Faith No More Album: “Introduce Yourself”

This album introduced FNM to a much larger audience than they'd reached before. The album produced their first (underground) hit in the title track - a fun though lyrically silly rant raised from obscurity through good use of stop start rhythms.

Pulled to pieces it's clear that this band were infused with a great love of loud music played at a number of speeds and there certainly seems to also be a fair smattering of punk influences in both the delivery and the do it yourself feel of the album. The vocals of pre Mike Patton vocalist Chuck Mosley are an acquired taste and to hear him rave on with his non singers voice over the top of what are ofen fairly tight musical ideas is interesting. And make no mistake, as much as this sounded thrown together it's pretty clear that there was real musical vision behind the creation of these songs and their construction into a full album. The art of looking like there was no hard work done at all to produce this art metal calling card.

Personal favourites of mine here are the title track and also, strangely, The Crab Song which to me is utterly evocative of an the sort of feelings one has during one of your first relationship break ups and of course We Care A Lot which was the other really standout track on the album.

Taken as a whole this is an album more important for it's place in the FNM history, an album any FNM fan really wants to hear for themselves and very worthwhile as an early document if you can pick it up cheap. But it's too disjointed with too clouded an artistic vision to be worthy of more than three stars in it's own right.

A great album from one of the greatest groups still out there (at least last time I heard). Very different from their later releases, this is still an essential album. 'Faster Disco' and 'Chinese Arithmetic' are great songs

This is one of Faith No More's best albums by far. A lot of people don't like Chuck Mosley's vocals though. I really like them, and feel that they capture the energy and obnoxiousness of FNM. I would like FNM as much today if they had kept Mosley instead of picking up Patton. And honestly, while Mosley isn't up to much these days, Mike's other projects haven't been so hot either. Chinese Arithmetic is where its at.

You know i feel bad for the rest of the critics on this album, because they failed to GET "we care a lot".

Don't worry about the vocals so much, they go well with the music which is sort of like a urban hip-hop/punk mix that no one made before this, NO ONE. The king of nonconventianal music (Mike Patton) was the reason FNM became so commercial. This is the real faith no More.

Good album very good the only reason they are getting 4 stars is because they did a lot better with "Angel Dust". :)

I have been a FNM fan since I first started to get into rock in the 5th grade, and for die-hard fans this is a must. After picking up " The Real Thing" and " Angel Dust" I was a bit surprised that they had another lead singer before Mike Patton. This guy, Chuck Mosely(Who kind of looks like Patton with dreadlocks) cannot sing to save his life. He sounds like he has cerbral paulsy, is missing part of his tongue and is severly drunk all at once. Instrumentally however,"Introduce Yourself" soars." Faster Disco", despite its name, is really powerful and moving song and may have influenced some of the stuff in "Angel Dust". You can see why FNM are considered to be among the forebears of alternative rock along with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane's Addiction.