Midlife Crisis
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| Single by Faith No More | ||
| from the album Angel Dust | ||
| Released | 1992 | |
| Format | CD, Cassette, Vinyl |
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| Recorded | 1991 | |
| Genre | Experimental rock Alternative Metal |
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| Label | Slash Records | |
| Writer(s) | Music: Bottum/Bordin/Gould/Patton Lyrics: Patton |
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| Producer(s) | Matt Wallace | |
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| Faith No More singles chronology | ||
| "Falling to Pieces" 1991 |
"Midlife Crisis" 1992 |
"A Small Victory" |
"Midlife Crisis" is a song by the alternative metal band Faith No More, from their fourth studio album Angel Dust. According to singer Mike Patton "The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its kind of about Madonna... I think it was a particular time where I was being bombarded with her image on TV and in magazines and her whole schtick kind of speaks to me in that way... like she's going through some sort of problem. It seems she's getting a bit desperate."
Patton has also denied that the song is about having a midlife crisis, as he didn't know what one would feel like, but says "it's more about creating false emotion, being emotional, dwelling on your emotions and in a sense inventing them."
The song contains a sample from "Cecilia", as performed by Simon and Garfunkel and another from "Car Thief", as performed by The Beastie Boys.
"Midlife Crisis" is featured on the soundtrack for Tony Hawk's Underground 2.
In October 2004 "Midlife Crisis" featured in popular videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on fictional Alternative station Radio X.
[edit] The Music Video
The video for this song was directed by Kevin Kerslake, who also directed their shoestring video for the song "Everything's Ruined". According to the Faith No More website, there are two different versions of this video. The differences are small, but when looked at closely, are noticeable. When the two versions are compared against one another, one will notice that some of the final shots are slightly different.
The version on the Who Cares A Lot: Greatest Videos collection features the uncensored version that contains some shots omitted from pre-watershed broadcasts of the video. Most noticeably during the bridge which shows a man being stretched by four horses (alluding to an old French punishment for regicide, known as "quartering") - the censored version features additional shots of choirboys running to a big cross instead. Small changes like these occur during the video, but are generally not significant enough for most people to see them.
For the video, the sound mix of this song is slightly different than the album version (on certain promotional releases it is referred to as 'The Scream Mix'). It features heavier reverb on the drums and certain vocal parts are more prominent, as well as edits to the drum solo at the start and the second verse. For the DVD re-release of Who Cares A Lot: Greatest Videos, the album version of the song is used instead, with the accommodating edits made.
| Preceded by "Good Stuff" by The B-52's |
List of number-one Modern Rock hits August 8, 1992 |
Succeeded by "Tomorrow" by Morrissey |
| 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 (band) | Peeping Tom | Coma | Tomahawk | Fantômas |
| Categories: Faith No More albums | Faith No More songs |
