Your favourite obvious filler songs?

“Ol’ Sol” by the Dave Clark 5. Classic filler, and a great sound - kind of like how the E Street Band might have sounded when they were in high school, before Bruce came along and had real songs for them to play.

 

Search, Find from Spirits Having Flown was probably correctly derided as filler, but I'll be damned if it isn't catchy filler. Stop Think Again on the other hand...

 

The Replacements- Gary Has A Boner & Seen Your Vide0

 

Thriller

Not sure which cuts are filler, but I understand the album includes many of them.

 

The Beatles - Flying

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Apache Rose Peacock

The Rolling Stones - In Another Land

Pink Floyd - It Would Be So Nice

The Beach Boys - Wake The World

 

"Happy Holidays, You Bastard"-from Blink-182's "Take Of Your Pants And Jacket". Although I admit it's sometimes hard to tell what constitutes a filler song for them.

 

“Tribal Gathering” / The Byrds (Notorious Byrd Brothers)

 

The problem is that there is no definition of a filler. I tried to find some characteristics but in the end it's all up to ourselves
whats a filler and whats not.
On The Run by Pink Floyd for example is a filler to me but might not be one for others.
Thriller is a decent album and I kinda get what you mean that it has many fillers.
Maybe it's just the fame that the singles from this album got that made the rest look so tiny.
"Baby Be Mine" and "P.Y.T." are good examples of great songs which did not become singles.

 

Though this album is often referred to as weak, myself, I like most of the songs. However this one is filler and seems very out of place. The sitar, the growling space noise in the background is annoying.

 

Exile On Main Street
-Casino Boogie is filler for some but very cool for me.

Goats Head Soup
-Coming Down Again & Hide Your Love are great.

Satanic Majesties Request
-In Another Land
Good song, great performance

 

It was recorded so the film crew, which was filming them to make the Lady Madonna video, would have some clips of them performing in the studio.

 

Yes, it was actually supposed to be part of the side two medley but was cut out because it didn't quite fit.

The engineer, knowing the Beatles didn't like to throw anything away, spliced it onto the end of the medley demo, after 23 seconds of blank tape.

Listening back to the rough cut, the group didn't know it was there and were surprised [in a positive way] when it came crashing in and decided to put it on the album that way [also unannounced]...

And the rest is history.

 

Actually P.Y.T was a single, released on September 19, 1983.

Thriller broke the mold in that before it was released most albums were limited to no more than 3 singles.

Thriller, an album of 9 songs, had 7 singles pulled from it! Totally unprecedented.

 

Here are Four songs that are better then but were used as such! Hear for yourself!
James Taylor - Traffic Jam
James Taylor - Is That The Way You Look
Electric Light Orchestra - Above the Clouds
Eagles - The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks
Phil Collins - Man With The Horn

 

I really don’t know. I had no idea people hated the song until I joined the forum and saw all the disdain. I think it’s a nice track with a great guitar sound, cool middle eight, and druggy Lennon vocal making fun of this huckster doctor and the drug culture in mid-sixties swinging New York. Not a deep song, but quite a bit better than Wait or Run For Your Life (and one I enjoy more than Good Day Sunshine or even I Want To Tell You). How can people not like those Epiphones?

 

It isn't very good. Obviously what McCartney would describe as a 'work/slog' song, though Lennon wrote it. Rockabilly guitars that were 'out' in 1966 and a chorus that doesn't inspire. It's not bad, but it's obviously filler.

 

Michael Chapman - She Came in Like the 6.15 and Made a Hole in the Wall from the album Window.

 

David Bowie - "Don't Sit Down"



Apparently some pressings of David Bowie/Man of Words, Man of Music/Space Oddity don't even have this originally "hidden" track, as it is barely a "song" at all, but I've always liked it, and think it adds to the album's charm in a manner similar to how "Eight Line Poem" (also a candidate for "filler") contributes to the "weirdness" of Hunky Dory. Kinda wish it lasted longer, though....

 

I am not going to humor Monosterio ! IF you don't like the album, don't talk about it! Ignore it! That comment is uncalled for! You are not being a real critic your being the first defination. I have come to think that most people on this forum are the seecond. That was thread craping!

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No contest.

 

I don't think people hate the song, in general. There are always a few who are very outspoken about their dislike of "xxx" or "yyy"...

I heard a local band play a song once that had this really cool keyboard riff as a hook. I stuck it in the back of my brain and after ruminating on it for a few days I realized... it was the guitar riff from Dr. Robert! [transposed to the keyboard, obviously]

 

Darn my Dad.

 

I love it and have yet to listen to a version of the album without it. It would feel incomplete for me. It must be just a jam on "Unwashed and Somehow Slightly Dazed" that deteriorated into this.

 

Rush - Lakeside Park (Caress of Steel)

OK, "I think I'm going bald" from the same album is even more filler, but that one I don't like.

 

Fixing a hole/Getting better