King for a Day ... Fool for a Lifetime
| King for a Day ... Fool for a Lifetime | ||||
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| Faith No More studio album | ||||
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1994 |
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| Label (s) | Slash | |||
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Title (number) |
14th |
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running time |
56:46 |
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Andy Wallace , Faith No More |
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Studio (s) |
Bearsville Studios, New York City |
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King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime is Faith No More's fifth studio album . It was released on March 28, 1995 and was the first without longtime guitarist Jim Martin . It is the only album with guitarist Trey Spruance .
Origin and style
After Jim Martin was fired after differences on the Angel Dust tour - there were rumors that his guitar parts had been partially removed from the mix of the album mentioned - the guitarist of Mike Patton's band Mr. Bungle was hired with Trey Spruance . The album was created with the then well-known producer Andy Wallace , who had previously worked with Rage Against the Machine and gave the album a very aggressive sound. Although musically not always as complex as its predecessor, it encompasses a broad mix of styles from more aggressive, more experimental songs (The Gentle Art of Making Enemies) to keyboard-dominated , but also radio-influenced Evidence to gospel (Just a Man). The song title of the first-mentioned piece is taken from the book The Gentle Art of Making Enemies ( Eng .: The art of making enemies ) by James McNeill Whistler .
Since Roddy Bottum was hardly involved in the songwriting process and rehearsals for personal reasons - including his father's death - and only joined the other musicians again during the recording, the keyboards take a back seat compared to other releases by the band. In addition to the hard guitars, the expressive and versatile vocals of Mike Patton characterize the album. This moved in an unusually broad spectrum between crooning , conventional rock singing and downright dehumanized gurgling and screaming - heard for example in the song Cuckoo for Caca, the text of which deals with drug addiction.
reception
Uwe “Buffo” Schnädelbach saw Faith No More in Rock Hard in good shape despite the dismissal of Jim Martin. Although the "majority of the songs" from King for a Day open up ... "only after intensive listening pleasure", at some point it "clicks". He awarded nine out of ten points. Allmusic's Greg Prato called King for a Day… one of Faith No More's most underrated releases. Guitarist Trey Spruance has "masterfully" followed in Jim Martin's footsteps. He awarded three and a half stars out of five. In 2005 Visions magazine ranked 37th in the selection of “150 albums for eternity”.
Track list
- Get Out - 2:17
- Ricochet - 4:28
- Evidence - 4:53
- The Gentle Art of Making Enemies - 3:28
- Star AD - 3:22
- Cuckoo for Caca - 3:41
- Caralho Voador - 4:01
- Ugly in the Morning - 3:06
- Digging the Grave - 3:04
- Take this Bottle - 4:59
- King for a Day - 6:35
- What a Day - 2:37
- The last to Know - 4:27
- Just a Man - 5:35
layout
The cover design was taken from the graphic novel Flood: A Novel in Pictures by Eric Drooker .
Web links
- King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime at Allmusic (English)