Not in the same league as the other podiums to date, but an interesting discography. Angel Dust is my (boring, predictable) favourite. I really liked Sol Invictus, to the point it would be my second.

Between KfaD and Introduce Yourself for third, and would go with the former.

I never could stand The Real Thing.

Edit: Much as I do love Angel Dust, there's never been a time with FNM where I wouldn't have sooner been listening to Grotus, who were always a half-step sharper and wittier (plus, in the UK at least, were the byword for good trouble through much of the 90s).

King For a Day... is not their most representative record but has a lot of excellent songs and Patton absolutely shines, an incredible vocal performance. It's become the one FNM album that I really connect with.

I used to not like The Real Thing, but over the years I've come to admire how it takes such disparate underground sources (Killing Joke style gothy post-punk, funk metal, thrash guit-language from Jim Martin) and creates such a seamlessly confident hybrid - Patton is OK here but he's just sitting on top of realised, fully evolved music ('Woodpecker from Mars' is just crushing, amazing playing).

I guess I'll take Angel Dust over Introduce Yourself but while the tunes are great I find the relentless, obnoxiously cynical vibe very wearing these days.

Introduce Yourself is easily my favorite, they were a singular band then, and Mosely sang it like he meant it. It sounds great, too.

I listened to The Real Thing a lot back then, may probably not play it again more than a couple times in my life time, but I still prefer the sincere version of the band, pre-pastiche. It caught me in the right phase of my life, also.

KFAD is uneven, a few tracks too long, and already in the Mr Bungle-lite stage of their career, with all the silly genre excursions (yay, faux-country ballad! dilletant funk!) and all the edgy irony, but it has enough enjoyable tracks that it makes the cut.

IMO they were a great heavy rock band that tried their hand at some other things with very uneven results.

Introduce Yourself.

They really did have a thing before Patton joined and they turned aloof to their own music. There's some good songs fighting to get out past the weird production and stiff performances on We Care A Lot, too. The Jungle, As The Worm Turns etc. deserved better. That's a great little guitar riff on The Jungle there.

I liked that they would play songs that just sat on one chord. Blood for instance (IIRC a C#), and the drums would just slam.

But oh no, can't be enjoying those simple pleasures now, we need to let everyone know we're avant-garde and above it all and everything's a joke. Then Jim Martin quit to grow pumpkins and fair enough too.

Beyond AD and KFAD, I can't really pick another that I care for. The reunion album was okay. I liked that "Motherfucker" song.

I like all the albums.

Got to know them with KFAD, which was a favorite of mine. But I kinda burnt it after listening to it too much.

Introduce Yourself is brilliant.

The real thing, even with that nasally voice and some 80's tics, is killer stuff from the most part.

Gotta go with Introduce-Real Thing-Angel

Did Patton's friendship with the guys from Grotus "help" in getting them a record deal with Slash?

Vibracobra wrote: Sun Dec 04, 2022 8:06 am Did Patton's friendship with the guys from Grotus "help" in getting them a record deal with Slash?

Not that I'm aware, although Mass came out around the same time as Disco Volante on the same label. As the band tell it, they were picked up largely off Hand to Mouth, only for label fannying about to see Beck's Loser become a thing instead.

I'd go with Angel Dust too. The band just gets too monotonous without Patton's range, and AD has that before he wore out his welcome.

Those big songs off The Real Thing (2) definitely sounded unique at the time but I can't imagine ever going back to it. Same for KFAD (3) but in a different, 'alternative radio' kind of way.

Angel Dust for me. I lost interest around KFAD. I run sound and announce for our HS hockey program, which means I get to subject the arena to all sorts of questionable song choices in between periods, whistles, etc. Epic sounds pretty dated in 2022, but From Out Of Nowhere is still a friggin jam that I play when we make our second period entrance. If kids playing air guitar on hockey sticks is any indication, most of them seem to agree.

Methathiazine.