Faith No More’s The Real Thing and Angel Dust are Getting Deluxe Reissues
The world is currently in the throes of Faith No More Mania, thanks to the impending release of their upcoming reunion album, Sol Invictus. To capitalize on this current spike in interest, Rhino Records have announced that on June 9, they’ll reissue the band’s two most famous (and arguably best) albums, 1989’s The Real Thing and 1992’s Angel Dust, in deluxe, 2-CD editions.
Yes, they’re tossing in a ton of bonus material to get us all to re-buy albums we already own. But will it work? All of the bonus material has been previously released, so there isn’t much on these discs that hardcore FNM acolytes won’t already have heard (and one of the band’s best b-sides — “The Perfect Crime,” an Angel Dust sessions tune that ended up on the Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey soundtrack –isn’t included at all for some reason). So this may actually appeal more to n00bs than seasoned fans.
Here’s the list of bonus materials included with the reissues, so you can decide if you wanna shell out for these or not:
The Real Thing
- Sweet Emotion (Taken from Kerrang! Flexible Fiend)
- Epic (Radio Remix Edit) (Taken from the ‘Epic’ Promotional CD single)
- Falling To Pieces (Matt Wallace Remix) (Taken from the ‘Falling To Pieces’ 12″ single)
- Cowboy Song (B-side) (Taken from the b-side of ‘From Out Of Nowhere’ single)
- The Grade (B-side) (Taken from the b-side of ‘From Out Of Nowhere’ 12″ single)
- From Out Of Nowhere (Extended Remix) (Taken from the ‘From Out Of Nowhere’ 12″ single)
- War Pigs (Live Berlin 11.9.1989, taken from the b-side of ‘Epic’ 12″ single)
- Surprise You’re Dead (Live Sheffield) (Taken from the b-side of ‘Epic’ 12″ single)
- Chinese Arithmetic (Live Sheffield) (Taken from the b-side of ‘Epic’ 12″ single)
- Underwater Love (Live at Brixton Academy, London 28 April 1990) (Taken from the b-side of ‘Falling To Pieces’ 12″ single)
- As The Worms Turns (Live at Brixton Academy, London 28 April 1990) (Taken from the video for “You Fat B**tards”)
Angel Dust
- Easy (Cooler Version) (Lionel Ritchie) (Taken from the ‘I’m Easy’ CD single)
- Das Schutzenfest (German version) (Taken from the ‘I’m Easy’ CD single)
- As The Worm Turns (Mike Patton vocal / Japan bonus track) (Taken from the Japanese edition of “Angel Dust”)
- Let’s Lynch The Landlord (B-Side) (Jello Biafra) (Taken from the ‘A Small Victory’ single)
- Midlife Crisis (The Scream Mix) Remixed by Matt Wallace (Taken from the bonus 12″ included with “Angel Dust” LP)
- A Small Victory (R-Evolution 23 (Full Moon) Mix) (Taken from the ‘A Small Victory’ 12″ single)
- Easy (Live Munich 9th November 1992) ((Lionel Ritchie) (Taken from the ‘I’m Easy’ CD single)
- Be Aggressive (Live Munich 9th November 1992) (Taken from the b-side of ‘I’m Easy’ CD single)
- Kindergarten (Live Munich 9th November 1992) (Taken from the b-side of ‘I’m Easy’ CD single)
- A Small Victory (Live Munich 9th November 1992) (Taken from the b-side of ‘I’m Easy’ CD single)]
- Mark Bowen (Live Munich 9th November 1992) (Taken from the b-side of ‘I’m Easy’ CD single)
- We Care A Lot (Live Munich 9th November 1992) (Taken from the b-side of ‘I’m Easy’ CD single)
- Midlife Crisis (Live Dekalb, Ill. 20th September 1992) (Taken from the b-side of ‘Everything’s Ruined’ CD single)
- Land Of Sunshine (Live Dekalb, Ill. 20th September 1992) (Taken from the b-side of ‘Everything’s Ruined’ CD single)
- Edge of The World (Live St. Louis 18th September 1992) (Taken from the b-side of ‘Everything’s Ruined’ CD single)
- R.V. (Live Dekalb, Ill. 20th September 1992) (Taken from the b-side of ‘Everything’s Ruined’ CD single)
- The World Is Yours (Outtake from Angel Dust sessions) (Taken from the album “Who Cares A Lot? The Greatest Hits)
More exciting, if you ask me, is that these will also be made available on double LP, 180 gram heavyweight vinyls, which are scheduled to be pressed in August. Even if those didn’t have the bonus materials, they’d probably be worth owning.
There’s no pre-order links yet, but, presumably, those’ll materialize soon.
