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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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"The Real Song for the Deaf", which is essentially Track 0, is located in the pregap of Track 1 as a hidden track. The hidden track can be found by rewinding the first track to roughly -1:33. A voice comes on and says: "Huh? What?" and a pattern of low-frequency bass plays and modulates for the rest of the song.

This track [...] is difficult to listen to on all but conventional CD players. Most software CD players do not allow rewinding of this nature, and most MP3 "ripping" software will not include the data.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is so fascinating, I wonder if other types of medium of similar methods for hiding music.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

People have done this with vinyl by putting hidden tracks on second grooves not connected to the main groove.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or on youtube for anyone else who doesn't use spotify:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEU01LrnWng

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=XEU01LrnWng

https://piped.video/watch?v=XEU01LrnWng

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's a link to nothing for those who don't use Spotify, YouTube or Piped:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was a big thing in the 90s, even Tom Petty did it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a pregap track, not an unlisted track at the end. To hear this one you need to rewind the first track backwards until you get to the pregap track beginning.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep Tom Petty, Better Than Ezra and many other bands did this on CD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Less Than Jake did it as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

"I can't even hear it!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's also the "hidden track" of the laughing to the tune of Feel Good Hit of the Summer at the end!

Edit: and the actual hidden track, mosquito song

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Neat. I gotta dig this album out now. Just saw these guys on tour, excellent show, love this band

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would this be something that would’ve carried over on the rip I did like 18 years ago?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Probably not - article states most ripping software misses it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reminds me of how Jack White had a team of vinyl creatives come up with cool ways to hide music on the vinyl record https://youtube.com/watch?v=i-8B-_Jq2ro&feature=share9

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That utter bastard made one side of Lazaretto play backwards: you have to put the needle in the center of the record and it spins out to the edge. First time I tried to listen to it I was very high and it was hell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This had been done before. Techmoan on YouTube did a video on a symphonic piece that was put on vinyl backwards. It's something about how the needle travels slower at the center increases the possible dynamics vinyl can reproduce

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=i-8B-_Jq2ro&

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Dream Theater did this for their entire album Octavarium. Every song has hidden parts, but I think every streaming service has included them into their respective songs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wow I listen to some of this album all the time, better check it out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They Might Be Giants also did this on their 1996 album Factory Showroom

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

WHAT?! I love that album and hear it all the time, never knew there was a hidden track

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Truly a song for the deaf.