#11 - Faith No More - Angel Dust - 1992

This album was a like a punch in the stomach following FNM's breakthrough with "The Real Thing". The pop crowd that latched onto that breakthrough album was forced to decide if they could really handle FNM's ecclectic styles, especially with Mike Patton now influencing the bands direction more than before. I loved it. This is one of two tapes that went with me to wrestling camp at the University of Iowa in the hot summer of 1992. Angel Dust is a sonic assault upon the senses best enjoyed through headphones; Patton's ever present mumblings that lie beneath the surface are both frightening and hilarious.
Key Tracks: Caffeine (written while in the midst of a multiday experiment of sleep and food deprivation..existing solely on "Caffeine"), Midlife Crisis, Jizzlobber, etc...

Midlife Crisis live:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IfmgoIc8N5k