Faith no more

[SBlue]

I love The Real Thing and Angel Dust. They are very high in my "all time fave" list. Live at Brixton Academy it's also incredible. They have one or two other songs they've done after those that I like a bit, but nothing remotely close to those three albums.

 

[angelspade]

So I have nothing negative to say about em besides Mike Patton being completely up his own ass and high on his own farts - that doesn't really have anything to do with their albums, though

Quite unfortunately...Mike suffers from legitimate mental illness.

 

[DanTravis62]

Quite unfortunately...Mike suffers from legitimate mental illness.

yes, i did know that

which sucks and i hope he gets the help he needs and all

It just made listening to or reading interviews with him exhausting for a very long time

 

[valve]

I absolutely love FNM.

I wish I could have seen them live

i have, but not the lineup with martin

 

[valve]

What about their last album? I thought Matador was a great song.

haha, only yesterday i realized there is one from 2015. got to check that out

 

[valve]

As time passes I find I like the Chuck era more than Mike. Less skill, more thrill.

first person i heard that from

 

[valve]

Quite unfortunately...Mike suffers from legitimate mental illness.

you don't say?
Doesn't surprise me one bit, though

 

[valve]

Faith No More totally isn't my thing ( I dig Mr Bungle quite a bit more, but neither are really my jam)

it's just too goofy and avant garde for my tastes

That being said faith no more are a legitimate band of actual musicians who actually make and write music, not an astroturfed corporate merchandising machine or painfully banal paint-by-numbers boomer trap

So I have nothing negative to say about em besides Mike Patton being completely up his own ass and high on his own farts - that doesn't really have anything to do with their albums, though

was hoping for a big rant, but you saved it with the last sentence

 

[DanTravis62]

was hoping for a big rant, but you saved it with the last sentence

Nah man at least Faith No More is a real band even if it isn't my thing - they aren't sellouts, they weren't created in a marketing department, and they don't trend-hop

Tech did make a periphery thread too, so even if it was a Kiss thread or something (that I 1000% would go on a big rant about) I would have saved my bullets for that

 

[Jack Luminous]

I seen them open up for Metallica and Guns n Rose's on that big stadium tour they did back in the early 90's ....

They were awesome !

Discovered them when they opened for GnR in Paris in '92. Midlife Crisis caught my ear right away and made me buy Angel Dust soon after...

 

[Eazy-ESP]

As time passes I find I like the Chuck era more than Mike. Less skill, more thrill.

I’ve always loved the Chick era. We care a lot still gets me going. Never get tired of it.

 

[Eazy-ESP]

My favourite band when I was young for many years. I don’t listen to them much if ever anymore though. I actually really dug their last album too. Mike has always seemed cool and cutting edge. What I’ve seen of him last few years has been strange. Looks like a wigger having a midlife crisis.

 

[Sick Michael]

Probably my favourite Band, Introduce Yourself was my first, nicked a cassette from my metal head cousins room.

 

[romanianreaper]

It's a shame that all people here is "Epic", over and over on the radio. They have some great songs. When I saw them live, "Surprise, You're Dead" had everyone in a full jumping mob of awesome.

 

[Dale B]

not often talked about here.
having kind of a personal revival right now.
early stuff,
The Real thing!
Angel dust is of course a killer album and their peak.
King For A Day Fool For A Life Time sucked!
Album Of The Year is fine again, but of course not the same.

Please @DanTravis62, ruin it for me

I love all of their albums. King for a Day is a great album IMO because they cover many different genres. Trey Spruance's guitar work might not have been the same as Jim Martin's, but it was different from what they were doing prior. It felt more alive and busy in a good way.

I still remember coming in from football practice in Jr. High, taking a shower, laying down on the bed to rest and nuking my brain with the tapes of Introduce Yourself, The Real Thing and Angel Dust.

 

[valve]

I love all of their albums. King for a Day is a great album IMO because they cover many different genres. Trey Spruance's guitar work might not have been the same as Jim Martin's, but it was different from what they were doing prior. It felt more alive and busy in a good way.

I still remember coming in from football practice in Jr. High, taking a shower, laying down on the bed to rest and nuking my brain with the tapes of Introduce Yourself, The Real Thing and Angel Dust.

ah, i see your avatar! Well, yes it was too different for me and only a few songs would be even the same genre as before. Deleted a lot of songs from this album on my itunes, will rip it again from my CD that i got somewhwere. I am definitely more open, than i was back then. Will spin the whoe catalog the next weeks i guess.

 

[Dale B]

ah, i see your avatar! Well, yes it was too different for me and only a few songs would be even the same genre as before. Deleted a lot of songs from this album on my itunes, will rip it again from my CD that i got somewhwere. I am definitely more open, than i was back then. Will spin the whoe catalog the next weeks i guess.

There was a two-fold reason why that album turned out the way it did. They didn't have Jim around anymore pissing and moaning about the musical direction which started shifting earlier on Angel Dust with more of Patton's influence. Then, Patton was still pissed at Roddy for making him sing "Be Aggressive" on Angel Dust. That song is about giving head. Soooo... you'll notice there aren't as many keyboards on KFAD.

They were a just a bunch of kids fighting amongst one another back then with very little ability to communicate. It's kind of like all of the kids these days. Trey Spruance was/is in Mr. Bungle, and he said he didn't like the way Mike's personality was inside of Faith No More compared to Mr. Bungle.

It was also weird how they just kind of scrapped him after having him come onboard to play guitar on the album and not offer him the gig for the tour. Trey said he was pretty much broke at the time and needed the money. The rest of the band said Patton told them he wouldn't be responsible enough to go on tour. Patton probably didn't want him to continue to see that side of him within the inner workings of FNM.

They had Dean Menta, Roddy's keyboard technician, play the tour, and he was in the Ricochet video and any appearances they made in '95. They dropped him later on for John Hudson. John was a former roommate of Billy Gould's.

A lot of people love Jim Martin. I do too. He was one of the main faces of Faith No More. Those glasses, the Flying V and the Iommi influences were upfront and in your face. Personally, I think Trey Spruance was the best guitarist that ever touched that band. He can play damn near anything. His chord voicings aren't boring, and, although he didn't on KFAD, he can shred.

 

[thegame]

Angel Dust = top 10 1990’s album from any genre

 

[hammered]

One of my good friends is Jim’s cousin so I was aware of Faith No More pretty early on. Met Jim a few times back in the 80s and early 90s , really cool funny guy. Saw them twice back in the day opening for Metallica

 

[hammered]

Saw him drink his own piss out of his boot in Oakland.

I saw Mr Bungle at The Omni in Oakland, 1991. Was that the gig he did that at ?