Did you ever just want one more awesome NIN song? Because lord knows Trent Reznor isn’t going to ever give you one… at least not until he maybe relapses and he may even be too far gone for that to even matter in making his music anymore. Thankfully Richard Patrick took it upon himself to do just that, give us that one last good NIN song. Besides fronting Filter Richard Patrick is best known for toiling under Trent Reznor’s thumb as NIN’s guitarist and being Robert Patrick’s brother… Who is Robert Patrick? The T-motherfucking-1000!!!!

I feel kind of conflicted putting Short Bus up here because truth be told it’s isn’t really that awesome of an album… it’s carried solely on the weight of Hey Man Nice Shot AKA the best NIN song they never wrote. The rest of the album sounds all the same, 90s aggro-industrial pretty hate machine rejects. But hey so many strive to sound like Pretty Hate Machine rejects and failed so as backhanded as it may sound it is an accomplishment of sorts. Dose is an OK track, but that’s still pushing it. You can sometimes find downloads of Short Bus where someone has thankfully included Filter’s only other really good track… a collaboartion with The Crystal Method, (Can’t You) Trip Like I Do from the Spawn Soundtrack.

But like I said Filter’s ode to Budd Dwyer and not Kurt Cobain (as was rumored when the song came out) Hey Man Nice Shot is that good (at least to me) to propel this bad boy to an awesomely awful album canon! It’s totally the best song ever written about putting a gun in your mouth and pulling the trigger… if that can even be considered an accomplishment!

On a side note. The Wiz (RIP) that used be across teh street from my house used to have Filter mislabeled as FITLER! Hahaha Fitler!