Faith No More appreciation thread

Wow. Not a thread about these guys! I loved The Real Thing for years (well still do) and I caught them twice on the tour. The first time was before 'Epic' hit big and was in this tiny venue that holRAB about 200 and they blew me away. About 9 months later they were at a 2,000 capacity venue and I got to stagedive :). for some reason or another I stopped listening to the band and recently rediscovered them recently with the brilliant Angel Dust.

Very groundbreaking band who pushed a lot of barriers down.
 
Last Cup of Sorrow got all sorts of airplay up here in Canada. i also clearly remeraber videos for Easy, Stripsearch, I Care A Lot, and Ashes to Ashes. while Epic was by FAR their biggest hit they're hardly a one hit wonder.
 
Dave, I love a good ol' hipster bashin' as much as the next guy but that's really not fair to my generation. We weren't old enough when they first came onto the scene, so now we shouldn't have the opportunity to see them together again, even if I truly enjoy the music?

I probably shouldn't go see Primus either then...
 
Shameful this thread is only one page.

Anyway, Faith No More played the last 3 nights at The Warfield in San Francisco, being joined by original front man Chuck Mosley for a 4-song encore, and a duet with Mike Patton, on the 3rd night last night. I thought that was pretty cool! Would have been a lot cooler if I was there of course. Here was the set list:

The band's setlist was as follows:

01. Reunited
02. From Out of Nowhere
03. Land of Sunshine
04. Caffiene
05. Evidence
06. Gentle Art of Making Enemies
07. Chinese Arithmetic with Poker Face
08. Last Cup of Sorrow
09. Cuckoo for Caca
10. Ben
11. Ashes to Ashes
12. Midlife Crisis
13. Digging the Grave
14. King For A Day
15. Epic
16. Just a Man

Encore 1 (with Chuck):

17. As the Worm Turns
18. Crab Song
19. We Care A Lot
20. Mark Bowen

Encore 2:

21. Chariots of Fire/Stripsearch
22. Introduce Yourself (with Chuck and Mike)

****ty fan-made viRAB, surely it was much better in person:

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I've heard 'Epic' before and thought it was god awful. I'm hoping that's just one of their weaker songs. That voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
I'll give those viRAB a try once I am on a computer that supports flash.
 
The Real Thing is incredibly dated but it was a HUGE album in my time and turned a lot of people onto other forms of music.

Still an absolute masterpiece:

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I really don't see FNM as a band hipsters would really be into, but I could be wrong. That said, I don't know who would be going to see them aside from others like me who have been waiting/hoping since the break-up to have a chance to see them...and whose dreams are now crushed! :(
 
Yeah I actually really enjoy King for a Day Fool for a Lifetime and Album of the Year far more often than the older ones. The production is so much better, and hell I'm older so the more mature vibe (sort of) fits me fine. :D
 
that's why i called myself a pretentious old douchebag at the end :p:

you're also obviously not a hipster plus Primus is still active and if not releasing new material, reworking old stuff to keep it fresh.

compare the clips from the FNM's final tour in '97 and some of the reunion clips from earlier this year. what changed besides the clothes and hairlines? i could easily see enough of an 'underground' buzz about the 'need' to see a seminal band like FNM act as a beacon for hipsters.

that or it might just be expensive as hell to organize a north american reunion tour for a band that only really scored about 3 hits throughout their initial run.
 
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