Midlife Crisis

Infobox Single
Name = Midlife Crisis


Artist = Faith No More
from Album = Angel Dust
Released = Start date|1992|5|26
Format = CD, Cassette, Vinyl
Recorded = Coast Recorders and Brilliant Studios, San Francisco, California January – March 1992
Genre = Alternative metal
Length = 4:32
Label = Slash
Producer = Matt Wallace
Writer =

Lyrics: Mike Patton

Music: Roddy Bottum Mike Bordin Billy Gould Mike Patton
Last single = "Falling to Pieces" (1991)
This single = "Midlife Crisis" (1992)
Next single = "A Small Victory" (1992)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Angel Dust
Type = studio
Tracks =
#"Land of Sunshine"
#"Caffeine"
#"Midlife Crisis"
#"RV"
#"Smaller and Smaller"
#"Everything's Ruined"
#"Malpractice"
#"Kindergarten"
#"Be Aggressive"
#"A Small Victory"
#"Crack Hitler"
#"Jizzlobber"
#"Midnight Cowboy"
#"Easy"
#"As the Worm Turns" Extra musicsample
filename=FNM_Midlife_Crisis_Sample.ogg
format=Ogg
title=Midlife Crisis
Type=single"Midlife Crisis" is the third track and first single from "Angel Dust" the fourth studio album by alternative metal band Faith No More. Mike Patton has 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." [http://www.fnm.com/faq/#30 Q30 on the FAQ] on the Faith No More website] and that: Cquote|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 shtick 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.

Production

During production the song was given the working title of "Madonna" [The Making of Angel Dust. MTV. Retrieved 2008-02-26] which was later maintained as a setlist name during live performances. [cite web |url=http://www.fnm.com/faq/#32 |title=Faith No More FAQ, Q32 |accessdate=2008-07-25|publisher=FNM.com] The drum track for the song contains a sample of the first bar of the song "Cecilia", as performed by Simon and Garfunkel, repeated throughout.audio|Simon & Garfunkel – "Cecilia" Intro.ogg |sample [http://www.fnm.com/faq/#40 Q40 on the FAQ] on the Faith No More website]

Music video

The video for this song was directed by Kevin Kerslake, who also directed their shoestring video for the song "Everything's Ruined". The version on the "" 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.

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'). For the DVD re-release of "", the album version of the song is used instead, with the accommodating edits made.

Appearances and covers

"Midlife Crisis" has featured on the soundtrack for the videogames "Tony Hawk's Underground 2" and "", on the fictional Alternative station Radio X, and has been covered by industrial metal band Bile, on their 2002 cover album; "The Copy Machine", and by American rock band Disturbed twice, once earlier in their career that was originally going to be put on a Faith No More tribute album, but was instead released through the internet, and the second time as a B-side to their fourth studio album "Indestructible"; this re-recorded version has yet too see release.

Track list

tracklist
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music_credits=yes |lyrics_credits=yes
title1=Midlife Crisis |music1=Bottum, Bordin, Gould, Patton |lyrics1=Patton |length1=3:56
title2=Jizzlobber |music2=Martin |lyrics2=Martin, Patton |length2=6:39
title3=Crack Hitler |music3=Gould, Bottum, Bordin |lyrics3=Patton |length3=4:39
title4=Midnight Cowboy |music4=Barry |lyrics4=— |length4=4:13
note1=The Scream Mix
note2=
note3=
note4=tracklist
collapsed= |headline=Australian Edition
music_credits=yes |lyrics_credits=yes
title1=Midlife Crisis |music1=Bottum, Bordin, Gould, Patton |lyrics1=Patton |length1=4:24
title2=Jizzlobber |music2=Martin |lyrics2=Martin, Patton |length2=6:39
title3=As the Worm Turns |music3=Bottum, Gould, Mosely |lyrics3=Mosely |length3=2:38
note1=
note2=
note3=re-recording

Charts

Footnotes

External links

*Allmusic [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?sql=10:axfyxq9kldhe Cassette Single page]
*Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?sql=10:wzfqxqejld0e CD Single page]

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