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| 4.0 excellent | BlondeGuardian | September 15th 21 |
Filter had a truly excellent and inspired song with "Hey Man Nice Shot", and proceeded to make nothing like it ever again
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| 3.5 great | Britch2tiger | October 5th 15 |
How this album is not rated a 4/5 (on average) is beyond me. An alt rock sound w/ a fun blend of distorted rock w/ minor amounts of electronica (w/ exception to the drums). For a 90s album and having to compete w/ Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine in terms of mainstream industrial rock popularity, THIS (in my opinion) is the better debut album. For anyone willing to begin an interest into the industrial genre as a light touch, I recommend this as one of your first 5 industrial albums. For anyone curious here are the other 4: Visitation (Chrome), White Noise (Cop Shoot Cop), Bites (Skinny Puppy), and Filth (Swans). From then on, I recommend listening to some of the better albums. Here are 3 to name a few: Possession (God), Alien Soundtracks (Chrome), and Naked City (Naked City).
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| 5.0 classic | tycobb | February 26th 14 |
I forgor that Filter is Filter and it deserve more than 3,5
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| 5.0 classic | happyfunball | October 29th 12 |
Richard Patrick and Brian Liesegang create industrial perfection here. This was the last cassette tape I ever purchased new. I wore the blue tape out from listening to it so much, so then I just bought the CD and continued listening. A true start to finish listen that stands the test of time.
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| 0.0 | chambered89 | April 17th 10 |
Hey Man Nice Shot contends for Filter's best song...unfortunately, the rest of the album fails to compete.
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| 0.0 | Blurry | August 17th 07 |
Filter's debut album is a solid slab of mid-90s industrial rock. The most notable piece here is of course 'Hey Man, Nice Shot', which was thought to be promoting suicide, but was actually about the public suicide of U.S. politician R. Budd Dwyer (That Richard Patrick's publishing company was named 'Buddy Doiwer Publishing' was hardly a coincidence). The song also raised some eyebrows among Stabbing Westward's fanbase as the cathartic chorus riff was identical to a riff from that band's 'Ungod' (It later came to light that the riff was contributed to both groups by guitarist Stuart Zechman). The rest of the album is less exciting, but still quite enjoyable, particularly when the acoustic guitars appear, ('So cool', 'Stuck in Here') indicating some avenues that would be more fully pursued on the follow up. Short Bus is a decent album, but not really a good starting point for those new to Filter.
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| 4.0 excellent | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | April 4th 24 |
| 3.5 great | phylyps | November 19th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Avet | October 21st 23 |
| 2.5 average | platttt | February 28th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Moses77 | November 18th 22 |
| 2.5 average | katkac | March 12th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | teo | July 5th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | luetin | April 2nd 21 |
| 3.5 great | Brabiz | October 19th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | UncleAl | September 2nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Savage | April 8th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | gilly | June 26th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | xxm | May 25th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | April 1st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | tysly | February 14th 19 |
| 3.0 good | jdub74 | December 28th 18 |
| 3.5 great | NateMa | November 22nd 18 |
| 3.5 great | Scott | November 10th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | papudo | August 19th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ryfly44 | April 11th 18 |
| 3.5 great | gschwen | September 9th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | wub | April 28th 17 |
| 2.5 average | El Olam | February 11th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Nat S. | February 3rd 17 |
| 2.5 average | Wolfe | January 5th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Yep321 | April 9th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | CutMan | April 8th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | random | January 22nd 16 |
| 4.5 superb | cord13 | June 5th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | tatty | September 24th 14 |
| 3.0 good | stevep | February 19th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Allineed | February 10th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | dayweed | January 8th 14 |
| 3.5 great | aguzman | November 21st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | djbytes | June 23rd 13 |
| 2.5 average | Spec | May 25th 13 |
| 3.5 great | heck | March 5th 13 |
| 3.5 great | ILJ | December 8th 12 |
| 3.0 good | dcorrea | September 14th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lani | August 5th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Krsm | July 30th 12 |
| 3.0 good | TLX | April 17th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Apollo | March 3rd 12 |
| 3.5 great | Bossie | February 15th 12 |
| 3.0 good | jlech | January 26th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | 32left | January 4th 12 |
| 3.5 great | gazanga | November 23rd 11 |
| 3.5 great | JohnCon | November 20th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | 6sic6 | August 9th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Trey STAFF | May 27th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Elwood | March 10th 11 |
| 2.5 average | Ghrist | December 6th 10 |
| 3.0 good | zyzil | November 11th 10 |
| 2.0 poor | BlissX | November 5th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Mateus | October 8th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Texture | September 12th 10 |
| 3.5 great | 76TVs | July 21st 10 |
| 3.5 great | Yusuf | June 3rd 10 |
| 3.5 great | XII | March 4th 10 |
| 2.5 average | deadsye | February 19th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Smevin | February 8th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | JesusV4 | September 16th 09 |
| 2.5 average | Tjeerd | June 1st 09 |
| 3.5 great | tarcus | November 6th 08 |
| 3.5 great | jambian | September 14th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | nin6940 | March 7th 08 |
| 2.5 average | coopj | February 14th 08 |
| 4.5 superb | cpd38 | September 5th 07 |
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