We Care A Lot - I love this song and I love this album. It's #3.... sometimes #2... in my Faith No More hierarchy. A great record.
Snare flams and reversed Chucks welcome us to.. The Jungle We Care A Lot 1985 Faith No More - The Jungle The Jungle by Faith No More The Jungle Faith No More - The Jungle - Listen on Deezer
This two-chord motif seems to be something they'd been playing with from the beginning. Here's what it sounded like as the opener to their first demo.
"You'll never reach that plateau" Chuck shouts - atop and amongst the band's righteous summoning - to, Mark Bowen We Care A Lot 1985 Faith No More - Mark Bowen Mark Bowen by Faith No More Mark Bowen Faith No More - Mark Bowen - Listen on Deezer
There's elements of Epic already flourishing and alive here, the driven guitar chords ringing out as they later would on King for A Day, Pristina, and all over Sol Invictus. The held in-the-box-string-orchestra-and-horns keys, playing straight-forward non-Western harmonic minor chord progressions. Even got a little precursor to the rap in Zombie Eaters. The demo, distributed on the 'Roddy' tape, shows the song, and the Faith No More concepts, to be oven ready That snare on the third beat, though... While doing this I'm attempting to suss out some armchair philosophy about Faith No More's "Boop Boop". Kinda like it's George Clinton's James Brown's "The One" plus the backbeat. 1-&-2-&-3-&-4-BOOP,BOOP-&-2-&-3-&-4-&... But back to Mark Bowen... a snare on the the third beat is a Reggae thing to do. This is not Reggae. It's a head swinging pulse around the 1 and 3. It isn't metal. I wanna say "Tribal" but I'm likely referring to what Hollywood has told me that means. Primal? I wanna call early Faith No More.. Heady Tribal Metal...? Were Sepultura influenced by Mike Bordin? I'll espouse more of my silly ideas later.. This sounds good loud. Kudos again to Mr. Wallace.
Love We Care a Lot (album) a lot. I know Mike Patton is Mike Patton, but the raw energy of Chuck Mosley give to this album and Introduce Yourself a real dark tone that I love. Im a sucker for the fisrt 2 FnM albuns, and only Angel Dust goes higher on my list, no matter how much irracional that could be. We care a lot. A FnM classic all the way. 5/5 The Jungle. One of my favourite FnM songs, real dark and terrifying. 5/5 Mark Bowen. Cool song. 4/5
A bit of a classic really. I must have heard this around the place prior to knowing that this was FNM, because when I first saw them in concert they played this (with Patton) and I thought they were doing a cover of something vaguely familiar. That made me hunt down the first album, which I like, but don't love.
I love the first album. Love it. Played it last night twice in a row. Mark Bowen - Chuck mutterings at the beginning give way to an... "epic"... vocal performance, really adding drama and emotion to the track.
Glad to hear about it! And it is dang epic, like I said - play it loud! The 2016 remastered 24/44 files were/are worth the re-purchase.
I've avoided commenting so far as I'm not sure what to make of them and I keep thinking to myself "Ok, I'll give them another listen later on" So I'll probably do that. I like it but I'm not sure how much at this point - We Care a Lot is a classic, for sure, but I do feel it could use a bit more polish. The sensibilities of the other two tracks are just a little two punk-ish for me and Mosley's vocals aren't honestly my favourite thing, they're not that exciting or unpredictable, just a bit boorish. It's sortof like the difference between Di'anno Iron Maiden and Dickinson ... I do like early Maiden, but then you get the later stuff and boom, you realise that the early albums are just a bit too indebted to punk delivery.
Jim We Care A Lot 1985 Faith No More - Jim Jim by Faith No More Jim Faith No More - Jim - Listen on Deezer Sounds like the 2016 edition cuts the talking from the end, so I linked a Youtube video that included it.
Jim. This song has little to do with the rest of the album, but when the first sound of the next song "Why do you bother" steps in the fact that this bucolic guitar was placed before turns it even more dark and dangerous. alone is a cool guitar theme, still not sure if it belongs to this album. 3/5
Very nice piece from Jim. Showing off his skill. Kinda like "Dee" by Randy Rhodes. These guys could do more than just shred.
The world around us blurs as gravity increases, Mr Gould's rumbling hammer-ons and another two-chord motif invite us into an unknown void - why hold on? Why Do You Bother We Care A Lot 1985 Faith No More - Why Do You Bother Why Do You Bother Why Do You Bother by Faith No More Faith No More - Why Do You Bother - Listen on Deezer Chuck's double-tracked shouts evoke a young man walking in an empty city, stuck in his mind about the values of his society. If you're in a position to scream along - "Why hold on? Your hands are getting sore You must be scared of something From the time before, well... We're here again How long, who knows? It's not your right to tell me Where this trip will go Pull away You're dying today You could enjoy it If you could take your feelings with you But put your mind on me And suck my energy And then the speed gets higher I see you hold on tighter.... But just fatigue Is all your face will show It's weary from the stress Getting delirious "I didn't want this race We can't keep up this pace" We don't want to get well We want to go to hell We want an urban dream The ****ing urban scream "This time was mine to borrow I'll pay for it tomorrow" You'll pay for it today And as we drive away I'll make my pleasure greater Push the accelerator (and down we go)" Down we go indeed, into that ground melting ominous bending ending. Matt Wallace in the guts getting the band's big ideas to function. The whole song being in C minor but for the plateau would-be-chorus of a superimposed C Major continues to be a signature for the band. This is a powerful recording. "Existential angst" is a played out concept, but I really feel it here. If I remember, when we get to 'Mouth to Mouth', I'm gonna commend Patton on retaining the lyrical meter from this song...
The fully formed pre-Chuck pre-Jim demo The bends are all in there, but boy did they go for it on that big "bend-the-whole-band" tape slowdown on the studio recording. Since it's instrumental, and I posted the lyrics up there - I recommend bothering the neighbors in the name of Chuck.
Why do you bother? Another big moment of We Care A Lot. What a descent trip to terrifying places, and Chuck really brings all out with all the painfull screaming and raw emotions. Once again I say Mike Patton is a genious and one of the best vocalists ever, but Chuck makes the 2 first albuns really powerful. The syncopated rythm section is great and drives the song as usual and the keyboards are hipnotic. Only Jim is a little absence from this song, but sometimes is better to move away and let the others move foward and do their thing; even so if we hear carefully Jim is there with some nice riffs. 5/5
What a great read and listen!!! Thanks for this thread as I very much enjoy it. Keep on putting up those great songs.
Over the hills they came from the valley Making innuendoes 'bout my lack of talent oh well... Greed We Care A Lot 1985 They say that when I'm supposed to be singing All I 'm really doing is yelling To you I say ... oh well... Is it the A&R guys' greed? The audience's greed? Seems to be Chuck's. Or Chuck feeling like he shouldn't want what he wants. Of course, the song title pre-dates Chuck (but not his feelings!). Then they say that I can't sing That I don't say a thing That I make everything up... oh well Break out or Get out The lyric is almost Chuck saying "I get it what you're saying about me, but do you get what I'm saying?" Get out of your mind Cause it's much too small And there's so much going on One of those many things being Billy's slightly late bass for the first half of the song. He sorts it out by the second chorus. Faith No More - Greed Greed by Faith No More Greed Faith No More - Greed - Listen on Deezer
Much earlier... Greed "Roddy" demo Most of the songs power already ploughing on this demo. I personally prefer it to the album because of that snare in that room and the guy hitting it like that.
Greed - Chuck's intro always makes me smile. Not the greatest song on the record but I still like it.
