Complete iPod Randomness

So I'm not home yet, but this was just an observation as I listen to my iPod through the computer. I was going through the list of songs I hadn't heard yete since around April 9th, and sorted it by length to see the longest one. The longest song was called "Better Man" by Oasis and has a run time of 38:03.

I thought to myself, "there's no way an Oasis song is 38 minutes long." I mean, Oasis is cool, but they don't do long songs. Their max is usually around 5 minutes, so I suspected a "hidden track." Now, these hidden tracks worked ok when we were doing CDs and it was the last track and we forgot to stop the disc when it was done. But now we're in digital content, and while we can sometimes forget about it playing, I rarely play albums in song order. Not only that, but my iPod can literally go for weeks non-stop, so hitting a sudden 30 minutes of total silence between the two songs on this 38 minute track only makes me momentarily wonder if there's something wrong with my iPod. It's just not cute or cool anymore.

Now, I'll have to go home, extract this one song, load into my MP3 mixer, cut it into two songs, and figure out what that instrumental thing they did is supposed to be called, other than "Untitled Track." Or I might just tell the iPod to stop playing the track after the 3 minute song that was at the top of the track. Who knows? I will probably forget about it by tomorrow anyway till it crops up again.

Oasis isn't the only one that did this to me. Third Day plugged an actual song at the end of a long track that's mostly silence, and at the end of "Be", Pain of Salvation pulled an 11 second "joke" at the end of a 5 minute track where the opening part of the track is all of 30 seconds long, if that.

Oh well, such is life in the digital age.. You just can't appreciate the gags of yesteryear.