Faith No More
As with many people, I first got into Faith No More with their monumental smash Epic. It came from out of nowhere (pardon the pun) and left me impressed. Over the next eight years I followed them throughout my primary school years and right into my High School Years - I recall buying Album of the Year with a voucher I won in a school fundraiser and playing it many times since. But what is interesting is FNM broke up at the end of my time at High School. It felt like the end of an era and left a hole that would take a while to be filled.
Key Album: The Real Thing (1989) It has some great songs but really, this album’s reputation lies solely on Epic. I recall being seven years old, watching the Top Forty on rage and seeing this as no.1. This was something completely new and unlike anything that shared chart space - in turn leaving me stunned. In retrospect, it roared like a demon, it struck with the force of a sledgehammer, it sounded like a cataclysm and it was nothing like I had heard before. This was my first introduction to the world of metal....and I think I liked it.
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