Episode 22: Faith No More - Angel Dust Album Review (Part 1 of 2)

Joined by Singapore based wine director, music enthusiast and die-hard Faith No More fan, Joe Keats, Greg reviews the band's 1992 classic release, Angel Dust. Formed in 1979 in San Francisco, CA, the band Sharp Young Men, consisting of keyboard player Wade Worthington, lead singer Mike Morris, drummer Mike Bordin and bass player, Billy Gould, played several small clubs around the Bay Area. The band named soon morphed into Faith No Man and hired keyboard, piano and synth player Roddy Bottum to replace Worthington. The story then takes a twist as a year later Gould, Bordin and Bottom all quit Faith No Man together and formed Faith No More. The story goes that the band actually decided to name themselves Faith No More because the guy who was known as “the man”, lead singer Mike Morris was “no more”, hence the name Faith No More. After removing lead singer Chuck Mosely in 1988, Mike Patton was hired to complete the vocals on their 1989 release, The Real Thing, which brought the band huge success with the single, Epic. In 1991, the band would reenter the studio to record what would become their greatest album to date, 1992's Angel Dust.