| "Ricochet" | ||||||||||
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| Single by Faith No More | ||||||||||
| from the album King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | ||||||||||
| Released | May 1, 1995 | |||||||||
| Format | CD single, vinyl, cassette | |||||||||
| Recorded | Bearsville Studios in Bearsville, New York | |||||||||
| Genre | Alternative metal, alternative rock | |||||||||
| Length | 4:28 | |||||||||
| Label | Slash Records | |||||||||
| Writer(s) |
Music: Mike Patton, Mike Bordin, Billy Gould |
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| Producer | Andy Wallace | |||||||||
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"Ricochet" is a song by Faith No More, released as the second single from their fifth studio album King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime. It has been stated that it was written the day of Kurt Cobain's death and is sometimes titled "Nirvana" on the band's setlists.[1][2]
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Although the band state that the song was written in April 1994,[1] it was not played live in concert until a show in Windsor, England on 28 February 1995,[3] almost a year later. It was released on 1 May 1995 as the second single from King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime. The band appeared on American talk show Late Night with Conan O'Brien to support the single.[4] The song was also included on the soundtrack to the 1996 PlayStation game Fox Hunt.[5][6] The song peaked at number 27 on the UK charts[7] and number 58 in Australia.[8]
A video for "Ricochet" was filmed, consisting of backstage and concert footage recorded in Paris. The video was directed by Alex Hemming, and produced by Derin Schelsinger.[9] It is one of only two that does not appear on the later collection Who Cares a Lot?: The Greatest Videos, along with that of "Another Body Murdered".
In reviewing King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime, Rolling Stone magazine described "Ricochet" as being one of the album's "best cuts", calling it "a portentous anthem" comparable to "Epic".[10] Both the San Francisco Chronicle and New York magazine praised the song's lyrics, the former describing them as "enigmatic, sarcastic, provocative and incisive".[11][12]
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Promo
Disc One Pale Blue Drooker
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Disc Two Orange Drooker
Video collage disc
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‡Live from The Forum, London, March 13, 1995.
†Live from The Palladium, Los Angeles, April 27,1995.
| Chart | Peak position |
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| UK Singles Charts | 27[7] |
| Australia | 58[8] |
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