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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 16, 2008 15:04:05 GMT 2
They've kinda fallen out of fashion now, but a few years back one of the first things I did when I bought an album was go to the last track and skip to the end to see if there was an extra, hidden song at the end.
One of the most notable examples for me was 1977 by Ash. It had a hidden song at the end, but they also had TWO hidden songs at the start, meaning you had to play and re-wind track one, and it would go back about seven minutes before you could play it. Oh, and the actual hidden song at the end wasn't a song, it was just the band, blind drunk in the studio, getting one guy to make himself throw up onto the microphone. It, er, wasn't on their Greatest Hits album.
There's been loads that I've actually enjoyed (Green Day's "I Was Alone" song from Dookie and Prince's "Wasted Kisses" on New Power Soul, not to mention Nirvana's two amazing hidden songs) are the ones that spring to mind. Robbie Williams too, put hidden songs on both his first and second albums, and at the end of his third album there was a lengthy pause followed by "yeah.. I'm not doing one this time." Whatever you think of the guy - that's pretty clever.
That's the few I can think of right now - are there any great songs hidden at the end of albums that you have? And do you find its a dying "art" nowadays?
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Post by Ben on Jun 16, 2008 22:44:18 GMT 2
I wouldn't say it's a dying art. I still find a few of my bands putting hidden tracks on their albums, though, now that I think about it, those bands aren't exactly "new."
Exodus' latest work, "The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A", contains a hidden track after the last song called "Bonded by Banjo." It's a country-style acoustic re-recording of their thrash classic "Bonded by Blood."
There's a cool hidden track at the end of the System of a Down album "Toxicity" that sounds like some sort of tribal music (woodwinds, chanting, bongos).
My favorite hidden track ever is on the album "Dirt" by Alice in Chains. It's a demented riff with Tom Araya (of Slayer fame) yelling along with it. That one is actually in the middle of the album, rather than the end.
I can think of a few others. There's a shitty one at the end of the Skid Row album "Subhuman Race" and an eerie one that always catches me off guard at the end of the Hurt album "Vol. 1." I'm pretty sure there's one at the end of the album "Smash" (Offspring) but I haven't listened to it in so long I could be getting it confused with another album. Tool's got a great one (can't remember which album) and Children of Bodom's got a clip at the end of their remastered "Are You Dead Yet?" of the band laughing and yelling in the studio.
I own all the Nirvana albums (I really can't believe myself) but I'm not aware of those hidden tracks you mentioned, Curmudgeon. Care to share their location?
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 17, 2008 0:00:37 GMT 2
Yeah, man. Here's the official verdict..
Is there an hidden track on Nevermind/In Utero?
There is 2 hidden Nirvana tracks Endless nameless on Nevermind and Gallons of rubbing alcohol flow through the strip on In utero. They appear about 10 mins after the last songs on each album. Endless nameless also appears on the Come as you are single as it was missing from the initial copies of Nevermind. Gallons of rubbing alcohol flow through the strip is only on the european version of In utero and not the US versions.
Ah, that may explain why you don't get the In Utero track. It's for us Brits only. I think a trip to Limewire is in order. And it's worth it, 'cos the song (bizarre, rambling thrash as it is), is really very good.
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Post by trashcanman on Jun 17, 2008 0:36:03 GMT 2
On Primer 55's album "Introduction to Mayhem", they gathered together all of the album's considerable profanity and edited it all together for a bonus track. I like. "Follow the Leader' sports Korn covering Cheech and Chong classic "Earache my Eye". www.youtube.com/watch?v=edCQxYzQqhUThere's loads more, but it's been so long I can't think of any great ones off the top of my head. |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 17, 2008 10:21:57 GMT 2
Urgh, "Follow The Leader." Man, that was a disappointing album. I loved the first two Korn albums, and I remember walking home looking at the album artwork (by Todd McFarlane, if memory serves) thinking this was going to be one of all-time great albums. And hoo boy, it sure wasn't.
There's some decent songs on there, but it doesn't have the fucked up noise of the first two albums, and Jonathon Davies seemed to have lost some of his edge. There's no insanity like in the first album or wanton perversion like on the second album. And.. was that.. a JOKE song on there, with Limp Bizkit? Where they talk about how much they hate each other but then the punchline(!) makes them all gay for each other. Ha ha.. huh.
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Post by Ben on Jun 17, 2008 23:14:53 GMT 2
That does indeed explain why I don't have the In Utero hidden track. The Nevermind one is till a mystery. According to your info I should have it, but I don't...
I've listened to all the Nirvana albums at least 50 times through each, so I was wondering how I could have possibly missed them.
Fortunately for me, when I said I owned ALL of the Nirvana albums, I do own them all. Even the (this is hard to say) BOX SET, which contains both of the hidden tracks you mentioned. *Hangs head in embarassment*
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 18, 2008 0:03:11 GMT 2
Sigh. Nirvana and Box Set. Somehow those words just don't really go together.
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Post by trashcanman on Jun 23, 2008 12:14:22 GMT 2
Here's one. So Anthrax decided to do an album of their new singer singing their old songs and they let the fans vote online on what songs those would be. There is this murdrously awesome song, "Lone Justice", based on spaghetti westerns an Stephen King's "The Gunslinger" that is THE fan favorite. But the song is obscure so they never played it live. The fans clamored for this song for years and, sure enough, it shot up to the top of the votes. So I rush out to buy the album on day 1 and I get home and look at the track list. No "Lone Justice". I'm listening to the album and reading the liner notes where Scott Ian is saying they disagreed with some of the fan's picks because they were too obvious and changed a few out in favor of the band's picks. So I'm going "BULLSHIT!" even as I'm enjoying the CD. Then the last track blows through followed by a pause and I'm thinking "come on, come on, come on..." and then the familiar bassline hit and all was right with the world.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 24, 2008 15:32:27 GMT 2
That's a cool story. One weird, spooky track can be heard at the end of the second Placebo album. It's a sort of looped sound but with a tape recording of threatening messages aimed at singer Brian Molko. The message itself?
Hey motherfucker, I'm after you. I know where you live.
I will fuck you up the ass and I will sneak into your room and cut your cock off
And stuff it in my mouth and chew it up with my little teeth.
And the song itself is called "Evil Dildo." Nice.
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Post by trashcanman on Jun 24, 2008 22:50:52 GMT 2
Here's something cool: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_albums_containing_a_hidden_trackAnd a great article: internationalmixtapeproject.com/showArticle.php?articleID=5252"Carbona, Not Glue" rules! For non-Ramones fans, let me clarify. An old song of theirs was titled "Now I Want to Sniff Some Glue". An older, more refined Ramones found a better alternative an wrote "Carbona, Not Glue", announcing their new choice of inhalant. The company banned the song's release (frankly, I'm impressed they even got the reference) and so the punk O.G's hid it as a bonus track on a live album. The perfect crime. The Mastodon one they mention is pretty funny as well. |
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Post by Ben on Jun 25, 2008 21:30:10 GMT 2
That Anthrax album sounds pretty cool Trashcanman. I only own one of their albums that Belladonna doesn't sing on, and it was so average I decided to stay away from the rest. Maybe I'll have to look deeper into their catalogue.
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Post by trashcanman on Jun 25, 2008 22:53:54 GMT 2
John Bush is different, but a lot of their stuff with him is amazing. "Sound of White Noise" was an incredible re-working of their sound and "Stomp 442" had a punk/metal hybrid feel to it that I dug. The deluxe editions of those albums have some of the best covers ever as bonus tracks. Thin Lizzy, Cheap Trick, Husker Du, The Smiths, and mucho mas. Check 'em out.
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