Hidden Tracks, What Say You?

[Capricorndog]

I stole this idea from "Stylus' 10 Things I Hate About CDs"

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/ ... ut-cds.htm

[Irock]

Worst hidden track ever. I thought someone had broken into the house, nearly gave me a heart attack.

[monet2u]

sometimes they scare me

[airboy paul]

As long as the gap isn't more than a minute or two, then I'm not too fussed. The giant long gaps drive me mad though, ruining the album experience.

More annoying is the excessively long excessively unlistenable final track noises (or sometimes earlier in the album, but mostly at the end). Some that I can bring to mind are:

Flaming Lips- Hit To Death
Polyphonic S.pree- Beginning Stages
Pulp- This Is Hardcore
Wilco- Ghost Is Born
6ths- Hyacinths & Thistles
Bright Eyes- Letting Off The Happiness

Godawful annoying things stopping me from just sticking a cd in and putting it on repeat and leaving it.

[Steveums]

- on Songs for the Deaf, the hidden track is listed. That is stupid.
- I'm not really a fan of hidden tracks that are on the same track as the last song, so you have a hudgemongously long file that you have to splice if you want to put any of the songs on a mix, etc. also disrupts random play

however, i do like bonus magic stuff, so when they adjust the length between tracks played then that's fine. just as long as it's on a different track.

[ifihadahifi]

I got all bitchy in front of a friend about this the other day. I noticed that the last track on the CD was continuing on the counter and made some comment about how it was going to be a short acoustic song that could barely pass as a chorus and sure enough it was.

[ree-ree]

The worst is if I fall asleep (or pass out) and way later, after the cd has supposedly ended, the hidden track pops up and jars me awake.

[Jan]

Hidden tracks are just an annoying cliche nowadays.

[zenmomma]

I thought it was cool the first time I found a hidden track... the counter kept going and I didn't know what was going on... and voila... extra song! Woot!

But now I think it is lame.

I too have been victim to having CD on, CD ends, hidden track comes on later and scares the crap out of me.

[stephen]

Hidden tracks are just an annoying cliche nowadays.

yeah. they're as annoying as encores

[Jan]

I wouldn't call encores annoying, it's just a bit shit that 99% of the time you see bands they will do an encore. Surely they should just be reserved for when the band are having areal good time/the crowd is responding really well. It's not like they're ever spontaneous anymore.

[James]

I hate the hidden track, especially if it's tagged onto the same track as the supposed last track. The two most annoying examples are on the Nirvana albums "Nevermind" and "In Utero". I love both "Something In The Way" and "All Apologies", but when it comes to putting those songs in itunes, they take up SOOO much space because the tracks are 20+ and 31+ minutes, respectively. With Jupiter, my 320G harddrive, this isn't a big deal anymore, but still, if they come up, I either have to skip them or make sure i hit "forward" on itunes, which is a pain in the arse if I'm nowhere near the stereo.

Another annoying example is like on The Stone Roses' "Second Coming" record, where they have a ridiculous amount of silent tracks, and the hidden track is somewhere in the middle and not at the end. It doesn't help the song isn't really any good.

I just figure it's been done SO much now, it's not really necessary as much as it's being deployed.

[mr_j]

i hate hidden tracks in the middle of the record. like, MMJ's At Dawn, it has a hidden track (thirteen) that you would THINK is the song "chills," because there are lyrics for it. but noooo, that song doesn't appear anywhere, save for the second disc. and you'd think that 'strangulation' was an instrumental, because there are no lyrics listed on the case. but noooooo. it's got great words.

meh.