10 Hidden Songs You Didn't Know Were On Albums

10. Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi

Counting Crows' cover of the Joni Mitchell classic has ended up as the most successful version of the song. The track was released both on the soundtrack for the Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant film Two Weeks Notice as well as on the band’s album Hard Candy (as a hidden song). Despite Big Yellow Taxi being the band’s only top 20 hit in the UK it ended up being largely slated by the music press and landed itself on the NMEs ‘Worst Songs of the 2000s List’.

The song initially featured as a hidden track on 2002s Hard Candy before being replaced by the film version which included singer Vanessa Carlton frivolously contributing backing vocals and ‘oohs’ to the mix as well as her presence in the music video.

Even the best bands can fall short when covering songs from legendary artists and many people are of the mind that this cover of Big Yellow Taxi should remain hidden away at the end of the album and off the track listing forever.