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Rating: It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it...
Immature but meaningful, this is how "We Care A Lot" can be summarized, released in 1985, the first album by Faith No More, a Californian band formed three years earlier under the name Faith No Man and destined in the following years to achieve remarkable success in the so-called "crossover" scene thanks to the blend of rock, funky, hints of metal, and touches of hip-hop.
The album in question is certainly the least considered in the entire discography by both the public and critics: together with the subsequent "Introduce Yourself", it is also part of the period when Chuck Mosley was the vocalist, who was later replaced by the ingenious Mike Patton. The first track of the album is the eponymous We Care A Lot, which will be reworked and improved in the next album: those approaching the listening of "We Care A Lot" after having listened to "Introduce Yourself" (which indeed maintains the same line as "We Care", albeit much better in quality) can already get an idea of what the album in question consists of: we are indeed facing the most immature album of Faith No More (unsurprisingly, it's the first). The voice of Chuck Mosley was destined to improve, Mike Bordin on drums is still a bit raw, but many of the typical characteristics of the group's sound are already outlined. The album mainly contains fast and immediate songs, with pulsating bass and keyboards in the foreground, such as "The Jungle", "Why Do You Bother", "As The Worm Turns", the instrumental and aggressive "Pills For Breakfast", and "Arabian Disco", accompanied by more atypical pieces like the short instrumental "Jim" and songs like "New Beginnings" and "Mark Bowen", probably the less significant of the album but predecessors of the various "Edge Of The World", "Evidence" and "Stripsearch", the classic ballads in Faith No More style.
An album like "We Care A Lot" is therefore not the best choice for those who want to try a first approach with this group; the albums of the lavish Patton era or the very good (in my opinion) "Introduce Yourself" are more suitable. In conclusion, a good album, which, to be fully appreciated with all its limitations, perhaps requires an already acquired knowledge of the genre of music that one will listen to, but nevertheless a fitting choice for enthusiasts of the genre and for those who want to discover the more remote past of Faith No More.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 We Care a Lot ()
We care a lot!
We care a lot!
We care a lot!
About disasters, fires, floods and killer bees
About the NASA shuttle fallin' in the sea
We care a lot!
About starvation and the food that Live Aid bought
We care a lot!
About disease, baby, rock, Hudson, rock!
Yeah!
Woo!
(Whoa, whoa)Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
We care a lot!
We care a lot!
We care a lot!
About the gamblers and the pushers and the geeks
We care a lot!
About the smack and crack and whack that hits the street
We care a lot!
About the welfare of all you boys and girls
We care a lot!
About you people 'cause we're out to save the world!
Yeah!
Woo! Woo!
It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it (Whoa, whoa)
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Said, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it (Whoa, whoa)
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Said, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
We care a lot!
About the army, navy, air force and marines
We care a lot!
About the NYSF and LAPD
We care a lot!
About you people
We care a lot!
About you're guns
We care a lot!
About the wars we're fighting
Gee, that looks like fun!
We care a lot!
About the garbage pail, kids they never lie
We care a lot!
About Transformers 'cause there's more than meets the eye
We care a lot!
About the little things the bigger things we top
We care a lot!
About you people, yeah you bet we care a lot!
Yeah!
Woo! Woo!
(Whoa, whoa)
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
(Whoa, whoa)
Said, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Well, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Said, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it (Whoa, whoa)
Well, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Said, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Oh, it's a dirty song but someone's gotta sing it now
02 The Jungle ()
Well, just follow your heart
Man oh man
Try and see, if you can
Ha Ha
Jungle sounds great
Lots of scary noise
Don't deter us from our journey onward
Hey man, let your spirit go
To the full extent of the meaning
He said, "And follow me to the deepest part of the jungle
Where it is always dark and wet and warm
To the sacred part."
Well, just follow your heart
Man oh man
Try and see, if you can
Ha Ha
Jungle sounds great
Lots of scary noises
Don't deter us from our journey onward
We pushed and followed
Only our deepest, hidden senses, senses
And exposed to the elements
That lie within
03 Mark Bowen ()
Love...it's a beginning
A justifiable means to an end
And happiness, that triumphant feeling
Only comes from within
But ...you'll...never make the grade
No you'll never, ever reach that plateau
You're down below
And it's where your soul will forever glow
But it's not that ray of sunshine that feels so warm
It's just that bottomless inferno
You're in the depths of hell
And I think that's swell
And I hope you get well
Well done, fried in and out
Burned to a crisp, if that's what I wish
I didn't write the rules
I just follow them to a tee
Cause that's me, I'm evil
I'm hateful, I'm sinful, forgetful, mistrustful
I'm diseased and contagious
I'm suicide, homicide, genocide, pesticide
I'm a human bomb
I'll kill anyone
And so are you, So don't be coy
Cause you too can destroy me like a toy
Not like Mark Bowen
He never done nothin' to no one
... That didn't deserve it.
08 As the Worm Turns ()
One day you're thinking that maybe you're feeling better
And you're probably an OK person, if only you had a job...
Through the hollow tombs can see them
Through their mouths I can hear them praying for pain
But it's only a game
Listen, man, I know
That things are really rough
And everybody gets you
And life is really tough
But I know that deep down inside
There's a feeling that rides
All the way to the end
Thursday you sit in your room with the lights turned out
And you don't answer the door
Friday morning looks sunny and bright
Like it's going to be a good day
And it would be if only you had a job
Time is on your side, you're young
Don't waste your time today
09 Arabian Disco ()
Has it been so long?
Do you think we know?
Do you think we care?
Die...for the here and now
Do you remember why?
Do you remember how?
Face .... out
Stick your chest .... out
Stomach .... in
Thats right
Do you really know
Where the harems go
In the desert snow? Hail,
An oasis dream doesn't really seem
To mean a thing when you're out .... cold
So, hands .... up
Put your guards .... up
Feet .... down
Up .... down
Forward .... march
Left .... right
Cold .... cold
I feel cold
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