On hidden tracks in CDs

Scarrita · Post by **Scarrita** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:21 pm

OK I recently had to repurchase Mushroomhead's second CD entitled XIII (I don't know why their second album is titled thirteen, it just is) because I had lost it some months back and it is a F*CKING outstanding album so I NEEDED to eventually buy it again.
Now where I work I'm allowed to wear headphones all night long (third shift) so I can listen to music all the way through work, which helps like you wouldn't believe.
So when I started listening to it again I went through the entire CD all the way through to the end, the final track is just an amazing soundscape that brings to mind a perfect childhood in summer sunshine (that is what it sounds like to me anyway) so I finished it all the way through, I never had the patience to do it before, and was completely amazed when I discovered a hidden song after the last one. It was an absolutely AMAZING cover of Seal's "Crazy". Now I've always liked that song, Seal is quite a musician, although I've never owned one of his albums, and Mushroomhead took it, reworked it, and absolutely made it their own... And when I say own I mean OWN! It is one of the most amazing covers I have ever heard. I just wish that I had heard it before when I had owned the album the first time around so I could have heard that song that much sooner. Never has a hidden track eluded me like that before, not that they are hard to find, it's just that it took me by complete surprise when I had first heard it a few nights ago.

Now to make this ramble somewhat justifiable have you ever been surprised by a hidden track on a CD?

BigMaki · Post by **BigMaki** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:36 pm

311's Transistor had the hidden track placed before the first track, which is the coolest way of doing it that I've found. You actually have to rewind the disc after starting the first track to get to it. Too bad it didn't work on a lot of CD players, though. The song was just their instrumental warm-up track they'd play before most live shows, so it wasn't too much of a loss not to hear it. Still, cool place to hide a track...

Will have to find that cover of "Crazy" since I love the original anyway.

Auntie Slag · Post by **Auntie Slag** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:37 pm

The only one that springs to mind is Ash’s first album which I think was called ‘1977’. There’s a secret track at the end, but there’s also a secret track before the beginning! So you press play on the CD, then rewind to go to a sequence before track 1.

Basically this secret track is the sound of the band sticking their fingers down the backs of their throats and spewing up. Its possibly the most disgusting sound I’ve ever heard because they really go for it. No wussy little coughs, chokes and a bit of sputum, no. Its full-on gushing torrents of sick, over and over. I was reaching just listening to it, and you can hear them watching their friends throw up and laugh insanely at them. Honestly, you can hear when they get it spot on because the microphone is placed at chest level, so the noise shoots from the stomach, up past the throat and splurging out all across the floor.

Every other hidden track I’ve heard has been ten times more pointless. Ash win.

Sixswitch · Post by **Sixswitch** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:41 pm

We're All Burgois Now on the Manics album Know Your Enemy is a class tune. I highly recommend it

-Ss

Wildfire Herald · Post by **Wildfire Herald** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:59 pm

The 99th track of Anti-Christ Superstar (Manson), the 98th and 99th tracks of Broken (NIN), at the end of the last track on Astrocreep 2000 (White Zombie), at the end of the last track on The Sinister Urge (Rob Zombie), at the end of the last track on Gorillaz (Gorillaz, duh.)

And it's not really a secret track, but at the very beginning of The Wall and at the very end, there's a bit of speech that when put together is "Isn't this where we came in?"

Post by **Sades** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:21 pm

Right at the end of Korn's "Take a Look In The Mirror" is an interesting cover of Metallica's "One"... it's different, which is cool.

homerbot · Post by **homerbot** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:45 pm

there is always some funny stuff at the end of bare naked ladies cds (the ones i have anyways) though not really songs so much as improv, there is a hidden track on one of the cds that i really want to hear "the ode to beans"

Post by **Denyer** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:00 am

Originally posted by Auntie Slag
The only one that springs to mind is Ash’s first album which I think was called ‘1977’. There’s a secret track at the end, but there’s also a secret track before the beginning! So you press play on the CD, then rewind to go to a sequence before track 1.

I think it's only on the first pressings... and isn't it "Jack Names The Planets" or something else equally easy to get?

My favourite "hidden" track is probably the last track of "Clear Hearts Grey Flowers" (track 66) by Jack Off Jill... it's a cover, but I forget of which song by which band.

(Apparently it's "Love Song" by the Cure.)

Scarrita · Post by **Scarrita** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:13 am

Originally posted by Denyer

My favourite "hidden" track is probably the last track of "Clear Hearts Grey Flowers" (track 66) by Jack Off Jill... it's a cover, but I forget of which song by which band.

(Apparently it's "Love Song" by the Cure.)

The Cure's "Love Song" done by Jack Off Jill, interesting, very interesting.

King Fargo · Post by **King Fargo** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:51 am

Jebediah have a "campfire song" called "Big Beer Wall" before Track 1 on their 2nd album, Of Someday Shambles.

Songs about 15 foot tall walls of beer are good.

unicrons servant · Post by **unicrons servant** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:47 pm

americana by the offsprig had one which was after track 12 about a minuite after first time i heard it, it made me jump

Reverend Shrapnel · Post by **Reverend Shrapnel** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:36 pm

Isn't the most infamous one that at the end of Nevermind...'Endless Nameless' or some-such...Not too great a tune IMO, but m'eh.