KING FOR A DAY.....FOOL FOR A LIFETIME | 21 Years
On this day in 1995 Faith No More released their fifth studio album, King For A Day....Fool For A Lifetime.
Kerrang! | February 1995
(London advance tape)
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FAITH NO More are a
one-off. When guitarist Big Jim Martin left, we wondered if that
magic chemistry had been lost forever.
Not so. 'King For A
Day...' is a work of utterly twisted genius. 'Get Out' has you
bamboozled from the start - an up-tempo baby with unorthodox
structures. The bastard smashes through your front door and makes off
with the candlesticks before you can hear what the f**k Mike Patton's
yelling about.
Then first single
'Digging The Grave' rears up, and it sounds like Therapy? jamming
with Anthrax. What's become of that trademark Bill Gould/Mike Bordin
fat-bass-and-drums stuff? Answer: Faith No More have reinvented
themselves.
1992's 'Angel Dust'
was an oddball affair which grew like fungus with time. But it was the
sound of a band making the most out of inter-band tension. 'King...'
is the sound of rebirth.
New guitarist Trey
Spruance (since replaced by Dean Menta) was clearly a part of the
song-writing, and shows a good ear lor subtlety on the supercool
'Evidence', giving Roddy Bottum's keys a chance to breathe for the
first time. 'Ricochet' shows off the San Franciscans' inherent knack
for dynamics, while 'Star AD' is a Disco Jazz freak-out with sexy
sax, and 'The Velvet Hammer' offers the LP's most sober moment.
'Cuckoo For Caca'? It's that reliable track on a Faith No More disc
when they go completely fish-mad and Bottum plugs in his Apocalyptic
Church Organ Of Death! Actually, 'King...' features more spaz-tits
than usual: witness Patton's shrieks on the brilliant 'Ugly In The
Morning'! Didn't we expect this mania after his PE teacher-on-crack
performance at '93's Phoenix Festival?
The album's second
half gets even stranger, as 'What A Day', 'The Gentle Art Of Making
Enemies' and 'Acoustic Groove (Recall)' spin your mind; Patton
switching styles more than ever. He can be Jello Biafra, Leonard
Cohen, the wobble-throated Patton we knew on 'The Real Thing', or the
spawn of Satan. Last track 'Just A Man' tools the listener into
thinking it doesn't have a chorus, before serving up one of the
album's best.
So what /s the album's
best refrain? Probably 'Take This Bottle', seeing Patton back in his
whisky-throated Country persona. If FNM had written '...Bottle' three
years ago, they wouldn't have had to cover The Commodores' 'Easy'
Faith No More have created an album to keep them interested on the
next mega-tour. If not sane...
I remember this album because it was one of the first music tracks that was available for purchase with bitcoin. And it’s good that I didn’t buy it then)) Because it would be a gold purchase)) I have been actively investing in cryptocurrency all this time. And I don't stop there. No, I continue to use bot trading and am very active on my online exchange.
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