Even more musical Easter eggs: we continue to talk about gifts for attentive listeners
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Inscriptions on records
The easiest way to leave a hidden message on the disc is to put it on a flat surface closer to the center of the disc. And groups often enjoy this opportunity.
The double album “What Burns Never Returns” by veterans of mat-rock Don Caballero offers to make a complete sentence from the words printed on the records. If you put the labels in order, you get the phrase “CDs make you look like a rainbow, but you look like this.”
On records with Still, one of the latest releases of the Joy Division, released after the death of the vocalist, unusual messages are also printed. They refer to the movie “Stroshok“Which Ian Curtis looked before committing suicide. On the first and fourth side it is written “The Chicken Won’t Stop” and “The Chicken Stops Here,” respectively. Chicken tracks are scratched on the other two sides.
“Chicken” is actually a quote from “Strošek”, in the film he appears closer to the ending, shortly before the main character completes his life journey. The metaphor is interpreted differently: it is both a parody of a consumer society and the image of a victim of circumstances (in the film he is part of a slot machine and is forced to dance every time the viewer drops a coin into the slot machine):