How's it going lurkers? Yes, Song Saturday is back this week. If you are at least 30 years old or close to it, you may remember the Industrial Rock band, Filter.
For the last 2 decades, there have been constant gaps over the years, whenever Filter releases albums or releases songs for soundtracks.
The gaps among Filter's albums were partly because of vocalist, Richard Patrick's substance abuse. Over the years, he went to rehab at least once.
Otherwise, it was because of Patrick forming a few side bands such as The Damning Well and Army Of Anyone.
Usually, Filter was featured on Horror, Thriller, and Supernatural movie soundtracks such as Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight, The Crow: City Of Angels, The Crow: Salvation, Spawn, and The Stepfather remake. This is only naming a few examples.
When the Industrial Rock band debuted in late 1994, they were featured on the Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight Soundtrack with the song, "Hey Man Nice Shot."
During that time, I was almost 13 years old. It's amazing how time flies. Here I am going on 34. The times have really changed, as the years keep passing by.
While choosing which Filter songs I wanted to share on here yesterday, it really made reminisce about the old days of buying albums and soundtracks as a teenager, during the 1990's.
By the mid to late '90s, Filter's songs and music videos were heavily played on Rock stations and MTV.
Then again, entertainers and the Entertainment Industry during the last 20 years of the 20th Century invested more time in promoting entertainment compared to the early 21st Century promoting political bias, division, hatred, and propaganda.
Recently, Patrick chose to jump on the politically divisive and hateful bandwagon like almost every Hollywood entertainer. He lost my respect for him as a fan because he's just another sell out.
I don't know how self-righteous and politically divisive Richard Patrick is on Crazy Eyes, but if it's a politically divisive clone album like Green Day's American Idiot, forget it.
About 2-3 weeks ago, I read Roxy's blog on HardDrive Radio's Dirt page about Filter's latest album, Crazy Eyes being a political album. So, I read the song titles earlier on their new album.
Then, I listened
to the band's new song, "Take Me To Heaven." Patrick wrote it about his
dead father. We still have no idea yet how politically divisive and hateful Crazy Eyes is, but the frontman rants about "The Donald" on Filter's new album.
As devastated as Richard Patrick must be about his dead father, I will have to pass on the song. Filter making a politically biased and divisive album is unnecessary.
Even though this album is
supposedly going back to the band's earlier instrumental sound, I don't
want to feel like I'm going to a political rally or a protest. With that
being said, Richard Patrick is alienating some of Filter's original
fans by feeling the need to act self-righteous about his political
views.
As if this last decade of self-righteous, politically biased, divisive, and hateful wannabe "activists" wasn't enough. When will this ever end in entertainment?
I want to be entertained, NOT patronized, berated, condemned, and demonized ad nauseam for my political views by self-righteous, uncultured, wannabe political activists from Hollywood with ZERO credit hours in Political Science, Culture, Religion, and Foreign Languages.
Entertainers really need to get back to writing music, books, movies, and shows, which do NOT fixate on hating the latest smarmy politician, in order to sell their work.
There are many other topics to fixate on and write about that do
NOT have to revolve around the most divisive, hateful, caustic, polarizing, and
oppressive issues such as politics. I could rant forever about celebutards, but I won't.
I would much rather listen to Filter's classic songs than their latest album, Crazy Eyes. This time, I think I will pass.
In case you never heard any of these classic Filter songs that were featured on Horror, Supernatural, and Thriller soundtracks, you can listen to them below for today's Song Saturday.
Just a quick reminder, the cover of The Turtles' "Happy Together" was featured on The Stepfather Soundtrack, in 2009.
It was later featured on The Great Gatsby Soundtrack, in 2013. Anyway, here's this week's Song Saturday.
1) Filter "Hey Man Nice Shot" Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight Soundtrack (1994); Short Bus (1995)
3) Filter [Featuring The Crystal Method] "Can't You Trip Like I Do" Spawn: The Album (1997)
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