I believe Ozzy's first album with Zakk Wylde (No Rest for the Wicked) had a hidden track called Hero. It was really awesome. Unbelievably, it appears to not be on youtube.

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Posted by Baloo

Formerly MDGeaux

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Posted on 3/24/15 at 3:04 pm to saint amant steve

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Why was it such a prevalent trend for late '90s and early '00s bands to place hidden tracks on their albums?

Because CD technology was rather new, and it allowed bands to record a much longer album without needing another record. The average record couldn't go much beyond 50 minutes, but a CD could for 70. So there was some extra space to play with. So, it allowed bands to have fun in a new medium. (Cracker did it best, adding THREE hidden tracks on Kerosense Hat, including EuroTrash Girl).

Though my all-time favorite hidden track is on Less Than Jake's Losing Streak. If you held down the back button but not the previous track button, Track One would go into the negative time frame. At about -2:00, Howie Reynolds tells the story about a man who once stopped to wipe his arse before trying to kill him.

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Posted by Big Scrub TX

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Posted on 3/24/15 at 3:45 pm to Baloo

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Because CD technology was rather new, and it allowed bands to record a much longer album without needing another record. The average record couldn't go much beyond 50 minutes, but a CD could for 70. So there was some extra space to play with. So, it allowed bands to have fun in a new medium.

CD technology was "rather new" in the late 90's and early 00's? I consider myself to be a relatively late adopter of the medium, and I was almost all-CD by 1992.

I was thinking it was an earlier effect than this and more because of tapes - A sides and B sides didn't line up and you'd often end up with dead space at the end of one or the other...so why not stuff in a hidden track.

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