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

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and yes even the beloved In Living Color

"Homie don't play dat!"

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Because that stuff he's doing in "Epic" isn't it.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:51 (nineteen years ago) link

OMG, I made a slip! I said "In Living Color" rather than Living Colour Christ, slit my throat. Are you this manic in real life? Who do you think your are?

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Mr. Big Stuff

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....Epic isn't rapping? are you on drugs, son?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean it's not very good rapping, but still

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I like how big assumptions about my private life somehow come into a debate on a rock band.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I'm sure you fire a lot of blanks, Johnny. Or so I've heard.

How about all of Epic? Oh, and btw, I was a casual fan of FNM back in the day, so it's not like I have a grudge against them, or anything. Just drawing a line in the sand. You say they were innovative, I say they weren't.

― KimberIy, Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:54 (nineteen years ago) link

'Lifetime'/'Dust' = 'Presence'/'Graffiti'

― dave q, Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:54 (nineteen years ago) link

"Epic" may be bad rapping (by today's standards, at least) but it's still rapping.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, that's essentially the point I was trying to make. I don't think you can be a rap/metal hybrid band if your frontman can't rap (the same rules apply to RATM).

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:54 (nineteen years ago) link

but in my opinion they deserved to be U2 big

They were......in Prague.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I think that fish in the "Epic" video was a good dancer. For a fish.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link

the pre-chorus to "Falling to Pieces" has the bad rapping as well.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link

What's innovative then?

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"I don't think you can be a rap/metal hybrid band if your frontman can't rap (the same rules apply to RATM)."

well, under those terms, there is no such thing as rap/metal. It just doesn't exist.

― KimberIy, Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:56 (nineteen years ago) link

KIM OTM FER CHRISSAKES

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:57 (nineteen years ago) link

What's innovative then?

-- James Slone (freontrotsk...), July 22nd, 2004.

Dancing fish!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link

So what, three songs on one album feature inept rapping and suddenly FNM is rap-metal?

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link

This is the most pathetic discussion i think I've had on the internet to date.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 22 July 2004 02:59 (nineteen years ago) link

and it's all your fault, sunshine.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link

you only say that because you're losing the argument, Jimmy.

― KimberIy, Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not even arguing. I'm just stirring the pot.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:04 (nineteen years ago) link

No, I think it's the maniac Kim and her dogmatic approach to argument. One, I should add, that doesn't measure up against the evidence. Anyone who calls FNM rap-metal hasn't heard much of their overall material. That's an empirical fact.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:04 (nineteen years ago) link

It's an empirical fact that you need yourself a massage with some happy ending, pal. Spring a few bucks, then come back here and start making some fucking sense.

― KimberIy, Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:06 (nineteen years ago) link

What argument? There's an argument here? All I see is someone who tries to use cheap insult to further an argument built on subjective tastes.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:06 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, that's it. Fuck you.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Kim = Rog?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:07 (nineteen years ago) link

took you long enough, rocket surgeon.

― KimberIy, Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Weren't Faith No More lumped into "Funk Metal" at the time?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link

"an argument built on subjective tastes"

You just described every post in every thread on ILM, EVER!!!!

― KimberIy, Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link

took you long enough, rocket surgeon.

I wasn't used to you using a handle that wasn't already someone else's.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm a wacky son of a bitch, dude.

― KimberIy, Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah trolls. Good show.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, that's it. Fuck you.
I love it when you talk dirty, pookie.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Faith No More
-Innovative? Yes. Quite obviously. Mixing up a lot of song styles (more than just rap and metal) and structures in many different ways.
-Good? Nope. They didn't make any songs I particularly liked.

― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 22 July 2004 04:15 (nineteen years ago) link

who are all these people?? ps "Album of the Year" is the best one!!!

― Sir Chaki McBeer III (chaki), Thursday, 22 July 2004 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link

They ain't no Linkin Park

― artdamages (artdamages), Thursday, 22 July 2004 04:31 (nineteen years ago) link

This is definitely the worst thread ever.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 22 July 2004 04:34 (nineteen years ago) link

woode-mummas boosoom swell wit pride

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 22 July 2004 07:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Christ, for a minute there I thought I'd wondered into some kind of crazy alternative universe where Faith No More paved the way for Linkin Park and Papa Roach. Thank goodness it was all a dream!

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Thursday, 22 July 2004 08:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Detachable Penis = King Missile is/was "mainstream"

― Knuckles the Dog (Knuckles), Thursday, 22 July 2004 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link

And you were there... and you were there... and most of the Alex-s....

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 July 2004 08:40 (nineteen years ago) link

horray for rap metal

― dude crazy?, Thursday, 22 July 2004 10:52 (nineteen years ago) link

"And you were there... and you were there... and most of the Alex-s.... "

indeed, for i am an alex as well!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I have to say that latebloomer is the only one making any sense here.

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Thursday, 22 July 2004 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Nevermind FNM, you spongemonkeys! COP SHOOT COP!!!!

http://www.thepolywog.com/copshootcop/posters/images/livedemo-01.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Christ, I'd forgotten all about CSC. They were quite good, weren't they?

― Wooden, Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Faith No More really pissed off Warner Bros., who wanted them to hit a formula more similar sonically to "Epic" (for which the milking for $$$ could occur), when they released Angel Dust, a ridiculously stylistic mind-fuck. Them playing "Caffeine" on whatever-that-show-was-that-TRL-essentially-is-now was really entertaining, if only for the stunned wtf? of the people in the crowd, who couldn't figure out how to dance to the parts in 6/4.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Dancing in 6/4 can be done, but it helps if one is having a seizure.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

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The real early video of one of Faith No More's first performances of Epic (@4:15) is a lil Keidisy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxv1gzId2Fk

― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 12 January 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link

Also, I love Chuck, but I do always like when Patton does "Crab Song"

― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 12 January 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link

I love Chuck but I think p much all Patton's versions of Chuck songs beat the originals. Chuck was never really a singer, by his own admission.

Anne's Song is still probs my favourite FNM song though, and no one else should ever sing it.

― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Friday, 12 January 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link

Since we're posting videos, this is def my favorite FNM live clip. Love the post-reunion feel of a tight 4-piece with Patton kind of soloing like a jazz musician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1x_4keMigs

― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 12 January 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link

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