Faith No More: Angel Dust v. The Real Thing

I just checked out the Ipecac site for the first time in years and it's just a huge list of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez releases. Damn.

The only album I've listened to on Ipecac recently is A Raw Youth by Le Butcherettes.

Which was produced by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez.

King For A Day is fkn genius

Angel Dust makes me feel like I'm in high school (in a good way)

The Real Thing still surprises me, even now it sounds exciiting

My personal accounting of albums to listen to on a Walkman while mowing the lawn: Physical Graffiti, Superunknown, The Real Thing

(Oh, and I listened to the first Comus album when I mowed my mom's yard a few years ago, that was pretty ace but it was not on a Walkman.)

just imagining the neighbor's kids running home crying cos the man next door is screaming "SURPRISE! YOU'RE DEAD!" while mowing the lawn

FTR I was like thirteen when I was screaming "SURPRISE! YOU'RE DEAD!" and making kids run home crying.

My very obnoxious friend put "The Bends" from Disco Volante on full blast on his car and we drove around suburban Dallas with his windows rolled all the way down. So many nasty looks. I think that's the one with all the horrible noise. It's been a while.

if i had had a cell phone in 1993, be aggressive would have been my ringtone

I love it how the vocal approach that Patton utilised on The Real Thing only lasted for that album!

Looks like Kaada and Patton did another album in 2016 in re: to what Patton's been up to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PohCD7Umz98

That video's good, but I wouldn't listen to a whole album of stuff like that really.

I just checked out the Ipecac site for the first time in years and it's just a huge list of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez releases. Damn.

― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, March 9, 2017 1:28 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok i just went to spotify and looked up holy fuck he releases like 6 records a year!!

I owned the real thing on cassette was I was 10 years old and bought angel dust when I was 13. I wasnt able to appreciate most of it at the time but I'd like to think I got some good musical education in my yoof.

i spent hours with the real thing cassette. it had a massive fold-out lyric card, i can still remember the smell, vaguely tortilla-like, strangely

I remember first hearing it on a Boy Scout campout and some kids in another tent were listening to Surprise, You're Dead and we all thought it was the funniest thing we'd ever heard in music. Then at the end of the side, the guy goes to flip the tape over and it's blue, which is also what happened to our minds at that moment.

I also want to brag about owning 'Easy' on cassingle. and I still have it in my car.

The Real Thing also contains some songs I don't dig on; Falling to Pieces is way up on that list.

I used to think this song was so trite, but these days it really captures my middle-aged anxiety.

Also, hooky as hell!

Yeah I literally just read the title and now it's on repeat in my head.

The only song I wish wasn't there is 'Edge of the World' which isn't good enough to overcome its unnecessary creepiness.

Yeah, obviously a character study, but I've never found it entertaining either. Fortunately, it's not on the vinyl version of the album.

I mowed the lawn so many times in eighth grade while listening to The Real Thing that it's now pretty much inextricable from that activity in my mind. You might say it made lawn care seem...epic.

My teenage lawn care headphone fodder was the second Dirty Rotten Imbeciles album. To tell you the truth, I would have rather been sleeping, but I was no couch slouch - I was out there dealing with it!

The real answer to this is 'King For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime'

what is the lawn-moving factor on that one?

'Caralho Voador' a nice time to pause for a refreshing glass of lemonade before digging in and giving that grass the 'Ugly in the Morning' business.

The Patton albums - Angel Dust>KFaD>Real Thing>Album of the Year

I used to listen to the blue cassette of The Real Thing on my yellow sports walkman while mowing the lawn when I was 15/16, along with Ride the Lightning and the Doors greatest hits.

That album was a huge deal to me, but in retrospect it might have been bad for prompting a strong desire to find bands that combined funk/rap/metal which in fact were all pretty terrible.

'Caralho Voador' a nice time to pause for a refreshing glass of lemonade before digging in and giving that grass the 'Ugly in the Morning' business.

This is a fine sentence. Anyway I wish that two of my favorite songs weren't called Cuckoo For Caca and Jizzlobber but what can I do, they shred.

I adore 'Falling to Pieces' off The Real Thing.

Slightly off topic but I can't imagine how many times I've watched the 'Everything's Ruined' official vid. Patton at his coolest, the band at their most melodic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usGQjN87BUA

I used to think this song was so trite, but these days it really captures my middle-aged anxiety.

― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, November 19, 2019 7:36 AM bookmarkflaglink

Feelin this post lol

Haven't listened to this band in ages but y'all are making me want to dig up the albums again. Angel Dust = King for a Day = great. about half of Album of the Year is at the same level. Actually never heard The Real Thing! I'm not much a fan of the three songs I know from it besides "Epic", and that last one I've heard enough times in my life

I could do without the surgery shots, but that "Everything's Ruined" video is really charming

I have no idea what it would be like approaching The Real Thing for the first time in 2019 and especially after hearing everything they released afterwards but that thing was pretty central to my jr. high existence for a good year, year and a half. I'd guess yr attention would trail off towards the end ('War Pigs' cover, instrumental track, lounge-y number with questionable lyrical content) but the rest is tite.

I imagine approaching it for the first time in 2019 would be great because the album is great and super catchy and fun.

Oh I've heard the "War Pigs" cover, I didn't realize it was on the album. I'm indifferent to it. Actually, looking at the tracklist, I realize I've heard six (!) of the tracks before, should just hear those last five for completeness. Of the ones I know, I don't think the songs are all that bad, but the sound is a little thin and Mike's voice is quite nasal, as was mentioned upthread

Yeah, that stuff is dated and also things they pivoted from with "Angel Dust." But the songs are solid.

Mike's voice is quite nasal

He's said he was putting that on as he thought that was how hard rock singers 'should' sound - helps to remember he was only 19/20 when they recorded it. Don't think he found himself vocally until Angel Dust, a big part of why it's a better album.

I've definitely heard The Real Thing and Angel Dust but I grew up with King For A Day and it just feels so... consistent in its eclecticism? I know AD is the fan's choice but it's spikier and less of a piece. KFAD just flows from idea to idea really nicely for me

As a huge fan of the previous two albums in real time, I'm oddly not into King for a Day.

Same here, I loved the previous two but just didn't like King for a Day at all when it came out nor any of the times after. I'm listening to Real Thing - AOTY in order right now for the first time in years and I'm curious to see if I feel differently about it now.

The release of King for a Day... was a legit 'counting down the days' EVENT. The album fell far short of those monumental expectations but I'm not sure to what extent the album itself is at fault.

Hell, Songs to Make Love To was a similar EVENT in my little world.

i was a big FNM fan based on the real thing and angel dust and while i didn't love KFAD as much as those two, there are some great songs on there

Is everyone in this revive ignoring Sol Invictus deliberately or

NO! i'm legitimately forgetting that it ever existed

It's a forgettable album imo. I don't remember it being bad per se, but I listened to it several times and can't remember a damn thing now. And for FNM that feels like a failure?

KFAD just flows from idea to idea really nicely for me

I'd say this more about AD! The genre experiments on KFaD feel more compartmentalised (a metal song, then a loungy r&b song, then another metal song, then a big band pastiche), whereas AD is this contastly shifting and surging stew of textures and ideas.

I woke up and put AD on. It's a really great album but I'm less familiar with it than KFAD, clearly. I feel like the vocals on KFAD are a lot more prominent than Angel Dust - like on Angel Dust they're mixed so low Patton gets lost on there.
Ugly In The Morning, Evidence, Cuckoo For Caca, Digging The Grave - all god-tier FNM in my book. And you know I'm a sucker for a good 90s genre-experiment album. Totally get why people prefer the previous two records though. 100% a matter of familiarity.

Yeah the mix of Angel Dust is a little muddy sometimes.