Hidden Track

"Stupid drunken outtakes
Or an alternate mix
Or the whole band switches instruments
And takes a crack at track number six
Odes to inanimate objects
Unfunny inside jokes
Ad libs and off-key warbling
Stuff that doesn't rhyme"

— The Bobs, "Hidden Bonus Track" (which isn't)

It's been a good five minutes since the last song on the CD ended. By now, you've kind of relaxed yourself (and by relaxing, we most likely mean planning on spending the next 3 hours looking for examples for all those TLP drafts), when, suddenly... is that... music? Congratulations, you've just discovered a Hidden Track, the trope where the Easter Egg and the Bonus Material make love inside an album.

At its most basic, the Hidden Track is just a song on the album that isn't on the playlist. However, musicians have sometimes played further tricks in order to play into the fact that they are rewards for faithful listeners who listen all the way through the album. Some have hidden it several minutes after the last listed song after some dead time. With Compact Discs and digital technology, people have been able to play further tricks by hiding them in a Track 0 spot, or making them only accessible by computer or only when playing all the way through continuously.

The name harks back to when each song was a track running along the vinyl disc. The Beatles are the Trope Namer, having done it first on their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It's still a very widely used term for individual music pieces. If you knew this already, you should just roll your eyes at the lame squares who needed a widely used word explained to them; if you didn't, then don't worry, those other people are jerks.

In video games, this trope covers music tracks that aren't used in the game but aren't so Dummied Out that they're inaccessible without outright hacking the game. The hidden music might be accessible through the Sound Test, or by inserting the game's CD-ROM into any ordinary CD player (taking care not to play the game data on Track 1).

This practice is dying out with the rise of iTunes and Digital Distribution, partially because these services have led to trends shunning albums, with material on the albums being more likely to be shuffled and thus not worth considering as much as a single continuous work, leading to more artists releasing more and more singles. Many songs that were previously hidden tracks are now being listed in album tracklists with many digital providers (even those listed under "Hidden in the Middle of the Album" below). It's also very easy to spot a hidden song when the last track is 20 minutes long. The music provider service Bandcamp allows artists to add hidden tracks to their digital releases, keeping the format alive in some respects. Some artists have also opted to keep bonus tracks available only on physical editions of the album.

Often an example of Album Closure.

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Examples:

Extra long final track

• Keep listening after "Post-Apocalypse Punk" on Lost Horizons by Abney Park and you'll hear creaking ropes and spinning propellers as an airship approaches, leading into "The Ballad of Captain Robert".
• AFI has pulled this off twice; once with The Art of Drowning 's "Morningstar", and once with Sing the Sorrow 's "...But Home is Nowhere".
• All Star United's self-titled debut had the hidden track "Vitamins". Their second album, International Anthems for the Human Race, had a hidden track called "Hurricane", a sort of sequel to "Vitamins". Then, on the same track, was another hidden song, a completely different take of the album track "International Anthem" played back at high speed. All told, the final track on the album contained three songs and was over eleven minutes long.
• "Aerials", the final song of System of a Down's album Toxicity, fades into a two-minute tribalistic instrumental the band calls "Arto". On some CD versions, the tracks are listed as distinct, despite never actually being separated.
• All Time Low put a hidden track at the end of The Party Scene, immediately after the final song, "The Girl's a Straight-Up Hustler", called "Sticks, Stones, and Techno".
• Sherrié Austin's Streets of Heaven: keep listening after the last track "Like a Cat" and you'll hear "Heart on Ice".
• Emilie Autumn puts TWO bonus and hidden tracks after Miss Lucy Has Some Leeches on A Bit of This and That. One an original song/short poem; another a cover.
• The Beatles did this on Abbey Road; "The End", which as the name implies is supposed to be the final track, is followed by ~12 seconds of silence and then by "Her Majesty". This happened by accident, but Paul liked the effect, so it was kept.
• The Barenaked Ladies song "Tonight Is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel" has, after a much shorter pause, a short song known to fans as "Hidden Sun."
• Beck seemed to be pretty fond of doing this for a while:
  • Mellow Gold: hidden track "Analog Odyssey".
  • Odelay: hidden track "Computer Rock", which gets its own track on the Deluxe Edition.
  • Mutations: "Diamond Bollocks" was hidden after the last track because Beck liked the song but felt it didn't fit in with the rest of the album. The UK version of Mutations averts this though: "Diamond Bollocks" is the last track on the album and is listed on the CD packaging.
  • Midnite Vultures: a short untitled piece made of lounge music and static.
• Belle And Sebastian's 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light EP ends with the unlisted song "Songs For Children", which is on the same track as it's last listed song "Put The Book Back On The Shelf". While it still fits the "extra long final track" category, there's actually no more silence between the two songs than there normally would be if they were separate tracks. The compilation Push Barman To Open Old Wounds places it into the category of "hidden in the middle of the album" though, since the song still appears that way but isn't anywhere near the end of the track list.
• Blur pulled this off twice.
  • On Modern Life is Rubbish, the song "Commercial Break" occurs after "Resigned" ends and a few seconds of silence passes. Some releases list the track, but many others don't.
  • The Great Escape closes with "Yuko and Hiro" which, after about a minute of silence this time, segues into a reprise of an earlier track, "Ernold Same". Being unlisted, it has no official name, but some circles refer to it as "A World of Difference" due to physical copies of the album having those words written under the track listing.
• Queen did this on their final studio album with Freddie Mercury, Made in Heaven. Keep listening after "It's a Beautiful Day (Reprise)", and you'll hear both a four-second snippet of Mercury shouting "Yeah!" (aptly titled "Yeah") and a 22-minute-long ambient piece using an extended instrumental from the album's first song; neither track is listed on the rear packaging. The latter song officially went unnamed at the time it was created, but was eventually named "13" (after its spot in the tracklist) when the album was re-released as a double-LP. Some fans nicknamed it "Ascension" during the interim.
• Another parody of the "extra long final track" version is on Ben Folds Five's Whatever And Ever Amen, where, after the final song "Evaporated," someone shouts "You want a bonus track? Ben Folds is a fucking asshole!". Some editions of the album forego this hidden track.
• BT's ESCM has a very short edit of "Flaming June (Simon Hale's Orchestrata)" at the end of the last track, "Content", after a minute and a half of silence.
• Stephen Lynch's live album "Superhero" has the song "Special Olympics" a couple of minutes after "Lullaby — the divorce song".
• Jimmy Buffett's album Banana Wind ends with the impressively long (nearly 10 minutes) track "False Echos (Havana 1921)". Then there's a sound gag in which Buffett and his bass man Ramos look for the hidden track. And then the hidden track, "Treetop Flyer", begins. The whole thing lasts 15 minutes, 54 seconds.
• The Butthole Surfers' Weird Revolution ends with a brief snippet of Gibby Haynes talking through a distorted effect meant to emulate a radio transmission from space, hidden about 18 minutes after the end of "They Came In". It's actually the original ending to the song "The Last Astronaut", which has him speaking through the same effect throughout — a version of "The Last Astronaut" with this portion intact can be heard on bootlegs of the Missing Episode album After The Astronaut.
• When Camper Van Beethoven reissued their album Telephone Free Landslide Victory with bonus tracks, they also added an extra track after a few minutes of silence — a dub-style experimental remix of the song "Heart".
• The title track on Catatonia's Way Beyond Blue is around 15 minutes, because it also contains 'Gyda Gwen', the final track of the For Tinkerbell EP, after a long delay and a minute or so of studio chatter.
• The final track of "Charlie & Lola's Favourite & Best Music Record" is an extended version of the show's main title theme. After about a minute of silence, an unlisted bonus, "It's Snowing!", in which Lola gets excited about the first snowfall of the season, set to a beautiful instrumental, plays.
• Several Chumbawamba CDs have hidden tracks at the end:
  • The original 1988 version of English Rebel Songs ends with an unlisted reprise of the album's opening track, "The Cutty Wren".
  • Anarchy ends with a reprise of "Timebomb" — this time sung in a hilarious Elvis-style by a band member's father. (This proved popular enough that he was asked to perform the entire song for their live album Showbusiness!.)
  • The CD single of "Just Look At Me Now" ends with an unidentified men's choir singing the entirety of Welsh folk song "On Ilkley Moor Baht'at".
  • After a period of silence, Tubthumper closes with a dialogue sample from the film Brassed Off. (On editions that add bonus tracks, this is *still* heard at the end of "Scapegoat" even though it's no longer the last track.)
  • WYSIWYG hides a synth-string rendition of "I'm in Trouble Again".
  • Uneasy Listening has an extremely bizarre hidden track with spacey sound effects and slow, demonic-sounding chanting. This is actually an excerpt from an otherwise unreleased remix of "Happiness Is Just a Chant Away".
• Coheed and Cambria's album The Second Stage Turbine Blade contains "IRO-bot" after "God Send Conspirator", or after a bonus track, depending on the edition. "God Send Conspirator" itself features a short piano piece after it.
  • Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness has "Bron-Y-Aur", which is appended to the end of the disc. Despite the name, it is not a Led Zeppelin song, but merely a tribute to them. The Japanese pressing also contained "A Favor House Atlantic" from Live at the Starland Ballroom as an unlisted track.
• Coldplay's album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends features one of these: "The Escapist", tucked away at the end of the song "Death and All His Friends". This was in addition to another example of the Hidden in the Middle of the Album variety, "Chinese Sleep Chant" (see below).
  • Their album Parachutes has "Life is For Living" as a hidden track following the album's closer, "Everything's Not Lost".
  • Ghost Stories has a weird example: the final track of the album, which is labeled as "O", is actually called "Fly On". "O" is the small reprise of the opening track, "Always in My Head", that plays about two minutes after "Fly On" ends.
  • A Head Full of Dreams has a hidden track in the middle of the album where after track "Army of One" the track "X Marks the Spot" plays immeadiately after said track.
  • X&Y also features a track. this is actually listed on the packaging but with no track number, as it is played after the last track.
• Sheryl Crow's The Globe Sessions has "Subway Ride" as a hidden track following "Crash and Burn", the final track.
• Julee Cruise's The Art of Being a Girl has a hidden trip-hop remake of "Falling" (best known as the version of the Twin Peaks theme with Forgotten Theme Tune Lyrics intact). There's not that much silence before it though — "The Fire in Me" ends, a few seconds later there's a brief skit involving Julee singing in the shower, and then "Falling" starts about 30 seconds later.
• Dave Matthews Band has done this no less than three times: on Remember Two Things, after "Christmas Song" is an outro to "Seek Up" and some nature noises; on Before These Crowded Streets, after "Spoon" is a quiet tune called "The Last Stop (Reprise)"; and on Big Whiskey and the Groo Grux King, after "You & Me" is a brief repeating snippet of saxophone.
• The Irish comedy band Dead Cat Bounce have one such track at the end of their 'Live at the Róisín Dubh' album (just after 'The Weeping of the Willows'), which they often play at the end of their live sets, as well. The singer notes, to the live audience present, that it is the 'super hidden bonus track,' and the band play it off as though the drummer wasn't told about the song beforehand. The rest speaks for itself.
• Counting Crows has done this at the end of Hard Candy and This Desert Life by placing a long period of silence after the last song followed by the hidden one. The hidden track on Hard Candy—a cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi"—turned out so popular that it eventually garnered a single release and has now become a ubiquitous song in department store music rotation.
• Deftones' Around the Fur sort of has two: "MX" has a long period of silence, followed by "Bong Hit" (not a song so much as what sounds like someone chasing after some chickens), even more silence, and finally the actual song "Damone".
• Depeche Mode :
  • On Construction Time Again, "And Then..." transitions into "Everything Counts (Reprise)" after the fadeout.
  • On Music for the Masses, "Interlude #1 (Mission Impossible)" appears after the fadeout of "Pimpf".
  • On Ultra, a lengthy period of silence breaks up "Insight" and "Junior Painkiller", a remix of the B-Side "Painkiller". On the US release, "Junior Painkiller" is instead sequenced as its own track.
  • On Sounds of the Universe, "Corrupt" gives way to "Interlude #5", a short reprise of "Wrong".
• Descendents' Everything Sucks has a somewhat Surf Rock-influenced instrumental called "Grand Theme" hidden after the last track.
• The Desert Sessions' albums Volumes 7 & 8 and Volumes 9 & 10 contained hidden tracks that advertised upcoming albums on the Rekords Rekords record label.
• The bonus track on Dido's Life For Rent, "Closer", comes only after 2 minutes of silence following the supposed (as listed) last song, "See the Sun".
• On The Dingees' first album, the final song is followed by a few minutes of silence, then a dub remix of a prior track ("Could Be Worse").
• The end of Disturbed's Asylum has a hard rock cover of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" after "Innocence". The sad things, this was intended to be an extra final track but iTunes decided to split it, spoiling the cover long before the album came out. Salting the wound, the two are counted as separate tracks when the album is imported to iTunes, with "ISHWILF" having a minute-and-a-half silence before starting. Despite this, the cover is officially regarded as a hidden track, not listed anywhere on the album.
• Doba Caracol has not one, not two, but three hidden tracks on the album "Soley".
• Sophie Ellis-Bextor's second album, "Shoot From the Hip", has a hidden cover of "Physical".
• Eminem's Recovery, an album in which Slim Shady is Put on a Bus on the opener, has a hidden track (called "Untitled" on music streaming platforms) in which Shady comes back, rapping in a waltz time signature (?!) between samples of Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me".
• Everclear did this on their third album So Much for the Afterglow with the song "Hating You for Christmas" cropping up after a few moments of silence following the final track, "Like a California King".
• The debut CD by Gorillaz,: Five minutes or so after "Left Handed Suzuki Method" (or "M1 A1" if you're not listening to the US version) is a bonus track, "Clint Eastwood (Ed Case/Sweetie Irie Re-Fix)". On the vinyl release, the track is hidden behind a locked groove on the second disc, though it is not "hidden" on the track listing.
• All of Five Iron Frenzy's albums (except Electric Boogaloo) feature some kind of hidden track. Usually these were hidden in the final track after a long silence:
  • Our Newest Album Ever! had "Godzilla", which was an extremely rough demo that ends very abruptly.
  • Proof that the Youth Are Revolting featured Hilarious Outtakes from various concerts.
  • Cheeses... (Of Nazareth) had a recording of the band messing around in the studio.
  • The End is Near had another random studio recording, with one of the band members laughing uncontrollably at the suggestion that they "write some more songs!" When the album was rereleased as The End is Here, outtakes from their final live show were added to the hidden track.
• Godsmack's self-titled debut had an instrumental tribal set playing about two minutes after the end of the final track, Voodoo.
• "Nobody Listened" on Delta Goodrem's opus Mistaken Identity. Turning her 4 minute long "You Are My Rock" to a 8 minute long story.
• Green Day's "Dookie" has "All By Myself" play after the last track "F.O.D.".
• The original Broadway cast album for Hairspray has a short song (sung by the entire cast) called "Blood on the Pavement", a Lyrical Dissonance-laden song about drunk driving, hidden after the final song, "You Can't Stop the Beat".
• The physical deluxe edition of Imogen Heap's album Ellipse featured one at the end of the disc of instrumentals. Since the song "The Fire" was already a piano instrumental, the instrumental disc featured "The Fire" simply as the crackling fire that played behind the piano piece. Meanwhile, the piano piece, without the crackling fire, was added to the end of the disc after thirty seconds of silence.
• Canadian band Hokus Pick had a hidden track on their album "Snappy," which was actually a 15 minute long Radio Drama spoofing Adventures in Odyssey, in which the band members were incapacitated one by one, and their show was performed by two chimpanzees, a poodle, and concessions vendor.
• Imagine Dragons' Night Visions has a short yet epic song called "Rocks" 17 seconds after the last song "Nothing Left to Say" ends.
• Incubus' S.C.I.E.N.C.E. features "Segue 1" at the end of the album.
• Jack Off Jill have one on each of their albums: 'Angels Fuck' on Sexless Demons & Scars, and a cover of The Cure's 'Lovesong' on Clear Hearts Grey Flowers. 'Angels Fuck' is programmed as track 99, meaning you have to skip through 86 blank tracks to get to it, and 'Lovesong' as track 66, which makes putting their stuff on your media player a pain in the arse.
• Jay Z's Blueprint album ends with a 14-minute long track entitled "The Blueprint(Momma Loves Me)". About 3 minutes of that track is actually Exactly What It Says on the Tin, however, two secret tracks ("Breathe Easy (Lyrical Exercise)" and a remix of "Girls, Girls, Girls") are included in the rest of the runtime.
• The title track of King Crimson's Islands is followed by one minute of silence, and then a recording of studio chatter in which Robert Fripp gives instructions to the chamber orchestra (which plays "Prelude - Song of the Gulls") before they tune up. This track was used as walk-on audio for the band's live shows from 2014 to 2021.
• KMFDM's Nihil has a short but dissonant noise jam unofficially titled "Nihil" hidden a minute after the end of "Trust".
  • Xtort also has a hidden track, which is a story narrated by Jr. Blackmail, a former member of the band.
• Cloak And Cipher by Land of Talk includes a short song with no known title hidden a minute after "Better And Closer".
• Quebecois absurdist singer duo Les Denis Drolet played with this on their first album: The last track ends with around five minutes of silence, before one of them declares angrily: "There's no hidden song!".
• Japanese Visual Kei artist Közi hid the intro to his song "MEMENTO" at the end of his album Catharsis. It fades out quickly right as the beat starts.
• The last track on the pre-fame Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory EP is the twelve-minute long "Part of Me", the first four minutes of which is the eponymous song. There is a short instrumental at the ten-minute mark, which fans have called "Ambient" or "Secret", while Mike Shinoda, who solely created the track, simply calls it "the end of 'Part of Me'". The only thing notable about this song, aside from the fact that is sounds vaguely like a video game music^note which Shinoda has noted to be a coincidence, is that elements were used four years later in "Session" (though Shinoda denied that it was a direct remake).
• The acoustic title track of Little Boots' Hands is hidden 2 minutes after "No Brakes".
• Amy MacDonald's A Curious Thing has a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark" for a bonus.
• Marilyn Manson hid an answering machine message from an outraged parent of a fan at the end of Portrait of an American Family. It's not exactly hidden after silence though — if you turn up the volume after "Misery Machine" you can hear a phone very quietly ringing for 7 minutes before you hear the message.
• Maria Mena's debut album Free has the last song followed by about three minutes of silence before "When it Rains".
• Mastodon's Blood Mountain has a hidden voice recording from Josh Homme attached to "Pendulous Skin". Homme recorded the message, wherein he pretends to be a fan who found the band's demos and recorded his own voice over them, as a joke while recording his vocals for "A Colony on Birchmen" — Mastodon were amused enough to ask if it could actually go on the album. The message ends with Homme saying to "keep it real"…then a demonic voice repeating "REAL" and laughing.
• Paul McCartney's Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard has an instrumental one of these.
• Meat Loaf's 2003 album Couldn't Have Said It Better hides "Mercury Blues" (a cover of the Alan Jackson hit) after about six minutes of silence following the last track, "Forever Young". The liner notes actually hint at a hidden track, with a picture of a hood of a mercury car (which is out of place given the rest of the liner notes), and on the page, a list of band members that are "on the bumper", which are the members of his backup band playing on the song. Clever, Meat!
• The Meat Puppets' Too High To Die has a re-recording of "Lake Of Fire" after a few minutes silence at the end of "Comin' Down". Some copies had stickers on the cover that ruined the surprise, presumably because the album was released the year after Nirvana covered the song for MTV Unplugged.
• Melvins' "trilogy" of The Maggot, The Bootlicker, and The Crybaby sort of used these as teasers for the next album in the series. The Maggot had a snippet hidden after silence that later turned out to be part of the opening track of The Bootlicker, The Bootlicker did the same with the first track from The Crybaby, and The Crybaby ended with... part of the first track from The Maggot, followed by someone yelling "Again!".
• Mika's "Life in Cartoon Motion" features "Over My Shoulder," a hidden track after "Happy Ending." So if you weren't depressed enough after the Lyrical Dissonance and misleading title of Happy Ending, there was the hauntingly sad bonus track (about a man wandering the streets alone, cold and drunk) to back it up. The track was a bit of an Ensemble Dark Horse for reviewers, with many preferring it to the "main" songs.
• Moonspell has done this on a couple of occasions. The Butterfly Effect contains one entitled "O Mal de Cristo" at the end of the last track "K". Instead of silence, interference bips can be heard for 2 minutes (3:28 - 5:28).
  • Memorial has one at the end of "Best Forgotten" entitled "The Sleep of the Sea".
• Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante has an untitled one that consists entirely of noisy jamming and Studio Chatter, tacked on at the end of "Merry Go Bye Bye". Fans have mistakenly called this "Nothing" because the liner notes credit Danny Heifetz and Theo Lengyel with "Nothing" underneath the rest of the songwriting credits — in fact this was a Credits Gag about the fact that neither of these band members wrote anything on the album.
• Mushroomhead's XIII ends on track 13, with two versions of the "extra long": the original release contained a cover version of Seal's "Crazy," while another release had that AND a second unnamed hidden track afterward. Some online releases show "Crazy" as the 14th track.
• Sheila Nicholls' Wake ends with an extra track with four minutes twenty seconds of silence before it.
• Nightwish subverts this on Endless Forms Most Beautiful by ending "The Greatest Show on Earth" with a few seconds of silence, then Richard Dawkins lamenting that people can't seem to understand that sometimes a man just wants to write a piece of music.
• Nirvana did this with their album In Utero, sticking the disorganised improv "Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow through The Strip" after a long period of silence and making "All Apologies" look very, very long if you're using Winamp.
  • Later pressings of Nevermind did this, too. After "Something In The Way", there's about 10 minutes of silence before the hidden track begins.
• No Doubt's Return of Saturn has an instrumental piano version of "Too Late" a few minutes after the last track "Dark Blue".
• Most of Nox Arcana's CDs are like this, sometimes with two or even three hidden tracks. For example, on Carnival Of Lost Souls, after the end of "Storm", there's a 2-minute silence before a new reading by Madame Endora is heard. Then, there's two more minutes before an eerie music box tune plays. Then, there's about thirty seconds before an epic rock remix of Spellbound. However, that last one is somewhat spoiled by the booklet's credit of "Guitar on rock version of Spellbound by..."
• Oasis
  • Heathen Chemistry features the song "The Cage", which follows the last track listed on the album, "Better Man". There's almost 30 minutes of silence between both songs.
  • Their singles compilation album, Time Flies... 1994-2009, contains the song "Sunday Morning Call", which is found after "Falling Down". "Sunday Morning Call" isn't mentioned anywhere on the album.
• The CD version of Frank Ocean's Channel Orange has "Golden Girl" hidden 90 seconds after "End". Faint static is heard in the 90 second gap and, if edited out, both "End" and "Golden Girl" segue into each other perfectly.
• The Offspring has done this with a few albums. Smash had "Come Out and Play (Acoustic Version)" after the song "Smash" finished; Ixnay on the Hombre' had a guy saying "I think you guys should try heavy metal, kiss my ass!", Americana had "Pretty Fly (Reprise)"; and Greatest Hits'' had "Next to You", a cover of The Police - despite being a hidden track, "Next To You" was also send out to radio stations as a promotional single.
• ohGr's Undeveloped has "Collidoscope" attached to "Nitwitz" on the CD, but as an independent track in the digital download.
• The second album by Optiganally Yours, Exclusively Talentmaker, had nearly 30 minutes of silence at the end followed by... some noise. Noise that sounds somewhere between rubbing a microphone and scratching a record. To those familiar with how the Talentmaker works, it's clearly Pea Hix messing around with it in some way.
• One of the very first examples is Very by the Pet Shop Boys. The tracklisting tries to fool the listener by giving the final track length as 5:01, when it's actually around 8 minutes and is one of only two tracks where keyboardist Chris Lowe sings. The track wasn't named until the band posted the lyrics on their website, when it was officially titled, appropriately enough, "Postscript".
• P!nk has a short little song titled "Hooker" after "Love Song", the last song on her album "Try This".
• Plumb's self-titled debut album had "Pluto" hidden at the end of the final track, "Send Angels". Some Christian rock radio programs actually played "Pluto".
• Primus' Anti-Pop has "The Heckler" hidden after a long gap of silence at the end of "Coattails of a Dead Man". "The Heckler" actually dates back to their live debut Suck On This, and presumably they decided to revisit the song just because it was the only song on that album that didn't have a released studio recording at that point.
• Probot's self-titled album had "I Am The Warlock", a song featuring Jack Black, hidden after silence. Presumably it was relegated to a hidden track because it was sort of in the vein of Tenacious D, and could therefore be considered out of place in what was otherwise meant as a serious metal album.
• Radiohead's Kid A has a minute of silence after "Motion Picture Soundtrack", followed by a short ambient instrumental and two more minutes of silence. The silences and hidden track are apparently supposed to be a part of the song proper, though digital releases sequence the hidden track separately.
• Rasputina's Cabin Fever ends with the downbeat suicide-themed "A Quitter", followed by an extended silence and a (slightly) Ominous Music Box Tune with a baby babbling along.
• Red House Painters have two, one on the final track of Ocean Beach and a rare hidden track on an EP titled Shock Me.
• Relient K's album Two Lefts Don't Make a Right... but Three Do has an untitled rap song... thing at the end of "Jefferson Aero Plane" after several minutes of silence. It kicks off with someone screaming "Pepperoni!", guaranteed to jolt you out of your seat if you left the player on and thought it was finished.
  • Their first Christmas album, Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand, featured another hidden track at the end of "Auld Lang Syne." It was a clip from their version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas," sped up to make it sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks, among other effects. Sadly, this wasn't included in the Updated Re-release.
• On the album Nevermind the Furthermore by The Remus Lupins, there's a track called Hidden Secret Bonus Track which starts 13 seconds after the end of the CD.
• Damien Rice's O had not one but two extra tracks attached to Eskimo: Prague and Silent Night. His album 9 can be found under Other below.
• The Rolling Stones: The small snippet of "Key To The Highway" that appears as a hidden track at the end of the album, Dirty Work was originally recorded in 1964, but never officially released. The Stones used a 33-second instrumental from the song as an album closer, because Ian Stewart, who died during the recording of "Dirty Work", played that part. So it's pretty much a farewell salute to their longtime member.
• Adam Sandler's "The Chanukkah Song 3" from the soundtrack CD for Eight Crazy Nights is the last track on the disc... and if you let it keep playing after it "finishes", you suddenly find that it starts up again with a radio-edit version (which replaces the lines "Jennifer Connelly is half-Jewish, too, and I'd like to put some more in her" with something a little safer for airplay).
• The original CD track listing on Santana's Supernatural ends with "The Calling". After a 7:48-long guitar jam, the music fades into silence...until the 8 minute mark, when "Day of Celebration" — with a surprise appearance of Eric Clapton doing vocals — closes out the album with a bang.
• On Say Anything...'s debut full-length "Baseball" the final track "Where The Hurt Is" is followed by a brief period of silence, leading up to the hidden track "All Choked Up". Some digital music streaming services list this as its own track.
• "Seasick Boogie", the final listed track from Seasick Steve's 2010 album Man From Another Time, ends with some studio banter followed by a duet with Amy Levere on Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry".
• On Sia's 2008 album Some People Have Real Problems, a hidden track called "Buttons" plays several minutes after the final track "Lullaby" (which are both in one track) finishes. Interestingly, an official music video was made for "Buttons", and (due to its surreal nature) the video and song are among some of Sia's most well-known tracks.
• Slipknot's self-titled album also had two in its original release: "Porn & Weed" and "Eeyore." Updated re-releases and compilations contain "Eeyore" as its own track.
• Todd Snider's debut album Songs for the Daily Planet has "Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues", a hidden track included as part of the last track "Joe's Blues". "Talkin'" actually ended up getting some radio airplay.
• Spacehog have done this twice: One is an uncharacteristically creepy, ambient synth instrumental, hidden after the last listed track of Resident Alien. ^note  This piece sometimes gets identified as "...Was It Likely?" because that text appears in smaller letters underneath the title of the last listed song "To Be A Millionaire"; However, "To Be A Millionaire... Was It Likely?" was also reused as a B-Side, where it bore that full title despite not having the hidden track attached, suggesting that the full text was intended as one title, and the hidden track has No Title The other is a short song called "I Can Hear You", hidden after the last track of The Hogyssey.
• Squarepusher's single "My Red Hot Car" features an untitled Ambient track 23 minutes after the final song, "I Wish You Obelisk".
• The re-release of Stereophonics' Just Enough Education to Perform has "Surprise", b-side on the "Have a Nice Day" single, playing after a minute of silence.
• Purple, the second album by Stone Temple Pilots, has one of these. Its closing song, "Kitchenware and Candybars," ends at 4:25 with 30 seconds of silence before the entrance of "My Second Album", a goof on the idea of hidden tracks that sound nothing like what a band would normally play. In fact, the song isn't actually performed by the band at all, but by Richard Peterson, an eccentric Seattle street musician; it first appeared on one of his own self-released albums, almost 10 years before it ended up being a hidden track on Purple. Despite the fact that it's an unlisted song, Peterson does apparently get royalties for his "contribution" to their album.
• Tenacious D has two at the end of their self-titled album. A few seconds after the song ends, there's an outtake between JB and Kyle about belief in God. A couple of minutes after that, JB sings a song called "Malibu."
• tool's debut album Undertow featured a phone message credited to "bill the landlord" 7 minutes after the final song "Disgustipated". The intervening space is filled with the sounds of crickets, which continues underneath the phone message.
• U2 has one on their greatest hits CD, The Best Of 1980-1990. After "All I Want Is You", there is about 45 seconds of silence before "October" (the title track off their second album) begins at around the 7:30 mark.
• Urge Overkill have a strange, sampling-heavy hidden track after a long gap of silence on Saturation. It's been referred to as "Dumb Song" because Nash Kato can be heard saying "dumb song, take 9" at the start, but the official title is "Operation Kissinger".
• Armin van Buuren's Shivers album has the hidden orchestral track "Hymne", about a minute after the end of "Serenity". This was later used as the intro for "Sail".
• Sander van Doorn's album Eleve 11 has a remake of van Doorn's "Intro Chants (Triarchy edit)", a mashup of his song "Intro" and Chocolate Puma's song "Chants", buried in the 19-minute track "Eagles" after an 8-minute wait. The song also swapped out samples from the Chocolate Puma song with van Doorn produced ones to help eschew legality.
• The W's had this on both their albums.
  • Fourth from the Last ended with a parody of "Rock and Roll McDonald's" plugging their friends Five Iron Frenzy.
  • Trouble With X ends with a recording of someone listening to an earlier track from the album ("Play the Game") and attempting to sing along. Attempting, and failing, hilariously.
• "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "You Don't Love Me Anymore" on his Off the Deep End CD is 14:13 in length, though the song ends after only 4 minutes. The next few minutes are silence, ending in six seconds of ear-splitting cacophony officially titled "Bite Me." Al has stated that it is intended "to scare people to death" (it does, even without coming unexpectedly after 10 minutes of silence) and also is meant as a direct parody of the above mentioned "Endless, Nameless" (since Off the Deep End parodies Nevermind in its cover art and first track) - like "Endless, Nameless", it also comes after a calm, acoustic guitar based song. The hidden track is not included on the cassette version of the album, for obvious reasons.
  • If that's not enough, that Easter egg track contains a backmasking Easter egg of its own (believed by some to be the result of a mastering error and not intentional): reversing and slowing down the song will reveal a snippet of "Tears of the Earth" by David Hallyday, also released by the same record label as Off the Deep End.
  • Weird Al later reused "Bite Me" in an edited form for his Ear Booker Productions logo at the end of The Weird Al Show— that logo is equally abusive to the senses. Don't watch this linked video if you're prone to epilepsy.
• White Zombie's Astro-Creep 2000 has an instrumental officially called "Where The Sidewalk Ends, the Bug Parade Begins" fade in several minutes after "Blood Milk and Sky" fades out. Despite having its own title, "Where The Sidewalk Ends..." sounds a lot like a continuation of "Blood Milk And Sky", as though they kept jamming on the main riff for a few minutes after the song faded out. Digital versions of the album give it its own track without the silence.
• David Wilcox's first live album, East Asheville Hardware Live, features (after a pause at the end of the last track) the sound of walking into a bar to hear David and a friend performing a (hilarious) country version of Eye of the Hurricane, one of his most popular songs.
• Robbie Williams albums from Life Thru A Lens onwards do this ("Hello Sir" and Escapology's "I Tried Love" are among the highlights; I've Been Expecting You has two hidden tracks, although their existence is lampshaded in the inlay; it cites credits for "tracks 12 and 13" of an 11 track album).
  • In addition to this, the sheet music for the album includes the music for the hidden tracks, which are named "Stand Your Ground" and "Stalker's Day Off" respectively.
  • He also lampshades the trope with the hidden "track" of Sing When You're Winning, which comes after twenty four minutes of silence, and consists of him simply stating that he's not doing a hidden track for that album.
• One issue of the music magazine Uncut included Acid Daze, a compilation CD of British psychedelic rock from the sixties and early seventies. A few minutes after the end of the final track, Donovan's "Atlantis", the jarring opening of "Fire" by The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown can be heard ("I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE!"). While a different Arthur Brown song, "Spontaneous Apple Creation", is in the main track-listing, the hidden track is just the shout from the beginning of "Fire" and not the full song, so it's clearly just meant as a Jump Scare after one of the more sedate songs on the album.
• On the Command & Conquer: Red Alert soundtrack CD, after a minute or so of silence there's a remix of "No Mercy" a.k.a. the Brotherhood of Nod theme from the original Command and Conquer. A "surf" remix.
• The Digimon the Movie soundtrack, of all CDs, did this too. There was a small clue in the CD booklet about these hidden tracks to give the kiddies a chance to figure it out.
• The OST album for Dreamfall: The Longest Journey contains a hidden track repeating the game's Arc Words some 5 minutes after the end of the final song.
• On the Final Fantasy Song Book album, a lively version of "The Place I'll Return to Someday" plays after over a minute of silence on the final track, "Unfathomed Reminiscence."
• Halo: Combat Evolved's soundtrack CD has the piano tune "Siege of Madrigal" from Bungie's earlier game Myth, hidden in the final track, "Halo Theme", after a minute of silence. The Anniversary OST hides it at the end of the second track, which is the remastered version of the series theme.
• The Homestar Runner CD Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits features the aptly named "Secret Song" after almost four minutes of silence. The song is nothing but Homestar singing a nonsensical love song to...a secret song, while playing the piano (badly).
  "Secret so—[fumbles] soooooooooong...
  You're the secretest song on the album, secret soooong..."
  • The same applies to the album/rule book for Trogdor!! The Board Game, where, one minute after the final song, Homestar starts singing a song where he wants to know if you won your most recent game.
• The soundtrack for Legally Blonde The Musical contains the theme for Kyle the UPS guy in the last 35 seconds of the last track after a long pause.
• The Ōkami soundtrack has one song that, if you let it play past the point where the usual Japanese-styled music fades out, rewards your patience with a fun Chiptune version of Amaterasu's leitmotif.
• On the Silent Hill OST, the track "Silent Hill (Otherside)" has six minutes of silence before the actual song starts.
• The soundtrack to Lost in Translation includes Bill Murray's karaoke performance of "More Than This" by Roxy Music from the film, hidden after a few minutes of silence at the end of the last track. The song isn't listed on the back cover, but it is credited in the liner notes.
• The "final" track of The Verve's album Urban Hymns, "Come On", concludes with several minutes of silence followed by the hidden track "Deep Freeze".
• The Yes album Fragile has a reprise of We Have Heaven, a song from earlier in the album, hidden at the end of the album, separated by several seconds of silence. Also doubles as a Brick Joke, since the first time We Have Heaven is played it ends with a door closing and the music cutting off, and the hidden second time begins with a door opening.
  • "The Solution", the closing track of Open Your Eyes, is listed as being 23:47 long, yet the song itself is only 5:26. This is followed by two minutes of silence, then the rest is ambient noise (birds singing, waves crashing) punctuated by lyrics from the album's previous tracks.
• Woven Hand's Mosaic has the a brief silence after the last listed song, and then the dirge-like, unlisted song "Shun".
• Starflyer 59's Everybody Makes Mistakes: After "The Party", there's several minutes of silence, then an instrumental reprise of "The Party" with a saxophone solo.
• On Jars of Clay's self-titled debut album, "Blind" was followed by a few minutes of silence, then the song "Four Seven". Then that was followed by about 30 minutes of studio outtakes—that is, studio chatter and bits of the string quartet's rehearsal.
• French rapper MC Solaar did this on his fifth album 5ème As. After the last listed song, Si je meurs ce soir, the CD doesn't stop, and after several minutes of silence you start to hear a slight and slow "beep… beep… beep…" sound that gets progressively louder. After a while, you start to hear people talking in the background. And after a minute or so like this, a beat starts, launching into Samedi Soir, the actual final song that is nowhere on the tracklist.
• Estradasphere's Quadropus has a few minutes of silence after "At Least We'd Have Today", followed by what's basically a humorous outtake from the song — it starts out normally, with guest vocalist Joel Robinow doing a somewhat extended version of the bridge section, but then he starts forgetting the words and this happens:
  Noooooowwww....
  Forgot the fuckin' lyrics to this song
  Whoa! Baby! If you don't come back then I'll stop singin'
  Gonna go to the store
  I need a battery, double A from Circuit City...
• Front 242's album Tyranny (For You) has 2 minutes of silence after the final track, after which there are 2 hidden Instrumental songs: "Hard Rock" and an alternate mix of "Trigger 2", titled "Trigger 1".
• Early editions of Amy Winehouse's album Frank have the unlisted track "Moody's Mood For Love" as part of the final listed track "Amy Amy Amy/Outro". This is undone on digital editions, however.
• Splatoon:
  • The Splatoon official soundtrack, Splatune, has "Wii U Menu Start Up" as a hidden song that starts about thirty seconds after the final track plays. As the name suggests, it's the drum instrumental that plays on the game's splash screen when booting up.
  • The Squid Sisters album Splatoon Live in Makuhari -Shiokalive- features a hidden track at the end consisting of the Squid Sisters happily chatting in the dressing room after a show. All in the Inkling language, of course.
• In Amplifier's "The Astronaut Dismantles HAL", the last listed song is followed by about three and a half minutes of silence and then by unlisted "Scarecrows".
• On Dream Theater's Self-Titled Album, there's a 30-second silence after "Illumination Theory" that leads into a short piano and guitar instrumental.
• World Party's "Bang" has "Kuwait City", a The Beach Boys style satire on the Gulf War.
• The last track on the soundtrack album for Inside Out is "The Joy of Credits", unless you buy the CD, which ends with the music from the supporting short Lava. A few seconds after it finishes, you hear the TripleDent Gum jingle. There's no escape!
• Tracy Chapman's album New Beginning has the song "Save a Place for Me" come in after the last track.
• Riyu Kosaka's single 'Platinum Smile' was released to support the film, Kamen Rider: The Next. The final track on the single is 10 minutes long, but it's about 6 minutes of silence after the actual final song ends. The extended bit ends with a short clip of "Platinum Smile" before some static interference and then a voice over from Chiharu saying she's come to kill you.
• The final track on the soundtrack to Blue's Big Musical Movie is the "So Long Song", however after about 50 seconds of silence, the soundtrack ends with the background music for Periwinkle's magic show in the movie, followed by some Studio Chatter.
• Ash's 1977 has "Darkside Lightside" as its last listed track, but some editions follow it by a few minutes of silence followed by "Sick Party"... which consists of the sounds of bassist Mark Hamilton and guitar tech Leif Bodnarchuk making themselves vomit.
• Faith Assembly's Shades of Blue has a female solo reprise of "Captive" attached to the closing track "Rian".
• The last listed track on Skip Spence tribute album More Oar is The Minus 5's version of "Doodle", but after several minutes of silence "Land Of The Sun", an original song performed by Skip Spence himself, appears - the song was a rejected contribution to a The X-Files tie-in album, and was previously only available as the B-Side to a 7" single.
• Pearl Jam's Yield has "Hummus", a middle-eastern-inspired instrumental, hidden after silence on the same track as its last listed song, "All Those Yesterdays".
• Get Together, a various-artists sampler put out by American Eagle Outfitters in 2002, does this. The liner notes give out a link on AE's website for listeners to find out who performs the hidden track, but unfortunately the link has since died out and wasn't archived on Wayback. Thankfully, the song is known to be Depeche Mode's "Freelove (Flood Mix)".
• The last track listed on the album Back to Lose by the Italian punk rock band Retarded is "Your Babe's in My Head". After this song and several minutes of silence, there is a cover of "Juke Box Jive" by The Rubettes. When this album from 2000 was finally released to streaming in 2022, the hidden track format was left intact, but the track can be found unhidden on a compilation album called Forget About the Things I Said When I Was Drunk.
• There was once an album on iTunes called Music from The Flintstones, with the last track being "Rise And Shine (End Title)". However, that track is just over three and a half minutes long, and the iTunes store preview of the track only consisted of the end of the last note, followed by silence. The hidden track is part of Fred's lip-syncing performance of "The Twitch", and the album ends after the record needle bird says, "Sorry. Heh heh. Must've dozed off." The album has been uploaded to the Internet Archive.
• The last track of Turning, the first album from a Christian rock band called Forevertree, is "Dog's Life", and it's almost eight and a half minutes long. The song itself is only four minutes, and after a minute of silence, there's a hidden song about their drummer, "Bob".
• The 69 Eyes' Wasting The Dawn ends with "Starshine", which is listed as 6:52 in length - the actual song ends at 5:15, and after about a 25 second pause there's a short unlisted reprise of the album's title track.
• The last track of the Self-Titled Album by She's Insane is titled "Hot Today". After a few minutes of silence, there is a Grief Song with an unknown title.
• On the blink-182 album Dude Ranch, the song "I'm Sorry" ends with a skit called "Dog Lapping" that closes out the album. The Japanese and Australian releases of the album have the skit on a seperate track, where it is followed by a few minutes of silence and a live recording of "The Country Song".
• The last track of Chef Aid: The South Park Album is "Mentally Dull (Think Tank Remix)", which is a Voice Clip Song set to "Mentally Dull" by Vitro. Right after the song ends, "Kyle's Mom's a Bitch" plays. (The audio is from the episode "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo", but only the background music and Cartman's vocals are heard on the album.) Averted on the 2024 digital release, where the track is unhidden.

Track 0

• A list of pre-gap tracks (most of which are before the first song, sometimes called "track 0") can be found here on The Other Wiki. Essentially, each track on a CD has Start and End markers; placing something before the Track 1 Start marker generates a pregap hidden track.
• Most CD releases of Arcade Fire's Reflektor include a pre-gap track on disc one titled "Reflektive Age", a ten-minute overture for the album played in reverse.
• The first pressing of Arcturus' La Masquerade Infernale has a bizarre example which is basically a short electronica piece featuring Garm reciting passages from the Book of Revelation. As with the Mayhem example directly above, it was removed from the remaster for unknown reasons, and considering the remaster was also Loudness War'd, this means the original pressing is definitely the version to get. (The album also has another easter egg: track 6 has 66 subtracks, meaning that at the end of the piece, the display on some CD players will show 666).
• British copies of Autechre's EP 7 have a seven minute pregap song, followed by three minutes of silence before the first proper song.
• Blind Melon's Soup has an untitled two minute experimental piece hidden in the pregap before the first track. It's essentially the band jamming along to an acoustic guitar piece by their friend Mike Kelsey, with backwards vocals from their song "New Life" laid over it.
• "Ambulance" on Blur's Think Tank is preceded by a hidden track called "Me, White Noise".
• Calexico had a two-minute long instrumental song hidden in the pregap of Feast of Wire.
• Fall Out Boy has a hidden track in Folie a Deux before the first track: Lullabye, which requires the person to rewind the CD at the start of the first track.
• Five Iron Frenzy had the 10-second-long "What's Up" hidden at the beginning of All the Hype that Money Can Buy.
• Kylie Minogue hid the song "Password" at the start of the album Light Years.
• Sarah Masen's 2001 album The Dreamlife of Angels had the song "Longing Unknown" hidden before the first track.
• Mayhem's Grand Declaration of War has one of these on initial pressings, which was apparently removed or changed to silence on later pressings. It is a backmasked version of the final song on the album, "Completion in Science of Agony (Part II of II)".
• The album Songs for the Deaf from Queens of the Stone Age has "The Real Song for the Deaf" as its pregap, which is, appropriately, a short electronica song entirely in the lowest audible frequencies and is meant to be audible to those who are actually deaf, via vibration.
• Some editions of Rammstein's album Reise, Reise contain a recording of the last moments of the black box recording for the Japan Airlines Flight 123 disaster (currently the worst single-aircraft accident in history) before the first song. It's a pretty horrifying listen. Unsurprisingly, it was removed from the Japanese editions of the album.
• The 25th anniversary editions of R.E.M.'s Murmur and Reckoning include vintage radio promos for those albums in the pregaps.
• The Sister Machine Gun album Burn contains a cover of "Strange Days" by The Doors in the pregap.
• Super Furry Animals:
  • Guerilla contains "The Citizens Band" in the pregap before track 1, "Check It Out".
  • The band's B-sides compilation Out Spaced contains a jam from their early days in the pre-gap.
• Tait, a band fronted by Michael Tait from dc Talk, had several minutes of what sounded like intentionally bad singing into an answering machine in the pregap of the first track on their album Empty.
• They Might Be Giants' Factory Showroom album has the bonus track ("Token Back To Brooklyn") before the first track of the CD. John Flansburgh used the technique again for the second album of his side project, Mono Puff, which features a computer-generated female voice talking about being stuck in a hidden track, followed by a male computer-generated voice claiming to be the album's producer.
• Unkle's Psyence Fiction has "Intro (Optional)" hidden before the first track (but only on the Japanese version and some UK promotional copies). Making it a hidden track was probably the only way the band got away with having it be released at all, as the track manages to fit in samples of over 50 songs in two minutes — it's an homage to a similar audio montage from Contact and features miniscule clips of songs being played in reverse chronological order from the time the album was released (1998) to the mid-60's.
• The Final Fantasy VII Reunion Tracks album includes the iconic "One-Winged Angel" without the Ominous Latin Chanting in the pregap.
• The very first X-Files soundtrack (for the TV show) had a track 0. Since no CD players at the time could read track 0, the only way to access it was to rewind the first track beyond the beginning. The track was Nick Cave and The Dirty Three covering Mark Snow's theme song to the show; it was hinted at by the album's liner notes, which included the text "Nick Cave and the Dirty Three would like you to know that '0' is also a number".
  • The soundtrack to The X-Files: Fight the Future includes a secret track where Chris Carter explains the whole backstory to the conspiracy. According to Carter, the track was created as a way of rewarding hardcore fans who scoured through as much material related to the series as possible in search of clues.

Unlisted independent track

• Alien Ant Farm's cover of Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" was originally a hidden track on their first album, Greatest Hits, entitled "Slick Thief". The version people are familiar with was a re-recording they put on their second album, Anthology.
• Gary Allan's CD It Would Be You also features a hidden track, "No Judgment Day." The label was reluctant to add the song at all; making it a hidden track was the compromise.
• Amplifier had an unidentified track called "Scarecrows" that would play 5 minutes after the last listed track from The Astronaut Dismantles HAL ended.
• Baroness' Red Album has an unlisted, untitled track of twelve minutes of mostly silence. The last minute is a country-ish reprise of the "Grad" riff.
• The Beatles did this twice.
  • "Inner Groove" on British editions of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, was made by having an endless loop of laughter and gibberish right at the end in the inner groove where the vinyl needle stops, designed to play forever until the needle was lifted. Some fans consider it a coda to the preceding song A Day in the Life and CD versions append it to the end of that song.
  • "Her Majesty" was an actual song on the Abbey Road album, and arguably the Trope Maker. It was supposed to be cut from the album, but EMI's policy was to never throw away anything that The Beatles recorded. So the engineer stuck it on the end of the master tape, preceded by 14 seconds of silence. It made its way into the final version when they played it back and the Beatles liked the effect. "Her Majesty" isn't hidden anymore, though—later prints of Abbey Road include it on the track listing.
• Beck's album Stereopathetic Soulmanure included "Ken" and "Bonus Noise"; the latter contains 5 minutes of silence before 11 minutes of tape experiments and feedback. Some pressings did not include "Ken".
• The Benjamin Gate's album [Untitled], has over 60 tracks of silence following the final listed song, and then the song "True (I Love You)".
• blink-182's live album The Mark, Tom and Travis Show, features 29 hidden tracks of onstage banter. Collectively, these short snippets are titled Words of Wisdom.
• The Bloodhound Gang has had quite a few:
  • Hooray for Boobies has a title track that compiles outtakes from the album's sessions, and in the UK version, a snippet of Jimmy Pop on Love Line.
  • Hefty Fine ends with a quick sound byte of Bam Margera giving his opinion on hidden tracks.
  • The first pressing of One Fierce Beer Coaster (the one with "Yellow Fever") had a long audio collage featuring such things as Howard Stern talking about peanut butter, a jaw-droppingly homophobic televangelist and a long answering machine message from a drunk friend of Jimmy's.
• The Blue's Clues album "Goodnight, Blue" has a bonus at the end called "Hidden, Blue's Dream" that isn't listed on the album itself, though plays as a separate track. There's just under two minutes of night noises and snoring before the dream part actually starts.
• Bowling for Soup's album A Hangover You Don't Deserve has about 30 or so extra tracks at the end that are just a few seconds of silence. There are two bonuses on the last two unlisted tracks just before the album ends.
• The Buena Vista Social Club b-sides collection Lost and Found has a brief 14th track, consisting of pianist Rubén González singing to himself during a rehearsal.
• Built to Spill's There Is Nothing Wrong With Love ends with the unlisted track "Preview": The track is introduced by Record Producer Phil Ek as "a preview of the next Built To Spill record", but it's really a series of snippets parodying different rock subgenres; none of the songs actually turned up in full on any subsequent albums.
• C418 hid "What now?" at the end of Life changing moments seem minor in pictures. As this album was released on Bandcamp, it is impossible to hear the song (or even know it's there) without downloading the full album.
• David Byrne's album Feelings includes an untitled, unlisted, 22-second instrumental between "The Civil Wars" and "They Are in Love"; the only indicator of its presence (aside from the track count on CD players) is the fact that the tracklist appears to skip from track 12 to track 14.
• The Clash's album London Calling included the song "Train in Vain" as an unlisted track. However, it wasn't intended to be secret. It was simply added at the last second after the album sleeve had already been designed, and the Non-Appearing Title was scratched into the inner ring of vinyl on the record itself. Ironically, the song wound up becoming the band's first major American pop hit. By the time the album came out on CD, the song was given its own track and appears on the track listing.
• Coheed and Cambria's album In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 features the song "21:13" after 12 blank tracks known as "A Lot of Nothing I-XI".
• Coldplay's third album, X&Y, features the hidden track "Til Kingdom Come". It was written by Coldplay for Johnny Cash, but he died before he could record it, so Coldplay recorded it themselves. While it was a separate track, the last listed track, "Twisted Logic", was also given an extra long period of silence at the end in order to better hide it.
• Covenant's seventh album, Modern Ruin, has a hidden drone/dark ambient track titled "Modern Ruin Part II"; this is only on the CD and not the digital releases. Ironically, the digital version still has the two minutes of silence at the end of "The Road". Leaving Babylon also has a hidden track titled "Leaving Babylon II"; unlike "Modern Ruin Part II", it is present in the downloadable version.
• Cracker's Kerosene Hat has several hidden among a bunch of short silent tracks: track 69 is "Euro-Trash Girl", Track 88 is "Ride My Bike", and track 99 is a short outtake of the title track. Oddly enough, the last listed track, "Hi-Desert Biker Meth Lab" is also preceded by a couple of tracks of silence.
  • Gentleman's Blues has "Cinderella", a song featuring guest vocalist L.P., hidden after four tracks of silence and three unlisted tracks of a touch-tone phone being dialed. All three of the touch-tone tracks correspond to actual working phone numbers (or did at the time of the album's release).
• The Cruxshadows' Ethernaut has three hidden songs; the first, "Esoterica (Through the Ether)" plays immediately after the last listed track, the second, "Helen", is hidden behind three tracks of silence, and the third, "Live, Love, Be, Believe(Recalling the Dream)" plays after yet another silent track.
• The CD release of the Deltarune: Chapter 2 soundtrack closes with the unlisted track "Berdly (Rejected Concept)", which as the name implies is a scrapped demo for what would have been Berdly's leitmotif before being replaced with the much different "Berdly".
• Dramarama have several songs (with no official titles) hidden among silent tracks on their album Everybody Dies. More unusual are "Steve Is Here" from Vinyl and "Hey Grandpa" from Hi-Fi Sci-Fi, both of which are unlisted individual songs split up into many very short tracks of a few seconds each. That format could prove irritating if you had a cd player that automatically inserted silence between tracks, let alone if you decided to put the CD on shuffle... But thankfully, the digital versions of Vinyl and Hi-Fi Sci-Fi include "Steve Is Here" and "Hey Grandpa" as single tracks.
• Dynamite Hack's Superfast has three tracks hidden this way, but only one contains actual music: "Just Another Day" is a snippet of Studio Chatter, and "Laughter" is, well, a deliberately annoying two minute loop of band members laughing. The actual song hidden among silent tracks is more interesting — a Softer and Slower Cover / The Cover Changes the Gender version of the album track "Anyway" (officially subtitled the "Junior High Dance Version"), as performed by vocalist Mark Morris' sister, Emily. Digital versions of the album just place "Anyway (Junior High Dance Version)" as track 13, eschewing both the silent tracks and the non-musical hidden ones.
• Eels' album Daisies of the Galaxy has the album's first single, "Mr. E's Beautiful Blues," as an unlisted track. The artist didn't want to include it, but the label insisted, so it being unlisted was the compromise.
• The back cover of Five Iron Frenzy's Quantity is Job 1 EP only listed 8 tracks. The liner notes listed "These are Not My Pants (The Rock Opera)" as the 9th track, but it's actually 8 tracks long itself. It's then followed by track 17, which consists of about three minutes of silence, and then a recording of the band messing around in the studio.
• While simply listed as the final track in other releases, the US release of The Fratellis' Costello Music has "Ol Black 'n' Blue Eyes" as a hidden track (not applicable to digital versions, however, where it's listed as usual).
• Gacharic Spin's Kakujitsu Hendo -Kakuhen- has 12 listed tracks, and an instrumental track 77 (tracks 13-76 are all silent and 4 seconds long).
• Heatmiser's Mic City Sons has "Half Right" as an unlisted twelfth track — Elliott Smith would later do a solo version of the song under the title "Not Half Right". Since the Heatmiser version isn't mentioned anywhere in the album packaging and the song's refrain includes the lyric "you're not half right", this has led to some confusion over what the song is actually called.
• Lauryn Hill: A Cover Version of "Can't Take My Eyes off of You" (originally recorded for the Conspiracy Theory soundtrack) and the original song "Tell Him" appear at the end of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill following the Title Track, but go unlisted on the packaging. "Can't Take My Eyes off of You" ended up having its presence spoiled by the hype sticker (since it was included entirely to bank on its massive amounts of airplay), but the inclusion of "Tell Him" remained undisclosed.
• Subverted by the album Witching Hour by Ladytron. The final track is nine minutes long, which would normally scream "hidden track". However, this last indexed track is entirely blank. It did not appear on some pressings of the album.
• Japanese visual kei artist Közi's album Iyazoi no Tsuki features an instrumental version of "Kaikou" as track 16. Tracks 11-15 are varying lengths of silence.
• L.E.O.'s album Alpacas Ogling had a hidden cover of Electric Light Orchestra's "Don't Bring Me Down" — notable because the entire point of the band was a Genre Throwback-like attempt to emulate ELO. The digital version of the album leaves the cover unhidden and places it alongside the bonus track "Money and Music".
• Live's song "Horse" on Throwing Copper, which is unlisted but kicks in a few seconds after "White, Discussion" ends.
• Marilyn Manson's album Antichrist Superstar featured a hidden track (known as "Empty Sounds of Hate") as track 99. The tracks in the middle are 4 seconds each.
• Los Campesinos!!' debut album, Hold On Now, Youngster... contains an unlisted track, the largely instrumental "2007: The Year Punk Broke (My Heart)" as its 12th song. The band claims it's supposed to be an epilogue and not an actual song on the album, hence it being an unlisted, separate track and not hidden after the 11th song.
• Dave Matthews Band, on the original CD release of Under the Table and Dreaming, put the song "#34" as track 34 on the CD, and put 22 blank tracks between it and the eleventh song on the album, "Pay For What You Get".
• Early printings of Paul McCartney's Driving Rain have "Freedom" as a hidden track. The song was recorded in October 2001 as a response to the 9/11 attacks, and the album was released in November 2001. There was no time to change the outer packaging to reflect the addition. It wasn't much of a secret though: Given why "Freedom" was recorded, Capitol decided to announce its presence on the marketing stickers. It still counts because the stickers are gone as soon as the CD is unwrapped. (The later editions with the coloured cardboard sleeve make the track's existence fully open.)
• Ministry have had hidden songs as separate tracks on a few occasions:
  • Dark Side of the Spoon has "Linda Summertime" as track 69 — a strange recording of a woman, identified in dialog as Linda, singing unaccompanied over a phone or possibly an intercom.
  • Houses of the Molé has hidden songs on tracks 23 and 69 — "Psalm 23" is an extended version of the album's opening track "No W", while "Walrus" is a strange instrumental that sounds the same when played in reverse.
  • Cover Up has hidden songs on tracks 24, 44, and again, 69 — tracks 24 and 44 are both alternate versions of their "What A Wonderful World" cover, while track 69 is a fan singing "Stigmata" In the Style of Willie Nelson.
• Allison Moorer's The Hardest Part featured a hidden track, "Cold, Cold Earth," a song about her parents' murder-suicide.
• The original CD version of Mudhoney's My Brother the Cow has an unlisted 34-minute track at the end, commonly nicknamed "woC eht rehtorB yM" as it's literally just the album played in reverse, though it cuts off partway through track 3.
• Peter Murphy's Holy Smoke includes a brief, untitled bit of Melismatic Vocals as an unlisted tenth track after the supposed closer, "Hit Song"; said vocals are identical to the ones at the start of the opening track, "Keep Me From Harm", bookending the album.
• Morisson Poe's Glitter Girl: Of The Tale, The Passion, and The Rapture EP has an untitled and unlisted seventh track featuring Indian percussion, low droning piano chords, and orgasmic vocals.
• My Chemical Romance has "Blood" in the album The Black Parade which is a distinct track but also only starts after a minute and a half into that track.
• The New Power Generation (one of Prince's songwriting outlets) hid "Wasted Kisses" as track 49 on their album Newpower Soul.
• Nine Inch Nails' Broken has "(You're So) Physical" and "Suck" as tracks 98 and 99 (or 7 and 8, on some editions.) While not listed on the back cover, there's a slight hint to their existence in the liner notes — since one is a Cover Version originally by Adam Ant and the other was Reznor's own version of a collaboration with Pigface, there's a songwriting credit listed for both. The songs were hidden as TVT, NIN's label at the time, refused to release both the cover and the collaboration. This is averted by the first pressing of Broken, which featured "Physical" and "Suck" on a separate 3" CD.
• Nirvana:
  • Nevermind features the dissonant jam "Endless Nameless" after a long silence as an independent track (as opposed to "Gallons", which was pretty much pasted onto "All Apologies"). Notably, a mastering error left early editions lacking "Endless", which drew complaints from Kurt Cobain. "Endless Nameless" has remained unlisted on the back cover of Nevermind to this day, even if it is on all copies now.
  • "Verse Chorus Verse" (AKA "Sappy"), Nirvana's contribution to the charity compilation No Alternative, was unlisted at the end of the album at the band's request. Apparently this was an attempt to not overshadow the rest of the album, as at the time they were easily the most popular band who had contributed to it. Of course, word quickly got out anyway...
• Oasis' greatest hits album Time Flies features "Sunday Morning Call" — the only UK single not on the main tracklisting — as a hidden track after "Falling Down". This is almost certainly due to Noel Gallagher's personal distaste towards the song. In fact, the American version of the album drops the unlisted "Sunday Morning Call" for "Champagne Supernova" and the Japanese version puts it after "Don't Go Away" (both were released as a retail singles in those countries) instead of "Falling Down", so some fans might not even know that "Sunday Morning Call" was supposed to be there at all.
• Optiganally Yours's first album, "Spotlight On Optiganally Yours", had a bonus track officially titled "I Will Always Love You". Based on the liner notes and keyboardist Pea Hix's habit of collecting people's old home movies that they accidentally donated to thrift stores and the like, it's most likely someone's old tape of their daughter singing the Dolly Parton song of the same name. Badly. With Hix attempting to accompany it on his Optigan. Also badly.
• Pepe Deluxé's Beatitude has a whole unlisted EP tacked on the end: three full songs, plus an intro and outro track. (Well, they aren't listed on the back cover, but they are listed inside the liner notes.) Ironically, one of those songs is the title track, "Beatitude".
• Prince hid the song "Laydown" as track 77 on his album 20ten.
• Stefan Raab's Schlimmer Finger has, after numerous tracks that are just a few seconds of silence each, a take on "Haensel und Gretel" as track 99.
• Some editions of Radiohead's Pablo Honey include the radio edit of "Creep" (which replaces "you're so fucking special" with "you're so very special") as an unlisted track.
• Gerry Rafferty's "Another World" included the hidden track "The Grinches."
• Rascal Flatts's album Feels Like Today had a hidden track called "Skin", which was made hidden because the label wouldn't let them put twelve songs on the CD. After a DJ at WUSN in Chicago heard the song, he began playing it on-air, giving it enough of a boost to enter Top 40 despite not being a single. As a result of its success there, the label later released it as a single (under the title "Skin (Sarabeth)") and officially added it as a listed track on later pressings of the album.
• She Wants Revenge's self-titled album that was released in 2005 that does this whole thing in a pretty creative way. Instead of there being five minutes of silence at the end of the last track, there are about fifty 5-second tracks full of silence before the hidden track, which is arguably the best track on the album.
• The CD reissue of Skinny Puppy's Bites has "One Day".
• Silversun Pickups' EP Pikul has 7 listed tracks, with the song "Sci-Fi Lullaby" hidden after several tracks of silence.
• Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin place an unusual hidden track at the end of their album Spin: a lengthy instrumental prelude to the album's cover of "Eight Miles High". The music fades out at the place where the song begins.
• The Stone Roses' "The Foz" is hidden after 12 short silent tracks on Second Coming. Presumably just to mess with the listener, there are eight more tracks of silence after that too, with nothing else hidden after them this time.
• Subverted by Tool's debut album Undertow. While "Disgustipated" is clearly listed as track 10 on the packaging, most editions featured it as track 69. Some editions of the album featured as track 30, track 70 (in Japan, which contained "Opiate" as track 10) or just plain old track 10. A European repress of the album hid "Disgustipated" by placing it on the same track as the previous song, "Flood", after a minute of silence. As listed above, "Disgustipated" features its own hidden message at the end.
  • In Tool's first EP, Opiate, it features a hidden track titled 'The Gaping Lotus Experience' 50 seconds of silence after the last track.
• Several music critics bemoaned the composition of U2's Best of 1980-1990 for excluding "October", proving that they looked at the track list rather than listen to the album. They'd have found it hidden at the end.
• The Keith Urban song "You're Not My God" (about getting over drug addiction) has a hidden track after it.
• Woven Hand's Ten Stones has an instrumental drone song as track 11. It's unlisted and untitled, though some sources call it "Ten Stones Drone".
• Xorcist's Scorched Blood EP ends with an untitled song, partly hidden by a minute of silence at the end of "Scorched Blood (Rising From The Ashes)".
• The IDM compilation Autonomous Addicts has its final track, "808303", hidden after three blank tracks.
• The trance mix album Tunnel Trance Force Volume 13 has a one-minute clip of "Blue Lagoon (Bervoets & De Goejj Remix)" by Nudge & Shouter/Tunnel Allstars.
• Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) has its first single "Honey" as an unlisted final track. Perhaps this is because it's a love song, whereas most of the rest of the album's lyrics focus on political and social commentary. The last track starts with a short reprise of opening track "Amerykahn Promise", over which the artist herself announces the end of the proper album and introducing "Your special ingredient, 'Honey'", followed by "Honey" itself.
• John Tesh had an untitled, unlisted track at the end of his 1997 album Destiny.
• Tony Bennett's 1998 children's album The Playground leaves the final track, "Christmas in Herald Square", off the track listing and liner notes.
• Jamiroquai
  • Synkronized has their contribution to the Godzilla (1998) soundtrack, "Deeper Underground", as an unlisted bonus track.
  • Travelling Without Moving has two unlisted tracks — "Do You Know Where You're Coming From?" and an untitled 8-minute ditty — at the very end.'
• Tally Hall has "Hidden in the Sand" on Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum.
  • If you listen to the 2008 re-re-release, you also get the tracks "Dream" and "Mucka Blucka".
• The Undertale soundtrack on Bandcamp, as stated at the bottom of the tracklist, only has the first 77 tracks out of 101 visible on the album page, as the remainder of the tracklist contains major spoilers for the game itself.
• The SONICTEAM "Power Play" compilation had "Open Your Heart" by Crush 40 as an unlisted final track, a full month before the Japanese launch of Sonic Adventure.
• Deep Purple's album Purpendicular usually contains 12 tracks. Some versions, however, have two unlisted tracks, one of which is 4 seconds of silence while the other is the song "Don't Hold Your Breath".
• The U.S. edition of Return To Cookie Mountain by TV On The Radio has a somewhat unusual variation on this. The main album is indexed as tracks 1-11, and three bonus tracks are listed on the back cover but still placed after multiple short, silent tracks... There's still sort of something hidden though: the listed bonus tracks are tracks 27-29, but track 26 is a short unlisted collage of Studio Chatter and instruments being tuned up.
• The US edition of OK Go's Oh No has the unlisted final track "9027 km" — it's 35 minutes of the sound of Damian Kulash's girlfriend sleeping. The band justified its inclusion to the label as a "love note" recording that she had sent him while he was away recording and which he decided to include for artistic reasons; In fact, the track was Album Filler hastily produced before the album's release date, with the purpose of using up the remaining CD data not taken up by the album proper and leaving no room for DRM software.
• The Spinto Band's "Japan Is An Island" was left unlisted on physical copies of Nice And Nicely Done - a "deluxe edition" reissue of the album just made it the first of several listed bonus tracks.
• Jack White included, on the deluxe vinyl pressing (of course) of Lazaretto, two short instrumental tracks in the center label area. Not around it, "in" it. While the main groove was cut at 33⅓rpm, the Side 1 groove was cut at 45rpm and the Side 2 groove 78rpm, advertised as a "three-speed" record.
• Zug Izland's "Virgos Tale (Remix)" from 3:33 is not listed at all in the back cover of the CD. It's hidden by a secret unnamed track after "Live".
• Yello: Pocket Universe includes the single remix of "To the Sea" as the album's twelfth and final track; the packaging, however, only lists the first 11. The fact that the single remix is substantially different from the original resulted in Mercury Records affixing a hype sticker to the album giving away the remix's inclusion.

Hidden in the middle of the album

• Alice in Chains' album Dirt has a short (roughly 40-second) unlisted song (now named "Iron Gland") between "God Smack" and "Hate to Feel" that is considered a hidden track by most music sites, despite being in the middle of the album. The song has no more to it than Slayer's vocalist Tom Araya yelling "I am Iron Gland" and a guitar riff Jerry Cantrell would play to annoy his bandmates, promising to stop playing the riff if they let him put it in the album.
• Ash's 1994 EP Trailer has a 13 second burst of whirring noises at the end of the track "Get Out": 12 years later, some fans decided to run this segment of the song through an audio editing program and discovered that, when played backwards, slowed down, and pitchshifted, it turns out to be an alternate version of "Intense Thing", a track from earlier in the EP.
• The Beatles hid a short piece on The White Album after "Cry Baby Cry" which is usually referred to as, "Can You Take Me Back".
• Beck's album Midnite Vultures contained a segue between "Mixed Bizness" and "Get Real Paid" of two robots having sex, while spray painting sound effects segued between "Beautiful Way" and "Pressure Zone". These were added to flesh out the concept of the album and are usually listed as separate tracks on digital retailers.
• Blur's second album Modern Life is Rubbish has the aptly-titled "Intermission" hidden inside "Chemical World". Whether or not Intermission is listed at all varies from release to release.
• David Bowie hid "Don't Sit Down" after "Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed" on Space Oddity. The US release, RCA Records reissue, and 2019 remix cut the track out (with contemporary production notes indicating that Bowie didn't intend to include the song to begin with), while the Rykodisc and EMI/Virgin remasters sequence it as a separate track. The 2015 Parlophone Records remaster is the only reissue to keep it hidden.
• Coldplay's album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends features "Chinese Sleep Chant" hidden in the same track as the listed song "Yes". The album also has an Extra Long Final Track variant, "The Escapist" (see above).
• The Crystal Method's Vegas has a short track hidden in the pregap to "Comin' Back".
• Depeche Mode:
  • Violator has two: "Interlude #2 (Crucified)" after the fadeout in "Enjoy the Silence", and "Interlude #3" after "Blue Dress". Neither "Interlude" track is included on the tracklist.
  • On Songs of Faith and Devotion, "Get Right With Me" segues into the unlisted "Interlude #4 (My Kingdom Comes)".
• The Dingees' The Crucial Conspiracy has "Conspiracy Against the Youth" in the middle, stuck at the end of the track "Moving Underground".
• Dir en grey hid nearly all of "GAUZE -mode of eve-" as a pregap on the end of "Akura no Oka", on their album GAUZE.
• Five Iron Frenzy's Upbeats and Beatdowns featured an unlisted 16th track, but the majority of the recording (the outtakes from "Combat Chuck"'s spoken-word intro, and the background shouting from the "Beautiful America" finale) is in the three-minute-long pregap between track 15 and 16.
• Front Line Assembly's Civilization hides "Parasite" between "Fragmented" and "Dissident".
• CD copies of Goldie's album Saturnz Return featured an eight minute ambient piece titled "The Dream Within" directly after "Truth", in the style of an extra long hidden track. However, since was the end of the first disc, the song is effectively hidden in the exact center of the album.
• Havalina Rail Co.'s self-titled debut album has an unlisted cover of Woodie Guthrie's "Take You Rid'n in my Car" at the end of "Train Song".
• A rather obscure Christian Rock band called Human buried an unlisted cover of U2's "Bullet the Blue Sky" between tracks 5 and 6 on their one and only album Out of the Dust.
• King Crimson: European LP releases of In the Wake of Poseidon don't list the opening track of side two, the short instrumental "Peace — A Theme"; American and Japanese LP releases include it on the disc labels, as do releases on other formats worldwide.
• Limp Bizkit's debut album, Three Dollar Bill, Yall$, contained the song "Blind" hidden after "Faith".
  • Significant Other featured the song "Everyday" between "N 2 Gether Now" and "Trust?", the song "Yeah Y'all" between "Trust?" and "No Sex", and several hidden skits throughout the record. The album ends with two hidden tracks ("Radio Sucks" and "The Mind of Les"), followed by a short blank track to preserve the pregap hidden nature of the work.
• The fifth track of Linkin Park's third album Minutes to Midnight, "Shadow of the Day" had a hidden instrumental intro at the end before the next track, lead single "What I've Done", properly kicks in. This is likely because the band felt the need to shorten the latter song, as the band has played the instrumental before "What I've Done" in more than a few live shows between 2007 to 2012.
• The Lion King (1994) has "The Luau Song" hidden in between tracks #20 and #21 of the 2014 Legacy Collection re-release of the soundtrack.
• The Lost Dogs album Little Red Riding Hood has a song hidden in the pregap between "Eleanor, It's Raining Now" and "Free at Last". The song in question is "Little Red Riding Hood". The album's title track is hidden.
• Marillion's concept album Brave contained one on its vinyl pressing. The final side of the album features the song "The Great Escape", however this side is double-grooved. The needle will either land on the groove that plays "The Great Escape" and "Made Again", representing the happy ending to the story; or "The Great Escape (Spiral Remake)" and twenty minutes of water noises, representing the downer ending to the story. The CD version contained the happy ending, while the film version contained the downer ending.
• Maxwell's album Now lists "Get to Know Ya" as track 1 and "Lifetime" as track 3. The first two notes of "Get to Know Ya" appear as track 1 while the rest of the song is on track 2.
• Sarah McLachlan's Fumbling Towards Ecstasy is this variant in the international editions; there's an acoustic version of "Possession" after track 12 which is the final track in the US edition but in the UK and Japan release there's a track 13 after that.
• The Monty Python The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief vinyl record was billed as a three-sided album, which could have been written off as a joke... but it's true. Side 2 has two completely different grooves cut side-by-side; the needle could land arbitrarily on one or the other. Since the record has no selection list, it could take a while to realize it. The CD version contains all of side one, followed by sides two and "three".
• Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile features a slight segue into "10 Miles Migh" after "The Mark Has Been Made", only to hard cut into "Please".
• Pat Metheny Group's album Quartet" features a hidden bass and piano duet at the end of "Sometimes I See".
  • Imaginary Day features a 23 second hidden segue between "The Heat of the Day" and "Across the Sky". The intro to "The Roots of Coincidence" is also hidden directly before the song proper.
• Opeth album Ghost Reveries has "Reverie", an instrumental interlude in the pregap between "Atonement" and "Harlequin Forest". Digital and vinyl versions tack it onto the end of "Atonement" despite continuing to list "Harlequin Forest" as "Reverie/Harlequin Forest".
• The Protomen album The Cover Up has a hidden track exclusively on the cassette version after In The Air Tonight (which is the last track on side 1), which consists of a mock Numbers Station that decodes to "We can hold out through the endless dark, all a fire needs is a single spark. Oh, and remember to drink your Ovaltine."
  • Speaking of Now features a hidden intro to "On Her Way" before the song proper.
• The Sire Records edition of The Ramones' Loco Live has "Carbona Not Glue" unlisted and indexed on the same track as "Pet Sematary", for legal reasons: the track was deleted from Leave Home to avoid lawsuits, as Carbona is a trademarked brand of cleaning solvent.
• R.E.M. did this multiple times over their careers, including unrelated jams after the fadeouts in "Shaking Through", "Camera", "Bang and Blame", and "Diminished". Most of these are unnamed instrumentals, while the latter is a Michael Stipe solo piece with lyrics and a title: "I'm Not Over You".
• Rilo Kiley's "And That's How I Choose To Remember It" is unusual in that it's broken into three parts that are hidden in the pre-gap tracks of different songs on The Execution Of All Things: The first verse comes after "So Long", the second comes after "My Slumbering Heart" and finally the third comes after "Spectacular Views", the album's last song (like the Limp Bizkit example above, a short silent track follows.) It's only sort of hidden, in that the back cover lists the title as though it's the last track on the album.
• The CD version of Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever has a short segue after "Running Down a Dream", referred to as "Hello CD Listeners...":
  Hello, CD listeners. We've come to the point in this album where those listening on cassette, or records, will have to stand up, or sit down, and turn over the record. Or tape. In fairness to those listeners, we'll now take a few seconds before we begin side two. [Beat] Thank you. Here's side two.
• Sigue Sigue Sputnik hid commercials between songs on their debut album Flaunt It. Several commercials advertised real products, such as L'Oreal Studio Line hair gel and i-D Magazine; the album ended with a message that the album was "brought to you by EMI" and that the band had intentions to buy their label.
• Spinal Tap's Break Like the Wind album has an unlisted and untitled Track 13.
• The Tea Party's Transmission has two pieces hidden in the pregap between other songs: Between "Babylon" and "Pulse" is a two minute instrumental called "Embryo"; and between "Release" and the title track is an untitled 15 second sound collage.
• Tally Hall's first album Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum has "13", a track that leads into "Ruler Of Everything". It's a short, 13-second long song that is a simple violin track, and works perfectly with "Ruler Of Everything". The music video has "13" in it, too.
• Tool on their album 10,000 by requiring three songs to be played together to hear the actual song. If the listener places Wings of Marie then Virginti Tres in that order on top of 10,000 you get to hear the full song.

Accessible by other technology

• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night has a hidden track "Alucard's Vengeance" on the PlayStation version which can be heard by playing it on an audio CD player.
• The original Monster Rancher game had a strange techno track available if you put the disc in a CD player. This is highly appropriate since the game itself has a feature intended to read CDs and generate monsters from the data stored on them (some special CDs would even unlock secret monsters).
• When The Dillinger Escape Plan and Mike Patton's Irony Is a Dead Scene is placed in a computer's cd player, a video file appears in the directory — it's a short montage of behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the album, mainly Patton recording vocal tracks. There is nothing on the packaging indicating this cd-rom material is there.
• Fear Factory's Transgression has a song called "My Grave", which was only accessible by digital download by putting the CD into a CD-ROM drive and accessing the shortcut. The link died out long ago, but the song can still be found on YouTube.
• Information Society has a track at the end of Peace and Love, Inc. that was meant to be placed into a dial-up modem of the time in order to decode it. It's the band's lead singer talking about a surreal experience he had in Brazil.
  • Hello World has a "Hidden Code" track which when viewed in a spectrogram, displays a URL and login credentials for two bonus MP3s: a cover of Gary Numan's "Praying to the Aliens" (later featured as a normal track on their cover album Orders of Magnitude), and "Dancing with Strangers(Kurt's Doomvox Mix)".
• Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals hidden track came in the form of a program that automatically ran when the CD was placed in a computer.
• Danish band Mew hid an entire song within "New Terrain", the leading track of No More Stories..., called "Nervous". To listen to it, play "New Terrain" in reverse.
• Dragon's Fury, the Technosoft-developed Sega Genesis port of Devil's Crush, had special passwords that switched the music with tracks from previous Technosoft games such as Thunder Force II and Herzog Zwei.
• The Japanese version of Super Double Dragon, which is more complete than the US version and had several stage musics changed, has two unused songs in its sound test. The first is the title theme from the US version (the JP version uses the classic DD theme), which was meant for the credits, the latter is Duke's Theme, which was supposed to be the Final Boss music.
• Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work: The otherwise unused track "Gettin' Some Air" can only be played in the sound test, where it's put in the middle of it alongside other tracks which are played elsewhere, likely because its unusual composition would not fit any places in the game.
• Zanac has a hidden track, which can be heard in the sound test or by pressing a certain button combination in Area 10.
• In addition to the above listed Secret Song, the CD of Homestar Runner's Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits includes a movie file containing a music video for "These Peoples Try to Fade Me".
• If you were to play "Weird Al" Yankovic's Running with Scissors CD on a PC, you might find a rather enlightening documentary of what it's like to grow up as a polka-obssessed white accordion player in an all-black family.
• The original soundtrack of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn includes the entire soundtrack in 320K MP3 format, along with a single bonus track in a password-protected ZIP file: the password is 'gilgamesh', and the track is a remix of his iconic theme, "Battle on the Big Bridge."
• zerO One's psy-fI album features four extra tracks to go with the listed ten. The extra tracks are MP3 files, so you can't access them on a CD player, unless it supports data CDs. Averted with the Bandcamp rerelease, which has those bonus tracks plainly shown on the track list.
• Certain physical editions of The Hunger Games: Songs From District 12 and Beyond have the song "Deep in the Meadow" as a download code.
• ANOHNI's EP Paradise has six tracks. A seventh, called "I Never Stopped Loving You", was available only to those who sent her an email about "what you care most about, or your hopes for the future".

Mixed

• The soundtrack for Chrono Trigger featured the time travel sound effect at the end of the first and second discs, and at the start of the second and third discs (not as a pregap track.)
• Jarvis Cocker's self-titled album has "Running The World". What version of the trope it takes depends on which format you have it in.
  • The CD version has it hidden after 30 minutes from the final track. This version of the album used to be on streaming services, but it was replaced in 2020 with a version that just has this song as the first track. The song's standalone single, which came in handy when it was hidden on streaming, remains available.
  • The vinyl version just included it as a separate single.
• Soul Junk's album 1956 is inconsistent on this. There are two tracks that come after two minutes of silence following the final proper song—but they're listed right on the back cover (though specifically labeled as "bonus tracks").
• Alanis Morissette's 1995 album Jagged Little Pill has not one, but TWO hidden tracks at the end. First you hear an unlisted reprise of "You Oughta Know," which is basically the more guitar-heavy version you hear on the radio. Then, after several minutes of silence, you get treated to an a-capella dirge sung by Morrissette entitled "Your House," which, in the years following the original release, has been given an acoustic guitar accompaniment, both in the "Jagged Little Pill" concert tour, and in its 2005 acoustic revisiting.
• Sound Horizon often includes Hidden Tracks on their albums, some of which are damn near impossible to discover; Nobody's managed to find the alleged hidden track of Seisen no Iberia, for example.
• Sponge's Rotting Piñata has a track called "Candy Corn", which is hidden in the gap between the last listed song and a short track of silence.
• The Skunk Anansie album Stoosh includes both a funky (in multiple senses of the word) jam in the pregap and a rather disturbing loop of laughter several minutes after the last song.
• Black Sabbath's Sabotage has the unlisted song "Blow On A Jug" hidden after "The Writ" — the very short song basically consists of some out of tune music hall piano and Ozzy Osbourne repeatedly exhorting the listener to "blow on a jug". Doubles as Last Note Hilarity because it comes very unexpectedly after a bitter eight minute Take That! towards an ex-manager. Though it's hidden at the end of the album and isn't on its own separate track, it starts pretty much immediately after the last song, so it doesn't quite fit the "extra long final track" category. Some copies of the album remove "Blow On A Jug" for unknown reasons.
• Orbit's Libido Speedway has one straight example and one subversion: "Gazer" ends with four minutes of faint background noise (which sounds like someone walking down a gravel road), followed by an untitled instrumental piece. After that comes a separate track where there's three minutes of cicadas chirping as a jet flies above: This is designed to make the listener expect another song, but instead it ends with just a clip of a child announcing "You can turn the CD off now!".
• Music For Elevators by Anthony Stewart Head and George Sarah has two separately indexed unlisted songs at the end of the album, "Staring At The Sun" and "Endgame". The latter track itself then has seven minutes of silence at the end, followed by James Marsters reciting some of the lyrics of "Owning My Mistakes", a song from earlier in the album, as spoken word. "Endgame" therefor can be said to have two spoken cameos by fellow Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast members - Alyson Hannigan can be heard doing some Spoken Word in Music during the actual song.
• Kyuss' Sky Valley closes out with the joke song "Lick Doo", hidden at the end of the album after about ten seconds of silence. Depending on whether the album is split into three "movements" or with each song indexed separately, it's either its own unlisted, independent track (the former), or tacked on to the end of "Whitewater" (the latter).

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• At first, Boards of Canada's "Farewell Fire", the last song on The Campfire Headphase, seems to be another hidden track fake-out, as it fades out completely with about four minutes of silence at the end. However, there sort of is something hidden there — if you turn the volume up enough, you can hear that the song didn't fully fade out after all, and it's still playing at an extremely low volume for the rest of the track's run time. BoC are just fond of messing with listeners like that.
• Not exactly an inversion: on The Bobs album Coaster, there is a track titled "Hidden Bonus Track" [see above]. It offers the group's typical ironic pop-culture commentary, but, ironcally, isn't hidden in any way; it appears as a regular track in the middle of the album and is clearly listed and identified.
• In Gradius III(arcade)'s third stage, if you destroy a certain enemy generator, the music changes to a medley of "Free Flyer" from Gradius I, "Fly High" from Salamander, and "Burning Heat" from Gradius II.
• Follow The Leader by Korn is a hidden album — the first 12 tracks on the disc consist solely of silence, with the actual music not kicking in until track 13.
  • Likewise, 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra started the album on track 13. The album opens with an intro of feedback, which is divided amongst the 12 previous tracks.
• Damien Rice's 9 had a really long final track that went on for over 21 minutes. It featured "Sleep Don't Weep" followed by 16 minutes of wine glasses, Tibetan singing bowl and gibbering in Czech. Then the actual hidden track, "The Rat Within the Grain" came after as an unlisted number.
  • Theres also a demo version of "9 Crimes" hidden in the pregap of the album
• MAD issued a flexidisk in 1980 that had 8 interleaved grooves, rather the normal single spiral groove. Depending on which groove the needle picked up when you set it down, you would get one of eight different versions of "It's a Super Spectacular Day!"
  • Click here for a video with all 8 endings.
• In a web original example, Todd in the Shadows included one in his review of "Alejandro". It was a cover version of "It's too late" from Carole King's Tapestry. This wasn't uploaded to Channel Awesome, but only to his now-defunct bliptv account. He did a couple more since then that could either be found at his bliptv page or clicking on "related videos" after the conclusion of a review video.
• The pinball game Monster Bash has six tracks, one for each of the game's Universal Horror monsters. The seventh track, "Lyman's Lament", is only available after the player shoots the Concert Hall scoop 44 times in a single game. It features all-new music while programmer Lyman Sheats provides running commentary on the player's progress.
• Parodied by Fleming & John on their album The Way We Are. The final song is named "The Hidden Track", but it's listed right on the back cover. (It's a rearranged version of the first song from the album.)
• Bon Voyage's (the Starflyer 59 side project) album The Right Amount has a fakeout. There's about a minute and a half of silence after the last song... and nothing else. The real reason Jason Martin included that was because he wanted the whole album to be exactly 30 minutes long.
• An interesting example is Children of Bodom's debut album, Something Wild. The final track, "Touch Like the Angel of Death", "ends" at close to 5 minutes, only for 1:30 of silence to happen, then the song resumes with a piece of keyboard music that resembles the "Colombians" theme from Miami Vice. However, this really isn't a hidden track. It's just the ending of "Touch Like the Angel of Death". However, according to the picture disc tracklisting, there's a hidden track called "Bruno the Pig". This is actually referring to the 8 seconds of silence that follows said keyboard coda. Even weirder, on the special edition of the album, the keyboard coda actually is a legitimate hidden track; it follows the second of two bonus tracks.
• Bill Engvall's Christmas album Here's Your Christmas Album, which has studio musicians singing songs that he co-wrote, usually with his comedy bits sampled throughout. The final track is a rock remix of an earlier song, "Fruitcake Makes Me Puke".
• Jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington's double album Heaven and Earth doesn't just have a hidden track—it has an entire hidden album. Both in the LP and CD release, the center panel of the album packaging can be cut or peeled back to reveal another disc, titled The Choice, containing five tracks and 38 minutes of music—none of which are advertised on the back cover.
• British newspaper The Independent gave away a compilation CD called Free And Single Volume One - eight songs were listed one the packaging, but there were 15 tracks on the disc, with track 9 starting with 10 minutes of silence. The strange thing is that the first eight tracks are by fairly well-known performers such as Van Morrison and Brian Eno, the hidden tracks are obscure enough that they have yet to be positively identified.
• RuneScape has over 1300 music tracks in the game and regularly adds more. The player can play whatever song they have unlocked from the music player interface, and it also shows what songs the player hasn't unlocked yet. But there are a number of tracks in the game that are not listed and so can't be played at any time. The runescape wiki has a list of these unlisted tracks here. Some of these tracks can only be heard by listening to an in-game musician or music box, and others are only heard during a cutscene and so can only be heard once. Many of these tracks have names that can be seen if you open the music player interface when they are playing, but most of them do not. It is unclear why many of them are unlisted.
• Throbbing Gristle's DOA: The Third and Final Annual Report includes the single "United", but sped up 15x so as to be an unrecognizable blur of noise. Accordingly slowing down playback allows one to hear the song (mostly) normally.
• ULTRAKILL has the song "UltraChurch" by Master Boot Record, which initially wasn't included in the game or its OST and was found as part of an Alternate Reality Game. It was later added to the game as a pickable song for the Cyber Grind mode.

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