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Re: New Faith No More album?

#21 Post by creep » Fri Jul 04, 2014 7:18 pm

not liking the second new song. anytime roddy touches the microphone bad things happen. he just ruins it for me. mike is getting a little chunky.


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#22 Post by CaseyContrarian » Sat Jul 05, 2014 9:23 am

I can't fathom not liking Fantomas. Like, what's going on in your brain? If you don't like avant-grade, experimental or metal, I suppose I can sort of get it. But live a little, c'mon. Maybe start with the horror/noir movie covers record, Director's Cut. It's brilliant.

And Mr. Bungle put out one of the only true classic records of the aughts (they got there early and left early), with California--a brilliant homage to spaghetti western, the Beach Boys and sundry with a little Arabian death jazz thrown in for good measure.

The shittiest thing Patton has ever been involved with probably Album of the Year.

Still fucking psyched for new FNM music, though.

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#23 Post by CaseyContrarian » Sat Jul 05, 2014 10:22 am

New FNM music played at UK gig:

http://www.metalinjection.net/av/faith- ... london-gig

Haven't listened yet.

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#24 Post by JOEinPHX » Sat Jul 05, 2014 12:48 pm

CaseyContrarian wrote:The shittiest thing Patton has ever been involved with probably Album of the Year.
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Apparently you haven't heard Adult Themes for Voice

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#25 Post by CaseyContrarian » Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:38 pm

I like that record for what it is.

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#26 Post by JOEinPHX » Sun Jul 06, 2014 4:54 pm

:no:

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#27 Post by blackula » Sun Jul 06, 2014 5:53 pm

creep wrote:not liking the second new song. anytime roddy touches the microphone bad things happen. he just ruins it for me. mike is getting a little chunky.

I don't know, logic says that if Mike Patton is your singer why would anyone else attempt vocals. I like it though, I listened to the songs this morning and the "get the mother fucker on the phone?" part has been in my head all day. The other new song is pretty cool, reminds me of Angel Dust era.

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#28 Post by creep » Sun Jul 06, 2014 6:04 pm

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creep wrote:not liking the second new song. anytime roddy touches the microphone bad things happen. he just ruins it for me. mike is getting a little chunky.

I don't know, logic says that if Mike Patton is your singer why would anyone else attempt vocals. I like it though, I listened to the songs this morning and the "get the mother fucker on the phone?" part has been in my head all day. The other new song is pretty cool, reminds me of Angel Dust era.
yeah to be honest that song (the patton part) did stick in my head too. i just don't like the whole rap - rock linkln park thing they do here. it's catchy though. :noclue:

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#29 Post by Essence_Smith » Sun Jul 06, 2014 9:03 pm

Six7Six7 wrote::no:
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#30 Post by CaseyContrarian » Mon Jul 07, 2014 3:11 pm

Roddy wrote "Be Aggressive" though, so I'm willing to withhold judgement until I hear a proper recording.

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#31 Post by Essence_Smith » Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:51 pm

I'm still trying to figure out what arabian death jazz is... :noclue:

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#32 Post by blackula » Tue Jul 08, 2014 5:46 pm

Essence_Smith wrote:I'm still trying to figure out what arabian death jazz is... :noclue:
http://youtu.be/tcQrOG7BJq8

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#33 Post by creep » Tue Aug 19, 2014 4:33 pm

The Reunion Tour is over; in 2015 things are going to change
seems encouraging??

i see the are headlining soundwave in australia

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#34 Post by nausearockpig » Tue Aug 19, 2014 5:00 pm

Oh my fucking god. Dammit I hate festivals.

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#35 Post by nausearockpig » Thu Aug 28, 2014 6:21 pm

nausearockpig wrote:Oh my fucking god. Dammit I hate festivals.
But I got my ticket to day one when they're playing. So I'll tape it and anyone who wants to hear it can.

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#36 Post by creep » Tue Sep 02, 2014 10:08 am

yes
Influential alterna-metal iconoclasts Faith No More are set to release their seventh album — their first in 18 years — in April of 2015, bassist Bill Gould tells Rolling Stone. The record will be a totally independent product — produced by Gould, recorded in their Oakland rehearsal space and released on their own imprint, Reclamation Records (which will be distributed by frontman Mike Patton's long-running label, Ipecac Recordings).


"The name has to do with the fact that we realized we were free from our recording obligations," says Gould. "We weren't touring, we have these songs that we were working on — that we think are pretty cool — and why don't we just do our own imprint and kind of reclaim our future, in a way? We own the future more than we ever have."

Though no dates have been booked, the band is planning a full U.S. tour around the album's release. Since their return to the stage in 2009, they've only played five American cities.

The album's first single, "Motherfucker," a song they premiered in London's Hyde Park in July, will be released on a seven-inch due for November 28th release and limited to 5,000 copies as part of Record Store Day's Black Friday. The B-side will be a remix by electronic art-pop sound designer J.G. Thirlwell.

We caught up with Gould to find out how a band of industry veterans is carving their own path.

How far along are you into the new record?
We're actually pretty far into it.

Does the record have a name yet?
No, no, we're not there yet. We're just comfortable talking about the fact that we're making one. [Laughs.]

How long have you been playing with the idea?
We've been working on this idea for probably a year and a half. We live in different cities and all have other things going on, so it's a matter of checking in and focusing and working little by little.

Has it been hard to keep it a secret?
People ask me all the time, "What are you doing now? You're working all the time, but what the hell are you doing?" And you can't say anything. "Oh, you know, just working on stuff; working on some projects." Who wants to start hype with nothing behind it, you know?

What would you say the new stuff sounds like?
I mean... [Laughs.] What I can say is that I think through our experience as musicians over the years, I think what we're doing reflects where we've gone since we made our last record as Faith No More. I think this kicks things up a notch. And I think there's parts that are very powerful and there's parts that have a lot of "space." Everything we do, with our chemistry, the way we play; it's always going to sound like us. It's just what we do, that makes us feel good. Hopefully it doesn't sound like a bunch of 50-year-old men... which we are! [Laughs.]

What would you say is the defining feature of the material you're working on now?
If I can give it an adjective? There's going to be a lot of space and scope — big, big sound-stage space — but I also think there's gonna be a lot of those things that we already have. All I can say is what we're doing just feels right.

What are some of the things that you guys have picked up in the last 17 years that you bring to a session now?
We play better. When we got back together to do those reunion shows, we were in rehearsal and we all play the songs better; we're better musicians. That was a huge deal. Songs that we were really pushing when we wrote them came pretty easily.

When was your contract up?
I think that we were officially free from it as of four or five months ago. We wrote a letter saying that we consider that we're free and clear from our obligations and they confirmed it.

No shit?
Yeah. So that was a big deal. Back in the day, we were a weird band that had to tour a lot. We were constantly fighting to get our label's attention and to get behind us. We toured a lot, and in some ways, I think we're a little shell-shocked from that, even still — 17 years later. When we had these songs and we were working on stuff, and we're trying to be creative and be a real band, there was always this thing over our head like, "Yeah, but are we going to get cut into this meat grinder again?" And there's just something really freeing about knowing that we can make our own decisions… I can't imagine doing it any other way right now.

It's more independent than the records you made in 1985!
Yeah, it's weird and interesting... It's really empowering to say, "Wow, it's our clock; we're doing it on our own time. There is no budget, there is no timeframe — it just has to be good." It's such a pleasure to be working like that.

Is there even one hand in the soup besides the five of you at this point?
I don't think there is; I actually don't think there is.

Are there influences that are coming in from bands that weren't around 17 years ago?
Oh, yeah. Justin Bieber — I don't even know how old Justin Bieber was when we were playing last time — and now, he's a major influence. [Laughs.] We didn't even have the vocoder effect back then. It's amazing how technology is moving forward.

I wouldn't put it past you guys, honestly.
You shouldn't. [Laughs.] A little word of advice: Don't…

Are there younger, newer movements that are influencing you?
I'm only going to answer for myself. I've really gotten into a lot of things, stuff outside the country: Balkan-influenced stuff, stuff that goes outside Western ways of thinking about music that can be really powerful, but not in ways that are tried-and-true rock & roll ways? For example, there's this Bulgarian guy Ferus Mustafov who does this crazy shit; there's no rock & roll in it at all. But there are just things that he does. Musicians are musicians; there's just certain ways that they attack what they do that you key off of that.

In 1992, you guys were a square peg, you didn't fit into Headbanger's Ball, you didn't exactly fit into 120 Minutes... Where do you guys fit in now?
It's like a hexagonal peg now. [Laughs] In a lot of ways, it's really more of a challenge. But we can't think of it like that; we think we've got something good and that's about as far as we can control it. And actually, it's really interesting for us because it was always a struggle back in the day when we were playing and making music — it felt like we were never really getting it over the net with people. To where, here it is 15 years later, people actually want to hear what we do and the stuff we did actually lasted. And, to me, that's it — that means we succeeded [and] that's totally great. And that's the thing that makes us want to do it again.

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#37 Post by Essence_Smith » Tue Sep 02, 2014 12:55 pm

One of the few bands I was into during high school that I still get excited about...and they're doing a U.S. tour finally...this is great :nod: :nod:

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#38 Post by Hokahey » Wed Sep 03, 2014 7:37 am

One of the few bands left on my "must see before I die" list. It's about fucking time.

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#39 Post by JOEinPHX » Thu Sep 04, 2014 8:04 pm

Essence_Smith wrote:One of the few bands I was into during high school that I still get excited about...and they're doing a U.S. tour finally...this is great :nod: :nod:
But is it a U.S.Tour, or is it a "U.S. Tour"?

You know, that 12 show jaunt that many make, with 3 shows in NY, 3 in California, 3 in Florida, and the other 3 in major cities like Chicago, Austin, and Vegas?

Really getting tired of that booking method.

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#40 Post by Juana » Thu Sep 04, 2014 8:42 pm

Even if it's that "12 city" method I will at least see Austin and the 3 CA shows. I flew out in 2010 to see them in SF so I will likely do it again since who knows when they will actually play in the US again. But yeah I agree that booking method fucking blows.

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#41 Post by creep » Wed Nov 19, 2014 11:30 am

listen to the first single motherfucker here. not a huge fan but it is sort of catchy. if you listen to it a couple times good luck not hearing the chorus in your head.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premi ... r-20141119

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#42 Post by Hokahey » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:13 am

creep wrote:listen to the first single motherfucker here. not a huge fan but it is sort of catchy. if you listen to it a couple times good luck not hearing the chorus in your head.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premi ... r-20141119

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Love it. It's not a perfect song by any means, but it has big ol balls and has been stuck in my head. That sounds bad...

Even still, good for them. When your first single in 16-17(?) years is called Mother Fucker, sounds like the band your fans know and love, and is reasonably decent? You win.

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#43 Post by blackula » Thu Nov 20, 2014 1:28 pm

It sounds like it was written before Patton joined the process and he threw some vocals over Roddy's. I still like the song though, reminds me of Midlife Crisis a little.

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#44 Post by nausearockpig » Thu Nov 20, 2014 2:31 pm

So I'm guessing this guy thinks that Mike P somehow snuck his way into the band and the other guys didn't know... or something...

some charming comments there....

http://thequietus.com/articles/12878-ep ... th-no-more
Epic Fail: How Mike Patton Murdered Faith No More
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30 years ago a man called Chuck Mosley joined Faith No More. Our man Jamie Thomson mourns the day he left

In 1990, a music video for a song called 'Epic' offered a chilling vision of the future. It showed a young man dressed as a children's TV presenter leaping about like a rapping granny, spitting the kind of flow only advertising executives would find passable. Had I knew then what I know now, I would have said: "Oh Jesus, this is Year Zero in a 20-year musical nightmare that will end up with Limp Bizkit being one of the biggest bands on the planet." Instead, I merely thought: "Wow, they've really, REALLY fucked up one of my favourite bands."

A couple of years earlier, there was a nice little San Francisco band called Faith No More, a multicultural cross-section of Bay Area scenesters – punkers, funkers, meat-and-potato metalheads and future gay icons – who crashed into my world by virtue of a 3rd generation TDK of their second album, Introduce Yourself. I loved it immediately – it had heavy bits, it had funk bits (yes, I make no bones about it - as a 15-year-old, one of my most important quests was to track down a vinyl copy of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Freaky Styley), it had washes of gothy keyboards, but most of all it was voiced with a charismatic, soulful melancholia I've rarely heard the likes of since. 'Anne's Song' – probably my favourite track – masquerades as a simple soundtrack for good times, a roll call of characters in the mood to party. But further listens uncover the angst, uncertainty and sexual politics that come with something simple as "going out with some friends". As a callow youth, it was a window into a world that thrilled and scared me in equal measure.

The owner of that expressive, maudlin voice wasn't long for the band, however. If memory serves, narcolepsy was cited as the reason for Chuck Mosley's exit in 1988 (I had my suspicions that this was code for something more sinister, but never did find out), and he was replaced by Mr Bungle frontman Mike Patton, whose acerbic whining couldn't be further from Mosely's ragged croons. However, Patton's white-boy rapping was just what MTV was looking for and FNM went from late-night cult act, where 'We Care A Lot' could occasionally be spotted on the likes of 120 Minutes at two in the morning, to enjoying the kind of heavy rotation from which superstars are made. I can't say for certain that the frontman's change of skin tone was what opened the doors for them, but they sure as hell sounded whiter. And, lest we forget, this is MTV we're talking about – a channel, in the 80s at least, not known for its groundbreaking multicultural agenda.


This, of course, opened the doors for any number of bands peddling their suddenly marketable rap-rock hybrids. A newly neutered Red Hot Chili Peppers tricked an unexpecting world into accepting Blood Sugar Sex Magick into their homes, which would then allow them to smear their execrable output over our lives for the next twenty years. In their wake followed bands of wildly varying quality - Mordred, Infectious Grooves, Living Colour, Primus, 24-7 Spyz, Heads Up, Urban Dance Squad – until beaten into submission, we eventually allowed the likes of Kid Rock, Linkin Park, Insane Clown Posse and Limp Bizkit to install themselves as the Black CNN for white folks.

And – oh God – how could I forget the countless dreadful provincial metal bands with serious delusions of grandeur – the kind that think the more strings on your bass you have, the more serious a musician you are; and kind of band that sees nothing out of the ordinary in performing a cover version of a someone else's cover. Yes, these are the fools who would bust out a version of 'Easy' in the middle of a set of otherwise stilted funk-metal accompanied by "Ooh, let's see what this preset does" keyboard flourishes. If Faith No More thought they were being challenging and didactic by paying tribute to The Commodores, they vastly overestimated their fanbase's resourcefulness and willingness to broaden their horizons. If anything, the opposite occurred – it gave Patton's acolytes a molehill of superiority to sit upon and broadcast their new-found expertise on soul music: "Well, I love 'Easy', of course, but nothing else really grabs me. (If it was any good, Faith No More would have covered it, wouldn't they?)" Indeed, interviews with Patton and his bandmates towards the end of the 90s displayed a marked unease at how simple it was to toss out half-formed ideas and have their audience honk and slap their flippers together in approval. They really should have called that 1991 live album: How Shall We Fuck Off, O Lord?


Worse still, the "I like Faith No More, therefore I'm better at music than you" crowd were given succour by journalists falling over themselves to heap praise on 1992's Angel Dust. It cropped up in album of the year lists and even a few 'most influential albums of all time' round-ups. Although I balk at the thought that dropping a Beastie Boys sample in the middle of a song is somehow cutting edge, I'll concede that the album is undoubtedly massively influential. Watch a few hours of Kerrang! or Scuzz these days and you'll see the tropes on this record recycled a billion times: choppy riffs, wailing backing vocals, faux-emotive piano breaks to drive home how blinking, bloody, ruddy heavy the rest of the heaviness is. I realise it's probably a bit unfair to blame a 20-year-old record for the stasis that modern rock is mired in, but, hey, you have to start somewhere.

By now, a few of you are undoubtedly apoplectic that I would shoot down the band that got you through school/ college/ life in whatever tedious market town it was you grew up in, and are leaping around (in your tie dye hoodies, naturally) with rage because I have dared to question Patton and co's genius. Here's the thing. You guys won. Faith No More's reunion in 2009 was attended by half the population of Europe. Empires fell, planets aligned, world peace was declared etc. And rock musicians nowadays – from rapey rap-metal cretins to slightly less offensive progressive metal cretins – have Faith No More's shitty, shitty music firmly embedded into their DNA: the influence is inescapable.

To his credit, however, Patton has spent his time away from the band building up a CV with impeccable credentials. He has worked with the likes of John Zorn, Buzz Osborne, Eyvind Kang, Otomo Yoshide, Bjork and Melt-Banana. His label Ipecac has provided a home and support for acts as diverse as the Melvins, Dalek, Neil Hamburger and his own supergroup, Tomahawk. By doing so he's managed to become one of the most potent driving forces in avant-garde and alternative music in the last 15 or so years (or, as I like to think of it, he has delivered the world's longest apology). When I listen to Fantomas or Tomahawk, I think to myself: “You know, it was over two decades ago when he ruined that band. I should really let it go.” But then I see him bouncing around like a twat in that video for Epic. Sorry Mike. You may indeed want it all, but you can't have it.

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#45 Post by Larry B. » Thu Nov 20, 2014 4:47 pm

To his credit, however, (...)
Not sure if this is satire or not, but at the same time I know it's not. He used the word "croons" to describe Mosley's style and "whining" for Patton's?

On the topic of the single, I thought it was pretty bad, but the chorus is catchy as hell.

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