Rules of Rock cont.

VII. Hidden Tracks - Hidden songs are always fun to discover but I don't have a lot of patience to go and search for them. If you want to put a hidden track on your album, good on ya! As long as it is not some ridiculously high track number. The worst case of this I have ever seen is Tool's album Undertow where the hidden track is after 59 0:05 empty tracks. Along the same lines, don't let the last song play on for 15 minutes of silence before the song starts. If you are going to do this it better be a really good song, and if it's that good of a song it should have made it on the album as a recognized track. The glowing example of how to do a hidden track is Pearl Jam's Ten album. The liner notes say that there are 11 songs but there are actually 12; no empty tracks and no moments of silence.