Now Available: Faith No More, The Real Thing and Angel Dust – Deluxe Editions
If you were listening to the radio during the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, you didn’t need to be a Faith No More fan to be familiar with “Epic,” the top-10 single which remains the San Francisco band’s biggest hit, but given that they never had another song come anywhere close to earning the same level of airplay, we’d understand if you never managed to become familiar with anything else by Mike Patton and the gang. But if you fell hard for that track and took the time to explore The Real Thing, the album from which “Epic” originated, then there’s a good chance that you found a few more tracks that tickled your fancy, and if that proved to be the case, then it wouldn’t surprise us one bit if you were quick to pick up a copy of the band’s next album, Angel Dust.
Now that Faith No More has reunited and released a new album – Sol Invictus, which hit stores last month – this seems like the perfect time to go back to those two classic efforts and expand them into two-disc deluxe editions, wouldn’t you say?
You wouldn’t? Well, tough, because we’ve already done it.
As of today, the deluxe editions of The Real Thing and Angel Dust are available for your purchasing pleasure, and if you’re enough of a fan that the idea of revisiting these albums in expanded form is already making you tingle, then just wait ‘til you check out the full track listing:
THE REAL THING
Disc One: Original Album/strong>
1. "From Out Of Nowhere"
2. "Epic"
3. "Falling To Pieces"
4. "Surprise You're Dead"
5. "Zombie Eaters"
6. "The Real Thing"
7. "Underwater Love"
8. "The Morning After"
9. "Woodpecker From Mars"
10. "War Pigs"
11. "Edge Of The World"
Disc Two: Bonus Disc/strong>
1. Sweet Emotion (Taken from Kerrang! Flexible Fiend)
2. Epic (Radio Remix Edit) (Taken from the 'Epic' Promotional CD single)
3. Falling To Pieces (Matt Wallace Remix) (Taken from the 'Falling To Pieces' 12" single)
4. Cowboy Song (B-side) (Taken from the b-side of 'From Out Of Nowhere' single)
5. The Grade (B-side) (Taken from the b-side of 'From Out Of Nowhere' 12" single)
6. From Out Of Nowhere (Extended Remix) (Taken from the 'From Out Of Nowhere' 12" single)
7. War Pigs (Live Berlin 11.9.1989) (Iommi/Ward/Butler/Osbourne) Westminster Music Ltd.
(Taken from the b-side of 'Epic' 12" single)
8. Surprise You're Dead (Live Sheffield) (Taken from the b-side of 'Epic' 12" single)
9. Chinese Arithmetic (Live Sheffield) (Taken from the b-side of 'Epic' 12" single)
10. Underwater Love (Live at Brixton Academy, London 28 April 1990) (Taken from the b-side of 'Falling To Pieces' 12" single)
11. As The Worms Turns (Live at Brixton Academy, London 28 April 1990) (Taken from the video for "You Fat B**tards")
ANGEL DUST
Disc One: Original Album/strong>
1. "Land Of Sunshine"
2. "Caffeine"
3. "Midlife Crisis"
4. "R.V."
5. "Smaller And Smaller"
6. "Everything's Ruined"
7. "Malpractice"
8. "Kindergarten"
9. "Be Aggressive"
10. "A Small Victory"
11. "Crack Hitler"
12. "Jizzlobber"
13. "Midnight Cowboy"
14. "Easy"
Disc Two: Bonus Disc/strong>
1. Easy (Cooler Version) (Lionel Richie) (Taken from the 'I'm Easy' CD single)
2. Das Schutzenfest (German version) (Taken from the 'I'm Easy' CD single)
3. As The Worm Turns (Mike Patton vocal / Japan bonus track) (Taken from the Japanese edition of "Angel Dust")
4. Let's Lynch The Landlord (B-Side) (Jello Biafra) (Taken from the 'A Small Victory' single)
5. Midlife Crisis (The Scream Mix) Remixed by Matt Wallace (Taken from the bonus 12" included with "Angel Dust" LP)
6. A Small Victory (R-Evolution 23 (Full Moon) Mix) (Taken from the 'A Small Victory' 12" single)
7. Easy (Live Munich 9th November 1992) ((Lionel Ritchie) (Taken from the 'I'm Easy' CD single)
8. Be Aggressive (Live Munich 9th November 1992) (Taken from the b-side of 'I'm Easy' CD single)
9. Kindergarten (Live Munich 9th November 1992) (Taken from the b-side of 'I'm Easy' CD single)
10. A Small Victory (Live Munich 9th November 1992) (Taken from the b-side of 'I'm Easy' CD single)]
11. Mark Bowen (Live Munich 9th November 1992) (Taken from the b-side of 'I'm Easy' CD single)
12. We Care A Lot (Live Munich 9th November 1992) (Taken from the b-side of 'I'm Easy' CD single)
13. Midlife Crisis (Live Dekalb, Ill. 20th September 1992) (Taken from the b-side of 'Everything's Ruined' CD single)
14. Land Of Sunshine (Live Dekalb, Ill. 20th September 1992) (Taken from the b-side of 'Everything's Ruined' CD single)
15. Edge of The World (Live St. Louis 18th September 1992) (Taken from the b-side of 'Everything's Ruined' CD single)
16. R.V. (Live Dekalb, Ill. 20th September 1992) (Taken from the b-side of 'Everything's Ruined' CD single)
17. The World Is Yours (Outtake from Angel Dust sessions) (Taken from the album "Who Cares A Lot? The Greatest Hits)
P.S. For the record, there are double-LP, 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl versions of each album coming, and they’re going to be featuring the original album and a selection of the rarities. But you’ll have to wait ‘til August.
