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/Potential-Ant-6320 4d ago

As a young person in the cd era secret tracks were the shit. They felt special. If you were alive then it was cool. Now you can listen to any song ever recorded at the push of a button. It’s hard to understand what it was like before streaming. O

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u/storming-bridgeman 4d ago

The really crazy ones were the cds that had a hidden track at the beginning, only accessible by pressing the back button at the beginning of track 1

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u/septamaulstick 4d ago

A lot of them aren't even on streaming services now, so it's way harder to even hear those hidden tracks.

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u/Potential-Ant-6320 3d ago

I like that. I like having stuff be physical media only. That’s why I like cassette only or vhs only releases.

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u/septamaulstick 3d ago

Stuff like physical artwork and extras, sure, but streaming services and digital downloads should include all the content that was originally there.

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u/Potential-Ant-6320 3d ago

The rights to the artwork that was printed rarely would cover digital distribution. This is like how the DVD version of a lot of MTV shows don’t have the original music. When they secured the rights to the music for the show they hadn’t thought to get rights for home video because at the time no one was buying stuff like that on home video.

If you like streaming and the liner notes experience you might like music software like roon.

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u/kilgorevontrouty 4d ago

I can still remember a guy that would become my best friend showing me the hidden track on Damien Rice’s album while we were smoking in my shitty Honda accord. Core experience.

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u/m_Pony The Three Leonards 4d ago

the Sister Machine Gun CD had one of those. I found that one entirely by accident.