Bonus Tracks are Kind of Weird...

Bonus track, but nothing tracks :(

In this video we take a look at the Bonus Track in music. Not bonus stage or bonus game, what do you think this is, one of those gaming channels!? From Drake and Metallica to Deadmau5 and Lil Uzi Vert, even The Smiths we’ll go into some of the craziest music tracks ever to grace the bonus label.

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not an ALBUM REVIEW / SINGLE REVIEW / ALBUM REACTION / FIRST REACTION / NEW MUSIC VIDEO / PLAYLIST / SONGS THAT MAKE YOU or anything from theneedledrop, fantano, shawn cee, blackyspeakz, degenerocity or SethEverman but a music animation video talking about all music and all artists.

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[That_Art_Kid]

One of my favourite examples of bonus tracks was Tyler, The Creator’s “deluxe” for Call Me If You Get Lost, the additional 8 songs may not fit the story of the original thing, but are still really good songs!

[smileyface]

Every time onlysmallbites uploads, you know it’s gonna be great

[ehi]

The entire reason I got into vinyl was because of NIN’s The Fragile. The CD was the standard version, but the cassette has an extended coda to one of the songs… and the vinyl cut has extended intros AND outros of the standard songs, and it has two ‘bonus’ songs baked into the tracklist. It feels like a different version of what we could’ve experienced, only for the vinyl edition. Really surprised this one didn’t show up in the video!

[ari.jpeg]

Some really interesting examples of bonus tracks are tracks like 2007 by JID and Endless, Nameless by Nirvana (technically a hidden and bonus track) which were intended to be on the main album but had to be left off for whatever reason. Endless, Nameless was just accidentally left off the first pressing of the album which is pretty funny.

[Simply_Kake]

Red Hot Chili Peppers actually have some really great bonus tracks and b-sides, at least in my opinion. It always seems like they try something new with them without "ruining" the album, which I guess is hard to do as you usually listen to rhcp for the sound and instruments rather than a coherent narrative. Bunker hill is by far my favorite song they've written, which is a b-side on the single for Fortune Faded. Quixoticelixer is also a favorite of mine, being a bonus track on Californication.

[Mitsunee_]

on CD there were hidden tracks that only played if you listened to the entire album and then waited for like 5minutes. This even worked when ripping the CD, but left me needing to manually cut the last track and hidden track to have them as separate mp3 files without the 5min pause. And that's why you keep the WAV files until you confirm the MP3s are good :) ...wait nobody rips CDs anymore...

[fan]

Best Bites (The Bonus Is Something)
1:05 Dude That Track Slaps!!
3:37 Japan!
4:28 Too Many DIOR!
4:53 Who Did A Did
5:23 T-
5:33 What A Fact
6:58 Time To Go ROLLING INTO THE DEEP!
8:34 BEAT EM UP
9:05 No More Baby One More Time!!
9:17 Bonus Mail?!
9:30 Sonic Bites!!!

[chaoticbonproductions]

lemon demon bonus tracks are amazing and there's no denining it

[unhelpfulrevelations]

Man On the Moon 1's bonus tracks are essential listening imo. The title track lyrically portrays Cudi's feelings of alienation during the early part of his career, which is what the whole album is about. "Is There Any Love" is a banger outro as well.

[ClancywithTorchbearer]

You know its a good day when Onlysmallbites posts

[andrealdana]

showing map of the soul 7 when you mentioned concept albums makes me very excited for your video on the topic in the future:)

[tobiasvilainnewman]

Depeche Mode have many, many bonus tracks (14 out of their 15 albums have deluxe versions), hidden tracks, b-sides, non-album singles, and remixes, some of which include their top-tier tracks (Only When I Lose Myself, Shake The Disease, Kaleid, Behind The Wheel [Remix], My Joy, Agent Orange, Pleasure Little Treasure, etc.)

[maximus-_o]

Was just listening to "good kid mad city" the other day (and loved the bonus tracks on it. the recipe is a certified LA banger, on repeat 24/7). And I wondered if onlysmallbites had made a video on bonus tracks, only to find nothing. Then a couple of days later you made this as if peering into my mind 🤯🤯. Thanks for such a great video! 👍

[benthadragon]

My Chemical Romance usually has bonus tracks that somewhat die into their albums concept but doesn't fit the album's actual narrative besides rather than give additional context

Blood gives the listener what The Black Parade's protagonist; The Patient, was like during his stay in the hospital before the events of the album happens

Bury Me In Black is the male Demolition Lover tormented for eternity in Hell

Zero Percent gives extra insight into what the Killjoy lifestyle is like

We Don't Need Another Song About California gives us a small insight into what the post apocalyptic Danger Days California lifestyle is like

[Guy]

For a hidden track video you can talk about Beck's albums throughout the 90s. They all had interesting hidden tracks when you left the CD on after the "last song". Diamond Bollocks is my favorite

[kane]

I think one of the odd bonus tracks I remember are the ones from Blink-182's Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, which had three versions in circulation that each had 2 bonus tracks.

[owene]

I love that you mentioned the cassette version of Digital Underground’s Sex Packets having bonus tracks, cos it reminded me of the cassette version of the Above the Rim soundtrack having one of the best 2Pac songs as a bonus (Pain). It was heard at the start of the film and finally got released onto streaming services almost two years ago.

Also, LL Cool J’s Walking with a Panther was released with not only just two bonus tracks on the CD version but even two MORE bonuses on the cassette.

[miserirken]

Okay kids, time to talk about *Deftones.*

So this band recorded their most ambitious album at that moment, White Pony. yet their record label, Maverick, wanted a single that sells well to promote it. Somehow they hear the final track's chorus and said "hmmm this is a potential banger track" so they asked the boys to record something more conventional nu metal based around it. This is how Chino and company speedran a track, Back To School, by making the most cliché nu metal things they could. And it worked! The exes loved it, and they decided to not only release it as a promo track but add it as a bonus bruteforced into White Pony, killing the album pacing. And the worst part? The added it at the damn start of the album instead of the end (i guess in a way to bookend the project as both Back to School and Pink Maggit have the same chorus basically). No one liked it, and hell, Back to School didn't even charted. Ironically Digital Bath and Change were better received and acclaimed when released as singles, both actually charting, and the track Elite won a Grammy. Today White Pony is considered one of Deftones' best albums, if not their very best, but not thanks to Back to School.
Also White Pony ended in this weird point the most complete version of it has a bonus track at the start and one at its end, as eventually the Boys Republic was added as a bonus track at its end for Japan markets. It's odd as The Boys Republic isn't a bad track but surely kills the pacing of the project, considering Pink Maggit is a perfect closer.

[insidemymind]

Love your videos man keep it up they really inspire and teach me something new every day

[caseys]

9:28 OMG IS THAT JOYWAVE'S MIXTAPE IN THE BACKGROUND!?!?!?! that is SUCH a deep cut! love to see a fellow Joywave enjoyer :) i haven't listened to that in a while, i'm gonna relisten to it