• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
    1·
    47 minutes ago

    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, hey

  • papertowels@mander.xyz
    13·
    4 hours ago

    You could put a PlayStation disk into a CD player, skip a few tracks, and listen to the songs from the game

    • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      23 minutes ago

      “As you can see, this is a PlayStation black disc. Cut #1 contains computer data, so please don’t play it. But you probably won’t listen to me anyway, will you?”

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    21·
    5 hours ago

    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).

    • MrVilliam@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      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

  • Sabata@ani.social
    10·
    6 hours ago

    I’ll never forget my surprise when I put the Half-Life 1 CD into a player and got the soundtrack.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
    17·
    8 hours ago

    “…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.)

  • rosco385@lemm.eeEnglish
    24·
    11 hours ago

    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.

    • kronisk @lemmy.world
      7·
      10 hours ago

      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

    • Cid Vicious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      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.

    • kronisk @lemmy.world
      12·
      10 hours ago

      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.

      • teamevil@lemmy.world
        4·
        9 hours ago

        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

  • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
    19·
    11 hours ago

    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.

    • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
      1·
      3 minutes ago

      I did a similar thing when I burned DVDs of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Assy McGee for my friends and inserted clips of midget porn.

  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
    21·
    11 hours ago

    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:

    1. Don’t Tell Me It’s Over by Blink 182, from Take Off Your Pants & Jacket
    2. Subject to Change by Sum 41, from Chuck
    • Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      3 hours ago

      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!

    • 10001110101@lemm.eeEnglish
      18·
      11 hours ago

      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).