- Land of Sunshine
Infobox Single
Name = Land of Sunshine
Artist =Faith No More
from Album = Angel Dust
Released =1992
Format = CD
Recorded =Coast Recorders andBrilliant Studios San Francisco, California January – March 1992The Making of Angel Dust, Mike Bordin interview.MTV . Retrieved on2007-12-22 ]
Genre =Alternative metal
Length = 3:43
Label = Slash small|(# PRO-CD-5523)
Producer =Matt Wallace
Writer =Lyrics:Music:Mike Patton 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 fourthstudio album byalternative metal bandFaith 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 fromfortune cookie scite 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 theOxford Capacity Analysis personality test offered by theChurch of Scientology . He also watched lots of late-night television to get into the right frame of mind.Track listing
tracklist
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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 =4:29References
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