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* Another good example is [[The Beach Boys]]' ''Party'', an album of covers thrown together quickly, as the studio wanted to have a release available for the holiday shopping season, and the planned album ''Pet Sounds'' was being delayed due to Brian Wilson's perfectionism. The last song on the album, a cover of Fred Fasset's "Barbara Ann", became a surprise hit, charting at #2, although not initially released as a single; while the album itself hit the top 10 at #6.

* Lampshaded with [[Monty Python]]'s ''Contractual Obligation Album'', which was originally released with the tagline "Now a Major Lawsuit." The album actually ''was'' produced to finish out a contract, and listening to it, it's clear that the Pythons didn't put much effort into it. Over half the album is songs and brief spoken word pieces by Eric Idle, and the rest is new recordings of old material that the Pythons had written for other projects. But because it's [[Monty Python]], it's of course hilarious.

* Love and Rockets (post-punk/synth-rock band consisting of former [[Goth|Bauhaus]] members) did one of these with their side project "The Bubblemen"—a single release consisting of "The Bubblemen Are Coming," "Bubblemen Rap" and "Bees", and featuring the band dressed in bee costumes—as a "blowing off steam" variation of this trope. The project quickly became a cult hit; and they often performed as The Bubblemen as part of their regular concerts.

* In the late '60s, Van Morrison recorded an entire album of deliberately, unreleaseably awful songs (The Big Royalty Check, Ringworm, Here Comes Dumb George) in order to get out of his contract with Bang Records. This ended up backfiring on him in the early '90s, when the cash-strapped rightsholders began licensing them out...on "Greatest Hits" compilations, no less.