there are some really interesting ideas in it.
I’m a huge fan of the Pet Shop Boys. (insert laughter here). I owned the album “Very” for about 3 months before I realized there was a hidden track after “Go West” called “I Believe in Ecstasy” while working on some research at three in the morning in my college dorm room. It was such a pleasant discovery and a nice, soothing song to boot.
Running with Scissors reminded me of Queensrycche’s Empire album. At the end, you hear a woman speaking in a barely perceptible tone of voice. I increaed the the volume and strained to make out the words until at the very end there’s a loud THWACK! I jumped out of my skin the first time I heard that.
A few years back, I made an effort to listen to everyone of my (1000+) CDs [over a few months, you realize], and came up with a few hidden tracks not mentioned before (my definition: Song both not listed on the cover/listing, and not listed the CD itself):
Live - Throwing Coppers - track 14
Alanis Morrisette - Jagged little Pill Track 13
(an alternate ‘You Ougtha Know’)
The Presidents of the United States of America II - Track 15
Social Distortion - White Light White Heat White Trash - 12
They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18 - Tracks 18-37
Tin Machine - Tin Machine II - Track 13
Alas, I forgot what most of the hidden tracks are - eh, guess you could find them on Website.
Nah I like to call it “manual stimulation”.