Faith No More King for a Day Fool for a Lifetime VINYL

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Faith No More
King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
Slash 1-45723
2-12" 33-1/3 RPM vinyl LP record album

Vinyl is NM, cover is VG+ with normal shelf wear.

King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime is the fifth studio album by Faith No More, released in 1995. It was their first album recorded without longtime guitarist Jim Martin.The album showcased a greater variety than the band's usual alternative leanings,[1][2] with Rolling Stone calling the end result a "genre shuffle".[3] The album contains a number of shifting genres, including jazz-funk in "Evidence", the country rock of "Take This Bottle", or the gospel-influenced "Just a Man".[1] Overall, though, the album is considerably more straightforward and less experimental than its predecessor, Angel Dust. This is the only Faith No More album to feature guitarist Trey Spruance, also a member of Mr. Bungle with Mike Patton. However, Spruance was credited only as a guest musician, and was replaced on the supporting tour by former roadie Dean Menta.

In the United States, the album debuted at #31 and has sold 223,000 copies as of July 2006, which was well below their previous efforts. The ensuing tour was cut short in the UK and Europe as public interest waned. However, the album did manage to be certified Gold in Europe. The album was also certified Gold in Australia and New Zealand, where the singles "Digging the Grave", "Evidence" and "Ricochet" all charted well. The album sold about 1.5 million copies and overall its figures were much lower than those of Angel Dust or The Real Thing.

The cover art for the album and its associated singles came from from the graphic novel Flood! by New York artist Eric Drooker, who received illustration credits for his work.

King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime was pre-released as a limited-edition two-record vinyl album, limited to 100,000 copies, two weeks before the album went on general sale. It was also released as a set of seven 7" vinyl singles, in a black cardboard with a sticker of the cover on the front that also included a cardboard fold-out of album artwork with a review by Stephan Chirazzi and a band picture, as well as the standard CD and cassette versions.

Side one
1. Get Out     2:17
2. Ricochet    4:28
3. Evidence  4:53
4. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies  3:28

Side two
1. Star A.D.  3:22
2. Cuckoo for Caca  3:41
3. Caralho Voador  4:01

Side three
1. Ugly in the Morning  3:06
2. Digging the Grave  3:04
3. Take This Bottle  4:59

Side four
1. King for a Day  6:35
2. What a Day  2:37
3. The Last to Know  4:27
4. Just a Man  Gould, Bottum     5:35

Mike Bordin – Drums
Roddy Bottum – keyboards
Billy Gould – bass guitar
Mike Patton – vocals
Trey Spruance – guitar
Andy Wallace – producer, engineer, mixer
Clif Norrell and Chris Laidlaw – assistant engineers
Howie Weinberg – audio mastering
Melinda Maniscalco – art direction and design
Robin Whiteside – production design
Eric Drooker – illustration
Marko Lavrisha – photography


Released     March 28, 1995
Recorded     1994 at Bearsville Studios in New York
Genre     Alternative metal, experimental rock, alternative rock[1]
Length     56:46
Label     Slash
Producer     Andy Wallace