This is bold and brave and barmy. Consequence of Sound have ranked 126 Faith No More songs from worst to best.
Four cuts from The Real Thing in the top 10 and only 2 from Sol Invictus in the top 20 – but what do you think?
Personally, I think they got number 1 right but a lot wrong. And you? What’s your top 20?
I’ll say this after having met the band in Detroit…Puffy may not look like the typical athlete in his wife beater…but that guy is playing at level 10 all night long…I mean he is pounding the shit out of the drums, breaking sticks, visibly trying to catch his breath whenever he can. Up close, he is jacked. Arms and legs a of a little Asian body-builder. I wouldn’t want to try to arm wrestle him.
Jon runs…he comes off as a typical endurance athlete…very chill but has the energy when it’s time.
Roddy does century rides and swims, seems to be doing really well since hurting his back a few years ago.
Billy seems to be aging better than everyone else, tons of enthusiasm.
Patton, after an energetic show, was talking to fans like me for hours, longer than anyone else, and seemed to be bounding with energy. Now, I saw Patton in Sydney Australia with Bungle (yes, I flew from the east coast USA to Australia to see Bungle…my first time on a plane actually besides skydiving), and he closed that opening night singing Begin The Beguine while holding a lit cigarette…then chews the cigarette up, swallows it, belts out a 2 minute long closing high note, and ends that note doing a standing back flip and lands it!!!! I joked with him about this, he just laughed and said, “Oh, the things you can do when you’re young”. Yes, Patton has aged, but to hold him to the way he was in the 90’s is to hold him to an impossible standard.
You can say Mike isn’t the physical athlete he was during KFAD, but try comparing him to Axl Rose et al… then you can appreciate he is still really good. Jim Morrison and the Club died at 27. Mike is doing a lot better than Mr. Mojo Risin at 47.
To be honest, I must agree with Bob – in fact MP is visibly tired especially if you compare shows from 2009. Sad, but true. Well, nobody is getting younger. However, we must have in mind the numerous shows they play these days, hard to be in shape all the time. I hope he’ll hold up.
To be fair…Puff is in shape – that dude goes hard on the bongos
they should definitely consider doing some cardio.
singing a faith no more show should be like running a marathon. Cmon mike your body is your instrument, needs a tune up son, bit of a diet, calories in , calories out, less beer, less hogs, cmon fellas tune up.
ps they looked afraid on Jimmy Fallon.
PPS. they aint used to being a massive band again
PPPPS. Rise of The Fall I couldn’t stand now I love, even that annoying bungle bit, after a zillion listens it makes sense.
@PressedHam Patton’s kinda like MJ with the Wizards now. A little slower and definitely chunkier. But every now and then he’ll pull out a 50 point game and it’ll be fucking amazing.
Cheers for your list
#1 Caffeine
#2 King for a day
#3 The real Thing
#4 Midlife Crisis
#5 Ricochet
#6 Caralho Voador
#7 Cuckoo for Caca
#8 Just a man
#9 Everything’s ruined
#10 Collision
It’s crazy how it’s nearly 6 years since download, but then when you look at the performances, you can tell. Patton looks like he’s aged a hell of a lot since then, in his looks (i miss that red suit and his long hair) and his energy/vocals! But then the rest of the band are still as solid as ever.
I know they had a 2 year break between 12-14, but hopefully they don’t get too tired or fed up with it, for a band of 50~year olds they still put on a great show.
List is too long, but it was fun to skim through it.
My top song would be Stripsearch.
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PressedHam – They are also in their late 40s/early 50s. I would love for those guys to remain in their 20s. But you know….time…reality. Thing is though, alot of bands who play aggressive, high energy music can’t keep it going out of their 30s. For a bunch of dudes who are 48-52+ years old, who are still delivering the goods, I give them a pass.
FNM were at their best in the 90’s and right now, while they’re still better than 80% of the bands out there these days, the FNM of today is a shadow of the FNM from back then. You just have to look at that Detroit show that they just streamed – they’re tired, Patton is out of shape, can’t hit the high notes any more, the most dynamic he gets on stage these days is slapping the air.
Zombie is about dependency of any kind and not just a baby in a crib.
That page takes way too long to load.
That’s what I always thought
Here’s my setlist…. please play this concert, guys.
Absolute Zero
Midlife Crisis
Sunny Side Up
Ricochet
Cone of Shame
Spanish Eyes
Chinese Arithmetic
Last Cup of Sorrow
As the Worm Turns
I Won’t Forget You
Rise of the Fall
Edge of the World
Seagull Song
That chart is just click-bait bullshit so I’m not even going to read the whole thing. “Apparently FNM have a new album out, quick – let’s cobble any old crap together and publish it!” I mean, if the guy had anything at all worthwhile to say about each song that might change things, but from the looks of the first 40 or so that’s not the case… it might as well be just be a bullet-point list.
I only read it out of curiosity. Doesn’t phase me where the songs are ranked.
My numero uno came in at 31 – Just A Man
19 – We Care A Lot
46 (?) – Gentle Art
I too agree that Midlife Crisis would just about top my list, and that Greed would tend towards the bottom (although I actually love the drums in there, and the 8-track version is way better than the album version…Chuck actually sings like a new wave Brit and sounds really good)…but everything in between is terrible! This guy comes off as a music illiterate too in terms of the cover songs and really doesn’t appreciate that you can still be sarcastic with a beautiful song. Weird interpretations of some of the lyrics too…Zombie Eaters is about a possessive relationship??? How did he not pick up that it’s about a child? Everything’s Ruined is about divorce? That’s the band’s autobiography (and belongs higher on the list).
Is Zombie Eaters not obviously about a baby in its crib, torturing its parent – from the perspective of the baby? It’s friggin’ brilliant, but somehow the writer has interpreted it as a breakup song?
I agree its kinda pointless really but I also agree with their number one choice. How they can put Home Sick Home over Another Body Murdered and Spirit baffles me.
It seems like the guy was just listing songs for the sake of it. Doesnt seem to realise that Greenfields and I Wanna Fuck Myself are covers. So much about this annoyed me as I knew it would lol 🙂
it’s weird how much i love and hate reading these lists.
i’d personally say stripsearch is faith no more’s best songs, which was absurd for me seeing it so low in this list.
good fun though 🙂
126 YouTube videos embedded on the same page? RIP web browser. Seriously though, these things never go down well. It doesn’t matter if it’s the top FNM tracks of all time, the top albums of all time, the top songs of all time… everyone has their own opinion. I also agree with their pick for #1 (I think many will) but personally I don’t believe that War Pigs or Edge of the World should be anywhere near the top 10. It just doesn’t really matter!