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Originally Posted by oojay
How can you call an album that spawns multiple #1 hits mediocre? Very few albums are chock-full of gold. I agree that the filler can be somewhat sh*tty (by definition), but it's either put out a record with multiple hits and some filler once a year, or wait 5-10 years until they can write an album bound to be full of #1 hits and then release it. Which is more economically viable? (I realize how a real music fan would answer this, me being one as well, but this is the real world we live in, people have to make a living).
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Why does it have to have hits on it? I'm sure a band like Foo Fighters are at a stage where they have the freedom to write what they want, free from any constraints of having to make a hit. I mean, the acoustic side of In Your Honour was popular wasn't it?