Why do the albums breath from another and illusion have 15 minute tracks with like 8 minutes of silence in the middle???

[u/Honeymoon_______]

Was rlly curious abt this

[u/JasenGroves]

Did you own the CD? I believe those were secret tracks. It was super popular in the 90s to have additional tracks that listeners had to dig for.

[u/madtho]

CDs sometimes had ‘hidden’ tracks at the end, so you think it’s the last song, but wait through a bunch of silence and there’s another sneaky one there.

[u/timmayd]

I miss hidden tracks

[u/jghall00]

Those are like hidden bonus tracks. When you think the album is fine, let it keep running and get an extra song as a surprise.

[u/chrisrules]

You're supposed to really hold space with those moments, and feel the power in that.

[u/there-goes-bill]

100th Window also has one too at the end, not sure if you know but some CDs also had hidden tracks at the start if you rewind enough on the first track, seems to be a pretty 90s thing and it was always cool to discover them.

[u/wildistherewind → u/there-goes-bill]

It’s called a pre-gap track and, if you don’t know about this, you might be surprised by how many albums had these. There is a track 0 intro on many CD copies of Psyence Fiction by UNKLE. There is an entire song in the pre-gap of Fear Of Fours by Lamb. A lot of these (legitimately) hidden tracks never made their way to streaming services so it is very much a iykyk situation.

[u/Malkovitch42]

Zerospace by kidneythieves also has this

[u/ButterscotchPast4812]

Bonus tracks that was a thing back in the day

[u/tur2rr2rr2r]

it's to give you chance to go to the loo and get some popcorn without missing a breath

[u/pianotherms]

This is an adorable question.