Faith No More: most underrated rock band of the 90s?

yeah, the new songs played at Hyde Park over the Summer were ace. really looking forward to this.

I still get people shaking their head when I tell them how great Faith No More was, at least for those two albums. One of those awesome bands inadvertently responsible for so much not-awesome. When I saw them in Philly behind "Angel Dust" there was practically a riot. The crowd stormed the stage and walked off with a hunk of the instruments, afaict with the band's tacit OK. (Helmet opened, iirc.)

I'd argue that the first four albums are all brilliant, and the two that followed definitely had their moments. And the shows I saw them play on the Angel Dust tour - not to mention their original 'farewell' show at Brixton Academy in the late 90s, where they played with Sparks (and, for that matter, their subsequent reunions shows) are among the best rock shows I have ever seen.

I saw them in the early 90's when they supported Guns n Roses on their preposterous Use your illusion tour. I think Angel Dust was just about to be released. Mind bending stuff naturally.

Was that the tour with NIN on as well (or maybe that was just in the UK)? Some line up if so...

It was FNM, Soundgarden and GnR at Wembley. It must have been 1991 / 92. Soundgarden were pretty decent too having recently released Badmotorfinger.

gotcha, yeah great bill!

June 92, so the same month Angel Dust came out. Midlife Crisis had been out for about a month. Badmotorfinger had been out for about a year.

The fairly lightly attended Chuck-era shows in places like Newcastle Mayfair and Aberdeen Venue seem like an eternity away.

Their reunion tour a few years back was fucking awesome.

Forthcoming single is a remix by Jim Thirwell which is exciting to me (but I'm mostly on board with the main thing of seeing them live again if possible).

the aforementioned foetus remix :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh-7OovZIRg

fUcking love it.

yeah, this is great.

Taken down.

boo

Noooooooooooooo

Philly show sold out almost instantly. Over 200 tickets for sale on Stubhub almost instantly. Hating scalpers so hard right now.

STOKED for the new album

I respect Faith No More, and even listen to them from time to time, but sometimes I think-- this band pioneered quite possibly the world's worst genre, rap-metal.

They have 3-4 rap metal songs max though.

Yeah, I think you're thinking of Urban Dance Squad.

It feels like there's a rap-metal undercurrent in a lot more than just 3-4 songs. In my opinion, the worst thing about Faith No More is how dated they sound, both on "The Real Thing" and "Angel Dust." For whatever reason, it just sounds old. The keys in particular usually sound cheap and horrible.

xpost Don't blame Urban Dance Squad! They were great and not rap metal.

have tix for SF show in April :D

Lucky! I tried both the presale and the general public sale and failed.

they went quick

appaz a ton of tix showed up on stubhub soon after :/

the only faith no more i could get into was the first version with chuck mosley, that dude had an awesome personality as a vocalist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKP98hDBJ8w#t=56

this one sounds much less good to me

i really like it

Yep, that's definitely Faith No More. Harking back to The Real Thing in terms of arrangement.

Tracklist, BTW:

01. Sol Invictus
02. Superhero
03. Sunny Side Up
04. Separation Anxiety
05. Cone of Shame
06. Rise of the Fall
07. Black Friday
08. Motherfucker
09. Matador
10. From the Dead

the new album is A CRACKER

Guessing it'll leak pretty soon.

cool song. pointless to compare it to Album of the Year given so much time has lapsed, still i'm glad it doesn't seem like they picked up from where they left off.

the new album is A CRACKER

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Getting pretty incredible early reviews.

it's kind of amazing, if you had just played the first second of that new song to me, I would have known immediately that it was Faith No More. Something about that guitar tone...l

There's a great 3-minute song in "Superhero" but no reason for it to meander on for over 5.

no i love the outro

disappointing to see that Jim Martin's not back...

Never gonna happen.

interesting song. it sounds very nu-metal to me (except for the keys)... but then, I guess they'd sort of pioneered that sound.

what happened to Jim that it's never gonna happen?

He now lives in Castro Valley, California, with his wife, son, and daughter. He has gained fame in recent years for his non-musical endeavors in championship pumpkin growing.

There's a great 3-minute song in "Superhero" but no reason for it to meander on for over 5.

Yeah, seriously. I kept waiting for the cool suprise breakdown parts that FNM arrangements usually offer, but nope. Not bad, but doesn't justify the length and repetition. Might work better in context.

it's a really good album

i saw jim martin and mike patton share a stage... when patton was watching martin play with infectious grooves at orion (rip)

i was there B)

RIGHT NEXT TO ME

I dunno if pining for Jim is really the move anyway since, w/ King for a Day and Album of the Year their entire sound got streamlined, and sleeker and more eccentric and less "metal" and even less macho to some extent

They're probably the type of guys that would value growing as a band than pulling an INDIE CINDY and stopping by with more of the same shit; and thus would necessitate Hudson in the fold. Their setlists have been leaning towards KFaD stuff any way, and that album def "holds up" the best of their entire catalog, nearly 20 years later.

Basically, they moved on and so should you, imho

agree