10-04-2010, 04:12
In my cd collection, a lot have this hidden track joke. Even a soundtrack! The movie Lost in Translation have a song hidden several minutes after the last song.
I don't remember what was the last album that was containing a hidden track, but recently, not. But I don't have any doubt that this is done even today!
The main problem I see with this is that it spoil a random/shuffle listen of the CD. It also spoil a rip you do of your cd, the last track ending up 16 minutes long with 10 minutes silence in between the tracks. Even worse, for example the Marilyn Manson album Antichrist Superstar consist of 99 tracks: after track 16, it's only 4 seconds silence tracks until the track 99 that is the long awaited hidden track.
Maybe on the first listen it's kind of funny (but in fact, it's not funny at all), but the rest of your life you'll have to deal with this shit on your CD.
Nobody should have done this in the first place, as it have no other purpose than sucking every time you listen to the album.
Mike Oldfield, after more than 23 albums, never did this. I like to think that he understood the meaningless of such doing.
I don't remember what was the last album that was containing a hidden track, but recently, not. But I don't have any doubt that this is done even today!
The main problem I see with this is that it spoil a random/shuffle listen of the CD. It also spoil a rip you do of your cd, the last track ending up 16 minutes long with 10 minutes silence in between the tracks. Even worse, for example the Marilyn Manson album Antichrist Superstar consist of 99 tracks: after track 16, it's only 4 seconds silence tracks until the track 99 that is the long awaited hidden track.
Maybe on the first listen it's kind of funny (but in fact, it's not funny at all), but the rest of your life you'll have to deal with this shit on your CD.
Nobody should have done this in the first place, as it have no other purpose than sucking every time you listen to the album.
Mike Oldfield, after more than 23 albums, never did this. I like to think that he understood the meaningless of such doing.