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Title: Buy Title of Record and Short Bus before even thinking about wasting your money on this one
Review: In attempting to follow 1999's dynamic Title of Record, Filter released an overall much heavier CD, with only "Goddamn Me" and "Where Do We Go From Here" to save listeners from the nonstop barrage of poorly-played, over-distorted downtuned guitars.All of the songs are tolerable, but it cannot compare to its predecessor. The lyrics take a sharp downhill turn, with self-conscious wording and cliche themes (Marilyn Manson had the right and a reason to comment on Columbine, because he was blamed, and Korn did because of their ties to dark and violent music. But who cares what Richard Patrick thinks?).Patrick once claimed that this would be the best record since the Defones' "White Pony." He was wrong.
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