Your favourite obvious filler songs?

Back in the 80s, every time I listened to a pre-recorded cassette, I was hoping, knowing full well there was hardly a chance it would occur, that an extra song or any form of music would start playing in the remaining blank tape at the end of the side (as, obviously, side A and side B often had slightly different playing time).
I was thrilled when I listened to "Three Imaginary Boys" for the first time (I was 10 then) when this came on at the end of side B. It's not much, but I like how this loose little jam rounds up the album. And it didn't use to be credited on the album - the cassette copy I had officially ended with "Three Imaginary Boys". Now you buy it and you EXPECT to hear "The Weedy Burton" as it's credited.

"Three Imaginary Boys" (the song) is also the final song on "Boys Don't Cry" (the repackaged version of The Cure's first album), WITHOUT "The Weerdy Burton" ...and it always felt incomplete to me ).

 

Black Sabbath, After Forever
Neil Young, Southern Man, and T-Bone
Dylan, Joey

 

Wasn't "Train In Vain" thrown onto "London Calling"at the 11th hour to fill out the album? When does a "filler" song stop being "filler" when it it goes from "thrown in too late to make the track listing" to "best freaking song on the album" . . . and then released as a single? You say "tomAto", I say "toMAHto". Whatever.

Easily my favorite Clash tune and one of my favorite rock songs ever. And it almost didn't make the album.

 

It's tricky as it's on a posthumous album and Jimi Hendrix obviously had no say in it, but people still moan to this day about "Peter Gunn Catastrophe" (and to a lesser extent about "Three Little Bears") on "War Heroes". Well, maybe I've always been a nerd and/or too much of a fan, but I love studio banter and Jimi's light-hearted side These tracks make him very human. Jimi could be pretty funny! I can't imagine the album without it - and yes, I know, there were better outtakes available at the time and blah blah blah. This is what came out at the time.

 

Had a lot of similar sounding competition on Green River.

 

Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye

Paranoid

Those are the only tracks I know for sure are "Filler". That is because the artist told us so.

By definition "Filler" is a song used to FILL OUT an album so it can be released.

It is not a song you do not like. A song you do not like is a "Skipper".

 

T-bone!

 

Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands

 

i would vote for "monkberry moon delight" and "magneto & titanium man"... they verge on "maxwell's silver hammer"-sillyness but are not granny songs imho

 

4 pages of posts and nothing from The White Album?

 

KISS - See You In Your Dreams
The Beatles - Wait
Thin Lizzy - Fight or Fall

 

Fine:

"Savoy Truffle"
"Cry Baby Cry"
"Yer Blues"
"Mother Nature's Son"

 

"Carl's Big Chance" - The Beach Boys



This was an instrumental cover of "Memphis Beat" but they changed the name ("Memphis Beach" was considered initially) and took the royalties

 

"Hip Pickles". I don't know what it is. I don't know why it's there. I don't know the context in which Lou Marini Jr. jotted it down.
I only know I love it.

Honk! Honk!


Not sure, but I think Ren & Stimpy were guest conductors that day.

 

How can I be expressing an unfavorable opinion when this thread is about our favorite filler songs?

Here’s Christgau’s review of Thriller:

Please notice the grade.

 

I'm probably the only one with a fondness for it: Whodunit off of the Genesis "ABACAB" album

 

It just drags the rest of the album down...

 

Now as you say it I checked it. It was indeed a single.
Maybe I didn't thought about this track being a single as it's not really one of his famous songs.
On Bad though he had even more singles. 9 out of 11 songs (if you count "Leave Me Alone" in).
And even from the two song that were not released I know that at least a promo single of "Speed Demon" exists.
That must have been one of the reasons if not THE reason why Michael Jackson albums did not came out year after year.

 

Cry baby cry is a favorite of mine.

Blue Jay Way, from Magical Mistery Tour, is another

 

I like all of them, especially “CBC”.

Even “Flying” I think is pretty ok (certainly doesn’t over stay its welcome).

 

They tried to write a filler song and it accidentally became a hit... Black Sabbath couldn't do anything right

 

One could make a really great Beatles filler comp:

All I’ve Got To Do
Not a Second Time
When I Get Home
What You’re Doing
Tell Me What You See
The Word
Wait
Doctor Robert
I Want To Tell You
Flying
Blue Jay Way
Mother Nature’s Son
Savoy Truffle
Cry Baby Cry
Only a Northern Song
Dig a Pony

 

Don't forget Hey Bulldog!

Yeah, most artists would kill to have an album full of Beatles-filler-level songs...