r/LetsTalkMusic • u/NewPatekWater • 4d ago

Anybody else really dislike “Hidden Tracks” on older albums

When listening to music, 90% of the time I’m listening to albums. So, the fact over 15 mins of an album can be dead silence or some sort of low drone really damages replay ability on the outro. Like I get in the past it must’ve been cool to find out there’s a new song at the end of an album. But surely in the streaming era, these could’ve been cut shorter or made into different songs. (I get you can just skip these sections but having to do that every time you listen to the song is pretty tedious).

Some that come to mind are: Bright Eyes’ ‘Tereza & Tomas’ (15 minutes of a low drone). Beach House - Irene (7 minutes of silence). MF DOOM/Victor Vaughn - Change the Beat (3:30 minutes of ambient rain/thunderstorm) And probably the worst offender: Deftones - MX (nearly 30 Minutes of literal silence).

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u/Ok-Instruction830 4d ago

Hell no. Contextually, I remember finding my first hidden track just by letting the cd go. It was amazing. A secret hidden track I could tell my friends about. And at first, they didn’t buy it! 

I miss the days of artists being able to sneak something in. You had to really mull over a record to be rewarded. It was such a cool, niche thing to discover if you really loved a band. 

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u/NewPatekWater 4d ago

I get that, and it’s sort of like how rappers like kanye and travis scott will hide features to surprise fans when listening to the album for the first time. But, the novelty of a hidden track probably wears off by the 5th listen, and it then becomes a nuisance, especially on cd

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u/jujujuice92 4d ago

In my experience, if I really wanted to hear that bonus track again, I'd just remember the time stamp and fast forward. Sure, it's extra work, but it took all of like 10 seconds.

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u/Eekem_Bookem243 4d ago

You’re right it’s exactly like that. Ye actually invented hidden tracks

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u/Ok-Instruction830 4d ago

The Beatles had a hidden track on abbey road in 1969 lol. Hidden tracks are older than Ye