Faith No More's best album (Angel Dust - Faith No More)

Member Name: Lateralus

Product:	Angel Dust - Faith No More
Date:	28/01/09 (181 review reads)
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Advantages: Great original sound

Disadvantages: Not for everyone

Angeldust

One of my favorite bands since I was 11 is a band called Faith No More. Although they havn't been the most famous band on MTV, they certainly have their devoted following and I am one of their biggest fans. Most people will know them for their "Epic" song from their first album "The Real Thing"; an anthem song that was one of the first to introduce a keyboard to a heavy metal song and actually make it sound good. That album was the most famous, but by no means their best. In 1992 the Faith No More released their 4th album (2nd with singer Mike Patton) called "Angeldust". They were still famous from their 1st mainstream album (3rd consecutive) and were in their prime.

Mike Patton

Mike Patton was at his most creative state of writing and vocal diversity on this album. On the last album he was moslty giddy and upbeat; alhough many songs on the album were quite serious, you wouldn't know it by listening to him sing. On this album he mixed it up a bit. Mike can sing hard metal songs and switch over and sing "Easy" by "The Commodores" and he does it just as beautifully.
The coolest thing about Faith No More is they can portrait a facade of being serious all the while they are singing about nothing at all or just joking. And then there are also many songs that are quite serious. The most famous song when "Angeldust" came out was the song 'Midlife Crisis'. When the song was made into a video for MTV they had to cut a guitar part out of the song to shorten the video time and I wasn't too happy about that.

The Songs

1. Land of Sunshine
Mike, like me has is an insomniac and was up late one nightt watching all kinds of info self help commercials and thought it would be funny to right a song with all of the slogans, but in his own words. The thing is, it turned out to be one of the best songs on the album.

2. Caffeine
Sort of a part two to the first song, it is subtley making fun of his addiction to caffeine; a thing that helps him stay awake while he is watching those infomercials! LOL.

3. Midlife Crisis
This is the most famous song on the album. It is a good song, but there are much better songs on the album that should have been famous. I guess it is the most catchy. Mike wrote this song about Madonna and her need to be in the lime light so she doesn't grow old. This is what he said in an interview anyway. I despise Madonna anyway. lol

4. RV
This is a weird song from him. More of a mellow, but very depressing song. It is pretty much about white trailer park trash (me!) and our depressing existence. He is born and raised white trash himself so he has room to speak.

5. Smaller and Smaller
A very heavy metal song. Slow, but heavy. This song is about being poor and recieving charity, but feeling bad for accepting it. It is about feeling smaller and lesser than others because rich people make you feel that way.

6. Everything's Ruined
One of his more serious songs. This is about how money ruins everything, about how the economy works with resession and depression and so forth. It is about how money gains and the loses value.

7. Malpractice
This song is about plastic surgery and the mental effects it has on young female stars and the way that some doctors coax them into it for more money, feeding on their insecurities.

8. Kindergarten
This is about growing up, but not really wanting to. Sometimes I wish I were still a kid in kindergarten with no worries.

9. Be Aggressive
This song is about egostism, selfisnesss and greed. Taking what is mine and not wanting anyone else to have it if I can't have it.

10. A Small Victory
This song is about winning and losing and the envy that losers sometimes have for the winners. Mike's dad was a coach and he had to go through most of his youth with his dads envious mentallity.

11. Crack Hitler
This is about a major crack dealer who ruined everyone elses life by selling them one of the most dangerous drugs in the world and then eventually started to use his own supply and ruined his own life.

12. Jizzlobber
This is about a man who gets sentenced to prison for sex crimes or for some other form of sexual deviation. In this song the man is preparing himself for sentencing and the horrors that lie ahead for him in prison.

13. Midnight Cowboy
Yes this is their instrumental rendition of the theme song to the 1969 movie with Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight.

Summary: My favorite FNM album and one of my overall favorite albums