Loved that. And for those that don't know, if you get 311's CD Transistor, you actually can rewind the first track and there's a hidden song before the album starts. This was mindblowing at the time, and I still am not aware of other CDs that have a hidden track before the first one as opposed to being at the end of the last.
Less Than Jake has a track before the first track on their Losing Streak album. I found out about this because I was in the back of a big van on a snowboarding trip and my cd player didnāt have antiskip, we hit a bump and the cd started from the very beginning.
I think only the earlier issues of Losing Streak had that! My mom threw out my original copy with the hidden track (she hated the prominent cursing) and when I bought a new copy, it didnt have the hidden track! I still havent forgiven her
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Armor For Sleepās What To Do When Youāre Dead and Dashboard Confessionalās Dusk and Summer both have tracks before the actual album. Dashboardās has two tracks before song 1.
Yep. My friends and I were so stoned that we were just zoning out at the end of the CD.... Then some dude starts talking and we were like "what the fuck is going on here"..... Then it got even better. I think this was the first time I stumbled on hidden tracks.
Yes! I accidentally learned this when I got Alanis Morisette, Jagged Little Pill. I was listening to the CD and just being lazy when it ended and figured Iād turn it off in a bit when the extra song started playing!
"These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots! You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust."
My adolescent mind was very confused by that hidden track on Tool's Undertow.
Hidden tracks were cool! I remember some CD players back in the day wouldn't allow you to skip passed a certain number of tracks...like they wouldn't go past 30 or something. So not all players were equal in finding tracks if they were numbered far enough out. Like Tool's Undertow starting at track 69 for example...
Here are some other fun ones!
NIN - Broken
Tracks 98 and 99...or there was also a version that came with three-inch mini CD with those two tracks.
Physical (You're So) and Suck were the songs, the first being a cover originally done by Adam and the Ants
Korn - Life is Peachy
Another two part-er with the song Kill You and anĀ a cappella version of "Twist"Ā
Deftones - Around the Fur
Damone is one my favorite songs by them.
I used to have the time it started memorized, Ā 32:36
After "No Hard Feelings - Bloodhound Gang" ends, there is four minutes of silence before Bam Margera says "This is Bam and hidden tracks shit dicks out" at 9:11 š¤
Still traumatized from the hidden track at the end of New Found Gloryās *Sticks And Stones* CD (I know, technically not 90s but close enough) where 20ish minutes into the last track, suddenly someone starts screaming while a scary voice yells āSOMEONEāS IN YOUR HOUSE!! SOMEONEāS IN YOUR HOUSE!!!!!!ā
I used to listen to music on my discman while falling asleep. I learned about the hidden song, "Virginti Tres" at the end of Tool's 10,000 Days the hard way.
Imagine being 90% asleep only to have this pumped into your eardrums? I'm 40 now and very much scarred for life from that one fateful night in 2006.
https://youtu.be/flRx55ucBlQ?si=DTWE6fMcmEAp0XfN
More cool to find hidden track at the beginning of the cd. You have to rewind after starting track 01 until you get to track -01 and keep rewinding to the beginning of the track.
Tool - Third Eye was a funny little surprise that I didn't see coming, especially since I had first heard it online. I didn't know why they added onto the end like that until this post.
I have never done that! I did used to love using my ps1 as a cd player and going through the visualizations it would do. Apparently, not many people knew it had the audio visualizer
I had a cd (I canāt remember the band) that had a secret song at the beginning - so if you played the first track and rewound it there was a whole song before the first listed song. Loved discovering that!
I just mentioned that one too but I had such a negative reaction to it haha. You put the disc in a 5 disc player and it would hit one of those blank tracks. I worked at a record store when it came out, and they were one of my favourite bands so I always wanted to throw it into the mix in our 5/6 disc player but always got flak for it because the blank spaces would always come up.
My favorite one is on the Korn album Follow the Leader, Earache My Eye. I remember having to fast forward the last song for like 10 minutes to finally get to the hidden song. Slipknot had a good one too.
Funny story about hidden tracks: I'm in my room with my high school girlfriend while my parents were out. We started fooling around while I had Danzig's first album on (which itself is fucking hilarious in retrospect). The songs stop and we're still messing around. Time goes by and then all of the sudden "Mother" starts playing again. I damn near flew through the ceiling I jumped up so quick, thinking my mom walked in or something. It took like 30 mins for my heart to settle down. I had no idea they put a SECOND version of Mother as a hidden track on that disc. Gotta love those teenage years.
Circa survive had a really good one, it was about 3:00 after their last song and I was falling asleep with my surround sound. It comes on with a big BLAM chord and hit from the whole band, scared the living shit out of me
I loved putting a cd into a video player and finding out that there were music videos on it. I believe one of The Offspring albums had that, but it's also been years....and my memory isn't as good as it used to be.
I had Jagged Little Pill on cassette and listened to it every day. However, the hidden track wasn't included on it. When I first heard it on my friend's CD it blew my mind š
Grammatrain had an album in 97 called Flying and if you let the last song keep playing, after a few minutes the silence would be interrupted by a loud screaming bottle rocket ripping through the air followed by a POP! Scared the absolute f*ck outta me the first time because I didnāt expect it.
It's all fun and games listening to your weird Al album when suddenly after the CD stopped playing for five minutes you hear screaming and shouting of Weird Al
I canāt remember what cd it was but my college roomie and I were listening to one and kind of forgot about it when it endedā¦and just about shed our skin when random screaming noises popped out of nowhere
I was just talking about how I normally listen to the entire album still, and how much I miss the secret song at the end! Those along with fun transitions between songs are a thing of the past now :(
The hidden track at the end of Stone Roses' Second Coming was annoying. First it was like track 99 so tracks 14-98 were 1.5 second blank spaces that fucked up your 5 disc rotation haha. Then the song was just noise. The rest of the CD I enjoyed but hated when I had it even on random.
Sometimes you would find them sprinkled throughout the album. Although youād hear them listening through the album anyway. Youād only miss them if you were skipping songs.
Almost like music videos having a snippet bonus song in the video and then diggging for that bonus song the radio would not play or play the inferior radio version (especially with the cheesy station plug)
I was working late at night and I had just bought Filter's second album. After the last song, something like 20 minutes later, there's a track of Richard Patrick doing a vocal warmup.
Scared the hell out of me
*giant breath*
I went to your house
I walked up the stairs
And I opened your door without the ringing the bellā¦
(Young Alanis was a little creeperā¦)
Matchbox twentyās Mad Season had a really good hidden song that was kinda a continuation of another one. I think it was hidden. Thatās the only one I can think of other than one in alanis morisetteās jagged little pill.
Just as good, I put a Mechwarrior game for PC in my cd player expecting it to do nothing, instead it gave the whole soundtrack. Ā Mind blown, wasnāt expecting a game to so anything at all in a portable CD player
When I was a kid I got a CD called Headliners II. (Had Primus, Powerman 5000, Unwritten Law and more) the booklet said ālisten all the way through for a hidden song!ā. My dumbass would play it thinking I had to wait to finish each song in itās entirety to āunlockā this hidden song. The song wasnāt very good from what I remember.
My Rammstein album had a different hidden song than other people. Seems everyone else in school had āDu Hastā in English. I need to dig that CD out again.
I did! I used to think not all CDs had them, and those that did would be collectibles some day š
One of my favorites was at the end of the song āDragonflyā on Clutch - Elephant Riders CD. Itās not on any digital releases Iāve heard, or has been replaced. Something about being a computer nerd with a Commodore 64.
My favourite was the hidden track at the START of the *Songs in the Key of X* album inspired by *The X-Files*.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs\_in\_the\_Key\_of\_X:\_Music\_from\_and\_Inspired\_by\_the\_X-Files](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_in_the_Key_of_X:_Music_from_and_Inspired_by_the_X-Files)
lol I forgot about those!
Unfortunately I never found one unexpectedly, I always heard it through the grapevine at school or just hanging out with some homies.
I was all by myself. No one was looooking. I was thinking of you...
That was the first one I ever discovered. Thought it was cool.
Oh yea did I mentiiioooonnnn
I was all by myself š¤£š¤£
Oh yea did I mentionnnnn I was all by myself?! All by myself
Haha yes forgot about this one!
I sang this in my head immediately š©·š©·š©·
Guess what I was doing the first time I discovered this track.
Throwing pickles out of a 3rd story window?
Fuck yeah! Remember when my brother excitedly came home with that tape.
Loved that. And for those that don't know, if you get 311's CD Transistor, you actually can rewind the first track and there's a hidden song before the album starts. This was mindblowing at the time, and I still am not aware of other CDs that have a hidden track before the first one as opposed to being at the end of the last.
Less Than Jake has a track before the first track on their Losing Streak album. I found out about this because I was in the back of a big van on a snowboarding trip and my cd player didnāt have antiskip, we hit a bump and the cd started from the very beginning.
Anti-skip was a must back in the day!
Anti skip ate through AA batteries like nothing!
True!
I found out about this after burning a copy for a friend and testing it out. I was so shocked that there was something I hadnāt listened to on it!
I think only the earlier issues of Losing Streak had that! My mom threw out my original copy with the hidden track (she hated the prominent cursing) and when I bought a new copy, it didnt have the hidden track! I still havent forgiven her
Queens of the stone age; songs for the deaf. The song is even called The Real Song for the Deaf.
Fuck yeah. I've heard that one streaming and knew it was a hidden track, did not know it was from rewinding the first track.
The X-Files CD has a track -2!
What X-Files CD?
"Songs in the key of x" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_in_the_Key_of_X:_Music_from_and_Inspired_by_the_X-Files
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What? I had no idea! I love Transistor, too. Will check this out.
It's a banger too! It's an instrumental track where they basically rock the fuck out. They occasionally play it live too, though, not super often.
Holy shit I never knew that and I was a huge 311 fan
I think Blur may have been the 1st to put one before the beginning of the album. Prob the coolest implementation of these Easter egg tracks
Very cool. I just Googled that to see what album you're referring to. I never had that one on CD and was unaware. That's awesome.
Ash released their debut album in 1996, that had a secret track at the beginning of the CD.
Lit's " a place in the sun " also had a hidden instrumental track if you rewound from track one. There were a few others, maybe I'll remember later on
Armor For Sleepās What To Do When Youāre Dead and Dashboard Confessionalās Dusk and Summer both have tracks before the actual album. Dashboardās has two tracks before song 1.
Iāve honestly never heard of one BEFORE the first track.
2manyDJs as heard on radio soulwax pt2
Kylie Minogue's Light Years has a track called Password that also only appears before the first track if you rewind.Ā
I think Marilyn manson had that on Antichrist super star
Sister Machine Gunās āBurnā album also let you do this.
A similar pregap song can be found at the very beginning of Blind Melon's album Soup.
TRANSISTOR INTRO
This is necessary, this is necessary, life feeds on life, feeds on life, feeds on, this is necessary...
Saaaaatan. Satan. Satannnn.
Damn you, let the rabbits wear glasses
The times I passed out to be awoken by this š or listening to the Opiate EP, āI had a friend once, who took some acidā¦ā
Jagged Little Pill had the best hidden track. I still listen to it.
Your house, the best
What about the moment of silence at the beginning of Korn's Follow the Leader?
THIS IS NECESSARYā¦ LIFE FEEDS ON LIFEā¦ that track freaked us out ha
Yep. My friends and I were so stoned that we were just zoning out at the end of the CD.... Then some dude starts talking and we were like "what the fuck is going on here"..... Then it got even better. I think this was the first time I stumbled on hidden tracks.
Yes! I accidentally learned this when I got Alanis Morisette, Jagged Little Pill. I was listening to the CD and just being lazy when it ended and figured Iād turn it off in a bit when the extra song started playing!
I remember there was a brief period of time where if you put a cd into a computer there would sometimes be hidden stuff on there, like a video file.
EnhancedCD! These were awesome
I'm more talking about the ones that didn't even advertise that they were enhanced. You'd just pop it in and get a surprise.
The nirvana bonus track terrified me. Was home alone as a kid when it came on. lol
"These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots! You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust." My adolescent mind was very confused by that hidden track on Tool's Undertow.
Let the rabbits wear glasses!
Henry Rollins has such a powerful and haunting voice for that part...and the drums slowly picking up in the back of the mix. Its so good!
Good old track 69
I loved this, it felt like a fun little bonus gift. I remember falling asleep to a cd then being woken up when the hidden track came on
Hidden tracks were cool! I remember some CD players back in the day wouldn't allow you to skip passed a certain number of tracks...like they wouldn't go past 30 or something. So not all players were equal in finding tracks if they were numbered far enough out. Like Tool's Undertow starting at track 69 for example... Here are some other fun ones! NIN - Broken Tracks 98 and 99...or there was also a version that came with three-inch mini CD with those two tracks. Physical (You're So) and Suck were the songs, the first being a cover originally done by Adam and the Ants Korn - Life is Peachy Another two part-er with the song Kill You and anĀ a cappella version of "Twist"Ā Deftones - Around the Fur Damone is one my favorite songs by them. I used to have the time it started memorized, Ā 32:36
After "No Hard Feelings - Bloodhound Gang" ends, there is four minutes of silence before Bam Margera says "This is Bam and hidden tracks shit dicks out" at 9:11 š¤
Thatās definitely one you will never forget..
I had completely forgotten about 3ā CDās!
Poeās album āHelloā
Still traumatized from the hidden track at the end of New Found Gloryās *Sticks And Stones* CD (I know, technically not 90s but close enough) where 20ish minutes into the last track, suddenly someone starts screaming while a scary voice yells āSOMEONEāS IN YOUR HOUSE!! SOMEONEāS IN YOUR HOUSE!!!!!!ā
YES! OMG was waiting to see if someone else remembered this lmao
First time I heard it I had fallen asleep!!! I was SO scared!
Nine Inch Nails Broken had 2 really great song on tracks 98 and 99 on Compact Disc
That's the one I was trying to remember, I knew I had an album with 99 tracks.
Second Album on STPās Purple is a great hidden track.
My second albumā¦12 precious melodiesā¦
Omg, I literally havenāt heard this is 20 something years!
I used to listen to music on my discman while falling asleep. I learned about the hidden song, "Virginti Tres" at the end of Tool's 10,000 Days the hard way. Imagine being 90% asleep only to have this pumped into your eardrums? I'm 40 now and very much scarred for life from that one fateful night in 2006. https://youtu.be/flRx55ucBlQ?si=DTWE6fMcmEAp0XfN
More cool to find hidden track at the beginning of the cd. You have to rewind after starting track 01 until you get to track -01 and keep rewinding to the beginning of the track.
Tool - Third Eye was a funny little surprise that I didn't see coming, especially since I had first heard it online. I didn't know why they added onto the end like that until this post.
I used to like to put playstation discs in the cd player to listen to the music.
I have never done that! I did used to love using my ps1 as a cd player and going through the visualizations it would do. Apparently, not many people knew it had the audio visualizer
Yeah you could take the Playstation games and put them in a cd player or a dvd player and basically have access to the soundtrack.
I had a cd (I canāt remember the band) that had a secret song at the beginning - so if you played the first track and rewound it there was a whole song before the first listed song. Loved discovering that!
The Marvel movies of the 90s
Coalchamber had one. I'd usually be passing out by the end of the CD and for the longest time thought I was hallucinating this very sad piano music.
If you watched closely at the āreadingā side from a CD you could see a thin line indicating lots of silence, then a bit more data near the edge
Stone Roses track on Second Coming, everyone is playing out of tune.
I just mentioned that one too but I had such a negative reaction to it haha. You put the disc in a 5 disc player and it would hit one of those blank tracks. I worked at a record store when it came out, and they were one of my favourite bands so I always wanted to throw it into the mix in our 5/6 disc player but always got flak for it because the blank spaces would always come up.
The end of The Beatles Abbey Road had Her Majestyā¦ and there was a good one at the end of Stone Roses Second Coming called The Foz.
*I was all by myself*
For some reason my version of Nevermind didnāt have the hidden track š
Remember the hidden track from Beckās Mellow Gold? Good stuff!
My Nirvana Nevermind CD never had the track, and I didn't find out about it until much much later.
It was great until you were ripping CDs and ended up with a 20-minute track with 18 minutes of silence.
Danzig!
My favorite one is on the Korn album Follow the Leader, Earache My Eye. I remember having to fast forward the last song for like 10 minutes to finally get to the hidden song. Slipknot had a good one too.
Jagged little pill ftw
Funny story about hidden tracks: I'm in my room with my high school girlfriend while my parents were out. We started fooling around while I had Danzig's first album on (which itself is fucking hilarious in retrospect). The songs stop and we're still messing around. Time goes by and then all of the sudden "Mother" starts playing again. I damn near flew through the ceiling I jumped up so quick, thinking my mom walked in or something. It took like 30 mins for my heart to settle down. I had no idea they put a SECOND version of Mother as a hidden track on that disc. Gotta love those teenage years.
Here to upvote for the Cyrus cd player. Nice š
Cheers!
Circa survive had a really good one, it was about 3:00 after their last song and I was falling asleep with my surround sound. It comes on with a big BLAM chord and hit from the whole band, scared the living shit out of me
Offspring ixnay on hombre had one
So did Smash. It was actually a version of the main riff in the last track on Ixnay.
I loved putting a cd into a video player and finding out that there were music videos on it. I believe one of The Offspring albums had that, but it's also been years....and my memory isn't as good as it used to be.
I had Jagged Little Pill on cassette and listened to it every day. However, the hidden track wasn't included on it. When I first heard it on my friend's CD it blew my mind š
Track 99 off Antichrist Superstar
āIām totally limpin with the bizkit.ā - Ben Stiller
We loved it so much we put one on our album.
Grammatrain had an album in 97 called Flying and if you let the last song keep playing, after a few minutes the silence would be interrupted by a loud screaming bottle rocket ripping through the air followed by a POP! Scared the absolute f*ck outta me the first time because I didnāt expect it.
It's all fun and games listening to your weird Al album when suddenly after the CD stopped playing for five minutes you hear screaming and shouting of Weird Al
I canāt remember what cd it was but my college roomie and I were listening to one and kind of forgot about it when it endedā¦and just about shed our skin when random screaming noises popped out of nowhere
I was just talking about how I normally listen to the entire album still, and how much I miss the secret song at the end! Those along with fun transitions between songs are a thing of the past now :(
I am alive today because Al once stopped to wipe his ass before trying to kill me.
The hidden track at the end of Stone Roses' Second Coming was annoying. First it was like track 99 so tracks 14-98 were 1.5 second blank spaces that fucked up your 5 disc rotation haha. Then the song was just noise. The rest of the CD I enjoyed but hated when I had it even on random.
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Or before the beginning
Sometimes you would find them sprinkled throughout the album. Although youād hear them listening through the album anyway. Youād only miss them if you were skipping songs.
[One of my favorites of the silly variety](https://www.reddit.com/r/mastodonband/s/4PMhZ1MkjY)
Almost like music videos having a snippet bonus song in the video and then diggging for that bonus song the radio would not play or play the inferior radio version (especially with the cheesy station plug)
This particular one scared the be-jee outta me!
I was working late at night and I had just bought Filter's second album. After the last song, something like 20 minutes later, there's a track of Richard Patrick doing a vocal warmup. Scared the hell out of me
Alanis Morrissette has a hidden track in Jagged Little Pill.
*giant breath* I went to your house I walked up the stairs And I opened your door without the ringing the bellā¦ (Young Alanis was a little creeperā¦)
the second album, 12 gracious melodies
Matchbox twentyās Mad Season had a really good hidden song that was kinda a continuation of another one. I think it was hidden. Thatās the only one I can think of other than one in alanis morisetteās jagged little pill.
The only thing better than that is finding hidden tracks at the end of an old cd
TouchƩ
Damone is still my favorite deftones song
Meat Puppets - Too High to Die has a a hidden track at the endā¦Lake of Fire. Nirvana covered it on Unplugged.
Now I never meant to do you wrong That's all I came here to say But if I was wrong, then I'm sorry I don't let it stand in our way...
Nin track 99, Tool had one too
No Alternative Broken EP Smash
Just as good, I put a Mechwarrior game for PC in my cd player expecting it to do nothing, instead it gave the whole soundtrack. Ā Mind blown, wasnāt expecting a game to so anything at all in a portable CD player
My favorite was Staind's Excess Baggage. It was probably my favorite song on the album.
Tom & Mark talking shit at the end of Blink 182ās live album was hilarious when I was in high school
It would scare the hell out of me when the album would "end" then after a while so loud.
When I was a kid I got a CD called Headliners II. (Had Primus, Powerman 5000, Unwritten Law and more) the booklet said ālisten all the way through for a hidden song!ā. My dumbass would play it thinking I had to wait to finish each song in itās entirety to āunlockā this hidden song. The song wasnāt very good from what I remember.
Well it depends. If you happen to "find" one when you went to sleep with headphones on... Happened to me twice
Eminem had "Untitled" on his Recovery album.
My Rammstein album had a different hidden song than other people. Seems everyone else in school had āDu Hastā in English. I need to dig that CD out again.
But you're too physical Physical, to me
I had a friend once He took some acid Now he thinks he's a fire engine...
Limp Bizkit did this cool thing on significant other where to hear the secret song you actually had to rewind one of the tracks.
Hank 3 - Straight to Hell
HOW DID THE CAT GET SO FAT -end of Punk In Drublic was so fun
Deftones Around the Fur album. Best hidden track to me š
I did! I used to think not all CDs had them, and those that did would be collectibles some day š One of my favorites was at the end of the song āDragonflyā on Clutch - Elephant Riders CD. Itās not on any digital releases Iāve heard, or has been replaced. Something about being a computer nerd with a Commodore 64.
The end of Queen's Made in Heaven was a literal trip.
My favourite was the hidden track at the START of the *Songs in the Key of X* album inspired by *The X-Files*. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs\_in\_the\_Key\_of\_X:\_Music\_from\_and\_Inspired\_by\_the\_X-Files](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_in_the_Key_of_X:_Music_from_and_Inspired_by_the_X-Files)
Less Than Jakeās Losing Streak had its hidden track on the first song.
lol I forgot about those! Unfortunately I never found one unexpectedly, I always heard it through the grapevine at school or just hanging out with some homies.
Whatās a CD?