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* [[Executive Meddling]]: One of the good examples. The band's label disliked what was to be their second album that they asked them to go back and start over again. Then when the band delivered that album to their label, the label claimed that it needed two more single-worthy songs. The album that resulted, ''Modern Life is Rubbish'', is considered one of the band's best albums. The two "singleworthy" songs, "For Tomorrow" and "Chemical World" were two of the band's biggest (at the time) and most popular songs. The already recorded first-try album was instead released as b-sides to the three singles from the new second-try (the third single being "Sunday Sunday"). those now-B-sides are decent, but are not considered to be stronger than the material on ''Modern Life is Rubbish''.

** An unfortunate example, from the same period is the track "Turn It Up" which the band hated but the American record label thought it would do well there, and was added to ''Modern Life is Rubbish'' at the expense of "Young And Lovely", which the band liked (that song became the B-side to "Chemical World").

** "Ernold Same" has additional vocals by Ken Livingstone, the former Mayor of London.

* [[Revival By Commercialization]]: "Song 2" tends to get this a lot.

=== [[Blur (Video Game)|The Video Game]] ===

* [[Dueling Games]]: Released one week after ''[[Split Second]]'', and the same day as ''[[Modnation Racers]]''.

* [[Screwed By the Network]]: [[Activision]] ended Bizarre Creations when this didn't sell.