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So called “secret/Hidden” tracks are annoying
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I’d like to nominate I’m Still Here from Woodface by Crowded House.
That one made me jump out of my skin once when I was in the bath.
In the same way, Amy Macdonald almost made me drop something very sharp in the kitchen when ‘Dancing In The Dark’ came on after about 10 minutes silence.
Owww!
Would the OP like to expand* on that a little, and perhaps give a couple of examples?
*’expand’ – hurr
Eh all apologies from nirvana in utero
alloway grove paolo nutini
darkside lightside ash 1977
What is the point of these ?
I really like All Apologies. It pleases me.
Sorry
That’s ok. Me old mucker.
I’m also sorry.
What for? What have you done now?
Nothing. I just saw you liked apologies and thought I’d chip in.
Fibber. Show me your hands.
There is smoke coming from your pants
Jack Names The Planets & You Don’t Know are on the original pressings if 1977 – along with Sick Party.
The Monaco album ( yes someone bought it) as the bass player growling ‘you can turn it off now’ and that super long last note at the end of Pulp’s This is Hardcore has Jarv saying “Goodbye” after a few minutes.
The Wanderer on Zooropa some weird alarm type noise starts about a minute after
All Apologies isn’t a hidden track – it’s a rather beautiful and slightly Beatlesy little pop song. You’re thinking of Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip. (And there’s also a hidden track called Endless Nameless on Nevermind.)
I used to quite like ’em back in the days of CD, but they make no sense in the digital age. Plus both of the Nirvana hidden tracks are fun, savage freakouts which capture the important fact that this was an insanely tight and brutal power trio which jammed a lot.
Mr E’s Beautiful Blues from Eels ‘Daisies Of The Galaxy’
The Beach Boys parody ‘Kuwait City’ on Bang by World Party
Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum & X-Files Theme – Nick Cave & Dirty 3 on ‘Songs In The Key Of X’
Mr E’s Beautiful Blues must be one of the few hidden tracks that was also a hit single.
Counting Crows have form here.
The ridiculous “Go, no go” arsing around before”Kid Things” from This Desert Life does my nut, but the much more normal Big Yellow Taxi on Hard Candy is a better thing.
But “Kid Things” itself is pretty good.
The “Go, no go” stuff is another example to children = “Don’t do drugs otherwise you end up doing stuff like this”.
This takes some beating:
Written about Viv Alberteen I’ve recently discovered
Or Ellen Foley, as I commented earlier tonight in another thread.
Viv thinks it was written about her… She could be wrong though
“Train In Vain” was not actually an intentionally hidden track – it was added to the album at the last minute, but because the lead-time for printing sleeves was so much longer than for pressing vinyl, the sleeves had already gone to print without TIV being included in the track-listing… as the band’s record deal meant they were already stumping up for the 2nd disk, they decided not to bother with the extra cost of a reprint.
… and Ben Folds Five’s “Whatever & Ever Amen” (20 years old this week!) has someone at a live show shouting “I got your hidden track right here – Ben Folds is a fuckin’ asshole!”
Oh, and Luke Haines’ “Das Kapital” (his re-arranged Best Of with strings) has a hidden track 0, the Das Kapital Overture…
‘Wasted Kisses’, coming in on track 99(ish!) is probably the best thing on Prince’s unloved ‘New Power Soul’ album.
There’s a lovely coda on Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Very’ when Chris Lowe pops up to sing ‘Postscript (I Believe In Ecstasy)’.
Mostly the hidden track (“Train in Vain” excluded) is rubbish, end of.
This was at least very Jon Anderson/ Yes, and, to be fair, the BEST track on “Open Your Eyes”:
This one is also a gem (in fact, it may even be peak solo Jarvis):
My vote, too. Never more apropos the zeitgeist.
Me, I like the hidden track on Pink Floyd’s “Pulse” cassette – 40 minutes of birdsong.
Nine Inch Nails’ version of Adam Ant’s Physical is rather good. It’s track 98 on a 6-track EP. Tracks 7 to 97 are each one second of silence – what a load of cobblers!
“Hidden tracks are rubbish”
Oh yeah, what about English Rose on All Mod Cons then?
(that was actually not so much as hidden track, more purposefully left off of the track listing as Weller was just embarrassed by it, and didn’t really want it on the album at the time)
They’re really annoying in the car. Getting to something at the end of a Marilyn Manson album bugged the hell out of me the other day — especially when it turned out be a bunch of noise.
Meanwhile, I’ve got a Soulwax DJ album where you have to put the disc in and then rewind it back before track one in order to hear a secret remix of Kylie’s Can’t Get you Out Of My Head. That’s a bit more worth it.
The Super Furries also did this on Guerilla. It is annoying to wind the song back, but it is a very good song
Citizens Band
Once I found this I was rewinding all of my CDs to see if anyone else stored a gem there. Alas to no avail
There’s a track 0 on Blur’s Think Tank which is rather good. I have no idea what it’s called cos I can’t access it on my letest CD device.
Battery In Your Leg.
Oooh is it that one? I must have forgotten I ripped it then renamed it to the last track number on the album in my library *…drones on at length about media library settings…*
Sorry where was I? That is possiby the best track on that really rather good LP. Reminds me of Hunky Dory-era Bowie.
Nope it’s Me White Noise
Battery in your leg is the last song on the album and only one to feature Graham Coxon. Who at that point had never heard Bowie’s Hunky Dory
Ack – you’re quite right!
‘Battery In Your Leg’ sounds like it might be the plot twist in The Signal.
I quite like Fogtown by Michelle Shocked from Short Sharp Shocked. Not so much hidden as unlisted and a contrast to the rest of the album.
Oh yes, that was the track where she got MDC (Millions of Dead Cops) in. It certainly was a bit of a surprise the first time I heard it.
The Manic Street Preachers tacked a cover of Working Class Hero onto the end of Send Away The Tigers (it comes just after their cover of John Cage’s 4′ 33″).
Although not included on the Track Listing on the back cover, they let the mystique drop by stating that there is a “Secret Track” in the CD booklet
Arab Strap’s cover of Its a Heartache is good fun. Not essential by any means, but good fun. Its on the end of their 10 Years of Tears compilation.
Most of them are a fecking arse if you are ripping them to your comp as they are usually a 10 minute “last track” of the expected last track, 2 minutes silence and then the hidden one, usually meaning you ignore them “both”.
Audacity music software is your friend here Mr. Path
Audacity – when I first used it, I found it was simplicity itself to use.
Then it got updated and improved and I have just used it the once since then.
That’s the trouble when programmers pay too much attention to users’ requests for “improvements”. The more additional functions the software gets, the more complicated it becomes to use it and the less functional it becomes.
I was trying to edit a sound recording I made a few weeks ago, using Audacity last night. I found it a frustrating process.
Yeah. Bloody users.
REM – “Untitled” at the end of Green. That’s a rather lovely song.
Yes! Good skills that man.
Forgot about that one. I agree
Me and my mates had put a stack of money in a jukebox in a pub in Clapham, only to find that it stopped after the first few tracks. We tried fiddling with it and moaned to the bar staff. We may even have got them to give us our money back. Then ten minutes or so later a ‘secret track’ suddenly started playing. We’ve since implemented a rule of never choosing the last track of an album on the jukebox, unless the album is a compilation or pre-dates the 90s.
Surprised that @anton has mentioned this one
Thanks for the name check @Wilson Wilson. I – assume you meant hasn’t mentioned? – I didn’t realise it was hidden – not sure anyone can hide from iTunes?
Yes, “hasn’t”! And it’s a hidden track on the CD of Breakfast, after Travel Song.
PS another great Teleman track!
How about hidden tracks on LPs?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s 1975 album The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color had one. It was a double album, with the fourth side supposedly carrying a blank groove, but it had a bit of spoken nonsense hidden partway through.
Monty Python’s Matching Tie and Handkerchief has vinyl-only hidden tracks – a double groove so that, depending on where you put the needle down, you got a different side.
And as for annoying – that stoned plinky-plonking at the end of The Stone Roses’ Second Coming mars what is otherwise their best album.
This one is rather lovely and one of my favourite Stephen Duffy tracks:
This is good too:
https://youtu.be/Y4-h-ym_7Kg
But I take the OP’s point. Most are a waste of time.