| CUSTOMER REVIEWS: | 5/5 - Best.. Album.. Ever... Almost.
You would think that after giving The Real Thing and Angel Dust to the world that the quality of FNM's output would start to slip... well think again. This album stands out from it's predecessors due to the stellar guitar stylings of Mike Patton's, Mr Bungle cohort Trey Spruance. He gives the band's sound a fantastic makeover and it was a pity that he didn't produce more music with FNM.
From the fantastic chugging guitar-fuelled vengeance anthem "the Gentle Art Of Making Enemies" to the lifting, gospel based "Just A Man" via the sordidness incarnate "Evidence" there is not one bad track on this album, much like The Real Thing and Angel Dust. Albums don't come much better than this.
5/5 - If you die, you'll become something worse than dead.......
I've read the reviews below and some of them say how this isn't like Mr. Bungle. They are right, but they didn't really explain why. So I will....
Firstly just because this album has 3 jazzy tracks,a folky track and a Gospel type track does not make this Mr. Bungle. If you have listened to all 3 Bungle albums without distraction a few times you'd notice that a typical song would start in, for example, a jazz style and then sudenly tear into Thrash or even Death Metal and go back to Jazz and then go into some Surf Rock. This doesn't happen once, the album contains different genres but the songs do not - Evidence is Jazz all the way through. There is also no cartoonish percussion etc (a la Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz or Platypus.) No bursts of noise or micro cassetting (Desert Search for Techno Allah and Merry Go Bye Bye.) Also, Mr. Bungle's songs contain bizarre Humour (such as The Secret Song with the Abe Simpson singing or Girls of Porn.) Sometimes Mr. Bungle's music is purposely kind of a Parody of the genres it visits - Faith No More never parodies genres on this album.
Now, on to the actual review. I second everything the review below mine says. This would make my Top Ten albums of all-time due to it's inspiring mix of Hard Alternative Rock (Get Out, Ricochet, Digging The Grave), "Mental" Metal (Gentle Art of Making Enemies, Cuckoo for Caca, Ugly in The Morning), Jazz (smooth: Evidence, Carlaho Vohador, funky: Star AD) and also Alternative Country and Gospel (Take This Bottle and Just A Man.) The range of genres help express a range of emotions.
.......you'll become.....a legend..........
4/5 - i am astounded
Its time for some honesty,i let faith no more slip me by,i have been a metal fan for about 17 years now,and of course i knew of the band,i admired their song epic but wasnt enough to make me buy their album and when the crappy cover of easy was released that was the end of any potential friendship or so i thought,yes i will always hate the cover of easy but i wont hold that against them after hearing this super class album.
<br />Now this is an album that i believe helped kickstart so many bands and indeed the mathcore genre,the jazz influenced,lounge ballroom flavours along with strangled screams and solid rock and moments of metal all make for something more than interesting,oh yeah there is also country and western thrown in but its all good and thats no lie.
<br />The album is a mix mash of sounds,styles and themes and there doesnt appear to be any flaws with this,im giving it four out of five,just to see how it pans out after 6 months.The album opens with the rocktastic stomper 'get out','ricochet' is anthemic.'evidence' is very soul based, 'cuckoo for caca' is pure screamcore and its no wonder from hearing this why mike patton did an ep with dillinger escape plan who are clearly influenced by faith no more.'Digging the grave' is a punky snappy number that is extremely memorable,'Take this bottle' is pure country and sounds alot like johnny cash.
<br />I have listened to this album flat out for the past two days and im in shock at how good it is and when reading reviews from old fans of the band,something appears to me,that if they say this is poor compared to angel dust and the real thing,then crikey those albums must be class, i must get them readers. |
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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