Basic Trope: An opener to a song, preferably one of considerable length, that is particularly notable, or a song that fades perfectly into the other.
- Straight: The first track on an album by The Alice and Bob Project, a Progressive Rock band, is an instrumental, that fades into the first performance on the album.
- Exaggerated: The first track is an eleven-minute-long raging, metallic instrumental, that devolves into the second track, a 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 Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness than the rest of the song.
- The intro contains spoken words throughout it.
- Justified
- The opener is part of a 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
- Lyrical Cold Open
- 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 Step Up to the Microphone and sing for a little 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.
- Enforced: "We have some space left on the record, so why not put something there in it's place?"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- 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.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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