Idolator

I'd pony up for this concert. Hell, I paid to see 3/4's of Alice In Chains on the 11th.

That said, I don't see it happening.

.....Faith no More problems selling were threefold:

1. Metal died in the early 1990s. Most kids weren't buying it anymore.

2. They were too rappy and not shreddy enough for the serious metal fan.

3. They were too metal for the rap/hip-hop fan.

.....I like these blasts from the past, though!

I want bungle back together long before FNM (and I am a fan of both).

I actually was listening to Angel Dust the other day due to these threads and it really is a great album. Be Agressive is so much better than that gwen chant song.

@acidreign

1. Metal is still alive and well, thankyouverymuch. Regardless, FNM is not metal and never claimed to be.

2. Mike Patton does what might be considered rap in exactly one FNM song, "Epic". Also, see #1.

3. See #s 1 and 2.

Glad to see someone else out there agrees that Angel Dust is one of the best albums of the 1990s. We must be the same age.

I was a senior in high school when Angel Dust came out. My friend Bob was the only person I knew with a good stereo in his car. We both liked the record and listened to it in his car after school almost every day for several months.

The snare drum during the intro to "Midlife Crisis" has such a brutal *CRACK* to it that if Bob turned it up too loud I would literally flinch on every beat.

And I loved it still...

Yeah, only hair/glam metal died off (thank you grunge!).

If you wanna be a hot new band, take some advice from Mike Patton and the boys from FNM: the road to your success is paved with randomly placed giant fruit in your press photos. Other things that need to be in press photos these days:

1. at least one white guy with dreads (two is preferable, one will get you get you on a mixtape).

2. one member of the band needs to be sitting cross-legged amongst the state-fair winning fruit (btw this must be actual fruit, none of that fake shit) and he must look like he's about to go fishing.

3. one member of your band MUST have curly hair, a beard, AND wear sunglasses all the time. If your band is called Guns N Roses, you can substitute the beard for a ten gallon hat and heart problems.

4. your lead singer must look like Mark Wahlberg in the photo, even if he doesn't really look like him in real life.

The Mark Wahlberg-looking guy isn't the lead singer; the guy sitting cross-legged amongst the fruit is.

So, I'm guessing this means our Idolator cruise directors aren't fans of Peeping Tom, though?

No, Mike Patton is looking Wahlbergy, standing up, and wearing a train conductor's hat. This was during his unfortunate scroatee phase. The cross-legged man, I believe, is Roddy Bottom, also of Imperial Teen.

And I like "Adult Themes For Voice" more than Peeping Tom, although the Norah Jones track on that record is pretty ace.

I likely own everything Mike Patton has ever put out and I'm not a huge fan of Peeping Tom. I also can't figure out why they were opening for the Who. Patton/Kaada romances on the other hand is downright beautiful.

I'm pretty sure that he's not grown out of the scroatee though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r98WLLWMq3o

I still have my "Angel Dust" tour shirt. I drove 20 miles with a 100-degree fever just to catch that show. Patton stuck the mic up his bum. Oh, and I at one point rocked a backspin as my ass was so fully rocked -- note that as far as I can remember, this is the only time I have done this at a rock 'n' roll show. Also asked Jim Martin what year Cliff's Rickenbacker 4001 was, as I was teenage dork meeing a hero. He didn't know. Patton put tampon up his butt, too. Kyuss were at the peak of their power. And Kat from Babes in Toyland castigated the fuck out the crowd for good reason. When I got home, my fever was 102. No lie. I apologize to anybody I gave the flu to that night.

rediscovering the genius of this record is so 2004....

In college, I was the local stage manager for all of the rock shows that came through to play. In the couple years that I worked that job, I met a lot of rock stars, and the only one that actually intimidated me by seeming larger than life was Jim Martin. Even Patton seemed like a normal guy, making small talk with the crew, but the tall immense-ness of Jim Martin made me tremble a bit.

Maura: Gad, that doesn't even look like him. So far had he fallen from the pic of him standing in his boxers ...(sighs dreamily)

....."Epic" was what people thought of when FNM was mentioned. And it had rap in it. And a lot of metal fans hated it because of that. And while FNM never claimed to be metal, the pop crowd heard those monster guitars and were gone to another station.

.....When I say "metal died," I mean in the mass-popularity sold-out stadiums-across-the-USA sense. I sure didn't burn my Metallica LPs and CD.

After spending the weekend listening to my FNM songs, I kinda have to agree with AcidReign there is more than just Epic that could sound rappish.

and oh yeah, Be Aggressive is way underrated.