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* '''BawdySong''': Comedy songs can be great when done right. But some bawdy humor may get on one's nerves. Especially on an otherwise serious album. Even the lowest common denominator is bound to find a song about anal sex, turds, barfing or fucking a dog in the ass irritating after hearing it more than two times.
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* '''BawdySong''': Comedy songs can be great when done right. But some bawdy humor may get on one's nerves. Especially on an otherwise serious album. Even the lowest common denominator is bound to find a song about anal sex, turds, barfing or [[Music/Blink182 fucking a dog in the ass ass]] irritating after hearing it more than two times.
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* '''OdeToIntoxication''': A song recorded while being drunk or high msy be funny to those involved, but it is always embarrassing torture to listen to.
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* '''OdeToIntoxication''': A song recorded while being drunk or high msy may be funny to those involved, but it is always embarrassing torture to listen to.
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* '''Friends and family members''': Unless the friend or family members are really talented, having some friends, partners or family members StepUpToTheMicrophone to sing something is always a bad idea. There are better ways to impress your girlfriend than having her struggle through a song. Your little kid singing a song is cute from ypur perspective, but it has no redeeming value for us! When an artist sings an ode or a {{Homage}} to someone the audience doesn't know (an obscure early influence from their pub-singing years) it can backfire too, especially if you explicitly address them by their full name and talk about private issues. The average listener will have the idea that he is referring to some private interaction.
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* '''Friends and family members''': Unless the friend or family members are really talented, having some friends, partners or family members StepUpToTheMicrophone to sing something is always a bad idea. There are better ways to impress your girlfriend than having her struggle through a song. Your little kid singing a song is cute from ypur your perspective, but it has no redeeming value for us! When an artist sings an ode or a {{Homage}} to someone the audience doesn't know (an obscure early influence from their pub-singing years) it can backfire too, especially if you explicitly address them by their full name and talk about private issues. The average listener will have the idea that he is referring to some private interaction.
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** Several episodes of ''Trainwreckords'' comment on how prominent this trope became from the 1990's onward, with several featured albums including a number of artistically redundant tracks that only serve to use as much CD space as possible. His episodes on Music/MCHammer's ''The Funky Headhunter'' and Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''St. Anger'' even directly cite this trope as a reason for not going through the albums track-by-track, focusing solely on the highlights.
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** Several episodes of ''Trainwreckords'' comment on how prominent this trope became from the 1990's onward, with several featured albums including a number of artistically redundant tracks that only serve to use as much CD space as possible. His episodes on Music/MCHammer's ''The Funky Headhunter'' and Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''St. Anger'' ''Music/StAnger'' even directly cite this trope as a reason for not going through the albums track-by-track, focusing solely on the highlights.
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* '''Bonus tracks''': Songs tacked onto an album, usually at the very end, to encourage consumers to buy that particular version of it, particularly CD reissues of previously released albums. Often these tracks consist of non-album B-sides or singles, promotional songs (which may range from a song composed for a movie or a TV show to a new song or two in a compilation album), remixes/extended versions of hit singles (the latter being particularly common with certain releases of 80's albums), or live recordings (the reverse may happen if it's a live album, with the bonus song consisting of an all-new studio track). While bonus tracks can be nice additions if implemented properly (i.e. including unique, enjoyable songs that can breathe new life into the base album), most of the time they just break up the flow of an album and drag it out to the point of apathy, especially if the "bonus" song is the band goofingoff and noodling in the studio..
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* '''Bonus tracks''': Songs tacked onto an album, usually at the very end, to encourage consumers to buy that particular version of it, particularly CD reissues of previously released albums. Often these tracks consist of non-album B-sides or singles, promotional songs (which may range from a song composed for a movie or a TV show to a new song or two in a compilation album), remixes/extended versions of hit singles (the latter being particularly common with certain releases of 80's albums), or live recordings (the reverse may happen if it's a live album, with the bonus song consisting of an all-new studio track). While bonus tracks can be nice additions if implemented properly (i.e. including unique, enjoyable songs that can breathe new life into the base album), most of the time they just break up the flow of an album and drag it out to the point of apathy, especially if the "bonus" song is the band goofingoff goofing off, joking around and noodling on their instruments in the studio..studio.
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* '''Friends and family members''': Unless the friend or family members are really talented, having some friends, partners or family members of you StepUpToTheMicrophone to say or sing something is always a bad idea. There are better ways to impress your girlfriend than having her struggle through a somg. And no, a little kid singing a song has no redeeming messages for us! When an artist sings an ode or a {{Homage}} to someone the audience doesn't know it can backfire too, especially if you explicitly address them by their full name and takk about private issues. The average listener will have the idea that he is referring to some private encounter.
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* '''Friends and family members''': Unless the friend or family members are really talented, having some friends, partners or family members of you StepUpToTheMicrophone to say or to sing something is always a bad idea. There are better ways to impress your girlfriend than having her struggle through a somg. And no, a song. Your little kid singing a song is cute from ypur perspective, but it has no redeeming messages value for us! When an artist sings an ode or a {{Homage}} to someone the audience doesn't know (an obscure early influence from their pub-singing years) it can backfire too, especially if you explicitly address them by their full name and takk talk about private issues. The average listener will have the idea that he is referring to some private encounter.interaction.
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As most people know, the music industry has two forms of release in stores. There is the standard two song single and the "full-length" album. However, with most artists, the unfortunate reality is that they usually just aren't creative enough to produce a large number of good songs. This especially gets compounded once they officially make it big, having used up years worth of songs tried and tested with audiences and are usually expected to produce a second album within a year while touring heavily to cash in on their new found fame. So what does one do? Produce Album Filler.
Album Filler are songs that take a perfunctory, StrictlyFormula stance on creation in order to have something distinct to fill in some time. They're usually straightforward, unimaginative, and otherwise forgettable. Of course, it isn't set in stone that a song will suck for being filler. Just as how some of the most beloved episodes of many a TV show are quite intentional filler, some of the most popular songs were explicitly created as filler. A famous example of a filler track gaining large prominence is "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" by Music/JudasPriest. This is one of the causes of a BlackSheepHit. It differs from being a RarelyPerformedSong, as those songs are meant to be marketable, but for whatever reason, will almost never be heard live again.
As a policy for the music industry, this is a bit of a CyclicTrope as times change and is not entirely consistent across the board. In TheFifties, the single was the primary sales unit and albums were just hit singles thrown together with whatever other crap they didn't have confidence in. It was actually pretty uncommon for artists to enter the studio with the intent of recording an album. Most albums from popular artists of this time were more like [[GreatestHitsAlbum Greatest Hits sets]]. For example, Music/ChuckBerry recorded and released his first hit song ("Maybellene") in 1955, but it wouldn't show up on an album until 1959.
Album Filler are songs that take a perfunctory, StrictlyFormula stance on creation in order to have something distinct to fill in some time. They're usually straightforward, unimaginative, and otherwise forgettable. Of course, it isn't set in stone that a song will suck for being filler. Just as how some of the most beloved episodes of many a TV show are quite intentional filler, some of the most popular songs were explicitly created as filler. A famous example of a filler track gaining large prominence is "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" by Music/JudasPriest. This is one of the causes of a BlackSheepHit. It differs from being a RarelyPerformedSong, as those songs are meant to be marketable, but for whatever reason, will almost never be heard live again.
As a policy for the music industry, this is a bit of a CyclicTrope as times change and is not entirely consistent across the board. In TheFifties, the single was the primary sales unit and albums were just hit singles thrown together with whatever other crap they didn't have confidence in. It was actually pretty uncommon for artists to enter the studio with the intent of recording an album. Most albums from popular artists of this time were more like [[GreatestHitsAlbum Greatest Hits sets]]. For example, Music/ChuckBerry recorded and released his first hit song ("Maybellene") in 1955, but it wouldn't show up on an album until 1959.
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As most people know, the music industry has two forms of release in stores. There is the standard two song single and the "full-length" album. However, with most artists, the unfortunate reality is that they usually just aren't creative and disciplined enough to produce a large number of good well-crafted, unique songs. This especially gets compounded once they officially make it big, having used up years worth of great songs tried and tested with audiences and are usually expected to produce a second album within a year while touring heavily to cash in on their new found newfound fame. So what does one do? do to quickly pump out the next? Produce Album Filler.
Album Filler are songs that take a perfunctory, StrictlyFormula stanceon creation in order on to have something distinct bland and pleasant to fill in some time. They're usually straightforward, unimaginative, and otherwise forgettable. Of course, it isn't set in stone that a song will suck for being filler. Just as how some of the most beloved episodes of many a TV show are quite intentional filler, some of the most popular songs were explicitly created as filler. A famous example of a filler track gaining large prominence is "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" by Music/JudasPriest. This is one of the causes of a BlackSheepHit. It differs from being a RarelyPerformedSong, as those songs are meant to be marketable, but for whatever reason, will almost never be heard live again.
As a policy for the music industry, this is a bit of a CyclicTrope as times change and is not entirely consistent across the board. In TheFifties, the single was the primary sales unit and albums were just hit singles thrown together with whatever other crap tunes they didn't have confidence in. It was actually pretty uncommon for artists to enter the studio with the intent of recording an album. Most albums from popular artists of this time were more like [[GreatestHitsAlbum Greatest Hits sets]]. For example, Music/ChuckBerry recorded and released his first hit song ("Maybellene") in 1955, but it wouldn't show up on an album until 1959.
Album Filler are songs that take a perfunctory, StrictlyFormula stance
As a policy for the music industry, this is a bit of a CyclicTrope as times change and is not entirely consistent across the board. In TheFifties, the single was the primary sales unit and albums were just hit singles thrown together with whatever other crap tunes they didn't have confidence in. It was actually pretty uncommon for artists to enter the studio with the intent of recording an album. Most albums from popular artists of this time were more like [[GreatestHitsAlbum Greatest Hits sets]]. For example, Music/ChuckBerry recorded and released his first hit song ("Maybellene") in 1955, but it wouldn't show up on an album until 1959.
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When groups like Music/TheBeatles came about and revolutionized the industry with records like ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'', which began a trend of bands putting out albums that made a unified musical statement, this policy took a bit of a backseat (although most bands still had to produce at least some filler to keep up with contractual demands). The ConceptAlbum started to become popular and rock music was mostly "album-oriented" throughout TheSeventies (some bands, like Music/LedZeppelin and Music/PinkFloyd, even did their best to avoid releasing any singles at all). It seems to be coming back in some sectors. Bands that release an album every one to two years are particularly guilty of this-- it's almost unavoidable when they crank out hit singles to engage in pervasive airplay.
A side-effect of this was the tendency of bands with [[EpicRocking long songs]], such as Music/BlackSabbath and Music/KingCrimson, to add "subtitles" for different sections of the songs, in order to make it seem like there were more songs and [[MoneyDearBoy they would be paid full royalties]] (this happened to Music/TheMarsVolta too, who were told that for the original version of ''Amputechture'' they'd only be paid for an EP despite its length, so they were forced to add "subsections" and split songs apart to get full royalties).
However, album filler was still unavoidable, and every now and then there'd be one or two clunkers thrown in to keep the album at a certain minimum length. Double albums were especially prone to this, due to the sheer amount of work required for two [=LPs=] of material resulting in many of these four-sided projects being littered with filler in order to justify releasing it on two discs. Album filler also became an increasing problem when the CD overtook the LP as the dominant physical medium for popular music; because a CD can store 22-28 more minutes of audio than a 12" LP, artists and record companies began to feel as if they were obligated to use as much of this extra space as possible, especially in the US, where the concurrent decline of physical singles in favor of radio and Creator/{{MTV}} airplay forced artists to rely more on album royalties (which are paid per song). Thus, many albums released between 1987 and 2007 would feature well over an hour of music, typically divided among at least 12 different tracks, a good number of which inevitably tended to be filler.
A side-effect of this was the tendency of bands with [[EpicRocking long songs]], such as Music/BlackSabbath and Music/KingCrimson, to add "subtitles" for different sections of the songs, in order to make it seem like there were more songs and [[MoneyDearBoy they would be paid full royalties]] (this happened to Music/TheMarsVolta too, who were told that for the original version of ''Amputechture'' they'd only be paid for an EP despite its length, so they were forced to add "subsections" and split songs apart to get full royalties).
However, album filler was still unavoidable, and every now and then there'd be one or two clunkers thrown in to keep the album at a certain minimum length. Double albums were especially prone to this, due to the sheer amount of work required for two [=LPs=] of material resulting in many of these four-sided projects being littered with filler in order to justify releasing it on two discs. Album filler also became an increasing problem when the CD overtook the LP as the dominant physical medium for popular music; because a CD can store 22-28 more minutes of audio than a 12" LP, artists and record companies began to feel as if they were obligated to use as much of this extra space as possible, especially in the US, where the concurrent decline of physical singles in favor of radio and Creator/{{MTV}} airplay forced artists to rely more on album royalties (which are paid per song). Thus, many albums released between 1987 and 2007 would feature well over an hour of music, typically divided among at least 12 different tracks, a good number of which inevitably tended to be filler.
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When groups like Music/TheBeatles came about and revolutionized the industry with records like ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'', which began a trend of bands putting out albums that made a unified musical statement, this policy took a bit of a backseat (although most bands still had to produce at least some filler to keep up with contractual demands). The ConceptAlbum started to become popular and rock music was mostly "album-oriented" throughout TheSeventies (some bands, like Music/LedZeppelin and Music/PinkFloyd, even did their best to avoid releasing any singles at all). It seems to be coming back in some sectors. genres. Bands that release an album every one to two years are particularly guilty of this-- it's almost unavoidable when they crank out hit singles to engage in get pervasive airplay.
A side-effect of this was the tendency of bands with [[EpicRockinglong epic songs]], such as Music/BlackSabbath and Music/KingCrimson, to add "subtitles" for different sections of the songs, in order to make it seem like there were more songs and [[MoneyDearBoy they would be paid full royalties]] (this happened to Music/TheMarsVolta too, who were told that for the original version of ''Amputechture'' they'd only be paid for an EP despite its length, so they were forced to add "subsections" and split songs apart to get full royalties).
However, album filler was still unavoidable, and every now and then there'd be one or two clunkers thrown in to keep the album at a certain minimum length. Double albums were especially prone to this, due to the sheer amount of work required for two [=LPs=] of material resulting in many of these four-sided projects being littered with jams, experiments and low-effort fillerin order to justify releasing it on two discs. discs.
Album filler also became an increasing problem when the CD overtook the LP as the dominant physical medium for popular music; because a CD can store 22-28 more minutes of audio than a 12" LP, artists and record companies began to feel as if they were obligated to use as much of this extra space as possible, especially in the US, where the concurrent decline of physical singles in favor of radio and Creator/{{MTV}} airplay forced artists to rely more on album royalties (which are paid per song). Thus, many albums released between 1987 and 2007 would feature well over an hour of music, typically divided among at least 12 different tracks, a good number of which inevitably tended to be filler.
A side-effect of this was the tendency of bands with [[EpicRocking
However, album filler was still unavoidable, and every now and then there'd be one or two clunkers thrown in to keep the album at a certain minimum length. Double albums were especially prone to this, due to the sheer amount of work required for two [=LPs=] of material resulting in many of these four-sided projects being littered with jams, experiments and low-effort filler
Album filler also became an increasing problem when the CD overtook the LP as the dominant physical medium for popular music; because a CD can store 22-28 more minutes of audio than a 12" LP, artists and record companies began to feel as if they were obligated to use as much of this extra space as possible, especially in the US, where the concurrent decline of physical singles in favor of radio and Creator/{{MTV}} airplay forced artists to rely more on album royalties (which are paid per song). Thus, many albums released between 1987 and 2007 would feature well over an hour of music, typically divided among at least 12 different tracks, a good number of which inevitably tended to be filler.
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* '''Bonus tracks''': Songs tacked onto an album, usually at the very end, to encourage consumers to buy that particular version of it, particularly CD reissues of previously released albums. Often these tracks consist of non-album B-sides or singles, promotional songs (which may range from a song composed for a movie or a TV show to a new song or two in a compilation album), remixes/extended versions of hit singles (the latter being particularly common with certain releases of 80's albums), or live recordings (the reverse may happen if it's a live album, with the bonus song consisting of an all-new studio track). While bonus tracks can be pretty nice additions if implemented properly (i.e. including unique, enjoyable songs that can breathe new life into the base album), most of the time they just break up the flow of an album and drag it out to the point of apathy.
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* '''Bonus tracks''': Songs tacked onto an album, usually at the very end, to encourage consumers to buy that particular version of it, particularly CD reissues of previously released albums. Often these tracks consist of non-album B-sides or singles, promotional songs (which may range from a song composed for a movie or a TV show to a new song or two in a compilation album), remixes/extended versions of hit singles (the latter being particularly common with certain releases of 80's albums), or live recordings (the reverse may happen if it's a live album, with the bonus song consisting of an all-new studio track). While bonus tracks can be pretty be nice additions if implemented properly (i.e. including unique, enjoyable songs that can breathe new life into the base album), most of the time they just break up the flow of an album and drag it out to the point of apathy.apathy, especially if the "bonus" song is the band goofingoff and noodling in the studio..
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* '''Friends and family members''': Having some friends, partners or family members of you StepUpToTheMicrophone to say or sing something is always a bad idea. There are better ways to impress your girlfriend than having her say something in the microphone. And no, a two year old infant has no redeeming messages for us! When an artist sings an ode or a {{Homage}} to someone the audience doesn't know it can backfire too, especially if you explicitly address them by their full name. The average listener will have the idea that he is observing some private meeting he has no business with.
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* '''Friends and family members''': Having Unless the friend or family members are really talented, having some friends, partners or family members of you StepUpToTheMicrophone to say or sing something is always a bad idea. There are better ways to impress your girlfriend than having her say something in the microphone. struggle through a somg. And no, a two year old infant little kid singing a song has no redeeming messages for us! When an artist sings an ode or a {{Homage}} to someone the audience doesn't know it can backfire too, especially if you explicitly address them by their full name. name and takk about private issues. The average listener will have the idea that he is observing referring to some private meeting he has no business with.encounter.
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* '''OdeToIntoxication''': A song recorded while being drunk or high is always embarrassing torture to listen to.
* '''Outdated songs''': Songs written for a very specific occasion or event in time, with even the exact date attached to it. Let's face it: you lose your timelessness when you write a song about the upcoming Olympic Games, a bicentennial, the new millennium, or the 10-year existence of your band, and specifically name dates. Cashing in on a fad will also make your song an UnintentionalPeriodPiece that will diminish its chances of clicking in with future generations. Sometimes it can produce NostalgiaFilter, but not always.
* '''Overly long tracks''': Since most songs are about three to five minutes long, [[EpicRocking a particularly long track]] can sometimes get on the nerves of the listener. Guitar solos that just go on, endless jams, entire stories told in one track, unnecessary [[CelebrityCameo celebrity cameos,]] continuous [[FakeOutFadeOut fade ins and fade outs,]] etc.
* '''Outdated songs''': Songs written for a very specific occasion or event in time, with even the exact date attached to it. Let's face it: you lose your timelessness when you write a song about the upcoming Olympic Games, a bicentennial, the new millennium, or the 10-year existence of your band, and specifically name dates. Cashing in on a fad will also make your song an UnintentionalPeriodPiece that will diminish its chances of clicking in with future generations. Sometimes it can produce NostalgiaFilter, but not always.
* '''Overly long tracks''': Since most songs are about three to five minutes long, [[EpicRocking a particularly long track]] can sometimes get on the nerves of the listener. Guitar solos that just go on, endless jams, entire stories told in one track, unnecessary [[CelebrityCameo celebrity cameos,]] continuous [[FakeOutFadeOut fade ins and fade outs,]] etc.
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* '''OdeToIntoxication''': A song recorded while being drunk or high msy be funny to those involved, but it is always embarrassing torture to listen to.
* '''Outdated songs''': Songs written for a very specific occasion or event in time, with even the exact date attached to it. Let's face it: you lose your timelessness when you write a song about the upcoming 1980s Olympic Games, a bicentennial, the new millennium, or the 10-year existence of your band, and specifically name dates. Cashing in on a fad will also make your song an UnintentionalPeriodPiece that will diminish its chances of clicking in with future generations. Sometimes it can produce NostalgiaFilter, but not always.
* '''Overly long tracks''': Since most songs are about three to five minutes long, [[EpicRocking a particularly long track]] can work if it's a well-crafted composition, but they can sometimes get on the nerves of thelistener. listener if it's long just from padding. Guitar solos that just go on and on, endless noodling jams, entire stories and long chatty anecdotes told in one track, track are unnecessary [[CelebrityCameo celebrity cameos,]] continuous [[FakeOutFadeOut fade ins and fade outs,]] etc.
* '''Outdated songs''': Songs written for a very specific occasion or event in time, with even the exact date attached to it. Let's face it: you lose your timelessness when you write a song about the upcoming 1980s Olympic Games, a bicentennial, the new millennium, or the 10-year existence of your band, and specifically name dates. Cashing in on a fad will also make your song an UnintentionalPeriodPiece that will diminish its chances of clicking in with future generations. Sometimes it can produce NostalgiaFilter, but not always.
* '''Overly long tracks''': Since most songs are about three to five minutes long, [[EpicRocking a particularly long track]] can work if it's a well-crafted composition, but they can sometimes get on the nerves of the
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* '''HiddenTrack''': Most hidden tracks tend to be pointless too. They are muffled away somewhere at the start or the end of an album. Some artists leave several minutes of silence between tracks before you finally get to the hidden track, with the silence and hidden track being ''part of'' the last officially-listed track. Either way, you always have to fast-forward to find it, an especially big problem if the hidden track is included on an LP or cassette release (not so much on a CD or digital release, as these formats don't wear out from repeated playback). These can also be hangovers from hidden jokes on the original vinyl album, which made sense and worked in the vinyl format but aren't so great on CD. An example might be the message in the run-out groove on ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''-- works beautifully on the original vinyl (where it repeats forever until the listener manually lifts the needle off the record unless if their turntable doesn't do it automatically), a BigLippedAlligatorMoment on the CD version (where it repeats a few times before fading out).
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* '''HiddenTrack''': Most hidden tracks tend to be pointless too. They are muffled away somewhere at the start or the end of an album. Some artists leave several minutes of silence between tracks before you finally get to the hidden track, with the silence and hidden track being ''part of'' the last officially-listed track. Either way, you always have to fast-forward to find it, an especially big problem if the hidden track is included on an LP or cassette release (not so much on a CD or digital release, as these formats don't wear out from repeated playback). These can also be hangovers from hidden jokes on the original vinyl album, which made sense and worked in the vinyl format but aren't so great on CD. An example might be the message in the run-out groove on ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''-- works beautifully on the original vinyl (where it repeats forever until the listener manually lifts the needle off the record unless if their turntable doesn't do does it automatically), a BigLippedAlligatorMoment on the CD version (where it repeats a few times before fading out).
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* ''Webcomic/{{Subnormality}}'': [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17075_every-album-ever.html Mentions it]].
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* ''Webcomic/{{Subnormality}}'': [[http://www.''[[http://www.cracked.com/article_17075_every-album-ever.html Mentions it]].Every Album Ever]]'' riffs on the concept, depicting the tracklist on a jewel case that bluntly describes the typical layout of albums as a hit single, a few other good tracks, failed experiments, and throwaway material that was stuck on purely to pad out the CD. The spine of the case mentions that this doesn't apply to "the good ones."
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* A significant part of Music/DavidBowie's CreatorBacklash against his 1984 album ''Music/{{Tonight}}'' rested on a belief that the record relied too heavily on this trope, claiming that he had been too creatively drained to come up with original songs in the wake of a massive world tour and consequently filled up the album with {{cover version}}s and rushed collaborations with his friend Music/IggyPop. Noting that the record had been hyped up as a follow-up to ''Music/LetsDance'', his post-disco megahit from the year prior, Bowie instead pejoratively regarded it as a SpiritualSuccessor to his 1973 CoverAlbum ''Music/PinUps''.
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* A significant part of Music/DavidBowie's CreatorBacklash against his 1984 album ''Music/{{Tonight}}'' rested on a belief that the record relied too heavily on this trope, claiming that he had been too creatively drained to come up with original songs in the wake of a massive world tour and consequently filled up the album with {{cover version}}s and rushed collaborations with his friend Music/IggyPop. Noting that the record had been hyped up as a follow-up to ''Music/LetsDance'', his post-disco megahit from the year prior, Bowie instead pejoratively regarded it as a SpiritualSuccessor CreatorDrivenSuccessor to his 1973 CoverAlbum ''Music/PinUps''.
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Album Filler are songs that take a perfunctory, StrictlyFormula stance on creation in order to have something distinct to fill in some time. They're usually straightforward, unimaginative, and otherwise forgettable. Of course, it isn't set in stone that a song will suck for being filler. Just as how some of the most beloved episodes of many a TV show are quite intentional filler, some of the most popular songs were explicitly created as filler. A famous example of a filler track gaining large prominence is "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" by Music/JudasPriest. This is one of the causes of a BlackSheepHit.
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Album Filler are songs that take a perfunctory, StrictlyFormula stance on creation in order to have something distinct to fill in some time. They're usually straightforward, unimaginative, and otherwise forgettable. Of course, it isn't set in stone that a song will suck for being filler. Just as how some of the most beloved episodes of many a TV show are quite intentional filler, some of the most popular songs were explicitly created as filler. A famous example of a filler track gaining large prominence is "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" by Music/JudasPriest. This is one of the causes of a BlackSheepHit.
BlackSheepHit. It differs from being a RarelyPerformedSong, as those songs are meant to be marketable, but for whatever reason, will almost never be heard live again.
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* Music/PublicImageLTD's "Fodderstompf" includes the lyric [[{{motormouth}} "We only wanted to finish the album with the minimum amount of effort which we are now doing very successfully"]], which was in fact the case: Their record contract specified they had to deliver a 40 minute album, but they'd only written about 32 minutes of material, so they recorded an eight minute improvised jam to fill out the remaining time.
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* Music/{{Psychostick}} parodies the concept with "We Ran Out of CD Space", a meandering song with rambling lyrics deliberately meant to give the image of being slapped together at the last minute to max out the nearly 76-minute CD.
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** ''Kamikaze'' is often mocked for this, being a DissTrack EP padded out to album length with a BreakupSong about his former rap group D12, a movie tie-in song ("[[Film/Venom2018 Venom]]") and three love songs. While the love songs in particular can be read as an allegory for his [[TakeThatCritics dysfunctional relationship with critics]], bringing them into the album theme, Eminem openly admitted that once he realised he was going to make an album he combined several projects he was working on without bothering to think much about it.
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* Music/{{Yes}} keyboardist Music/RickWakeman cites this as the reason for his longstanding CreatorBacklash towards ''Music/TalesFromTopographicOceans''. He felt that although there was about an hour of really good music on it, the impulse to fill out four sides of vinyl resulted in a lot of other material that he felt cluttered the album, noting that it would've been better suited for the CD era given that there was too much usable music for one LP and too little for two.
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* WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows discusses this more than once.
** He hypothesizes that Music/{{Train}}'s "Hey, Soul Sister", its bizarre lyricism in particular, is the result of a burned out Pat Monahan throwing the first thing that came to his head on paper in order to fulfill his contract, certain that it would never even make it to radio.
-->'''Todd (as Monahan):''' Hmm, what rhymes with rug? Drug... Thug? Would a line that uses the word thug make sense here? ''Pfft'', whatever. I mean, who cares? I'm the guy from Music/{{Train}}! I haven't had a hit in seven years and am ''long'' past the point of caring on this one. I'm just doing this because I need to fill the album somehow. [[TemptingFate It's not like I'm ever gonna have to perform this.]] [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough The record company wouldn't be stupid enough to release this,]] and even if they did, [[LowestCommonDenominator no one would want to listen to it.]] I might as well sing it like I'm doing a Minnie Mouse impression too! I mean, 'cause ''who cares?'' So, you know what? We owe the record company three more songs according to our contract, so let's just can this turd, and we can forget about it forev--
-->'''Creator/EllenDeGeneres:''' [[GilliganCut Our next guests currently have one of the biggest hits of their career, here to perform "Hey, Soul Sister", please welcome Train, everybody!]]
** Several episodes of ''Trainwreckords'' comment on how prominent this trope became from the 1990's onward, with several featured albums including a number of artistically redundant tracks that only serve to use as much CD space as possible. His episodes on Music/MCHammer's ''The Funky Headhunter'' and Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''St. Anger'' even directly cite this trope as a reason for not going through the albums track-by-track, focusing solely on the highlights.
** He hypothesizes that Music/{{Train}}'s "Hey, Soul Sister", its bizarre lyricism in particular, is the result of a burned out Pat Monahan throwing the first thing that came to his head on paper in order to fulfill his contract, certain that it would never even make it to radio.
-->'''Todd (as Monahan):''' Hmm, what rhymes with rug? Drug... Thug? Would a line that uses the word thug make sense here? ''Pfft'', whatever. I mean, who cares? I'm the guy from Music/{{Train}}! I haven't had a hit in seven years and am ''long'' past the point of caring on this one. I'm just doing this because I need to fill the album somehow. [[TemptingFate It's not like I'm ever gonna have to perform this.]] [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough The record company wouldn't be stupid enough to release this,]] and even if they did, [[LowestCommonDenominator no one would want to listen to it.]] I might as well sing it like I'm doing a Minnie Mouse impression too! I mean, 'cause ''who cares?'' So, you know what? We owe the record company three more songs according to our contract, so let's just can this turd, and we can forget about it forev--
-->'''Creator/EllenDeGeneres:''' [[GilliganCut Our next guests currently have one of the biggest hits of their career, here to perform "Hey, Soul Sister", please welcome Train, everybody!]]
** Several episodes of ''Trainwreckords'' comment on how prominent this trope became from the 1990's onward, with several featured albums including a number of artistically redundant tracks that only serve to use as much CD space as possible. His episodes on Music/MCHammer's ''The Funky Headhunter'' and Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''St. Anger'' even directly cite this trope as a reason for not going through the albums track-by-track, focusing solely on the highlights.
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* WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows discusses this more than once.
** He hypothesizes that Music/{{Train}}'s "Hey, Soul Sister", its bizarre lyricism in particular, is the result of a burned out Pat Monahan throwing the first thing that came to his head on paper in order to fulfill his contract, certain that it would never even make it to radio.
--->'''Todd (as Monahan):''' Hmm, what rhymes with rug? Drug... Thug? Would a line that uses the word thug make sense here? ''Pfft'', whatever. I mean, who cares? I'm the guy from Music/{{Train}}! I haven't had a hit in seven years and am ''long'' past the point of caring on this one. I'm just doing this because I need to fill the album somehow. [[TemptingFate It's not like I'm ever gonna have to perform this.]] [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough The record company wouldn't be stupid enough to release this,]] and even if they did, [[LowestCommonDenominator no one would want to listen to it.]] I might as well sing it like I'm doing a Minnie Mouse impression too! I mean, 'cause ''who cares?'' So, you know what? We owe the record company three more songs according to our contract, so let's just can this turd, and we can forget about it forev--
--->'''Creator/EllenDeGeneres:''' [[GilliganCut Our next guests currently have one of the biggest hits of their career, here to perform "Hey, Soul Sister", please welcome Train, everybody!]]
** Several episodes of ''Trainwreckords'' comment on how prominent this trope became from the 1990's onward, with several featured albums including a number of artistically redundant tracks that only serve to use as much CD space as possible. His episodes on Music/MCHammer's ''The Funky Headhunter'' and Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''St. Anger'' even directly cite this trope as a reason for not going through the albums track-by-track, focusing solely on the highlights.
* ''Webcomic/{{Subnormality}}'': [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17075_every-album-ever.html Mentions it]].
* ''Series/Girls5eva'': Parodied in the episode "Returnity", which recounts that [=Girls5eva=]'s first album had a filler track that was just them calling each others' names over a beat and asking "are you ready".
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** Em's CreatorBacklash against ''Encore'' was in part due to a leak during development forcing him to write filler tracks on very short notice to replace the leaked songs - "We As Americans", "Ricky Ticky Tock", "Love You More" and TheDissTrack "Bully" (all dark and serious songs in line with the tone of ''Music/TheEminemShow''). Eminem hurriedly recorded replacements, then found he enjoyed the spontaneity of the quick recordings and took the opportunity to completely revamp the album with freestyled, stream-of-consciousness songs written on tight deadlines. (It was not helped by the fact that he was struggling with [[CreatorBreakdown an Ambien addiction]] at the time, muffling his technical abilities.) "Just Lose It" was then added to be the [[BlackSheepHit comedy hit single]], and enjoyed some decent success, but the tracklist changes had the effect of unbalancing the album from being one with satirical, blackly comedic songs into a bizarre album where half the songs are completely serious, half the others are ToiletHumor-based novelty songs, and [[CerberusRollercoaster little connection between the album's two moods]].
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** Em's CreatorBacklash against ''Encore'' was in part due to a leak during development forcing him to write filler tracks on very short notice to replace the leaked songs - "We As Americans", "Ricky Ticky Tock", "Love You More" and TheDissTrack "Bully" (all dark and serious songs in line with the tone of ''Music/TheEminemShow''). Eminem hurriedly recorded replacements, then found he enjoyed the spontaneity of the quick recordings and took the opportunity to completely revamp the album with freestyled, stream-of-consciousness songs written on tight deadlines. (It was not helped by the fact that he was struggling with [[CreatorBreakdown an Ambien addiction]] at the time, muffling his technical abilities.) "Just Lose It" was then added to be the [[BlackSheepHit comedy hit single]], and enjoyed some decent success, but the tracklist changes had the effect of unbalancing the album from being one with satirical, blackly comedic songs into a bizarre album where half the songs are completely serious, half the others are ToiletHumor-based novelty songs, and [[CerberusRollercoaster [[CerebusRollercoaster little connection between the album's two moods]].
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* Music/{{Eminem}}'s CreatorBacklash against ''Encore'' was in part due to a leak during development forcing him to write filler tracks on very short notice to replace the leaked songs - "We As Americans", "Ricky Ticky Tock", "Love You More" and TheDissTrack "Bully" (all dark and serious songs in line with the tone of ''Music/TheEminemShow''). Due to only having a couple of days to do it, the replacement songs ("Rain Man", "Big Weenie", then two other unconfirmed songs, most likely "My 1st Single" and "Puke", but possibly "Ass Like That") all ended up as comedy songs with lurching, stream-of-consciousness flows that were mostly written as freestyles. (It was not helped by the fact that he was struggling with [[CreatorBreakdown an Ambien addiction]] at the time, muffling his comedic wit.) "Just Lose It" was then added to be the [[BlackSheepHit comedy hit single]], and enjoyed some decent success, but the tracklist changes had the effect of unbalancing the album from being one with a mixture of brooding and funny songs into a ToiletHumor-based novelty album with a few weirdly serious songs on it. [[note]]It should be noted that "Evil Deeds" and "Mosh" also show evidence of being written in a hurry/essentially freestyled, sharing the [[AccentOnTheWrongSyllable wonky, tortured]] flows of the last-minute material, so either could also be a candidate for the filler songs - but it's not likely. Eminem held that the replacement songs were all goofy and stupid comedy songs; "Evil Deeds" is [[SelfDeprecation self-abasing]] and, at most, [[SelfParody wryly comedic]], and "Mosh" is a serious ProtestSong. "Mosh", in particular, is well-regarded by hip-hop fans, and was released as a minor single with a low-budget music video - so it's not like it was ''always'' bad for Eminem to write songs in less than 25 minutes.[[/note]]
** "My 1st Single", an ''Encore'' song usually speculated to be one of the last-minute replacement tracks, is a DeconstructiveParody of album filler, presenting it as the result of Eminem trying to write a great lead single in the vein of his work on ''The Eminem Show'' and not being able to replicate it [[FailureHero because he screws up everything he touches]]. With burp sounds.
** "My 1st Single", an ''Encore'' song usually speculated to be one of the last-minute replacement tracks, is a DeconstructiveParody of album filler, presenting it as the result of Eminem trying to write a great lead single in the vein of his work on ''The Eminem Show'' and not being able to replicate it [[FailureHero because he screws up everything he touches]]. With burp sounds.
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** Em's CreatorBacklash against ''Encore'' was in part due to a leak during development forcing him to write filler tracks on very short notice to replace the leaked songs - "We As Americans", "Ricky Ticky Tock", "Love You More" and TheDissTrack "Bully" (all dark and serious songs in line with the tone of ''Music/TheEminemShow'').Due to only having a couple of days to do it, the replacement songs ("Rain Man", "Big Weenie", Eminem hurriedly recorded replacements, then two other unconfirmed songs, most likely "My 1st Single" found he enjoyed the spontaneity of the quick recordings and "Puke", but possibly "Ass Like That") all ended up as comedy songs took the opportunity to completely revamp the album with lurching, freestyled, stream-of-consciousness flows that were mostly songs written as freestyles. on tight deadlines. (It was not helped by the fact that he was struggling with [[CreatorBreakdown an Ambien addiction]] at the time, muffling his comedic wit.technical abilities.) "Just Lose It" was then added to be the [[BlackSheepHit comedy hit single]], and enjoyed some decent success, but the tracklist changes had the effect of unbalancing the album from being one with a mixture of brooding and funny satirical, blackly comedic songs into a bizarre album where half the songs are completely serious, half the others are ToiletHumor-based novelty album with a few weirdly serious songs on it. [[note]]It should be noted that "Evil Deeds" songs, and "Mosh" also show evidence of being written in a hurry/essentially freestyled, sharing [[CerberusRollercoaster little connection between the [[AccentOnTheWrongSyllable wonky, tortured]] flows of the last-minute material, so either could also be a candidate for the filler songs - but it's not likely. album's two moods]].
** Eminemheld that the replacement songs were all goofy and stupid comedy songs; "Evil Deeds" has also done parodies of album filler:
*** "Under The Influence" on ''The Marshall Mathers LP'' is[[SelfDeprecation self-abasing]] and, at most, [[SelfParody wryly comedic]], and "Mosh" is a serious ProtestSong. "Mosh", in particular, is well-regarded by hip-hop fans, and was released presented as a minor single with a low-budget music video - so it's not like it was ''always'' bad for song Eminem to write songs in less than 25 minutes.[[/note]]
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*** "My 1st Single", an ''Encore'' song usually speculated to be one of the last-minute replacement tracks, is a DeconstructiveParody of album filler, presenting it as the result of Eminem trying to write a great lead single in the vein of his work on ''The Eminem Show'' and not being able to replicate it [[FailureHero because he screws up everything he touches]]. With burp sounds.
** Em's CreatorBacklash against ''Encore'' was in part due to a leak during development forcing him to write filler tracks on very short notice to replace the leaked songs - "We As Americans", "Ricky Ticky Tock", "Love You More" and TheDissTrack "Bully" (all dark and serious songs in line with the tone of ''Music/TheEminemShow'').
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*** "My 1st Single", an ''Encore'' song usually speculated to be one of the last-minute replacement tracks, is a DeconstructiveParody of album filler, presenting it as the result of Eminem trying to write a great lead single in the vein of his work on ''The Eminem Show'' and not being able to replicate it [[FailureHero because he screws up everything he touches]]. With burp sounds.
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