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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 [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|planning on spending the next 3 hours looking for examples for all those YKTTWs]]), when, suddenly... is that... music?
Congratulations. You have just discovered a [[Hidden Track]], the trope where the [[Easter Egg]] and the [[Bonus Material]] make love inside a music album.
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* Sheila Nicholls' ''Wake'' ends with an extra track with four minutes twenty seconds of silence before it.
* Paul McCartney's ''Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard'' has an instrumental one of these.
* Amy MacDonald's ''A Curious Thing'' has a cover of [[Bruce Springsteen]]'s "Dancing In The Dark" for a bonus.
* 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 Darkhorse]] for reviewers, with many preferring it to the "main" songs.
* [[Damien Rice]]'s ''O'' had not one but two extra tracks attached to ''Eskimo'': ''Prague'' and ''Silent Night''.
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* [[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 Rerelease]].
* The W's had this on both their albums.
** ''Fourth from the Last'' ended with a parody of [[Wesley Willis|"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.
* 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."
* 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.
* 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.
* Urge Overkill have a strange, sample-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 [[Studio Chatter|"Dumb Song, take 9"]] at the start, but the official title is "Operation Kissinger".
* Radiohead's ''Kid A'' has a short chunk of silence after "Motion Picture Soundtrack", followed by a short instrumental and two full minutes of silence. The silences and hidden track are [[Word of God|apparently]] supposed to be a part of the song proper.
* [[Doba Caracol]] has not one, not two, but three hidden tracks on the album "Soley".
* On the swedish group Nordman's first cd the next to last track is called locklåt (calling song) which consist of an [[One-Woman Wail]]. Then after the last song there is a pause for some minutes before the wailing comes again.It can also completlely freak you out if you sit in silence after the last song and then not being prepared for that the wailing will come again.
* Most of [[Nox Arcana|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 you hear a new reading by Madame Endora. Then, there's two more minutes before you hear an [[Ominous Music Box Tune|eerie music box tune]]. ''Then'', there's about thirty seconds before you get to hear an epic rock remix of Spellbound. However, that last one is somewhat spoiled if you look in the booklet and see "Guitar on rock version of Spellbound by..."
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* 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".
* 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.
* [[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.
* [[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".
* 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.
* 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.
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* 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.
* [[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.
* [[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(a quite awesome nameless track and a remix of "Girls, Girls, Girls") are included in the rest of the runtime.
* 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!".
* [[BT]]'s ''ESCM'' has a short reprise of "Flaming June" at the end of the last track, "Content", after a minute and a half of silence.
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* [[Beck (musician)|Beck]] seemed to be pretty fond of doing this for a while: ''Mellow Gold'', ''Stereopathetic Soulmanure'', ''Odelay'', and ''Midnite Vultures'' all had what were basically odd noise loops hidden after a few minutes of silence at the end of their last tracks. ''Mutations'' is the only album where he's done this with an actual song so far though: "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. Also, the deluxe edition of ''Odelay'' has the hidden noise loop as it's own track, where it's labeled "Hidden Track (Computer Rock)".
* 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.
* 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.
* Sander Van Doorn's latest album has a hidden piece buried in the 19-minute track "Eagles" after an 8-minute wait.
* 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.
* Jack Off Jill have one on each of their albums: 'Angels Fuck' on ''Sexless Demons & Scars'', and a cure 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.
* 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".
* [[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.
* [[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.
* KMFDM's ''Nihil'' has a short but [[Last-Note Nightmare|dissonant]] [[Sensory Abuse|noise jam]] 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.
* 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 [[Precision F-Strike|fucking asshole!]]"
* 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. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdXfz3fwkVk The rest speaks for itself.]
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* "Ambulance" on [[Blur (band)|Blur]]'s ''Think Tank'' is preceded by a hidden track called "Me, White Noise".
* British copies of [[Autechre]]'s ''EP7'' 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.
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* [[Rascal Flatts]]'s album ''Feels Like Today'' had a hidden track called "Skin" which was ''actually released as a single'' after some radio stations began playing it as an album cut. Supposedly, it was made a hidden track because the label wouldn't let them put twelve songs on the CD. Later presses of the album list it as an official track due to its success as a single.
* Allison Moorer's ''The Hardest Part'' featured a hidden track, "Cold, Cold Earth," a song about her parents' murder-suicide.
* 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 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.
* There's an instrumental 11th track on [[Woven Hand]]'s ''Ten Stones''.
* 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.
* [[Nirvana]] did this with their album ''Nevermind'', having the dissonant jam "Endless Nameless" show up after a long silence as an independent track (as opposed to "Gallons", which was pretty much pasted onto "All Apologies"). Notably, an 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 effort 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...
* [[The Clash]] 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. Also worth noting is that the words "Train" and "Vain" never occur in the lyrics, so there was much confusion as to the actual title before it was released as a single.
** Though the name of the song WAS, in fact, 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.
* The IDM compilation ''Autonomous Addicts'' has its final track, "808303", hidden after three blank tracks.
* 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.
* Xorcist's ''Scorched Blood EP'' has one, partly hidden by a minute of silence at the end of "Scorched Blood (Rising From The Ashes)".
* "One Day" from [[Skinny Puppy]]'s ''Bites'' (1993 edition and up).
* 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)".
* [[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 its 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.
* [[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". The reason for this is unknown. 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''.
* [[Covenant]]'s latest album, ''Modern Ruin'', has a hidden [[Drone of Dread|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".
* [[Bowling for Soup]] has an album called ''A Hangover You Don't Deserve'' which 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.
* 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.
* Mudhoney's ''My Brother The Cow'' has the hidden 13th track "woC ehT rehtorB yM". As the [[Sdrawkcab Name|sdrawkcab]] title would suggest, it's just the entire 39 minute album played backwards.
* 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.
* [[Live]]'s song "Horse" on ''Throwing Copper'', which is unlisted but kicks in a few seconds after "White, Discussion" ends.
* Silversun Pickups' EP ''Pikul'' has 7 listed tracks, with the song "Sci-Fi Lullaby" hidden after several tracks of silence.
* 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 - it's a [[Softer and Slower Cover]] of their song "Anyway" performed by vocalist Mark Morris' sister, Emily Morris.
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== Accessible by other technology ==
* When you put The Dillinger Escape Plan And [[Mike Patton]]'s ''Irony Is A Dead Scene'' in your 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.
* ''[[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.
* [[Information Society]] has a track at the end of ''Peace and Love Incorporated'' 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.
* ''[[Zanac]]'' also has a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BErLbM86VV4 hidden track], which can be heard in the sound test or by pressing a certain button combination in Area 10.
* 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.
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* [[My Chemical Romance]] has [[Nightmare Fuel|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.
* [[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.
* 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.
* [[Marilyn Manson]]'s ''Antichrist Superstar'' has a hidden "Track 99", and putting ''Mechanical Animals'' on a PC triggers a video with the 15th track.
* In addition to the above listed Secret Song, the CD of''[[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits]]'' includes a movie file containing a music video for "These Peoples Try to Fade Me".
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