Faith No More

Any fans? Back in the early 90s FNM was my favorite band. However, I feel that the only material worth a damn was the ones with Patton and Martin. The first vocalist had a weird style that never went over with me and when Martin left the metalness disappeared. Now the other albums had some good songs (Digging A Grave and Last Cup Of Sorrow) but the only thing that kept me a fan was the metal influence Martin brought to the table.

The Real Thing-the album that started it all for me with the awesome (albeit weird) videos for Epic and Falling To Pieces. Apart from those two, I liked every song on there: Suprise Your Dead (the heaviest track), You Came Out Of Nowhere, Zombie Eaters, Morning After, Underwater Love, Woodpeckers From Mars, and the War Pigs cover. The only song I wasn't head over heels with was Edge Of The World

Angel Dust-my favorite and again I love every track. However, my favorite was Everything's Ruined with Martin's guitar solo which IMO was even better than the one for Epic and my 2nd fav. was Midlife Crisis. Totally different than TRT except for the song Small Victory (the only song where Patton's TRT voice was really evident, the other times it is much deeper).

The only one I have from them is The Real Thing. After that one, I never heard anything else that I liked enough worth buying.

After they put out the video for "Epic", I remember they took allot of heat for the flopping, dying fish at the end of the video. While most bands would apologize, FNM did the opposite.
The next video they put out for "Falling to Pieces", the blew up more fish. I thought that was pretty funny, albeit immature.

I forget the name, but I did see one of Patton's side-projects as an opening act and I have to say it was some of the worst noise I've ever heard. It sounded as if ever member of the band was playing a different tune, while Mike Patton screamed bloody-murder over top of it.

I love FNM....from "Introduce Yourself" (the first I had heard from them)

"Real Thing" which is just classic (fave tracks being "Zombie Eaters" "Morning After" )

"Angel Dust" was as you stated a definite different creature than was expected to follow up the commercial success of "Real Thing" but it was a brilliant offering in its special way. Very layered and experimental...(fave tracks: "A Small Victory", "Midlife Crisis" and "be Aggressive")

"King For A Day..." was an odd duck...a great album sans Martin....but it literally came out with NO fanfare or promotion...just here it is...and it showed in the sales...but there are some killer tunes to be found here....

"Album Of The year" was even okay but far too dismal an offering for this great band to hang their coda on...but what can you do. Patton was too interested in losing his mind and running his label. The other guys were all working on other projects....and this all shows in the sound. sadly.

Still...FAITH NO MORE were a brilliant entry in the "WTF Rcok" catagory....

I have and love every album they produced. Truly one of the best bands of all time. They don't make music like that anymore.

I liked "Real Thing" and "Angel Dust" alot.

I love FNM. One of the first CD's I bought was Introduce Yourself. One of my all time favorite albums is King for a Day, like every tune on that one. Check out Tomahawk if you like FNM, it's a little odd but nowhere near as crazy as Bungle, which I also like.

I liked "The Real Thing" a lot back in the day. "Angel Dust" was a little too weird for me though, so that's where I got off.

Legend has it that FNM made the "Angel Dust" album extra weird on purpose in order to lose all the trendy MTV fans they'd picked up who just wanted to hear "Epic." If that's true, then it worked in my case.

i have angel dust and its a fave of mine

The only song I've heard from them is "Epic", and I think that's a pretty good song.

i quite like faith no more. even if they do rap

i havent heard a lot of material from these guys even though i see there name mentioned by a lof of bands as being a huge influence

I really like the 'Album Of The Year' record...& their cover of "Easy"...

their easy cover is certainly very good

TheGooch wrote:

their easy cover is certainly very good

I almost bought their CD single of "Easy" years back strictly for the above cover picture... two rhinoceroses copulating against a beautiful sunset... Isn't it romantic?

yeah it sure is but save it for discoverey channel

I like them. One of my favorite non-metal bands.

Fat Freddy wrote:

TheGooch wrote:

their easy cover is certainly very good

I almost bought their CD single of "Easy" years back strictly for the above cover picture... two rhinoceroses copulating against a beautiful sunset... Isn't it romantic?

actually i think its a quite good cover looking at it IMO

I liked them a lot along with Alice in chains during the summer of 1990. I like the actual title track on the The Real Thing the best. Epic and War Pigs were also killer songs.

I love FNM, they was probablymy most favorite band going throught out the late 80's all the way through the 90's. I follow all of Pattons works, although of late he seems to have bailed on the metal and is into r&b or something which is a bit of a shame.

Hey np if he wants to do that but dont forget your roots as well. The band Metalguy71 saw was Pattons other band called Fantomas which actually has some very cool stuff out albeit very different. It is extremely techinical, however the two albums I would recommend checking out are Directors Cut (amazing) and Suspended Animation (grind core at some points)

Anyhow FNM was an amazing band that stood the test of time against grunge and other music, and still remained cool.

Patton is an overrated turd. His best band ever was Faith No More, and next to that is Tomahawk. And they're far below FNM in terms of quality. The rest of his crap has flashes of brilliance, but overall he puts out some terrible music. Just self-indulgent nonsense with hardly any musical identity.

Eyesore wrote:

Patton is an overrated turd. His best band ever was Faith No More, and next to that is Tomahawk. And they're far below FNM in terms of quality. The rest of his crap has flashes of brilliance, but overall he puts out some terrible music. Just self-indulgent nonsense with hardly any musical identity.

As much as I hate to do it, because I love Patton in FNM, I have to agree with Eyesore. FNM was good because they were a BAND. Patton contributed to the greatness. Without that band behind him, he hasn't done anything I like. Believe me, I have tried to like it.

I wouldn't say he's a turd.

Now Nickleback are turds.

Fat Freddy wrote:

TheGooch wrote:

their easy cover is certainly very good

I almost bought their CD single of "Easy" years back strictly for the above cover picture... two rhinoceroses copulating against a beautiful sunset... Isn't it romantic?

yes, very romantic....especially when you use the term "copulate".

I'll never forget the stage set they destroyed as guests on Saturday Night Live back in like...1990-ish? Me and my buddy were like.....

T-Roy wrote:

yes, very romantic....especially when you use the term "copulate".

I didn't want to hurt your virgin ears by calling it "the Horizontal Rhino-Mambo" or anything similarly tasteless..

Yeah - I saw Mike Patton with Fantomas opening up for Tool. Weird stuff - a couple of interesting tracks but the rest was weird and dumb.

Faith No More's The Real Thing is a classic album. The whole album is great from start to finish. The cover of War Pigs is outstanding - it sounds great.

Need to give Angel Dust a good listen sometime in the future.

shamgar75 wrote:

Need to give Angel Dust a good listen sometime in the future.

To me, Angel Dust is their classic. It doesn't have their most popular song, but the entire album is a brilliant piece of work.