FAITH NO MORE REISSUE LANDMARK DEBUT ALBUM WE CARE A LOT ON AUGUST 19 VIA KOOLARROW RECORDS
LONG OUT-OF-PRINT RELEASE GETS DELUXE TREATMENT WITH NEW MIXES, DEMOS AND LIVE RECORDINGS | PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE NOW
βWith We Care A Lot, I always felt like I was part of something new and different than anything else out there at the time. It made me feel privileged to be a part of it. The other guys were so cool, and there was so much camaraderie. And that came across in the music; Bordinβs drums battling it out with Billyβs bass in antagonistic harmony, Roddyβs melodic atmosphere, swallowed up by Jimβs crunchy metal riffs. I found my place somewhere between them all, and when the album was finished, it didnβt sound like anything else.β ~Chuck Mosley
Faith NoΒ Moreβs landmark debut We Care A LotΒ which was initially released in 1985 and has been out of print for 20 years, seesΒ an August 19 reissue via Bill Gouldβs Koolarrow Records.
βThis was an album that started as a demo,Β before any label had any interest in us,β explained Faith No More bass playerΒ Bill Gould. βThere were a couple ofΒ reasons we decided to release this now: first of all, itβs been 20 years sinceΒ it has been commercially available.
Secondly, when cleaning out my basement, I discovered the originalΒ master reels, and we all thought that resurrecting this from the original tapesΒ would be a great way to reintroduce WeΒ Care A Lot into the world. Lastly,Β this has been a band effort; we are releasing this in the same way as weΒ recorded it, deciding everything amongst ourselves and getting our hands deepΒ into the nuts and boltsβ¦ just like we used to.β
The original 10-song album, remastered byΒ Maor Appelbaum via the original reels Gould eluded to, is enhanced with nineΒ bonus tracks including demo versions (taken from the original 8-track tapes) ofΒ βGreed,β βMark Bowen,β βArabian Discoβ and βIntro,β live versions of βTheΒ Jungleβ and βNew Beginningsβ and new mixes, via Matt Wallace, of βWe Care AΒ Lot,β βPills for Breakfastβ and βAs The Worm Turns.β Liner notes from keyboard player Roddy BottumΒ and behind-the-scenes photos will be included with the physical release. We Care A Lot (Deluxe Band Edition) isΒ available now for pre-order on CD (link), digital (link) and vinyl (link).
WeΒ Care A Lot arrived in November 1985 via Maximum RocknRoll editor Ruth SchwartzβsΒ Mordam Records. The seminal album, boasting the timeless title track, which canΒ still be heard daily on radio stations worldwide, confounded music fans andΒ critics alike. As Pitchfork said in a 2015 article dubbed βThe MisunderstandingΒ of Faith No More,β the unpredictable and hard-to-define band βhad radicallyΒ altered the parameters of popular music years before the fabled alternative revolution.β Rolling Stone called it a “raw punk album” while SelectΒ Magazine dubbed it “a lustful marriage of mutoid metal and dancefloorΒ verve.”
βWhen strangers ask what Faith No More isΒ Iβve always said, βwell, itβs kind of an art bandβ¦β I say that mostly toΒ distance us from the hard rock world that weβre often times lumped into. IΒ mean, hard rock, sure, that was part of it, but our roots most definitely andΒ pointedly stem from a specific freakout art time and place in San Francisco, aΒ time that no longer exists. In 1982, the hippies mingled with the punks, theΒ artists hung out with the musicians, the dance people and the punks were oneΒ and the Satanists and the sexual pioneersβ¦ all part of the same scene,β BottumΒ explains, colorfully setting the scene for the original inspiration for theΒ band and We Care A Lot. βThat weird SF window provided a platformΒ from which we were free to express and cultivate a really uniquely odd soundΒ experience. In Los Angeles, no one really cared much, but SF was always superΒ supportive, encouraging us, directly and not, to get our collective freak on.β
βWe felt like it was time to take the nextΒ step,β adds drummer Mike Bordin. βWe raised as much money as we were able andΒ booked time at Prairie Sun Studios just north of San Francisco. I canβt remember how long it took us toΒ record the album, but not a lot, maybe a few days. The songs were sharp from having played mostΒ of them at various shows. Very strippedΒ down, basic as could be. The place wasΒ on a farm in chicken country (Petaluma). Hard work, but a ton of fun too.β
We Care A Lot (Deluxe Band Edition) Track List
We Care A Lot
The Jungle
Mark Bowen
Jim
Why Do You Bother
Greed
Pills for Breakfast
As The Worm Turns
Arabian Disco
New Beginnings
We Care A Lot β 2016 Mix
Pills for Breakfast β 2016 Mix
As The Worm Turns β 2016 Mix
Greed β Original Demo
Mark Bowen β Original Demo
Arabian Disco β Original Demo
Intro β Original Demo
The Jungle β I-Beam, SF, 1986
New Beginnings β I-Beam, SF, 1986