Right now I'm wondering why this awful concept of tacking on minutes and minutes of silence to a song at the end of an album so you can insert a "hidden" track still exists. I hate fast forwarding 25 minutes and 30 seconds into mewithoutYou's "The Cure for Pain" just so I can hear a song that I love so much. At first it was amusing when I was a kid when I would listen to Green Day's Dookie so that I could hear that song about masturbation at the end of "F.O.D."
I was aloneIt exists elsewhere. Rilo Kiley's Initial Friend EP. The Silversun Pickup's Pikul EP. Circa Survive's Juturna. Etc. Etc. It's a terrible idea. Stop it. It's dumb. Even with today's technology and being able to instantaneously zip around a song's time line, it's still a waste of time. So please; STOP IT!
I was all by myself
No one was looking...
I was thinking of you
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A lot of "scene rippers" i.e. irc channels that do mp3 releases are using options to start ripping somewhere in the middle of the track so they can only grab the song portion. It does suck cause I loved Juturna's hidden track (House of Leaves). and always had to skip through all the silence to get there.
I guess this could be the modern day equivalen to a B-side?
At least some stuff is worth skipping through the silence to nowadays (that sounds like a metaphor). Or maybe that's bad because you don't want to listen to them. I dunno.
Drag the River (Fort Collins alt-country band). Actually puts a "Jukebox Track" on most of their CDs if it will fit, which is the entire album all in one track. The theory being that you could hear the whole album with only paying for one jukebox song.
I still do not like it Sam I am.
It also sucks not knowing the name of the hidden track. It's just "that song after 15 minutes of silence."
lol. Yeah I agree it's become a little annoying.
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