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Post by Square on Dec 10, 2014 13:39:56 GMT -5
Sum 41's All Killer, No Filler. Its right there in the title. Can't believe I forgot to mention that. I'm shocked Square didn't think of it either. e I know right, it was such a popular album and it had it in the title! What a bunch of morons we are
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 10, 2014 14:15:18 GMT -5
I gotta agree that it depends on how you feel about a band. Some people may think a lot of what Godspeed You! Black Emperor does is filler while people like me who love the band will tell you that every note is important. But Nails' 'Unsilent Death' has not a wasted second in its fourteen minutes. Every riff is awesome, every vocal line is awesome, every song is awesome. Number four in my top one hundred albums.
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Post by Raskovnik on Dec 10, 2014 15:16:00 GMT -5
Oh yeah, as for filler, I absolutely love the album but Deltron 3030 comes to mind. Half of it is absolutely amazing, the other have is skits that are fun the first time but I'm there for the rapping.
As for more solid albums with no filler, The National's High Violet and American Football's s/t are up there. Lagwagon's Let's Talk About Feelings, too, but it's also short as hell.
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Post by Digital Witness on Dec 10, 2014 15:27:59 GMT -5
Two of my favorites from this year that I'd consider fillerless:
The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers St. Vincent - St. Vincent
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Post by fuzzywarble, squat cobbler on Dec 10, 2014 15:30:35 GMT -5
Guns n' Roses have ALOT of filler in their catalogue...chinese democracy has 2 fillers to me, "scraped" and "riad and bedouins" everything else was pretty quality (thank you buckethead!) but man...those illusions albums are full of fillers...stuff like "my world" "garden of eden" "you aint the first" "shotgun blues" "get in the ring" "the garden" "right next door to hell" "so fine" all i can think of at the top of my head...AFD has one filler to me and thats "anything goes" To me, the filler on the Illusion albums was high in quantity, as the songs didn't have that 'classic' GnR feel, or were simply too short to be considered classics. I feel that their most glaring filler tunes are "My World", "Dust & Bones" (IMO, any songs on these albums with lead vocals by anyone other than Axl is filler), "14 Years", "Live and Let Die" (yes, it was good, but it's a cover, so to me, that automatically makes it filler), "Right Next Door to Hell", "Bad Apples", "Double Talkin' Jive" (although the flamenco solo at the end is sweet), "You Ain't the First", "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (cover), "Perfect Crime", "The Garden", "So Fine", and "Shotgun Blues" (their most blatant filler, IMO, aside from "My World"). That said...with the exception of "My World", you can take any 8-10 of these songs, put them on one CD, and it would still be better than most stuff released by other bands.
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Post by ibdude on Dec 10, 2014 15:33:25 GMT -5
Watch the Throne by Kanye West and Jay-Z is full of filler and pointless musical tangents. The only good songs on the album are the singles.
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Post by wildojinx on Dec 10, 2014 15:50:16 GMT -5
Guns n' Roses have ALOT of filler in their catalogue...chinese democracy has 2 fillers to me, "scraped" and "riad and bedouins" everything else was pretty quality (thank you buckethead!) but man...those illusions albums are full of fillers...stuff like "my world" "garden of eden" "you aint the first" "shotgun blues" "get in the ring" "the garden" "right next door to hell" "so fine" all i can think of at the top of my head...AFD has one filler to me and thats "anything goes" To me, the filler on the Illusion albums was high in quantity, as the songs didn't have that 'classic' GnR feel, or were simply too short to be considered classics. I feel that their most glaring filler tunes are "My World", "Dust & Bones" (IMO, any songs on these albums with lead vocals by anyone other than Axl is filler), "14 Years", "Live and Let Die" (yes, it was good, but it's a cover, so to me, that automatically makes it filler), "Right Next Door to Hell", "Bad Apples", "Double Talkin' Jive" (although the flamenco solo at the end is sweet), "You Ain't the First", "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (cover), "Perfect Crime", "The Garden", "So Fine", and "Shotgun Blues" (their most blatant filler, IMO, aside from "My World"). That said...with the exception of "My World", you can take any 8-10 of these songs, put them on one CD, and it would still be better than most stuff released by other bands. "The Garden" was released as a single (or at least a video) so it wasnt that much of a filler song (plus you had that awesome Alice Cooper guest appearance).
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Post by Albino Heat on Dec 10, 2014 15:58:16 GMT -5
A lot of people consider Iron Maiden's Powerslave to be half filler and call it 'Fillerslave.'
These people suck, however...
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 10, 2014 16:28:13 GMT -5
I will fight anybody that says the Weezer blue album had a single piece of filler Not only is that album completely lacking in filler, the deluxe version shows that they had a good half dozen other songs that are just as f***ing good as that record. It's genuinely remarkable. Okay albums with least filler: Pink Floyd were great at this. Wish You Were Here is airtight. Animals is as well. Each of them features only five songs, mostly super long. Dark Side Of The Moon on other hand has a little bit of timewasting, namely the entirely of 'On The Run' and most of 'Us And Them.' The Who also were a dab hand at cutting out filler when they got good. Who's Next is flawless. The Who By Numbers is magnificent. Tommy has some timewasting material on it, but nowhere near as much as Quadrophenia which is two or three songs too long even without the three completely timewasting instrumentals. Albums with most filler: By Beatles standards, A Hard Day's Night and Beatles For Sale are quite jammed. AHDN being all-original has a few kind-of offcuts like 'When I Get Home,' but those two on a bad day destroy almost any band on a good day. Beatles For Sale has a lot of covers and is the worse for it in most cases. Later in life they got better at turning the song equivalents of molehills into mountains, like Abbey Road which is majestic almost front to back, even Ringo's song is pretty great, despite the second side being almost entirely half-finished songs.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2014 16:31:00 GMT -5
Sum 41- All Killer No Filler It is right in the title! Yes it was half an hour (and 2 minutes 21 - thanks wiki) of power
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Post by Tony Schiavontay on Dec 10, 2014 17:48:11 GMT -5
I gotta agree that it depends on how you feel about a band. Some people may think a lot of what Godspeed You! Black Emperor does is filler while people like me who love the band will tell you that every note is important. But Nails' 'Unsilent Death' has not a wasted second in its fourteen minutes. Every riff is awesome, every vocal line is awesome, every song is awesome. Number four in my top one hundred albums. For GY!BE, I agree that all the empty space is so key to their sound and makes the inevitable climax that's coming that much more powerful but I remember a song coming out from them a couple months after the last album was released (I think it was a leaked live track) that had a section of near silence that went on for 20 minutes straight. I thought that was a little on the excessive side. As for that Nails LP, yeah it's a ripper. It just crushes and suffocates for the whole time. Not sure I'd rank it as high as you do but it's a killer record for sure.
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Post by clifford on Dec 10, 2014 17:57:40 GMT -5
What about that Sum 41 album....
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Dec 10, 2014 18:02:10 GMT -5
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy has like zero filler. There are tracks on it I like more than others, but they all sound like some sort of attempt at a hit single.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2014 18:02:55 GMT -5
What's funny about the Sum 41 jokes is that "All Killer, No Filler" had a re-recording of "Summer" which was also on "Half Hour of Power". Apparently they were going to put that song on every album just to do it, but stopped after doing it twice. I think that should count as filler.
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Post by Glitch on Dec 10, 2014 18:20:55 GMT -5
FAN: The Album. The entire thing! I don't know who decided to tell Hawk that he should rap over the Perfect Strangers theme song.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Dec 10, 2014 18:31:23 GMT -5
FAN: The Album. The entire thing! I don't know who decided to tell Hawk that he should rap over the Perfect Strangers theme song. And why is the whole album in jazz time signature? I will say though, the Weird Al and Fred Durst guest spots on the singles were pretty sweet.
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Post by agent817 on Dec 10, 2014 19:07:11 GMT -5
Jodeci's "Forever My Lady" is kind of a mixed bag. The first half of the album, which were the slow R&B jams that they had, not to mention most were singles, like the title track, "Stay," "Come and Talk To Me," "I Can't Wait" and "U&I" were all great tracks. The rest of the album was just dance tracks. None of them were bad, but I have to say that the first half was just better.
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Post by StuntGranny® on Dec 10, 2014 20:39:56 GMT -5
I think Sum 41's All Killer, No Filler has to definitely be considered. Its title blatantly suggests a lack of filler.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Dec 10, 2014 23:45:35 GMT -5
Jerry Lee Lewis - "Last Man Standing." I dig the hell out of this whole album...except for "You Don't Have To Go" (performed with Neil Young) and probably "Couple More Years" with Willie Nelson (I probably would have liked the song performed by one or the other, but they didn't mesh well.) I absolutely love the rest of the album.
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Post by wildojinx on Dec 11, 2014 8:58:12 GMT -5
Also, isnt this more of a "IMO" thread? After all, a track that may be considered filler to someone may be a classic track to someone else.
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