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** The CD's storage capacity was underutilized, so they added a dummy track to fill the disc out, but instead of generating it the proper way, they simply used something (non-garbage) they already had that happened to be the correct size.

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* '''Justified''': The people who made ''Tropers'' wanted their fans to have a surprise when the album was finished.

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The people who made ''Tropers'' wanted their fans to have a surprise when the album was finished.


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** [[UsefulNotes/DigitalRightsManagement It's a data-track that tricks CD-ROM drives, due to reading discs from the inside out at start, into thinking that there is nothing else in order to make the music harder to rip]].
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** It's the end-of-Side-A message put in the lead-out groove to remind the listener to flip the record over to Side B and thus isn't counted as a proper track.

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* '''Exaggerated''': After the last track on ''Tropers: The Album'', there is 1 hour of dead silence, then [[EpicRocking a 15 minute song]] plays after that.

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After the last track on ''Tropers: The Album'', there is 1 hour of dead silence, then [[EpicRocking a 15 minute song]] plays after that.that.
** The unlisted song requires much more effort than usual to find. It could be [[Music/NineInchNails split into multitracks in the album files that must be put together by the listener]] or something else.



* '''Parodied''': After 1 hour of silence, it plays the album's sequels, ''Tropers II'' and ''Tropers III''.

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After 1 hour of silence, it plays the album's sequels, ''Tropers II'' and ''Tropers III''.III''.
** The hidden song is [[DenserAndWackier utterly ridiculous]] compared to the rest of the album.
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* '''Lampshaded''': The hidden track is about writing a hidden track. Or about [[ShapedLikeItself the track itself being a hidden track]].
* '''PlayedForHorror''': The listener is ambushed by a sudden [[JumpScare noise]] or [[ScareChord disturbing note]] that begins the track. The track could be [[NightmareFuel the most disturbing on the album]] or [[MoodWhiplash a fake-out]] to another song in the band's usual style.

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* '''Double Subverted''': However, if you turn the volume up really high, you can hear a song hidden within the silence.

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* '''Double Subverted''': However, if you turn the volume up really high, you can hear a song hidden within the silence.silence...


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* '''Zig Zagged''': ...But it's just the first song from the album. But, wait, the second verse changed!
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* '''Inverted''': The real last track begins right after the last track listed on the album.

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* '''Inverted''': The real last hidden track begins right after is at the last track listed on the album.beginning.
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'''Basic Trope''': There's another track on the album hidden within the album.
* '''Straight''': After the last track on ''Tropers: The Album'', there is 5 minutes of silence, then a track not listed on the album cover plays.
* '''Exaggerated''': After the last track on ''Tropers: The Album'', there is 1 hour of dead silence, then [[EpicRocking a 15 minute song]] plays after that.
* '''Downplayed''': After 1 minute of silence, a song plays after the end of ''Tropers: The Album''.
* '''Justified''': The people who made ''Tropers'' wanted their fans to have a surprise when the album was finished.
* '''Inverted''': The real last track begins right after the last track listed on the album.
* '''Subverted''': There's 5 minutes of silence at the end of the album, but no song after that.
* '''Double Subverted''': However, if you turn the volume up really high, you can hear a song hidden within the silence.
* '''Parodied''': After 1 hour of silence, it plays the album's sequels, ''Tropers II'' and ''Tropers III''.
* '''Averted''': The album ends after the last song.
* '''Enforced''': Troper Records has a rule saying that they shouldn't throw away anything they recorded, so they kept the song on the album and hid it.

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