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 a 15 minute song plays after that.
- The unlisted song requires much more effort than usual to find. It could be split into multitracks in the album files that must be put together by the listener or something else.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Inverted: The hidden track is at the beginning.
- 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.
- The hidden song is utterly ridiculous compared to the rest of the album.
- See Lampshaded.
- Zig Zagged: ...But it's just the first song from the album. But, wait, the second verse changed!
- 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.
- Lampshaded: The hidden track is about writing a hidden track. Or about the track itself being a hidden track.
- Played for Horror: The listener is ambushed by a sudden noise or disturbing note that begins the track. The track could be the most disturbing on the album or a fake-out to another song in the band's usual style.
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