Thursday 22 April 2010

Easter Neg

Might be a few years late with this now, but hidden tracks can still fuck off even retrospectively. Firstly they are not fucking hidden at all to anyone who knows what a fast forward button does.

Guaranteed to wake you up / shit the life out of you 20 minutes after you thought the album had finished, most hidden tracks aren't even proper songs - on Pearl Jam's Binaural, the track "Writer's Block" was simply Vedder loudly mashing the keys on a typewriter for 28 seconds. Cheers Eddie, well profound mate.

Even when the tracks are quite good, like Slipknot's "Eeyore", the fact that the artist doesn't really count it as a 'proper' track seemingly gives them licence to directly precede it with some utter nonsense as well just to spoil it - in this case, a delightful act of furious sething from a band member forced to watch scat porn. Nice.

1 comment:

  1. i love how your example is of the slipknot track, 'eoyre'.

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