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* ConeOfShame: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Cone of Shame]]".
* CoverVersion: "Easy" by the Commodores, "War Pigs" by Music/BlackSabbath, the ''Film/MidnightCowboy'' theme, "Poker Face" by Music/LadyGaga, "Let's Lynch the Landlord" by Music/DeadKennedys, "Reunited" by Peaches and Herb, "I Started a Joke" by Music/TheBeeGees, "I Wanna Fuck Myself" by Music/GGAllin, "Niggas in Paris" by Music/KanyeWest and Music/JayZ, "Highway Star" by Music/DeepPurple. Not all of these are full covers -- some were brief snippets they would include in the beginning or middle of their own songs when playing live.

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"Easy" by the Commodores, "War Pigs" by Music/BlackSabbath, the ''Film/MidnightCowboy'' theme, "Poker Face" by Music/LadyGaga, "Let's Lynch the Landlord" by Music/DeadKennedys, "Reunited" by Peaches and Herb, "I Started a Joke" by Music/TheBeeGees, "I Wanna Fuck Myself" by Music/GGAllin, "Niggas in Paris" by Music/KanyeWest and Music/JayZ, "Highway Star" by Music/DeepPurple. Not all of these are full covers -- some were brief snippets they would include in the beginning or middle of their own songs when playing live.



* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Billy
** TheLancer: Patton
** TheSmartGuy: Roddy
** TheBigGuy: Bordin
** [[SixthRanger Fifth Ranger]]: Jon

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* %%* FiveManBand:
** %%** TheLeader: Billy
** %%** TheLancer: Patton
** %%** TheSmartGuy: Roddy
** %%** TheBigGuy: Bordin
** %%** [[SixthRanger Fifth Ranger]]: Jon



* LowerClassLout: "RV"
* LyricalColdOpen: "Introduce Yourself", "Digging the Grave", "Collision"

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* %%* LyricalColdOpen: "Introduce Yourself", "Digging the Grave", "Collision"



** "Happy Birthday, fucker" and "I deserve a reward, 'cause I'm the best fuck that you ever had" from "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies".

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** "Happy Birthday, fucker" and "I deserve a reward, 'cause [[SexGod I'm the best fuck that you ever had" had]]" from "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies".



* SpokenWord: The verses of "RV".

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* UncommonTime: Shows up sometimes. "Malpractice" is a good example.

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* SoreLoser: "A Small Victory" is sung from the perspective of one. Losing "shouldn't bother [them], but it does."

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** From "Caffeine", this pearl: 'I'M WARNING YOU, I'M WARNING YOU, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar I'M FUCKING YOU]], I'M WARNING YOU'

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** From "Caffeine", this pearl: 'I'M WARNING YOU, I'M WARNING YOU, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar I'M FUCKING YOU]], YOU, I'M WARNING YOU'



* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Patton makes use of his status as TheUnintelligible to mix cussing among his screams.
--> '''The lyrics from "Caffeine":''' [[CarefulWithThatAxe I'M WARNING YOU, I'M WARNING YOU, I'M FUCKING YOU, I'M WARNING YOU]]

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Patton makes use of his status as TheUnintelligible GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to mix cussing among his screams.
--> '''The lyrics from "Caffeine":''' [[CarefulWithThatAxe I'M WARNING YOU, I'M WARNING YOU, I'M FUCKING YOU, I'M WARNING YOU]]
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* ShoutOut: The video for "Last Cup of Sorrow" is an homage to Alfred Hitchcock's ''Film/{{Vertigo}}''.

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* ShoutOut: The video for "Last Cup of Sorrow" is an homage to Alfred Hitchcock's ''Film/{{Vertigo}}''. The artwork to the single is modeled after a famous poster for the film.
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** "Last Cup Of Sorrow" includes the lines "Raise your glass and let's propose a toast / to the thing that hurts you most" - this is a slight variation a lyric from "Bloody Mary", an old Music/MrBungle demo ("Raise your glass and toast / To the thing that hurts you most")
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* MotorMouth: "Surprise! You're Dead!" has Patton on a roll for this one.
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** "Epic" continued the trend by mocking the RedHotChiliPeppers and their [[RapRock song style]] at the time.

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** "Epic" continued the trend by mocking the RedHotChiliPeppers Music/RedHotChiliPeppers and their [[RapRock song style]] at the time.

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* TakeThat: "We Care A Lot" mocks {{charity|MotivationSong}} singles of its era. One line even goes "(We care a lot) about starvation and the food that Live Aid bought"

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"We Care A Lot" mocks {{charity|MotivationSong}} singles of its era. One line even goes "(We care a lot) about starvation and the food that Live Aid bought"bought".
** "Epic" continued the trend by mocking the RedHotChiliPeppers and their [[RapRock song style]] at the time.
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* TheAlcoholic: Billy Gould wrote "Take This Bottle" to express how awful he felt about being one.



* SurprisinglyGentleSong: Their cover of [[Music/BlackSabbath "War Pigs"]] was a live staple, so at a certain point they decided to spite the metalhead audience who started to ask for "War Pigs" and go into the Commodores' "Easy", and later Music/TheBeeGees' "I Started a Joke" instead.

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* SurprisinglyGentleSong: Their cover of [[Music/BlackSabbath "War Pigs"]] was a live staple, so at a certain point they decided to spite the metalhead audience who started to ask for "War Pigs" and go into the Commodores' "Easy", and later Music/TheBeeGees' "I Started a Joke" instead. The band would also cover Burt Bacharach's "This Guy's In Love With You" before their initial breakup.
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** In a live performance in the UK they've covered the ''Series/Eastenders'' theme, to an enthusiastic reaction from the audience

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** In a live performance in the UK they've covered the ''Series/Eastenders'' ''Series/{{Eastenders}}'' theme, to an enthusiastic reaction from the audience
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** In a live performance in the UK they've covered the ''Series/Eastenders'' theme, to an enthusiastic reaction from the audience
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* FatBastard: Their only LiveAlbum was titled ''You Fat Bastards: Live at the Brixton Academy.''


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* JeopardyThinkingMusic: They'd play it in concert as a joke.
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* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Veers between 6 and 7. A few songs (i.e. "The Real Thing", "Jizzlober", "Surprise! You're Dead") go above this and a few (i.e. their cover of "Easy", "The Grade", "Edge of the World") that drop well below. These guys could pretty much play anything on the scale.

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* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Veers between 6 and 7. A few songs (i.e. "The Real Thing", "Jizzlober", "Jizzlobber", "Surprise! You're Dead") go above this and a few (i.e. their cover of "Easy", "The Grade", "Edge of the World") that drop well below. These guys could pretty much play anything on the scale.
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* TheCameo: From 2010 until his 2017 death, former singer Chuck Mosley has occasionally joined the band live to sing one of the ''We Care a Lot'' and ''Introduce Yourself'' tracks.

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* TheCameo: From 2010 until his 2017 death, former singer Chuck Mosley has occasionally joined the band live to sing one of the ''We Care a Lot'' and ''Introduce Yourself'' tracks.

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* AltumVidetur: ''Sol invictus'' translates as "Invincible Sun".


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* GratuitousLatin: ''Sol invictus'' translates as "Invincible Sun" in Latin.

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!! The band has examples of the following tropes:

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!! The band has examples of the following tropes:
(We care a lot!) About listing tropes regarding this band:



* TheCameo: Since 2010, former singer Chuck Mosley has occasionally joined the band live to sing one of the ''We Care a Lot'' and ''Introduce Yourself'' tracks.

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* TheCameo: Since 2010, From 2010 until his 2017 death, former singer Chuck Mosley has occasionally joined the band live to sing one of the ''We Care a Lot'' and ''Introduce Yourself'' tracks.



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

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* GreatestHitsAlbum: They have a few, two with cheeky titles, ''Who Cares a Lot?'' ([[CallAndResponseSong the very first track is]] "We Care a Lot") and ''The Very Best Definitive Ultimate Greatest Hits Collection'', ''This Is It: The Best of Faith No More'', ''Who Cares a Lot'' and a couple of other compilation albums that may or may not be greatest hits albums.Collection''.



* TakeThat: "We Care A Lot" mocks {{charity|MotivationSong}} singles of its era.

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* TakeThat: "We Care A Lot" mocks {{charity|MotivationSong}} singles of its era. One line even goes "(We care a lot) about starvation and the food that Live Aid bought"


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** As noted on SurprisinglyGentleSong, to spite the metalheads who wanted "War Pigs" came other songs. Billy Gould stated that "just to see the number of middle fingers go up when we go into 'Easy' is amazing."
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** "Helpless" has a subtle but still creepy example. Near the end of the song, there's [[SelfBackingVocalist three tracks of Mike Patton's vocals going at once]] - two of them are sung call and response parts, the third is just Mike shouting "HELP!" at the top of his lungs in time with the music... The screams aren't given as much emphasis in the mix as the more melodic vocals, but eventually everything in the song fades out ''but'' that part, so the last few seconds of the song are just Mike repeatedly screaming "HELP!" like his life depended on it.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Patton makes use of his {{Unintelligible}} status to mix cussing among his screams.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Patton makes use of his {{Unintelligible}} status as TheUnintelligible to mix cussing among his screams.
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* CarefulWithThatAxe: Patton is a fucking ''specialist'' at this. Crosses easily into ChewingTheScenery.
** "Cuckoo For Caca" has this lovely piece: 'YOU CAN'T KILL IIIITT!!! YOU CAN'T KILL IIIITT!!!'
** From "Caffeine", this pearl: 'I'M WARNING YOU, I'M WARNING YOU, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar I'M FUCKING YOU]], I'M WARNING YOU'
** Also from his project Tomahawk the song Malocchio starts out with Patton screaming 'CHEW IT!! CHEW IT!! CHEW IT TO SPIT IT OUT!!'.
** Fantomas' cover of the ''Series/TwinPeaks: Fire Walk With Me'' theme is sort of an interesting case because it contains a scream that's not actually performed by Mike Patton at all: It's a sample from the final episode of the TV series, which is scarier if you've seen the episode in question.
** The end of the bridge to Mr. Bungle's "Goodbye Sober Day" has one section in which Patton, unaccompanied, screams "CHAK! CHAK CHAK CHAK CHAKA CHAKA CHAKA CHAKA CHAKA CHAKA CHAK CHAK CHAK!" If you've never heard the song before, and it comes on while you're asleep, be prepared to wake up in terror.


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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Patton makes use of his {{Unintelligible}} status to mix cussing among his screams.
--> '''The lyrics from "Caffeine":''' [[CarefulWithThatAxe I'M WARNING YOU, I'M WARNING YOU, I'M FUCKING YOU, I'M WARNING YOU]]

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* IndecipherableLyrics: Patton screaming ''[[MotorMouth DON'TLOOKATMEI'MUGLYINTHEMORNING!]]'' throughout "Ugly in The Morning." [[{{Scatting}} By the end he's just singing gibberish]].

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* IndecipherableLyrics: Patton screaming ''[[MotorMouth DON'TLOOKATMEI'MUGLYINTHEMORNING!]]'' throughout "Ugly in The Morning." [[{{Scatting}} By the end he's just singing gibberish]].gibberish.]]



* ShoutOut: The video for "Last Cup of Sorrow" is an homage to Alfred Hitchcock's ''Film/{{Vertigo}}''.



* SpiritualSuccessor: They have seemingly found one with [[Music/DirEnGrey Japan's most successful metal band.]]

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* SpiritualSuccessor: They have seemingly found one with [[Music/DirEnGrey Japan's most successful metal band.]]band]].



* TakeThat: "We Care A Lot" mocks {{charity|MotivationSong}} singles of its era.



* {{Troll}}: Bottum wrote the lyrics to "Be Aggressive" as unambiguously about gay fellatio as possible just to see if Patton would actually sing them.

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** Mike Patton has had a reputation for doing off-kilter covers live.
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** "Land of Sunshine", which has quite a funky tune, is about cults brainwashing people by asking a lot of personal questions and then preteneadrerding these things are 'wrong' and they can help them. [[note]]The song was written by piecing together phrases from fortune cookies and [[ChurchOfHappyology Scientology]] personality test questions.[[/note]]

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** "Land of Sunshine", which has quite a funky tune, is about cults brainwashing people by asking a lot of personal questions and then preteneadrerding pretending these things are 'wrong' and they can help them. [[note]]The song was written by piecing together phrases from fortune cookies and [[ChurchOfHappyology Scientology]] personality test questions.[[/note]]
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* MemeticMutation: Amongst fans, Chuck Mosley's monologues at the start of "Death March" and "The Crab Song" have appeared in many comments on the man's work.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Chuck Mosley died on November 10th 2017, rendering any future reunion impossible.
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The band suffered it's first AuthorExistenceFailure on November 9, 2017 when Chuck Mosley passed away due to a suspected heroin overdose.

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The band suffered it's its first AuthorExistenceFailure on November 9, 2017 when Chuck Mosley passed away due to a suspected heroin overdose.



** 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 fellatio.

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** With it's its cheerleader samples and generally uplifting tone, "Be Aggressive" sounds like it should be some sort of PepTalkSong... It's actually an ode to gay fellatio.
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The band suffered it's first AuthorExistenceFailure on November 9, 2017 when Chuck Mosley passed away due to addiction-related reasons.

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The band suffered it's first AuthorExistenceFailure on November 9, 2017 when Chuck Mosley passed away due to addiction-related reasons.
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** TheLeader: Bordin

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** TheLeader: BordinBilly



** TheBigGuy: Billy

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** TheBigGuy: BillyBordin
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Chuck Mosley died on November 10th 2017, rendering any future reunion impossible.


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* MemeticMutation: Amongst fans, Chuck Mosley's monologues at the start of "Death March" and "The Crab Song" have appeared in many comments on the man's work.
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The band suffered it's first AuthorExistenceFailure on November 9, 2017 when Chuck Mosley passed away due to addiction-related reasons.


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* ConeOfShame: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Cone of Shame]]".

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