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THIS IS IT - THE BEST OF FAITH NO MORE
Even though FAITH NO MORE was absolutely in their prime while I was going through my most impressionable of high school years, I really wasn't a huge fan. I didn't really get into these guys until I had to work security at a show they did in Boston supporting King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime, and I saw how utterly insane the 1400-plus crowd was. Keep in mind, this was AFTER the band had lost guitarist Jim Martin, and in retrospect, lost a lot of their juice.
I only wish I could have appreciated Faith No More while they were still together, and before Mike Patton went all loopy with bands like MR. BUNGLE and TOMAHAWK (I'm sure some of you elitists would like to stomp on my nuts for saying that, but I'm sorry...I just don't get a lot of this avant-garde-techno-artsy-fartsy stuff Patton's doing). Faith No More was by far, one of the most innovative bands of the era, crossing genres like a drunk crosses over a five-lane highway. What other band would have the stones to cover "War Pigs" by BLACK SABBATH, and then "Easy" by THE COMMODORES ...and not butcher the shit out of one/both of them? Faith No More, evidently. These guys were blending rap and rock before every other band on the planet was doing it (well, except for ANTHRAX and THE BEASTIE BOYS that is), but they did it with this funky West Coast flair that the harder New York bands were missing.
This Is It: The Best Of Faith No More contains nineteen tracks, and is practically identical to the Who Cares A Lot? double-CD that was issued in 1998, only with fewer tracks. It's a nice compilation for anyone who is looking to check out a great band, but isn't interested in hunting down all of their discs in Wal-Mart cutout bins.
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