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Nowadays, even the most obscure and minor works have [[Awesome Music|soundtracks of epic, Herculean proportions]]. Every event needs its own special song all to itself. However, sometimes people can get a little overzealous with the allocation of songs. Thus is born the Wasted Song--a good (and sometimes even amazing) tune that barely gets any screentime.
Maybe it's laid over a scene that's shorter than it is--or maybe the characters just won't stop talking over it. Maybe it only shows up in one out-of-the-way portion of the [[Bonus Level of Hell]], which is [[Nintendo Hard|almost impossible to reach]] for all but [[Hundred
That is, if the developers didn't shaft the song there, too. [[Big No|Noooooooooooooooooo!]]
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* [[Bill Bailey]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkhslOhxl_M laments in his stand-up routine] that the theme tune from the BBC's snooker coverage ("Drag Racer" by Doug Wood) never gets played in its entirety.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh1RIBRbR_8 Somebody tell Bill].
* In the ''[[
** Also in ''Doctor Who'', the original version of "Song For Ten" from "The Christmas Invasion" was never released.
*** "Evolution of the Daleks" was only put on the soundtrack in a slowed-down way, instead of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQHDUxEFkw&fmt=18 fast, hectic version] used in the show.
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* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'' is the worst offender of the series, by far. The game has plenty of awesome tunes, some of which are among the bests in the franchise. Unfortunately, the vast majority of them only appear once or twice, with VERY LITTLE screen time. Many players pass through the game without noticing most of them. It's a pity, considering it's the first entry in the series that features a full orchestra.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda Oracle Games (Video Game)|Oracle Of Seasons]]'' had a "Pirate ship un-beaching cutscene" music, which was a location music in ''Oracle Of Ages''. Conversely, the "pirate ship" location music of ''Seasons'' becomes a Wasted Song in ''Ages'', since you can only get into the pirate ship once in the entire game. The sad part is that they were almost the two coolest songs in the game. First is available [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQbl1d7qu60 here].
** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|Ocarina Of Time]]'' the warp songs have the relatively boring first section that you actually play, but they all have quite elegant second sections that most people miss because they're mashing the A button to warp as fast as possible. It's a shame, really.
*** Only the first section of the Fire Temple music (before it reaches the [[Ominous Latin Chanting|Ominous Arab Chanting]]) was included on the OST mainly thnanks to said chanting's sounding similar to Muslim prayers. And in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'', the ominous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag_MeTcSg_o Shadow Beast battle theme] was not on the OST either.
** What about the fanfare from ''[[The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening]]'' when you recover your sword? A quartet of arpeggios and a few harp notes, then a 4-bar [[Theme Music Power-Up]] letting the whole damn island know that Hyrule's resident ass kicker has truly arrived. Only played one more time in the game (when Marin joins your party), never again in the rest of the series, and most (if not all) renditions don't seem to know it exists.
*** For that matter, the music that plays after you leave Marin and Tarin's house for the first time is, if memory serves, not played anywhere else.
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*** And for that matter, many other songs are only played a few times in the whole game. The [[Leitmotif|character themes]] are among the best songs on the soundtrack, yet aren't even played more than once or twice. The SEBEC route [[Final Boss]] gets ''two'' themes, an intro BGM and pre-battle theme that are only played once and twice respectively. And the list goes on...
* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne]]'' has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bbAh7MI9Ss&feature=related "World Map -Real World-"], which only plays at the beginning of the game, when you're exploring Tokyo before it's transformed by The Conception.
* The original ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'' had a music list that was unlocked as the music pieces were found in the game. This, presumably, would have included the [[Crowning Music of Awesome|awesome final boss theme]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lB0b0fHbAY "Violent Storm"]...if the game had had a [[New Game
** The song actually can be unlocked in the game's [[Sound Test]], but it's a [[Guide Dang It]] of epic proportions: the shampoo magnus must be left to age for ''336 hours'', whereupon it turns into a different magnus and, for some reason, unlocks the songs from the final battles/cutscenes.
** Even worse than the final boss theme is the [[Post Final Boss]] theme, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3vUe3b4o_M&feature=related A Last Villainous Quip]. You'll probably hear Violent Storm all the way through, but this battle can be over in one turn if you know the trick.
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