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* "Show Me Your Spine" from ''[[RoboCop]]''. To quote [[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."

* In ''[[The Good Shepherd]]'', 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.

* And similarly, a techno song from ''The Replacements'' (no, not [[The Replacements|that football movie]]) called "Heart," played during the final huddle and line of scrimmage for about 15–20 seconds tops. Shown on the credits, absent from the soundtrack.

* "Sway" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" from ''[[Dark City]]''. Or at least the versions from the Director's Cut, with Jennifer Connelly singing. The theatrical cut has Anita Kelsey singing these songs - these were the versions that appeared in full on the soundtrack album.

* ''Pokémon Smash'' has an ending theme, "Endless Fighters", which is something its successor ''[[Pokémon Sunday]]'' lacked for a while. However, the reason Sunday stopped having an Ending theme was because the credits made very short and the announcer would talk over them, and that's exactly what happens to Endless Fighters.

* Most of Fat Segal's contributions to the ''[[Skins]]'' soundtrack suffer this. "Whitecap Widow" is an astonishing five minutes of music, but you wouldn't know it from the half dozen distinct chunks it gets sliced into during Emily's S4 episode. (And that's only if you can find the full song before it gets yanked off his Myspace page...)

 

 

 

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** The song "At Doom's Gate" is only played for the first map of the first episode, and it's a very short map. Ironically, this is perhaps the most recognizable song in the Doom soundtrack, though this may be a case of [[First Installment Wins]].

*** The IDMUS cheat lets you use any song in any level.

* ''[[Battlefield 3]]'' uses [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN9jdQFSc&ob=av3n God's Gonna Cut You Down] by Johnny Cash but only in a short trailer.

* Although most of the music from ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'s'' series of trailers, ''Meet the Team'', have been added to the actual game as menu music one-to-two updates after the trailer with the music has been released, the songs from ''Meet the Demoman, Meet the Engineer,'' and ''Meet the Sniper'' have yet to be added. Granted, the songs from ''Meet the Engineer'' and ''Meet the Sniper'' are copyrighted (With the song The Engineer plays on his guitar being a song by the band "Wilco" and The Sniper's theme being a remix of the title theme from ''[[Magnum Force]]''), explaining why they only appear in the trailers, ''Meet the Demoman's'' fast-paced, bagpipe vs. trumpet ending song is fully owned Valve, and Valve may be slow, but this song appeared in the second or third trailer and still hasn't showed up outside of ''Meet the Demoman'', while ''two'' songs from the most recent trailer, ''Meet the Spy'', were added as menu songs ''within a week'' of the trailer's ''unnofficial'' (Read: leaked) ''release''.

** In that same vein, hacking into the data files for ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]] 3'', revealed that the [[Getter Robo]] team had a ''second song'', the series' first ending "Gattai! Getter Robo", on the disk, but ended up having its first theme, "Getter Robo!" used ''again''.

 

* ''[[Maple Story]]'''s Evan Promo Video. Twenty seconds of pure awesomeness.

* In ''[[Ragnarok Online]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow6uQyPlXyg Retro Metro] only plays in one rather unpopular dungeon. That might not be too huge of a problem... but the fact that said dungeon ''was simply '''made inaccessible''' in a recent patch'' certainly is. At least you can always go to your BGM folder and listen to it whenever you want to.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' has an Irish jig which is one of the most fun pieces of music in the game. You can only hear it in two places: first, by picking the jig instruments during the concert partway through the game (which seems counterintuitive, as it's meant to be romantic); or second, by finishing the Shumi Village sidequest (in which case the music seems completely inaccurate to the setting). The track does not appear on the official soundtrack.

** Even worse is the terrible misuse of "The Legendary Beast", which only plays when Griever uses his ultimate attack, which theoretically happens after a certain point, but because by that point you're likely to be at [[Game Breaker]] status, you get to hear about 30 seconds from a brilliant piece of boss fight music, although the intro is at least synched to the attack so they're 30 really good seconds.

** If one were to listen to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr4eB0WOwN0 "The Oath"] prior to playing ''FFVIII'', they would surely come to the conclusion that such a great song would be used often during the game's awesome cutscenes. While it does appear in a couple good cutscenes, it seems to last no longer than several boxes of dialogue.

** A particularly [[Egregious]] case, since The Oath is the ''main characters'' theme.

* In ''[[Ys]] III'', "Theme of Chester" lasts 2 minutes before looping, but only plays in the short corridor leading to the Ruins boss. It got somewhat better use in the remake.

** The music that plays at the entrances of dungeons, "The Boy Who Had Wings," won't get a chance to play completely unless one waits outside (such as to regenerate HP), because dungeon entrances aren't very long sections and they contain no enemies. Like the above, it got significantly better use in the remake, in which it plays in any area outside of a dungeon or the town of Redmont. However, this demoted the old world map theme, "Prelude to Adventure," to Wasted Song status since it only plays if, for some reason, one decides to step outside of town before it's time to go to the first dungeon (though since a save point is located just outside of town, it isn't too hard to miss).

* ''[[Ys]] VII'' has three boss themes. One is played for normal bosses [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CLYKYqZJ0w here.] They are rather long fights, so we get to hear it a LOT. The Wasted Song is another boss theme that plays a grand total of four times in the game: {{spoiler|Adol's duel with Geis, Adol's coliseum match, the dragon knights in wind town, and the first fight with Scias}} Three of those fights {{spoiler|Geis, Scias, the Dragon Knights}} are likely over before the song loops once. It's called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVNH7wj8nyU&feature=related Crossing Rage.]

** Same with the other long rarely-used boss themes that only play during short battles, such as "A Great Ordeal" from ''Ys IV'', "Armored Bane" from ''Ys VI'', which only gets used once, and "Black Ark Unveiled", which is replaced by "The Depth Napishtim" after the short first phase.