Occasionally, purchased CDs contain more music than what you originally think. CDs may contain hidden, or secret, tracks. Mostly done on purpose (though some may have been added to CDs accidentally), these tracks may contain a minute or more of instrumental music, musician jams, jokes, or something else.

Hidden songs may occur on separate tracks not listed (for example, a CD may list 12 tracks, but if you skip to track 43, a secret song is revealed), or a song on the CD may have four minutes of silence at the end. While most listeners would switch CDs by then, after the silence an unlisted song may play.

A couple of examples:

* Play the Phil Collins CD "Face Value" to the end and hear him singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".

* Jump to track 13 of Alanis Morisette's "Jagged Little Pill" for an alternate version of "You Oughta Know". Wait through the silence to hear another hidden song.

HiddenSongs.com lists many of these hidden tracks. Either browse by artist name or search for your favorite artist. If you've found a hidden song not listed, there's a form you can submit to add the information.

HiddenSongs.com - http://www.hiddensongs.com/

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