One can easily imagine the shock and the indignant reaction of metalheads when they saw the landing strip zozos Angelenos especially as we told them we stood there a possible future of their music, ha no!, Account number 'There was not! And it is perhaps simply because Faith No More is not a metal band, not even a hard rock band, a bizarre thing that has these advantages as well as looking hairy horrors they fleeing big screams. Currently, with the arrival of a young and hopping vocalist Mike Patton plant suddenly his cronies Mr. Bungle but will come back, it's a Faith No More spruced everything that foments its third patty, The Real Thing. Which foments without his new singer who will create the bases already finished compositions designed to its predecessor, Chuck Mosley. But as the boy lacks neither imagination nor talent, he is working with an ogre appetite to stain and, ta da!, A great album ensue. A transitional album, also because the influence of Patton soon guide the compositional verve training to various heavens and attractive but that's another story. And so back to the album where we find a nice good package sacred songs become, rightly, mandatory steps each concert of Faith No More. I refer of course to From Out of Nowhere, Epic and Surprise! You're Dead! which, each in its genre (melodic and catchy, rapper and hopping, or angry and metal respectively) continue to be played by the group in his recent performances. Not that the rest of the wafer, thus ousted the setlists, should be ashamed of the comparison with the three aforementioned classic, not! Because of the heady Falling to Pieces, a tube at the time it was deserved, the lovely ballad electroacoustic turning into what progressive metal mutant Zombie Eaters, solid where The Real Thing Faith No More leaves go to build a composition "roller coaster" the most beautiful effect, the funny and oriental instrumental Woodpecker from Mars, the impeccable faithful not Planplan resumption of War Pigs by Black Sabbath, the final cool jazzy swing Edge of the World ( a cassette bonus cd and period compared to the vinyl release), yes even the two I have not mentioned and are slightly below but still correct (Underwater Love, The Morning After), everything is good, even great! And this is not the production of Matt Wallace, who produced the band since its inception and therefore knows how to sound like one (that confirm the excellent Angel Dust), which will tarnish the table. In fact, the only thing we can complain about Faith No More and its The Real Thing is to have been one of the most likely instigators of the nu-metal scene that frankly was not worth but Tripette and one, it's like reproach, and two, it's not even their fault, so ... In short, The Real Thing is a classic, you need it and that's it!
1. From Out of Nowhere 3:22 2. Epic 4:53 3. Falling to Pieces 5:15 4. Surprise! You're Dead! 2:27 5. Zombie Eaters 5:58 6. The Real Thing 8:13 7. Underwater Love 3:51 8. The Morning After 3:43 9. Woodpecker from Mars 5:40 10. War Pigs 7:45 11. Edge of the World 4:10
Mike Bordin - drums Roddy Bottum - keyboards Bill Gould - bass James Martin - guitars Mike Patton - vocals