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How do you feel about cds with hidden tracks or funny ways of having the tracks? (example: Lazer Guided Melodies, Yerself is Steam) and are there any others albums that are different in this way?

― A Nairn, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

another example of a similar thing: Zaireeka

― A Nairn, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All of those zainy artists that have 10 minute gaps until you hear a bonus track! HILLARIOUS!

― Brock K, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

to tell you the truth, when musicians try and do something funky with the track listing, it usually comes out all wrong. I think its just annoying to have to wait/fast forward for the bonus stuff.

― Brock K, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Usually i sort of like hidden tracks, because if they're hidden in the right way, you can think you know the whole album, only to discover that there's actually more to it than you thought.

A classic example from when I was younger: Lying in bed late at night, falling asleep to, of all things, Nirvana's Nevermind...I had previously always turned the CD off right after the last track because I was a spastic teenager and didn't like to wait around to put the next CD on, so obv. I didn't know about the hidden track. Well, lets just suffice to say that dark scary room + loud jarring hidden track = me being scared shitless and screaming out loud.

On another note, I only just recently found out about the hidden track on Autechre's EP7 (but only on the British version) where you have to actually PAUSE the first track and then skip backwards for like 8 minutes to hear the hidden "pre"-track. That's just fucking annoying.

― Emily, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Korn's 'Follow the Leader' starts with 12 tracks of silence. Obvious jokes please

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You can only be surprised once. Perhaps hidden tracks are an attempt to get back to the primary essence of pop, even if only for a few moments. This is the stupidest thought I've ever thunk.

― Peter Miller, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't like the ones with Thirteen minutes of silence at the end of CDs they just tend to ruin any decent chance to record the album on to a mini-disc. However, those ones that are embedded behind tracks, those are cool. For example, Whiskeytown's Pneumonia, go to track 15 and rewind, the display will start eating into track 14 (-0:14, -1:19 etc). Or do the same thing with the first track of The Super Furries penultimate album. The tracks themselves all tend to be rubbish. Except, Lift To Experience's hidden track which is Louder Than Apocalypse.

― David, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr (?) Nairn's mention of Zaireeka prompts the question: has anyone here actually tried listening to all four CDs at once, on four separate machines, and if so does it actually work?

(I know that the Lips did a cassette-player type exercise at the Garage at the time of its release, but that wasn't quite the same thing)

― Terry Shannon, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Re: Zaireeka

I Have burned a CD with all four tracks together. SO I don't get the separation, but I do get to hear the whole thing at once..... Big fuckin' deal.

I have tried to play 2 CDs at once, with the same result: Big fuckin' deal.

It's a cool idea, but really not worth all of the trouble... maybe if I played it in four cars in a parking garage it would be better.

― Dave225, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've heard Zaireeka perfectly once -- in a bar, four separate stereos synced -- and it was fantastic. I've also heard 3 CDs at home, w/ less than satisfactory sync, and it was still very good. That's a brilliant album.

― Mark, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On certain copys of 1977 by Ash, there are two extra tracks, but they're *BEFORE* everything else, requiring some nimble used of the << button. Pointless.

By this point, shouldn't "hidden tracks" be an old cliche by now?

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The next obvious thing to do is to have LISTED tracks that don't exist.

― Gage-o, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Here's another thread on a similar theme. My pet hate is loooong silences before hidden tracks. Anything else is fine by me tho'.

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ILM was behaving like a hidden track the last couple of days.

― Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy All Astro-men?...after 15 minutes "What are you waiting around for? There ain't no hidden track on this damn CD"

― jel, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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