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… and the good old enhanced CDs where you will find some specials if you put them into your PC.
Yeah. Sony gave me malware one time with one of those. Thanks Sony.
Was this a rootkit they came up with bc they were trying to… something? I vaguely remember that…
Yea it was during their “total war on piracy” era
It basically screwed with your computers CD drive, phoned home, made it self undetectable, all that good stuff
Trying to perform DRM? Hell yeah!
311 had a secret song before the first track. You had to rewind to hear it. Only time I’m aware of that happening (there’s probably others that I don’t know about).
I was thinking, yeah Rammstein also did something like that. Looked it up and turns out there is a wiki list of all CD’s that did this. Wikipedia
This is my favorite thing I’ve seen on Wikipedia recently. Thanks!
X-Files movie soundtrack had https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=64LNLSpFa-o
I don’t know that I’d call it a song per se, but Brand New did this on The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me. I think it was like a minute of stuff that seamlessly blends right into the start of Sowing Season. I don’t own the CD and I only heard that part once like 15 years ago, so I truly can’t remember what it was. Maybe like a message on an answering machine?
Edit: found it
Action Action also had those seamless transitions. I remember the first track would finish, and then the next track would start at negative time (ex: -00:30) and count to 00:00 (where the track would actually begin) with transition noise and music playing for those negative moments. I miss whole album concepts.
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.
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There was a brief and glorious time when this was the apex of technology and culture. Too early and the album was also available on cassette and it was obvious there was playtime left at the end of the album, too late and the rise of the internet meant the secret wouldn’t even make it to the release of the album.
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
Last time I had this was with Tyler’s IGOR vinyl I got in 2019 or so that had the extra track “Boyfriend” that wasn’t on Spotify, but I think it has since been released on tidal or some other obscure music service by niw.
Quickly became my fav track off the album too.
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.
Not all of them, only if it had Redbook audio.
“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?”
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!”
“What’s a liner note?”
I was alone…
I was all by myself…
No one was lookiiiiing…
CDs? They used to do it on tapes too.
Sometimes videos and games too
Makes me think of Monster Rancher on PSX where the monster generated was based on what disc you put in. You could use literally any disc. Such a cool idea.
I had so much fun experimenting with all the discs in our household with Monster Rancher 4. Thanks for bringing that memory back!
Not CD based but barcode battlers too how did that all fall off in game design.
I’m not from a different millennium. I am the millennium.
Just FYI millennia is a plural form: one millennium, two millennia. So you’re from a different millennium.
Those of us that were born before 2000: am I a joke to you?
Dude you’re almost thirty!
I’m also in that group, I only meant to write a direct parallel to the title, for comparison :-)
I figured, I just wanted to go along with it as a joke
Yes, and the same goes for “medium”: one medium, several media. When people say “media” now, they typically mean what used to be referred to as “mass media”, that is, newspapers, TV, etc.
Maybe he is over a thousand years old, don’t you see the wrinkles?
Then it would be “different millennia,” not “a different millennia.”
I was there, Gandalf…three thousand years ago…
Oh yeah? Well back in MY day the Dead Kennedys put out this cassette tape and all the music was on one side and the other side was blank and there was a note that said something like… oh what was it now… “Home taping is killing record industry profits! We left this side blank so you can help.” Yep that was really something.
