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Hey guys, I heard the new linkin park album yesterday. That had a few negative tracks.


Wait, this joke's shit. As you were, people.

Hidden tracks that come 15 minutes after the last song, and only consist of the band screwing around in the studio?

Crap

A well done track surreptitiously placed between two other tracks?

Not Crap

Verdict: not crap, moderate w.

http://www.eeggs.com/tree/2044.html

this page lists a lot of hidden tracks and whatnot and how to find them and all that

Melt Banana's "Charlie" has a negative hidden cd track that's an ultra-distorted Damned cover if I remember correctly.

Crap anyway.

There was a Man or Astro Man? CD that had about ten minutes of silence after the last song, followed by a voice saying. "Wha are you doing? There's no hidden track on this CD. Turn off your stereo already!" That I liked.

And the best hidden track ever was on the CD of Mudhoney's My Brother The Cow -- the whole album played in reverse.

Most "bonus tracks" are stuff that was thrown away for a good reason. They don't add value, only bulk.

The "song ten minutes after the 'last' song has ended" thing has been done to death.

I get it.

The last song, strangely, just keeps going! Is something wrong with this CD? Why does it continue to spin so???

The first 5 times were cool.

I salute bands that can manipulate the 1's and 0's to make the CD do something new, but mostly this is crap.

How about something really new? Like clues that assemble a URL and one use password that directs you to an MP3 or a live show? The field is still open.

-A

alex maiolo wrote:How about something really new? Like

like not pissing around and making a fucking vinyl record

My favorite "hidden" track is Monty Python's "Matching Tie and Handkerchief" album. It's a three-sided record on two vinyl sides.

Prisonshake also used this method to great effect on one of their records, and it bugs me that I cannot remember which one it was.

Anyone remember Prisonshake? They were fucking great.

i cannot stand hidden tracks.

just gimme a bonus 45 or something.

I remember that TMBG 'Factory Showroom' has a negative track...

(Augh, I used to know of some others, but can't think of them right now...)

But here's some REAL "hidden" shit:

tangent wrote:i've recently found out that some people (ie: richard d. james from aphex twin) actually encodes images into sound, and then adds them to songs. if you go back and look at the song with a spectrum analyzer, it shows the picture that he put in. it's a little weird, but still clearly his face. funny stuff.

i'll look for a link or something....

Maurice wrote:http://www.bastwood.com/aphex.php

HTH,
M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RxGQKcdkEw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7fF2xYuwWs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OZJGpKluVM

(This shit still blows my mind a bit - not that it 's hard to believe that it is possible, more that it is hard to believe that somebody bothered to do it...)