Faith No More - This Is It: The Best of Faith No More

19 signature tracks from albums and singles released between 1985-1997. Includes 4 rarities only available here in the U.S. & the out-of-print soundtrack cut 'The Perfect Crime' from Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. Slash/Rhino. 2003. Album Description

Market flood?

A band with as many interested fans as Faith No More is not served well by a compilation of tracks that can easily be found on other discs that generally have other material around them that is at least equal in quality. What Faith No More fans deserve is a compilation that brings all those hard-to-get B-sides in the one place. You know the ones I am talking about. The rerecorded version of As The Worm Turns, Das Schutzenfest, a cover of Let's Lynch The Landlord, and so forth. Those are the tracks that I would pay to own in compilation form. This is at least the third time I have seen Liberation barf out a compilation of tracks I mostly already have on other compact discs, while my requests for easier access to the hard-to-find tracks that people trade on Kazaa are still going begging. My recommendation to anyone new to this band is to avoid these compilations and buy the albums. Your long-term satisfaction will be greater. June 5, 2008

INTRODUCE YOURSELF....

....To the world of Faith No More. This is an excellent source of introduction to the wacky metal-funk band. Spanning from some of the earliest hits, through the hey-day and into the bands final years, you get a decent amount of everything on this one disc collection. (There is also a very impressive 2 disc set out there too, called We Care Alot... if you want a heavier mix, but for newbies this is a good start... I always think of hits packages as a gateway to obtaining proper albums from the band- which is what you SHOULD do- thus making smaller hits packs a better bet, usually)
Also- for the casual fan, this album pretty much has everything you could need. FTM wasn't really a big radio band ever (the only song I've ever heard on the radio ever has been EPIC (yes, that is the "you want it all-but you can't have it" song) .. the term "hits" here must refer to band and fan favorites, and they really mixed them together well.)
Epic is a great song but hardly demonstates the whole structure of this band. Nowadays its almost a novelty song on the radio... these guys had so many great tunes... even some cool covers... check out the intensity of WAR PIGS, or the breezy feel of EASY... two opposite ends of the spectrum right there.
Check out the mysterious EVIDENCE or the shout along classic WE CARE ALOT! theres something for everyone, and a few things in between.
These cats were a very innovative band, who had a leg up on the nineties rock scene as far back as the mid eighties. The Real Thing was there smash album in '89, and other stuff has basically been adored by fans... I think it's time you introduce yourself to some brilliant stuff, if you ain't never done it before. January 22, 2008

Great album!!

Normally, Greatest Hits albums come up short. I can say this album does not!! I just recently got into Faith No More, and have found them to be nothing short of incredible!!! I bought the album on March 12th, it arrived today on the 15th!!

This album has pretty much all their big hits, and is great for the fairly new and/or casual fans. Stand-out tracks include: "We Care A Lot" "Epic" "Falling to Peices" "Cowboy Song" and "Midlife Crisis". The band also did an awesome job covering the Sabbath classic "War Pigs"!

Overall, a great album and highly recommended! March 15, 2007

Freakin Awesome!

When I heard this album at my friends house a few years back I was just in awe. I immediately went straight to the store and bought myself a copy. Before I heard it the only sond I'd known from them was epic .This album is a "buffet"(i know that sounds corny) of what they have to offer. You get everything from punk, funk, rock, and even some electronicish music. I especially liked the song evidence. What a smooth song that is. How many kids were a result of that one? Anyways, If you're familiar with faith no more or not, get this album. I myself am now a huge fan of any Mike Patton project. July 21, 2006

Serious Potential

First off the only reason I gave this album only 4 stars 4 one reason and one reason only. it's a greatest hit collection. if I were to give a greatest hits collection 5 stars them meaning of 5 stars from me would be lessened.

This is the only FNM album I have and I got it about 2 weeks ago. B4 this album I had downloaded Epic and Midlife Crisis. I thought they were pretty tyte so I got this album only because it was the only FNM album the store had. I was looking for Angel Dust but oh well.

When I got it I listened instantly and at first I was a little dissapointed. The only tracks I had herd on the radio were Epic, and Last Cup of Sorrow. I picked it up the next day gave it another try and I guess like overnight I had become an FNM fan. I have listened to this album everyday since I got it, as as a matter of fact im listening to The Perfect Crime right now.

I read through the cd booklet and I was quite shocked at what I read. I realized what this band would do to not become sell outs. They had the chance to follow up The Real Thing with probibly a multi platinum master piece. And a master piece it was but not multi platinum. Only because of the Album name. "Angel Dust", A beautiful name but a terrible drug. They could have named it anything else no matter how stupid like Doorknob, or Throat Lump, or just something and retarted and it would have sold millions. but with a name like Angel Dust, many parents would refuse for thier children to have such a record. Brilliant and Retarted at the same time. They achieved thier goal of not being sell outs but didn't even recieve enough money to be able to feul a marijuana habit. Personally I have always thought if you are givin the chance to make tons of money, and be even more famous as a band and remembered longer, to accept that oppurtunity.

But what surprised me is how huge of a band they were and probibly haven't even sold 10 million albums yet. I have herd about them long ago adn expexted them to have you know, like have 2 number 1 albums. sold 15 million in U.S. alone. all that stuff. I believe they were like #52 on VH1's best rock artists or something like that. next to the Sex Pistols they are probibly the best non sell out band ever. I always thought they were huge until i got this album.

Now about the album, fabulous. We Care A Lot, is a fuuny, clever, catchy song, that gets stuck in your head the first time u here it. Epic, is one of the best songs from the eighties, and one of the best music videos ever. Falling to Pieces is my personal favorite, great vocal preformance form Patton. War Pigs, is just as good as the Sabbath original. The Cowboy Song, is tight. Midlife Crisis is a classic, An amazing song. A Small Victory is different than any other FNM song cool. Be Aggresive is awesome and up there with NIN's Closer for perverted rock songs. Evidence, yyou know I take it back This is the oddball of the FNM collection. Last Cup of Sorrow, CRAZY!, The Perfect Crime, great bass, great song, kinda sounds more like the talking heads instead of FNM.

I want to get Angel Dust next, but this is good 4 getting into FNM. July 15, 2006

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