It’s the music industry equivalent of the dead-cat bounce, with any sense of style or conceptual completeness possessed by the original album being destroyed by the extra dead weight. Listening to '3 am' 'Hello' 'Same Song and Dance' 'Medicine Ball', the Refill tracks 'Buffalo Bill' 'Music Box' and the crowning achievement 'Stay Wide Awake'.
With album sales declining as a result of the cherry-picking tendencies fostered by downloading, you might have thought a logical response would be to trim away the extraneous fat that albums developed during the compact disc era, and return to something like the all-killer, no-filler approach of the vinyl era: a slim portfolio of excellence, rather than a bagful of odds, sods and obvious outtakes.īut with the same keen instincts that led the industry into decline, labels are pursuing exactly the opposite strategy: making the album experience an even more protracted, lower-quality affair, by reissuing them several months after their initial release, bulked out with an additional seven or eight tracks presumably deemednot good enough to make the cut the first time round, in the hope of getting a second bite of the action. Eminem really captures the strangeness and darkness of the mind of a serial killer like no other on 'Relapse'.
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