Oh yeah? Well back in MY day the Dead Kennedys put out this cassette tape and all the music was on one side and the other side was blank and there was a note that said something like… oh what was it now… “Home taping is killing record industry profits! We left this side blank so you can help.” Yep that was really something.
Don’t forget the secret messages you get from playing the whole album backwards at x4 speed.
“The music is reversible, but time is not. Turn back, turn back!”
That’s how I got my favorite lentil soup recipe!
Mamas secret lentil soup recipe: Step 1 - sacrifice a child to the dark lord Satan…
311 had a secret song before the first track. You had to rewind to hear it. Only time I’m aware of that happening (there’s probably others that I don’t know about).
I was thinking, yeah Rammstein also did something like that. Looked it up and turns out there is a wiki list of all CD’s that did this. Wikipedia
This is my favorite thing I’ve seen on Wikipedia recently. Thanks!
X-Files movie soundtrack had https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=64LNLSpFa-o
I don’t know that I’d call it a song per se, but Brand New did this on The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me. I think it was like a minute of stuff that seamlessly blends right into the start of Sowing Season. I don’t own the CD and I only heard that part once like 15 years ago, so I truly can’t remember what it was. Maybe like a message on an answering machine?
Edit: found it
Action Action also had those seamless transitions. I remember the first track would finish, and then the next track would start at negative time (ex: -00:30) and count to 00:00 (where the track would actually begin) with transition noise and music playing for those negative moments. I miss whole album concepts.
… and the good old enhanced CDs where you will find some specials if you put them into your PC.
Yeah. Sony gave me malware one time with one of those. Thanks Sony.
Was this a rootkit they came up with bc they were trying to… something? I vaguely remember that…
Trying to perform DRM? Hell yeah!
Yea it was during their “total war on piracy” era
It basically screwed with your computers CD drive, phoned home, made it self undetectable, all that good stuff
I have 2 CDs with this feature! When they end, I wait seconds or a minute just.
CDs? They used to do it on tapes too.
I’ll never forget my surprise when I put the Half-Life 1 CD into a player and got the soundtrack.
“…and ripping that CD was annoying, because you then had an over long last track with the secret song, and you had to split the tracks manually and come up with tags on your own, or…”
(Seriously, the only reason I listened rarely to the last song in Halo CE soundtrack was because of this.)
The CDs I remember with it would have the secret party track start with like ten minutes of nothing
I have 2 CDs with this feature! When they end, I wait seconds or a minute just.
“What’s a liner note?”
I was alone…
I was all by myself…
No one was lookiiiiing…
I’m flying…I’m flying…I’m flying away
hate how streaming just has the last song be 20 minutes of silence and then playing the secret song. for gods sake can we please just shorten that, it fucks with my playlists
Enjoy the silence.
Some cds were like that. Others had 90 1 second tracks.
Marilyn Manson’s ‘Antichrist Superstar’ had 99 tracks. That confused the fuck out of me when I first put it in my player.
liars debut album is an odd one, on vinyl the last 2 bars of the last song are on the part of the vinyl that repeats, but on cd they just repeated those 2 bars for the maximum length of a cd and now on streaming that song is like 5 minutes of music and 25 minutes of the same 2 bars
On Tool’s Ænema there’s a song on the liner notes called ‘Useful Idiot’ but it’s just a static loop at the end of the A Side of the vinyl, on CDs they put like 25 seconds of static there, which wasn’t really noticeable. It’s like a reverse secret track.
But thats the song. It’s just not the same without 80 minutes of silence in advance
I wish Discogs wouldn’t use PayPal so I could still use it (it would appear I got shadow-banned). I only have 4 CDs…
Anyway, I got one with a hidden track which I only noticed visually on Teamwork by DJs@Work. Since there’s a while of silence, the audio part is visibly spaced out on furthermost part of the disc.
Last time I had this was with Tyler’s IGOR vinyl I got in 2019 or so that had the extra track “Boyfriend” that wasn’t on Spotify, but I think it has since been released on tidal or some other obscure music service by niw.
Quickly became my fav track off the album too.
