And this is what differentiates Filter from One-Hit Wonders: they didn’t score a hit by straining their sound in any populist direction their sound was already populist, but of extraordinarily limited appeal. People love that sound…for precisely the amount of time that it takes “Hey Man, Nice Shot” to spin. It’s a perfect distillation of the sound the band started out with, and to which they remained faithful for another five years.
Bands become drunk with the success of this abnormality, they concentrate on trying to write the same song again but fool their audience into thinking it’s a different song, and this is largely what comes to determine their overall aesthetic (do I even have to wink in your direction, Fuel? Nickelback? Fiddy?).įor Filter, this process was inverted, since “Hey Man, Nice Shot” sounds exactly like every other Filter song. That is, the hit doesn’t necessarily sound much like the rest of the parent album or the band’s ordinary output. The trademarks of One-Hit Wonders are often obvious singles. These are shitty bands that, for reasons likely to remain inscrutable for eternity, were able, just once, to piss on the third rail of genuine artistic achievement, and were, by that happy accident, momentarily electrified. I’ve cultivated enough faith in CMG’s loyal readership to know that I don’t have to explain that this is not a“One-Hit Wonders” list.
Filter "Hey Man, Nice Shot" (Reprise 1995)įilter’s “Hey Man, Nice Shot” is a lucid argument for the existence of predestination, and as such is scarily emblematic of the spirit of this list’s collection of artists.
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