Land of Sunshine

Land of Sunshine

Infobox Single
Name = Land of Sunshine


Artist = Faith No More
from Album = Angel Dust
Released = 1992
Format = CD
Recorded = Coast Recorders and Brilliant Studios San Francisco, California January – March 1992The Making of Angel Dust, Mike Bordin interview. MTV. Retrieved on 2007-12-22]
Genre = Alternative metal
Length = 3:43
Label = Slash small|(# PRO-CD-5523)
Producer = Matt Wallace
Writer =

Lyrics:
Mike Patton
Music:
Billy Gould Roddy Bottum
Misc = Extra track listing
Album = Angel Dust
Type = studio
this_track = "Land of Sunshine"
track_no = 1
next_track = "Caffeine"
next_no = 2"Land of Sunshine" is the opening track to "Angel Dust", the fourth studio album by alternative metal band Faith No More. It was released as a promo single in 1992 along with "Midlife Crisis" and has been compared in its sound to "From out of Nowhere", the opening track and first single off the bands previous album "The Real Thing". [cite web |url=http://negele.org/db/index.php3?band=2&year=1992&month=12&id=1260 |title=Interview with Mike Bordin |accessdate=2008-08-29 |last=Moses |first=Peter |date=December 1992 |work= |publisher=Metal Maniacs Issue] The line "Does emotional music have quite an effect on you?" has been described as "the perfect tag line for "Angel Dust".cite web |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/faithnomore/albums/album/321678/review/6068107/angel_dust |title= Faith No More: Angel Dust : Music Reviews |accessdate=2008-08-29 |last=Sinclair |first=Tom |date=September 3 1992 |publisher="Rolling Stone"]

Lyrical content

The lyrics were written by Mike Patton during a sleep deprivation experiment along with the song "Caffeine" which, for the most part, had the lyrics taken almost directly from fortune cookiescite web |url=http://negele.org/db/index.php3?band=2&year=1992&month=6&id=980 |title=Faith No More: Angel Dust in the wind |accessdate=2008-06-15 |author=Jem Aswad |date=June 1992 |work=Issue 25 |publisher=Reflex Magazine] and the Oxford Capacity Analysis personality test offered by the Church of Scientology. He also watched lots of late-night television to get into the right frame of mind.

Track listing

tracklist
collapsed = | headline = | lyrics_credits=yes | music_credits =yes
title1 =Land of Sunshine | lyrics1 =Patton | music1 =Gould, Bottum | length1 =3:43
title2 =Caffeine | lyrics2 =Patton | music2 =Gould, Patton | length2 =4:28
title3 =Kindergarten | lyrics3 =Patton, Bottum | music3 =Gould, Martin | length3 =4:29

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