(From Top Of The Pops TV show; 1990)
Here's Faith No More actin' the collective fool miming their way through From Out Of Nowhere on British TV; peep 1:24 for some prime Mike Patton pisstaking. This was the only time FNM (semi) performed From Out Of Nowhere on television, which is kinda surprising even though the band were Bigger In Britain™ than they were in America. In fact, FNM's The Real Thing LP is culturally significant in Britain as the missing link between Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction and Nirvana's Nevermind in the pantheon of U.S Rock albums which were popular amongst most of the U.K's yoof tribes. Me & my m8s or the mosher-posse could jam the album's opening trifecta of From Out Of Nowhere, Epic and Falling To Pieces in our high school common-room in 1990 and the only people who'd complain were the birds who solely listened to teeny-bopper boybands and the Jehovah's Witness lad who snitched to the teachers whenever we'd play Ice-T or N.W.A.
Turns out Faith No More were also Bigger Down Under™ than they were in America, with The Real Thing going platinum in Australia, and Epic hitting the number one and two spots on the Australian and New Zealand singles charts. That, however, isn't remotely surprising: of course FNM were huge in the two countries where Bermuda shorts, sleeveless t-shirrs and under-shaves were thee height of fashion. Roddy Bottom even sounds like the name of a bloke who played in the 1990 Australian cricket team.
Bonus beats: FNM performing Epic and Edge Of The World on Ed Lover & Doctor Dré's Yo! MTV Raps spin-off Da Show. Gonna hazard a guess Ed & Dré didn't quite get the gist of Edge Of The World's lyrics or they might not have been so enthusiastic about joining in on back-up dancer/vocalist duties. That's a song better suited to Westwood and Adam22.
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Think it was seeing the video of Epic on The Chart Show where I discovered Faith No More.
The Real Thing seemed to be playing everywhere at the time. Would often hear it when I was in Forbidden Planet. Also, I realised it must have been a big deal when Surprise! You're Dead! was featured in the film Gremlins 2.
Never forget Big Jim Martin's cameo in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.
Got me thinking about The Chart Show's specialist singles charts and the songs I first heard via them.
From the Dance Chart:
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
Silver Bullet - 20 Seconds To Comply
Future Sound Of London - Papa New Guinea
Family Stand - Ghetto Heaven (Soul II Soul remix)
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
From the Indie Chart:
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
New Order - World In Motion
Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven
Nirvana - Sliver
Fugazi - Song #1
Incredible album.
The Chilli's "Mother's Milk" was big in my school too.
Cosigning all those Dance chart singles. Source feat. Candi Staton - You Got the Love as well.
Indie:
Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven
Stone Roses - Fools Gold
The La's - There She Goes
L.A, a couple of my pals loved that album. I can't even front, I did fuxwit Higher Ground back then.
Spart, the Indie chart always seemed to have 2 Stone Roses songs in it. I definitely first heard the Happy Mondays on there via the Wrote For Luck video,
It is better than the Stevie Wonder original.
Yeah I said it.
A Carolina Reaper take 💥
... and speaking of cover versions, I prefer FNM's War Pigs to the Black Sabbath original. Patton just has a better voice than Ozzy.
Speaking of War Pigs covers, did you listen to T-Pain's cover of that song last year? Ozzy called it his favorite cover.
I just listened to it. Ozzy is buggin' 😆 FNM FTW!
Funny story, turns out Faith No More is not the same band as Faithless.
Down the rabbit hole we go.
It's a matter of Faith.
dj paul sampling the piano part from epic was genius.
Absolutely.
Plus the Traxamillion×Husalah song that samples the Epic piano section. Luv the Faith No More drum fills in War Pigs - Exceptional.
Hoooooold up, wait a minute. Which Traxamillion & Husalah song is that?
Admittedly it's only on the intro, but "Pray for you" samples Epic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am3toL_ctew
Oh shit! I don't think I've ever heard it with that intro before.
Someone REALLY needs to freak the piano from Edge Of The World.
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