King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
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| King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | ||
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| Studio album by Faith No More | ||
| Released | March 28, 1995 | |
| Recorded | Bearsville Studios in Bearsville, New York | |
| Genre | Alternative metal Experimental rock |
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| Length | 56:49 | |
| Label | Slash Records | |
| Producer(s) | Andy Wallace | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Faith No More chronology | ||
| Angel Dust (1992) |
King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime (1995) |
Album of the Year (1997) |
King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime, released in 1995 (see 1995 in music), was the fifth studio album by Faith No More. Along with some more traditional Faith No More rockers, the album also contains a number of note perfect genre parodies, from the soul of "Evidence", to the raucous heavy metal of "Cuckoo for Caca", to the lilting country and western of "Take This Bottle". Overall, this album is considerably more straight-forward and less experimental than its predecessor, Angel Dust. However, despite being criticized at the time of its release, it slowly became a cult favorite among die-hard Faith No More fans.
The first single was the punk like number "Digging the Grave". In the United States, the album debuted at #31 and sold close to 250,000 copies which was well below their previous efforts. The ensuing tour was cut short in the UK and Europe as the interest in the band waned. Still the album did have impressive enough following to go gold in Germany (over 120,000 copies), UK (#5 with over 100,000 copies), and Australia (#1 with over 50,000 copies sold). But overall, its figures were well below that of Angel Dust (about half of Angel Dust's 2.5 million), so the band went back into the studio to work on its successor.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
- "Get Out" (music & lyrics: Patton)
- "Ricochet" (music: Gould/Bordin/Patton; lyrics: Patton)
- "Evidence" (music: Gould/Bordin/Spruance; lyrics: Patton)
- "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" (music: Gould/Bordin/Patton; lyrics: Patton)
- "Star A.D." (music: Gould/Bordin/Patton; lyrics: Patton/Gould)
- "Cuckoo for Caca" (music: Gould/Patton/Spruance; lyrics: Patton)
- "Caralho Voador" (music & lyrics: Gould/Patton/Bordin)
- "Ugly in the Morning" (music: Patton/Spruance/Gould; lyrics: Patton)
- "Digging the Grave" (music: Gould/Bordin/Patton; lyrics: Patton)
- "Take This Bottle" (music: Gould; lyrics: Patton/Gould)
- "King for a Day" (music: Gould/Bottum/Bordin/Patton/Spruance; lyrics: Patton)
- "What a Day" (music: Patton/Spruance; lyrics: Patton)
- "The Last to Know" (music: Gould/Patton/Bordin; lyrics: Patton)
- "Just a Man" (music: Gould/Bottum; lyrics: Gould/Spruance/Patton)
Songwriting credits revealed in an email from Billy Gould, 2004[citation needed].
[edit] Singles
- Digging The Grave
- Ricochet
- Evidence
- I Started a Joke (not originally on the album)
- Gentle Art of Making Enemies (radio promo only)
[edit] Personnel
- Mike Bordin - drums
- Roddy Bottum - keyboards
- Billy Gould - bass guitar
- Mike Patton - vocals
- Trey Spruance - guitar
- Dean Menta - guitar (Menta does not appear on the recording, but filled in for Spruance during the subsequent tour. Any video footage of the band supporting this album has Menta on guitar.)
[edit] Chart positions
[edit] Album
| Year | Album | Chart | Position |
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| 1995 | King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | The Billboard 200 | No. 31 |
| Faith No More |
| Roddy Bottum | Billy Gould | Mike Bordin | Mike Patton | Jon Hudson |
| Chuck Mosely | "Big" Jim Martin | Dean Menta | Trey Spruance | Mark Bowen | Courtney Love | Wade Worthington |
| Discography |
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| Studio albums: We Care a Lot | Introduce Yourself | The Real Thing | Angel Dust | King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | Album of the Year |
| Lives and compilations: Live at the Brixton Academy | Who Cares a Lot? | This Is It: The Best of Faith No More | Epic And Other Hits | The Platinum Collection |
| Singles: We Care a Lot | Anne's Song | From Out Of Nowhere | Epic | Falling to Pieces | Midlife Crisis | A Small Victory | Everything's Ruined | Easy (Songs to Make Love To) | Another Body Murdered | Digging the Grave | Ricochet | Evidence | Ashes To Ashes | Last Cup Of Sorrow | Stripsearch | I Started a Joke |
| Related articles |
| Imperial Teen | Mr. Bungle | Faith No Man | Brujeria | Peeping Tom | Coma | Tomahawk | Fantômas |
| Categories: Faith No More albums | Faith No More songs |
