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- This article is about the album. For the song of the same name, see We Care a Lot (song).
We Care a Lot Studio album by Faith No More Released 1985 Recorded Prairie Sun Studios, Cotati, California Genre Funk metal, funk rock Length 34:51 Label Mordam Producer Matt Wallace, Faith No More Faith No More chronology We Care a Lot
(1985)Introduce Yourself
(1987)We Care a Lot is the debut studio album by American rock band Faith No More, originally released in 1985 and distributed through San Francisco-based label Mordam Records. On the original vinyl release, the band is credited as "Faith. No More" on the album's liner notes, back cover, and on the record itself.
Contents
Album information
The title track "We Care a Lot" was later rerecorded (for their follow-up album Introduce Yourself) and released as their first single. This later version of the song was incorrectly listed as the original and the album Introduce Yourself was also listed as the début in the sleeve notes for some subsequent releases, such as the 1998 compilation Who Cares a Lot?. "We Care A Lot" is available in two live recordings with Mike Patton on vocals- one on the live album "Live At The Brixton Academy" and another on the "I'm Easy/Be Aggressive" CD1 Single.
The band is known to have re-recorded only one other song in the studio from We Care a Lot: the eighth track "As the Worm Turns" was recorded with Mike Patton on vocals during the Angel Dust sessions. However, a live recording of "Mark Bowen" with Mike Patton on vocals appears on the "I'm Easy/Be Aggressive" CD2 single, as well as a memorable performance at Download festival in 2009.
"We Care a Lot" is also used as the theme song for the Discovery Channel's show Dirty Jobs, hosted by Mike Rowe.
Production
The band initially started recording the album without backing from a record label and, after pooling their money, recorded five songs. This gained the attention of Ruth Schwartz (who was then forming the independent label Mordam Records) under which the band (after receiving the finances to do so) finished and released the album; it was the first official release for both the band and the label.[1]
Release history
Year Region Format Label Catalogue # [2] 1985 United States Vinyl Mordam MDR 1 [3] 1985 Netherlands Vinyl Konkurrent MDR 1 [4] 1987 United States Cassette Mordam MDR 1C [5] 1995 Australia CD Liberation D 19976 [6] 1996 Europe CD London 828 805-1 [7] 1996 Japan CD London POCD-1236 While released on vinyl and cassette in 1985, this album would not be released to buy as a CD until 1995 in Australia (on Mushroom Records) 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.
Critical reception
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [8]
The album received mixed but favourable reviews. Select magazine, while also mentioning the roughness of production, said that the music is inexorable and "a lustful marriage of mutoid metal and dancefloor verve that owed nothing to anybody".[9] Allmusic made repeated reference to the absence of future front man Mike Patton and criticized Chuck Mosley's vocals, calling him "often off-key, fairly monotonous, and colorless", but credited the album for having "lots of attitude" comparing it to early Public Image Ltd works.[8]
Track listing
Personnel
- Faith No More
- Mike Bordin – drums
- Roddy Bottum – keyboards
- Billy Gould – bass
- Jim Martin – guitars
- Chuck Mosley – vocals
- Production
- Matt Wallace – producer
- Olga Gerrard – artwork, cover, graphics
Footnotes
- ^ Aswad, Jem (June 1992). "Faith No More: Angel Dust in the wind". Issue 25. Reflex Magazine. http://negele.org/db/index.php3?band=2&year=1992&month=6&id=980. Retrieved 2008-06-15.
- ^ Faith No More discography, text alternative. FNM.com. Retrieved 30 May 2008
- ^ "We Care a Lot – 1985 LP release (MDR 1), US". Discogs. http://www.discogs.com/release/378493. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "We Care a Lot – 1985 LP release (MDR 1), Netherlands". Discogs. http://www.discogs.com/release/625311. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "We Care a Lot – 1985 CS release (MDR 1C)". Discogs. http://www.discogs.com/release/1289037. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "We Care a Lot – 1995 CD release (D 19976)". Discogs. http://www.discogs.com/release/1145001. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "We Care a Lot – 1996 CD release (828 805-1)". Discogs. http://www.discogs.com/release/387165. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ a b Prato, Greg. "We Care a Lot - Overview". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r7077. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
- ^ Perry, Neil (September 1990). "Life in a goldfish bowl". Select. http://negele.org/db/index.php3?band=2&year=1990&month=9&id=1511. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
Faith No More Mike Patton · Jon Hudson · Billy Gould · Roddy Bottum · Mike Bordin
Chuck Mosley · Jim Martin · Dean Menta · Trey Spruance
Joe Pye · Walter · Paula Frazer · Courtney Love · Jake Crucifix · Mark Stewart · Desmond Trial · Scott Colbertson · Mark BowenStudio albums We Care a Lot · Introduce Yourself · The Real Thing · Angel Dust · King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime · Album of the YearLive albums Live at the Brixton AcademyCompilations Who Cares a Lot? · This Is It: The Best of · Epic and Other Hits · The Platinum Collection · The Works · The Very Best Definitive Ultimate Greatest Hits CollectionVideos You Fat Bastards: Live at the Brixton Academy · Video Croissant · Who Cares a Lot?: The Greatest Videos · You Fat Bastards/Who Cares a Lot? (DVD)Singles "Quiet in Heaven"/"Song of Liberty" (as Faith No Man) · "We Care a Lot" · "Anne's Song" · "From Out of Nowhere" · "Epic" · "Falling to Pieces" · "Midlife Crisis" · "A Small Victory" · "Everything's Ruined" · "Easy" · "Another Body Murdered" · "Digging the Grave" · "Ricochet" · "Evidence" · "Ashes to Ashes" · "Last Cup of Sorrow" · "Stripsearch" · "I Started a Joke"Related articles ListsArticlesGroupsToursClub Shows · We Care a Lot Tour · Introduce Yourself Tour · The Real Thing Tour · Angel Dust Tour · King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime Tour · Album of the Year Tour · The Second Coming TourCategories Albums · Songs · MembersCategories:- Faith No More albums
- 1985 albums
- Debut albums
- Albums produced by Matt Wallace
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