1. Background and recording

2. Composition and lyrics

3. Packaging

4. Promotion and touring

5. Track listing

6. Chart performance
    Album  Singles 

7. Personnel

8. References

• Brian Liesegang
• Richard Patrick

Short Bus is the debut studio album by American rock band Filter, released on May 8, 1995 by Reprise Records. Lead singer Richard Patrick said in an interview that Trent Reznor had told him he should make his own record while he went off to work on Nine Inch Nails' 1994 album The Downward Spiral.^[3] Patrick, while still retaining industrial elements in the music, chose to focus on the guitars, which he felt was something missing when he played with Nine Inch Nails; he also chose not to go with the standard industrial rock look, which he felt would set them apart.

Short Bus has sold over one million copies in the United States, and is best known for the hit single "Hey Man Nice Shot".

Background and recording

Filter formed in 1993 by musicians Richard Patrick, Brian Liesegang, and Stuart Zechman, who left the group early on. Zechman came up with the guitar line in the chorus of "Hey Man Nice Shot"; after departing, he showed it to Stabbing Westward who ended up using it as well for the title track of Ungod in 1994.^[4] Patrick and Liesegang originally conceived the idea of forming their own band after hiking at the Grand Canyon. The album was recorded between the years 1994 and 1995 at various locations, with the two musicians sharing various roles; Patrick acted as the primary songwriter, bassist, and vocalist, while Liesegang mostly worked on the production and programmed the drum machine. The two shared guitar duties.^[3]

Composition and lyrics

Richard Patrick has gone on to name bands such as Pantera, Skinny Puppy, Helmet and Big Black as influences for the album's sound,^[5] which is guitar-heavy and features the use of a drum machine for percussion.^[3]

Lyrical themes include religion and suicide, with the album's opening track and lead single "Hey Man Nice Shot" being written as a response to Budd Dwyer's televised suicide. The track was, at one point, rumored to be about the death of musician Kurt Cobain; however, the band has denied said rumor in the past.^[6] Similarly, "Gerbil" was written about a mutual friend of the band who died by suicide, and was one of the first few songs written by the group.^[7]

Packaging

The album was released with artwork similar to that of a package, with the tracklist and barcode being part of the front cover. Some pressings included a photo on the back tray, while others simply featured a tracklist against a bare background.

An expanded edition was released by Concord Music on November 2, 2018. This version replaces the Reprise Records logo with that of Craft Recordings, which is Concord's reissue label. This version adds six new mixes: two of "Dose", three of "Hey Man Nice Shot", and one of "White Like That".^[8]

Promotion and touring

The album spawned three singles ("Hey Man Nice Shot", "Dose", and "Under") with the first two receiving music videos that featured an expanded line-up. The line-up included guitarist Geno Lenardo, bassist Frank Cavanagh, and drummer Matt Walker, who were all hired to back up Patrick and Liesegang for live shows. To promote Short Bus, the band would tour the United States, with footage taken during this time period later being released used for the 1996 Filter documentary Phenomenology.

Although originally intended to be touring members, Lenardo and Cavanagh would eventually join the band as full-time members to work on their 1999 follow-up album Title of Record.

Track listing

Chart performance

Album

Singles

Personnel

Filter

• Richard Patrick – vocals, guitars, bass, programming, drums, producer, engineer
• Brian Liesegang – programming, keyboards, guitars, drums, producer, engineer

Additional personnel

• Scott Kern – additional live drums, answering machine vocals
• Matt Drvenkar – answering machine vocals
• Jeff "Critter" Newell - additional engineering on "Dose"
• Kevin Hanley – additional guitar noise
• Mike Peffer – additional live drums
• Ben Grosse – mixing
• Deborah Norcross – art direction & design
• Chris Beirne – photography
• Richard Bishop and Gail Perry for 3 A.M. - management

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