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Angel Dust is the fourth studio album by American rock band Faith No More, released on June 8, 1992, by Slash and Reprise Records. It is the follow-up to 1989's highly successful The Real Thing, and was the band's final album to feature guitarist Jim Martin. It was also the first album where vocalist Mike Patton had any substantial influence on the band's music, having been hired after the other band members had written and recorded everything for The Real Thing except vocals and most of the lyrics. The band stated that they wanted to move away from the funk metal style of their prior releases, towards a more "theatrical" sound. Angel Dust is Faith No More's best-selling album to date, having sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. It also debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200, making it the band's only top-ten album in the United States.
Reminds me of Metallica. I hate Metallica. This style of music just doesn't do anything for me. 2 stars.
I've heard this album more than I've had hot dinners. Not their best, but that one was in the original list and I already gave it full marks. This one gets 5/5 too.
This album cover and band name were immediately familiar but beyond that I could not dredge up the slightest recollection of what they were about. Nothing sounded familiar. Rooting around some greatest hits video playlists I figured out that Epic was literally the beginning and end of what I knew about Faith No More. I've got a pretty big soft spot in my heart for wierdo metal-adjacent hullabaloo so I enjoyed this. The vocal styling aren't so much my thing, but there was enough variety there that none of it became too grating. I'm not sure this needed to be a solid hour. But I'll give it an extra point for the wacky energy and operatic flair.
Good album. Some consider it to Bé metal, but mostly it's heavy rock
I've never been a fan of Faith No More, but this one was interesting. Musically, the band is pretty spot on, and more nuanced than I recall hearing on their earlier works. Say what you will either way, but the album was quite creative for its time, and never boring. I really didn't care for the heavier/more bombastic songs, which probably fit well within the general musical atmosphere in 1992, but just weren't my thing. The album does need a serious edit. It's overly long for sure, as well as stylistically unfocused. I'll be puzzling over the inclusion of the Midnight Cowboy theme for a while, but the bonus track cover of "Easy" on the 1993 re-issue was an inspired addition and definitely my favorite. Fave Songs: Midlife Crisis, Land of Sunshine, Smaller and Smaller
Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Be aggressive
Gets a 2 for the Easy cover 🙌
Be aggressive. Be be aggressive. Except this album wasn’t that aggressive. It was alright but for early 90s there is definitely more hardcore metal and rock albums than this one. It felt like it wanted to be more than it was. This whole album is like a deep cut for hard rock fans. 5.1/10
Ewww. I hate Faith No More. They truly suck and they already have their most “noteworthy” album represented in the OG list. This is more crap nobody wanted. Wasted pick.
Awful when it came out and not much better now
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Tried my hardest to give this 90s’ proto-Korn LP a fair shake, but after the third mention of jizz I had figured out this wasn’t for me. The instrumentals are squarely repetitive butt rock, but clearly think they’re hard-hitting metal which is a little sad. The lyricism is whiny and immature as previously noted, the tracks swing from hard rock to schmaltzy balladry without any cohesion, and the ill-advised cover as closer almost feels like the frontman was making an attempt to show off his vocals (spoilers: they are not show-off worthy). The coup de grace is that this thing runs for an entire hour, which would be sad if it didn’t play all of its annoying cards in the first 5 minutes.
An excellent ornithological album cover with a lovely picture of an egret. The music is generic, dirgy, American heavy rock. Not to my taste. Rating: 1.5 Playlist track: Midlife Crisis Date listened: 23/12/24