Friday, January 27, 2023

Back to the Eighties: Epic

Original video located here. Accessed 27th January 2023

Song title: Epic

Artist: Faith No More

Year: 1989

Why I like this song:

Words alone can't describe what a REVELATION this song was, hearing it as a seven/eight year old. I once described this song as the equivalent of Mack truck crashing into one's living room in slow motion and I still stand by it.

Listening to it now though, it's clear that this song is a lot of things coming at you, the listener, all at once. We have a funk bass, a metal guitar, shout-along vocals, tribal drumming, an urgency like nothing else and a solemn piano solo closing it out.

Years later it still sounds like nothing else and nothing anyone - not even the late 1990s/early 2000s nu-metal disciples who were clearly inspired by this - have even matched.

'What is it? It's It' indeed

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