This is a list of Compact Disc albums with tracks hidden in the pregap.
| Artist | Album | Release year | Name of track (if known) or remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Many DJs | As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 | 2003 | "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" remix. |
| 311 | Transistor | 1997 | "Transistor Intro" |
| A.C.T | Last Epic | 2003 | Hidden orchestral introduction. |
| Adventures in Stereo | Monomania | 2000 | — |
| The Adverts | Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts | 1978 | Two singles & B-sides. |
| AFI | Decemberunderground | 2006 | — |
| AFI | Very Proud of Ya | 1996 | "No Dave Party" |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed | Altered States of America "100-song 3" Mini-CD/10" | 2003 | "Wonder Drug Wonderland" (1:45). |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed | PCP Torpedo/ANbRX | 2006 | "Azido Phencyclidine Electrophoresis" on PCP Tornado and "Agoraphonic Nosecandy Mix" on ANbRX, which is a remix done by Submachine Drum. |
| Alcazar | Alcazarized | 2003 | "Dance With The DJ" (On the first edition of the album, released in Sweden.) |
| The Aliens | Astronomy For Dogs | 2007 | — |
| Anal Cunt | Morbid Florist | 1993 | "Hello, I Love You" cover |
| Arcturus | La Masquerade Infernale | 1997 | — |
| Armor for Sleep | What to Do When You Are Dead | 2005 | A hidden suicide note. |
| Art Brut | Bang Bang Rock & Roll | 2005 | "Subliminal Desire for Adventure" |
| Die Ärzte | 13 | 1998 | "Lady" in the pregap of "Punk ist..." |
| Die Ärzte | Geräusch | 2003 | "Hände innen" in the pregap of "Als ich den Punk erfand..." |
| Die Ärzte | Jazz ist anders (bonus EP) | 2007 | "Nimm es wie ein Mann" in the pregap of "Wir sind die Besten". |
| As Cities Burn | Hell or High Water | 2009 | "Aerial" |
| Ash | 1977 (early copies) | 1996 | 1. "Jack Names the Planets", 2. "Don't Know" |
| Autechre | EP7 | 1999 | — |
| Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch | Twin Peaks: Season 2 Music and More | 2007 | — |
| Bang Camaro | Bang Camaro | 2007 | — |
| Billy Bauer | Plectrist | 2000 | 1. "Lover Come Back To Me" (incomplete take 1), 2. "Lover Come Back To Me" (incomplete take 2) |
| Beastie Boys | Hello Nasty | 1998 | "El Rey y Yo" (not on all editions) |
| Ben Folds Five | Whatever and Ever Amen | 1997 | Message by Ben Folds about Ben Folds (only on re-masters) |
| Tab Benoit | What I Live For | 2006 | Interview with Tab Benoit. |
| Better Than Ezra | Friction, Baby | 1996 | — |
| Lewis Black | The Carnegie Hall Performance (disc 1) | 2006 | — |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow | Dandelion Gum | 2007 | HTOA: Chinese Witch Guy With an Axe, Unknown Track |
| Blind Melon | Soup | 1995 | "Hello Goodbye" |
| Blink-182 | Blink-182 | 2003 | "Stockholm Syndrome Dialog" (plays between tracks 4 & 5) |
| Bloc Party | Silent Alarm | 2005 | "Every Time Is The Last Time" |
| Blood Duster | D.F.F. (EP) | 2002 | 1. "TheSpiritOfSoreThroatHasLongSinceDied", 2. "PainfullNoiseEntitled"Htabbaskcalb" |
| Blur | Think Tank | 2003 | "Me, White Noise" |
| The Boo Radleys | Kingsize | 1998 | "Tranquillo" |
| Brand New | The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 2006 | Overlapping phone messages. |
| British Sea Power | Open Season | 2005 | "How Will I Ever Find My Way Home?" (organ version) |
| Chuck Brodsky | Letters In the Dirt | 1996 | "Chuck's Here" |
| James Brown | Live at the Apollo, Volume II (Deluxe Edition) | 2003 | Radio DJ (and concert MC) Frankie Crocker talks to the crowd with a comedian for about four minutes before the show begins (not present in all editions). |
| Calexico | Feast Of Wire | 2003 | — |
| Camouflage | Sensor | 2003 | "Sensor Intro" (0:35) |
| Camouflage | Relocated | 2006 | "Relocated Intro" (1:21) – based on track "Bitter Taste" with words "I've got a name for you… Relocated" |
| Cavity | Somewhere Between the Train Station and the Dumping Grounds | 1997 | "Full live set" |
| Cheap Trick | Cheap Trick (a.k.a. Red Ant) | 1997 | Original 1997 pressing features montage of studio outtakes and rough versions of songs from the album. |
| Clearlake | Cedars | 2003 | "Sounds Of Clearlake", 9 minutes of music/sound clips. |
| M. J. Cole | Sincere | 2000 | Silence. |
| The Conspiracy | Too Far Gone | 1995 | "Fist Fulla Ninja" |
| Cool Hand Luke (band) | Wake Up, O Sleeper | 2003 | — |
| Course of Empire | Initiation | 1994 | "Running Man" |
| Criteria | En Garde | 2003 | Song by Team Rigge. |
| The Czars | The Ugly People Vs. the Beautiful People | 2001 | "Top Breed" |
| Damien Rice | 9 | 2006 | A demo version of the first song "9 Crimes" with all vocals sung by Damien Rice. |
| Dashboard Confessional | Dusk and Summer | 2006 | 1. "Write It Out", 2. "Vindicated" |
| Darkane | Demonic Art | 2008 | Jazzy version of "Chaos Vs. Order" (US Edition) |
| Dead Weather | Sea of Cowards | 2010 | 35-second instrumental track |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra | The Butcher's Ballroom | 2006 | — |
| Diamond Rio | IV | 1996 | Various earlier hits mixed with sound effects. |
| Dog Fashion Disco | Committed to a Bright Future | 2003 | "Grease" cover. |
| Jerry Douglas | Glide | 2008 | — |
| Dream Theater | Octavarium | 2005 | Several tracks. |
| Electric Light Orchestra | Face the Music | 1975 | 34 second reversed clip of "Fire On High" |
| Endstille | Verführer | 2009 | — |
| Evanescence | Origin | 2000 | A humorous outtake from the song "Anywhere" |
| Fair to Midland | Fables from a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True | 2007 | "Tibet" |
| Fall Out Boy | Folie à Deux | 2008 | "Lullabye" |
| Film School | Hideout | 2007 | — |
| Five Iron Frenzy | All the Hype That Money Can Buy | 2000 | "What's Up?" (0:03) |
| Béla Fleck and the Flecktones | Little Worlds | 2003 | New York Yankees outfielder Bernie Williams and David St. Hubbins of Spinal Tap, stuck in traffic and flipping through different radio stations. The songs they hear are songs from the album played in different styles and on different instruments. |
| David Ford | I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I've Caused | 2005 | "This Is Not Desire" |
| Flyleaf | Memento Mori | 2009 | "Uncle Bobby" |
| Freddy Jones Band | North Ave. Wake-Up Call | 1995 | "Play Guitar" |
| F.F.F. (Fédération française de funk) | FFF | 1996 | — |
| Frenzal Rhomb | Shut Your Mouth | 2000 | "Baby Won't You Hold Me In Your Arm" |
| The Gathering | Black Light District | 2002 | "Over You" |
| The Gathering | Souvenirs | 2003 | "Telson" |
| Goldie Lookin Chain | Safe as Fuck | 2005 | "Bedsit" |
| Goldie Lookin Chain | Greatest Hits | 2004 | "Holiday" |
| David Gray | White Ladder | 1998 | "I Can't Get Through To Myself" |
| Luke Haines | Das Capital | 2003 | "overture" |
| Harvey Milk | The Kelly Sessions | 2004 | "My Broken Heart Will Never Mend" (appears first on the album's track listing, but not described as a hidden track, thus resulting in much subsequent confusion) |
| Hayden | Skyscraper National Park | 2001 | "Mingus" (only present on the Canadian version) |
| Head of Femur | Ringodom or Proctor | 2003 | Consists of glockenspiel and soft voice. |
| Hilltop Hoods | Left Foot, Right Foot | 2001 | "Afternoon Group Session" |
| Hilltop Hoods | The Calling | 2003 | "Stay The Fuck Away Because I Spilt When I'm Talking" |
| Hilltop Hoods | The Hard Road | 2006 | Untitled hidden track (known as "Ya Feel Big?") |
| HK119 | HK119 | 2006 | "11th ID" (a cappella track added to the album as part of a remix competition) |
| Hoggboy | Or 8? | 2002 | Instrumental. |
| Holy Molar | The Whole Tooth and Nothing but the Tooth (CD 2) | 2003 | "Untitled" |
| Hoodoo Gurus | Blue Cave | 1996 | — |
| Hot Club de Paris | Drop It 'Til It Pops | 2006 | "Welcome to the Hot Club de Paris" (a capella) |
| Hybrid | Morning Sci-Fi | 2003 | "Lights go down Knives come out" |
| Hybrid | I Choose Noise | 2006 | "Everything is Brand New" |
| I Am Kloot | I Am Kloot | 2003 | "Deep Blue Sea" |
| I Monster | Neveroddoreven | 2003 | "Cells" |
| Immortal Technique | The 3rd World | 2008 | "Apocalypse [Remix] featuring Akir & Pharoahe Monch" |
| In Strict Confidence | Mistrust The Angels | 2002 | "Les Miroirs" |
| Jebediah | Of Someday Shambles | 1999 | "Big Beer Wall" |
| Kamelot | The Black Halo | 2005 | — |
| Kane | As Long as You Want This | 2000 | The orchestral track from "Damn Those Eyes". |
| Lucy Kaplansky | Flesh and Bone | 1996 | "I've Just Seen A Face" cover |
| Kenji Ito | SaGa Frontier 1 | 1999 | Original Soundtrack, Disc 3: "Coon's Theme" |
| Kid Carpet | Ideas and Oh Dears | 2005 | "Message 1" |
| Kinobe | Wide Open | 2004 | Instrumental. |
| Korn | See You On The Other Side | 2005 | Hidden "Twisted Transistor" intro. |
| KULT | Poligono Industrial | 2005 | "Kasta Pianistów" |
| Lamb | Fear of Fours | 1999 | "Lullaby" (instrumental) |
| Lamb | Best Kept Secrets: The Best of Lamb 1996–2004 | 2004 | "Wonder" (instrumental) |
| Larrikin Love | The Freedom Spark | 2006 | "It Explodes" |
| Lemon Jelly | '64–'95 | 2005 | "Don Edoardo '64" |
| Less Than Jake | Losing Streak | 1996 | "Yom Kippur", banter spoken by former band mascot "Howie J. Reynolds", an elderly Gainesville local. |
| Lit | A Place in the Sun | 1999 | — |
| Lisa Loeb | Cake and Pie | 2002 | — |
| Los Piojos | "3er arco | 1996 | "Verano del 92" |
| Ludo | You're Awful, I Love You | 2008 | "Goodbye Bear" |
| Mae | Singularity | 2007 | "Last Transmission: Part I" |
| Maxwell | Embrya | 1998 | Gestation: Mythos with various voices and watery sound effects |
| Mayday | Old Blood | 2002 | 1. "Domes/Doma/Dominarum Arcana/Döm", 2. "Rebirthing" |
| Mayhem | Grand Declaration of War | 2000 | "Completion in Science of Agony (Part II of II – Backwards Version)" |
| McFly | Room on the 3rd Floor | 2004 | "Get Over You" |
| The Meligrove Band | Stars & Guitars | 2000 | A song about trucks and nonsense. |
| Melt-Banana | Charlie | 1998 | "Neat Neat Neat" (Originally by The Damned) |
| Mew | Half the World Is Watching Me | 2000 | "Ending" (Only included on some versions) |
| Kylie Minogue | Light Years | 2000 | "Password" |
| Miocene | Cellular Memory (EP) | 2002 | Instrumental jam. |
| Moneen | The Red Tree | 2006 | — |
| Mono Puff | It's Fun to Steal | 1998 | — |
| Jim Moray | Sweet England | 2003 | "After The Fire" |
| Morbid Angel | Entangled in Chaos | 1996 | Static / interference style noises. |
| Motorpsycho | Blissard | 1996 | — |
| Ms. Dynamite | A Little Deeper | 2002 | "Get Up, Stand Up" |
| Muse | Hullabaloo Soundtrack (CD2) | 2002 | "What's He Building", a poem read by Tom Waits. |
| The Music | The Music (Limited Edition CD) | 2002 | "New Instrumental" |
| The Never | Antarctica | 2006 | Only confirmed on a promotional version of the CD. |
| Nine Inch Nails | The Fragile (CD2) | 1999 | "Ten Miles High" |
| Nobuo Uematsu | Final Fantasy VII Reunion Tracks | 1997 | Karaoke version of "One-Winged Angel" (orchestra version). |
| Norma Jean | O God, the Aftermath (Deluxe Edition) | 2005 | Instrumental jam. |
| Ocean Bottom Nightmare | We Are Serious (EP) | 2009 | "The Town Meeting" |
| Oceansize | Everyone into Position | 2005 | "Emp(irical)error" |
| The Offspring | Americana | 1998 | "Pretty Fly (Reprise)" (some versions) |
| Will Oldham | Guarapero/Lost Blues 2 | 2000 | "Apocolypse, No ! (alternate version)" |
| Osdorp Posse | Geendagsvlieg | 1997 | "Sleur" |
| Ott | Blumenkraft | 2003 | — |
| Out of Eden | This Is Your Life | 2002 | DJ Maj discussing the album with group member Lisa Kimmey (1:20). |
| Pennywise | Unknown Road | 1993 | "Slowdown" |
| Gilles Peterson | INCredible Sound Of Gilles Peterson | 1999 | Earl Zinger - "Another Saturday Morning Rush" |
| Pierrot | Heaven: The Customized Landscape | 2002 | "Paradox" |
| Pillar | Where Do We Go from Here | 2004 | "Aftershock" (repeated instrumental guitar/bass riff exhibiting the skills of then-new drummer Lester Estelle) |
| Jack Planck | To Hell With You I'll Make My Own People | 2003 | "Fuck You" |
| Protest the Hero | Fortress | 2008 | — |
| Public Enemy | Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age | 1994 | "Ferocious Soul" (Drum track with Chuck D ranting about the state of Hip-Hop and the impending negative criticism the album is going to receive - which, coincidentally, it did) |
| Pulp | This Is Hardcore | 1998 | Cymbal. |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Songs for the Deaf | 2002 | The Real Song For The Deaf |
| R.E.M. | Murmur | 1983 | 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition – bonus disc (vintage radio promo for the album's original 1983 release) |
| R.E.M. | Reckoning | 1984 | 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition – bonus disc (vintage radio promo for the album's original 1984 release) |
| Rammstein | Live Aus Berlin | 1999 | Audience cheering. |
| Rammstein | Reise, Reise | 2004 | Fragment of the flight recorder of the Japanese Boeing 747 disaster. |
| The Red Shore | Salvaging What's Left | 2006 | — |
| Regular Fries | - War On Plastic Plants | 2000 | "War On Plastic Plants" |
| Relient K | Mmhmm | 2004 | "Mmhmm" |
| Relient K | Forget and Not Slow Down | 2009 | Matt Thiessen's father sings a line from "Sahara" |
| Resin Dogs | Grand Theft Audio | 2000 | — |
| Damien Rice | 9 | 2006 | "9 Crimes" (demo) |
| Carina Round | Slow Motion Addict | 2007 | "Same Girlfriend" |
| Sanctifica | Negative B | 2002 | 9min 20sec of hidden content (band members talking?) |
| Sarah Masen | The Dreamlife of Angels | 2001 | "Longing Unknown" |
| Satyricon | Rebel Extravaganza | 1999 | "Untitled" |
| Shaver | Highway of Life | 1996 | "Mother Trucker" |
| Sister Machine Gun | Burn | 1995 | "Strange Days" (A cover of The Doors song) |
| Skunk Anansie | Stoosh | 1996 | — |
| Slipknot | Slipknot | 1999 | (Eeyore) |
| Sly and Robbie | Late Night Tales: Sly & Robbie | 2003 | La Isla Bonita Cover by Sly & Robbie of Madonna track |
| Jimmy Smith | Root Down | 2000 | Band and audience banter before the first song including Jimmy Smith telling the audience to be quiet. |
| SNFU | FYULABA | 1996 | The sound of arguing before the first track between a band and an owner of a night club who accuses the band of trashing the dressing room. It is unclear if the band is actually SNFU or not. |
| Son of Dork | Welcome to Loserville | 2005 | "Eddie's Song (choral)" & "Welcome To Loserville (choral)" |
| Soulwax | Leave the Story Untold | 1996 | — |
| Soulwax | Much Against Everyone's Advice | 2000 | — |
| Soulwax | Any Minute Now | 2004 | Untitled; a similar (but not exactly the same) version appears regularly on Nite Versions as track 7, named I Love Techno; |
| Soulwax | Nite Versions | 2005 | Untitled 51 second instrumental, borrowing the guitar riff from E Talking; |
| Soulwax | Most of the Remixes | 2007 | Einstürzende Neubauten: Stella Maris (Soulwax Remix). |
| Staind | Dysfunction | 1999 | "Excess Baggage" (On some versions of the CD this track is within the pregap, others it starts 16:20 into the last track. This song is also sometimes mistakenly called "Black Rain".) |
| Super Furry Animals | Guerrilla | 1999 | "Citizen's Band" |
| Super Furry Animals | Out Spaced | 1998 | "Spaced Out" |
| Tait | Empty | 2001 | Various random recordings. |
| Télépopmusik | Angel Milk | 2005 | Spoken word intro. |
| Terrorust | Post Mortal Archives | 2008 | Static / interference style noises. Found on original release of 1000 copies. |
| They Might Be Giants | Factory Showroom | 1996 | "Token Back to Brooklyn" |
| tobyMac | Welcome to Diverse City | 2004 | The "real" intro to the track Burn For You and some (fake) messages from Toby's cell phone. |
| Total Eclipse | Access Denied | 1999 | "Cornered" |
| Tripping Daisy | Time Capsule (EP) | 1997 | "Disgruntled Customer" |
| Tryo | Grain De Sable | 2003 | Talk and joking. |
| UNKLE | Psyence Fiction | 1998 | "Intro (Optional)" (Uncredited intro featuring an audio collage of some of DJ Shadow's and James Lavelle's musical influences). This hidden audio is not on the US pressing, but can be found on UK and Japanese pressings. May be available on other pressings around the world. |
| UNKLE | Never, Never, Land | 2003 | Only on some versions. |
| Farin Urlaub | Am Ende der Sonne | 2005 | "Noch einmal" |
| Various Artists | Twisted Willie: A Tribute To Willie Nelson | 1996 | Conversation with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings |
| Various Artists | Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by the X-Files) | 1996 | 1. "Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum (Dread the Passage of Jesus, For He Will Not Return)" by Nick Cave and the Dirty Three, 2. The X-Files theme by the Dirty Three |
| Vitalic | OK Cowboy | 2005 | "One Million Dollar Studio" |
| The Wannadies | Bagsy Me | 1997 | Demo versions of both "Silent People" and "Bumble Bee Boy" (one track in left channel and the other in the right). |
| Simon Webbe | Sanctuary | 2004 | "Pusherman" |
| The Wedding | Polarity | 2007 | Outtakes from "Southside" |
| Kanye West | Graduation | 2007 | Goodnight |
| When | The Lobster Boys | 2001 | — |
| Whiskeytown | Rural Free Delivery | 1997 | "Nervous Breakdown" (longer mix) |
| Whysall Lane | Whysall Lane | 2006 | "Little Moon" |
| Winds | Reflections of the I | 2002 | — |
| Wintersleep | Untitled | 2005 | "Spring" |
| The Wombats | The Wombats Proudly Present: A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation | 2007 | Talk and drinking. |
| XTC | Coat of Many Cupboards | 2002 | Disc 2 – Wanking Man, Disc 3 – "The Shaving Brush Boogie" |
| ZOX | The Wait | 2005 | "Vampire" |