hate how streaming just has the last song be 20 minutes of silence and then playing the secret song. for gods sake can we please just shorten that, it fucks with my playlists
Some cds were like that. Others had 90 1 second tracks.
liars debut album is an odd one, on vinyl the last 2 bars of the last song are on the part of the vinyl that repeats, but on cd they just repeated those 2 bars for the maximum length of a cd and now on streaming that song is like 5 minutes of music and 25 minutes of the same 2 bars
On Tool’s Ænema there’s a song on the liner notes called ‘Useful Idiot’ but it’s just a static loop at the end of the A Side of the vinyl, on CDs they put like 25 seconds of static there, which wasn’t really noticeable. It’s like a reverse secret track.
But thats the song. It’s just not the same without 80 minutes of silence in advance
“What’s a liner note?”
I was alone…
I was all by myself…
No one was lookiiiiing…
So I wore my wallet on a chain, which was the style at the time.
How do you put apple pay on your pants, grand papa?
Oh we didn’t buy things with apples as you youths like to do these days. Our apples were too big to use as money.
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.
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
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.
“…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
Yep. Seen that. Ripped a CD to put it on my media server, and noticed the last song to be over ten minutes long. Loading it into SOX revealed that there were two songs with loads of silence between them.
I’m flying…I’m flying…I’m flying away
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.
A lot of us went into hiding after the great ska purge of 2004 even more I fear
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, heyPeople do this on digital too.
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