Classical Composer Reaction & Analysis to Midlife Crisis (Faith No More) | The Daily Doug (Ep. 485)
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
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In this #metalmonday edition of #thedailydoug, I'm listening to music from Faith No More for the first time on the channel. We're starting off with Midlife Crisis, the band's lead single from their 4th album Angel Dust. I found the song to be full of coded language with surprising depth. I'll definitely be including more from this band in the future. I hope you enjoy!
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You've opened a Pandora's Box of FNM/Patton fanboyism. We are legion, Doug. You listen, we'll watch. The more FNM you hear, the higher quality human you will necessarily become. Bravo, sir.
Calm down, Sally.
They havn't been relevant since the 90's. They sucked then too
Yes that. I saw them with Metallica and Guns and Roses and they kinda stole the show but Foxboro stadium didn't really know what to think.
@@BeeRumblin13 oh be quiet
She tried to get with him back then
Angel Dust deserves to be reacted as a whole.
FINALLY!!! My favorite band of all time. Mike Patton might be the greatest vocalist of the modern era of music.
Crack Hitler next?
agree
Might be? Ha, he's so much more than 'just' a vocalist,😁
Imho he is the best vocalist
@@undinism69 Definitely more than “Just a Man”…
I believe their song The Real Thing (title track) is so brilliant, it holds its own against the most creative songs in pop/rock history.
Agree with you, the whole album is great
I agree, an absolute masterpiece
+1 ZOMBIE EATERS!!!!
Yes you are correct…. 😂
💯 agree!
I love FNM. Angel Dust was such a change from The Real Thing. Took my a few plays to get into the album and now it's my favorite album of theirs. I would be careful of digging into the lyrics for Be Aggressive. 😁
...the lyrics for this song are....uhhh...interesting...🤭 I dont believe the explanation that was given here, it definitely is deeper than Madonna.
@@jackolson8775 Nah, that's what Mike said back when the album was released. And it makes sense, considering she was just releasing the Erotica record the year this came out. In the early 90's she was increasingly doing controversial shit just for the sake of keeping eyeballs on her.
Lol
And for Cuckoo for Caca
I love take this bottle
Last cup of sorrow, Just a man, A Small Victory , Ashes to Ashes, .... My first FNM song was Falling to Pieces and it was a gamechanger. It was new, it was fascinating and made me instantly fall in love with the band. It was 1990, I was 20 and my love for them still burns 🔥🔥🔥.
This is one of the best records ever. And surely of the 90s. Be Aggressive, Angel Dust, Everything's ruined, kindergarten, RV etc... its just a great album from start to finish. Check it out entirely. Cheers
Agreed!! 😊
And don't forget my personal fave...JIZZLOBBER!!!
And don't forget my personal fave...JIZZLOBBER!!!
Best album ever.my opinion. It's a masterpiece.its a journey builds and builds. Crazy cool contrast between synth and guitar drum...always interesting perspectives and lyrical content.Pattons vocals are INSANE. Such control...such energy...such range.powerhouse drums and solid bass foundation...tasteful guitar driving a chunky edge.
Live version of this on Leno show is phenomenal.
Great band way ahead of its time
This is a fantastic album, it never gets old. Everything's Ruined is my favourite track. Great reaction as always. 👍
Everything's Ruined is amazing. Doug you'd really like the melodies. Yes melodies. Lol.
When I heard a song Ashes to ashes I was dragged into being a Faith no more fan. My favorite song is King for a day but I love many of their songs. They're so various and never get boring. I went to their concert here in Prague and it was extensive. What a show.
Yep seen them in clubs in late 80s and early90s other metallica guns show
Faith No More is an incredible band. Their music takes you to so many different places. Very cinematic music.
if we are introducing the man the myth the legend Mike Patton to the channel, I believe Mr. Bungle, his first band, would be a very interest listen. Being heavy inspired by Zappa, Mr. Bungle is very experimental and meshes multiple different genres with rock/metal into a wild listening experience. They will definitely keep you on your toes. I would probably recommend Carousel for a first listen, however their self titled album is full of great and wild tracks.
Bungle was never inspired by Zappa. None of them listened to Zappa. They were influenced by Cardiacs and Stump.
Cardiacs ( ex. Tarred and Feathered)
Stump ( ex. Chaos )
I'm lobbying for him to do an Extended Play Lounge episode for the complete California record. Dive all the way in, don't dip toes! :D
Lol I recommended carousel also. I second you're recommend, hope Doug follows it.
Oh yeah Mr Bungle is far more compositionally interesting. Carousel would be a good choice, as would Carry Stress in the Jaw or maybe Ars Moriendi
@@bmcskim Carry Stress or The Bends suite would be exceptional choices from Disco, for sure. Merry Go Bye Bye too.
Dude, Thanks. I saw them in clubs several times between The Real Thing and this album. I LOVE Faith No More. I've seen them more times than any other band. I'm glad you checked them out. I'm writing this before I watch the video on Midlife Crisis. I enjoy your videos and assume you'll give it a good shot. :)
Falling To Pieces is another great one by FnM. Billy Gould's bass is fantastic and has just a wonderful tone that I love so much.
From Out of Nowhere is also a top pick. Roddy has a really simple, really great keyboard part that just anchors the whole song.
Faith No More is one of my favorite bands of all time, so glad you finally got around to them! Angel Dust is my favorite album of theirs, each album is completely different, I highly recommend something from King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime next! I listened to a lot of Alanis at the time, she never came to mind listening to it but now I won't be able to unhear it lol! A live version of Midlife Crisis is highly recommended by me too!✌️
Impressive to see a classical person, a well educated musian disecting METAL and Hard Rock. you are a bless to see Sr.
Faith No More is the reason I picked up a guitar. Jim Martin was a god to me. I would like to suggest Small Victories, also on Angel Dust, or the title track The Real Thing from from the previous album.
The Real Thing (the song) is their masterpiece in my opinion
@@manualboyca This, or King For A Day... another outstanding title track
The drum part is an interpretation of Cecilia by Simon and Garfunkel.
Faith No More is in themselves a genre of their own
Looks like you are doing the album version instead of the live version they did on Leno. Watching Mike do his thing is half of the fun.
My favorite song off of Angel Dust is Everything's Ruined. I would analyze that song next.
One of my favorites!!
Love how engaged you are with the music.
I really like Ashes to Ashes. Thanks for the reaction!
One of my all time favorite bands and this is from one of my all time favorite albums. Patton and the boys are incredibly diverse. From this album some masterpiece's you may want to react to are 'Everything's Ruined', 'A Small Victory', and 'Kindergarten'. The whole album is a masterpiece, but those are top-notch. Appreciate the reaction ("analysis").
You should listen "King for a day... fool for a lifetime" album from Faith no more. The title song is very good and the song "Evidence" was played big time in radio/MTV. That album has vibes from jazzy blues to heavy metal, and Mike is singing so perfectly. Some songs of that album makes me dance on the living room floor 😉 Song "Just a man" is example of that behaviour for a man who is suffering midlife crisis 😀
Last cup of sorrow is another good one from that album
Love that album. I didn’t click with Angel Dust when it came out, but I like it a lot now. I find the FNM has something to fit all of my moods.
This makes me happy. Faith no More just are like no one else.
Respect for reviewing the longer album version. I hate reactors find the shortest or live version to review.
Wonderful lyrical interpretation, Doug!👍
& chords too
These guys were such a great band with a great sound.
Were?
Your piano playing was excellent, really enjoyed this!
Great analysis! As always. I love the theory breakdown. ❤
Doug!
You HAVE. To check out Cardiacs - Dog Like Sparky'. Huge influence on Patton. Leader Tim Smith (rip) was awarded an honorary doctorate of music by the royal conservatory of Scotland. His output is comparable to Zappa's, but far more fun
looking forward to this one Doug :)
Try Mr Bungle😅
😵
FTM opening for Metallica on the Justice tour, was among the best shows out of the 1,000+ that I've ever seen. Such an amazing band and such amazing individuals of which it's made.
🤘🧙♂️🤘
Rich the Ancient Metal Beast
I saw Metallica on the Justice Tour '89 in Ottawa Ont. Canada and we had Queensryche open the show. I saw FNM a few months later when Soundgarden and Faith No More opened for Voivod in Montreal Jan. 10 1990. Still have ticket stubs for both.
It must have been a dream come true for Jim Martin. (If you watch the video for "Epic", you'll see him wearing a T-shirt about a tribute to Cliff Burton.)
@@christopherheckman7957 Jim and Mike (the drummer for FTM) were both friends with Cliff in high school. They actually had a band together for a bit and I recently saw video of one of their early performances together. Should be easy to find.
🤘🧙♂️🤘
Poor sound quality, but what starts sounding like Primus playing in thr style of Rush, evolves into full on Pink Floyd psychedelic freak out.
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@@richpeltier9519 Thanks. I did not know that.
Someone suggested two weeks ago to listen to Mike Patton with the band "Mr. Bungle". My vote is for the entire "California" album. Quite an interesting album. Some critics call it the best album of 1999. Even recreates the "Ramayana Monkey Chant".
Glad to see Faith no more Make the rotation. There's so much of their great work to cover. Their version of "Easy" by the Commodores is a great cover. Well sung.
Awesome review man 👍👍👍
Hi Doug! I have caught up! Great! Looking forward to this one. I’m thinking of making a playlist of the songs that have appealed to me. Might be a rather a long one!
Awesome band, awesome song, awesome Doug! Let's go baby!🤘
It took me a while, but I think angel dust might be my favorite rock record of all time. Coming at the album within the last 5 years, you can truly see how many bands these guys/Mike Patton has influenced. It's cliche but they were totally one of those "ahead of their time" bands that were doing their own thing at a time where grunge, alternative and metal ruled rock, they did a combo of all 3 that proved to be timeless. Hopefully they are a staple of the channel for the future.
Correction: the album Angel Dust is the follow-up to their best-selling album The Real Thing (1989). AD is their most acclaimed album and the one that is most venerated.
You should listen and react to their song Ashes to Ashes if you want to see just how much control he has in his voice. Patton is insane in his vocal skills.
Stripsearch. As a bassist myself that's a beauty of a bassline
Cool breakdown. FNM are UNREAL.THANKYOU
I used to listen to this whole album all the time. Great album! I was a sophomore/junior in high school when this came out. Brings back great memories!
I had just graduated high school. The band I was in used to play this one, and We Care Alot.
My first real rock concert was Faith No More in 1992 with Helmet opening. This album Angel Dust is a masterpiece
Great review! Thanks! What I think would make sense as a second song would be Just A Man. Can’t go wrong with that one.
Great video Doug, and you nailed the bleeding heart analogy.
Would love to hear Doug, as a classical composer react to "Everything's Ruined" and "Malpractice" from this album, with the symphonic overtones of the former and classical middle breakdown in the latter...oh, and the instrumental "Woodpeckers from Mars" from THE REAL THING.
Now you have to go down the Patton rabbit hole and check out all of his other bands. Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, Fantomas, Dead Cross, Peeping Tom, Lovage, and MondoCane for some Italian pop. Guy is all over the place.
The title track to the album The Real Thing is my favorite by them.
LOVE the Angel Dust album.
Doug!!! If you love midlife crisis you have to listen to king for a day, from the album king for a day. The song is a beautiful mix of melody and harmony, you'll see once you listen to it. One musician to another!
The first time I heard this was live on stage, Wembley Stadium, between Soundgarden and Guns & Roses. I was already familiar with The Real Thing, but this was totally different from what I was expecting.
Love him digging in. ❤
A lot of the (musical) key ambiguity was thanks to Roddy - he knew what he was doing. By that album they had knew that having a dissonant verse and a driving chorus was a good formula.
Such a brilliant band
One of the best bands with huge range of genres
You should check out " A Small Victory " and "Caffeine" , from the same album.
You should really do a full album listen of The Real Thing. Nothing but killer songs on that album, and zero filler whatsoever. Has to be the one with Edge Of The World, and their cover of War Pigs, though. One of my Top Ten albums of all time...
Yea. This is the album that did it for me. Angel dust is so awesome in its own way also. And I totally respect if some other fnm fanatics like it better. We're all in the same legion . Haha like someone mentioned on the comments above. Really really diverse music as mikes 101 awesome voices and sounds laughs and screams. Haha. the more I hear voice coaches and musical theorist the more I realize how awesome fnm really is. Uhh. And forget that dude who said they weren't relative since the 90 a. They have bought so much life in sometimes lifeless life I'm sure it picked mine up and I'm sure they even saved a lot like. Corey Taylor thank Goodness. Thank you and we luv you FAITH NO MORE 4 EVER MAPHCS. HAHA,,,,
Great album. Great band!!
Mike Patton is more of a vocalist than a singer. He has many covers to his voice. You just have to look at his career as a whole rather than a single song to catch them all. An insane range starting from stupidly low fry growls to legit banshee screams around the 6th or 7th octave.
There are many really engaging projects Mike Patton was/is involved in. As a movie buff, one of my favs is Fantomas’ album Directors Cut. The Godfather theme (as sung by Patton) is nuts and the whole album is a trip to listen to.
I wish I could hear music that technically, for me it's just immediately converted into emotion.
Council of Doug... hahaha... that's great! :)
Wow, it's been too long since I heard this band. I was in my final year of university in 1992 and had music on all of the time.
Great analysis! I'd like to see you react to The Glow Pt. 2, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven or at the very least Ok Computer.
Good evening from New England...Falling to pieces would be another great intro to FNM... Peace ✌️
I wanted to recommend Moody Blues "Days of Future Passed" which is a phenomenal album that you have to listen to in its entirety if you haven't. The album is recorded with an orchestra. I really think you will love this album because of the orchestral aspect of it. It's considered Progressive Rock, and Symphonic Rock. The song covers the day from sunrise to night. You will love the poetry at the beginning and end of the album. It would have to be one of those extended videos that you do.
Brilliant band.
I love this track - and I've never even been a huge 90s alt-rock guy.
Doug if you want to play along on the piano with a song then you have to listen to RV from Faith No More. Love that song.
That is "Cecilia" by Simon and Garfunkel being sampled for percussion. Maybe that is why it sounds familiar?
The stacked vocals at the end are the chorus (You're perfect yes it's true...) over top of a restatement of the first line (Go on and wring my neck...)
This song always impressed me as being a darker, more sophisticated version of "Epic", and it really set the tone as a lead single for the record. It's track 2 on the disc, and track 1 (Land of Sunshine) is more upbeat, but sardonic as all hell.
It'd be fun as heck to see you do this album in Extended Play Lounge - it's a wild ride.
Schoolboy error. Or you need more coffee.
@@16ozClawHammer Not sure what you're criticizing here. The comparison to "Epic"?
@@twelveeighteenofficial7487 Not criticising at all. Just making a (lame) joke. As in 'Caffeine' is the second track on the album (hence the coffee thing). Between 'Land of Sunshine' and 'Midlife Crisis' (which is third, not second).
@@16ozClawHammer Damn. Nicely done. And I should know better. I've been listening to this album since it was released in 1992. Well played, sir.
@@twelveeighteenofficial7487 Ha, it's not a very good joke if you have to explain it, is it?! In your defence, I think they fucked about with the tracklisting across different formats - I remember Smaller and Smaller was at the end of the vinyl version and yet like track five on the CD. Something like that.
You should give RV a try, also Jizzlobber 😅
Jizzlobber and Malpractice will twist his head up in knots trying to analyze.
The sample of Cecelia at the beginning is super catchy and often missed. Surprisingly their only number one hit, but that era was so good musically.
They were bigger in the UK I think. Seeing them perform Ashes to Ashes on the biggest Friday night tv show here was a formative moment as a kid
Those lyrics are brilliant
This was the album that made me a fan.
First FNM release after I got into Mr. Bungle, which would be great for a Weird Wednesday. Thanks again, Doug!
" menstruating .." was bleeped on local radio, can you believe it? Angel Dust is one of my all time favorites. As for Mr.Bungle, California is a must to react to-Holy Filament, Ars Moriendi (sic), etc.
A great faith no more tune. "Madonna", its alternative title. "Without me your only you"
Is that a Deep Purple - Made in Japan Record in the background?, one of the greatest live Rock albums :) hope we get an epic episode or two listening to that album!!!
This disc was spinning a lot for me '92 to '93, and fueled many late night study sessions during university. Midlife Crisis is probably the most straight-up rock song on the album, but there are a lot of other gems there. Looking at the track list right now, Kindergarten and A Small Victory immediately stand out for me, but I'm sure other people would suggest others.
I love FNM! I'm looking forward to seeing more here.
Great, I love FNM
At one time, this was my favourite album. Not much love for Smaller and Smaller among people I know, which is a shame because it's one of my favourite FNM songs personally. Love the breakdown with the Native American chanting over the bass and drums. I do think that any track on this album after the first three would have made for a better reaction, with the exception of Kindergarten, which is pretty much Faith No More by-the-numbers. However, I think that The Real Thing would have been the best for an initial FNM reaction. So good.
The lyrics to "Smaller" are powerfully vibrant.
Do some Mr.Bungle songs! Retrovertigo or Ars Moriendi would be awesome!
I should also note that this was after Mike Patton had spent time around John Zorn and was doing a lot of emulative voice work, exemplified in this song... If you listen to his vocal tones on this, the verses sound like percussion, the pre chorus and chorus sounds like horns, breakdown sounds like guitars, etcetera
i recommend jizzlober from the same album. dark, and tragic yes but also eerily beautiful
6:12 I believe MTV sampled this sampled section for bumpers
Please dig in more to Mike Patton! This was a great analysis and reaction and I’d love to see that expertise with the Mr Bungle/Tomahawk/more Faith No More
That studio LP has been one of my favorite albums of all time for many years. I would consider ‘Angel Dust’ to be their darkest record, which is honestly part of its appeal to me. FNM has always been categorized as a rock band that also brings in some funk. Plus they have kept keyboards in their mix. Meanwhile Mike Patton is considered to have an otherworldly vocal range as well as dynamic expression. They definitely bring way more to the table than your typical guitar-based band.
General Patton shining performance
Small Victory or As The Worm Turns are both great tunes to examine.
Angel Dust... best album of the 90's .
Great video, thank you! You should listen to all of their album, Angel Dust. It's a creative master piece! Listen to 'Land of Sunshine' and that note he hits when he sings 'Seeeennnillllllleeee!'
Pretty standard track by their standards. Don't get me wrong, I love this one, but you really have to give their albums a chance to really get the a feel for the sheer variety and experiments.
it's ironic that now madonna is going through some sort of old age crisis 🤣🤣but thx for the video, one of my top 5 bands for sure
Interesting take