"and I wonder if you know that's how I feel about you.Īs much as I don't want him to know, all I want more than anything is for us to be together.īut, I have now been hiding my feelings for almost a year, and now I just want him to know how I feel and I don't care what he thinks because I will always love him.Īnd that's about it, but this song contains all my feelings for him. If I didn't worry so much about it ruining our friendship, it would be so easy I try my hardest to hide my feelings from him but, And the album has gone on to be certified platinum in the U.S.I love this boy but I don't want him to find out because we are friends and I don't want to ruin our friendship if he doesn't love me back. The accolades soon followed with the band earning a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance for The Real Thing album in 1989, while "Epic" garnered the band's second Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1991. There's always been this misconception that 'commercial' equals 'stupid.' Just because something is accepted by a lot of people, it doesn't mean there isn't some interesting thought behind it, you know? You can actually do a lot of damage on a mass scale." Gould added that he wasn't afraid to embrace the success, adding, "I don't see the point of limiting accessibility out of stubbornness. "We've earned what we've achieved - a little more than some record company all of a sudden giving us a lot of money." "We've worked for a really long time," said Bottum to Rolling Stone. Faith No More, "War Pigs" (Black Sabbath Cover)Īll in all, it was a triumphant period for a band in a state of change and that wasn't lost on the group. There was also a pretty crazy moment early on in which Patton had a beer bottle smashed over his right hand during one performance that lacerated some tendons. Some of the highlights included performing in Berlin as The Wall came down, performing with Metallica and playing a show naked with bags on their heads during the final date on their tour with Billy Idol. Other notable tracks from The Real Thing include the band's spirited and more swinging cover of Black Sabbath's " War Pigs," the chaotically rocking " Surprise! You're Dead" and the snappy, jazzy little number " Edge of the World."Īnd with the new found radio support, Faith No More took advantage with one of their more memorable tours of their career. However, it has been performed again since the band reunited. It rarely appeared in sets and at the 1993 Phoenix Festival, Gould revealed it was the last time the band would ever play the song. However, it wasn't necessarily a Faith No More live staple. 12 on the Modern Rock chart, the song ended up being one of their bigger songs. The track showed some of Patton's swagger as a frontman and like its predecessor, began to climb up the charts.
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Gould's signature bass lines once again propelled the group as they released "Falling to Pieces" as their next single in July 1990, a full year after the album's release. Faith No More, "From Out of Nowhere" Music Video However, it wasn't until nearly a year later when the song was reissued that it garnered any true notice.
The upbeat and melodic track was a solid showcase for Patton's vocals and was driven by the keyboard work of Bottum and a steady beat from Mike Bordin. The song barely received any notice stateside. It started off modest enough, as " From Out of Nowhere" was released in August 1989 as the lead single. Little did Patton and the band know what was to come. That's fine, but since then, I've definitely vowed to spend a lot more time and put a lot more into anything I do." So I think I did what was really obvious. so it was weird for me to try and put something over a song that was really linear, and very verse/chorus/verse/chorus. "We're Nintendo kids, so we get into a studio and there are all these little knobs and we've just gotta play with the dials and push the buttons. "It was strange for me, because I had spent every musical moment with the Bungle guys, and we have our own thing," stated Patton. Bungle, offered his services and was immediately put to work, given two weeks to write lyrics for the album.
Patton, who was then fronting experimental outfit Mr. The song was the band's breakthrough hit, peaking at number nine on the US Billboard Hot 100, number two in New Zealand, and number one in Australia. It was released as the second single from their third album, The Real Thing (1989), in 1990 in United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. After parting ways with Mosely, the group began to write and penned all of the music for The Real Thing before auditioning singers. 'Epic' is a song by American rock band Faith No More.
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