Filler songs...

[redbird]

"I Don't Wanna Know" immediately comes to mind. Yes I know that you can argue that if you didn't know the whole history with "Silver Springs" you wouldn't find it filler, but ... I think I would anyway. It's a nice song but feels out of place with the rest of the album, except possibly "Second Hand News". But Stevie needed a third addition so on it went. I tend to like to listen to it with tracks from the white album instead.

To me there is nothing filler at all about "That's Alright" or "Oh Daddy". I don't think Tusk has filler songs, it's not like there was any empty space that was crying out to be filled.

"Mystified" (though I don't dislike it) and "You and I Pt 2" certainly seem like lightweight compositions to me. "Oh Diane" is filler, even though I am not among its haters.

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by Wdm6789

Which songs do you guys think seem like filler, that could have been cut or replaced by a better song

Sugar Daddy
I don't want to know
Oh Daddy
Can't go Back
Oh Diane
Wish You Were Here


Well Tusk could have been cut down to 12 tracks. Do all the writers have good tracks on this album? Lindsey and Christine have the fillers, though all of Stevie's songs on Tusk are great.

There is no accounting for one's idiosyncratic tastes. I like all of those songs! I don't consider them as filler in any sense. Just because they don't meet a subjective standard doesn't mean they are taking the space of better songs.

Tusk was born out a deliberate artistic statement Lindsey wanted to make. Watered down to a standard 12 track album, it wouldn't have distinct allure which many have come to appreciate over time. Not every song on an album has to achieve universal appeal.

Tusk reminds me of the Beatles' White album -- a double album in which each member had their own specific moments. It's a eclectic group of songs -- not all them great, but as part of the greater whole, they amount to a very unique, distinctive album.