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There would sometimes be hidden songs in the pregap between tracks too. That meant you had to hold the rewind button at the beginning of a song to hear it. Sometimes it was hidden behind track 1.
The only CD I remember having that did this was Factory Showroom by They Might Be Giants but apparently it happened a lot.
The most interesting hidden thing I've seen albums do is sometimes have computer programs. The Christian rock band Prodigal put audio on a hidden groove on their album Electric Eye. If you recorded that onto a cassette and loaded it into a commodore 64, it would display quotes from Einstein and Jesus.
The game CD for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night had a hidden track you could only hear by popping it into an audio CD player
There were a bunch of
musicians putting Spectrum games on albums in the 80s. https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/jul/07/video-games-on-vinyl-flexi-discs-zx-spectrum