instead of a ton of dead air after the last song they actually HID the tracks at the start of the cd. if you put it in a player you will even hear the player go past the first 2 tracks to get to the first “song” did anyone else ever do this?
and the second Question is simply what are your favorite hidden tracks (more traditional ones apply)
I kinda like the super trippy track at the very end of Tools ep Opiate “The Gaping Lotus Experience” how can you not like a song with the line “its funny til he pisses on your lighter”
Her Majesty by the Beatles. One of the first, if not the first. It was not listed as a song on the early editions of Abbey Road, and it came to a surprise to most people.
There’s also the second side of Monty Python’s Tie and Handkerchief. There are two tracks on the record; one plays about three-quarters of the time, the other about one quarter. You could have played the album several times before suddenly realizing the second side was completely different.
Todd Snider’s Songs for the Daily Planet has a killer song after a long silence following the last listed track. According to teh internets it’s called “Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues” or something similar, and contains gems such as
It’s not hidden in any special way, but the “Blood on the Pavement” PSA at the end of the Hairspray original cast recording comes out of nowhere in a macabre yet hilarious manner. *“Blood on the pavement, what a mess / Is that your eyeball on my dress?” *
Not hidden terribly well, but I really like Sherrie Austin’s “Heart on Ice”, from the streets of heaven CD. (Not listed on the CD case or liner notes, shares the last track with “Like a cat”, and not terribly much of a break between them.)
Incidentally, just yesterday I was trying to split up a hidden track that I recorded off a shedaisy album, and ended up giving up in disgust because it had been ripped in VBR. Couldn’t even get my media player programs to agree on exactly when the 15-ish minutes of silence ended, (probably because silence is highly compressible and really messes up the frame counts.) Mental note - next time use constant bitrate for hidden tracks
Disc 2 of Grayfolded by John Osborn (which consists entirely of manipulated and collaged tapes of the Grateful Dead performing “Dark Star”) has a track hidden in this manner. Depending on your player, you probably have to rewind through the hidden track before you can listen to it.
“Now that’s alternative,
the alternative to the alternative.”
Cracker’s *Kerosene Hat[i/] has, I believe, 99 tracks on it. 1-15 or so are listed on the case and are actual songs (except for 13 and 14 which are called “No Song” and aren’t songs). The remaining tracks are each three seconds of silence and then next track. Except for…wait for it…Track 69 which is the infamous “Euro-trash Girl.”
Isn’t it funny how probably a larger number of “hidden tracks” go on to receive fame in their own right than regular tracks? There’s Euro-trash Girl, Talkin Seattle Grunge Blues, and my addition of Lake of Fire, a hidden track on Meat Puppets ’ Too High to Die!.
good lord how did I forget that one…“LET THE RABBITS WEAR GLASSES!”
you know theres a side question to this, can you rip those tracks off of the X-Files and the John Osborn one mentioned? I dont think I have ever heard one of those tracks without the crazy rewind past the start of the cd trick and you cant do that on a pc that I am aware of.
I like “Gene Hackman” on Robyn Hitchcock’s “Jewels For Sophia”.
Also, though not really a hidden track, I guess (much like “Her Majesty”), “Train In Vain”, by The Clash, wasn’t listed on the album sleeve when it was released (it was added too late in the game).
Alanis Morisette has one on her first album “Jagged Little Pill” that I adore. It’s her singing a cappella. Granted she doesn’t have the greatest voice in all the land, but I was a fan (still love that cd actually) and I thought it was great.
Yeah, that one never fails to crack me up. I couldn’t tell you what the actual track sounds like because I always just fast foreward to the hidden track. I’m impressed someone else in the world remembers this cd.
Sister Machine Gun’s “Burn” cd has a hidden track at the beginning, but I can’t remember what it is.
Nirvana’s Nevermind has a hidden track about 13 minutes after the end of “Something in the Way” that’s more of a fuckup/jam on a bad take of “Lithium,” but it was played in concert quite a bit as “Endless, Nameless.”
It’ll scare the shit out of you if you fall asleep with headphones on.
(That Morrisette song, is it something like “would you forgive me love, if I cried in your shower…”? If so, I love that tune.)
