How many more bands have done this over the years?

SexyGreyFox · 23 Jan 2010 at 16:33

Just decided to MP3 some of my old CDs and one of my favourite bands of the early 90s were the Galactic Cowboys.
I rips through the first CD and then puts the 2nd one in and I see this -

For 18 years I never knew there were 4 hidden tracks on this album and it makes me wonder how many more bands got up to this at the time.
Nowadays somebody would just post 'Anybody got the new ***** CD? Well play it through and there's a secret track' but back then we only had bulletin Boards.

Cool story eh

semi-pro waster · 23 Jan 2010 at 16:46

The bigger question is, are the bonus tracks any good? I usually find that they're not really worth the time but it can be a nice surprise.

Weebull · 23 Jan 2010 at 21:22

How did you not find out about them? :confused:

Surely the CD player showing up that it had 32 tracks would have set some alarm bells ringing?

Steveh_monkey · 23 Jan 2010 at 21:40

The Stone Roses Second Coming has 99 tracks, tracks 11 - 98 all being 4 seconds of silence and the last one being a random slightly Avant Garde Noise off.

I was ripping another CD recently which was the same but I can't remember what it was...

MagicBoy · 23 Jan 2010 at 21:46

I had a couple of other 90s albums with a single hidden track at the end. They had a few minutes of silence at the beginning of the track then the bonus track.

Massive Attack also stuck a random 11 minute instrumental on the end of 100th Window. The end bit kept repeating and drove me slowly insane!

THMRK · 23 Jan 2010 at 23:26

Antichrist Superstar by Manson has 16 tracks, then 83 tracks of silence then on track 99 is the hidden track.

probedb · 23 Jan 2010 at 23:43

Weebull said:
How did you not find out about them?

Surely the CD player showing up that it had 32 tracks would have set some alarm bells ringing?

Exactly, how can you not have seen them? Any player you put it in would have shown them.

jp_bl_68 · 23 Jan 2010 at 23:48

Freak on a Leash by Korn starts with about 13 five second tracks of silence.

mjt · 24 Jan 2010 at 00:58

lots of albums have hidden tracks :confused:

those that don't will have a very long last track, with about 8 minutes of silence between the last song and the 20s of nonsense at the end of it

grez · 24 Jan 2010 at 01:10

dmpoole said:
For 18 years I never knew there were 4 hidden tracks on this album and it makes me wonder how many more bands got up to this at the time.

The Beatles did it.

Wiki said:
The Beatles' track "Her Majesty" off their 1969 album Abbey Road is considered the first hidden track in recording history. The original pressings of Abbey Road did not list "Her Majesty" on the back cover song title listing, nor the record label; subsequent LP pressings and then CD issues were issued revealing the track. However, two years prior, in 1967, on the UK version of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, there was the now-famous "inner groove" that appeared after "A Day in the Life" at the end of side 2. While not ever being specified as a track or piece with any title, it is an unexpected, untitled, and uncredited Beatles recording - so this might be deemed a pre-cursor to the hidden track.

DirtyRaver · 24 Jan 2010 at 01:35

I think Nirvana - Nevermind had a hidden bit at the end of the last track, I'm not sure though as I only bought it on cassette! my mate had the CD.

Cybermyk · 24 Jan 2010 at 15:34

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_albums_containing_a_hidden_track

I remember at the end of Life on Mars there are people talking and a phone ringing. I was never sure it was meant to be there.

Flibster · 24 Jan 2010 at 15:57

I always liked the ones where you put the CD in and then had to rewind past the start of track 1 to find the hidden track.

The_morrell · 24 Jan 2010 at 20:08

did'nt blink 182 have one on there album that song about doing something to a dog

Ind3h! · 24 Jan 2010 at 20:37

The_morrell said:
did'nt blink 182 have one on there album that song about doing something to a dog

That wasn't so much a hidden track, as one of the bonus tracks on Take of Your Pants and Jacket - the aptly titled "**** a dog"

SexyGreyFox · 24 Jan 2010 at 20:40

I should have narrowed this down a bit.
With vinyl albums it was very easy to see something 'hidden' because you'd look at the surface of the disc to see where to put the needle.
With the coming of Newsgroups (pre forums) again people would discuss new CDs and if you missee it you could read about it.
I'm on about the timescale between CDs first coming out and when Newsgroups came out.

Flibster · 24 Jan 2010 at 20:50

dmpoole said:
I should have narrowed this down a bit.
With vinyl albums it was very easy to see something 'hidden' because you'd look at the surface of the disc to see where to put the needle.

Monty Python produced a 3 sided album.

Both sides were labelled as side 2 as well...

Nitefly · 24 Jan 2010 at 20:53

Flibster said:
I always liked the ones where you put the CD in and then had to rewind past the start of track 1 to find the hidden track.

IIRC, the live Muse album Hullabaloo has that.

I normally dislike hidden songs. They are just annoying since they typically are on the last track, just with 10 minutes of silence separating it from the previous one, giving you a needless 20 minute track.

30 seconds of silence I can deal with, but not the needless fills.

EDIT - I just noticed that a hidden track off Limp Bizkit's Significant Other is missing on spotify, which basically just tells you that you have wasted $15

Meridian · 24 Jan 2010 at 22:47

DirtyRaver said:
I think Nirvana - Nevermind had a hidden bit at the end of the last track, I'm not sure though as I only bought it on cassette! my mate had the CD.

Yes, it does. as is usual, it doesn't show on the track numbering and counts as part of the last track. There's about a four minute gap IIRC.

M

shauncr91 · 24 Jan 2010 at 22:54

jp_bl_68 said:
Freak on a Leash by Korn starts with about 13 five second tracks of silence.

I still don't get why they did this :/