Hidden tracks are the enemy of the iPod EP.  You know what I mean; you've listened to four minutes of a song and, instead of a quick shuffle to the next tune, there's two full minutes of silence before a "secret" "hidden" track starts.  Painful, but here's an iPod EP of songs where you just wish you could edit out everything that comes before...

Calendars And Clocks (Best Laid Plans) by the Coral - a chirpy bit of psychedelic whimsy for 3:40, two minutes of silence exactly, then six full minutes of stoner-noodling about time travel.

Slide Show (Saturday Evening) by Travis - Fran Healy as his most throttlingly sensitive, and then after a break, the hardest, hottest, best song Travis ever did.  They even did it as an encore when I saw them live once.

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (Possession acoustic) by Sarah McLachlan - I've always made fun of Sarah McLachlan for singing songs so boring she falls asleep halfway through, but she does have a beautiful voice and after some anonymous doodling that eventually spawned Dido, this one turns into a piano-only version of one of her best songs.  Lovely. 

Valentine (Adam Ant Is Unwell) by Jim Moray - Off Jim Moray's great latest album Low Culture, this one ends with a heartfelt and wholly sympathetic tribute to Adam Ant when he was having his troubles.

Go West (Postcript) by Pet Shop Boys - Five minutes of melancholy camp disco at its most brilliant, three minutes of silence, then 75 seconds of gorgeous benediction.  Really, thank God for Pet Shop Boys, eh?

Happy Thanksgiving!  I'm celebrating by going to see Noises Off, the funniest play ever written.