Exactly 18 years ago to the day Faith No More appeared on UK TV show 'The Word' performing 'I Started A Joke' and 'What A Day' before embarking on their UK leg of KFAD tour.
Mike and Billy are subjected to one of Terry Christian's typically terrible interviews ha!
I STARTED A JOKE
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For those not lucky enough to have a copy of the KFAD 7" album box set. What follows is the album appraisal written on the insert by Phil Alexander. Phil was editor at Kerrang! in 1995 but is now chief editor of Mojo magazine. Enjoy.
It's a dirty job but someone's got to do it...
I mean, where do you start when it comes to putting together a few words of appreciation for Faith No More?
Hmmm...
It's a question that's rattled around my pea brain for a matter of minutes now. It's got me thinking to the first time I managed to wrap my ears around the Faith No More sound. That was almost a decade ago. The fact alone makes it seen weird. But, hey, this isn't about getting all doe eyed and nostalgic over 10 years of aural abuse and discord. Nope, this is about the here and now. This is about "King For A Day...Fool For A Lifetime", an album which is the culmination of all those years of tense, nervous earache.
As an album "King..." Is the latest in a long line of intriguing pieces of ear candy served up without sweetener. It's full of the chewy kind of venom that has kept FNM a challenging concern. Talk to any members of the band and they'll tell you about the making of this album at great length with either a smile or a grimace...depending on which day you catch em on.
In fact, the mini interviews with each band member presented here should give you, the faithful FNM junkie, a good idea of exactly how this right royal slice of More-some muzak was conceived. What you get, along with this natty packaging and neat slithers of plastic, is a set of true stories told by Billy, Mike B, Roddy, Mike P and new kid Dean The Guitar Guy. None of the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
For the "why's" and "wherefores", "King..." speaks for itself. Since you've seen fit to pick up this version of the latest FNM instalment, you already know exactly what I'm taking about. You already dig Faith No More's ability to bob and weave between musical styles and aggressive inflections.
Whether it's the guitar driven work outs of 'Get Out', the spazzed out Mike Patton shit-stirring overload of 'Cuckoo For Caca', the stormy melancholy of 'Take This Bottle', or the disconcerting jazz slink of 'Evidence' (hey George Benson, eat your heart out), you know what FNM are all about.
Yes "King..." is another piece of taught drama that refuses to revel in the American Dream. If anything we're dealing with the American Nightmare here. The kind of mess that US Pres Bill Clinton couldn't mop up with all the Andrex in the world.
Look into this box a little deeper abs you'll find a bunch of extra "B" - side -only cuts that show off FNM's musical schizoid personality even further. I mean, how many other bands do you know that could turn their hand to calmly crooned versions of Bee Gee's cuts like 'I Started A Joke' or Al Martino's 'Spanish Eyes' before plunging the full-on punk roar of 'I Wanna Fuck Myself' . "King...", y'see, will make you feel great on a good day, and drive you to the edge when you're feeling bad.
"King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime"? Somehow the title sums it all up. Like all great records, it leaves you beautifully charred.
Phil Alexander - Editor, Kerrang! Magazine, London July 1995.
Coffee for a Day??
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WHAT A DAY
Mike and Billy are subjected to one of Terry Christian's typically terrible interviews ha!
I STARTED A JOKE
For those not lucky enough to have a copy of the KFAD 7" album box set. What follows is the album appraisal written on the insert by Phil Alexander. Phil was editor at Kerrang! in 1995 but is now chief editor of Mojo magazine. Enjoy.
It's a dirty job but someone's got to do it...
I mean, where do you start when it comes to putting together a few words of appreciation for Faith No More?
Hmmm...
It's a question that's rattled around my pea brain for a matter of minutes now. It's got me thinking to the first time I managed to wrap my ears around the Faith No More sound. That was almost a decade ago. The fact alone makes it seen weird. But, hey, this isn't about getting all doe eyed and nostalgic over 10 years of aural abuse and discord. Nope, this is about the here and now. This is about "King For A Day...Fool For A Lifetime", an album which is the culmination of all those years of tense, nervous earache.
As an album "King..." Is the latest in a long line of intriguing pieces of ear candy served up without sweetener. It's full of the chewy kind of venom that has kept FNM a challenging concern. Talk to any members of the band and they'll tell you about the making of this album at great length with either a smile or a grimace...depending on which day you catch em on.
In fact, the mini interviews with each band member presented here should give you, the faithful FNM junkie, a good idea of exactly how this right royal slice of More-some muzak was conceived. What you get, along with this natty packaging and neat slithers of plastic, is a set of true stories told by Billy, Mike B, Roddy, Mike P and new kid Dean The Guitar Guy. None of the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
For the "why's" and "wherefores", "King..." speaks for itself. Since you've seen fit to pick up this version of the latest FNM instalment, you already know exactly what I'm taking about. You already dig Faith No More's ability to bob and weave between musical styles and aggressive inflections.
Whether it's the guitar driven work outs of 'Get Out', the spazzed out Mike Patton shit-stirring overload of 'Cuckoo For Caca', the stormy melancholy of 'Take This Bottle', or the disconcerting jazz slink of 'Evidence' (hey George Benson, eat your heart out), you know what FNM are all about.
Yes "King..." is another piece of taught drama that refuses to revel in the American Dream. If anything we're dealing with the American Nightmare here. The kind of mess that US Pres Bill Clinton couldn't mop up with all the Andrex in the world.
Look into this box a little deeper abs you'll find a bunch of extra "B" - side -only cuts that show off FNM's musical schizoid personality even further. I mean, how many other bands do you know that could turn their hand to calmly crooned versions of Bee Gee's cuts like 'I Started A Joke' or Al Martino's 'Spanish Eyes' before plunging the full-on punk roar of 'I Wanna Fuck Myself' . "King...", y'see, will make you feel great on a good day, and drive you to the edge when you're feeling bad.
"King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime"? Somehow the title sums it all up. Like all great records, it leaves you beautifully charred.
Phil Alexander - Editor, Kerrang! Magazine, London July 1995.
Coffee for a Day??
