Filter - I'm Not The Only One

[fuzzyroes]

Originally Posted by The exploding boy

I always thought they were responsible for some of the blandest songwriting i heard.

I bought short bus because of Hey Man but man was that record bland as fuck.

I've never understood the appeal of Filter.

I picked up Short Bus a year or 2 ago for like a buck and was excited to check it out because I've always kind of liked Hey man but you ain't lying... Just terrible songwriting. Listened to it once all the way through and never again... Not even 1 song that I wanted to go back and check out for a lick or melody.

I also downloaded the album with Picture on it before and that was also pretty lame to me.

Oh, and their new shit is laughingly bad too. Heard a few tracks posted on an interview... Richard patrick: what a hack.

[fuzzyroes]

Originally Posted by Mals Marola

not to mention what asshole doesn't get "guilty joys" from the handful of sugar ray songs that were played all the fucking time during that era

Fly is one of the songs that comes on during an awful pop-music loop at my work and I'm always happy to hear it.

The loop they play features all the safe, super lame shit. I hear about 5-8 Taylor Swift songs a day.

But amongst the load of crap, heres a few I'm always happy to hear:

Sugar Ray- Fly
Gin Blossoms- Hear it from you
Gin Blossoms- Josie
Gin Blossoms- follow you down
Goo Goo Dolls- Name
Rob Thomas -Ever the same
Lifehouse- You and me

The rest is all very poppy, very current crap. I'm talking 1 direction, Swift, that Happy song etc... Not sure how that handful of oldies found their way in there.

[bye june]

Originally Posted by Elphenor

Basically from the time Radiohead released OK Computer no other Band has really mattered the last end of that decade and the 00's belong to them

Modest Mouse is the GOAT band of that era.

[slunken]

modest mouse peaked in 2000

[slunken]

unwound is probably my favorite mid to late 90s rock act

would man or astroman count?

[slunken]

i liked short bus because it was the first time i heard what i thought was a homemade or underground album. i couldn't wrap my head around how that sound could only be made by two guys in a crash pad. for the first time i realized you didn't have to have a band to make band music.

downward spiral, on the other hand, was still too musically complex for me to even begin to try to deconstruct in that way. i still don't understand the relationships between sequencers and samplers and synths in a way where i can hear the album and know what's going on and how the sounds are being made.

[slunken]

can your preacher bring me down?

why don't they fuck?

[bye june]

Originally Posted by slunken

modest mouse peaked in 2000

I don't know about that but Moon was their last album as the "classic trio" before they expanded.

Originally Posted by slunken

unwound is probably my favorite mid to late 90s rock act

would man or astroman count?

Yes

[slunken]

i thought everything after "moon" got weaker and weaker

those first 2 albums and the comp are perfect - moon and antarctica just topped it off

[bye june]

I agree, those first three are just amazing but I also think We Were Dead is pretty good too.

Good News has some really great songs as well but that's my least favorite album as a whole.

[Mals Marola]

good news was the first i ever got by them, on the year of release even, so i could never call it the "weakest"

plus - float on, ocean breathes salty, bury me with it, dancehall, the view, good times are killing me, one chance, world at large

all awesome songs to me

better than radiohead? not a chance but there were definitely other "important" albums etc. so whateva!

[LaBelle]

I don't really care for Radiohead.
I listened to their stuff at various points in my life but never got what the fuss was about.

[Mals Marola]

i segwayed into 'em from blur after segwaying to them from gorillaz & somewhere along the line an UNKLE review was involved

worked pretty well for me!

[Elphenor]

Originally Posted by bye june

Modest Mouse is the GOAT band of that era.

I like them enough

[bye june]

Originally Posted by Mals Marola

good news was the first i ever got by them, on the year of release even, so i could never call it the "weakest"

plus - float on, ocean breathes salty, bury me with it, dancehall, the view, good times are killing me, one chance, world at large

all awesome songs to me

That's cool...Ocean Breathes Salty and The View are def my favs from that album.

I don't like the pointless interludes and some of the songs are forgettable to me.

By the way, I've Got It All (Most) was from that session...I like it more than some of the album cuts.

[bye june]

I'll probably go back to Good News someday and love it so who knows.

[slunken]

filter, local h, and helmet came through town on tour a handful of months back. i remember thinking that if i had free tickets i would go.

[Mals Marola]

Originally Posted by slunken

filter, local h, and helmet came through town on tour a handful of months back. i remember thinking that if i had free tickets i would go.

i went to this when they came to la, lol

pretty great show actually, went home with the set list

[slunken]

haha

i bet that joint was full of dads

[Mals Marola]

not really

only dad i remember was the dude who ran the place, was mostly folk my age & a grab bag of goth girls

not that i had the best grasp of the audience or whatever, room was dark & full of multi-colored smoke-machine smoke

[slunken]

Originally Posted by Mals Marola

room was dark & full of multi-colored smoke-machine smoke

like i said, dads

[bye june]

sad dad dancing

[Mals Marola]

where do we gooooo from here
y'know i'm not the only one!

[Mals Marola]

4ever a stone-cold jam

[bye june]

oh hell yea

[Catherine Wheel]

Speaking of Helmet Chris Traynor is now playing with Bush.

[Mals Marola]

Speaking of Bush Bush are still a fucking thing

[Catherine Wheel]

I imagine he's making a lot more money as a member of Bush then he ever did with Helmet. It's a smart move financially.

[Mals Marola]

i like more than a coupla bush songs, i just... i 'onno it's a real "parallel universe" thing i guess

john stainer in tomahawk was always interesting to me though

ffffFLASHBACK

[Dennis Nedry]

Chris Traynor was a hired gun in Helmet. He didn't play on any of the records that mattered. Therefore, nobody should really give a shit whose bush he plays in.