• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    2 hours ago

    311 had a secret song before the first track. You had to rewind to hear it. Only time I’m aware of that happening (there’s probably others that I don’t know about).

  • Sabata@ani.social
    2·
    3 hours ago

    I’ll never forget my surprise when I put the Half-Life 1 CD into a player and got the soundtrack.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
    8·
    5 hours ago

    “…and ripping that CD was annoying, because you then had an over long last track with the secret song, and you had to split the tracks manually and come up with tags on your own, or…”

    (Seriously, the only reason I listened rarely to the last song in Halo CE soundtrack was because of this.)

  • rosco385@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    7 hours ago

    There was a brief and glorious time when this was the apex of technology and culture. Too early and the album was also available on cassette and it was obvious there was playtime left at the end of the album, too late and the rise of the internet meant the secret wouldn’t even make it to the release of the album.

    • kronisk @lemmy.world
      6·
      6 hours ago

      I remember listening to Nevermind for probably the first time while playing computer games. I thought the CD (new technology for me at the time) had broken and started chewing the disc like an old tape

    • kronisk @lemmy.world
      9·
      6 hours ago

      And with locked grooves, metal machine music for instance has a loop on the innermost groove on side D so it can be played infinitely. There’s also records with only loops made with locked grooves.

      One band pressed the sound of a C64 BASIC program onto vinyl that could be recorded onto tape and loaded with the c64 tape deck. All sorts of shenanigans.

      • teamevil@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 hours ago

        Tools opiate for the masses is double grooved on the b side and Dale Crover of the Melvin’s released a Solo album with each track being its own groove

  • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
    16·
    8 hours ago

    My favorite thing was burning discs with hidden tracks, especially before track 1. Or inserting a song/sound within a track requiring you to seek to find it.

    Too bad for me this was around the time CDs were on their way out, but I hold hope that my old friends from those days might still have those discs.

  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    8 hours ago

    You know what really grinds my gears?

    Region-specific bonus tracks that are literally not available on any streaming service in an official capacity; the only place I can find them are on YouTube - where they could get DMCA’ed at a moment’s notice…

    Two tracks off the top of my head like this are:

    1. Don’t Tell Me It’s Over by Blink 182, from Take Off Your Pants & Jacket
    2. Subject to Change by Sum 41, from Chuck
  • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee
    42·
    10 hours ago

    hate how streaming just has the last song be 20 minutes of silence and then playing the secret song. for gods sake can we please just shorten that, it fucks with my playlists

      • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        7 hours ago

        Marilyn Manson’s ‘Antichrist Superstar’ had 99 tracks. That confused the fuck out of me when I first put it in my player.

      • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee
        14·
        10 hours ago

        liars debut album is an odd one, on vinyl the last 2 bars of the last song are on the part of the vinyl that repeats, but on cd they just repeated those 2 bars for the maximum length of a cd and now on streaming that song is like 5 minutes of music and 25 minutes of the same 2 bars

        • Snowclone@lemmy.world
          11·
          10 hours ago

          On Tool’s Ænema there’s a song on the liner notes called ‘Useful Idiot’ but it’s just a static loop at the end of the A Side of the vinyl, on CDs they put like 25 seconds of static there, which wasn’t really noticeable. It’s like a reverse secret track.

  • 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org
    221·
    9 hours ago

    I have some CDs with a -1 track before the first track. Boy was my 15 year old self delighted when I stumbled upon these sweet extra songs!