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I was thinking about what songs are considered filler on albums, of course, the early albums have a lot of instrumental or 'throwaway songs' and of course the studio joke/fillers.
I'd really like to get a list of what everyone feels are album fillers for
every
(Surfin' Safari - Summer in Paradise) Beach Boy album and/or solo album.
And I'd also be really interested in seeing if anyone recollects any of the Beach Boys ever admitting that some songs were filler or throwaway (much like John did in later interviews in the 70s about his songs with the Beatles).
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The Nearest Faraway Place
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Wild Honey - "How She Boogalooed It"
Friends - "Transcendental Meditation"
20/20 - "The Nearest Faraway Place"
Sunflower - "Tears in the Morning"
Surf's Up - "Looking At Tomorrow"
CATP - "Here She Comes" & "Hold On Dear Brother"
Holland - "Beaks of Eagles"
15BO - "Everyone's in Love With You"
Love You - "Love is a Woman"
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love is a woman is definitely not filler. Especially not on that album.
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Tears in the Morning is fantastic.
Hold On Dear Brother and Here She Comes are both great. I think they get ragged on because they seem like the more conventional songs compared to what the Wilsons were doing. I think they're both totally legitimate attempts.
I'm also going on record saying Beaks of Eagles is great too, it's got a great vibe.
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love is a woman is definitely not filler. Especially not on that album.
It fills my ears with pain!
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In my mind there is a distinction between "filler" and a song you just dont care for. I dont think "bad" songs are considered filler. Filler would be something that was clearly just thrown together in order to "fill" in time. "Bull Session" "Our Favorite recording sessions" and the medley from "party" come to mind. it's important to keep in mind how large a role time played in record making back then. putting an album together was kinda like a pie chart. filler was just the stuff that was thrown into the leftover space.
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Scrolling through the Beach Boys in my iTunes library, most of the filler songs appear to be on Hawthorne, CA.
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To me, the BB did the best "filler" album of all time in Smiley Smile. As in let's get whatever we can throw together quickly and get some product out or we'll be out of business. It's wonderful filler!
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Ditto Love is A Woman and Transcendental Meditation.
I can never get my head around the latter - it seems totally out of place on Friends. All these chilled out songs, and then the one that's actually about meditation is actually the most abrasive to listen to.
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The abrupt wake-up jolt in Wind Chimes = Transcendental Meditation, expanded into a song. Pure genius!
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Quote from: stack-o-tracks on February 14, 2011, 12:32:19 AM
Scrolling through the Beach Boys in my iTunes library, most of the filler songs appear to be on Hawthorne, CA.
What ones?
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Quote from: punkinhead on February 14, 2011, 03:26:01 AM
Quote from: stack-o-tracks on February 14, 2011, 12:32:19 AM
Scrolling through the Beach Boys in my iTunes library, most of the filler songs appear to be on Hawthorne, CA.
What ones?
The ones that just have people talking.
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Quote from: metal flake paint on February 14, 2011, 02:43:42 AM
The abrupt wake-up jolt in Wind Chimes = Transcendental Meditation, expanded into a song. Pure genius!
Interesting theory!
Talking of Transcendental Meditation, I really think it's a close relation to Fall Breaks, and subsequently related to Fire, and the Who Ran The Iron Horse section from Cabinessence. All share that up and down the scale thing, but the similarities are most pronounced in the vocals of TM and Fall Breaks. Compare the wordless aahs from TM (0.43 - 0.56) to Fall Breaks.
In my mind all those fire type songs sound like the darker sound of Brian's writing - almost like he's trying to articulate a sense of mounting catastrophe. That he chose a similar approach in Transcendental Mediation always seems incongruous to the subject matter of the song, but then maybe my interpretation of the fire songs is wrong, and they're all celebratory songs. Kind of sound a bit dark and despairing to me though.
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Re: Essential Album Fillers List
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Quote from: punkinhead on February 13, 2011, 08:24:17 PM
I was thinking about what songs are considered filler on albums, of course, the early albums have a lot of instrumental or 'throwaway songs' and of course the studio joke/fillers.
I'd really like to get a list of what everyone feels are album fillers for
every
(Surfin' Safari - Summer in Paradise) Beach Boy album and/or solo album.
And I'd also be really interested in seeing if anyone recollects any of the Beach Boys ever admitting that some songs were filler or throwaway (much like John did in later interviews in the 70s about his songs with the Beatles).
The notion of
fillers
for any album - not just the Boys, is one that I wonder about...
In order to
make it
in the
commercial context
- that single had to be squeezed in between radio ads, and, as between "Brylcreem" and "Bic razors," there is not a lot of time for
artful work
. It is a
drive-through
. In and out. Take it, leave it, like it, lump it!
Some of the more introspective and thoughtful, and
less commercial
work is considered "filler." It is like ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and those few minutes of fame. Most hit singles are around 3 minutes...On an LP, there is the luxury of "telling a story" in a more
lyrical
dynamic. This seemed consistent until singles became longer than three minutes, with the "Ode to Billy Joe" and some others which required one to actually "listen to a story" in that context, rather than dance next to your radio. And some of those songs "lengthened" the attention span of the listener, to the extent that Good Vibrations had the focus of the listener.
On the other hand, the
filler
(an example might be the non-singles on Pet Sounds, is what helps make a theme
stick
for artistic and critical acclaim.
A two-pronged challenge, maybe...
First, does it sustain your attention? (or do you change the radio dial?)
Second, is it thought-provoking, on a deeper level?
Not so much
filler
as
enlarging the message
of the artist, because they are not pressured with airplay and commercials to sell hair cream or razors, with those songs...
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I think in this instance, the definition of filler is much simpler - it's any given track thrown into the mix that gives the strong impression of being included solely to pad out the album in short order, e.g. "Denny's Drums" or "Shut Down Part 2". I'm willing to wager that the amount of thought and preparation devoted to those particular examples was roughly 'running time x 3'.
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Quote from: Andrew G. Doe on February 14, 2011, 06:10:45 AM
I think in this instance, the definition of filler is much simpler - it's any given track thrown into the mix that gives the strong impression of being included solely to pad out the album in short order, e.g. "Denny's Drums" or "Shut Down Part 2". I'm willing to wager that the amount of thought and preparation devoted to those particular examples was roughly 'running time x 3'.
Andrew - I don't think it is all that simple...I think you have to
qualify
when the work was released. Pre or post Pet Sounds, when the "thematic" albums, both in the US and the UK, eg. Rubber Soul, Sgt Pepper, etc., were looking at anti-war themes, peace themes, etc., especially when the album became the focus. A body of work, or
corpus
, is not the same as
filler
, even though there were probably contractual obligations to submit a certain number of minutes of material.
You may be correct (and probably are, about production time for certain work, and probably earlier work,) but it gave the fan, a chance to see, as in
Denny's Drums
, an individual talent. Or a different genre, for example, Pet Sounds (the instrumental) or The Nearest Faraway Place. The later
filler
gave the listener a chance to see a different artistic side, as opposed to the car-girlie-surf context into which they were stereotyped. The guys did not go to Holland just to write singles. JMHO
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By that premise, surely not every album
has
to contain filler?
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Interesting point about Smiley Smile, I love it and all, but I guess it could almost be described as a 'career' filler than an album full of 'fillers'...if that makes sense!
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One listener's "filler" is another listener's "essential deep tracks" and vice-versa. It's really down to opinion, although I have to think that things like "Bull Session With Big Daddy" would qualify as useless filler for just about any Beach Boys fan.
All of the albums until PET SOUNDS feature fairly blatant filler tracks where you can easily tell not much time was spent on conception or production (some of these, like "I'm Bugged At My Old Man", are great fun nonetheless). Even though they are excellent works (and Brian loved/loves them), both "Let's Go Away For Awhile" and "Pet Sounds" would probably qualify as filler although I think the album is stronger for their inclusion. Put in the context of SMILEY SMILE, everything
but
"Heroes & Villains" and "Good Vibrations" feels like filler, although I like a lot of this material. WILD HONEY and FRIENDS both feel like they were conceived as albums, but "Mama Says", despite its SMiLE pedigree, is pure filler and I feel the same way about "Passing By" and "Diamond Head" even though I like the tracks. 20/20 was not recorded as a complete album but a collection of bits-and-pieces and it's easy to dismiss quite a bit of it as filler.
I don't really see any attempt at creating filler on the first four Warner albums - regardless of whether I agree with the choices or not, all of the album tracks from '70 - '73 were the result of somebody in the band really caring about doing the best possible job. One could call all of the oldies on 15 BIG ONES filler - the original double album plan of having one album new songs and one oldies would have worked, but the mixing of the two just seems desperate. No question that using outtakes from 1970 on LOVE YOU and KEEPING THE SUMMER ALIVE is pure filler as is the disco redo of "Here Comes The Night" on LA.
Again, this isn't objective as many will find these "filler" tracks to be worthwhile and important album inclusions.
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I understand that what you say is opinion, but I don't understand how you figure Here Comes The Night as filler on L.A.? The edited version was the lead single. Whether you like disco or not, a lot of work was put into the making of that track. I'm sure when the Boys' recorded it, they didn't consider it filler.
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Quote from: drbeachboy on February 14, 2011, 01:27:59 PM
I understand that what you say is opinion, but I don't understand how you figure Here Comes The Night as filler on L.A.? The edited version was the lead single. Whether you like disco or not, a lot of work was put into the making of that track. I'm sure when the Boys' recorded it, they didn't consider it filler.
I see your point here. The practice of doing extended edits of songs didn't really take off until the 80s, but normally a band would issue a short version on the album and reserve an extended version for a 12" single. New Order's "Perfect Kiss" is a good example in that it was conceived of as a longer song (in fact, the song's title comes from a verse edited out of the album version), but truncated on the LOWLIFE album to make room for the other songs. I agree that Curt Boettcher and Bruce put a ton of effort into the "Here Comes The Night" redo, so it's not like the track was thrown together. But as important as this track was to the band, and I think it was primarily a commercial strategy to give the band a presence in discos, re-recording an existing Beach Boys song and extending it to 10 minutes still feels like filler to me.
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