FAITH NO MORE | 29.01.1993 | The Unicorn
Kerrang | Issue 430 | 13.02.1993 | Chris Watts
Faith No More | The Unicorn | 29.01.1993
KYUSS ARE one of the few bands who cannot be heard for long
enough. Put a pig on the spit and let them play for 12 hours or so.
The perfect setting.., but this one will do. 'Green Machine' has got to
be the song of the decade - for this month.
Sandwiched between Kyuss and FNM,
Babes In Toyland are about as interesting as a handful of top-soil. Kat
Bielland wails like a B-movie harpy, but this movie's slipped to a D-rating. Do something else or
leave, please.
Climb into your radiation-proof helmet and strap yourself
into that fishy looking winged thing - it's time to go along for the ride on the
cruise missile that is Faith No More. Countdown commences as the sound of
the Erasure intro-tape penetrates. 'Falling To Pieces' exposes one of
the keys of the triggering mechanism; never let the angst stop the
entertainment, or vice
versa.
Screaming across the 'Land Of Sunshine' at four inches above
sea-level, we suddenly take a nose-dive into the calm green sea. 'RV drops to
the bottom of things before 'Surprise, You're Dead' puts us into
deep ocean. The combination of this level of course change and the five
disparate gyroscopes guiding things - Roddy rocking. Puffy pounding.
Billy bouncing
and Martin... erm, Martinising, while Patton generally f**ks off - would sink most lesser bands, but here it simply heightens the
tension of the flight.
We pass by the quintessential FNM number 'Be Aggressive' at
the top of our trajectory, before crashing Through 'We Care A Lot', 'Warm It
Up'and 'Easy'. The valley of lost cover-songs follows, before we come to a nice plateau with 'Small Victory', and... stop.
No explosion despite all the fuss, but there is no other
band that can cover as much ground without ever losing their way.
One of the best singer.
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