The Real Thing (Faith No More album)

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The tour in support of The Real Thing was the first Faith No More tour conducted with Mike Patton. The band had begun to be marketed as metal by the media after the album's release, and they were now primarily playing with other bands from the heavy metal genre. [6] [7] Notable artists Faith No More performed with during the touring cycle include Metallica, Billy Idol, Soundgarden, Voivod, Sacred Reich, Forbidden, Primus, Babes in Toyland and Poison. [8] They managed to attract controversy for mocking the party/sex-filled lifestyles of glam metal tourmates such as Poison at several shows in Europe during 1990. [9] The second show of the tour was filmed for the music video to "From out of Nowhere" in the I-Beam nightclub. During the show, Patton had a beer bottle smashed over his right hand, causing lacerations to some tendons. [10] He regained use of his hand after it healed, but he no longer has feeling in it. [11] The band's August, 28 1990 concert at Burgherrenhalle in Kaiserslautern, Germany is notable for featuring the only ever performance of the song "Faster Disco" with Patton on vocals. The concert also featured several other Chuck Mosley-era songs which have almost never been performed live with Patton, including "Blood", "Greed" and "The Jungle". [12] At that time, the band's first independent album We Care a Lot was not in circulation. "As the Worm Turns" and "Why Do You Bother" were the only songs from the album to be regularly worked into the band's setlists on the tour (aside from the title track, which was re-recorded for their major label debut Introduce Yourself ). Regarding the decision to still perform material from We Care a Lot, Gould said to Metal Hammer in May 1990 that, "we'd feel weird cutting that part of ourselves off. We'd be ignoring a root of the tree, if you will." [13]

Touring in support of the album lasted from 1989 to 1991. Due to their small catalog at the time, the band eventually grew tired of playing songs from The Real Thing towards the end of the tour. This has been cited as one of the reasons for the change in sound on their next album Angel Dust . [14]

Singles

The first single to be released from the album was "From Out of Nowhere" on August 30, 1989, which failed to make the UK Singles Chart. It was re-released on April 2, 1990, and made number twenty-three on the UK Singles Chart. [15] In between these releases was "Epic" on January 30, 1990, the music video for which received extensive airplay on MTV throughout the year, despite provoking anger from animal rights activists for a slow motion shot of a fish flopping out of water. [16] [17] "Falling to Pieces" then saw release on July 2, 1990, and made it to number 92 on the Billboard Hot 100 before the reissue of "Epic", which became the band's first number one hit single, on the ARIA Charts, [18] as well their only top ten single on the Billboard Hot 100, where it reached ninth position. [19]

"Surprise! You're Dead!" had a music video produced for it, directed by bassist Billy Gould, featuring footage shot in Chile during a South American tour in 1991. However, the song never saw release as an official single, and the video was not released until its appearance on Video Croissant . "Edge of the World" saw limited release as a two track promo single in Brazil on CD and 12" vinyl, with the album version as track one and the Brixton Academy live version as the second track, in a yellow slipcase with basic black text.

Critical reception

The Real Thing
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The Real Thing uncropped cover
Studio album by
Faith No More
ReleasedJune 20, 1989
RecordedDecember 1988 – January 1989
Studio Studio D, Sausalito, California
Genre
Length54:58 (CD and cassette version)
43:22 (LP version)
Label
Producer
Faith No More chronology
Introduce Yourself
(1987)		The Real Thing
(1989)		 Angel Dust
(1992)
Alternative cover
The Real Thing album cover.jpg
The Real Thing cropped CD cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [20]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [21]
The Direktory of Heavy Metal 5/5 [22]
Entertainment Weekly A [23]
Kerrang! 5/5 [24]
NME 4/10 [25]
Pitchfork 7.6/10 [26]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [27]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [28]
The Village Voice B− [29]

The Real Thing is one of Faith No More's most successful albums to date. It is now considered a classic metal album by fans and critics alike. Although released in mid-1989, The Real Thing did not enter the Billboard 200 until February 1990, [30] after the release of the second single from the album, "Epic". The album eventually peaked at number eleven on the chart in October 1990, [31] following the reissue of "Epic" almost a year and half after the initial release of the album. It was eventually certified platinum in U.S. [32] and Canada [33] as well as being certified Silver in the United Kingdom. [34]

Jonathan Gold, for the Los Angeles Times , referred to Faith No More as "the kings of neo metal" in 1990, while The Real Thing had "been on the sales charts for eight months", writing: [35]

Faith No More is a band with a punk-rock bassist, a classically trained keyboardist, a punk-funk singer and a drummer who would probably rather be playing Ghanaian tribal music, which goes a long way toward explaining the band's diversity. And, of course, there's heavy-metal Jim. Call what they do neo-metal.

The genre of The Real Thing has been variously described as having a predominant "funk-metal groove" by Chris Morris for Billboard magazine in 1992 [36] and containing "funk, metal, traditional rock, instrumental, and even a little 'easy listening'" by Travis Lowell for Toxic Universe in 2001. [16]

Tom Breihan wrote for Stereogum in 2012 that the album [37]

gets a ton of credit and blame for helping to popularize rap-metal, but it was a lot more than that ... veered from quasi-Middle-Eastern orchestral churn ("Woodpecker From Mars") to dementedly creepy lounge-singer irony ("Edge Of The World") to all-out blitzkrieg ("Surprise! You're Dead"), but the whole thing felt cohesive because the band remained in a thunderous groove throughout and because they always tossed in triumphant hooks like the synth-line on "Falling To Pieces."

Following the 2015 remastered re-release of the album, several sources retrospectively reviewed it; Brandon Geist for Rolling Stone wrote that it was then "considered to be an alterna-metal classic", [38] and Joseph Schafer for Stereogum ranked it as the second best Faith No More album, commenting that it was "more cohesive [and] lovable" than Angel Dust. They called it "sublime funk metal" and wrote that "the amount of diversity Faith No More crammed into 1989's The Real Thing seemed to be a middle finger to arena rock". [39] Stuart Berman for Pitchfork wrote that it had a "reputation as an alt-rock trailblazer" and "connection to a long-past funk-metal zeitgeist" continuing to state that the album track "Epic" "was perfectly timed to satiate the then-burgeoning appetite for rap-rock". [26]

Chris Conaton for PopMatters wrote in 2015 that the album "made a minor splash in the alternative metal community" and featured "a fascinating and entertaining smorgasbord of styles", [40] and Ian Gittins wrote in their book The Periodic Table of Heavy Rock: [41]

when Mike Patton replaced [Chuck Mosley] ... FNM had all the standard hard-rock assault weapons of seizure-like rhythms, chugging guitar detonations and seismic drumming in their arsenal, but accessorized them with wildly eclectic influences from hip hop to synth pop and a brutally sarcastic sense of black humour.

Legacy

The Dillinger Escape Plan frontman Greg Puciato named The Real Thing one of the albums that changed his life [42] and, on the month of the album's 30th anniversary, he wrote an article for Faith No More Followers about the impact that it had on him and alternative music. [43] In 2015, Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis stated: [44]

My favorite Faith No More record is The Real Thing. That's when Mike Patton took over. That's the one. [Although] I do like We Care a Lot . We got a lot of our influences from The Real Thing. It showed everybody you could do heavy music and not be "metal". It was something completely different.

In a January 1997 interview with Guitar World , Korn's guitarist Brian "Head" Welch listed it as an album that changed his life, recalling: [45]

I was about 17 when I first heard it, and listening to a lot of Metallica, 24-7 Spyz, Living Colour and Fishbone. I dug them all, but Faith No More moved me in a different way, a way more than anything else. It totally changed my direction. It said to me that you didn't have to follow a certain path, that you could just create anything, go out and mess around with anything, that there were no rules. I remember seeing them open up for Metallica, and everyone started booing them going "Rap sucks!" I was so bummed. I felt like screaming at everyone, "Quit fucking booing them and listen." They all just heard the rap beat and didn't give them a chance. Then, six months later, they were all over MTV and the same fuckers who were booing were probably lining up to see them.

James "Munky" Shaffer, another of Korn's guitarists, also praised the album, recalling: [46]

Fieldy and I were big Faith No More fans. In the late 80s they were playing a kind of funk rock; so were the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but we tended to lean more towards the minor progressions. When Patton joined in '89 they dropped a single called "From Out of Nowhere" and we were sold all the way. At that point we became real fanatics – started researching the guy and going up to San Francisco to see them play. Every song on this record was super inspiring to us. The song structures and Patton's sense of melody – it was alternative metal at its best.

"Epic" was ranked number thirty on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs, [47] and number sixty-seven on their 100 Greatest One-hit Wonders list. [48]

Cover versions

Awards

The Real Thing was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance category in 1989 and "Epic" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1991.

Accolades

Accolades for The Real Thing
YearPublicationCountryAccoladeRankRef.
1989 Kerrang! United Kingdom"Albums of the Year"1 [53]
1989SoundsUnited Kingdom"Albums of the Year"20 [54]
1989Village VoiceUnited States"Albums of the Year"27 [55]
1998 Kerrang! United Kingdom"Albums You Must Hear Before You Die"50 [56]
2001Classic RockUnited Kingdom"100 Greatest Rock Albums Ever"64[ citation needed ]
2005 Rolling Stone Germany"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"105 [57]
2005Robert DimeryUnited States 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die * [58]
2006Classic Rock & Metal HammerUnited Kingdom"The 200 Greatest Albums of the 80s"*[ citation needed ]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Mike Patton, except where noted

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."From Out of Nowhere" Gould, Bottum3:22
2."Epic" Gould, Bottum, Martin, Bordin4:53
3."Falling to Pieces" Gould, Bottum, Martin5:15
4."Surprise! You're Dead!"Patton, MartinMartin2:27
5."Zombie Eaters" Gould, Bottum, Martin, Bordin5:58
6."The Real Thing"Patton, GouldGould, Bottum8:13
7."Underwater Love" Gould, Bottum3:51
8."The Morning After" Gould, Bottum, Martin3:43
9."Woodpecker from Mars" (instrumental) Martin, Bordin5:40
Total length:43:22
Bonus tracks
No.TitleMusicLength
10."War Pigs" (Black Sabbath cover, non-vinyl track)Butler, Iommi, Osbourne, Ward7:45
11."Edge of the World" (appears as track 6 on cassette editions, non-vinyl track)Gould, Bottum, Bordin4:10
Total length:54:58
2015 deluxe edition (disc 2) [59]
No.TitleLength
1."Sweet Emotion"4:53
2."Epic" (Radio Remix Edit)4:00
3."Falling to Pieces" (Video Version) (erroneously listed as "Matt Wallace Remix", which is a different mix)4:31
4."Cowboy Song" ("From Out of Nowhere" B-side)5:14
5."The Grade" ("From Out of Nowhere" B-side)2:05
6."From Out of Nowhere" (Extended Mix)4:17
7."War Pigs" (Live in Berlin 1989)7:59
8."Surprise! You're Dead!" (Live in Sheffield, Octagon Centre 1990)2:52
9."Chinese Arithmetic" (Live in Sheffield, Octagon Centre 1990)4:16
10."Underwater Love" (Live at Brixton Academy 1990)3:33
11."As the Worm Turns" (Live at Brixton Academy 1990)2:45

Personnel

Production

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for The Real Thing
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [68] Platinum70,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [69] Silver60,000^
United States (RIAA) [70] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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