When the colorful, if somewhat fishy, music video for Faith No More’s "Epic" became a surprise MTV hit in early 1990, it had been sitting on store shelves as part of The Real Thing for some six ...

When Faith No More were about to begin work on their third album (The Real Thing, out June 20 ... from Humboldt County called Mr. Bungle, and guitarist Jim Martin being a particular fan of ...

Faith No More's best selling album is finally getting the deluxe re-issue treatment. The Real Thing was the most rock and roll FNM record, and the first of only two with the classic line-up of Mike ...

Faith No More had already created two slabs of splendidly twisted noise, but it was the addition of vocalist Mike Patton for third album The Real Thing that sent them tumbling into rock’s ...

It was guitarist Jim Martin who suggested ... gig in San Francisco in November 1988. The Real Thing was released the following year – and once MTV picked up ‘Epic’, there was no avoiding Faith No More ...

Jim was a real contentious person in the band, but I loved him." While the passage of time had softened the other members' negative feelings about Faith No More's '90s self-destruction ...

“The Real Thing,” Faith No More’s first album with Patton ... reconvened Faith No More (including the band’s final guitarist, Jon Hudson) for a world tour that ended up lasting three ...

Guitarist Jim Martin left Faith No More back in 1993 after the band's ... There was a lot of weird pressure to follow up 'The Real Thing,' and as a consequence, the album AD was more contrived ...

As the world nears a decade since Faith No More's last large-scale live show ... with their following albums – 1989's The Real Thing and 1992's Angel Dust – peaking at No. 11 and No. 10 ...

Roddy Bottum has spoken about the future of Faith No More, and said that the band are ... and included 1989’s ‘The Real Thing’ and 1992’s ‘Angel Dust’. The band were then expected ...

You can listen to all 11 rarities below. The Real Thing was Faith No More’s first album with singer Mike Patton, who replaced troubled vocalist Chuck Mosley in 1988. Mosley had led the band to a ...