Secret Tracks

papa roaches First album comes to mind. The hidden track was easily the best song in it.

Lots of The Roots' hidden tracks are great too. Which is why it really cheeses me off

Yes but it is rather cool when your about to leave a bar and you select the last track of an album on the jukebox to submit the fuck heads in there to 15 minutes of silence before they can get another track on muahahahaha

i have released three albums in my life...all of them have unlisted tracks.....none of them take longer that 10 seconds to show up...

best hidden tracks:
anal cunt covering hello i love you by the doors
satans ice cream truck by strapping young lad

They Might Be Giant's 1996 album "Factory Showroom" has a secret track before the first track, I've known people who owned the CD for years and didn't know about it.

But overall I agree, the secret track concept is kind of tired. It's especially annoying when trying to copy songs onto your computer.

"Raise Your Fists" - Just played on my MP3 shuffle bonanza...and then i forgot that there was even music on (needless to say, there wasn't it had since gone into silence...) and not half a minute ago...Someone coughed and started talking...I almost shit myself...

FUCKERS!!

the first one i ever found was cool. it was like i did something. but since that first one, ...pointless. it's like smoking crack, minus the addiction.

The best hidden song is on the Red Elvises live album "Your Favourite Band".
It has it's own track so it doesn't piss off you too much. Don't see why it was "hidden" in the first place though.

What about secret booklets hidden behind the disc case? I only know of Kid A and Coma White, but there's gotta be others...

Another bad thing is when you want to burn a mixed cd and you want either the last song without the hidden track or the hidden track but not the last song and you can't separate the two.

The only Beck album I'll let play through to the hidden track is "Mutations." It's a bit fucked up but there's actually SOME element of a song, intersperesed with random 60s-flavored bits. Fades out with a wonderful Mellotron part. Wish Beck would use Mellotrons more often...

*grabs Kid A*

Holy shit, you're right.

try again.

Mr Bungle did it on the album Disco Valente.

On the vinyl version there's a double groove that starts about an inch or so away from the edge. There's a hidden song there...

secret tracks? Like a heroin addict with a sweatshirt on?

No? damn...

Secret tracks are a pain in the ass. The new Wilco ends with a bunch of dead air preceeding about 5 minutes of a monotonous squeal. It wasn't even remotely interesting the first time through; I dread how I'll feel upon subsequent listens.

I think if bands want to have a bunch of space before a hidden track they should have the dead air as its own track and then the extra song as its own seperate track. This way if you listen to the album straight through you can have the interim silence and if you want to get to the song you can just track advance instead of fast forwarding.

I am a fan of hidden songs at the beginnings of albums though. I remember back in high school I heard there was a Less Than Jake album that had one but the only time I've personally encountered one is on the album En Garde by Criteria (Steve Pederson's band after White Octave and Cursive). If you rewind prior to track 1, there is a goofy hip hop song with Steve Pederson and Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes rapping. Something about a house of fun. Really entertaining and, better yet, completely optional.

Ok, I think I bought that album when it first came out and I didn't know about this until reading your post.....I feel dumb. But now I have listened to it! Thanks, yo.

I really fucking hate the hidden song on Coral Fang by The Distillers. Just like 7 minutes of fucking horrible ass distortion and then that kickass song at the end. it's not worth the pain, really.

I saw the distillers once, I'm not a fan of the punk music..... but they put on a fucking great show...I loved it.... and the vocalist is pretty pretty

Hidden tracks are a little too "artsy-fartsy" for me. And, can we please do away with "skits" on CDs, as well. I don't want to hear a musician trying to be a comedian or actor in an ill-advised 30 second scene. Just play yer fuckin' songs and be done with it, already.

and you usually never know the name of that song!

i like hidden songs that are befor the first track.

the secret track on beck's midnight vultures is fucking genius. that album is underratedly spectacular.

on my copy of pennywise's unknown road there is a secret track that comes on about a minute-and-a-half after the last track... the freaky thing is that it makes the counter on my cd player go backwards!