Album Rating: 3.0

An album that was important to me in my formative years, it doesn't quite hold up 10 years on, but when it's good (Take A Picture, Captain Bligh, The Best Things, I Will Lead You) it's very good.

To the author of this review,you may find Richard's shrieking unbearable but that's where the true metal lover gets an adrenaline rush.Metal is supposed to have a cathartic effect on the listener and get them pumped up.It shouldn't be judged on just how it sounds.Richard's energetic shouting along with the brutal rhythyms are all a true heavy music listener needs instead of just focusing on quality of lyrics or repetivieness.
And you say songs like Cancer are unimaginative but if you listen closely,maybe a pair of headphones might help,you'll find a darkly seductive distorted atmopsphere with a creepy chorus of "I AM A CANCER".
Unless you're just not into heavy music.

take a picture is so good

Album Rating: 3.5

Busted this out yesterday...forgot how good some of these songs are. The album definately starts to drag towards the end though.

Album Rating: 4.5

Why was it such a big deal back in the late 90's to have songs at the end of the album that are like 20 mins long just because there's a hidden track in it? Deftones did that on "Around the Fur" too, so dumb and pointless.

Album Rating: 4.0

I love this album.

Album Rating: 5.0

cancer and skinny are awesome!

Album Rating: 4.5

This is their best album but The Amalgamut is rigth behind it with a 4

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah this rules.

Album Rating: 4.5

This is their best album but The Amalgamut is rigth behind it with a 4. How can yuo dis Miss Blue. It is the most beautiful song they have ever written. Probably the best on the album. Just because it is acoustic doesnt make it "uncreative".

Album Rating: 4.5

"To the author of this review,you may find Richard's shrieking unbearable but that's where the true metal lover gets an adrenaline rush.Metal is supposed to have a cathartic effect on the listener and get them pumped up.It shouldn't be judged on just how it sounds.Richard's energetic shouting along with the brutal rhythyms are all a true heavy music listener needs instead of just focusing on quality of lyrics or repetivieness.

And you say songs like Cancer are unimaginative but if you listen closely,maybe a pair of headphones might help,you'll find a darkly seductive distorted atmopsphere with a creepy chorus of "I AM A CANCER".

Unless you're just not into heavy music."



Amen to that!

Oh my god this review is so awful I was such an idiot in high school. Oh well. Still the only reviewer
for this album.

And yeah I had never listened to metal when I wrote this. So the vocal style was really "heavy" to me
at the time. *facepalm*

Album Rating: 4.5

ahhhh ok thats definitely understandable... Now that your not in high school you should redo this review, i really am curious on your opinion nowadays.

I'm not going to redo it but my overall opinion has not changed that much. It's an inconsistently great album and there's really not anything quite like it. I absolutely love Richard Patrick's vocals now (now that the metal in me has been awakened) and I appreciate the heavy moments on the album a lot more. Capt. Bligh, Take a Picture, Skinny, and I Will Lead you are all fantastic and everything else is good to great. I don't feel like there's any particularly weak songs anymore like I did when I wrote this review. On the other hand, even the good songs are slightly repetitive and the album still seems to run out of gas at the halfway point, like it presented all of its best ideas and has to rely on small moments of brilliance to keep it going, like the vocal effects in "Cancer" or the build-up in "I'm Not the Only One" for example. I got the Amalgamut a year or two after doing this review and I feel like it's a much stronger album, albeit a lot more mainstream. Either way, Filter is a really special band to me even though I give their individual albums fairly middle of the road ratings, and they're one of the few mainstream rock bands that I can honestly say I love.

This is a great album. In my opinion, filter's best. If you haven't heard their newest check it out, it's pretty good.

Album Rating: 3.5

time to check this out

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm not the only one is my favourite. Great album.

I think this album can only be really appreciated if you think about in the context of American music in 1999. (Think Smashmouth, Sugar Ray, Lit, Hanson, LimpBizkit, etc.) It was atrocious. By 2006, when this review was written the landscape had changed - and some of the things that made this CD stand out had become commonplace and may not seem as interesting.

I remember being blown away by this CD in early 2000 - from beginning to end... At the time, there were a few bands working out different ways to use elements of electronica and melodic vocals in their music, Radiohead - Kid A, Taproot - Gift, Linkin Park, Deftones - White Pony, LimpBizkit, etc. In that context, I think the did a great job standing out with this one. The fact that it still stands up and sounds somewhat unique 15 years later says a lot.

Album Rating: 3.5

this is pretty damn awesome. probably one of the best mainstream rock records of the late nineties

Album Rating: 3.5

One of the better albums in mainstream rock during the late 90s