We Care a Lot

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We Care a Lot
Studio album by Faith No More
Released	1985
Genre	Alternative
Length	?:?
Label	Mordam Records
Producer(s)	Faith No More, Matt Wallace & Steve Berlin
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	We Care a Lot (1985)	Introduce Yourself (1987)

We Care a Lot was the San Francisco-based alternative rock band Faith No More's first album, released in 1985. Originally distributed through Canadian label Mordam Records, it fell by the wayside and went largely unacknowledged until its reissue a decade later (even the sleeve notes for the band's subsequent Slash releases refer to 1987's Introduce Yourself as their debut LP).

This album features the band's original line-up of Mike Bordin on drums, Roddy Bottum on keyboards, Billy Gould on bass, Jim Martin on guitar and Chuck Mosely on vocals.

While not boasting quality sound production, the record is forced to survive on its creativity and originality alone - and for the most part it succeeds. Fans and the uninitiated alike can acknowledge that the seeds of what would, in later releases, become a truly unique interpretation of heavy metal are present. Mosely's vocals are often drowned in reverberation, possibly in an attempt to conceal his more atonal moments - but despite his singing voice being not nearly as refined as it would become for Introduce Yourself (and not a patch on that of the band's future frontman Mike Patton) there is a distinctive charm to the mix of slurring, straining and screaming that gives the record much of its warmth.

The title track that opens the record is an early incarnation of what would become their first major single. In another instance of the band 'covering' themselves, a second version of the album's strongest track 'As The Worm Turns' would be recorded in 1992 with Patton on vocals and released as a b-side during the 'Angel Dust' era releases. The remainder of the cuts on this album range from acoustic (the bizarrely subdued guitar solo 'Jim'), dark metal (the raucous, unrelenting 'Why Do You Bother'), danceable rock ('The Jungle' and the riff-heavy instrumental 'Pills For Breakfast') and the album's closer 'New Beginnings' gives a glimpse of the band's more melodic endeavours, which would be further showcased on the records that followed.

While released on vinyl and cassette in 1985, this album would not be released to buy as a CD until 1995 in Australia (as a pink disc for the first pressing, and black disc for the second, to coincide with the tour for their fifth studio album 'King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime', released that year). In 1996 it was reissued on CD and vinyl in the UK and Japan with slightly modified artwork, one being a purple disc.

[edit] Track listing

1. "We Care A Lot" (music: Gould/Bottum; lyrics: Mosely)
2. "The Jungle" (music: Bottum/Gould/Bordin; lyrics: Mosely)
3. "Mark Bowen" (music: Gould/Bordin; lyrics: Gould/Mosely)
4. "Jim" (music: Martin)
5. "Why Do You Bother" (music: Gould/Bordin/Bottum; lyrics: Mosely)
6. "Greed" (music & lyrics: Gould/Mosely)
7. "Pills for Breakfast" (music: Bordin/Martin)
8. "As the Worm Turns" (music: Bottum/Gould/Mosely; lyrics: Mosely)
9. "Arabian Disco" (music: Gould; lyrics: Mosely)
10. "New Beginnings" (music & lyrics: Mosely)

Faith No More
Roddy Bottum | Billy Gould | Mike Bordin | Mike Patton | Jon Hudson
Chuck Mosely | "Big" Jim Martin | Dean Menta | Trey Spruance | Mark Bowen | Courtney Love | Wade Worthington
Discography
Studio albums: We Care a Lot | Introduce Yourself | The Real Thing | Angel Dust | King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | Album of the Year
Lives and compilations: Live at the Brixton Academy | Who Cares a Lot? | This Is It: The Best of Faith No More | Epic & Other Hits | The Platinum Collection
Singles: We Care a Lot | Anne's Song | From Out Of Nowhere | Epic | Falling To Pieces | Midlife Crisis | A Small Victory | Everything's Ruined | Songs to Make Love To | Another Body Murdered | Digging the Grave | Ricochet | Evidence | Ashes To Ashes | Last Cup Of Sorrow | Stripsearch | I Started a Joke
Related articles
Imperial Teen | Mr. Bungle | Faith No Man | Brujeria | Peeping Tom | Coma | Tomahawk | Fantômas
Categories: Faith No More albums | Faith No More songs
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