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We Care a Lot was the San Francisco-based funk metal band Faith No More's first album, released in 1985. Originally distributed through Canadian label Mordam Records, it fell by the wayside and went largely unacknowledged until its reissue a decade later (even the sleeve notes for the band's subsequent Slash releases refer to 1987's Introduce Yourself as their debut LP).
The record has fairly low production values and Mosely's vocals are treated with large amounts of reverb.
The title track that opens the record is an early incarnation of what would become their first major single. In another instance of the band 'covering' themselves, a second version of the album's track "As the Worm Turns" would be recorded in 1992 with Patton on vocals and released as a b-side during the Angel Dust era releases. The remainder of the cuts on this album range from acoustic (the bizarrely subdued guitar solo "Jim"), dark metal (the raucous, unrelenting "Why Do You Bother"), danceable rock ("The Jungle" and the riff-heavy instrumental "Pills For Breakfast") and the album's closer "New Beginnings" gives a glimpse of the band's more melodic endeavors, which would be further showcased on the records that followed.
[edit] Release history
While released on vinyl and cassette in 1985, this album would not be released to buy as a CD until 1995 in Australia (as a pink disc for the first pressing, and black disc for the second, to coincide with the tour for their fifth studio album King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime, released that year). In 1996 it was reissued on CD, vinyl and cassette in the UK and Japan with slightly modified artwork, one being a purple disc.
| Year |
Region |
Format |
Label |
Catalogue # |
[1] |
| 1985 |
 US |
Vinyl |
Mordam |
MDR 1 |
[2] |
| 1985 |
 NLD |
Vinyl |
Konkurrent |
MDR 1 |
[3] |
| 1985 |
US |
Cassette |
Mordam |
MDR 1C |
[4] |
| 1995 |
 AUS |
CD |
Liberation |
D 19976 |
[5] |
| 1996 |
 EUR |
CD |
London |
828 805-1 |
[6] |
| 1996 |
 JPN |
CD |
London |
POCD-1236 |
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[edit] Track listing
| # |
Title |
Lyrics |
Music |
Length |
| 1. |
"We Care a Lot" |
Mosely |
Gould, Bottum |
4:08 |
| 2. |
"The Jungle" |
Mosely |
Bottum, Gould, Bordin |
3:10 |
| 3. |
"Mark Bowen" |
Gould, Mosely |
Gould, Bordin |
3:33 |
| 4. |
"Jim" |
— |
Martin |
1:16 |
| 5. |
"Why Do You Bother" |
Mosely |
Gould, Bordin, Bottum |
5:39 |
| 6. |
"Greed" |
Gould, Mosely |
Gould, Mosely |
3:50 |
| 7. |
"Pills for Breakfast" |
— |
Bordin, Martin |
2:59 |
| 8. |
"As the Worm Turns" |
Mosely |
Bottum, Gould, Mosely |
3:11 |
| 9. |
"Arabian Disco" |
Mosely |
Gould |
3:16 |
| 10. |
"New Beginnings" |
Mosely |
Mosely |
3:46 |
[edit] Personnel
- Band members
- Technical staff
- Matt Wallace – producer
- Olga Gerrard – artwork, cover, graphics
[edit] Footnotes
