I’m sure we’ve done this before, but hey I’m listening to Daisies of the Galaxy and enjoying Mr E’s Beautiful Blues, released as the first single natch. It was recorded after the album was finalised. Record company and E agreed on a compromise with it as an unlisted track at the end (my copy has a somewhat hopeful record company sticker on the front advertising its presence, presumably baffling to the casual buyer as on turning over to the track listings it is nowhere to be found).
So, your best hidden tracks. Hidden means not listed on the cover or the record, so not apparent to the browser. And this was of course around long before CD’s as another favourite is…in the comments. Please don’t post that Ash track of them all being sick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiZ0eBDnLdU
It’s ‘omission’ has Bernie’s fingerprints all over it:
Bernie was gone at this point. I think it was added very last minute at the cutting stage ,it gets a namecheck on the runout groove
TIW was a last-second track recorded for the album, but because printing lead-times were so much longer than vinyl manufacturing times, the sleeve had already gone to press without it being included in the track-listing… the band apparently had the chance to re-print it, but decided to leave it as is, and for the track to be a nice bonus for listeners…
This one from World Party that’s hidden at the end of Bang! (after about 20 minutes of silence). I think it was only on the UK pressing – remember reading somewhere that some tape jock thought the album had finished in doing the CD master in other territories……
World Party / Kuwait City
Paul Weller apparently wasn’t happy with the lyrics to English Rose. It’s not listed on the album sleeve.
You’re suggesting the lyric disappointed he?
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That’s right. Although I always thought the lyric was “for no “bums” could ever tempt me from she”. I was disappointed when I found out it was “bonds”.
A track that should not so much have been hidden as thrown away. But a great example of the genre. Also is not a bond something that binds you to she rather than tempting you from she. Unless it is Roger Moore – Bond at the time of writing. ‘No bonds’ suggest a line-up of Connery and Moore jointly tempting he from she.
“Don’t Talk To Me About Gene Hackman” by Robyn Hitchcock, tacked on the end of Jewels For Sophia. I’ve got a vague memory that someone on this forum can be heard laughing in the background of this live recording.
I rather like Nine Inch Nails’ cover of Adam and the Ants ‘Physical’, track 98 on the Broken EP. Tracks 7 to 97 are each 1 second of silence.
Always thought hidden tracks were a bit geeky – nobody knows its hidden until suddenly your player starts playing it and you think “what?” and then you think “why?”. Silly.
Her Majesty of course. Listed on the CD, which doesn’t count.
Battery In Your Leg by Blur – on Think Tank. Probably the best track on the LP (and that is a great LP), it reminds me of Bowie, for no reason I can readily identify.
I always preferred the hidden track zero at the beginning of the Think Tank CD
Jarvis nailed it for me. And it’s still true. In fact, it’s even more true.
One of E.S.T.’s albums “Seven Days Of Falling” has a nice slow sad one “Love Is Real” (a vocal version of the earlier track “Believe, Beleft, Below” with lyric and vocal by Josh Haden). Starts after roughly a minute’s silence at the end of “O.D.R.I.P.”
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But wotabout Hidden Pre-tracks?
A track before all the others on the CD which can only be accessed by starting it playing Track 1 and then pressing the “back” button on the player.
I can’t think of a good example right now, but they exist.
There’s a pre-track on David Gray’s White Ladder. It is listed in the sheet music book, but I bet hardly anyone has ever heard it – not every CD player can access them.
Luke Haines’ “Das Capital” (re-arranged versions of Auteurs’ songs with orchestration) has a nice overture as track 0…
Ramones – Adios Amigo has the Spiderman theme tacked on to the end.
(I think it is listed on later issues)
I like to think that the Ramones being featured so heavily in last year’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming” was a cute callback to that track…
Two come to mind:
I really like the hidden track on Robert Plant’s ‘Mighty Rearranger’ – the re-mix of ‘Shine It All Around’ that comes in a little while after ‘Brother Ray’ fades out.
The other one is a strange track that is tacked on to the end of Bob Geldof’s excellent album ‘How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell’. Disregarding the stage ‘oirish’ bookends, it’s quite poignant. The album that precedes it is a great mixture of styles and influences – very upbeat for the most part, before personal tragedy visited him for the second time.
The hidden track at the end of Mansun’s “Attack Of The Grey Lantern” seems to take a pop at their fans (“An Open Letter To The Lyrical Trainspotter”), but my favourite is the quick clip at the end of Ben Folds Five’s “Whatever And Ever Amen”, their roadie at a gig shouting “I’ve got your hidden track right here – Ben Folds is a fuckin’ asshole!”
Yes @metal-mickey, I forgot about the Ben Folds one…
The cassette version of Pink Floyd’s “Pulse” album has a 30 minute ambient track to fill up cassette two.
Was the light on the Pulse cover meant to “pulse” for years and years? I think I remember reading something like that at the time.
The battery lasted about 4 years. I know people who regularly put in a new one to keep the pulse going…
Now THIS should have been the basis of the plot of the TV series Lost.
Two hidden tracks on Kerosene Hat by Cracker.
Track 69 on the CD was this.
Michelle Shocked’s “Short Sharp Shocked” album has a hidden track on the end which definitely wasn’t mentioned on the cover.
It’s a loud, fast version of “Fogtown” performed with hardcore band MDC.
I was pretty surprised when I first heard it.
So am I the only person who really really really hates hidden tracks (and “easter eggs”)? 🙂
No you are not. I hated them and they were stupid and irritating. “Wow this CD is 79 minutes!! Oh no, it’s 35 minutes of music 40 minutes of silence and a half-finished song right at the end that was too shit for a b-side”. Hilarious! Thank you for wasting my time!
I loved the 90s but it wasn’t all good.
See also We’re Still Here at the end of Woodface by Crowded House.
I’m with you, Locust & Moose. It only really got big with CDs when there was all that empty space to fill. I don’t mind a track not being listed on the cover but to wait many minutes to hear it was just barmy and bloody annoying. It was even worse when the track was any good (see Maxwell from Urban Hang Suite). Uploading that onto a computer and chopping off the six minutes of nothing before it was a pain.
Thankfully, things seem to have calmed down these days.
Way up above LoW said hidden tricks are silly. He is not always Wrong
That stoned plinky plonky bit tacked on to the end of Second Coming somewhat besmirches the Stone Roses’ best album.
Just listened to ‘The Promise’ – I’d forgotten about the unlisted track at the end – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PtV8dNZ_Tw