Filter the band

they released five more albums including one last year, I almost respect the cling

An unintentional song about alcoholism.

There was a period of my life where I wrote from purely an experience point of view. “Take a Picture” [from 1999's Title of Record] was written from the insanity of being an alcoholic. I tried to make sense of it, but I refused to write with any kind of meaning behind it, and I wrote purely stream-of-conscious. And looking back on those lyrics, it was genius because it was not contrived – I didn’t know that the message was that this song was about alcoholism.

Goddamn it, ever since it was revived on the CVS thread I've kept going back to that video, thinking about how much I would love to inhabit that stupid overblown late 90s world again. After enough of that, the dumb song went and got stuck in my head.

So I've added it to my "Mediocre Modern Rock" playlist. Anything else from Filter that would fit the bill? I had only known them from Hey Man Nice Shot, which is an entirely different aesthetic.

"(Can't You) Trip Like I Do" probably is also not the right aesthetic but that's the first song that came to mind

start with the lesser Tonic singles and go from there

but filter-wise you might be SOL, I'm pretty sure this was a complete fluke versus HMNS/Jurassitol/etc