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Faith No More - Introduce Yourself Audio CD

A fair review of the Faith No More "Introduce Yourself" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Faith No More reviews here, or go back to the Faith No More tabs.

Faith No More Band: Faith No More
Title: Introduce Yourself
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Release Date: 1990-06-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Faster Disco 2: Anne's Song 3: Introduce Yourself 4: Chinese Arithmetic 5: Death March 6: We Care a Lot 7: R N' R 8: Crab Song 9: Blood 10: Spirit

inspirational

Don't worry about the vocals so much, they go well with the music which is sort of like a urban hip-hop/punk mix that no one made before this, NO ONE. You know i feel bad for the rest of the critics on this album, because they failed to GET "we care a lot". The king of nonconventianal music (Mike Patton) was the reason FNM became so commercial. This is the real faith no More.
Good album very good the only reason they are getting 4 stars is because they did a lot better with "Angel Dust". :).


The only way is up
The album produced their first (underground) hit in the title track - a fun though lyrically silly rant raised from obscurity through good use of stop start rhythms. This album introduced FNM to a much larger audience than they'd reached before.

Pulled to pieces it's clear that this band were infused with a great love of loud music played at a number of speeds and there certainly seems to also be a fair smattering of punk influences in both the delivery and the do it yourself feel of the album. The vocals of pre Mike Patton vocalist Chuck Mosley are an acquired taste and to hear him rave on with his non singers voice over the top of what are ofen fairly tight musical ideas is interesting. And make no mistake, as much as this sounded thrown together it's pretty clear that there was real musical vision behind the creation of these songs and their construction into a full album. The art of looking like there was no hard work done at all to produce this art metal calling card.

Personal favourites of mine here are the title track and also, strangely, The Crab Song which to me is utterly evocative of an the sort of feelings one has during one of your first relationship break ups and of course We Care A Lot which was the other really standout track on the album.

Taken as a whole this is an album more important for it's place in the FNM history, an album any FNM fan really wants to hear for themselves and very worthwhile as an early document if you can pick it up cheap. But it's too disjointed with too clouded an artistic vision to be worthy of more than three stars in it's own right.
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Scew the nay-sayers
A lot of people don't like Chuck Mosley's vocals though. This is one of Faith No More's best albums by far. I really like them, and feel that they capture the energy and obnoxiousness of FNM. I would like FNM as much today if they had kept Mosley instead of picking up Patton. And honestly, while Mosley isn't up to much these days, Mike's other projects haven't been so hot either. Chinese Arithmetic is where its at.


Not Worth It
Do you care? No. Did Faith No More exist before Mike Patton? Yes.


Early Faith No More rocks too !!
But the other 4 members are as musically tight here as on any other FNM release. Okay, I fully realize that Mike Patton is a better singer than Chuck Mosely. The tune "We Care a Lot" is the most incredible song they have ever done.


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