Faith No More: Classic or Dud

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

I was just shy of 9 when the Real Thing came out if that gives a hint.

i did 'a small victory' at my senior year high school talent show; i was the guy in the background screaming HUT...HUT... HUT... HUT HUT HUT and IT SHOULDNTATA BOTHA ME NO
at the end of the song we screamed into the microphone and had a full on freakout then paused and flipped out again every time the emcee tried to come back on
oh we were so clever

There's no way I could reduce it to only five for this band.

forks you are so young

aw thanks

not hella young just evolved (runs)

me i mean, not forks

yeah, i'm still charmander over here

ok see i AM old, i had to google what that even was

cuckoo for caca
malpractice
small victory
jizzlobber
just a man

I mean I have regrets about these choices and obviously I'm fond of two albums in particular but I think this is a nice EP of what makes the band great

midlife crisis
underwater love
annie's song
smaller and smaller
be aggressive

pov subject to change, can include anything from Angel Dust

All from the KFAD/AOTY era, but...

Digging the Grave
Ugly In The Morning
Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Stripsearch
I Started A Joke

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