Title of Record

Filter

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 24, 1999)
• Original Release Date: August 24, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Reprise / Wea
• ASIN: B00000JZC4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (237 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #70,631 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
"Hey Man, Nice Shot" may have been a fluke hit, but Filter's Richard Patrick has spent four years working on the follow-up album, mastering enough sonic variety to ensure that Filter stick around the moshpit. Programmer Brian Liesegang is gone, but Patrick continues on, picking up the slack and yielding nothing. Crowd reaction is impossible to anticipate, but at 70 minutes, Title of Record is an exhaustive collection of hyperkinetic guitars, subliminal melodies and thunderous dynamics--which is to say, it sports plenty of hard rock aggression, but is firmly rooted in the pop experience that keeps the songs in your head. "It's Gonna Kill Me" has a stalker's vibe in its techno-metal roots, while "Take a Picture" and "Captain Bligh" are radio-friendly unit shifters that suggest that underneath the technology rests a beating, and often bruised, human heart. --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Give it a chance., March 19, 2003

By	Christian Zimmerman "Popular music afficianado" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Every genre of popular music has its own set of unwritten rules, from punk's avoidance of the mainstream to pop's emphasis on looks as much as talent. Perhaps the foremost rule of the industrial genre is that "real" industrial fans are to dismiss the crop of bands that emerged in the wake of Nine Inch Nails as derivative, and thus to be dismissed as "industrial lite." However, Filter's second album, TITLE OF RECORD, once again proves that unwritten rules are generally stupid.

With this album, Richard Patrick has loosed most of the chains that tied him to Trent Reznor's work. Rather, any remaining similarities occur simply because both artists are working in the same genre. Make no mistake, this is an industrial album, but instead of using the ragged distortion that made SHORT BUS repetitive, here Patrick is more inclined to create swirling atmospheric effects for what are otherwise straightforward rock songs. Of course, the fact that this album has atmosphere does not change the fact that most of these songs are really freakin' loud, and sound best when played that way (especially "Welcome To The Fold," which is definitely the best track here).

Derivative? Maybe. But when you're this good, who cares?

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best album of "99", December 18, 1999

By A Customer

Back in 1995 when "Hey Man Nice Shot" was relesed I instantly became hooked on their album "Short Bus". Now 4 years later they continue to create some of the best tunes I have ever heard. They have matured into a newer and better sound than their previous recordings. Highlights of this album include Captain Bligh, Take a Picture, I Will Lead You, and I'm Not The Only One. If you are coming into the world of filter as either a new or old fan you will love their stuff as much as I do. Pick yourself up a copy of both albums and see what I mean.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Really a 3.5 rating out of 5, June 29, 2005

By	Petar Vodogaz "Commissioner" (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Filter is another band of young men that I didn't even hear about in the music scene. I decided on a whim to buy this CD for a taste of 'Filter'. Really if I could, I would give this album 3.5/5. It's not what I expected. This band experiments with their rock sound incorporating pop, fusion techno, with splices of punk and pyschadelic grunge in their songs. It is a fairly long CD just over 70 mins. This is a 11 track CD with the last track going for a whopping 19 minutes. 'Title Of Record' is a CD that will appeal to alot of people but not pure rock enthusiasts. I enjoyed two songs immensly on this album and they were 'Take A Picture' as well as 'Miss Blue'. These two songs have been on TV ads and movies and soundtracks, they are fairly distinguishable. Its not a bad effort but it won't be a CD that I will play regularly at all.