Tracks 9, 10, 11, and 12 from Angel Dust (1992)

Tracks 13, 14, and 15 from King For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime (1995)

Tracks 16 and 17 from Album of the Year (1997)

Tracks 18 and 19 from Sol Invictus (2015)

One thing that fascinates me is bands whose most famous member wasn't on their first album. Faith No More is just one example, there's also Fleetwood Mac, Genesis, Journey, the Doobie Brothers, the Geto Boys, the Black Eyed Peas, the Dixie Chicks, and Iron Maiden. Drummer Mike Bordin and bassist Billy Gould are the only people who have been in Faith No More through every iteration of the band since 1979, which kind of makes them the Mick Fleetwood and John McVie of FNM. 

Faith No More had several different lead singers in the early '80s (including, fascinatingly, Courtney Love) before Chuck Mosley sang on the band's first two albums. Then Mike Patton joined in 1988, nearly a decade into the band's career, and they shot to fame with the platinum success of The Real Thing. Now, Patton is regarded as one of hard rock's greatest, most versatile vocalists of all time, and it's taken as a given that if he doesn't want to tour with Faith No More, the band won't tour (sadly, Mosley passed away in 2017). 

That said, the Faith No More sound, as unpredictable and amorphous as it sometimes is, feels pretty identifiable and developed on those first two albums with Mosley, who was a more limited vocalist but had the right weird bellow for a band like this. The band continued performing the big Mosley-era hit "We Care A Lot" with Patton, along with some deep cuts like "Introduce Yourself" and "As the Worm Turns." 

About 20 years ago, I joined my roommate's band Zuul when they needed a new drummer, and had a 2-year run with them that was a lot of fun, we played a few gigs, mostly as the Sidebar in Baltimore. It's the only time I've really played in a metal(ish) band, and Zuul's biggest influence was probably Faith No More, and I was the only guy in the band who was not a diehard FNM fan. So that experience gave me a bit more of an appreciation for Faith No More outside of the singles (Zuul never made any records but I uploaded a couple of our demos to Soundcloud a few years ago). My favorite songs on here include "As The Worm Turns," "Underwater Love," "Caffeine," and some of the odd un-metal stuff like "RV" and "Star A.D." And as always I like some of the gnarly weird time signature grooves the most, "Collision" is another song in 5/4 for my collection.