From:
San Francisco, California
Active:
1987–1998, 2015
I first heard them:
when they played Saturday Night Live in 1990
Sound:
When Faith No More released The Real Thing,
they had a clearly identifiable sound: complex hard rock given an added
dimension by keyboards that play the role of choir and string
section—they don’t sound synthy—topped
by adenoidal vocals.
But apparently they decided one album’s worth of that was enough,
because on their next records they stripped about three coats of candy
off the music and singer Mike Patton became the Man of 1000 Voices,
shrieking and howling, then crooning, then coming off like an
infomercial host, often in the same song.
Listening station:
As with the Smashing Pumpkins, my dilemma here is that if I listed the
songs I love it would be too short and if I listed the songs I really
like it would be too long.
So here’s a semi-arbitrary trio.
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| “The Real Thing” (1989) |
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| “Midlife Crisis” (1992) |
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| “Just a Man” (1995) |