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We Care a Lot | 
 enlarge | Artist: Faith No More
Label: Import [Generic]
Category: Music
Buy Used: $30.00
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 183154
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
EAN: 9397603210525
ASIN: B000007U26
Release Date: October 27, 1998
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Condition: Orders usually processed within 24 hours! Ships from CA. Excellent condition inside and out. In business since 1979! (Item in tray 19)
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| Tracks:
| • | We Care a Lot | | • | The Jungle | | • | Mark Bowen | | • | Jim | | • | Why Do You Bother | | • | Greed | | • | Pills for Breakfast | | • | As the Worm Turns | | • | Arabian Disco | | • | New Beginnings |
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Album Description
1995 reissue on Mushroom of the funky alternative band's 1985 debut, originally released stateside on Mordam & unavailable on CD in the U.S. 10 tracks, including the original version of the title hit that was later redone withdifferent lyrics for their 1987 album 'Introduce Yourself'.
Album Details
Faith No More's 1985 Introductory Release, featuring Original Vocalist Chuck Mosely. Contain's Fnm's Live Standard 'we Care a Lot', plus 'Arabian Disco', 'Pills for Breakfast' and Seven More.
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 Great debut album from a great band. September 19, 2008
N. Hall (Seattle, WA USA)
It's puzzling why this album never got a domestic (USA) release on CD, only vinyl and cassette. If you want a CD of this album, you have to import the Australian disc, hence the slightly higher-than-normal pricepoint. Anyway, on to the music.
Contrary to many of the reviews offered here, "We Care a Lot" is actually pretty good and it IS comparable to the band's much later, 4th album "Angel Dust." WCAL is much better than FNM's second record, "Introduce Yourself" and features prominently many of the things I love about FNM-- dark & sinister lyrics and music, for one. Another thing I love about FNM is that they constantly reinvented themselves with each and every record and touched on almost every music genre known to man at one point or another during their 15+ year career. WCAL isn't as experimental as AD, but it is most definitely just as dark and features some of the band's best keyboard work of their entire run. Jim Martin's crunching guitar is also front and center here, and that's no bad thing.
It's too hard to pick highlights on WCAL because each and every track shines in it's own light. The band was getting a long very well at this early point in their tenure, and it shows in the music with each and every member contributing equally to the sonic landscape. Of the 10 tracks on WCAL, 2 are instrumentals. "Jim" is an acoustical piece played solely by guitarist Jim Martin, "Pills for Breakfast" is a full-band effort slightly foreshadowing what would be heard two records later on The Real Thing's "Woodpecker from Mars." Two more of the tracks, "We Care a Lot" and "As the Worm Turns" would be re-recorded on later FNM albums for whatever reason. The title track was re-recorded for the second album, "Introduce Yourself," with altered lyrics and a faster tempo. The IY version is what would go on to be played at all subsequent concerts. "As the Worm Turns" was re-recorded for the "Angel Dust" record with an arguably superior vocal performance. The version found here, however, features a much superior keyboard part to the AD recording which in my opinion makes it the version of choice. No review of WCAL would be complete without a mention of the excellent keyboard & rhythm driven "Why Do You Bother?", one of my favorite FNM songs of all time. Also great are the driving "The Jungle" and "Arabian Disco," the latter of which found it's way onto one of the FNM best-of compilations.
Perhaps WCAL's only weak point is the vocal delivery, although not atrocious, it's far from the band's best though this is more apparent in some places than others. Beyond that, WCAL proves to be a (somewhat surprisingly) tight, consistent record from start to finish and pleasantly offers more than a fair share of great tunes. Listening to WCAL back to back with a later FNM album, such as "King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime" (which I believe to be of inferior stock, by the way), one thing that is immediately apparent is the length of the songs. The tunes on WCAL hook you in, throw you right into the groove, take you to a quick climax then get the hell out of dodge. As opposed to some of the tracks on KFAD, which seem to overstay their welcome, lumbering along long after their expiration date has past.
At the end of the day, I'd recommend this to all hardcore FNM fans, particularly to fans of the keyboard-heavy Angel Dust and Album of the Year. Casual fans who feel "The Real Thing" was FNM's best work probably won't find much to like here outside of Jim Martin's crunching guitar. For what it's worth, I'd probably rank it somewhere in the middle when held up against the rest of their catalog. Which says a lot, considering anything FNM put out is miles ahead of 98% of the drivel being put out by rock bands these days.
(If the $40 price tag on the CD version scares you, check out the $7 cassette version.)
 Well, some people certainly cared a bit January 16, 2008
Paul Lawrence (Australia)
An album that always seemed to blend in with Introduce Yourself in my mind perhaps due to both albums relying heavily on the presence of We Care A Lot. Of course this song was one of their early badges of merit. And it's hard all these years later to think back to whether or not the song was better in it's original version or the later one. Certainly the sales figures indicate that the later album was better recieved by the record buying public.
Personal favourites on this album include the opener/title track and not much else. The reason I have given three stars despite it's lacking any tunes I'd label absolute killers and only one good song is for it's historical importance. FNM fans really should explore these early Chuck Mosley fronted albums for their value in showing that right from the get go the band had a musical vision that while often cloudy and difficult to pin down, they were certainly on a different trip to many of the other hard and heavy bands out there.
The use of Mosleys distinctive vocals over the top of all sorts of interesting rhythms added to the shadings provided by the guitars and keyboards mean that the hardcore fan will probably find many snippets of interest. The development of the band during the first half of their career which found them trying to get their vision into rational and understandable songs is something I'm sure many FNM fans will enjoy if they help themselves to both this and Introduce Yourself.
As long as you approach it for what it is, an early and somewhat disjointed early jaunt then you'll come away happy with your purchase, lets just not get too carried away and lose all perspective however and admit that this album is not a barnstormer as it does not have the X factor present on The Real Thing nor the artistic merit or genre hopping sensibilities of some of their latter day works.
 100 bucks? August 9, 2006
Alexandros Pliakos (Manchester,NH)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Why in the hell is it 100 bucks for a brand new copy of this CD? This album is average at best, and all of the songs worth a damn sound 10million times better when Patton sings them. I understand the concept of rarity, but seriously, if you wanna pay for something rare, at least make sure it's quality. 100bucks?!?! 60bucks used?!?! How do these people sleep at night?
This was it. March 22, 2006
Kenneth Penguin (Somewhere)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Well, it's not worth 100 bucks, actually no album is worth that much. And people think its internet piracy thats making people not buy albums. Well anyways I got this album way back when I was about 15. It's got more of a garage, under produced quality, which I kind of like, plus shows a bands growth later. If you look at it with a fresh light, as it's something different and anyone into Faith No More should be into something different. Anyways, I recommend if you know a friend with it, borrow listen to it or something.
 Old but good January 12, 2006
Celestial Tree (Texas)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the first Faith No More album I ever got, and I still only have it on cassette tape, but it's one of my favorites. 'The Jungle' is one of Faith No More's best songs. This album has some great music and creepy lyrics. It's not comparable to say, Angel Dust, but it's still Faith No More doing what they do. It has the original version of We Care Alot, which I prefer over the Introduce Yourself version. Mosley's vocals take some getting used to, especially if you were introduced to FNM via Mike Patton, but they definitely work with the music. If you can find this one it's definitely worth picking up.
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