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The end of Abbey Road - the Beatles last album (Let it Be came out after, but was recorded before). They end with 'The End,' which is a nice (and appropriately titled) rocking McCartney bit that changes gears and ends on a pretty sappy note (lyrics : And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.)
They just couldn't end their studio career that way, though, so there's like 15 seconds of dead air at what you think is the end of the album, and then the unlisted track 'Her Majesty' comes in, a little twenty-second bit that's kind of funny ('I want to tell her that I love her a lot, but I gotta get a belly full of wine....Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, some day I'm gonna make her mine.')
This is pretty lost on the CD version, since that last track is actually listed. On the vinyl, you have no idea it's there until you go to pick up the needle, then, BAM! there's this extra little song you had no idea was coming.
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I had that album on vinyl and listened to it dozens of times. But I always took the needle off after The End. So I had no idea Your Majesty was on there for the first few years I had the LP.
But in general, I hate hidden tracks. It may have been cool when CDs first came out, but it was played out in 91 when Nirvana's Nevermind had a hidden track. It's certainly played out today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...a_hidden_track