Entertainment For Lively Minds
Track Minus One
Posted by Obdewlla on 19 December 2009 - 5:51pm.
Just listened to the latest podcast and thought I'd kick off the list of hidden tracks, as discussed. For those yet to hear it David, Andrew and Fraser touch on those hidden CD tracks that can only be accessed by hitting the Previous Track button whilst Track One is lined up.
The only examples I know of are on Discs 2 and 3 of XTC's Coat Of Many Cupboards box set. They are:- (Disc 2) Wanking Man & (Disc 3) Shaving Brush Boogie. Having confirmed their existence I've never felt the need to hear either of them again. Hidden for a good reason methinks.
I'm fairly certain that I do own another example but I'm going to rely on y'all to remind me.
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David Grey
The first David Grey album has a track like that too.
White Ladder does
but don't think it's his first.
You are
right
HoboSapiens by John Cale
I haven't played this CD for about 5 years, but I think you start track one and then keep rewinding for about 5 minutes to reach the hidden track.
Wow!
One of the They Might Be Giants albums, Factory Showroom (1996) has a track hidden like this called Token Back to Brooklyn.
Lamb
Fear of Fours has one as well.
Off the top of my head
Super Furry Animals have done this .... Guerilla I think
Soulwax did it on the 2 many DJs mash up thingy as well I think.
Super Furry Animals have
Super Furry Animals have done this twice. On Guerilla and Out Spaced
2 Many DJs...
...is a remix of Kylie's 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head'.
There's also one on Bloc Party's first album.
Blur
Rewind the first track "Ambulance" to get another Phil Daniels track "Me, White Noise". Which is 7mins of avant-garde disco. Clearly Blur didn't want to revisit "Parklife" with him again.
Ash's 1975 album too
I seem to remember
1977
- but, yeh - they did - not that I've ever been able to get any of these things to play.
frankly you're not missing much...
I tend to think if the secret track was *that* great, it'd be proudly on the album.
ahh, yes, of course it's 1977! 1975's the year I was born, so that explains that slip...
Congratulations Hannah...
you were born in the best year for music there's ever been!
The magnificent Luke Haines...
...has a hidden track before Track 1 on Das Capital.
Das Capital Overture
Is actually worth hearing - I even sourced special CD-ripping software to be able to get it onto my iPod!
Another -1 track is on the various artists "Music Inpsired by The X-Files" album, which is a hidden Nick Cave track.
PS The hidden track at the end of World Party's "Bang!" (mentioned further down this thread) is the brilliant "Kuwait City", in which Karl even manages to find a rhyme for "female circumcision"... perhaps that's why it was hidden?
Beat me to it...
when they mentioned this on the podcast, the track which precedes 'Das Kapital' was the first thing that sprung to mind. Great, four minute, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink orchestral arrangement of his greatest hits. Kind of like a really lux version of 'stars on 45'.
I've always wondered
one thing about hidden tracks.
What's the bloody point?
Same question with "Easter eggs" on dvds.
World Party
have one, on Bang, I think.
There's also one on an EST album but I can't remember which one.
Maybe Oasis too?
Edit: Actually these are slightly different, they all occur after a few minutes gap after the last listed track finishes.
EST
Several of their albums have hidden tracks at the end - usually after 10 minutes of silence and usually something experimental and noisy. I find that a bit of a nuisance when ripping CDs like that to iTunes. I usually have to rip the track twice and then set the start/finish times to play just the one track.
I've got quite a few like that
and almost none worth the wait. It does hack me off.
Kris Kristofferson
Before track one of "A Moment of Forever" there's an interview with himself and Don Was
Open Season
There's one on BSP's Open Season - "rewind" at the start of track one and you get a bit of instrumental (organ from "How will I ever find my way home?"). Irritatingly, my decent hifi doesn't let me access it, and I had to download it from somewhere to get it on iTunes, as it couldn't get hold of it off the CD.
The Second Coming
The Foz - 7 minutes of dirge some 30 minutes after the end of Love Spreads.....
Also - Train in Vain was a hidden (or unacknowledged) track on the the original copies of London Calling.
I'm sure there's a hidden track on Nevermind too. Listened to it once, never again
Train In Vain...
... wasn't meant to be "hidden", it was just a victim of the fact that record sleeves were always printed way in advance of the vinyl being pressed. When the band added the track at the last minute, they wouldn't pay to have the sleeves re-printed, especially bearing in mind they'd already taken a royalty hit for it being a double-album in the first place... they didn't bother fixing it for future vinyl editions, though I think it's always been listed on the CD versions.
Nevermind...
...the hidden track at the end of Nevermind is called 'Endless, Nameless'.
Whilst we're talking about end of CD hidden tracks, Howling Bells latest album has one that's better than most of the unhidden stuff.
hacking
due to a nifty piece of software, I've been going through the mp3s I have with the ridiculously long hidden tracks.
They've been royally hacked up now. "Nevermind"'s hidden track was deleted. Not worth saving, really.
And the ones that are worth keeping are much nicer when only a coupld of seconds after the track. Plus it frees up a load of space. Well worth it.