In this video I discuss “hidden tracks” that were often found at the end of a CD. The hidden track trend blew up in the 90’s and was always a fun surprise to experience at the end of an album.
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I'm surprised you didn't mention the secret track on Songs in The Key of X — the X-Files comp which came out in the Nineties. There's a hidden song on it, but you have to start the CD and let it play a few seconds (I can't remember how many) into the first song on the CD before digitally rewinding (not tracking back) a significant distance to find the secret song (which is just an instrumental version of the show's theme song, I think, or it might be a Nick Cave song, I can't remember). It took a work ethic to find that secret song — hahaha.
Wikipedia has info on it. The secret song was by Nick Cave and the Dity Three — actually, there were two of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_in_the_Key_of_X%3A_Music_from_and_Inspired_by_the_X-Files
I loathe hidden tracks, and tracks that come between songs if they are played back from beginning to finish without skipping through.
That Green Day track is one of my favorites because of how horrible and strange it is.
My copy of Broken didn’t have the hidden tracks, they were both on a mini disc that came with the main cd
one of my favorites, both the song and where it was hidden Was Sister Machine Gun, in 1995 they did a cover of the Doors Strange Days hidden before track one.. you had to rewind to –4:20 to play it
China Drum had a great secret track on Goosefair. Their version of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush. There's also the much less pleasant 'Sick Party' secret track on 1977 by Ash.
High speed internet was made available in big cities in 1997. 1998 everywhere else. The internet wasn't slow for that long. Why do people act like it was the stone age?
I'll never forget falling asleep to SOAD's Toxicity and then waking up to Arto. I was so confused 😀
If you have the CD version of Queens of the Stone Age’s Songs for the Deaf, there is a hidden track before track 1 titled "The Real Song for the Deaf". The song is literally a bassy drone.
One of my favorites was Course of Empire's 1994 "Initiation" album. This had two. One was a track embedded six minutes before the first track and the only way to access it was to scroll backwards from the beginning of track one. The other was several minutes of what seemed like distortion and static, but if you switched it from stereo to mono, you'd hear an actual song. Both I thought were the weakest songs on the album, but the way they were hidden was brilliant for its time.
One of the more special hidden tracks is on 311's Transistor album where it's actually before the first track and i mean as track 0. You have to rewind the album into the "negative space" before track 1 starts and you get a cool instrumental intro. Sadly i never had a cd player that could rewind to the negative… There is also the common silence after the last track followed by some kind of eerie space noise. One of my favorite albums ever made.
Marilyn Manson's – 99 untitled track!!
When I first got that CD in 96, I did a playthrough – Stoned out of my Gourd and it gave me a Panic Attack!
The first one I ever discovered was Third Eye on Elephunk
I didnt even know some of these were hidden tracks given I only use Spotify.
My favorite was probably “Hangnail” from James Taylor’s 1997 Hourglass album… Another oddball was the hidden track on Blind’s Melon’s Soup where you had to rewind track one to get to the hidden pregap song.
There are even some hidden menus and features on some DVDs
Cds are dead. Still buying a lot of new releases
Sgt Pepper had that noise on the inner groove too
One of my favorites is the hidden track on Messiah’s Twenty First Century Jesus that comes in two minutes after the last track. The NIN Broken tracks were originally on a separate mini disc packaged with the CD. The hidden track Love Song on Alice In Chains SAP is interesting lol.
I remember a Public Enemy having a hidden intro when you rewinded further than 0:00 and the CD player showed the time with a minus like –1:23, i think it was the Muse Sick in our Mess Age album and i was really blown away how it was possible. But you had to actively rewind to find that
William Control's hidden tracks off the first two LPs immediately come to mind for me. they're some of the last big modern examples i can think of, as they came out at the tail end of the mainstream relevance of CDs as a format. the most recent one i remember hearing is the final track off of Arkaik's Lucid Dawn and it was also excellent. i'm rather shocked that The Offspring's hidden track on Smash wasn't mentioned here! it's incredibly iconic to me. hidden tracks were truly a magical thing, a unique fixture of the technology of the time from a bygone era. i miss the sense of discovery before everything was spoon fed to us.