Faith No More - Angel Dust
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Free Music Review: All-time classic of music
Hit: 5 Stars
Its laughable that I could 'review' this album. To use a cliche, it realy is too good to put into words. When I first heard this album ten years ago, I was bowled over. Everything about it is simply perfect: Vocals: Mike Patton: Pattons performance on this album really defies description. On 'Land of Sunshine', he is operatic, on 'Caffeine' he alternates between harsh growl and athereal vocals, on 'Crack Hitler', well, what can I say except he is the greatest singer I have ever heard, and on this album he marks himself out as a true legend. Guitars: Jim Martin: While many point to Martins lack of involvement in the band at this time and write off his contribution, I must disagree. Martin is on fine form here and really I cannot imagine anybody else filling his role on this album. The 'classic' FNM sound is evident all over this album, thanks to Martin and Bottum.
Keyboards: Roddy Bottum adds this really weird, eerie feel that just makes this album so damn creepy. Check out the outtro to 'Jizzlobber', its about as brilliant a thing you'll ever hear!
Bass: Billy Goulds pummelling basslines are all over this, 'Everythings Ruined' and 'Midlife Crisis', for example. Again, the album wouldnt be the same without him. Drums: Puffy Bordin is one of my all time favourite drummers, and on this album he is as brilliant as ever. Just listen to 'Jizzlobber', 'Midlife Crisis', and well, everything else!
What I'm trying to say is: buy this album if you havent already. Its my favourite of all time, one that I have listened to at regular intervals for over a decade and still cannot get enough of! Its an all-time classic and it deserves your attention.
Free Music Review: Unique, smooth, great.
Hit: 5 Stars
Faith No More's 4th (I belive it was the 4th.) album, while I heard it did not sell as much as their previous album "The Real Thing" I must say if you like good music purchase this CD, for it has a great price, and can keep you listening over and over.The CD opens with "The Land of Sunshine" an interesting track, the vocalist not only can do various voices and an insane laughter, this song is a rather nice song that just encourages toe tapping. Caffine is a preety good song, but does not top the next track "Midlife Crisis" which contains the chorus "You'r perfect, yes its true, but without me, your only you." which is a great qoute from a great song. RV is by far a very interesting track, in fact the song is more of a joke, its a light piano tune, with the first person narative of a middle agged trailer park trash. Smaller and Smaller is a good song too, a bit more heavy (If my memory serves me right, I have not listened to this album in ONE whole day.) then the others, Everythings ruined is also a good song, same with Malpractice, but the mellow but pleasent Kindergarden over shadows the last three, but I will not kid you, I love the song Be Agressive, because the chorus actually features a group of cheer leaders, well cheer leading. A small Victory is another nice pleasent song, the last three were all good to, but not as good as some of the others.
In my opinions the songs that you will keep skipping back and forth too are: Land of Sunshine, Midlfie Crisis, RV, Kindergarden, Be agressive, and Small Victory.
How ever the other songs are good also. Overall I strongly suguest this to all.
Free Music Review: A precursor for things to come
Hit: 5 Stars
Like many fans, I too was upset that FNM decided not to make The Real Thing part deux. I also believed that they had decided to get a new lead singer, and that they would probably become a band who decided to get a new singer with each album...I know that sounds odd, but that's the way it appeared to me. I was wrong and I was right. I like the mad scientist tag that a previous reviewer gave Patton, because I picture him sitting in a basement with all these concoctions gurgling in his brain, wringing his hands together, deciding how best to mess with our brains. What may be a better tag is "The Chameleon" shapeshifting with each song, or the abstract artist who slaps paint on a canvas in a seemingly disoriented fashion until one takes a step back. Whatever the case may be, I couldn't go back to The Real Thing ever again. This album, as many have stated, started an industry. Many have tried and many have failed to attempt to duplicate the brilliance found on this disc. King for a Day, Album of the Year, Mr. Bungle, and Fantomas have done what Mike Patton has feared the most...They have made him a LEGEND. My one problem with Patton is that he was not as prolific as I would've liked him to be, coming out with a paltry! 11 albums in 12 years. He appears to be allieving my angst by coming out with four albums this year. The Director's Cut (Fantomas) another Fantomas album (as yet untitled) an album with a group called Peeping Tom, and another album with a group called Tomahawk. The epitome of genius, that Mike Patton is, shone forth in this album first sports fans, and if you want to hear Mike Patton 101 this is it.Free Music Review: Best Rock Album of the '90s
Hit: 5 Stars
I don't mean that sacractically, this album is the most important record any band did during the entire decade. Nirvana? Sure, they were good at what they did, but were they original? Nope. Pearl Jam? Pleeeeease.. If you look at all the bands who were big around the same time Angel Dust came out (I'm talking about Soundgarden, Metallica, Guns n' Roses, etc...), they were all so much more successful than FNM because they played it SAFE. There's nothing safe about Angel Dust, they played against type, they rocked harder, they confused and made the listener THINK, they did everything they could possibly do to make this the brilliant, unpredictable masterpiece it is. It sounds like nothing they'd done before, and it was truly their peak. Lesser talents like Korn and Deftones took the Faith No More sound and watered it down to become the (already dead) nu metal scene in the following years, but no one can touch the original. And look at the one-time competition today.. Chris Cornell is singing Hallmark card greetings in the after-school-special pop band Audioslave, Metallica have become a disgusting parody of what they once were, Korn's run itself into the ground, the guys from GnR are making pathetic "rock star" pop with that hack Weiland, and so on.. Compare this to Mike Patton, who, aside from having 3 or 4 bands on tap at all times since FNM's demise, he's still making music no one's ever heard before, his voice and lyrics are as incredible as ever, and he's not lost one ounce of his integrity. But back to the point, Angel Dust is a MUST for any true rock fan who appreciates a band with balls and a vision.Free Music Review: I Fell Ashamed...
Hit: 5 Stars
I am ashamed to admit that I once disliked Angel Dust. The first time I listened to this, I hated it. I remember a feeling of deep disappointment. I loved The Real Thing, and I expected more of the same from a band I considered a potential altenative power-house. I thought it was a letdown, an overrated album by all accounts. However, so many praised Faith No More's fourth album to high heaven, I felt I needed to give it a second chance...I did and I must say I still disliked it, but I found 'Midlife Crisis' and `Everything's Ruined' enjoyable. So I kept Angel Dust in my iTunes library, hoping that I would one day hear what everybody else hears in the 1992 release. Upon third listen, it started to kick in...To make a long story short, Angel Dust is now one of my favorite albums of all time. It's hard to believe that I once found no pleasure in the insane laughing frenzy Mike Patton demonstrated in `Land of Sunshine' or that I once loathed the perverted but truthful `Be Aggressive.' `Midlife Crisis' sinful misses most essential 90's rock songs lists (to think that `Just a Girl' makes it and `Midlife Crisis' does not...what the hell are these people thinking?), but it is arguably the most enjoyable song in FNM's illustrious career (even better than `Epic,' The Real Thing fans!!). I have to say, I believe this to be FNM's best effort. Not to downplay The Real Thing; a great album that put alternative rock on the map. Much like The Smashing Pumpkin's Siamese Dream, Angel Dust may not be FNM's most artistic album, but it is their best. Just behind Dirt for my best album of '92.