Faith No More — King For A Day… Fool For A Lifetime [2× Vinyl LP · Gatefold · 180g]

Faith No More — King For A Day Fool For A Lifetime [2× Vinyl LP · Gatefold · 180g · With Bonus LP]

Details

• Format: Vinyl 2xLP, Album Reissue, Gatefold, 180g, with Bonus LP of Rare & Previously Unreleased Versions
• Catalogue Number: 0190295973292
• Barcode: 190295973292
• Genre: Alternative / Metal / Rock
• Label: Slash / Rhino
• Originally Released: 28 March 1995
• This Edition Released: 9 September 2016
• Pressing: 180g 2×LP reissue in gatefold sleeve on Rhino, pressed at MPO in Europe
• Condition: New & Sealed

Description

King For A Day Fool For A Lifetime is the Faith No More record that tore up the template. Released in March 1995 on Slash / Reprise and produced by Andy Wallace with the band, it was the first album without founding guitarist Jim Martin, replaced for these sessions by Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle. The resulting fourteen-track, seventy-minute record refuses to settle into a single genre for more than one song at a time — lurching from the frantic metal of Get Out to the hushed lounge of Evidence, from the southern-gothic sway of Take This Bottle to the hardcore thrash of Cuckoo For Caca.

Mike Patton's vocals range over the entire record — crooner, screamer, preacher, soul singer — and the band behind him are at their most deliberately unruly. The title track pairs quiet piano and soul-ballad vocals; Ricochet is one of the most direct rock singles the band ever cut; Digging The Grave is pure arena rock; and the closing Just A Man rises into a full gospel choir. Patton later called it the band's most misunderstood album; with hindsight, it's increasingly viewed as one of their best.

This Rhino reissue is a double 180g vinyl set: the main album across sides A, B and the first half of side C, then a bonus LP of rare tracks and previously unreleased versions filling out sides C and D — b-sides, the Bee Gees cover I Started A Joke, a GG Allin cover, a Spanish version of Evidence, and more. Gatefold sleeve, new liner notes by Roddy Bottum, pressed at MPO.

Tracklist

Side A

1. Get Out
2. Ricochet
3. Evidence
4. The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies
5. Star A.D.
6. Cuckoo For Caca

Side B

1. Caralho Voador
2. Ugly In The Morning
3. Digging The Grave
4. Take This Bottle
5. King For A Day

Side C

1. What A Day
2. The Last To Know
3. Just A Man
4. Absolute Zero (bonus)
5. Greenfields (bonus)

Side D — Bonus Tracks

1. I Started A Joke (Bee Gees)
2. Spanish Eyes
3. I Won't Forget You
4. Hippie Jam Song
5. Evidence (Versione Italiana)
6. I Wanna F**k Myself (GG Allin)

Credits

• Mike Patton — Vocals
• Trey Spruance — Guitar
• Billy Gould — Bass
• Roddy Bottum — Keyboards, Liner Notes
• Mike Bordin — Drums
• Andy Wallace — Producer, Mixed By, Recorded By
• Faith No More — Co-Producers
• Howie Weinberg — Mastering
• Recorded at Bearsville Studios; mixed at Soundtrack Studios
• 2×LP gatefold reissue on Slash / Rhino, pressed at MPO