“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.
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.
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.
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
“…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
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:
- Don’t Tell Me It’s Over by Blink 182, from Take Off Your Pants & Jacket
- Subject to Change by Sum 41, from Chuck
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!
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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