Word: fillers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Raised a Cain" and "Streets of Fire." Almost identical, they throb like a migraine with leaden, new-wave-inspired beats while Springsteen growls incoherently and lays down overamplified guitar riffs. These songs seem to be his answer to the anger of punk rock, but they sound more like annoying filler material...
...strong as the original. Jagger's voice is strained and impassioned, but the band sounds a bit clubfooted, especially during the bridge. The Stones slide part way into the pit that threatens a hard rock band adapting a soft number to its style and the song becomes merely filler when compared to the rest...
...although this is fine, fine country music--the only bit of filler is a lackluster cover of Bill Monroe's "Uncle Pen"--four key songs, beginning with "Feeling Better" and continuing on side two with "The New South," "Tennessee," and "It's a Long, Long Way to Hollywood" present as evocative a picture of the musician and the road as any recent performers, including Jackson Browne...
Kermode said that traditional commentary has explained the story of Herod and Salomi as merely filler between the departure of the 12 apostles in Mark's verse eight and their return in verse 30. "This shows a great lack of understanding by commentators: they just want to save they task from its complexity," he said...
...cuts where Scaggs hangs back and plays safe are not particularly outstanding. "A Clue" is pretty and lyrical and at the same time thoughtful and boring; the crashing of cymbals in "We're Waiting" is meaningless and facile; "Tomorrow Never Came" is pure filler. Half of the songs on the album just don't work, and are failures made all the more disappointing by the excellence of the other half of the album. Scaggs may have cut his own throat on this record by not sustaining high standards the whole way through, but if his fans stick with him through...