Angel Dust - Faith No More

Faith No More’s second album with Mike Patton was the first on which his strange influence became a driving force, deviating vastly in many cases from the previous huge-selling alternative metal release ‘The Real Thing’ as the band explored more unusual, experimental territory more in the vein of Patton’s side-project Mr. Bungle. Many of the songs, particularly the singles towards the beginning of the album, stick to the highly influential funk metal sound that they had pioneered in the late eighties along with the likes of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, while some of the later songs expand on the hip hop influence of ‘The Real Thing,’ making this album largely, ...

Faith No More were to me just another band in the vast sea of guitar strumming, drum thumping and bass wacking. This is until i found Angel Dust sitting on a shelf in HMV record store for a meer nine pounds. Having heard many recommending reviews from my sisters friends from my own friends and from....well my dad i bought the album. I spent my money and wandered off thinking my old man had gone and wasted nine pounds of my money. OH HOW WRONG WAS I!!!! This album is not at all dated, as i had expected, but is far beond the vast majority of the tidal wave of bands stated above. It is, to my ears, extreamly fresh and innovative. It has complex bass ...

This album took me a few listens to throw it away a few years back, but just recently I purchased it after a sudden urge to listen to Faith No More, and it eventually grew on me and now is my favourite of them all. It took me to like songs like 'Land of Sunshine' 'Malpractice' and 'Jizzlobber'. Every single song on this album I now enjoy for different reasons, favourites being 'A Small Victory', 'Everything's Ruined' and 'Be Agressive', not to mention 'Midlife Crisis' which is a 90s classic. There were two things I noticed in this album as well. Patton's influences for this album apart from the fortune ...