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Hidden Tracks ar so Annoying!!!

brainofebrainofe Posts: 264
edited August 2009 in Other Music
What is the deal with Hidden Tracks? I know they're supposed to be little surprises for fans but I hate the lenghts of silence before they start.
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  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    well...that's what makes them hidden
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  • StoveStove Posts: 323
    There good and bad. In the instance of Ipods, you gotta make another copy so you can here that particular song instead of having to wait for it.
    I remember listening to Binaural and was falling asleep and Parting ways had ended and then I woke up right when the typewriter started typing. Scared the hell out of me. :lol:
  • PJGARDENPJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    I love them! They're a nice little surprise as long as you don't know about it beforehand. With all the album leaks though nowadays its hard not to know.
  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Yeah... they annoy me too... Just make a new track. but not in the way that DMB did on "Under The Table And Dreaming", either.
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  • gusturtlegusturtle Posts: 442
    coolest hidden track concept was on the first x-files soundtrack. its hidden at the beginning of the disc. you put the disc in, hit play, and then rewind (or reverse manual search) to access it.

    more info:
    http://www.bad-seed.org/~cave/info/albums/xfiles.html
  • PearlJamaholicPearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    i just edit the song and get to the good stuff. it saves space on my mp3 player for sure. sometimes if i really like an album all split the hidden track off and burn myself a copy so i can skip right to that song if i like.
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  • tcaporaletcaporale Posts: 1,577
    frogwater wrote:
    coolest hidden track concept was on the first x-files soundtrack. its hidden at the beginning of the disc. you put the disc in, hit play, and then rewind (or reverse manual search) to access it.

    more info:
    http://www.bad-seed.org/~cave/info/albums/xfiles.html
    Blur did that for Think Tank as well.
  • brainofebrainofe Posts: 264
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    i just edit the song and get to the good stuff. it saves space on my mp3 player for sure. sometimes if i really like an album all split the hidden track off and burn myself a copy so i can skip right to that song if i like.


    Yea thats what i usually do. I have mp3's of Master/Slave. Oh and that reminds me, on Ten Redux, they still has the long silence before Master/Slave but then they had the bonus tracks as individual tracks after it. They should have made M/S it's own track, everybody knows about it by now, and they could have put another song in the time the silence takes up.
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  • DeckDeck Posts: 76
    I agree. If you want it as a surprise just leave it off the track listing, but make a separate track for it.
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  • John Briggs 2008John Briggs 2008 Posts: 1,024
    Deck wrote:
    I agree. If you want it as a surprise just leave it off the track listing, but make a separate track for it.

    Exactly what I think. :D
  • beakbeak Posts: 148
    Stove wrote:
    There good and bad. In the instance of Ipods, you gotta make another copy so you can here that particular song instead of having to wait for it.
    I remember listening to Binaural and was falling asleep and Parting ways had ended and then I woke up right when the typewriter started typing. Scared the hell out of me. :lol:

    Haha, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who has fallen victim to that ruckus. Love the album, but there's nothing worse than just hitting a deep sleep only to be interrupted by somebody smashing keys on a typewriter. I've actually banned Binaural from times that hold potential for shut eye for that reason.
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    I agree. They maybe made sense in the days of records when you can drop the needle where you want, but on cd, it's just a pain in the ass. Even more so if you're trying to get the copy digitally. The worst is the Hold Steady's last album. It added the 'secret' songs at the end in their own track... 3 songs crammed into one track. So annoying.
  • Dead Man WalkingDead Man Walking Toronto-ish Posts: 2,762
    tcaporale wrote:
    frogwater wrote:
    coolest hidden track concept was on the first x-files soundtrack. its hidden at the beginning of the disc. you put the disc in, hit play, and then rewind (or reverse manual search) to access it.

    more info:
    http://www.bad-seed.org/~cave/info/albums/xfiles.html
    Blur did that for Think Tank as well.

    As did Blind Melon with Soup...

    ...I hope I just blew someones mind!
  • arthurdentarthurdent Posts: 969
    brainofe wrote:
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    i just edit the song and get to the good stuff. it saves space on my mp3 player for sure. sometimes if i really like an album all split the hidden track off and burn myself a copy so i can skip right to that song if i like.


    Yea thats what i usually do. I have mp3's of Master/Slave. Oh and that reminds me, on Ten Redux, they still has the long silence before Master/Slave but then they had the bonus tracks as individual tracks after it. They should have made M/S it's own track, everybody knows about it by now, and they could have put another song in the time the silence takes up.

    On my original japan import of 10, M/S was a separate track
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