Faith No More

KeyserSoze wrote: Ok, now we have Iron Maiden in PA, why not Faith No More? Albums Angel Dust, King For A Day and Album Of The Year are progressive and they influenced many progrock bands.

Progressive, but only very slightly, and not enough to be included even as prog-related.

Person 1: Well, since Iron Maiden here, Faith No More should as well!

Trickster F. wrote: Person 1: Well, since Iron Maiden here, Faith No More should as well! Person 2: Well, really, what's their relation to prog?   Person 1: Give me a week, I'll listen to them and then tell you.

Trickster F. wrote: Person 1: Well, since Iron Maiden here, Faith No More should as well! Person 2: Well, really, what's their relation to prog?   Person 1: Give me a week, I'll listen to them and then tell you.

^ it's funny, but obviously you're misunderstanding him on purpose.

Actually it makes much sense to argue on the basis of "X are here -> so should Y" ... most people who do so think that Y are at least as prog (or prog-related) as X. You shouldn't bash him for listening in more detail before giving detailed reasons for his opinion (I also hadn't listened to FnM for several months until I saw this thread).

A nice humor, Trickster, really, but as Mike said, I was reacting on mystic fred's appeal for elaborating on why this band should be included and I understood it as I must write out exact reasons besides everything I wrote about them. I haven't heard any Faith No More music for months, so now I need to listen to their albums closely, one by one and write down my perceptions. No, they aren't progressive rock but their music was definitely progressive and that's what I have been saying since I started this topic. So that was no opinion change but just an explanation why I'll be silent for some days. Anything else for making a joke on it?

this is outrageous.... go ahead, include metallica already while you're at it... I may point out that this is the first NU-METAL band I've heard.... They probably had some experimental stuff, but many metal bands have experimental sides. Led Zeppelin had, so had Black Sabbath.... they shouldn't even be prog related.

lucas wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: Faith No More is/was a rap rock band injected with a little metal. Nothing more.   And Iron Maiden is nothing more than a ... heavy metal band. PA is the only prog sites to list Iron Maide as a prog band.

TheProgtologist wrote: [QUOTE=lucas] [QUOTE=TheProgtologist] If people can add bands that were a huge influence on progressive rock why can't a band be listed that was a HUGE influence on the development of progressive metal??????????????????????????????????

Perhaps a bit late on this one, but I think FNM deserve to be included as prog related because of their versatility and their majestic Angel dust, King for a day and Album of the year albums. it is true they were close to the much maligned rap-metal cliche, but quickly developed beyond it which resulted in decreasing popularity in the States. Their clever arrangements and heavy usage of keyboards also made them unique and hard to label (but close to prog). They had (mini) epics such as The real thing, Land of sunshine, King for a day, Stripsearch, Ashes to ashes, Ricochet; also some very unrap/unmetal weird songs such as the waltzing RV, the rnb Evidence and She loves me not, the gospel alike Just a man, the funky-brass Star AD, etc. Just because they are not as experimental as Mr Bungle and Fantomas (how many bands are?) doesn't mean they do not deserve to be here, bands should be judged by their own merit, right?