I actually rode in a chaffeured limousine at the time. Not that this album has anything to do with poverty, but it can get plenty cold in a Vega with holes in the floor. When I was a henny young man, my father drove a Vega with holes in the floor, so I'm no stranger to poverty.
A very smart and talented collective of folks, but by the last album it was clear that they were heading towards creative Chapter 11 bankruptcy.įaith No More began their recorded career as an awfully cold vehicle. Instead, they concentrated on mostly dark, confrontational music interspersed neatly with pieces of light humor and beautiful anthemic hard rock.
Paragraph! We Care A Lot Introduce Yourself The Real Thing Live At Brixton Academy Angel Dust Songs To Make Love To EP King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime Album Of The Year The Waste California's beloved Faith No More are best known for not getting along at all, but they also once featured an unknown Courtney Love on vocals (and boy were they a putrid goth band at that point in their career), later launched indie rock superhero Mike Patton into the world, and ultimately helped bring "funk-rock" to the world of popular music while not really being a funk rock band at all aside from a few early songs. You can order it from Amazon below.Yeah! You tell that lousy George Michael album! special introductory What are your favorite memories from ‘Angel Dust’? Tell me in the comments. I can still crank up Everything’s Ruined today and get goosebumps. It’s so singular, strange and uncompromising that there’s nothing to compare it too.
His combative, body fluid performance art freaked out his touring mates and casual fans, but it certainly left an impression.ĭespite its initial lukewarm reception Angel Dust stands up admirably today, largely because it’s as unclassifiable now as it was then. And during a performance he pissed in his own shoe and drank it. During their jaunt Patton took a dump in Axl Rose’s orange juice back stage. The group didn’t help their fates at home when they would opened for the ill-fated joint tour of Guns N’Roses and Metallica. Many found it impenetrable and alienating. This extends to the provocative album title as well, of which Bottum said “ summed up what did perfectly: it’s a really beautiful name for a really hideous drug and that should make people think.” Faith No More Angel Dust Album ArtĪngel Dust went gold in America, but couldn’t match the commercial heights of The Real Thing. This dichotomy is also reflected in the album art, which features a beautifully photographed egret on the front cover and a cow head hanging from a meat hook on the back. In many ways the group’s internal discord fueled their creativity–indeed the album is such a wide-ranging and conflicting listen–violent mood swings abound: it’s an album or absolute beauty and horrifying ugliness. If Angel Dust would be Martin’s final contribution before he left the group, he certainly went out on a high note. It’s a horror show of a tune with Martin providing gnarled, funereal riffage while Patton howls at his most unhinged. And then there’s Jizzlobber, his crowning achievement.
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Also gone was the bratty, nasal delivery he employed on The Real Thing–in its place was a more mature, full-throated croon.Įven so, he left his stamp, from his rollicking riff on Caffeine to Crack Hitler’s blaxploitation guitar funk. Vocalist Mike Patton’s rhythmic verses were more subdued, the song was less bombastic. The closest the album came to Epic was the first single Midlife Crisis, but even that track subverted expectations. The Angel Dust tour with Helmet still ranks as one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. It was pretty much the soundtrack for the summer of 1992 for me, never leaving my tape deck. For open-minded fans like myself, it would prove life-changing. June 8th, 2017 marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Angel Dust, Faith No More’s genre-defying, gauntlet throwing follow-up to 1989’s platinum selling album The Real Thing.įaith No More always had an antagonistic streak with their fans and their record label, and for anyone hoping for another smash hit like the rap-rock anthem Epic, they were shit out of luck. Albums Revisited: Faith No More’s ‘Angel Dust’ Turns 25: FNM bit the hand that feeds on their groundbreaking 1992 release.
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