(09-12-2016, 08:30 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: Damn, why didn't radio stations ever play this stuff?

Quote:Like Nirvana — a group that they "paved the way for," according to the band's Krist Novoselic — Faith No More would zig where outsiders would urge them to zag. Their 1990 rap-metal volley "Epic" was a Top 10 hit, but they followed its album, The Real Thing, with the avant-metal terrordome Angel Dust, which Entertainment Weekly called, "probably the most uncommercial follow-up to a hit record ever." 

Quote:However — in America at least — returns would only diminish. 1992's defiantly weird, chaos-crammed Angel Dust would only go gold. [Guitarist Jim] Martin would acrimoniously split from the band after a series of public spats. Too heavy for the post-grunge pop hits of the Verve and Third Eye Blind, too arty to work comfortably with the nu-metal knuckle-draggers they spawned, it wasn't clear where the band fit in by the end of the decade. 

(09-12-2016, 11:13 PM)gabrielle Wrote: Here is one of my favorite rock albums.  It is largely considered by fans to be the band's greatest work.

Quote:Like Nirvana — a group that they "paved the way for," according to the band's Krist Novoselic — Faith No More would zig where outsiders would urge them to zag. Their 1990 rap-metal volley "Epic" was a Top 10 hit, but they followed its album, The Real Thing, with the avant-metal terrordome Angel Dust, which Entertainment Weekly called, "probably the most uncommercial follow-up to a hit record ever." 

The opening song.

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"RV."  For a young guy of 24, Mike Patton seemed quite concerned with the miseries of ageing.  This song is very funny, though.  "Yeah, I married a scarecrow..."

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This song is just balls to the wall insane, and frightening.  "Applause!  Applause!  APPLAUSE!!"  

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In this song, a criminal faces his sentence: "I am what I do...I am what I've done!! And I'm sorry!!"  As the song ends, Patton's screaming squalor fades away before a sternly beautiful organ and choral "amen."*  For a long time I assumed they'd lifted that part from some bewigged composer of old, but apparently it's the band's own composition.

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*synthesized, sadly, too bad there wasn't enough on the budget to hire a real choir

Quote:However — in America at least — returns would only diminish. 1992's defiantly weird, chaos-crammed Angel Dust would only go gold. [Guitarist Jim] Martin would acrimoniously split from the band after a series of public spats. Too heavy for the post-grunge pop hits of the Verve and Third Eye Blind, too arty to work comfortably with the nu-metal knuckle-draggers they spawned, it wasn't clear where the band fit in by the end of the decade. 

Both quotes from: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/faith-no-more-how-rocks-most-contrarian-band-made-up-and-came-back-20150512

(09-14-2016, 06:49 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Bands that offer the kind of sound that Faith No More presents should not be considered best songs ever. Yes, that's my opinion; I don't like bleeding in my ears from the "knuckle-draggers." I had to pause it. And, contrary to some Gen Xer opinion, yes, we need "more" faith. Who knows, maybe other performers can bring out the potential in the songs of bands like those. BUT I liked "Friday I'm in Love" by The Cure. They must be entering their "good period" now in this thread, which I have noticed before. Now that was a good sound and a good song, and I liked the video too. Perhaps you'll post some other good songs by The Cure. I think there's probably more where that came from.

I can see how Mr. Bungle could be "interesting." I'll be posting the REAL "Carousel" soon on the other thread.

(09-14-2016, 06:14 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(09-14-2016, 02:25 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: "Mike Patton, and really everyone he surrounds himself with, are about as evolved musicians as you are going to ever find."

Maybe so, and the other group was Mr. Bungle was OK; but then why does he condescend to produce or collaborate with those knuckle-dragging sounds I heard on the Faith No More video I heard here? I say there's just no excuse for such ear-bleeding. These musicians should have USED their artistic talent!

But I'll listen to some of the others you posted.

So he can sing, much better than most Gen Xers (not saying much, since most of them scream and screech). Nat Cole was the best. Johnny Mathis: much better. That was the time when vocal performance was at a premium. There were fine rock and soul singers in the sixties, but it was much more about the total sound and the song, then.

Can you feel it, see it, hear it today?
If you can't, then it doesn't matter anyway
You will never understand it cuz it happens too fast
And it feels so good, it's like walking on glass
It's so cool, it's so hip, it's alright
It's so groovy, it's outta sight

Quote:In 1990, R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck attended an Uncle Tupelo concert at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia. Buck was particularly impressed with the band's rendition of the Louvin Brothers' "Great Atomic Power", and contacted the band after the show. Uncle Tupelo singers Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy exchanged their interests in bluegrass music with Buck, and decided to collaborate on an acoustic music project in the future.[1]

Two years later, the alternative rock of bands such as Nirvana broke into the mainstream. Farrar was irate about the pressure from the music industry to sound like the trend:[2]

Quote:This should insulate us from that industry bullshit, people looking for the next Nirvana. I don't think anybody is the next Nirvana, certainly not us. People always talk about the next Beatles, the next Elvis. You can't predict that stuff.

Uncle Tupelo's frustrations with their record label Rockville Records grew when the label refused to pay the band's royalties for the sales of their first two albums. This resulted in a "nothing-to-lose context" for the recording of a third album. In what was a sharp contrast to the popular music styles at the time, Uncle Tupelo decided to record an album of folk songs.[3]