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| Faith No More - The Real Thing Band: Faith No More Tracks: - From Out of Nowhere - Epic - Falling to Pieces - Surprise! You're Dead! - Zombie Eaters - Real Thing - Underwater Love - Morning After - Woodpecker from Mars [Instrumental] - War Pigs - Edge of the World Eclectic and eccentric. Faith No More is one of those uncommon bands who fascinate with their wacky aesthetic and originality but endear because of their topflight songwriting. I remember liking this album years ago, but now I Love it. It is so fresh and exciting (even today!) and it accents the grim lack of talent in today's rap-metal waste. It would appear that Faith No More Embraced the rap sensibility before any other hard rock/metal band. The all-encompassing vocalist Mike Patton's orates fierce rap, but he can also sing with a delicate cry or vent a good ol' metal growl, sometimes all in the same song. The epic title track shows his vocal range best. Mirroring Patton's multiform performance, the music wraps up a massive assortment of styles in a weird-but-effective manner. We've all heard the song "Epic," a seamless blend of rap & metal with a suave piano-only outro. "From Out of Nowhere" is the aggressive lead track, with a slick keyboard line and fiery riffs. "Woodpecker from Mars" is a zany instrumental that sounds sort of like Tool-meets-Ozric Tentacles. Gotta Love the pseudo-ballad "Zombie Eaters," where the gentle acoustic guitar leads into killer metal riffs that Hetfield and Mustaine wish they could have written. There's also the thumpin' "The Morning After," the vampiric and thrashy "Surprise! You're Dead!", and "Edge of the World," which could almost be smooth jazz music. And don't forget the nuclear cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"! If the music wasn't enough off-center, check out the lyrics sheet. With this album, Faith No More gained commercial and critical success. It still sounds original to this day! The Real Thing isn't as artistically Bold as the follow-up Angel Dust, but for great and original songwriting, you can't lose by adding this to the collection. A powerful Blast of genre-crushing, anarchist rock. I was one of those people baffled by "Epic" when it first came out. "What is it?" Neither rap nor metal, neither funk nor dance, it was Faith No More's challenge to conventional music. The song begins with a wash of glorious guitars (courtesy of freaky-looking, Metallica-influenced guitarist Jim Martin) and Mike Bordin's unstoppable drum bashing, going into a thumping bassline and Mike Patton's energetic, enigmatic rap, launching into that mighty chorus, with progressive-rock keyboards providing punctuation at moments, then ending with that classical-sounding piano exit..."What is it?" indeed! Looking at today's rap-metal fusions, you realize that Faith No More got there first. And The Real Thing is the band's most uniform album, less eccentric, but with exquisite songcraft, a fiery mix, and top-flight performances all around. Patton's versatility and resilient voice is the Secret weapon to songs like the irreverent "Falling to Pieces", the superior-to-the-original cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs", and instant-classic leadoff track "From Out of Nowhere". And in case you didn't think The Band *looked* weird enough, there's "Woodpecker from Mars" and "Zombie Eaters" to remind you that these guys are eccentrics to the bone. A pivotal release in 1990 that not only woke up the music world, but dangled it by the feet over a pool of alien chemical reagents of Faith No More's own concoction. Faith No More's first real step up. If you have just heard FNM unearthly sound somewhere, this album is definitely the first course in the musical feast that is followed by their next 3 albums. With the departure of their spastic, testosterone-pulsing lead singer, Chuck Mosely, at The Fall of 1987, Faith No More were blessed with an equally wild but superior talent in the form of Mike Patton. Much more vocally versatile than Mosely, Patton's unique artistic ideas ensured FNM's survival in the coming years. Though Mike Bordin founded the band, it was Patton who brought vocals that flowed with the instrumentals seemlessly and made FNM what it is today. Truly a welcome departure from Chuck Mosely's tone-deaf moaning. "The Real Thing" is an art gallery of different styles; from the legendary thrash hip-hop onslaught of "Epic" to the hard-to-classify funk of "Falling to Pieces" to the bands excellent rendition of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" which manages to top the original ten-fold. This is what FNM is all about. Enjoy it to it's fullest. Buy Faith No More The Real Thing at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
