The hidden track on Stone Temple Pilots’ Purple is fantastically great.

“This song sounds a lot like Johnny Mathis — for Mathis lovers!”

I remember the X-Files CD had a track that was BEFORE the cd started…I think the liner notes said something like “Nick Cave would like to remind you that ‘0′ is also a number”..
I recall it didn’t work on all the CD players. Ya had to let the CD read “track 1″ and then hit the back button.
Remember also a few double-grooved records that would play one of 2 intro-tracks depending on where exactly one put the needle down.
And of course the British pressings of Sgt. Pepper had nonsense in the run-off groove and if you had a non-automatic turntable it would spin on and on until you laughed yer ass off.

Beck – hidden track on Mutations

Paul McCartney – hidden track on Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

One of my favorite Christmas songs was a hidden track on Everclear’s “So Much for the Afterglow” — Hating you For Christmas.

U2’s “Best of 1980-1990″ segues from “All I want is You” (listed)into “October” (unlisted)

Coheed and Cambria’s “2113″ from IKSSE3 really foreshadows the band’s full deluge into prog on Good Apollo. Great hidden track.

colplay – “life is for living”
at then end of ‘parachutes’

I liked Tool’s “Disgustipated” on the end of Undertow…

All by myself at the end of DOOKIE

Sorry…it was Opiate and “Flaming Lotus Experience” or something like that…

Tool – Disgustipated (Track 69) from the Undertow Album

NIN – Physical & Suck (Track 98 & 99) from the Broken Album

Guns N’ Roses – Look At Your Game Girl (The Spagetti Incident)

“Diamond Bullocks” off of Mutations by Beck. May just be my favorite Beck song and sounds NOTHING like anything on that album or any other Beck record.

REM- “Superman” on Life’s Rich Pageant

They Might Be Giants- Token Back to Brooklyn on Factory Showroom (BEFORE track 1- you had to rewind to hear it!!!)

the clash – train in vain (london calling)

excellent song left off of original track listing

I would agree with the hidden track on Beck’s Mutations. Probably my favorite beck song actually

The Clash – “Train in Vain”

How many “hidden tracks” actually chart?

Verse Chorus Verse – Nirvana off of the No Alternative comp.

The one that started it all…”Her Majesty” from Abbey Road!

your house, alanis morissette (jagged little pill)

let me remind you all that Disgustipated IS on the Undertow tracklist, and therefor, NOT a hidden track.

NIN’s version of Suck gets my vote, and let me say that it is a shame that Endless Nameless has been left off of current pressings of Nevermind.

RTickle – There were TWO X-Files Cds issued simultaneously. Which Cd are you referring to that has that track? Please Specify. Thanks!

“I Am The Warlock” Probot feat. Jack Black
“Mosquito Song” – Queens Of The Stone Age
The hidden track on Deftones’ Around The Fur

The Citizen’s Band by Super Furry Animals

from “Guerilla”

Two of you beat me to them:

U2’s Best of 1980-1990 – “All I Want is You” eventually (after more than a minute of dead air) leads into “October.”

The Clash’s London Calling – “Train in Vain (Stand By Me)”

“Eurotrash Girl” on Cracker’s “Kerosene Hat.” (Another No. 69, I believe?)

What about the hidden track Pearl Jam dedicated to Layne Staley at the end of Lost Dogs???
Or
Outside the wall at the end of Pink Floyd’s The Wall???

Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl
But she doesn’t have a lot to say
Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl
But she changes from day to day
I wanna tell her that I love her
But I gotta have a belly full of wine
Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl
Someday I’m gonna make her mine
Oh yeah
Someday I’m gonna maker her mine

“Don’t Drop That Dime”
Velvet Revolver
Libertad (after “Gravedancer”)

Fuck A Dog – Blink 182, on the album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket

“Train in Vain” – London Calling (The Clash)

4/20/02 Lost Dogs

Pearl Jam’s hidden track off Yield

“This Time Imperfect” by AFI off Sing the Sorrow

Atmosphere – “Say Shhh” gets my vote for best of all time!

Also:
Beck – “Diamond Bollocks”
Pearl Jam – “4/20/02″

my favorite is the hidden track on pearl jam’s Yield. very satisfying

I don’t think Her Majesty is technically a hidden track since it is listed on Abbey Road’s tracklisting. But it is still great, nonetheless.

How about Blue Flashing Light from Travis – The Man Who? Great track. Or even better, Sailing Away from their latest album The Boy With No Name. Awesome song!

The pre-gap track by the Czars on “Ugly people vs.”!!!

The Clash – Train In Vain, the story goes that the song was supposed to be a free flexi disc in New Musical Express magazine, then when the record company heard it, said it was too good to be a giveaway, so they stuck it at the end of London Calling, but the labels and covers had been printed already. A lot of copies had a sticker put on especially after the song charted.
Oh and people, Her Majesty by thr Beatles IS on the cover, do you know what hidden track means?????

There’s a hidden track on “Opiate,” Tool’s first disc….I don’t know what it’s called (I’m sure someone will help me out), but it’s god damn hilarious. Maynard sings about taking different drugs and freaking out (pretending he’s a fire engine and pissing everywhere, making love to a pillow, and so on) and the chorus just has him yelling “Satan” over and over…..anyone know the title?

Mosquito Song by Queens of the Stone Age off “Songs For The Deaf”

To Kingdom Come by Coldplay off “X&Y”

I Will Be Hating You For Christmas by Everclear off “So Much For The Afterglow”

Three Flights Down by Yellowcard off “Lights And Sounds”

Ok Who Here remembers the “NO ALTERNATIVE’ compilation that came out way back in 93 to raise funds for Aids organizations all over North America?? Well there’s a Hidden track on is called “Verse Chorus Verse” by NIRVANA- its my All time FAV hidden track!!!

Songs For The Deaf also has a pre-track 1 nugget, called The Real Song For The Deaf. Hidden tracks at the start and the end – pure genius.

Same thing on A Place In The Sun byt Lit, they have a little instrumental jam if you rewind from the start.

Houston we have an answer!

Songs In The Key Of X: Music From And Inspired By The X-Files by Various Artists – Soundtracks – Television and The X-Files (Related Recordings) (Audio CD – 1996) – Explicit Lyrics

Soul Asylum’s “Fearless Leader” off of The Silver Lining. Who can not love a song that starts “Jesus was a hippy.”

My Chemical Romance has a hidden track at the end of THE BLACK PARADE that’s pretty good.

campaign button by fionn regan

i think the first hidden track ever is possibly the sgt. pepper’s inner groove! i’m buying myself a beer for that one!

what about “the second album” on the end of Stone Temple Pilot’s purple?

Tom in Vegas- All the original recordings of “Abbey Road” did not have “Her Majesty” on the track list. It was accidentally left on the master tapes, and was added to the the list later. So it was definitely hidden at the beginning…the Beatles didn’t even know it was there!

I’m a big fan of The Byrds and their CD re-issues have some surprising hidden tracks. The most surprising is from their 1967 album, “The Notorious Byrd Brothers”. It’s not that great a record. But at the end of the LP, there is almost ten minutes of dialogue between Roger McGuinn and the rest of the band, mostly drummer Mike Clarke. The heated banter shows just how bad things were in the band; shortly after the album came out, Clarke left and so did David Crosby. It’s one of those “fly on the wall” moments that you hear about but you never thought you’d hear for yourself.

“Pay the Man” from The Offspring’s Americana is a nice hidden track. It has that swirling Mid-Eastern rhythm that the band has unfortunately kept out of their last two albums – new release included.

I agree with other people here. BECK’S “DIAMOND BOLLOCKS” is one of the best hidden tracks ever, and unlike nothing he’s ever recorded. Pure wickedness made sound.

BECK-DIAMOND BOLLOCKS

there is also the hidden track at the start of unkle’s psyence fiction album that is like a history of music, all the great songs mixed together. good listen.

The X-Files: Songs in the Key of X — it’s pre-gap, so it’s track 0 (i.e. go to track one and time-scroll back like 15 minutes) and there’s two there. The Dirty Three’s version of the X-Files theme is, hands down, the best version of that music ever.

how about pearl jam’s secret songs, the weird type-writer in binaural, and the excellent gypsy-like instrumental in yield? (my favorite)

There is Danzig’s Mother ‘93 recored on track 93 on Thrall Demonsweat Live. After the last track you have to go through until you hit track 93 to hear the version of Mother re-recorded in 1993 from Danzig 1. They also did something similar on Danzig 4

talihina sky on kings of leon’s youth and young manhood

The one off of Yield is called Hummus.

“blood” off of my chemical romance’s THE BLACK PARADE……….really good…….

“To Kingdom Come” off of Coldplay’s X&Y. My favourite Coldplay song ever.

John Hiatt’s “Mile High” from Walk On is one of his best songs ever. That’s says alot from this master songwriter.

Counting Crows “Chelsea” is a nice change with piano & sax off their live 1st live CD disc 1

…but “Train In Vain” is my #1

Endless, Nameless, for sure

the blue flashing light from the man who by travis is very good and one of thier best. i would agree with train in vain by the clash and another wuld beborn to run off the madison square garden live disc by springsten

Studio version of “The Heckler” on Primus’ album ‘Anti-Pop’

Alanis Morissette–”Your House” (Jagged Little Pill)
NIN–”Physical”+”Suck” (Broken)
TOOL’s “Disgustipated” as well (AEnima)

YOUR HOUSE by Alanis Morissette is an amazing acapella song!! love it.

Prince “Wasted kisses” from 1998 album Newpower Soul – the best track there

A lot of good ones mentioned….
Song Eleven from Green, by R.E.M. also needs to get named.

Your House by Alanis shows her great vocals

Wooooooo!!! Your House by Alanis Morissette rocks.

Damone by the Deftones off of Around the Fur. That was awesome.

where is endless nameless, i have nevermind and havent heard it on my disc..then again i could be just an idiot…help

Is this Nirvana song only on older pressed cd’s? Because I got my copy probably 6 or 7 years ago and I couldn’t think of the hidden track on it. I just put it on and something in the way closes the cd for me.

“Running the World” – Jarvis Cocker from his Jarvis CD

“Horse” from Live’s Throwing Copper

“don’t drink and don’t have sex” by The Hudsons!

“Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues” from Todd Snider’s “Songs For The Daily Planet”

There are two hidden tracks on the new Coldplay album? The copy I bought doesn’t have any hidden tracks? Is it not on all copies? Do you have to buy it at a certain retailer?

The tracks arent really all that hidden if you go to wikipedia it says that they are the ones after yes and i think 42, its not like the traditional hidden tracks at end of album after minutes of silence

I don’t know the names but the two tracks at the end of Damien Rice’s “O” and the fake hidden track at the end of “9″

Yeah, Endless Nameless was only available on the first issue of Nevermind. I think on the newer releases it’s back on there.

I’d like to mention the hidden track on Tool’s Undertow. That totally caught me off guard when crickets starting chirping loudly. I didn’t know where it was coming from.

Two brilliant hidden Ciccone tracks from Madonna

Has to Be-Ray of Light
Fighting Spirit-Confessions on
a Dance Floor

Two gems of Detroit brilliance
-Rock on Madge!

The Nirvana hidden song was not on the original pressing because the company didn’t realize there was a hidden track. After that sporadic pressings did have it, but from what I understand it is much more common to find a copy without it. My brother’s copy in the 90s had it, but a copy I bought a few years ago did not.