Faith No More

Faith No More has been around the L.A. scene for awhile, but didn't get popular until they added the quirky lead vocals of Mr. Bungle's Mike Patton. (In fact their original lead singer sounds REAL poor.) I got into them real deep at first but since then have sorta lost interest.

Drummer Mike Bordin has since played for Ozzy Osbourne, and had another brief 15 minutes of fame on the original Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? game show, where his wife Merilee also appeared as the contestant right before him! Sadly, both of them wasted all their lifelines and blew the $16,000 question, earning just $1,000 each. Hell, *I* could do better than that...I think...

"The Real Thing"

  1. "From Out of Nowhere" (3:20)
  2. "Epic" (4:51)
  3. "Falling to Pieces" (5:12)
  4. "Surprise! You're Dead" (2:25)
  5. "Zombie Eaters" (5:58)
  6. "The Real Thing" (8:11)
  7. "Underwater Love" (3:49)
  8. "The Morning After" (3:41)
  9. "Woodpecker from Mars"--instrumental (5:38)
  10. "War Pigs" (7:43)
  11. "Edge of the World" (4:10)

"You want it all but you can't haaaave it!"--those words were heard nonstop on MTv all through 1990 (a year after the album actually came out!) and I was lovin' every minute of it! Thankfully, "Epic" is the sole rock/rap hybrid here, a style which I normally don't care for but it clicked magically on that song. The rest of the album is just as fantastic! In particular the anthemic "From Out of Nowhere", the moody title track, and the totallyfuckinawesome cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs". The song "Edge of the World" has some interesting lyrics: "Hey little girl/Would you like some candy?...It's not the point/That I'm forty years older/You can trust me/I'm no criminal...I'll do anything for the little girlies." Way cool!

"From Out of Nowhere" has been covered by Helloween and Apocalyptica.

"Angel Dust"

  1. "Land of Sunshine" (3:43)
  2. "Caffeine" (4:28)
  3. "MidLife Crisis" (4:18)
  4. "RV" (3:42)
  5. "Smaller and Smaller" (5:08)
  6. "Everything's Ruined" (4:33)
  7. "Malpractice" (4:00)
  8. "Kindergarten" (4:29)
  9. "Be Aggressive" (3:40)
  10. "A Small Victory" (4:55)
  11. "Crack Hitler" (4:38)
  12. "Jizzlobber" (6:34)
  13. "Midnight Cowboy"--instrumental (4:12)

I like this album, though it never impressed me as much as The Real Thing. As a result I've sort of lost interest in hearing their subsequent works. The song "Jizzlobber" drew some heat for its graphic depiction of the agonies of an aborted fetus.

"Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Hits" (Australian import)

    disc one:
  1. "We Care a Lot" (4:03)
  2. "Introduce Yourself" (1:33)
  3. "From Out of Nowhere" (3:21)
  4. "Epic" (4:52)
  5. "Falling to Pieces" (5:12)
  6. "Midlife Crisis" (4:17)
  7. "A Small Victory" (4:56)
  8. "Easy" (3:07)
  9. "Digging the Grave" (3:04)
  10. "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" (3:29)
  11. "Evidence" (4:54)
  12. "I Started a Joke" (3:00)
  13. "Last Cup of Sorrow" (4:09)
  14. "Ashes to Ashes" (3:36)
  15. "Stripsearch" (4:29)
    disc two:
  1. "The World is Yours" (5:51)
  2. "Hippie Jam Song" (4:59)
  3. "Instrumental"--instrumental (4:59)
  4. "I Won't Forget You" (4:09)
  5. "Introduce Yourself"--4 track demo (1:42)
  6. "Highway Star"--live (1:08)
  7. "Theme from Midnight Cowboy"--live (1:02)
  8. "This Guy's in Love with You"--live (4:21)

Got this "best of" set as a last-minute addition to a trade I was desperate to get out of (long story). It's the Australian import, but the only difference is the cover art, which is WAY superior to the domestic art which only has a stupid picture of a question mark on the cover. Not much to say about disc one, except that at least it has their cover of "Easy" (originally by the Commodores), so I don't have to worry about buying that single...oh, and the tracks from their last record, Album of the Year, suck horribly. Also, "We Care a Lot" is listed as the "original" version...but it's not!!! Stupid record companies...

As for the 2nd disc...well, compared to other fine "bonus" discs released with greatest hits compilations by Smashing Pumpkins, U2, and Bruce Dickinson, this one sucks in comparison. They don't even include such rare gems as "Let's Lynch the Landlord" plus other b-sides released on various singles, and the brief snippet of Deep Purple's "Highway Star" is way too short to even call a proper cover. Ah well, that's how things go sometimes...


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