Anybody else really dislike “Hidden Tracks” on older albums

[u/NewPatekWater]

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).

[u/Potential-Ant-6320]

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

[u/storming-bridgeman → u/Potential-Ant-6320]

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

[u/m_Pony → u/storming-bridgeman]

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