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This really gets my goat...

What is it with bands doing a track at the end of an album, where it has 15 minutes of silence or something, then like a 3 minute mess around or something similar, just really gets on my nerves tbh.

Anyone else find this growing trend annoying as hell? :mad:
 
IceBus said:
Growing trend? This is nothing new.
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Sorry, but to me it seems to be happening more and more, i.e. used to be the occasional album, but i've got like 5 or 6 in the last few months that have this.

I didn't say that it had never happened before recently and i didnt say it was a new thing.
 
I'm actually finding that less albums I listen to have them - but the ones that do really get on my nerves - I usually just cut the mp3 up into 2 tracks
 
Maybe its some really lame form of anti piracy? I believe most CDR discs are not quite as 'long' as commercially pressed discs, so if they fill their CD 100%, it makes it slightly harder to make knockoffs?

I could be talking a tripe though :D
 
The Super Furry animals have a really great track on their Guerilla Album - you have to rewind the first track a few mins to hear it - That one never annoyed me!

I wouldnt say its a growing trend - quite the reverse, I can name loads of old albums with them.
 
It always wakes me up - I fall asleep in the quiet bit (I listen to music while going to sleep) and the the noise wakes me up

seem for SFAM by dream theater at the end where the voice over uy says "wake up" lol
 
Chrisp7 said:
The Super Furry animals have a really great track on their Guerilla Album - you have to rewind the first track a few mins to hear it - That one never annoyed me!
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Queens of the Stone Age did this too with Songs for the Deaf, although it's not really worth listenning to, just a load of muffled rave beats.

Never understood the point of them. Most of the secret tracks wouldn't even make good b-sides, as OP said they are just some rubbish jam when they were smoking crack and having a wail of a time, yay :rolleyes:

Also what is annoying is when the cd is divided up into segments that you can't skip to, interludes between songs are just stuck at the end of the track, and although they are indexed as seperate tracks you can't skip to them, :rolleyes:

What is the point of indexing on cd's, why not just stick to the skippable tracks and stop being irritating. The secret tracks at the end of albums would turn me on though if it somehow linked to a secret rewind track '0' when you left the album on repeat, so that the intro of the album actually starts at the secret end track or even becomes undefined so that you are left with some perpetuating neverending marvellous maze/puzzle of an album that has no clear beginning, end or middle or structure or format, but my suspicion is that cd players would just re-skip the secret re-wind pregap track and just go back to the normal start of track 1. I might test this if I'm ever more bored than I am right now, which is doubtful.

Arty farty nonsense in place of practicality, infuriating. In fact, why even make a cd, your band sucks. Dude.
 
Robosapien said:
What is the point of indexing on cd's, why not just stick to the skippable tracks and stop being irritating. The secret tracks at the end of albums would turn me on though if it somehow linked to a secret rewind track '0' when you left the album on repeat, so that the intro of the album actually starts at the secret end track or even becomes undefined so that you are left with some perpetuating neverending marvellous maze/puzzle of an album that has no clear beginning, end or middle or structure or format, but my suspicion is that cd players would just re-skip the secret re-wind pregap track and just go back to the normal start of track 1. I might test this if I'm ever more bored than I am right now, which is doubtful.
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Pink Floyd's The Wall is cyclical in the sense that CD2 ends with the words "Isn't this where..." and CD1 begins with "...we came in?" so if you play it on repeat the first and last track join together.
 
The only one that I can think of is Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill and Damien Rice - O, despite both being beautiful songs I must admit that they have woken me up in the past lol :p

BB x
 
Hybrid - Morning Sci-Fi has a cracking hidden track. The only album that I have that has one and was actually discovered by accident and made for a nice suprise!
 
Chrisp7 said:
You can hear Kurt smashing his guitar on that track - love it.
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Endless Nameless.
They used to do that song at the end of some of their live shows and trash the stage. I think it was supposed to be a take of Lithium gone wrong and that came out of it.
That was my 1st 'secret track' experience. The Deftones one is another great example.
 
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