Who hid Easter eggs on CD?

Let us answer your nagging rock’n’roll queries and shed light on musical mystery.

In our renewed love of vinyl we tend to forget the pleasant surprises of the digital age. On John Cale’s HoboSapiens there was an excellent hidden track if you rewound the CD beyond its starting point. Arcade Fire did something similar on Reflektor. On Kid A, Radiohead hid an additional booklet with artwork inside the tray itself. Are there any other examples of such Easter eggs for the initiated only? Sander Out, The Netherlands MOJO says: There were a lot of mystery tracks hidden on disc in the 1990s and ’00s. Novel rewind-the-CD “pre-gap” songs include Me, White Noise from Think Tank by hidden-track repeat offenders Blur, Arab Strap’s version of Ben Kenobi’s Theme on their Cherubs EP and Sly & Robbie’s cover of Madonna’s La Isla Bonita on their…

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MOJO (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2025

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