Faith No More: Classic or Dud

I have a certain degree of faith (pun intended) in the new album; the new song is solid, and Patton's been on decent form recently (the latest Tomahawk album is terrific).

also is the dude on the right jim martin???

It looks to me like Billy Bob Thornton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_iNK0mBKrQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b2OHDIEwQs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bV0QnVIiZk

I remember watching this live and laughing so hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-4CcgA1Upo

There was a stretch of time when FNM were my favorite band, and I love all of the Mike albums to varying degrees. That said, not totally sold on the new song.

Just spent the morning watching this incredible show when I should've been working. No regrets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-WvTieSyEI

Puffy is such an awesome drummer.

I didn't like the last Tomahawk album, but I kind of like this. I can imagine it wearing thin quickly, but it's still a hell of a lot better than I expected.

This new song's getting some shit but I rather like it, especially if you take it as an intro track as intended rather than a lead single or something. I'm not the hugest FNM fan but I'm still pretty excited for the new album when it drops.

got my ticket to the Atlanta show. who else is catching this tour?

HOLLA :D

20th in SF

16th in Seattle.

Dud: Getting locked out of the show at the Electric Factory and seeing scalpers selling them for 3x face value moments later.
Classic: Having another show announced at a venue where you can actually see the stage and easily attaining tickets for that show.

New album has leaked.

i like motherfucker a lot!
angel dust was, for a time, the most important album in the world for me

i enjoyed the new album and i wasnt expecting to

It might be their best since Angel Dust.

They were great last night in SF

I don't think I've ever listened to Angel Dust all the way through, but King For a Day was one of my favourite albums as a teenager. Is that strange?

p weird, tbh

I started listening to an awful rip of it so I'll have to try again later. It didn't immediately grab me but that's not indicative of much. I didn't think a whole lot of Album Of The Year back in the day but it's really grown on me over the last several years.

normal for dog latin tbf

TBF Angel Dust came out (what felt like a) lifetime (i.e. 2 years) before I got into rock/metal music, so KFAD was the one my friends and I all got into. Didn't hear Angel Dust for at least decade after.

Album of the Year was much better than King For A Day but noone was interested by then (kfad seemed to put a lot of ppl off them which i found strange but ppl are fickle)

I don't remember much about the last quarter of KFAD but the first section and a half is top-notch.

KFAD is so all over the place tonally and stylistically (for a band that's already kinda all over the place) that I can understand why people might've been disappointed that it wasn't Angel Dust Part 2. Album of the Year is much more low-key and cohesive and it feels more like a continuation of what they did on Angel Dust than the actual follow-up did.

I really liked King for a Day. "Digging the Dave" is a great concise single with some great screaming from Patton. I also love "Evidence." Trey Spruance played guitar on the album, but I understand he had little to no creative input. The album would've probably been pretty crazy if that had happened.

KFAD is so all over the place tonally and stylistically (for a band that's already kinda all over the place) that I can understand why people might've been disappointed that it wasn't Angel Dust Part 2. Album of the Year is much more low-key and cohesive and it feels more like a continuation of what they did on Angel Dust than the actual follow-up did.

― I Stepped On Your Samwich (Old Lunch)

This is pretty much OTM. KFAD has some great catchy tunes, but often doesn't seem to be striving for much more than pastiche and as a result has something of a hollow glib air to it. Angel Dust, the much underrated Album of the Year and the new one are much more concerned with tonal and textural originality.

I kind of wanted to start a thread about all those 'great, eclectic nineties' albums that go out of their ways to mix and juxtapose genres as much as possible. KFAD is def one of those.

hehe digging the dave. was morrissey the guest vocalist on that remix?

Haha! I have no idea where that came from. Anyway, yeah, I like Digging the Grave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUcRItGaMnE

Ha, will always associate FNM with The Word for whatever reason. Very nostalgic clip for me.

Aye they were always on it. All their clips are on youtube from it

Decibel reviewer didn't like it much but then again he also said KFAD and AOTY were almost unlistenable. which, ok, I am not a huge fan of AOTY but it has "Collision", "Stripsearch", "Last Cup of Sorrow", and "Ashes to Ashes"! and KFAD is great!

looking forward to this and seeing them.

SF show tonight was fun! They did a Boz Scaggs "Lowdown" break in the middle of Midlife Crisis (substituting the MLC lyrics) that was on point & awesome

did they have the guy with the gimp suit come on last night? he was there on sunday, v weird!

yep!

Superhero is actually the least interesting track on this.

motherfucker works great live, fits so well into their catalog

(reminds me of cuckoo for caca)

That's my fave FNM song and I'm so pumped it's been in the live sets

FNM POV, btw

1. "Cuckoo For Caca"
2. "A Small Victory"
3. "Ashes to Ashes"
4. "Falling to Pieces"
5. "Midlife Crisis"

going to the wiltern show tonight!

Frightwig opened our SF show, they were fucking stellar, so awesome. I didnt know them at all but Mr Veg remembered seeing them in the early 80's at SF punk shows opening for Toy Dolls etc

my FNM POV

Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Be Aggressive
Everything's Ruined
Real Thing
Cuckoo for Caca

I really like Just a Man too but it's more top 10 than top 5

Ashes to Ashes is a monster though, hard to keep it off my five

my POV, for today

Anne's Song
Jizzlobber
Everything's Ruined
Malpractice
Falling To Pieces

for me it's...

Land of Sunshine
Surprise! You're Dead!
Stripsearch
Kindergarten
Evidence

but it would change every day probably at this point

you guys gotta be hella young

midlife crisis
woodpecker from mars
we care a lot
smaller and smaller
kindergarten

Another Body Murdered is so savage.

Roddy and Billy went to high school together in LA

Xp it really is. 30 years on and it still sounds genuinely dangerous

Patton's ooohh-ah-oohhh bassline is the perfect stage-setter for the boo-yaa voices, he absolutely shouldn't have come up with a verse

Per Alfred's description, "Midlife Crisis" is indeed pretty unclassifiable, isn't it?

Where is it?

https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/ranking-10-singles-uk-edition-1992-1993/

Thank you. It is strange to think of that song alongside the others on that list. I'm pretty sure I remember hearing that song before anything else on Angel Dust and my first impression being that they were trying to recapture the rap rock thing from Epic, though it hasn't hit that way for me since and has remained one of my favorites.

Definitely the strongest chorus to ever use the phrase "menstruating heart"

isn't it?

Where is it?

isn't it?

Where is it?

Thanks, Josh.

Much better (for subscribers) is Breihan: https://www.stereogum.com/2284533/the-alternative-number-ones-faith-no-mores-midlife-crisis/columns/the-alternative-number-ones/

How is Stereogum the only publication with a paywall that actually works?

That song is a jam. I have a soft spot for FNM, despite their nu metal progeny.

they can't be blamed for what came after them