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** The intro is of normal length, but is still more up on the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness than the rest of the song.

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** The intro is of normal length, but is still more up on the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness MediaNotes/MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness than the rest of the song.
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** The intro is of normal length, but is still more up on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness than the rest of the song.

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** The intro is of normal length, but is still more up on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness than the rest of the song.
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* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???"We have some space left on the record, so why not [[AlbumFiller put something there in it's place?"]]



* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???The instrumental opener gives time for the rest of the band to do something else, or prepare for the second half of the song.
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* '''Lampshaded''': See Parodied.

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* '''Lampshaded''': See Parodied.???



* '''Defied''': See Subverted.
* '''Discussed''': "I'm going crazy with no talking!"

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* '''Defied''': See Subverted.
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* '''Discussed''': "I'm going crazy with no talking!"???
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* '''Lampshaded''': ???

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* '''Lampshaded''': ???See Parodied.



* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???

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* '''Defied''': ???
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* '''Discussed''': ???"I'm going crazy with no talking!"

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* '''Exaggerated''': The first track is an [[EpicRocking eleven-minute-long]] raging, metallic instrumental, that devolves into the second track, a [[MinusculeRocking thirty-second-long]] acoustic vocal performance that serves as its denouement, or coda.

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* '''Exaggerated''': The first track is an [[EpicRocking eleven-minute-long]] raging, metallic instrumental, that devolves into the second track, a [[MinusculeRocking [[MinisculeRocking thirty-second-long]] acoustic vocal performance that serves as its denouement, or coda.



** There is no band.

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** There is no band.band.
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* '''Downplayed''': The intro is of normal length, but is still more up on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness than the rest of the song.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed'''
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The intro is of normal length, but is still more up on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness than the rest of the song.song.
** The intro contains {{spoken word|InMusic}}s throughout it.



* '''Subverted''': The track, at first, appears to be instrumental, but then somebody will StepUpToTheMicrophone and sing for a little bit . . .

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* '''Subverted''': The track, at first, appears to be instrumental, but then somebody will StepUpToTheMicrophone and sing for a little bit . . .bit...
* '''Double Subverted''': ...only for those to turn out to be the only lyrics.
* '''Parodied''': The first song opens with the lyrics "Well, that got you pumped up, didn't it?"
* '''Zig-Zagged''': (continued from Double Subverted) The lyrics then turn out to be sporadic, but then after a 15-minute instrumental solo, the lyrics return. Then comes an anti-climactic sudden stop, only for there to still be quiet instrumentation beneath it. Then, the singer will say, "Goodbye!"
* '''Averted'''
** There are no instrumental openers.
** There are no instruments; the music is a capella.
** There is no band.
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'''Basic Trope''': An opener to a song, preferably one of [[EpicRocking considerable length,]] that is particularly notable, or a song that [[SiameseTwinSongs fades perfectly into the other.]]
* '''Straight''': The first track on an album by The Alice and Bob Project, a Music/ProgressiveRock band, is an instrumental, that fades into the first performance on the album.
* '''Exaggerated''': The first track is an [[EpicRocking eleven-minute-long]] raging, metallic instrumental, that devolves into the second track, a [[MinusculeRocking thirty-second-long]] acoustic vocal performance that serves as its denouement, or coda.
* '''Downplayed''': The intro is of normal length, but is still more up on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness than the rest of the song.
* '''Justified'''
** The opener is part of a [[EpicRocking side-long suite]]; if there's lyrics everywhere, it will draw on too long.
** The opener serves the purpose to pump the listeners up.
* '''Inverted'''
** LyricalColdOpen
** A minute-long vocal performance fades into a three-minute-long instrumental.
** The instrumental closes the album or song.
* '''Subverted''': The track, at first, appears to be instrumental, but then somebody will StepUpToTheMicrophone and sing for a little bit . . .

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