I learned something new today…
Records, specifically vinyl, can contain hidden secret tracks. I can’t believe that I never discovered this on my own music collection?!
I knew that this was possible with CDs 💿 and I even had a few tapes that had a “secret” song that was minutes after the “end” of the official albums last track.
I have enjoyed numerous secret track songs. Nirvana comes to mind.
But as I learned today it’s also possible for records to have secret tracks too.
Whether it’s in the form of hidden grooves like under the center paper label or gated grooves that can play repeatedly or a track hidden somewhere else on the surface of the record. I think it’s awesome and I wonder if I have any records that contain any secret tracks ?!
In the field of recorded music, a hidden track (sometimes called a ghost track, secret track or unlisted track) is a song or a piece of audio that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, LP record, or other recorded medium, in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener. In some cases, the piece of music may simply have been left off the track listing, while in other cases, more elaborate methods are used. In rare cases, a "hidden track" is the result of an error that occurred during the mastering stage of the recorded media.
Since the rise of digital and streaming services such as iTunes and Spotify in the late 2000s and early 2010s, the inclusion of hidden tracks has declined on studio albums.
It is occasionally unclear whether a piece of music is "hidden." For example, "Her Majesty," which is preceded by fourteen seconds of silence, was originally unlisted on The Beatles' Abbey Road but is listed on current versions of the album. That song and others push the definition of the term, causing a lack of consensus on what is considered a hidden track. Alternatively, such things are instead labeled as vague audio experiments, errors, or simply an integral part of an adjacent song on the record.
-Wikipedia
I knew that this was possible with CDs 💿 and I even had a few tapes that had a “secret” song that was minutes after the “end” of the official albums last track.
I have enjoyed numerous secret track songs. Nirvana comes to mind.
But as I learned today it’s also possible for records to have secret tracks too.
Whether it’s in the form of hidden grooves like under the center paper label or gated grooves that can play repeatedly or a track hidden somewhere else on the surface of the record. I think it’s awesome and I wonder if I have any records that contain any secret tracks ?!
In the field of recorded music, a hidden track (sometimes called a ghost track, secret track or unlisted track) is a song or a piece of audio that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, LP record, or other recorded medium, in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener. In some cases, the piece of music may simply have been left off the track listing, while in other cases, more elaborate methods are used. In rare cases, a "hidden track" is the result of an error that occurred during the mastering stage of the recorded media.
Since the rise of digital and streaming services such as iTunes and Spotify in the late 2000s and early 2010s, the inclusion of hidden tracks has declined on studio albums.
It is occasionally unclear whether a piece of music is "hidden." For example, "Her Majesty," which is preceded by fourteen seconds of silence, was originally unlisted on The Beatles' Abbey Road but is listed on current versions of the album. That song and others push the definition of the term, causing a lack of consensus on what is considered a hidden track. Alternatively, such things are instead labeled as vague audio experiments, errors, or simply an integral part of an adjacent song on the record.
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