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Deluxe edition in digipak with bonus cd

Starting with the careening “From Out of Nowhere,” driven by Bottum’s doomy, energetic keyboards, Faith No More rebounded excellently on The Real Thing after Mosley’s firing. Given that the band had nearly finished recording the music and Patton was a last minute recruit, he adjusts to the proceedings well. His insane, wide-ranging musical interests would have to wait for the next album for their proper integration, but the band already showed enough of that to make it an inspired combination. Bottum, in particular, remains the wild card, coloring Martin’s nuclear-strength riffs and the Gould/Bordin rhythm slams with everything from quirky hooks to pristine synth sheen. It’s not quite early Brian Eno joins Led Zeppelin and Funkadelic, but it’s closer than might be thought, based on the nutty lounge vibes of “Edge of the World” and the Arabic melodies and feedback of “Woodpeckers From Mars.” “Falling to Pieces,” a fractured anthem with a delicious delivery from Patton, should have been a bigger single that it was, while “Surprise! You’re Dead!” and the title track stuff riffs down the listener’s throat. The best-known song remains the appropriately titled “Epic,” which lives up to its name from the bombastic opening to the concluding piano and the crunching, stomping funk metal in between. The inclusion of a cover of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” amusingly backfired on the band — at the time, Sabbath’s hipness level was nonexistent, making it a great screw-you to the supposed cutting edge types. However, all the metalheads took the band to their hearts so much that, as a result, the quintet dropped it from their sets to play “Easy” by the Commodores instead!

Track listing:
1. From Out Of Nowhere
2. Epic
3. Falling To Pieces
4. Surprise! Youre Dead
5. Zombie Eaters
6. The Real Thing
7. Underwater Love
8. The Morning After
9. Woodpecker from Mars
10. War Pigs-Black Sabbath cover
11. Edge Of The World
12. Sweet Emotion-Kerrang flexi disc
13. Epic-radio remix edit
14. Falling To Pieces-Matt Wallace remix
15. Cowboy Song
16. The Grade
17. From Out Of Nowhere-extended remix
18. War Pigs-live in Berlin 1989
19. Surprise! You’re Dead-live in Sheffield 1990
20. Chinese Arithmetic-live in Sheffield 1990
21. Underwater Love-live at Brixton Academy 1990
22. As The Worm Turns-live at Brixton Academy 1990