Album of the Week #17 - Faith No More - Angel Dust

Karl Hungus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGKjeRgn4CA

buck65

Great great album, have a signed cassette sleeve with all the bandmembers at home.
Faith no More's finest hour by a long way.

shnaek

Savage album. Groundbreaking stuff.

Nea

"Does Emotional Music have quite an effect on you?"
Mike Patton is a bloody genius!

buck65 wrote: »

Great great album, have a signed cassette sleeve with all the bandmembers at home.

So have I!!!
I was going to get the booklet I had with the Midlife Crisis Picture Disc signed but opted for the Angel Dust cassette inlat. I was always raging I did that

sham69

Classic album.
Saw them live twice the year that album came out.
Saw them in slane (they blew G'nR off the stage) and saw them in the point
I think L7 were the support act. Love the album but have to say they have a couple more good ones. Album of the year is another classic and I thought King for a day , fool for a lifetime was pretty good too..

buck65

I was at both those gigs too and saw them in Prague in 95.
They showed absolutely no respect for G'n R at all on that tour, some hilarious stories about band bust ups. They blew them off the stage in Slane alright, I remember they opened with Caffeine ....heavy as ****

Ho-Hum

Yes I gotta say I love Patton and this is the album that got me into him in the first place. Angel dust - from start to finish a work of genius, FNM were a bit before my time so I never got see them live but I can only guess that it was a brilliant experience.

DeadSkin

Yeah, love this album, definitley their best from the Patton era. Best track, 'Land of Sunshine'. The album has a piece of everything, even some country .
Albums post Angel Dust just don't do it for me.
Got to see them twice, at the Point where L7 supported them and at Sunstroke the following year. Definitely one of the best bands I have seen live.

adox

Yeah great album,delighted to see it votes for.
Pattons first FNM album "The Real Thing" was such a fantastic listen that I was so worried about them keeping the standard up,but I didnt need to worry.

I believe the re-released cd has "Easy" on it which my original release doesnt have.


Funnily enough as much as I loved and love FNM I always thought they were crap live.

CrazyTalk

So glad this made album of the week. Definitely my favourite from them, even with heated debates between myself and a friend of mine over this being their best or The Real Thing. Angel Dust just seems better written, and more innovative at times

DeadSkin

CrazyTalk wrote: »

Definitely my favourite from them, even with heated debates between myself and a friend of mine over this being their best or The Real Thing. Angel Dust just seems better written, and more innovative at times

For The Real Thing, the music side was already sorted, when Patton came in he put the lyrics to it.
He would have been more involved with Angel Dust, also I think Roddy and Billy were involved with lyrics on some tracks on Angel Dust.
Actually, Roddy's name is written all over 'Be Aggressive'.

buck65

LOL that sucks

damonjewel

This really is a great album. I was actually living in the Czech Republic when I first heard it in a student bar, and it was definitely the album of the time for the Czechs and it could be heard everywhere. I always loved their cover of the 'Theme to Midnight Cowboy', it keeps to the rambling melancholy of the tune but they just make it that bit more darker.

DeadSkin

When A Small Victory was released, they got Youth to do a few remixes on the single, think it was called the Sundown mix or somethin'.
Was never a big fan of remixes, but I loved what Youth did to this track. Must see can I get my hands on it.

0ubliette

Great album, everythings ruined is prob my favourite track on it, or maybe jizz lobber. The last great FNM album too IMO. I thought they were never the same after jim martin left, his sound was a really integral part of the band.

Fozzy

Great album, I've given it many a listen and have yet to grow tired of it. Midlife Crisis was always my favourite track off it

Ronan|Raven

Up there in my top five albums of all time. Such an amazing album, got it for an xmas pressie many moons ago.

Return to my own vomit like a dog
Rhymes and giggles muffle the dialogue
Carve my initials in a tree, I will never leave
Maybe one day I'll be royalty
Kingdom
Kindergarten

I love the intro to that song so much.

Alcoholocaust

Ahh what an album! Completely forgotten about it. Must listen to it now actually...

lord lucan

buck65 wrote: »

Great great album, have a signed cassette sleeve with all the bandmembers at home.
Faith no More's finest hour by a long way.

same here:D Qued for 5 hours outside the virgin megastore to get in,now it's got pride of place on my landing wall.

seen them at slane,the point w/l7 and sunstroke,fantastic live band,patton singing crack hitler through a megaphone was a highlight!!

angel dust is one of the few albums in my collection that i don't skip through certain tracks on,every song a classic. favourites have to be jizzlobber and crack hitler,super stuff:cool:

silverwing

I've always loved Faith No More.

Awesome band, and the album is defintely an under-rated classic by them.