Music CD - Faith No More: Introduce Yourself

	Music CD: Introduce Yourself Artist: Faith No More List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $5.51 Your Save: $ 4.47 ( 45% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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Tracks: 1. Faster Disco 2. Anne's Song 3. Introduce Yourself 4. Chinese Arithmetic 5. Death March 6. We Care a Lot 7. R N' R 8. Crab Song 9. Blood 10. Spirit
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0081227994020 Format: Original recording reissued Label: Rhino / Wea Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Rhino / Wea Release Date: 2000-10-17 Studio: Rhino / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: This was heartfelt. Comment: This was good crossover. For a punk-rock kid growing up in the '80s around the DC scene, this hit a nerve. The other singer, after Mosely (sp?) was kicked out, never touched the rawness and the energy that this album invoked. It was fantastic, and I return to it again and again year after year. Customer Rating: Summary: I can't get past Mosely's vocals. Comment: My title sums it up...I purchased this just to complete my Faith No More collection. A little hesitant, I had heard the track "We Care a Lot" before and thought it was decent. Sadly to say that's the only track I could really get into. Mosely's vocal seem to basically ruin every track. Buy this if you're a completist like me..otherwise save your $$$. Customer Rating: Summary: not mr. bungle Comment: Faith no more is not mr. bungle. Mike Patton is great in all of his bands (especially bungle and fantomas), but faith no more is not a mike patton product. Mosely definitely sang better for FNM than Patton did, especially on the earlier songs. Mosely was a throwback to the early "Gen X" music movements which really flourished in the early nineties, like the red hot chili peppers, or soundgarden. FNM was much better with mosely's lacadaisical style of rapping the lyrics than Mike Patton. So in the end, buy this album. Customer Rating: Summary: I Care A Lot About This Album Comment: This album was a life-changer for me. Some twenty years later it still invokes the same drama and passion, and leaves me wanting to yell and scream and cry and live. Having grown up in the punk/grunge/speed metal years, and having dabbled in all of them in my wasted youth, I would take this album on a deserted island. Dinosaur Jr., the Replacements and the Minutemen would be a close second. Customer Rating: Summary: Mosely? Comment: Obviously, Mike Patton is one of the very best vocalists out there. But judge this album on its own merits and not by comparing Mosely to Patton. Mosely clearly isn't a very good singer in terms of skill or talent. But his vocals on this album somehow work although they really shouldn't. On this album, the band has developed its unique brand of pop/rock/funk/metal that would see itself on the next Faith No More album, the much acclaimed "The Real Thing". Mosely's lethargic vocals are mostly at odds with the rest of the music. But it still works, as he emits a new wave/punk vibe, which makes things connect in an odd way. There are great songs on this album and this should certainly be part of any Faith No More fan's collection. It will appeal in particular to anyone who appreciates that intangible fun '80s vibe that you loved. All this while the album is generally steeped in a dark, brooding mood which shifts between the foreground and the background. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Just like the folks who prefer David Lee Roth's Van Halen over Sammy Hagar's, some fans like the Chuck Mosely version of Faith No More over FNM's Mike Patton-fronted successor. With Mosely at the vocal helm, the San Francisco band's funk-metal rap felt fresher and less calculated. After hitting locally with a self-titled 1985 debut album, Faith No More were picked up by Slash Records for this Steve Berlin/Matt Wallace-produced follow-up. Introduce Yourself reprises its predecessor's anthemic "We Care a Lot," which remained a live staple throughout the band's career. Alongside it are other seminal FNM tracks such as "Anne's Song" and "Chinese Arithmetic," wherein the band's signature sound already lurks thanks to Roddy Bottum's classically nuanced keyboards and Jim Martin's crunchy guitar work. Still, it's Mosely's casual punk-ass attitude that carries the show. "Can I get a transfer, man?" he whines at the start of "Death March." "Ninety-five cents?! Fuck you, I'll skate to the beach and I'll look better getting there!" And while time has not been kind to some of the more generic tracks here, a band such as Limp Bizkit could still learn a lot from Introduce Yourself. The fact that it clocks in at a mere 38 minutes means you have that much more time to spin it again. --Bill Forman