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What Makes a Classic?
Signum_Tenebrae:
--- Quote from: sp2 ---B) Your album needs to be more or less listenable. Let's be honest here...50% of all music on albums are filler. They are written hastily and sloppily and for the most part, the band doesn't really give a damn about them. Those are the songs they never play live, they never release as singles, and they never put on best of compilations.
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What? I don't agree with this, at all.
SOME albums sure, but ALL albums are half filler? Give me a fucking break.
sp2:
No, 50% of all music. Some albums are 90%+ filler with maybe one or two singles. Some albums have no filler (Pink Floyd's classic albums were all pretty much zero filler). So, I'd argue that 50%+ of all MUSIC that has ever appeared on an album is filler.
ASturge:
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
A classic example of a classic album with no fillers.
I love everyone of those songs.[/i]
sp2:
Or Dark Side of the Moon. Sure, there are plenty of classic albums without fillers. There are also plenty of classic albums with at least a little filler, and plenty of albums that aren't classic with a lot of filler.
I blame filler on the whole record company thing. Because you need such and such amount of music to produce an album, you need to write so many minutes of music and so many tracks. But you also need to be relatvely fast in writing that music so you can make money (also, contracts often require a certain number of albums in a certain amount of time). So, to feed the fatcats, you write a few good songs and then write a bunch of shit songs to pad the album out. The shit songs can still be decent music sometimes, but they lack that certain something that's in the good stuff.
Merkava:
Dark Side of the Moon had major filler. Let's point out the beginning of Time and that twiddly instrumental track that has that same rythm throughout, etc.
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