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10th February 2010

Audio with 50 plays reblogged from Illuminations and Other Stuff with 6 notes

ianbrooks:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

I really have no idea what the name of this song is, but it’s very dark and brooding, a somber, creepy mood set by these guys, especially with the eery violins. this is the hidden track on the “Songs in the Key of X” album. I actually didnt even know about it for years after getting the album because it’s not like most “hidden tracks” on albums whereas the last track is just 20 minutes long because the song is followed by 16 minutes of silence. so you just had to either wait or fast forward to hear whatever passed for a hidden track at the end. that always annoys me when bands do that, mostly because I’m doing other things whilst rocking out to music and it tends to take me awhile before I realize I’ve been listening to silence for the past 12 minutes and am not entirely sure why.

but THIS track is sneaky. this is the ninja of hidden tracks. In the lyrics sheet, before the first song listed, it simply reads: “Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds would like to remind you that 0 is also a number”. That was the only hint I had for years and could never decypher until acccidentally stumbling upon one day. As it turns out, this song is hidden in the negative time of the first track. Songs dont play in negative time, in case you havent noticed. It’s a measurement of time that doesnt really exist, you see. So what you have to do is wait until the first track starts, then rewind it and you’ll see the timer go past the 00:00 mark until you get to about -11:00 or however long it is. Then you simply press play and listen to this song as the time counts back up to 0 and the “first” track begins playing. a pretty cool trick that seemed apt on an X-Files series soundtrack.