Angel Dust (album)
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For other things with the same name see Angel Dust.
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| CD by Faith No More | ||
| Released | June 16, 1992 | |
| Recorded | Coast Recorders in Brilliant Studios, San Francisco, California, 1991 | |
| Genre | Alternative metal | |
| Record label | Slash Records | |
| Length | 58 min 18 sec | |
| Producer | Matt Wallace | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| Allmusic.com | 4 1/2 out of 5 | Link (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDMISS70404112128090409&sql=Ahmazefbkhgf6) |
| Q | 4 stars out of 5 | May 1992 (http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.review.redirect&fixture_review=120467&resource=120467&fixture_artist=144382) |
| RollingStone review | NR | link (http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album?id=158660) |
| ARTISTdirect review | 4.5 stars out of 5 | link (http://store.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,83888,00.html) |
| Faith No More Chronology | ||
| The Real Thing (1989) | Angel Dust (1992) | King For A Day... Fool For a Lifetime (1995) |
Angel Dust, released in 1992 (see 1992 in music), was the fourth album by US rock band Faith No More, and the second to feature vocalist Mike Patton.
After the commercial success of the previous album The Real Thing, Angel Dust is a very complex and at times hard to approach album.
Although much of the material retains the straightforward pop-rock sound which made them famous ("Midlife Crisis", "A Small Victory", "Everything's Ruined"), elsewhere the band begin to drift into less familiar and more experimental territory, often indulging Patton's penchant for screaming and being deliberately offensive ("Jizzlobber", "Malpractice", "Be Aggressive").
These unusual moments arguably make the album unique amongst the band's output, at a time when they were beginning to lose out to Grunge in the commercial stakes. Other notable features of the album include the white trash-baiting monologue of "RV" (a truly odd song; piano-driven and in waltz-time), and the band's version of the theme from "Midnight Cowboy".
Track listing
- "Land of Sunshine"
- "Caffeine"
- "MidLife Crisis"
- "RV"
- "Smaller and Smaller"
- "Everything's Ruined"
- "Malpractice"
- "Kindergarten"
- "Be Aggressive"
- "A Small Victory"
- "Crack Hitler"
- "Jizzlobber"
- "Midnight Cowboy"
"Malpractice" contains a sample of String Quartet No. 8 (Shostakovich), as performed by the Kronos Quartet.
Later versions of the album feature a cover of the Commodores' 'Easy' as the final track, which in some parts of the world was Faith No More's most successful single.