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Originally Posted by dubman
that's kind of stupid, dude!
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Maybe, but if you think back to 1995 when cd albums were pretty much the only way music was released. Most albums were at least 10 tracks long (4/5 tracks = an ep, 7 was too few for a standard album) and the way record companies controlled how music was sold and packaged meant that to try and make a 7 track album (STITI - Blueski) look a little bit more like a 'normal' album they might stick a short filler track on.
It's just a thought I've had in the past and it's how it feels to me in the flow of the album.
I wonder if it's a little trick like when the last track on album has a 'secret track' after the end of the last track but it's after a few minutes of silence so it makes the album seem a bit longer- eg Massive Attack 100th Window at the end of Antistar there's 10 mins of noise so when you put the cd in it looks 10mins longer than it actually is!
I know I've got other albums from back then (that I can't remember right now) with similar things like that.
Maybe (as it seems) my cynicism is totally off the mark but there always used to be/still are 'filler tracks' on albums and I just feel that Blueski is one and SQ on BBWFASF is another and I am really surprised at how much love it seems to be getting!