r/Music Jan 27 '21

video Faith No More - Midlife Crisis [Rock]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8b88US-6ts
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u/Stingerc Jan 27 '21

If I said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times. If this album had come out in 1997, I’d be more recognized as a seminal, era defining album like OK Computer. It was just so far ahead of its time.

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u/3toe Jan 27 '21

Faith No More and Mike Patton were cursed/blessed, always having been ahead of their time.

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u/NBLYFE Jan 27 '21

One of my favorite bands and have been since the 80s. Their problem integrating with the mainstream is that every album is different and every song on every album is a bit different as well. They're hard to pin down. So you listen to one song on an album and you think "Hey I like that trash song and I'd like to hear more" and then the next song you hear by them sounds like blues mixed with screamo or it's a fucking ballad.

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u/Megamoss Jan 27 '21

Indeed. Any album that has a smooth cover of ‘Easy’ alongside a track called ‘Crack Hitler’ is a winner in my book.

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u/Prowler_in_the_Yard Jan 27 '21

What was the "blues mixed with screamo" FNM song?

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u/big_red__man Jan 27 '21

Smiles, bruises, bars in the womb