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[[Faith No More]] is an [[Alternative Metal]] band formed in San Fransisco, US in 1981 by bassist Billy Gould, keyboardist Wade Worthington, vocalist Mike Morris and drummer Mike Bordin. A year later, Wade Worthington was replaced by keyboardist Roddy Bottum and Mike Morris was ousted. After going through a series of singers which included [[Courtney Love]], the band was joined by Chuck Mosley in 1983. The same year, Jim Martin was recruited to replace guitarist Mark Bowen. After a long, long time spent changing the lineup before, eventually, Chuck Mosley was replaced by [[Mike Patton]], and the band found massive success with their third album, ''The Real Thing'', which contains their best-known song "Epic".
The band is best known for combining elements of [[Heavy Metal
They broke up in 1998 but reformed, triumphantly, in 2009.
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* [[Alternative Metal]]: One of the founders of the genre.
* [[Black Sheep Hit]]: "Epic".
* [[Cover Version]]: "Easy" by the Commodores, "War Pigs" by [[
* [[Creator Backlash]]: If [http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-real-thing-r7079/review Allmusic] is to be believed, the band got such a large fandom of metalheads due to their [[
* [[Epic Rocking]]: "The Real Thing", "Jizzlobber", "Zombie Eaters", "King for a Day", their cover of "[[Black Sabbath
** Yet, ironically, "Epic" is less than five minutes long.
* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]]: "Caralho Voador", from ''King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime'', has a verse in Portuguese (as well as the title<ref>"Flying Dick", as in "penis"</ref>).
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* [[Surreal Music Video]]: "Epic" - it involves the band performing on a soundstage while soaked by a storm, ominous clouse-ups of Patton, a flopping fish (which they jokingly claimed to have stolen from [[Bjork]]) and Bottum's piano exploding at the end, and "We Care A Lot" features constant flashes to a baby. Which is never explained.
** Three other good examples would be [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5irHyoRNcRY Everything's ruined] which features great use of green screen, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHydZPFlf2g Midlife Crisis,] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rcYBP0FdL8 Falling to Pieces] which includes [[It Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|exploding fish and hands with eyeballs.]]
* [[What Happened to
* [[Word Salad Lyrics]]: A fair part of their discography; "Epic" springs to mind as a specific example. (Although you will hear all sorts of contradictory accounts of what Mike Patton allegedy said the lyrics mean, these are invariably urban legends.)
** Mike has mentioned before that he feels his lyrics are his weakest skill in composition.
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