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I only know of three such discs in my collection, but who knows how many others are hiding.

John Oswald - Greyfolded Disc 2, Mirror Ashes: untitled
Melt-Banana - Charlie: 'Neat Neat Neat' (Damned cover)
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space: 'Jupiter Variation' warm-up

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Blur Think Tank has one. Don't know what it's called.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, where do the LP versions of these records have these tracks?

Also,

Less than Jake has one.

hahahaah

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, how do I rip these?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Also also: that ol' music-inspired-by-X-Files CD had one too. I think it might have been some kinda remix of the X-Files theme.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Ash - 1977 had 'Jack Names the Planets' and another track I can't remember, neither were on the LP version. The CD had a sticker on the front with a premium rate phone number you could ring should you be unable to find them.

2ManyDJs - As Heard on Radio Soulwax vol 2 has a remix of 'Can't Get You Out of My Head'

― Gas Coin, Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

KG's - The Greatest Hit.

I didn't even know it was there for the longest time.

― svend (svend), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Blur's "Think Tank" has "My White Noise" on track 0

Other cd's w/ music on track 0:

Super Furry Animals: "Guerrilla", "Out Spaced"
Skunk Anansie: "Stoosh"

more stuff in http://www.eeggs.com

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

>where do the LP versions of these records have these tracks?

the vinyl version of Mr. Bungle's 'Disco Volante' has a secret track cut within the groove of track 3. if you drop the needle at the beginning of the side, it just plays through to the end; only by dropping the needle at the beginning of the third track do you have a chance of lining the needle into the secret groove.

on the CD version they just placed it at the end of the third track, 'secretly'.

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

autechre - ep7
arab strap - cherubs

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

nice link jp. I'm not going to search through all of them, but found one quickly I didn't know about:

Public Enemy : Muse Sick'n'Hour Mess Age - explicit lyrics intro

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

the vinyl version of Mr. Bungle's 'Disco Volante' has a secret track cut within the groove of track 3. if you drop the needle at the beginning of the side, it just plays through to the end; only by dropping the needle at the beginning of the third track do you have a chance of lining the needle into the secret groove.

I remember Dave Fischer said something about some record that had a number of different tracks all interleaved on a single side and you basically would get a random track each time. I wonder if Dave remembers this?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

My apologies in advance for the shameless plug. We just did this at Stylus earlier this year...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

>some record that had a number of different tracks all interleaved on a single side

other records that do this:

Monty Python: Matching Tie and Handkerchief
Laurie Anderson/John Giorno/William Burroughs: You're the Guy I Want To Spend My Money With (they each get one side, then side 4 has three interleaved grooves)

but this threatens to become a seperate thread

― jl (Jon L), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Czars - The Ugly People vs The Beautiful People

supposedly has one. This is one of my favorite albums and I've never remembered to check. means this practice is DUD.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

>We just did this at Stylus earlier this year...

excellent, two more.

UNKLE - Psyence Fiction - Intro

and Songs In The Key Of X: Music From And Inspired By The X-Files has two-
Nick Cave - “Time Iesum Transeuntem et non Reverendem”
Dirty Three - X-Files Theme

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

wannadies - bagsy me
catatonia - the sublime magic of . . .
unkle - psyence fiction (only on promos or the special book edition)

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

luke haines and the auteurs - das capital

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

And the Japanense copy of Psyence Fiction (x-post).

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Also also: that ol' music-inspired-by-X-Files CD had one too. I think it might have been some kinda remix of the X-Files theme.

There was one where in the liner notes it said something like "Nick Cave and the Dirty Three remind you that 0 is a number too", and if you back scanned you got a music by them. (Xposted)

Public Enemy : Muse Sick'n'Hour Mess Age - explicit lyrics intro

I don't know if it was a screw up on Polygram Canada's part, but that is actually how the album begins on my copy.

If you backscan on King Cobb Steelie's Junior Relaxer, you can hear the band and producer Guy Fixsen talking in the studio before they start playing.

― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 10 February 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

David Holmes "Bow Down To the Exit Sign"

― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Preston School of Industry, All This Sounds Gas

These things are so much better than the secret bonus thirteenth track. You gotta do more than press play to hear 'em.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

excellent, two more.
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction - Intro

and Songs In The Key Of X: Music From And Inspired By The X-Files has two-
Nick Cave - “Time Iesum Transeuntem et non Reverendem”
Dirty Three - X-Files Theme

But those two were actually in the Stylus piece, Milt...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

versus 2c + tax has "oriental american" before 0:00

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, how do I rip these?

by analogue means

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

>But those two were actually in the Stylus piece, Milt...

yes, those were the only two. hence my adding them to this list. thanks.

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

and smiles, I like stylus.

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Ahhh, good. Hate to have a shameless plug go awry.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Light Years by Kylie has "Password" hidden at the start which is whirling Deee-Lite-ish glory and should be sought by all

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't remember the name but there's a record on Lust/Unlust that has a 3D cover and 2 songs on each side, interleaved, so getting the song you want is pretty much guess work...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, how do I rip these?

-by analogue means

There's a windows program called Total Recorder that would do the trick.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

They Might Be Giants' Factory Showroom has one: "Subway Token to Brooklyn" (The same song was later released as part of the mp3-only Long Tall Weekend.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Mayday's _Old Blood_ on Saddle Creek, also.

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

what the fuck?
the dirty three covering the x files tune?

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)

2 Many DJ's

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

another TMBG-related one - a computer-voice message before track 1 on Mono Puff's "It's Fun To Steal" album.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 05:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm having trouble picturing how that Disco Volante thing works. How can the record play through the entire side while not cutting through the secret groove? Does it jump over it somehow? Or is it guided through the groove for only a split second?

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

There's one on the latest Calexico album...

― preprepre, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Cheap Trick's self-titled 1997 album (out of print due to label folding but can be found easily, and, by the way, a far better record than most would believe a release of that band and particular vintage would be) has a track 0, a sort of collage of the other songs on the album.

Which album has that Bowie one on it?

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

There are a coupld of tracks hidden like this on the recent XTC boxset IIRC

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Boo Radley's "Kingsize" has "Tranquillo" as a rewindie.

The australian version only has it as an intro to track 1 (no rewind required).

btw, the Ash 1977 CD has "Jack named the planets" and "Not Known" as rewindies. (That is the actual name of the song, "Not Known")

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

WTF - my copy of Stories from the Sea... doesn't have any hidden track...

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Neither does mine. Robbed!

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Lamb's Fear Of Fours is another.

I'm pretty sure Exact Audio Copy allows you to rip "rewindies" (as I'll be calling them from now on). You specify a range rather than a track number, so everything from Track1 Index0 to Track1 Index1 will do it. I think EAC also allows you to burn your own rewindies (I have done this, but I can't remember what I used) - as, I'm sure, do fancier pro-style apps like CD Architect. The likes of Adaptec and Nero seem to allow it in principle but then throw a wobbly when you try to specify more than the standard 2sec gap between Index0 and Index1 for Track1.

Rewindies, rewindies, rewindies.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Sonicstage picks them up, unfortunately my copy of Feast of Wire by Calexico doesn't have their cover of Corona :o(

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Maxwell "Embrya": boring noodly overture thingy.
Pansy Division "Absurd Pop Song Romance": spoof call to radio phone-in.

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I Am Spartacus' "Forward!" on Gringo has a whole live set.

― George Murphy (George Murphy), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

>I'm having trouble picturing how that Disco Volante thing works.

draw a picture of a spiral. there's still room to draw another spiral within the first one, without the lines ever intersecting.

― (Jon L), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I have Cracker's CD "Kerosene Hat" but it doesn't have "Eurotrash Girl" on it. Has anyone else come across this?

― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

my copy of Stories from the Sea... doesn't have any hidden track

According to the article, the song, "This Wicked Tongue," is a "UK bonus track." And Southall is right, it's a brebt song.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn, I have two of those, and I didn't know they had that crap on 'em!

anyway...

Adverts - Crossing...etc, has it mentioned on the packaging tho

― John 2, Thursday, 12 February 2004 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

John Cale: Hobosapiens. "Set Me Free".

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 16 February 2004 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

If you rewind the start of track one of Loveless you hear MBV doing a cover of Jane's Addiction's 'Three Days' along with Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra, Liz Fraser & Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn are on vocals, Jonsi from Sigur Ros on b/vox and Jandek takes the guitar solo.

― mzui, Monday, 16 February 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

You forgot the trumpet solo by Miles Davis.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn, I have two of those, and I didn't know they had that crap on 'em!

snap! thanks for the, um, heads up ILX, I shall investigate.

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 16 February 2004 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

cos of this thread i just found another
- the ego trip 'the big playback' compilation on rawkus of old school hiphop .. was having problems reading the cd and then realised that there is an interview withe the author of the book that is related to the album ... though i haven't listened to the interview yet ! ta.

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 16 February 2004 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't belive how long I've been a fan of the Boos and didn't know about the track on Kingsize!

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

likewise. i need to dig out the Boos and that Holmes album, unfort my UNKLE album is a regualr and doesn't have the extra .. tis weird finding these extras after having albums for years !
will start always hitting the rewind button .. you never know ..

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

My state-of-the-art CD player won't go backwards from track 1, either on skip or scan. Bastards, I want that SFA tune!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.hiddensongs.com/

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Saturday, 13 March 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

The SFA tune is quality - 'The Citizen's Band', shame they didn't t least put it on a bside to listen to it normally.

Check out Queens of Stone age - 'songs for the deaf', rewind bginning for 'the real song for the deaf' which is some weird noises, not really a song, but perhaps a poor taste joke on what a partially hearing person might hear from the album?

Someone mentioned Beck's Sea Change - i can't find a bonus track.

What the one on SFA 'Outspaced?'

― James Heal, Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

hecker - I T ISO161975

― (Jon L), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

old xpost.. i think you can download that sfa secret track off their website now. Just for people whose cd players won't play backwards from track 1

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

I think the Libertines' "France" track is a rewindie. But my copy has gone missing. Anybody able to check this out?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Motorpsycho - Angels and Daemons at Play

― Melson (ArchCarrier), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The "France" one isn't one, just a common or garden 'after some blank space after the last track'.

Take it off the list, you guys.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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