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Originally posted by Energy
How do you all deem a track "filler"?
What are the requirements?
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Personally, my definition of a filler track is one that exists mostly to take up a spot on an album tracklisting; a song that was likely created very quickly and with little thought for its quality or placement on the album. To me, filler doesn't
have to be bad, but it's more likely to be. I love
Kate Nash's Dickhead, for example, but it does sound like it was whipped up in about five minutes. Robyn's Don't ****ing Tell Me What to Do, meanwhile, is a perfect example of a bad filler song. For more examples of
that sort, check out pretty much any of her albums.
But I think most people just use it to mean
"songs I skip every time," which often isn't the same thing. Like, I always skip Run the World on
4, but that's just because it's a bad song.
To answer the OP: Chvrches' The Bones of What You Believe is a good example of an album with none of either definition.