the opening of Be Aggressive raised the hair on my neck
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 June 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
oh, they've changed the date - it'll now be online until Dec 24th
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
Live at Maida Vale (video) (UK only):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02wl4gl/rock-show-with-daniel-p-carter-faith-no-more-in-session
Audio (International):http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b061pfzs
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
separation anxiety particularly amazing imo
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
oh cool. that one's one of my favs from the newie
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 30 July 2015 12:06 (eight years ago) link
seeing them tonight with...REfused!
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 30 July 2015 12:07 (eight years ago) link
They're being supported by Napalm Death on some dates!
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 30 July 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
oh wow...that would be killer
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 30 July 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
Mike could guest on You Suffer!
BRUSH WITH FAME, Faith No More edition: A friend and I went to the Ted Leo show in Cleveland (for the 25th anniversary of local venue the Grog Shop). While we were there we ran into a woman we know who works at the restaurant in our office building, and she introduced us to her boyfriend of three decades, who happens to be Chuck Mosley. He was really cool, hung around and chatted with us for a while after the show. He also got on stage with one of the opening bands, Falling Stars, and sang "Every Day Is Like Sunday."
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Monday, 25 September 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
Thats awesome!
― how's life, Monday, 25 September 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
wow!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 September 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
chaki just played a show with Mosley! I didn't make it though as I was out of town.
― akm, Monday, 25 September 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
Ah, that is pretty neat!
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Monday, 25 September 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
yah he was the coolest
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 25 September 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link
Mosley apparently passed away yesterday?? wtf RIP
― MaresNest, Friday, 10 November 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
The Mosley family statement reads:
After a long period of sobriety, Charles Henry Mosley III lost his life, on November 9th, 2017, due to the disease of addiction. We’re sharing the manner in which he passed, in the hopes that it might serve as a warning or wake up call or beacon to anyone else struggling to fight for sobriety. He is survived by long-term partner Pip Logan, two daughters, Erica and Sophie and his grandson Wolfgang Logan Mosley. The family will be accepting donations for funeral expenses. Details to follow when arranged.
― MaresNest, Friday, 10 November 2017 22:17 (six years ago) link
;_; very sad news indeed
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 November 2017 04:48 (six years ago) link
Saw this version of the band in '87. They were fun, a little dorky, but in a good way. Opened for Red Hot Chili Peppers w/ Hillel Slovak. Disappointing news.
― Josefa, Saturday, 11 November 2017 07:58 (six years ago) link
Awww fuck. RIP.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Saturday, 11 November 2017 09:07 (six years ago) link
Bill Gould seems like a great guy and this film sounds really interestinghttps://www.kerrang.com/features/district-unknown-rockabul-faith-no-more-bill-gould-interview/
― Neil S, Friday, 2 November 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link
touring with Korn and Helmet(!!)
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
WTF I don't want to deal with Korn or see this at the shoreline ampitheater and also we don't get Helmet in the bay area so fuck this tour.
― akm, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
The best thing about this band was it felt like 5 guys who all wanted to be in different bands
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 04:10 (one year ago) link
i love that they existed
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 04:18 (one year ago) link
Me too
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 04:19 (one year ago) link
like the math of how you get Roddy, Patton & Jim in the same band is insane, let alone Mike & Bill
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 04:33 (one year ago) link
ha, great way of putting it. I recently did a relisten of their 90s albums and the friction is definitely what makes them interesting to listen to
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 04:34 (one year ago) link
Watching old videos and thinking about that ums post:
In "Epic" and ESPECIALLY "We Care A Lot," you can see obviously that Billy/Roddy/Mike/Chuck are all total hams — Puff less so, but definitely "game." And throughout there's Jim, who just seems stoic and stubborn and like he never wants to play along, but that becomes its own kind of "straight man" routine that's funnier than the 3 or 4 wacky guys surrounding him. Just an insane dynamic, total inversion of the Limp Bizkit/Killswitch Engage/Rammstein trope of the One Wacky Guy by having a band of four Ernies and a Bert
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 3 February 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
untapped band name right there btw
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 February 2023 22:49 (one year ago) link
Man, Four Ernies and a Bert really nails it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 February 2023 22:52 (one year ago) link
Still love when I saw them in 15, they performed in all white dress outfits, and there were massive amounts of flowers on the stage.
And stagehands periodically kept bringing more, and more, a ridiculous amount of flowers at the front of the stage.
It was like an I Love Lucy bit. Great humorous way to set up the show
― sanguisug boggy bogg (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 February 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
Also literally the only Angel Dust song I didn't get that I wanted was Kindergarten but could not complain
Caffeine was massive
― sanguisug boggy bogg (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 February 2023 22:57 (one year ago) link
This is my favourite band I only really know one album well by. And that album is King For A Day, which I've loved since I was a teenager. I mean, yeah, I have heard other stuff of course - I have a memory of borrowing The Real Thing from the library back in the day, and I'm sure I've heard Angel Dust a bunch of times at people's houses.But I know very little of the pre-Patton material. I can't believe I'm only digging into it now. Not sure I agree with people who prefer the Chuck Mosley era - I wouldn't call him an amazing singer. But 'R'n'R' off Introduce Yourself is FANTASTIC.
Gonna work my way through their catalogue this week.
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Monday, 18 September 2023 14:25 (six months ago) link
I love the Chuck Mosley era. I think he was a unique frontman and poetic voice. The Introduce Yourself and Real Thing eras of FNM overlap stylistically, since it was mostly written while Chuck was still in the band. See here this early version of The Morning After with different vocals and lyrics by Chuck. Those two albums are my favorite, with a nod to King For A Day, Fool For a Lifetime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ND0ECI5-0
A few weeks ago, I watched Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey and fell in love with Perfect Crime again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yxCsKtBjdU
― peace, man, Monday, 18 September 2023 15:58 (six months ago) link
Not having Angel Dust and being a FNM fan is like being a Beatles fan and not knowing Revolver...get on it! It is their towering career highlight, IMO.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 18 September 2023 19:23 (six months ago) link
Angel dust is legit one of the best 90s albums, not just a good FNM album.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 14:26 (six months ago) link
I'm sure I've heard Angel Dust a bunch of times at people's houses.
weird flex but ok......
whenever I hear the rap bridge of Welcome to my Island by Caroline Polachek. I get massive Chuck Mosley vibes.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 15:54 (six months ago) link
lol I think someone would know if they heard "Angel Dust." Background music it ain't.
Weirdly, Faith No More is one of a handful of acts my wife and I seem to enjoy equally, but tbh I don't think I've ever heard much of the early stuff (aside from "We Care A Lot"). And another confession is that I've never been able to get into "King for a Day." Dunno why, maybe fewer hooks? Maybe I'll give it another shot today.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 16:29 (six months ago) link
King For A Day is a bit gruelling tbh, though I love Ugly In The Morning and Cuckoo For Caca.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 16:38 (six months ago) link
I can't really get into anything after Angel Dust. they are fine and I've listened to them but they never stick with me.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 16:39 (six months ago) link
The first two FNM albums are great, though tbh I prefer Patton's live versions of As The Worm Turns and Mark Bowen.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 16:39 (six months ago) link
Listening to "King" now and it's objectively good, or at least not bad, but it's missing something, imo. Sounds kind of conventional, relatively speaking. But then, anything would sound conventional after "Angel Dust."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 16:48 (six months ago) link
Trey's guitar is pretty grey compared to Big Sick Jim Martin's work. When I interviewed them a few years back, Roddy was pretty explicit that his heroin addiction, exacerbated by his friend Kurt Cobain's death, meant he was pretty much checked out for this one.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 16:51 (six months ago) link
Trey is technically a much better guitarist, but that sort of misses the point. Though I just hit "Caca," and that one hits the spot.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:24 (six months ago) link
Trey is technically a much better guitarist, but that sort of misses the point.
Agreed. You don't want intriguing textural experiments and modernist metal minimalism, you want ludicrous dayglo extravagance to match the other soundclashing elements.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:35 (six months ago) link
doesn't really have to be an either/or approach. Jim's problem is he was unwilling to expand outside of a very limited scope, whereas the rest of his band actually weren't boring heshers. his contributions were actually great on all of the albums, but he was never going to go along with anything else they did outside of 'thrash metal with keyboards and funk bass' after Angel Dust, and he's still kind of a dick about it in interviews.
KFAD wouldn't have worked with Martin, it works because of how oddball it is and yet it's still tuneful as hell.
the only FNM I don't really vibe much anymore is the reunion album. it got all this praise and all it sounded like was middling mid-album tracks. not 'bad' but I almost never want to listen to it.
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:42 (six months ago) link
not 'bad' but I almost never want to listen to it.
I'd second this, for sure.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:57 (six months ago) link
xpost Hmm, I dunno. I don't think "King" sounds particularly oddball, just ... slicker? And that's largely the guitar to me, less thrash on top of weirdness, more jazzy licks and other (relatively tasteful) stylistic excursions that Martin had no interest in but also likely couldn't pull off. Iirc Martin felt sidelined (or sidelined himself?) during "Angel Dust," and that may be because for all the crunchy riffs, the guitar is one of the least essential ingredients of the whole stew, imo. Don't get me wrong, I love Martin, and the guitar is important, but I mostly love how he seems more of a supporting player, big power chords rather than noodles and wheedle wheedle. It's always been about the rhythm section for me.
Has there been a recent interview with him?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:01 (six months ago) link