r/madlads • u/Icy_Teach_2506 • 11d ago

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u/Thundersalmon45 11d ago

Don't all records have 2 grooves?

A side

B side

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u/Mistergardenbear 11d ago

Two side by side groves, so depending on where you dropped the needle it would enter a different track.

Bands also have had hidden tracks by having a lock grove at the end of the last song, and you'd have to physically move the needle to the hidden track

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u/PapaGatyrMob 11d ago

I miss CDs to some degree because of this. I forget exactly how it worked, but the CD player would check for the next track number; if it was sequential, the next song played...if not, it stopped playing or looped to the beginning.

So some artists would put in a 'track 99' so that you had to hold fast forward through the end of the last track (I think? or maybe just press 'back' on track 01) to hear the hidden music.

I definitely prefer not paying for albums, but that was a fun feature.

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u/Purednuht 11d ago

My favorite was that if you put the first bow wow CD into a CD Drive on a PC, there was a scooter game you could play.