You're POLLfect, yes it's true... But without me you're only you (Best song on Faith No More's Angel Dust)

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.

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.

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?'

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, 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.

Small Victory should have rated much higher.

"Land of Sunshine" for me probably, though "Everything's Ruined" and "Caffeine" in close proximity.

and maybe "Kindergarten"

Everything's Ruined is such a well-written song.

I love this whole album, in all honesty.

yes, mm-hmm, now for the next question

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

The best show of the tonnes of times I saw them (also, Jim Martin's final show)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhVxbo88VEw

I saw them headline Phoenix two years later, sans Jim, and they were phenomenal then also.

Great sound on that bootleg!

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.

Nice to hear Patton sing Falling to Pieces in his 'normal' voice.

came out 30 years ago today

maybe one of the most important albums in my life

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.

Love this record. How is Patton doing? Didn't he cancel a bunch of dates last summer for mental health reasons?

"Small Victory" is so fuckin' good.

for someone who whined about it not being metal enough, there's a lot of crunchy metal riffing all over the album.

(Jim Martin that is)

"Malpractice" is one of the best nightmares ever recorded