I saw them headline at the Phoenix festival in 96 and I think it remains the best rock show I've ever seen.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
I saw them at Phoenix in 93 and they did an incredible version of We Care a Lot with samples from the Happy Mondays and Public Enemy. Thank God for YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbzflc_ocWc
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 23:33 (ten years ago) link
Thing that sticks in my mind most is an incredible cover of Portishead's Glory Box.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
Just found that. Yeah it's great. Such a versatile vocalist.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 23:40 (ten years ago) link
It's weird how 1991-94 was the only time when my tastes overlapped with Kerrang!'s: FNM, Therapy?, RATM, Nirvana. I hardly like any hard rock at all now.
That's funny, neither does Kerrang!
Phoenix 1993 was the first festival I went to, and I'll never forget Patton gamboling about the stage like Sonic The Hedgehog. I think it was Jim Martin's last show with the band as well - certainly lots of joke at his expense on the bootleg I have.
The Glory Box cover is fantastic. They were the most consistently great live band of my youth, and I took my brother to see the reunion the year before last and they were still excellent.
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Thursday, 6 February 2014 07:50 (ten years ago) link
Still prefer The Real Thing.
― bilbo bobbins (how's life), Sunday, February 2, 2014 8:01 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I love The Real Thing (the title track is quite possibly one of my favourite ever FNM tracks), but I don't tend to listen to it so much now. Weirdly, I keep finding myself returning to King For A Day more and more.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 6 February 2014 10:28 (ten years ago) link
I gave my little brother most of my FNM CDs some years back, keeping the mp3s on my iPod and my vinyl of Angel Dust for nostalgic reasons. but i lost a bunch of mp3s in a hard disk SNAFU a long times back, so Angel Dust and the odd other track are all the FNM i've had in a long time. My little brother bought me the 'original albums' cheapo CD box set for Xmas and I listened to Real Thing for the first time in AGES while stripping wallpaper over new year's, and 1) what a great album, 2) Angel Dust is still much further up my strasse, and 3) the studio tracks on the You Fat Bastard live album kick some major ass.
King For A Day is the really coked up and nasty album, isn't it? Cuckoo For Caca and Ugly In The Morning are seriously screwed up jams.
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Thursday, 6 February 2014 10:31 (ten years ago) link
I interviewed Bill Gould a year or so ago for a MOJO piece on Pussy Riot, and it was ther first time in ages where I was all like, 'Soooooo, you know your band like entirely made my teen years a fucking thrill, right?'
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Thursday, 6 February 2014 10:32 (ten years ago) link
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Thursday, February 6, 2014 10:31 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, I loved those mangled vocals on 'Cuckoo For Caca'... and King For A Day has 'Ricochet' on it too, which is an all-time FNM track for me.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 6 February 2014 10:36 (ten years ago) link
Small Victory should have rated much higher.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 6 February 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
"Land of Sunshine" for me probably, though "Everything's Ruined" and "Caffeine" in close proximity.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 25 April 2014 04:26 (ten years ago) link
and maybe "Kindergarten"
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 25 April 2014 04:28 (ten years ago) link
Everything's Ruined is such a well-written song.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 25 April 2014 09:13 (ten years ago) link
I love this whole album, in all honesty.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Friday, 25 April 2014 13:30 (ten years ago) link
yes, mm-hmm, now for the next question
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 March 2022 01:57 (two years ago) link
Here's "Jizzlobber" from the Philly show I saw in 1992 that ended with the crowd storming the sage and many walking off with some of the band's equipment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04iSm1j8D4E
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 March 2022 02:17 (two years ago) link
The best show of the tonnes of times I saw them (also, Jim Martin's final show)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhVxbo88VEw
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Saturday, 12 March 2022 08:50 (two years ago) link
I saw them headline Phoenix two years later, sans Jim, and they were phenomenal then also.
― chap, Saturday, 12 March 2022 12:06 (two years ago) link
Great sound on that bootleg!
― chap, Saturday, 12 March 2022 12:07 (two years ago) link
I think it's off a radio broadcasr or something - have had it on bootleg CD for the longest time, it's an amazing performance.
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Sunday, 13 March 2022 13:38 (two years ago) link
Nice to hear Patton sing Falling to Pieces in his 'normal' voice.
― chap, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
came out 30 years ago today
maybe one of the most important albums in my life
― na (NA), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
the soundtrack to my first year of college, when I was severely depressed and (for the only time in my life) briefly suicidal.
I still never get tired of it.
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
Love this record. How is Patton doing? Didn't he cancel a bunch of dates last summer for mental health reasons?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
"Small Victory" is so fuckin' good.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Sunday, 30 July 2023 21:32 (nine months ago) link
for someone who whined about it not being metal enough, there's a lot of crunchy metal riffing all over the album.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 02:36 (nine months ago) link
(Jim Martin that is)
"Malpractice" is one of the best nightmares ever recorded
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 02:47 (nine months ago) link