On January 12th 1998 Faith No More released Stripsearch , the third single from Album Of The Year . Kerrang | May 1997 'Stripsearch' is a supremely atmospheric chunk ol sci-fi funk that succeeds despite the lack of any discernible chorus because it sounds just fantastic. Young Gods producer Roli Mosimann has worked his usual magic here, 'Album Of The Year' sounding so good that even if there wasn't a sniff of a decent melody anywhere (which is always a risk with Faith No More

On December 29th 1992 Faith No More released their cover of the 1977 Commodores song Easy . The song is to this day their most successful selling single, however amongst fans it is possibly their most controversial. "It feels really good to have couple of thousand people flipping you off. Just to see the number of middle fingers go up when we went into 'Easy' was amazing." - Bill Gould | Billboard | 1993 The song aided them in reaching their highest UK chart position of num

On December 1st 1997 Faith No More released their collaboration single with Sparks , This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us . ‘They found out that we're fans of theirs, and have asked us to appear on their next album. That's just f**king amazing. Sparks were the first really campy operatic-type band. I always thought Queen ripped them off.’ -  Bill Gould 1997  The original version of the song was featured on the 1974 album Kimono In My House and was the lead single

The party to celebrate the release of Faith No More 's debut album was on November 30th 1985. We consider this to be the original release date for We Care A Lot. Here is an our A to Z of We Care A Lot on it's 40th anniversary. Enjoy. A IS FOR As The Worm Turns Track eight on the record has remained a fan favourite throughout the band's career. As The Worm Turns was reclaimed live by Mike Patton during The Real Thing tour and eventually re-recorded as a b-side in 1992. As

Faith No More were between 21 and 25 years of age in 1984 when they wrote and recorded their debut album We Care A Lot. As part of our 40 years celebration of this record we are reposting photographs of the band for this early period taken by Joan Osato . In the early eighties Joan was Roddy Bottum 's roommate and captured some fantastic shots of Roddy, Chuck, Mike, Jim and Billy - her photos featured on the cover of We Care A Lot. Joan has kindly allowed us to share these

On November 4th 1988 Faith No More played at the IBeam in their hometown of San Francisco. This was their first live performance with Chuck Mosley 's replacement Mike Patton fronting the band. Photo : Mark Weiss Steffan Chirazi , who had been championing FNM in the music press since 1987 and who had written the band's only magazine feature in Kerrang!, wrote this preview. FAITH NO MORE - I Beam SF. Your chance to check out the new version of the SF funk/punk/metal/rap kingp

On October 30th 1989 Faith No More released From Out Of Nowhere , their third official single. It was the first single released from the acclaimed album The Real Thing and the first to feature Mike Patton on vocals. 'Without a doubt this kicks everything, apart from Wreck, into perspective. Faith No More are climbing up to the heady heights of the music biz and if they pause to look behind it's only to stick a derisive two fingers up at the struggling competition. If you h

Faith No More 's version of the  Bee Gees  song  I Started A Joke  was released on October 26th 1998. The song first appeared on the B-side of the limited edition single release of  Digging The Grave  in 1995 and on a bonus CD available with the Australian version of  King For A Day Fool For A Lifetime  also in 1995.  It was recorded along with three more cover versions of other songs in  Bill Gould 's home studio and produced by Gould and  Dean Menta . These songs were the o

On October 20th 2015 Faith No More released their first video in 17 years for the song Sunny Side Up . Sunny Side up was the third single released from Faith No More's Sol Invictus . The song only saw a promo CD release but the band produced a video which Rolling Stone described as, "Faith No More prove sex, drugs and rock and roll are for the geriatrics as much as the kid". It was was their video first in 17 years, the last being for Stripsearch in 1998 - Warner Bros post

I am not sure what I expected before sitting down with The Royal We . Reading the Substack tales from Roddy Bottum were indeed a clue. However, as a feverish Faith No More fan starved of any word from the band for sometime now I hoped for a history of my favourite artists from their perspective. It’s not exactly what I got, and knowing my favourite keyboardist like I do, I was actually quite foolish to hope for it. The Royal We is a weird and wonderful journey, it is the di

The new wave hipster band Faith. No Man ceased to exist in late 1983 - born from the ashes was... Faith No More . Photo by Wade Worthington The line up of what would become Faith No More included Mike 'The Man' Morris (vocals and guitar), Wade Worthington (keyboards), Bill Gould , and Mike Bordin . During rehearsals it became more and more apparent that the band differed in musical opinions. Worthington saw the writing on the wall and left, replaced by Bill's childhood f

On October 1st 1992 Faith No More were tour promoting Angel Dust with support act Helmet at Queen City in Buffalo, New York. However,...

Mike, Jim, Mr John and Andrew Bowie are back! The Faith No More podcast returns after a prolonged absence. The only dedicated FNM...

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Faith No More returned to Chile on the King For Day Tour on 8 September 1995. They joined Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Megadeth and...

On September 6 1990 the MTV Video Music Awards celebrated music videos of the year. The show was broadcast live from LA on MTV and hosted...

Faith No More 's North American tour in support of Sol Invictus was ten years ago. FNM began their Sol Invictus  tour in Japan and...

Faith No More 's North American tour in support of Sol Invictus was ten years ago. FNM began their Sol Invictus tour in Japan and...

The Slings and Arrows of Faith No More Steffan Chirazi You wouldn't expect it to be any other way. Chaos is abundant, voices are...