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* The Genesis album ''Duke'' has a short track at the start called ''Guide Vocal'' where the eponymous character claims that "nobody must know my name, for nobody would understand, and you kill what you fear." At the end of the penultimate track the guide returns to complete his statement: "Nobody must know my name, for nobody would understand, and you kill what you fear, ''and you fear what you don't understand''."

* Captain Beefheart's album Strictly Personal begins with a blues parody called "Ah Feel Like Ahcid". The song goes into a phased section which leads into the next track "Safe As Milk", meaning we don't hear "Ahcid"'s real ending. Or so it appears at first. After the third track, "Trust Us", we hear more of "Ahcid", but it fades out and much later on, after the last (8th) track, Kandy Korn, we hear the final words of "Ahcid", "I ain't blue no more, wooo it's like heaven ahcid, ahcid" which close the album.

* The video for [[Fall Out Boy]]'s Thnks fr th Mmrs includes Pete Wentz getting a phone call from William Beckett of The Academy Is.... The video for We've Got a Big Mess on Our Hands, by The Academy Is..., has William making the call.

** In the video for "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race" pretty much everything from their previous videos shows up at Pete Wentz's dream funeral, including Pete rising from the casket as a vampire, which he was in the "Less Than Sixteen Candles" video.

** The Beatles did several of these, Sgt Pepper (Reprise) being the most obvious. There's also the last note of "Mean Mr. Mustard" at the beginning of the 'hidden track' Her Majesty on Abbey Road.

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* The insert for the [[Alex Day]] album Parrot Stories include the out-of-nowhere line "No horses were drowned in the making of this album." You finish the last listed track... and you hear the secret track The Drowning Horse Song.

* An odd one occurs on [[Pink Floyd]]'s ''The Wall'' album. The last thing you hear at the end of the album is a quiet voice asking, Isn't this...?" This matches up with the first thing you hear on the album: the same quiet voice saying, "... where we came in?"

* [[Jimmy Buffett]] pulls this off with two of his songs, released a year apart. 1986's "Who's the Blonde Stranger" (from his album ''Riddles in the Sand'') details the travails of a husband and wife, Frankie and Lola, who each cheat on each other during a vacation trip to Galveston Bay, Texas. 1987's "Frankie and Lola" (from the album "Last Mango in Paris") returns to Frankie and Lola's life just as they're patching their marriage up after a short-term separation by taking "a second honeymoon in Pensacola", when each realizes that they truly do love each other.

* New Age composer Vangelis invokes a Brick Joke structure in his ''Albedo 0.39'' album. The first track ''Pulstar'' ends with the British Post time recording. A voice is heard intoning "At the third stroke, it will be ten-three and forty seconds" followed by three beeps. Likewise for "ten-three and fifty seconds". At "ten-four precisely", the second track kicks in right where the three beeps should be. Just before the ending of track eight, ''Nucleogenesis (Part II)'', the music pauses and the listener hears a rotary telephone dial. The dialing is followed by three beeps and the climax of the track.