History Main / LongSongShortScene

** The full version of the "Throne Room" music from the final scene of ''Film/ANewHope'' runs twice as long (before segueing to the CreditsMedley), including a quiet repetition of the minor-key Force theme. It can be heard in the symphonic suite.

** For the first 15 or so episodes, whenever Yusei started to get serious in duels, a ''very'' different version of "Yusei Battle" begins playing. Neither version of the Sound Duel [=CDs=] have this version of the track on them. In the end it never made it onto any official soundtracks, although [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hptiMs9f_dw a fan-made version was made to copy it exactly.]]

** A somewhat longer version of the "Throne Room" music from the final scene of ''Film/ANewHope'', including a quiet repetition of the minor-key Force theme, can be heard in the symphonic suite.

* The educational short film ''[[https://youtu.be/_vx3QeKecxU?si=SZsx33nYeidG4-By?t=11m3s A Day in the Life of A Two Dollar Bill]] plays a circus production tune called "[[https://youtu.be/YO0-v3avXG8?feature=shared Entry of the Artists]]" when the main characters visit a toy shop, which is 3 minutes long in full, but in-film, the song fades out before the bridge section can be heard. The other two production music pieces, "[[https://youtu.be/l-HBpDhmJRk?feature=shared Holiday For Girls]]" and "The Princess", are also heavily cut down.

* The educational short film ''[[https://youtu.be/_vx3QeKecxU?si=SZsx33nYeidG4-By?t=11m3s A Day in the Life of A Two Dollar Bill]] plays a circus production tune called "[[https://youtu.be/YO0-v3avXG8?feature=shared Entry of the Artists]]" when the main characters visit a toy shop, which is 3 minutes long in full, but in-film, the song fades out before the bridge section can be heard. The other two production music pieces, "Holiday For Girls" and "The Princess", are also heavily cut down.

* Music/{{Disturbed}} recorded "This Moment" as a straight-forward fight song with the intention of putting it in a film. They chose ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', who played it for a few seconds, then later during the end credits, and not during the fight scene the band was probably hoping for.

** For the first 15 or so episodes, whenever Yusei started to get serious in duels, a ''very'' different version of "Yusei Battle" begins playing. Neither version of the Sound Duel [=CDs=] have this version of the track on them. Although there's a chance that the third one will have it.

** The Special Edition victory music at the end of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. Not even named or featured on the soundtrack, it can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGhlumAtAGc&feature=fvw here]], though it was clearly ripped from the movie (credit riff kicks in at the end).

** The ''Ride/HauntedMansion'' at Disney World has a piano version of its "Grim, Grinning Ghosts" theme tune that is barely audible due to weak speakers playing it, the standard organ-dirge version of the song playing nearby, and the "Ghost Host" narrating loudly all through the piano room scene.
** The queue/"area" music for any ride that either has a very short wait or which one uses FastPass to skip the lines for becomes Wasted Music. Some of it is very good, but will only be heard briefly. Sometimes even the long normal line provides little help in hearing it, as the speakers may be placed poorly and leave it inaudible from certain points in the queue. Only a handful of tunes are available on park [=CDs=], and many have never been released, even on the "Forever" CD kiosks that allowed people to take home an impressive amount of park music.

* The swingy tune that plays at the end of Creator/DingoPictures' ''Animation/DinosaurAdventure'', and is often associated with the [[MemeticMutation "Yee" meme]], is just the beginning of a much longer piece titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXsuQxaAHSI "Hallo+Guten Morgen"]], licensed from the German stock music company Bluevalley.

* Blue Amazon's "Paradise Regime", on both the CD and vinyl versions of ''The Javelin''(1997), was cut down to just its 2 1/2 minute ambient intro. The full 12-minute trance track wouldn't be released to the public until 2020.

* ''Film/TheMuppets'' has extended versions of "Rainbow Connection" (both the Muppets' and the Moopets' versions), "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Forget You", "Mah Na Mah Na", "Me Party", and "Let's Talk About Me" included on its soundtrack. The longer "Let's Talk About Me", in particular, goes into more detail about Tex Richman's StartOfDarkness. The whole song was filmed and included on the Blu-Ray as a bonus feature.

* The opening theme for Series/WhiteRabbitProject clocks in at 40 seconds on the show. However, the full song is actually three minutes long, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXucKo74lnI and can be listened in full on Youtube]].

** "Solitude in E Minor" in "Naughty Nautical Neighbors" is an actual stock song by Richard Myhill called "Wishful Thinking"; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ba-qNzSAJQ&ab_channel=MonsieurCommandoMan the entire track]] goes on for a minute, compared to the literal two notes heard in the scene where it plays.

* ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' has during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt10-aczf_U the scene where the Kurgan is recklessly driving through New York]] a version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpaiMNC3MVw "Theme from New York, New York"]] by PopStarComposer Music/{{Queen}}. That isn't available anywhere else, and the film doesn't even play the full song. According to the movie commentary track, Freddie Mercury absolutely hated the song, and the director had to force him to sing that bit, so it's quite likely that there never was a full version recorded to begin with.
* Hans Zimmer felt this way about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiYQF3Rh0rw the short cue underscoring the parasail scene]] as Jack and Elizabeth escape the Flying Dutchman towards the end of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd''. The composer lamented the fact that he'd used up such an amazing melody on a single scene. It didn't appear on the official soundtrack release, though a subtly-altered version is part of the "Marry Me" suite from the four-disc collector's edition release of all three soundtracks (meaning fans would likely have to re-purchase three OSTs they already owned just to get hold of the bonus disc of new material).

** Squidward's interpretive dance in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E10CultureShockFUN "Culture Shock"]] is scored by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKfea6GonQ "In House Jazz"]] by Laszlo Bencker. The song's full length is 3:32, yet in the episode, it only plays for roughly 30 seconds.

* The full version of ''[[Music/PinkFloyd Pink Floyds]]'' ''What Shall We Do Now?'' as heard in the movie version of ''Music/TheWall''. It was cut down to save space on the actual album and ended up mixed into its SiameseTwinSong ''Empty Spaces'', which here leads directly into ''Young Lust''. Even to this day, no official home release of the full song has ever been made.
* "Press Play" by Music/StoneTemplePilots was originally released as a one and a half minute instrumental AlbumIntroTrack for ''Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop'' - a later vinyl pressing of the album used a four minute version, because that was how it was recorded on the original master tape. However, the extended version just repeats itself a few times, with no sections not already heard in the short version- chances are they didn't originally intend to release the long version and just recorded it that way so they could decide when to start fading out later on in production.

* "Show Me Your Spine" from ''Film/RoboCop1987''. To quote [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]], "In the Nightclub scene of the movie, the song by P.T.P was played. P.T.P was a short lived side project consisting of members of the band Ministry. However, this song was not available in any official form and could only be heard in the film. It was eventually released in 2004 on a compilation album called Side Trax by Ministry."

** Just about ''every'' track in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' seems to be considerably longer on the soundtracks than they are in the movies themselves, though mostly this just accounts for the track looping a lot more in the soundtrack-version. There is one clear example of this trope in the movies though; The song "Gods Gift" in 3.33, which in the movie pretty much skips the verse and jumps straight into the chorus.

* Several songs from ''Anime/CodeGeass'', mainly its sequel, qualify. Many tracks are only used once, and even if they are heard in their entirety, they are never heard again. The first season had numerous tracks that showed up regularly, with only a couple of unused ones on the OST. However, R2 is filled with tracks that are either heard once (or twice at most), such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJniLZSV4fA "Le Repos Du Guerrier"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Y9xeWP6Hk "Check Mate"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueQjSO1N61w "Siegfried"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-XqUew00Lw "Love is Justice"]], and some that didn't even get used ''at all'' such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_00HM6zxRg "Prodigy"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De5CYOaDJz8 "Dark Activity"]].

* The swingy tune that plays at the end of Creator/DingoPictures' ''Dinosaur Adventure'', and is often associated with the [[MemeticMutation "Yee" meme]], is just the beginning of a much longer piece titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXsuQxaAHSI "Hallo+Guten Morgen"]], licensed from the German stock music company Bluevalley.

* ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn'': "Jester," the Jester's song, has a full minute of content on the soundtrack version that is cut from the film version. The film version totally skips some segments of the song in which the Jester sings about his motivations.

* In ''Film/TheGoodShepherd'', there is an arrangement of "Oh Shenandoah". Of course, we only hear part of it, and in the background behind the dialogue. It is MIA on the soundtrack, and hours of aggressive searching on the internet have turned up fruitless.
* "Kabhi Kabhi Aditi" from ''Film/JaaneTuYaJaaneNa'' became extremely popular among UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} fans. However, some of these same fans were dismayed that its picturization pretty much just shows Aditi sulking and Jai following her around.

* ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' has during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt10-aczf_U the scene where the Kurgan is recklessly driving through New York]] a version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpaiMNC3MVw "Theme from New York, New York"]] by PopStarComposer Music/{{Queen}}. That isn't available anywhere else, and the film doesn't even play the full song. According to the movie commentary track, Freddie Mercury absolutely hated the song, and the director had to pretty much force him to sing that bit, so it's quite likely that there never was a full version recorded to begin with.

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' originally had a different theme song, performed by Hughes/Thrall, before being replaced with the now-famous Ray Parker Jr. song. The original song was only ever featured in a 1983 teaser trailer. There's also the music that plays for about 30 seconds over the scene where the containment grid is shut down and the ghosts escape - it's from the second half of "Magic" by Mick Smiley, a full length song with [[SongStyleShift two completely different halves]] - the full piece appeared on the soundtrack and even had a video made for it.

* ''Film/TheHobbit'' has "Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold". You liked the bit we heard in the trailers and the film? You went looking for the full piece on the soundtrack? Ha! Joke's on you. It doesn't exist. The lyrics do, of course, as it was adapted from the novel. But they never recorded it, leading to many many fan covers of the whole piece.

* The song playing in the background of the first half of the bar scene in ''Film/TheFly1986'', [[Music/RoxyMusic Bryan Ferry]]'s "Help Me", was originally commissioned by the producers to play under the film's end credits. While director Creator/DavidCronenberg liked it -- it's a SanitySlippageSong using the point of view of the DoomedProtagonist -- he knew that stylistically it clashed with Music/HowardShore's orchestral underscore too much to serve as an effective playout, and the producers came to agree with him, so it was cut down and demoted to a brief clip of SourceMusic on a bar's jukebox (albeit preserving the MythologyGag in the song's title); it does not appear on the soundtrack album at all. Nonetheless, it was released as a single in the United States and even received a VideoFullOfFilmClips. Its only CD release to date was as part of Ferry's 1988 GreatestHitsAlbum ''The Ultimate Collection''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQKZD4D3sTw "The Future" Frankie Kazarian's theme]] in the Wrestling/{{WWE}}. Totally awesome, right? Too bad [[Wrestling/FrankieKazarian Kaz]]'s WWE tenure lasted all of 4 weeks, all of which were spent on a BShow.
* WWE actually has an entire album series based around this called "WWE Uncaged", finally releasing the full versions of songs that might have only been used for a few weeks for one reason or another, and never in clear enough quality due to crowd and commentary noise.

* Ride/DisneyThemeParks have literally thousands of individual audio elements, many of them music that is heard all too briefly.

** The music when Luke finally goes after Vader after [[BerserkButton threatening to turn Leia]], "The Dark Side Beckons" ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Ynajjjzlw&t=02m10s On this video]]), was apparently not in the first soundtrack release. The 1997 release of the soundtrack includes all the music from the movie (except for the end music from the original theatrical release), including this cue. It is found in the track "The Battle of Endor II". It gets its glory in the game ''VideoGame/JediOutcast'', where it is used as the final battle's theme.