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It kind of failed if you had a fancy CD player (or CD-ROM drive) that could show the lengths of tracks, if every other song on an album is 3 minutes long, then the last one probably isn't 30 minutes long.

I don't know what the point of this post is, other than that it sucks when a modern release removes the hidden track oooaaaaaaauhhh

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There would sometimes be hidden songs in the pregap between tracks too. That meant you had to hold the rewind button at the beginning of a song to hear it. Sometimes it was hidden behind track 1.

The only CD I remember having that did this was Factory Showroom by They Might Be Giants but apparently it happened a lot.

The most interesting hidden thing I've seen albums do is sometimes have computer programs. The Christian rock band Prodigal put audio on a hidden groove on their album Electric Eye. If you recorded that onto a cassette and loaded it into a commodore 64, it would display quotes from Einstein and Jesus.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

The game CD for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night had a hidden track you could only hear by popping it into an audio CD player

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

There were a bunch of ukkk musicians putting Spectrum games on albums in the 80s. https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/jul/07/video-games-on-vinyl-flexi-discs-zx-spectrum