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Thread: "Hidden songs" are lame

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    It kinda gets on my nerves when musicians do this. I'm sure the first time it was done it was totally cool, I can see that happening when people just think "Wtf all this silence! Misprinted CD?" and skip ahead on it but seriously, who doesn't just blank out and leave it running without even realizing? So even if it was cool the first time it's really boring and old now, as well as being entirely obvious.

    No more 'hidden' tracks if you musicians please.

    Edit: And hahahahahaha I just saw what Lunar said that's legendary xDDD

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    I don't really buy CDs. I download all my music, and listen to the radio so no hidden songs for me!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jess View Post
    I don't really buy CDs. I download steal all my music, and listen to the radio so no hidden songs for me!
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    I don't hate hidden songs, but I can't understand why anyone wanting to leave an easter egg on their record wouldn't put the hidden track in the pregap. It's a much better hiding place, and more accessible to those who know it's there.
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    I hate the long intervals in between them. I almost fell asleep one time waiting for the next song to start and then all of the sudden music started blasting and I was like, "Wtf this isn't the song on the track listing!" I thought I got a bootleg...

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    I don't like it because it makes the songs hard to listen to in my custom playlist on my Xbox.

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    Tool is notorious for this...and it pisses me off to no end.

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    crouching tiger hidden song.

    Sucks, even with subtitles.

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    I voted yay thinking that bonus songs were the topic. However, I think that hidden songs are lame and would much rather prefer bonus ones.
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    i love hidden/bonus tracks, the most clever one i've seen so far was on an X-Files CD... a liner note said "Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds want you to remember that zero is also a number", if you play track one and rewind/seek it back into the negative counter there is a hidden/bonus song before track #1...

    just remembered another hidden one in Marilyn Manson: Mechanical Animals... there is a hidden track that can not be heard unless you insert the disc into a PC, if you have autoplay turned on it will pop up a window that begins playing the bonus track and have 2 (if i remember right) immages you can flip between while it plays... the entire album deals with the number 15 but there are only 14 tracks on the album, this clue as well as others hidden in the album artwork point to the tracks location and the need for a PC to hear it...
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    It doesn't help that the hidden songs always suck too.

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    Hidden tracks aren't lame at all - the artist is usually doing something surprising and cool, particularly if you listen to music on an actual stereo, the way it was supposed to be played. They also don't always suck, so I don't know what you're talking about - maybe you just listen to sucky bands.

    A nice touch is also hidden artwork (think Kid A), or extra CDs hidden in between the CD casing (SFA).

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    Some hidden songs are great, others not so. Either way, I don't like having to press on forward to listen to one. I'm lazy.

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    I couldn't care less. So what if there's a bit of silence? It's not going to kill you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Balzac View Post
    I couldn't care less. So what if there's a bit of silence? It's not going to kill you.
    No but having to fast-forward through about 20 minutes of silence (like some hidden tracks have before they start) is a pain in the arse.
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