We know that We Care a Lot has been recorded twice by Faith No More – for We Care a Lot and for Introduce Yourself – and even that a third live version has also been released.
But another version – very similar to the Introduce Yourself/Slash version – has appeared on an 1980s compilation album which has just been released.
The song is billed on the Eighties Junkie album as Faith No More: We Care a Lot (Re-recorded) and appears alongside other re-recorded 80s gems such as Tiffany’s I Think We’re Alone Now and Berlin’s Take My Breath Away. The album came out in September on Goldenlane records as you can stream on Spotify or buy on iTunes or Amazon.
Ben in Comments alerted me to the track and after several listens I’m certain that it is a different version. My guess is that it is a remix or different take from the Introduce Yourself recording. The vocal is lacking some of Chuck’s distinctive tone and the drums have been beefed up.
Update: It is indeed an alternate mix from the Introduce Yourself session.
Check it it below as well as the original (or the original re-recorded version to be exact).
Click on song title to play.
And here is the full album on Spotify
Here is the original version from We Care a Lot
And the Patton version
Whoa! That changed fast. I never thought it was the band playing the instruments, but that singer does a pretty good Chuck impression IMO. That song is listed as artist “Faith No More”…someone needs to get sued here.
“Re-recorded” is the new word(s) for “cover”? Pretty sneaky, sis.
This is not performed by Faith No More. The vocalist doesn’t sound anything like Chuck, the guitars and too grungy and flashy, the keyboard samples are different from the album version and the whole thing is much more polished.
It’s a cover, albeit a good one. The rest of the songs on ‘Eighties Junkie’ are also covers; some are attributed to actual cover bands (e.g. “Another Bring In The Wall Pt. 1 – The Wall Band”) and some are attributed to the original artist. Unfortunately there are LOTS of knock-off albums like this on iTunes and Spotify. There are bands who make a living out of producing these covers and selling them to various compilations.
Is it different from the one on the “Who Cares A Lot? The Greatest Hits” CD?
If this version was released by the old record label without band involvement, is it conceivable that they could also one day release The Seagull Song without band involvement? I’m not saying I would want this, the band should have total say, but it seems like the record label would probably own that song at this point, just like the rest of their catalog. And the fact that they released some live tracks on the Who Cares A Lot album would make you think that they have quite a bit of live material they could also release if there was enough interest. Or…maybe they’ll just release a 10th greatest hits album!
That’s not FNM. It’s some randoms best impersonation for one of those dodgy “Not by original artists” compilations surely?
Wow! Quick work admin, thanks for finding out the story on that so fast! That’s cool that a song that turns 30 next year had another version out there that we hadn’t heard yet.
Awesome thanks for finding this 🙂
“Update: It is indeed an alternate mix from the Introduce Yourself session.”
What’s the source on that? The instrumentation has none of the sound of the Introduce Yourself sessions, the drums and bass are clearly synth and the guitar work sounds nothing like Jim Martin’s. Also the keyboards are off in the chorus and not how Roddy has ever played them, studio or otherwise. I can get onboard with it being Chuck on vocals (although in verse three his trademark lisp appears to have suddenly cured itself) but it sounds like his post-FNM style, to be more specific the Cement years, before VUA.
Tracking the audio watermark it appears this version appears on several cheap’n’cheerful compilations released quite recently through a company called Stereo Magic Records, also boasting similarly ‘re-recorded’ versions of known pop-songs with vocal tracks laid over hurriedly-produced instrumentals. My theory would be that this is a version created specifically to sidestep licensing costs, possibly produced with Chuck (or an apt impersonator)’s involvement.
But if the band or Matt Wallace has categorically stated it’s from the Introduce Yourself sessions then I’ll concede all the above is conjecture.