History Music / FaithNoMore

* GreatestHitsAlbum: "The Very Best Definitive Ultimate Greatest Hits Collection", "This Is It: The Best of Faith No More", and a couple of other compilation albums that may or may not be greatest hits albums.

* OneHitWonder: Technically speaking, "Epic" is their only big hit. Certainly their only song a non-fan would be likely to have ever heard.

** With it's cheerleader samples and generally uplifting tone, "Be Aggressive" sounds like it should be some sort of PepTalkSong... It's actually an ode to gay oral sex.

** The non-album track "Das Schützenfest ", which is sung entirely in German and written in the style of polka. Apparently it's about meeting a girl at a festival held by a rifle club, then making love with her in a pig trough.

* SignatureSong: "Epic," "Midlife Crisis"

** The non-album track "Das Shutzenfest", which is entirely in German. Apparently it's about meeting a girl at a festival held by a rifle club, then making love with her in a pig trough.

* CoverVersion: "Easy" by the Commodores, "War Pigs" by Music/BlackSabbath, the ''MidnightCowboy'' theme, "Poker Face" by LadyGaga, "Let's Lynch The Landlord" by DeadKennedys, "Reunited" by Peaches And Herb, "I Started A Joke" by the {{Bee Gees}}, "I Wanna F*** Myself" by GGAllin, "N*ggas in Paris" by KanyeWest and JayZ, "Highway Star" by DeepPurple.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The band was much bigger in Europe and Australia than the US.

* CoverVersion: "Easy" by the Commodores, "War Pigs" by Music/BlackSabbath, the ''MidnightCowboy'' theme, "Poker Face" by LadyGaga, "Let's Lynch The Landlord" by DeadKennedys, "Reunited" by Peaches And Herb, "I Started A Joke" by the {{Bee Gees}}, "I Wanna F*** Myself" by GG Allin, "N*ggas in Paris" by KanyeWest and JayZ, "Highway Star" by DeepPurple.

* CoverVersion: "Easy" by the Commodores, "War Pigs" by Music/BlackSabbath, the ''MidnightCowboy'' theme, "Poker Face" by LadyGaga, "Let's Lynch The Landlord" by DeadKennedys, "Reunited" by Peaches And Herb.

!!'''The band has examples of the following tropes:'''

* CoverVersion: "Easy" by the Commodores, "War Pigs" by Music/BlackSabbath, the ''MidnightCowboy'' theme and "Poker Face" by LadyGaga.
** Also "Let's Lynch The Landlord" by Dead Kennedys and "Reunited" by Peaches And Herb.

* GratuitousForeignLanguage: "Caralho Voador", from ''King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime'', has a verse in Portuguese (as well as the title[[hottip:*:"Flying Dick", as in "penis"]]).
** And, for bonus points, it's styled after Bossa Nova.
** There's also the non-album track "Das Shutzenfest", which is entirely in German... Apparently it's about meeting a girl at a festival held by a rifle club, then making love with her in a pig trough.

* NonAppearingTitle: "Epic". Also, "Stripsearch", "Naked In Front Of The Computer", "Zombie Eaters", "Pristina"...

** Three other good examples would be [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5irHyoRNcRY Everything's ruined]] which features great use of green screen, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHydZPFlf2g Midlife Crisis,]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rcYBP0FdL8 Falling to Pieces]] which includes [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext exploding fish and hands with eyeballs.]]

* ShapedLikeItself: [[ThisIsSparta "What. Is. It?"]] "It's IT!"

* EpicRiff: "Epic" (what else?).
** Also the drum intro to "Midlife Crisis" and the keyboards in "From Out of Nowhere".

** Three other good examples would be [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5irHyoRNcRY Everything's ruined]] which features great use of green screen, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHydZPFlf2g Midlife Crisis,]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rcYBP0FdL8 Falling to Pieces]] which includes exploding fish and hands with eyeballs.

* SurrealMusicVideo: "Epic" - it involves the band performing on a soundstage while soaked by a storm, ominous clouse-ups of Patton, a flopping fish (which they jokingly claimed to have stolen from {{Bjork}}) and Bottum's piano exploding at the end, and "We Care A Lot" features constant flashes to a baby Which is never explained. Plus "Falling to Fieces", period.
** Not to meantion "We Care A Lot" in and of itself is a kind of weird song.

* NonAppearingTitle: "Epic". Also, "Stripsearch", "Naked In Front Of The Computer", "Zombie Eaters"...

* SurrealMusicVideo: "Epic" - it involves the band performing on a soundstage while soaked by a storm, ominous clouse-ups of Patton, a flopping fish (which they jokingly claimed to have stolen from {{Bjork}}) and Bottum's piano exploding at the end, and "We Care A Lot" features constant flashes to a baby Which is never explained.

* SurrealMusicVideo: "Epic" - it involves the band performing on a soundstage while soaked by a storm, ominous clouse-ups of Patton, a flopping fish (which they jokingly claimed to have stolen from {{Bjork}}) and Bottum's piano exploding at the end.

Describe FaithNoMore here. Well, we'll try.

The band is best known for combining elements of [[Music/HeavyMetal metal]], funk, ProgressiveRock, {{Hip-Hop}}, HardcorePunk, and jazz, among many others, [[spoiler:among many, many, many others... seriously...]], and is considered one of the most influential rock bands of modern times, "Epic" having massively influenced the NuMetal genre (though YourMileageMayVary as to whether this was truly a good thing).

The band is best known for combining elements of [[HeavyMetal metal]], funk, ProgressiveRock, {{Hip-Hop}}, HardcorePunk, and jazz, among many others, [[spoiler:among many, many, many others... seriously...]], and is considered one of the most influential rock bands of modern times, "Epic" having massively influenced the NuMetal genre (though YourMileageMayVary as to whether this was truly a good thing).