And before that there were records with secret spirals.
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 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.
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.
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, heyI tried to think of something deep to say
But my well is dipping dry today
<3
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
Don’t forget the secret messages you get from playing the whole album backwards at x4 speed.
That’s how I got my favorite lentil soup recipe!
Mamas secret lentil soup recipe: Step 1 - sacrifice a child to the dark lord Satan…
“The music is reversible, but time is not. Turn back, turn back!”
You could put a PlayStation disk into a CD player, skip a few tracks, and listen to the songs from the game
Wipeout 3 had an awesome soundtrack. I’ve probably listened to it more than I’ve played it.
“As you can see, this is a PlayStation black disc. Cut #1 contains computer data, so please don’t play it. But you probably won’t listen to me anyway, will you?”
Not all of them, only if it had Redbook audio.
“…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
I was always a fan of
.cuefor this. Dump it all into a big audio file and let the.cuesort it out.
I’m flying…I’m flying…I’m flying away
“What’s a liner note?”
I was alone…
I was all by myself…
No one was lookiiiiing…
I have 2 CDs with this feature! When they end, I wait seconds or a minute just.
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.
I have 2 CDs with this feature! When they end, I wait seconds or a minute just.
I’ll never forget my surprise when I put the Half-Life 1 CD into a player and got the soundtrack.
People do this on digital too.
My favorite thing was burning discs with hidden tracks, especially before track 1. Or inserting a song/sound within a track requiring you to seek to find it.
Too bad for me this was around the time CDs were on their way out, but I hold hope that my old friends from those days might still have those discs.
I did a similar thing when I burned DVDs of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Assy McGee for my friends and inserted clips of midget porn.
That’s a lot more involved than what I ever did. I only put an Enya track inside of some totally-not-Enya song to confuse my friends, but only if you seeked the track.
