The Album Filler A List...!
 

I'm gonna start something here,now maybe it's been done but anyhow how bout a listing of great album filler but you can only list one song per artist and the LP from which the song is taken..here goes-Born To Love You[Temptin Temptations]-When I'm With You[It All Comes Out In My Song-Jerry Butler]-Spring Again[Unmistakeable Lou-Lou Rawls]-I Cried All The Way Home[Dramatics Jackpot]-I Can't Turn Around[The Marvelettes-Pink Album]-Mr.Heartbreak[Dionne]-I Can't Find[Essar-Smokey]-Batucada Suite[Emerald City-Teena Marie]-Little Boy Blue[Never Ending Impressions-The Impressions].

I'm confused.

Doesn't "filler" mean that it's very much not great?

Hence the name. Yeah.

So the concept of this thread is... what? Makes Frownland's "I'm reviewing Key's pictures of insults about my music sent to the future from Key's copy of my account" thread easy to comprehend.

I think I'm supposed to post a bunch of filler tracks, for some reason. And it's somehow supposed to be a great list, even though it's made up of stuff that will guarantee the list to not be great. Quite a challenge!

I don't even remember fillers let alone remember which albums have them.

I think "filler" is a concept made up by people too impatient to go beyond the singles.

Or for artists to increase their track listing. Either way, I always skip over filler tracks.

All of this.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/45467-Pink-Floyd

Nah it's a dying but real concept. It comes from early physical releases before "the album experience" really took hold. A lot of pop artists would record some singles and in order to put it out on an album for more revenue, they would record a few bull****ty tracks to fill out the rest of the record.

It definitely exists and is pervasive within the discographies of even good bands. Not every song's a winner. It's true though that the label gets occasionally misapplied to songs someone just doesn't like.

Weak bait, but I'll take it. Floyd have quite a bit of filler especially during the latter half of their career, and even on their best albums. Seamus from Meddle, for instance, is pointless. Same goes for If on AHM. Both Waters tracks, funnily enough.

Shoulda chosen Bowie tbh. Floyd might bore you or whatever but their albums are well-constructed.

I like Bowie songs. I do not like Floyd songs almost entirely.

Bit of a case in point right there.

There are several artists with expansive discographies where I like almost every single track they've made, so I wouldn't use the word "pervasive". But it depends on the artist, of course.

Flirting with butthurt, bruh.

Yeah but you have no standards.

"Song" is not a dirty word, or am I just from another planet, musically speaking? 99% of the music I love the most could be described as "songs".

I prefer to consider everyone else narrow minded bores that won't give anything a second chance.

My point was that saying that you like Bowie's songs as opposed to his albums is a testament to the fact that his albums are so overloaded with filler.

Ok then.

I'm not into Bowie enough to have much of on opinion on that. Though I did listen to all of his albums last year.

That's an interesting point. On the flipside I think Floyd albums are more memorable for being, well, albums because of how they're assembled. They're AOR in the most absolute technical sense of the term.

I hate to burst your little bubbles kiddies,but not all[filler]is crap,alot of it is pretty good,some very good but not every song gets chosen as a single so there you have it.

The best thing about Pink Floyd is that their music doesn't actively annoy me all that much.

Hate to burst your little bubble, but filler =/= b-side

Ziggy Stardust isn't even that good.

album filler a list
 

It's cool,this post was intended for folks who actually own albums and listen to them.

If I'm listening to filler my first instinct is not to talk about how it's good filler. I just tune out until a better song comes on.

And people who have a very idiosyncratic definition of "filler".

I think everyone on the forum except K-Addict lives up to the first requirement.

Fairly related to the subject and discussions of this thread, here's a few artists whose discographies consist entirely or almost entirely of albums with no skip worthy songs:

Neko Case
Suzanne Vega
Tori Amos
Dir En Grey
Judie Tzuke <3
Barbara Morgenstern
Megadeth
Alela Diane
Arkona
bla bla bla so on and so forth

Actually, **** it. It would be easier to just list those artists I like a lot who have a tendency to miss the mark now and then. All of these have some awful songs to their name:

Waltari
Depeche Mode
Helloween
Bowie
Queen (big time... I suspect they've got more crap than gold)

lol Megadeth absolutely not.

My list of Megadeth songs that I ever bother to skip is very very short. I find most of their albums play well from start to finish. A notable exception is United Abominations.

Filler, by definition, is boring and trite. What do you want me to do, talk about the least ****ty songs of the ****ty songs I know?

On the other hand, my thread is similar but is far cooler and probably has a bigger penis.

I always forget that album exists. Not purposely either.

I don't know if the OP understands the concept of filler. I think he/she's coming from the concepts of singles and confusing filler with the term deep cuts. Deep cuts can mean fantastic songs that weren't singles, filler usually means just mediocre songs used to fill up space for an album.

And people who don't know what b-sides are, apparently.

^Truth

That's what Frown's been saying. Deep cuts and b-sides =/= filler.

I think the first half is fun, but then I fall asleep when we get past the first 5 tracks or so.

But I'm kinder to their discography than most people. I'm aware of that. After all, I'm the guy who likes everything about Super Collider apart from the title track.

Nah the whole album is filler. Even the best songs are just kinda good filler. Basically Megadeth's entire new millenium career.

That's another really irritating weasel-word I think gets applied to bad/boring songs people don't want to admit are bad/boring. Not saying you're doing so here though, I don't even remember what UA sounds like.

Pretty much how I feel as well, if the rest of the album matched the greatness of the first half it would be one of their best post-90's albums. Never Walk Alone is one of my favorite 2000's Megadeth songs.

This song is awesome and I will not back down on that!

MEGADETH - Never Walk Alone... A Call To Arms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn1p-U3j9Jo