Faith No More - Angel Dust
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Free Music Review: An album that will open a lot of unused brain cells
Hit: 5 Stars
First, I still like the following 3 songs the most on this album: Midlife crisis, Everything's Ruined, & A Small Victory. Not only are those just three excellent songs; but they are three songs that everyone should at least listen to once.
As for the rest of the album, like a previous reviewer said, it has taken me over 15 years to even go back to the remainder of the album to give it another chance. I am very surprised by how much I like the ENTIRE album. RV, a song which I thought would constantly skip over, is a tune I play often due to the attitude and actual voice acting done by Patton. Be Aggressive has really grown on me as well. Malpractice is brilliant, Crack Hitler & Jizzlobber are placed perfectly together on this album, & Kindergarten while the most tame song on the album, still holds its own in terms of listening to.
Which leads me to the remaining songs: Land of Sunshine - this is the hardest song for me to get into to, I do like it but I need more time with it - the same exact feelings apply to Caffeine. Smaller & Smaller - another tough one for me to warm up to but again, I just need more time with it. Midnight Cowboy is the ultimate "chill" track - I love it and feel they put a lot of TLC into it.
I'm really glad I ended up buying this one - It really does force you to listen to music in a different way...thought I was just playing tricks with my brain (i.e. forcing myself to like it) because music today is so bad but I really wasn't - the album first comes off as so crazy and weird that you first dismiss it only to find out later how many deep layers there really are to it.
All of my above comments lead to one strong conclusion - this album is worthy of the highest ratings possible whether you like it, love it, or hate it.
Free Music Review: "You ain't never gonna amount to nothing..."
Hit: 5 Stars
So I pick this album up having heard Midlife crisis and Land of sunshine and realize: 'Man what have I been missing?!'. Mike Patton is without a doubt a lunatic, but an extremely unpredictable talented lunatic. Angel Dust is right on the money, not completly off the Wall like Mr. Bungle (Patton's side project) nor as commercialy appealing as The real thing (Faith no more's previous album), this record falls somewhere in the middle of both. Mike Patton's lyrics on Jizzlobber (I'm pretty sure the song is about self gratification) are insane: "I am what I do". This guy talks openly about giving head in Be Agressive (gotta love the catchy cheer leader chorus). His brutal honesty are some of the key elements which hold this album together. So many different styles, no songs sound like one another. The keyboards blend in well, heck even the back cover showing a cow's head and skinned chickens seem to fit in perfectly in some insane way. It's an album where everything, every note, every groove, every beat seems to fit in and even the insaness of the lyrics catch on after awhile.
My personal favorites would have to be Kindergarden, which deals with outgrowing old habits I believe. For example when Patton sings: "Folklore: nobody's supposed to believe in the next grade, write it a hundred times." I usually hate when singer's rap, but Patton sounds so good I just give in.
Small victory with it's oriental sounding keyboards are just great as are the crazy lyrics in everything's ruined (soon our boy became a million?).
This album is completly worth your time and money. It will grow on you after the first listen, not because the songs are catchy they are just written in such a way that they are very memorable, credit to the band for writting such good songs.
Free Music Review: Why am I writing a review on an album that is almost 15 years old?
Hit: 5 Stars
BECAUSE IT IS ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS EVER COMPOSED!!! I remember in the 90's playing this album before I went to bed at night and when I woke up in the morning...seriously. If there is any album since 1992 that has surpassed or even matched the brilliance of 'Angel Dust' then I am ignorant of it's existence.
Mike Patton is widely regarded as one of the best vocalists ever, with his broad variety of singing styles all being displayed alternately throughout this beautiful masterpiece. My favorite song is probably the opening track 'Land of Sunshine', but with so many other great songs I don't think I can really claim that with complete confidence.
If you want to have nightmares then listening to tracks like 'Caffeine', 'Malpractice', or 'Jizzobler' before falling asleep will most likely do the trick. The hard guitars, and high pitched screams of Patton on these tracks are frightenly unreal. 'Angel Dust' keeps you attentive, sometimes venturing into mellower piano led portions, sometimes boardering on the edge of being considered death metal.
As many other reviewers have mentioned, the greatness of this album cannot be described in words - THIS ALBUM IS ESSENTIAL TO YOUR MUSIC COLLECTION!!!
RECOMMENDATION: Get Faith No More's last two albums also! Although not on the same level of brilliance as 'Angel Dust', FNM's follow-up album 'King For a Day - Fool For a Lifetime' is still a GREAT album, and sees the band experiment with a differnent style again. 'Album of the Year' was more predictable than anything they had done previously but still is a worthy addition to your collection. Fans of Mike Patton should also check out his other projects - most notablly Mr Bungle (which he was in before joining FNM).
Free Music Review: Faith no More's Pork Soda...
Hit: 5 Stars
..meant that right after being widly introduced to the mainstream, with a rocking, yet somewhat commercial( by there own standerds), the band pulls a complete 180, and releases a dark, menacing, and distorted follow up that seemed to concentrate more on pleasing thier fans artistically, as opposed to watering downthier music further to sell records, which I admire in bands. The only problom that occured when this happened is that when Primus did it , supprisingly, thier album was a hit, sold tons of copy's, and remained a fan favorite, at the same time, wheras when faith no more released Angel Dust, it cost them thier fame. Which I find kind of strange because it means that the band's commercial downfall by the charts, was thier masterpiece by thier fans.
But enogh about me going on about how such a great album that got such great reviews, was the end of the bands huge fame streak, and actually start discribing that album.
First of all, this one takes a couple of listens to before it actually starts to hit you with it's greatness, first of all, when i first put it in my cd player, and turned it on, I thought that I had actually fast forwarded to the album's halfway point, which I guess is the only slight low point of the record(that and the disturbing lyrics of Be aggressive). But after a couple of listens, it starts to sink in( it also helps to look at the lyrics).
lastly I would probably not reccomend this album to you unless you've heard Primus, Mr. Bungle(Mike Patton's Psycotic side project), or other Faith no More. But if you have heard these bands, then I would reccomend giving angel dust a shot.
Yes, that's interesting, but tell me, WHY DON'T YOU HAVE THIS YET!!!!???
Free Music Review: great album.
Hit: 5 Stars
Warner Bros. figured that lightning could strike twice at a time when oodles of (most horribly bad) funk-metal acts were following in Faith No More and Red Hot Chili Peppers's footsteps. in response, the former recorded and released the bizarro masterpiece Angel Dust. Patton's work in Mr. Bungle proved just how strange and inspired he could get given the opportunity; now, in his more famous act, nothing was ignored. "Land of Sunshine" starts things off in a vein similar to The Real Thing, but Patton's vocal role-playing is smarter and more accomplished, with the lyrics trashing a smug bastard with pure inspired mockery. from there, Angel Dust mixes the meta-metal of earlier days with the expected puree of other influences, including a cinematic sense of atmosphere. the album ends with a cover of John Barry's "Midnight Cowboy," which suits the mood perfectly, but the stretched-out, tense moments on "Caffeine" and the soaring charge of "Everything's Ruined" make for other good examples. even a Kronos Quartet sample crops up on the frazzled sprawl of "Malpractice." other sampling and studio treatments come to the fore throughout, adding quirks like the distorted voices on "Smaller and Smaller." the band's sense of humor crops up frequently -- there's the hilarious portrayal of prepubescent angst on "Kindergarten," made all the more entertaining by the music's straightforward approach, or the beyond-stereotypical white trash cornpone narration of "RV," all while the music breezily swings along. Patton's voice is stronger and downright smooth at many points throughout, the musicians collectively still know their stuff, and the result is twisted entertainment at its finest.