Editing Faith No More (section)

==Musical style and influences==
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Faith No More's music is generally considered to be [[alternative metal]],<ref name="vox">''Vox'' magazine, June 1997.</ref><ref name=RS>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/faith-no-more-how-rocks-most-contrarian-band-made-up-and-came-back-20150512?page=9|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514164103/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/faith-no-more-how-rocks-most-contrarian-band-made-up-and-came-back-20150512?page=9|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 14, 2015|title=Page 9 of Faith No More: How Rock's Most Contrarian Band Made Up and Came Back – Rolling Stone|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=May 17, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/we-care-a-lot-mt0003679600|title=We Care a Lot - Faith No More &#124; Song Info &#124; AllMusic|access-date=August 27, 2020|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/news/faith-no-more-rebirth-of-the-real-thing|title=Faith No More: Rebirth Of The Real Thing|first=Stephen Hill|last=February 2015|website=Metal Hammer Magazine|date=February 27, 2015|access-date=August 27, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-chuck-mosley-former-faith-no-more-frontman-1820353121|title=R.I.P. Chuck Mosley, former Faith No More frontman|website=The A.V. Club|date=November 11, 2017 |access-date=August 27, 2020}}</ref> [[experimental rock]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcbayarea.com/local/get-to-know-s-f-s-prolific-mike-patton/1891849/|title=Get To Know S.F.'s Prolific Mike Patton|date=May 18, 2011 |access-date=September 19, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://rollingstoneindia.com/new-music-hear-faith-mores-brand-new-single-superhero/|title=New Music: Hear Faith No More's Brand New Single "Superhero"|work=Rolling Stone India|date=March 2, 2015|access-date=May 17, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/faith-no-more-preview-new-album-soundwave/2558755/|title=Faith No More preview new album at Soundwave|work=Rockhampton Morning Bulletin|access-date=May 17, 2015}}</ref> {{nowrap|[[funk metal]]}},<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/10/chuck-mosley-former-lead-singer-of-faith-no-more-dies-at-57|title=Chuck Mosley, former lead singer of Faith No More, dies at 57|newspaper=The Guardian |date=November 10, 2017|access-date=September 19, 2020|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref><ref name="chuckdead">{{cite magazine |last1=Breihan |first1=Tom |title=Chuck Mosley, Former Faith No More Frontman, Dies at 57 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chuck-mosley-dead-faith-no-more-frontman-was-57-1057277 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=July 16, 2020 |date=November 10, 2017 |quote=Mosley joined the band in 1983. He sang on their first two albums, 1985's ''We Care a Lot'' and 1987's ''Introduce Yourself''. With those two albums, the band helped establish the sound of California funk-metal,}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/10-great-albums-turning-20-2019|title=10 Great Albums Turning 20 in 2019|date=January 10, 2019|website=Revolver|access-date=August 27, 2020}}</ref><ref name="rsplant"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.sfgate.com/loaded/2012/05/21/1990s/|title=Who is your favorite Bay Area band from the '90s?|first1=Aidin |last1=Vaziri |date=May 22, 2012|website=Loaded|access-date=September 19, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first= James |last= Rotondi |journal= [[CMJ|CMJ New Music Monthly]] |issue= 83 |date= July 2000 |page= 46 |issn= 1074-6978 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=qCoEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22funk+metal%22&pg=PA46 |title= Sacramento Kings – the deftones rule}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xR7MdpuSlAEC |title=All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide to Popular Music |page=145 |first1=Vladimir |last1=Bogdanov |first2=Chris |last2=Woodstra |first3=Stephen Thomas |last3=Erlewine |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |year=2001 |isbn=9780879306274}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2019/06/faith-no-more-real-thing-favorite-song-poll/|title=Faith No More's 'The Real Thing' Is 30: Vote for Your Favorite Song|date=June 20, 2019|website=Spin|access-date=September 23, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2020/02/korn-faith-no-more-hitting-the-road-together-this-summer.html|title=Korn, Faith No More hitting the road together this summer|date=February 18, 2020|website=cleveland|access-date=September 23, 2020}}</ref> [[alternative rock]],<ref name="mp">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mike-patton-mn0000489554/biography|title=Mike Patton {{!}} Biography & History|last=Prato|first=Greg|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=March 9, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Faith No More - 'Angel Dust Rarities' (album stream) |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/faith_no_more-angel_dust_album_stream |publisher=[[Exclaim!]] |access-date=May 14, 2023 |date=June 8, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '90s: 40 – 21 |url=https://www.popmatters.com/100-greatest-singles-90s-part4/2 |publisher=[[Popmatters]] |access-date=May 14, 2023 |date=April 22, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Faith No More to rock out on the Kiwi stage this May |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/faith-no-more-to-rock-out-on-the-kiwi-stage-this-may/GP44Q47HLUFQNCZEFDAOTR7MWE/ |publisher=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |access-date=May 14, 2023 |date=February 4, 2020}}</ref> and [[rap metal]];<ref name="mp"/> however, as Faith No Man, their sound was described as [[post-punk]].<ref>{{cite magazine|first= Steven |last= Blush |author-link=Steven Blush |title= Obscure No More |magazine= [[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |date= August 1990 |volume= 6 |issue= 5 |page= 16 |issn= 0886-3032 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=otG9qgDiY1cC&pg=PA19-IA3}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Lynskey|first=Dorian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/23/faith-no-more-weve-made-bad-decisions-our-whole-career-thats-why-the-english-champion-us|title=Faith No More: 'We've made bad decisions our whole career. That's why the English champion us'|date=July 23, 2015|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=March 19, 2020|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/faith-no-more-your-essential-guide-to-every-album|title=Faith No More: your essential guide to every album|date=January 18, 2020|website=[[Metal Hammer]]|access-date=March 19, 2020}}</ref> The band's first single from 1983, "[[Quiet in Heaven/Song of Liberty]]", was labelled as a "solid [[post-punk]]/pre-[[gothic rock|goth]] single".<ref name=amg>{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r573762|pure_url=yes}} |title=Song of Liberty/All Quiet in Heaven – Overview |access-date=April 23, 2012 |first=Bradley |last=Torreano |website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> These elements endured during their tenure with Chucky Mosley, with [[AllMusic]] comparing their first album to early [[Public Image Ltd]] works,<ref>{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r7077|pure_url=yes}} |title=We Care a Lot – Overview |access-date=August 23, 2008 |last=Prato |first=Greg |website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> and Mosley's vocals drawing comparisons to [[Bauhaus (band)|Bauhaus]] lead singer [[Peter Murphy (musician)|Peter Murphy]] and [[H.R. (musician)|H.R.]] of [[Bad Brains]].<ref name="vice">{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/faith-no-more-cares-a-lot/|title=Faith No More Cares a Lot|last=Hart|first=Ron|date=September 26, 2016|website=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]|access-date=March 9, 2020}}</ref> By the mid-1980s, [[Billy Gould]] stated the band were in a "weird spot", as their eclectic sound didn't fit in with the burgeoning [[hardcore punk]] and alternative rock movements of the era.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/faith-no-more-interview-with-bill-gould-we-were-playing-this-weird-music-and-we-just-got-lucky-a7156161.html|title=Faith No More founding member Bill Gould talks about We Care A Lot|date=July 26, 2016|website=The Independent|access-date=November 11, 2017}}</ref> Upon Mike Patton's arrival in 1988, the band began to expand their sound range even further, merging disparate genres such as [[synth-pop]],<ref name="heavyrock">{{cite book |last1=Gittins |first1=Ian |title=The Periodic Table of Heavy Rock |date=2015 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-78503-165-6}}</ref> [[thrash metal]],<ref name="allmusic"/> and [[circus music|carousel music]]<ref name="allmusic"/> on ''The Real Thing''. ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' states that by 1997, the band were "too heavy for the [[post-grunge]] pop hits of [[The Verve]] and [[Third Eye Blind]] [and] too arty to work comfortably with the [[nu metal]] knuckle-draggers they spawned."<ref name="RS"/> Over the course of their career, they have experimented with [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]], [[funk]], [[hip hop music|hip hop]], [[progressive rock]],<ref name="autogenerated2">{{cite web |last=Thomas |first=Stephen |url=http://music.yahoo.com/ar-314275-bio--Faith-No-More |title=Faith No More Biography on Yahoo! Music |website=Music.yahoo.com |access-date=November 15, 2010 |quote=With their fusion of heavy metal, funk, hip-hop, and progressive rock, Faith No More has earned a substantial cult following. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821085429/http://music.yahoo.com/ar-314275-bio--Faith-No-More |archive-date=August 21, 2008 }}</ref> alternative rock, [[hardcore punk]], [[polka]], [[Country music|country]], [[easy listening]], [[jazz]], [[samba]],<ref>{{cite news|author=Neil Strauss |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/23/arts/the-pop-life-horde-festival-offers-a-surprise.html?pagewanted=3&src=pm |title=The Pop Life; Horde Festival Offers a Surprise |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 23, 1998 |access-date=March 18, 2011 |quote=Faith No More, the 15-year-old San Francisco rock band known for its energetic mix of punk, jazz, heavy metal, alternative rock, samba, polka, and easy-listening, has broken up.}}</ref> [[ska]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/faith-no-more-sol-invictus|title=Faith No More: Sol Invictus – Album Review – Slant Magazine|website=Slantmagazine.com|date=May 18, 2015|access-date=January 9, 2017}}</ref> [[bossa nova]],<ref name="FAQ 32">{{cite web |url=http://old.fnm.com/faq/#32 |title=Faith No More Frequently Asked Questions |website=Old.fnm.com |editor=Agatha Samborska |access-date=December 24, 2011}}</ref> [[hard rock]], [[pop music|pop]],<ref name="Greg Prato">{{cite web|author=Greg Prato |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/album-of-the-year-r277267/review |title=Album of the Year review |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=March 14, 2011 |quote=Outstanding tracks blend hard rock and pop melodicism the way only FNM can. Album of the Year was a fitting way for one of alternative rock's most influential and important bands to end its career.}}</ref> [[soul music|soul]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hoyesarte.com/blogs/caja-de-ritmos-2/2287-faith-no-more-rey-por-un-dia.html|title=Evidence is the quiet moment, a piece of easy listening and soul masterfully played (Translated from Spanish)|website=Hoyesarte.com|date=June 15, 2009|access-date=December 24, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423115310/http://www.hoyesarte.com/blogs/caja-de-ritmos-2/2287-faith-no-more-rey-por-un-dia.html|archive-date=April 23, 2012}}</ref> [[trip hop]],<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.clashmusic.com/features/faith-no-more-the-complete-guide | title=Faith No More: The Complete Guide | publisher=[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]] | date=February 7, 2014 | access-date=September 30, 2020 | author=Hopkins, Ben}}</ref> [[gospel music|gospel]],<ref name="Allmusic review">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/king-for-a-day-fool-for-a-lifetime-r209425/review |title=King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime – Faith No More |author=Greg Prato |website=AllMusic |access-date=December 24, 2011}}</ref> and [[lounge music]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Ned Raggett |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-real-thing-r7079 |title=The Real Thing – Faith No More |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=May 19, 2015}}</ref>

Faith No More's lyrics have been described as "bizarrely humorous". When interviewed about his lyrics, Patton responded, "I think that too many people think too much about my lyrics. I am more a person who works more with the sound of a word than with its meaning. Often I just choose the words because of the rhythm, not because of the meaning."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://old.fnm.com/faq/#30 |title=Faith No More Frequently Answered Questions |editor=Samborska, Agatha |access-date=July 8, 2011}}</ref>

In addition to the band's subsequently more apparent [[heavy metal music|metal]] influences, like [[Black Sabbath]] and [[Ozzy Osbourne]], Bordin acknowledged many [[gothic rock]] and [[post-punk]] bands as early influences, including [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]],<ref name="revolver"/> [[The Cure]], [[Psychedelic Furs]], [[Echo and the Bunnymen]], [[Killing Joke]], Public Image Ltd, and [[Theatre of Hate]].<ref name="vice"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://zildjian.com/Artists/B/Mike-Bordin |title=Zildjian Artists&#124;Mike Bordin Artist Page |website=Zildjian.com |access-date=May 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510105323/https://zildjian.com/Artists/B/Mike-Bordin |archive-date=May 10, 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Upon reforming, Faith No More returned to these influences on ''[[Sol Invictus (album)|Sol Invictus]]''.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6568772/faith-no-more-mike-patton-new-album-sol-invictus|title=Faith No More's Mike Patton: 'I Don't Care Who Listens' to Our New Album|date=May 19, 2015|magazine=Billboard}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/faith-no-more-how-rocks-most-contrarian-band-made-up-and-came-back-20150512 |title=Faith No More: How Rock's Most Contrarian Band Made Up and Came Back |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=May 12, 2015 |editor=Weingarten, Christopher R. |access-date=January 24, 2018}}</ref>