faith no more - the real thing

This album needs no introduction. Being such a classic (in my opinion), it was hard to put through my grading system without colouring the result.
My first taste of Faith No More was watching the video for Epic on ITV’s Saturday chart show, this show would only perform the rock chart once every three weeks and this only lasted about six or seven minutes (that’s almost all the rock music we got on TV back then), and this video seemed to be there forever.
So to the crunch, cooking to The Real Thing was easy, getting funky in the kitchen to Faith No More seemed almost natural. In fact, you can do any number of household chores to this, washing, feeding the dog, loading the dishwasher (ah modern appliances, heaven on earth). For culinary soundtrack, this gets a grandiose 9/10.
Next, I came up with a new test, playing Delta Force Black Hawk Down (the only computer game I played so much I wore the disc out). Playing the game and listening to the music at the same time was a little distracting but amusing at the same time especially when the fantastic cover of war pigs came on, so for gaming it gets a 7/10.
Finally cycling, a bit mixed here, parts of the album were fantastic to ride to but others not so here The Real Thing gets 5/10.
An overall result of 7/10 and for some reason it sounds better in the sunshine but this s something I cannot explain.

Enjoy

one for the scrap book

The first CD I bought was Faith No More's Live At Brixton Academy and my fav track was War Pigs.

Enjoy

the late discussions(i)

Today at work ATAE and I were discussing the relationship between Faith No More and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, it seemed at the time they were the beginnings of a whole new metal genre, I remember the label Funk Metal being thrown about at some point in the early nineties but this didn’t seem to stick.
It must have been quite a small or short lived movement, the only participants being the afore mentioned bands plus Primus and Extreme (uurgh) and maybe Living Colour.
I much preferred Faith No More back then, and primus would come second, I never thought the Chilli Peppers would become as big as they have or produce such fantastic albums, my only complaint with Stadium Arcadium is that its so bloody long, why not cut out half the songs and release a super album then follow it up with sessions or additional material album like the Missions Grains Of Sand collection.