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

If I had seen this poll I probably would have voted for Everything's Ruined. From Smaller and Smaller to Kingergarten is such a great stretch of songs - really any of those could win it for me.

yes

the slap bass in everything's ruined

RV reminds me of the underwater level on super mario brothers, which is cool. but then, the cheerleader chant on Be Aggressive is pretty cool too.

Tipped off by our own get bent -- four hours of FNM recording the album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhdPYQgukr8

I've come across that before but haven't had the patience to sit through more than about ten minutes.

Best alt rock album of the 90s y/n?

Well the only other contender in my mind is California.

will always groan at patton stans but man i do love 'a small victory', so fantastic it makes nu-metal sound like a great idea. those c+c touches!

I'm no Patton stan, but he has been known to absolutely fucking kill it.

FNM's 'nu metal' was shot through with cynicism and assholeness and black humour and that's why it was awesome and why nu-metal was awful bullshit.

I love this album, would have voted for 'Malpractice' without hesitation.

"APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE! APP-LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUSE!"

Everything's Ruined to me is the centre of this album, so that

greatest music video of all time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5irHyoRNcRY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5irHyoRNcRY

Still prefer The Real Thing.

The answer's obviously Jizzlobber.

^^^posts almost terrifyingly in character

I saw them tour this, supported by L7 circa Bricks Are Heavy, and God it was great. I've never found another band like them.

was that at brixton? saw them for the first time at brixton on that tour, was in the moshpit until someone poked my contact lens out of my eye in the encore. still one of the best shows i ever saw. l7 were ace too, they played their infamous show on the tube that same week.

No, Cambridge Corn Exchange. 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. Can't tell if it was just my age or an unusually good time.

I saw them headline at the Phoenix festival in 96 and I think it remains the best rock show I've ever seen.

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

Thing that sticks in my mind most is an incredible cover of Portishead's Glory Box.

Just found that. Yeah it's great. Such a versatile vocalist.

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.

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