- Tour update via Bill. We previously mentioned the Czech show but here it is again.
- [tweet https://twitter.com/MRGOULD/status/207503203498078208]
- Imperial Teen focused Roddy interview from Windy City Times:
- “When I was kid from the age of 5 I got into classical piano. My mom is a very good piano player. I did piano up through high school.”
- Remember to support Roddy in his AIDS/LifeCycle Ride.
- Info and donate here
- Via @andymalt on Twitter, the strange stats that Beluga and Grooveshark gathers on band listeners. Here’s the Faith No More page. Certainly, the geographical data seems spot on and there’s lots to play with on the other tabs. Not sure what’s the exact source though but here’s the science bit.
- We’ve featured a few Faith No More appearances on 1990s UK Channel 4 show The Word before but not sure if we posted these two together before. What a Day and I Started a Joke from March 1994.
- The always excellent Faith No More discography have updated their site to show this French cassette release of A Small Victory.
Faith No More
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For those without comedic tastes, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article about Faith No More.
“Ah yes, Faith No More, truly a band that epitomizes the phrase “What a truly first-rate troupe of musical pioneers”. I must say I do find comfort in the postulation that I am not the only character who indeed “Cares a lot””
~ Mike Patton on his favorite band
Faith No More is a post-music band that was formed in the year 1985 by band members Chuck Mostly, Rowdy Bottom, Mike Boredom, Hairy Pumpkin Farmer, and This Guy. The band’s musical genres have a very extensive range. Including but not limited to, rap-rock, heavy metal, Nu-metal, nintendocore and random noise samples. They have enjoyed major mainstream success in Soviet Russia and Western Canada.
Contents
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1 History
2 Members
2.1 Current Touring Line-up
2.2 Past Members
3 Discography
4 Singles
edit History
In the year 1982, Hairy Pumpkin Farmer was kitten huffing with Mike Boredom, Rowdy Bottom, James (The Transient) Morris, and This Guy. Even though they had no idea how to play any instruments whatsoever (although Bottom was one hell of a skin flute player), they formed a band and called it “Lack of Hope”. The name was unpopular amongst the 2 fans they had, however, so they changed their name to “Faith No More”, fired James (The Transient) Morris for eating the last bag of Cheetos, hired Chuck Mostly because he happened to be walking by when this happened, and released the single, “Random Explosion Noises with the Drummer Tearing Down His Drum set in the Background, and a Hippie Raping His Guitar”. This single had very little success though. So they traveled back in time to 1981 just in time to get there before the Red Hot Chili Peppers formed so they could sound somewhat original.
For 4 years the band did absolutely nothing until Kerry King from Slayer wrote a song for them, proving that anyone can write a song no matter how mentally disabled they are, this led Faith No More to writing their own songs. They recorded the albums, “We couldn’t Care Less” and “Go Fuck Yourself”. These albums had very little success, mainly because of then-lead singer Chuck Mostly’s bad oder. Mr. Bungle’s sole songwriter and member Mike Patton then went to a Faith No More concert and ate Chuck Mostly’s soul and masculinity, automatically replacing him as the lead singer.
With Patton, the band released the album, “The Ally McBeal Thing” in 1989 along with the #1 hit single, “Anti-Climactic”. Although the song consisted of only one note with Mike Patton making weird screeching noises for 5 minutes, the video got heavy airplay on radio and MTV. Animal rights activists were outraged as the video for “Anti-Climatic” contained numerous scenes in which the entire band raped a school of fish. Anthony Kleenex from the Red Hot Chili Peppers then declared war on Patton as Patton cut all of Kleenex’s hair off while he was sleeping so that he could make a wacky wig for use in the numerous “Anti-Climatic” video fish rape scenes. The war rages to this day. The band then went on to release the album Angle Crust which caused all Koala bears and Kangaroo’s to go extinct, thus making Faith No More Australia’s new national treasure. Hairy Pumpkin Farmer exited the band due to Mike Patton’s numerous homosexual advances which he felt gave him superpowers to the point where he was no longer just a man. This was followed by Fool For a King, Life for a Daytime which saw new guitar player Trey Spearience enter and then soon after leave the fold due to an epic struggle with Mike Patton over who had the better hair. With new guitarist Da Terminater, Faith No More released their final album EP of the Fortnight which cost over $1 billion dollars to produce, mostly because of Mike Patton’s astronomical hair gel usage. A live album was also released entitled Live! In Your Shoebox, all of which were #1 hits in Soviet Russia.
Because EP of the Fortnight’s production caused a worldwide depression, the United Nations ordered Faith No More to break up for an unspecified amount of geological time. In addition, This Guy’s head exploded shortly after the release of EP of the Fortnight in the middle of a concert in Moscow. However, the bright side is that in Soviet Russia head explodes This Guy! So he managed to live on, never giving up on his endless Kitten Huffing.
Recently, Faith No More reformed, playing several hundred shows in Belgium because “that’s where the demand is” but they refuse to play in any other country. At every show Patton would eat the pair of shoes he wore that night as the bands encore. Their return was celebrated by the release of their 327th compilation album, simply titled:
“The Absolute Very Best Most Awesomely Definitive Ultimate Collection of Absolutely The Definitively Greatest Hits Ever By Faith No More That Contains Faith No More’s Very Best Ultimate Definitive Greatest Hits And Is A Better Compilation Album Than Who Cares a Lot?, This Is It: The Best of Faith No More, Epic and Other Hits, The Platinum Collection and The Works Combined And Also It Has The Very Best Ultimate Definitive Greatest B-side Hits That You Heard On The Other Compilation Albums And Also It Has A Shark On The Cover and the Greatest Definitive Very Best Absolute Hits The World Has Ever Seen In A Faith No More Compilation Album With A Bronzed Golden Shark On The Cover”.
edit Members
Aside from it’s original forming members, Faith No More had many member cycles.
edit Current Touring Line-up
Mike Patton- Vocals, screeching, rain stick, songwriting
Masta Jay-Z- Bass, Dj, Tire Screeching
Rowdy Bottom- Keyboards, skin flute virtuoso, amp feedback,
Da Terminata – Guitar
Mike “Puffing Stuff” Boredom- Drums, doodling
King Harkinian – Dinner
edit Past Members
The Main Playa – Guitar
Dee Mentia – Guitar
Are You Trey Spearienced? – Guitar/Piano/Melodica Luthier
Hairy Pumpkin Farmer – Guitar/Pumpkin Pie baking
Kerry king – Whammy Bar Abuse and Tremolo Picking
Lars Ulrich – Lawsuits
Adolph Hitler – Anti-Semism.
Chuck Mostly – Overly-audible vocals
James (The Transient) Morris – Vocals
Wade Bigglesworth – Keyboards
Courtney Love – Vocals/Cocksucking
edit Discography
We Couldn’t Care Less (1985)
Track Listing
1. We Couldn’t Care Less
2. The Late Bar
3. Ollie North
4. Jizz
5. Why Don’t you Bother?
6. Weed
7. Crap For Breakfast
8. As the Womb Burns
9. Gay Disco
10.Damned Beginnings
Go Kill Yourself (1987)
1.Stoned Disco
2. Jeff’s Noise
3. Go Kill Yourself
4. Chinese Dictatorship
5. Death Punch
6. We Couldn’t care less (Adolf Hitler reprise)
7. WTF
8. The Porno song
9. Jew’s blood
10. Teen Spirit (Feat. Nazis from Antarctica
The Ally McBeal Thing (1989)
Live! In Your Shoebox (1990)
Angel Crust (1992)
Fool For a King, Life For a Daytime (1995)
EP of The Fortnight (1997)
edit Singles
Random Explosion Noises with the Drummer Tearing Down His Drumset in the Background, and a Hippie Raping His Guitar (1985)
We Couldn’t Care Less (1985)
Jeff’s Noise (1987)
Get Off My Internets (1987)
Anti-Climactic (1989)
Getting Put Back Together (1989)
From Inside Somewhere (1989)
Rap-rock (We Invented) (1990)
Bloodsugarsexepic (1990)
Teenage Problem (1992)
An Immense Loss (1992)
Nothings Ruined (1992)
Difficult (1993)
Another Viking Crucifixion ft. Pooh Bear T.R.I.B.E. (1993)
Digging the Foundations (For a new coastal development 4 miles south of Long Beach, CA) (1995)
Implied Cobain Lyrics (1995)
You Ain’t Got Nothing On Me (1995)
Asses to Mules (1997)
Pint of Glory (1997)
Anal Probe (1997)
I Started To Boke (1998)
Songeth from thy future-eth (1544)
All singles reached the #1 spot on Soviet Russia’s “Music that charts you!” Chart and Canada’s “Free maple syrup with purchase of this single” Chart respectively.
Category: American musical groups
In all likelihood, I’ll catch them in both Poland and the Czech Republic, can’t wait! I’m hoping for maybe 3 new tunes and a somewhat different setlist. That, coupled with the enthusiasm and quick wit they have displayed the last two summers, would be more than I could bargain for!
Well, we know from the Kook Arrow update that Bill already has plans after the FNM shows to go and work on production for an album by one of his label’s bands…so I think these shows will be it. Plus they always like to end in front of a favored crowd in case it is “the end” for them. I’m surprised they haven’t sneaked in some kind of San Fran warm up show though…you’d think they’d at least like to play at home more often…they would sell out every time!
So, with less than a month before the tour starts, there are still so few dates. Is it possible for them to play so little, most probably with new material? They’ve booked mostly Central and Eastern Europe so far. What, no Germany? They had 4 shows there in 2009. No Italy?? No Spain, nor Portugal? What do you people think?
Oh, and pleeeeease come to Romania 😀
RIP Eduard Khil.
Trololololo…
I love that the guy’s enthusiasm! And good way to handle the guitar solo too! I bet he shows up on a sitcom somewhere.
Bit of a random cover for you. Aside from the crazy theatrics this guy has a decent voice!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdtWASusdU0
Yeah…I’ve always loved the FNM artwork choices. Songs To Make Love To was hilarious with the mating Rhinos! Angel Dust’s cover was always my favorite b/c of the mood it set. But I also love all the imagery and symbolism with AOTY. Plus…I bought that Eric Drooker Flood book off of ebay!
Oh noes! Brazil is practically tied in second place with Israel? Fak!
The “A Small Victory” single artwork cover is one of my favs. An old life magazine pic with the same british gunner on the cover:
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/1465/lifemagazinebritishgunn.jpg
The World Is Yours live – pro-shot, but very bad copy:
http://www.tube2send.com/ecard/ecard.php?ec=257374484631-05-20121338494311&res=1