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Inspired by listening to The Roots--'Things Fall Apart' just now.
Off the top of my head I can think of 'silk suit, black linen' on the Masters of Illusion album, and the one at the end of Kool Keith's 'Sex Style'

― Oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

girls girls girls remix at the end of the blueprint tho that's not exactly hidden as it actually tells u on the sleeve

― the internet (scg), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

One of Bob Mould's solo records had about 20 mins of silence at the end of the CD, then no hidden track. Made me laugh.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

the version of 'Oxbow Lakes' on the Orb best of

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

"Polly Vaughan" on Shirley Collins's The Sweet Primeroses (on vinyl at least)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

One of the Mouse on Mars albums had the silence w/no hidden track thing too

― Oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Radiohead topped the other 'silence' ones w/ Kid A: silence, then a brief hidden track, then...silence. It's incredibly unnerving the first time you hear it.

― Simon H., Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

The hidden track on SFA's Guerilla is arguably the best song on the disc. The "dud" part is that it's hidden in the form of a lead-in to track 1, and the old Philips CD player attached to my main home stereo can't play it (it won't rewind to a location preceding track 1, 0:00).

Also, however played-to-death as it quickly became, the Todd Terry remix of EBTG's "Missing" is quite nice. It's hidden by virtue of the record label not bothering to repackage the CD when the track became a hit and was appended to the original tracklisting. (Maybe there was a sticker on the shrinkwrap or something?)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a whole EP's worth of bonus songs tacked onto the end of Chris Knox's "Beat," most of them better than the bulk of the album.

― Joe Folladori, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"Diamond Bullocks"...aka the hidden track on Beck's Mutations.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Shit, I knew there was a reason I should have bought that Masters of Illusion on CD rather than vinyl. (madface)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

the super-slow quasi-krautrock version of "Keroleen" hidden away at the end of Bis' The New Transistor Heroes.

― janni (janni), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

The -1 hiddene tracks are way cooler than the dumb silence followed by somethign tracks..

I' want to put one of them on my next release.

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 22:47 (twenty-three years ago)

the noise on the end of bungle's disco volante is my fav. also beck 'ship in a bottle' from sea change.

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

the scanner track at the end of Artificial Intelligence 2.

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

end of 'Nevermind'

― Oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

if you're looking for others, Oops, check these out:

* Hidden tracks on CDs, S&D, CoDd=1541390">Hidden tracks on CDs, S&D, CoD">HiddWhen Bonus Tracks Attack!CD Gimmicks: Ironic Statement or Sheer Impractical Idiocy Bonus Tracks Attack!
* CD Gimmicks: Ironic Statement or Sheer Impractical Idiocy">CD Gimmicks: Ironic Statement or Sheer Impractical Idiocy

i'm not doing this to be smarty-pants, honestly. but for list-type threads like these we might as well keep it all in one place. don't feel odd about reviving long-dead threads, cuz people have a tendency to blab regardless!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks
I figured this must've been discussed before, but my search on ILX for 'hidden tracks' didn't reveal much

― Oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

if only we could keep all HTML fuck-ups on one thread... *sigh*

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Hidden tracks on CDs, S&D, CoD

When Bonus Tracks Attack!

Funny Tracks

CD Gimmicks: Ironic Statement or Sheer Impractical Idiocy

― i think this is going to fuck up but i don't know why!! GRAHAM!! (tracerhand), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

The hidden track at the end of Dr. Dooom is a really
great misognyistic rip, about hoes that smell bad
and sport "rings out the craka jak box"

Otherwise, Beck's "Diamond Bollocks" is my favorite
track off _Mutations_. So psychedelic and cool.
I'll always wonder why he hid it - one rocking
electric track like that would have given the
record better variety.

― squirrel_police, Thursday, 6 February 2003 00:59 (twenty-three years ago)

the 4 (or 5?) 'proper studio recordings' hidden on the end of the Cat's Miaow Kiss and a Cuddle - the best "sounding" recordings on the entire CD and they're lumped together as a single hidden track..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 6 February 2003 02:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Where can I get this disc, jim?

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 6 February 2003 04:40 (twenty-three years ago)

No one's mentioned Ash puking at the end of 1977!?

― Alexis, Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:06 (twenty-three years ago)

What about that weird noise track with the looped sample of someone babbling in Japanese at the end of Sonic Youth's "Experimental JetSet, Trash and No Star"? I don't get it, but I've always kinda liked it.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:20 (twenty-three years ago)

jm - it's out of print at the mo' but there's a reissue on Library Records due in a month or so.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Laika's Sounds Of the Satellites has an almost 20 min gap of silence at the end of the last track, finally resolving in a 1 min long bit with an old news report on Laika, the space dog.

I TOTALLY HATE the addition of the Missing remix onto the end of EBTG's Amplified Heart. A mellow album ends with 2 consecutive mellow songs, you drift into sleep or laziness, then a crappy dance track comes banging out of the speakers. Every time, it gets me. I hate it so much.

There's a noise at the end of the Pale Saints' Comforts of Madness that sounds like a loudly rewinding tape. It's made my dog bark like crazy, every time he hears it.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 6 February 2003 10:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Right Said Fred's "UP" record ... had 9 hidden tracks on it. (rdrr)

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 6 February 2003 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

>One of the Mouse on Mars albums had the silence w/no hidden track thing too

are you referring to Vulvaland? keep listening...
sounds like you're tuning out too quickly to enjoy on of MoM's finest pranks.

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Thursday, 6 February 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Blur's "When the Cows Come Home" and "Peach" at the end of the U.S. version of Modern Life Is Rubbish

― Evan (Evan), Thursday, 6 February 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder if there is a good way to have a computer scan a CD for negative time tracks....

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 6 February 2003 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

"No one's mentioned Ash puking at the end of 1977!?"

Nevermind the puking, what about the hidden track *BEFORE* the first track? (you have to "rewind" carefully once the first track starts to reach it). A dumb gimmick? Sure, but still kinda fun/novel (or at least it was in the mid-90's).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 6 February 2003 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)

'the sun is often out' by
the longpigs had a track that was
not only aaaages after the rest
of the record, but also much quieter.
you had to turn the volume up all the
way to hear it. it was *the best*
track on the record by a country mile.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 6 February 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

I remember this one creeped the hell out of me when I was young (turns out is a simplistic and squonky blues song backwards)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lRbiVRstt4

― Moka, Monday, 4 October 2010 00:59 (fifteen years ago)

Hidden song appears 35 seconds in the above video.

― Moka, Monday, 4 October 2010 01:00 (fifteen years ago)

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