FAITH NO MORE –
MIDLIFE CRISIS (SLASH)
When I was 17 I
claimed I was having a midlife crisis. I
genuinely thought I was experiencing what the crisis was all about. Also it was a rousing prediction that I was
set to die at the age of 34. It was a cry for help. So how annoying then that I am now mere weeks
away from arriving at that age. I know
shit.
“Midlife Crisis” was
the first Faith No More song that grabbed me.
It was the vocal gymnastics of Mike Patton that blew me away and the
band name Faith No More actually caused me slight embarrassment. Anything with the word “faith” in it was
surely related to religion or at least some kind presentation of it. And the last thing I ever needed in my life
was faith or religion.
Faith No More
benefited from the grunge ticket and the alternative rock explosion. Even though they were heavy, they weren’t
strictly metallers, this was music far more intricate and intelligent than
that. And this was a good time as the
world was suddenly listening and open to suggestion.
The moment I clicked
with this song was during an MTV News piece featuring the band on tour
supporting Guns N’ Roses. Seeing Patton
perform the song live and smoothly switch between vocal styles was a
revelation. I had never seen anything
like it before. And the next opportunity
I got, I bought the cassette single which came in a weird little fag packet
type box entitled the “Crisis Cassette”.
With its Russian
soldiers stood in Red
Square cover there
was something quite military about the band at this moment in addition to the
general faith thing as mentioned above.
With only a small picture of the band to interrogate, it wasn’t sure
whether those faces had been superimposed or not. At this point, for all I knew, the band could
be Russian.
“Midlife Crisis” is
supposedly a song about Madonna, about a person entertaining press/publicity
saturation in a manner that would make them appear desperate. Its all about other people’s crisis (“I’m a
perfectionist, my perfection is a scam”).
Released ahead of
Angel Dust the additional songs are album tracks in the form of “Jizzlobber”
and “Crack Hitler” which are two very heavy duty propositions which are
anything but filler. This single just
flattened me.
On the road to
victory.
Thesaurus moment:
propitious.
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