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She rode a horse into my head
She won’t discipline the children
And now they’re running wild on the beach
And I don’t care, oh, I don’t care
No, I don’t care hey, hey, heySo I wore my wallet on a chain, which was the style at the time.
You could put a PlayStation disk into a CD player, skip a few tracks, and listen to the songs from the game
Not all of them, only if it had Redbook audio.
311 had a secret song before the first track. You had to rewind to hear it. Only time I’m aware of that happening (there’s probably others that I don’t know about).
I don’t know that I’d call it a song per se, but Brand New did this on The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me. I think it was like a minute of stuff that seamlessly blends right into the start of Sowing Season. I don’t own the CD and I only heard that part once like 15 years ago, so I truly can’t remember what it was. Maybe like a message on an answering machine?
Edit: found it
I was thinking, yeah Rammstein also did something like that. Looked it up and turns out there is a wiki list of all CD’s that did this. Wikipedia
I’ll never forget my surprise when I put the Half-Life 1 CD into a player and got the soundtrack.
Oh yeah? Well back in MY day the Dead Kennedys put out this cassette tape and all the music was on one side and the other side was blank and there was a note that said something like… oh what was it now… “Home taping is killing record industry profits! We left this side blank so you can help.” Yep that was really something.
“…and ripping that CD was annoying, because you then had an over long last track with the secret song, and you had to split the tracks manually and come up with tags on your own, or…”
(Seriously, the only reason I listened rarely to the last song in Halo CE soundtrack was because of this.)
The CDs I remember with it would have the secret party track start with like ten minutes of nothing
Just FYI millennia is a plural form: one millennium, two millennia. So you’re from a different millennium.
I was there, Gandalf…three thousand years ago…
Maybe he is over a thousand years old, don’t you see the wrinkles?
Those of us that were born before 2000: am I a joke to you?
I’m also in that group, I only meant to write a direct parallel to the title, for comparison :-)
… and the good old enhanced CDs where you will find some specials if you put them into your PC.
Yeah. Sony gave me malware one time with one of those. Thanks Sony.
Was this a rootkit they came up with bc they were trying to… something? I vaguely remember that…
Yea it was during their “total war on piracy” era
It basically screwed with your computers CD drive, phoned home, made it self undetectable, all that good stuff
Trying to perform DRM? Hell yeah!
There was a brief and glorious time when this was the apex of technology and culture. Too early and the album was also available on cassette and it was obvious there was playtime left at the end of the album, too late and the rise of the internet meant the secret wouldn’t even make it to the release of the album.
Kingdom… Of the dinosaurs…
Rip off your face… Of the dinosaurs…
Don’t see a lot of Five Iron Frenzy references around here! It’s such a… specific genre.
Good old endless, nameless
I remember listening to Nevermind for probably the first time while playing computer games. I thought the CD (new technology for me at the time) had broken and started chewing the disc like an old tape
And before that there were records with secret spirals.
Those were kind of annoying because it was essentially luck if the draw which one you got.
Records could also have bits at the end meant to loop as the needle bounced. The Beatles’ Day in the Life has this, which sounds weird in other media.
And with locked grooves, metal machine music for instance has a loop on the innermost groove on side D so it can be played infinitely. There’s also records with only loops made with locked grooves.
One band pressed the sound of a C64 BASIC program onto vinyl that could be recorded onto tape and loaded with the c64 tape deck. All sorts of shenanigans.
I had Monty Python’s ‘Matching Tie And Hankerchief’ which had two side As.
Whoa, I have a bunch of records and never knew this.
Tools opiate for the masses is double grooved on the b side and Dale Crover of the Melvin’s released a Solo album with each track being its own groove
My favorite thing was burning discs with hidden tracks, especially before track 1. Or inserting a song/sound within a track requiring you to seek to find it.
Too bad for me this was around the time CDs were on their way out, but I hold hope that my old friends from those days might still have those discs.
You know what really grinds my gears?
Region-specific bonus tracks that are literally not available on any streaming service in an official capacity; the only place I can find them are on YouTube - where they could get DMCA’ed at a moment’s notice…
Two tracks off the top of my head like this are:
- Don’t Tell Me It’s Over by Blink 182, from Take Off Your Pants & Jacket
- Subject to Change by Sum 41, from Chuck
I believe that Take Off Your Pants and Jacket was released with 6 different secret songs (in the US anyway). Each album came with 2 of the 6, so you had to see if your friends got the other ones on their albums.
It was a good time!
I recently went back to pirating and transferring music to my phone like it was an iPod, lol. VLC is a good player (and works with Android Auto), and Strawberry is good on Linux for listening and library management. The SoulSeek network has a lot of hard to find stuff in flac (I use the Nicotine+ client).
I recently discovered Nicotine+. My iPod mini has never been happier.
Try PowerAmp on Android.
I use musicolet. Integrates with android auto pretty well so I can control it from the console while driving if I want. And it’s free
Why would I pay to play my music vs winamp/VLC‽
PowerAmp is a music player, not a streaming service.
When I looked on play 5 min ago it was a trial and 7.99 to buy. Full version is 8 bux
It often goes on sale. Worth the price imo.
Fair enough, could you tell me why? I’m more than willing to spend money especially if it’s not something you’re being paid to sell…
